Business Transformation Contract Job Trends

Business Transformation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Business Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 371 361
Rank change year-on-year -64 -10 +49
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 158 173 241
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.59% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 102 168
10th Percentile £425 £342 £413
25th Percentile £463 £482 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £541
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.24% -1.59%
75th Percentile £668 £709 £638
90th Percentile £760 £780 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £61.50 £25.90
25th Percentile £88.75 £68.44 £31.75
Median hourly rate £92.50 £73.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.42% +110.71% -
75th Percentile £96.25 £75.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £92.50 £73.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.42% +110.71% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Business Transformation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,632 29,487 37,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.11% 88.32% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,578 17,975 25,172
10th Percentile £304 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,027 953 1,511
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +25.71%
75th Percentile £53.44 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.69 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.58% -32.33% +40.63%

Business Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Transformation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Business Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Transformation
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Transformation

Business Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Transformation over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Transformation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Transformation

Business Transformation
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Transformation within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -58 145 £600 +2.13% 654
UK excluding London -51 75 £550 -4.35% 588
London -12 74 £608 +5.65% 106
Work from Home -34 53 £600 -0.08% 131
South East -3 25 £600 +2.13% 153
Midlands -43 17 £505 -8.18% 133
North of England -50 16 £500 -15.79% 130
West Midlands -36 10 £550 -4.35% 70
North West -18 8 £588 +11.90% 62
East Midlands -16 7 £483 +20.63% 55
East of England -27 7 £600 -14.29% 76
Scotland +12 5 £475 +5.56% 24
Yorkshire -47 5 £613 -9.26% 59
South West -6 3 - - 58
North East -9 3 £450 -32.08% 10
Northern Ireland - 3 £450 - 7

Business Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.70%) Confluence
2 6 (3.80%) nginx
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.43%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.63%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (9.49%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (8.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (7.59%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (3.80%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (2.53%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (2.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (2.53%) SAP ERP
6 2 (1.27%) Maximo
6 2 (1.27%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.63%) Bankmaster
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.63%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.63%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.13%) AWS
2 13 (8.23%) Azure
3 11 (6.96%) GCP
4 7 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (4.43%) SaaS
5 6 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.53%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.53%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.90%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.27%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.27%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.27%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.27%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Firewall
1 1 (0.63%) FTP
1 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.53%) Power BI
2 3 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.27%) Metadata
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.27%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.63%) Big Data
4 1 (0.63%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.63%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.63%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.63%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.63%) Tableau
4 1 (0.63%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (7.59%) JIRA
2 5 (3.16%) Git
3 3 (1.90%) JMeter
3 3 (1.90%) Locust
3 3 (1.90%) Selenium
4 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.63%) Zephyr
General
1 74 (46.84%) Finance
2 70 (44.30%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.39%) Public Sector
4 17 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.96%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (5.06%) Legal
7 6 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.80%) Marketing
7 6 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.80%) Retail
8 5 (3.16%) Banking
9 4 (2.53%) Law
9 4 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.90%) Billing
10 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.90%) Local Government
11 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 28 (17.72%) Project Manager
2 22 (13.92%) Analyst
3 19 (12.03%) Consultant
4 16 (10.13%) Business Analyst
4 16 (10.13%) Senior
5 13 (8.23%) Architect
5 13 (8.23%) Senior Manager
6 10 (6.33%) Change Manager
7 9 (5.70%) Lead
7 9 (5.70%) Programme Manager
7 9 (5.70%) Senior Project Manager
8 8 (5.06%) Oracle Consultant
8 8 (5.06%) Report Manager
9 7 (4.43%) Functional Consultant
9 7 (4.43%) SAP Manager
10 6 (3.80%) Oracle Functional Consultant
11 5 (3.16%) IT Manager
11 5 (3.16%) Scrum Master
12 4 (2.53%) Data Architect
12 4 (2.53%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.90%) LangChain
2 3 (1.90%) LangGraph
2 3 (1.90%) pytest
3 2 (1.27%) Playwright
3 2 (1.27%) WebCenter
4 1 (0.63%) ADO
4 1 (0.63%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.63%) gRPC
4 1 (0.63%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.63%) JAAS
4 1 (0.63%) JSSE
4 1 (0.63%) Kafka
4 1 (0.63%) MACH
4 1 (0.63%) REST
4 1 (0.63%) RESTful
4 1 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (3.80%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.90%) AI Agents
3 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.90%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.27%) Life Science
4 2 (1.27%) SCADA
4 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.27%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.63%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.63%) IPTV
5 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.16%) Linux
1 5 (3.16%) Windows
2 4 (2.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (30.38%) Agile
2 45 (28.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (24.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 31 (19.62%) Change Management
4 31 (19.62%) ERP
4 31 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (18.35%) Project Management
6 28 (17.72%) Roadmaps
7 21 (13.29%) PRINCE2
8 20 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (12.66%) Project Delivery
9 19 (12.03%) Business Strategy
10 18 (11.39%) CRM
11 16 (10.13%) Scrum
11 16 (10.13%) Waterfall
12 14 (8.86%) Migration
13 13 (8.23%) AI
14 12 (7.59%) Business Analysis
14 12 (7.59%) User Stories
15 11 (6.96%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.06%) Python
2 6 (3.80%) SQL
3 4 (2.53%) Bash
3 4 (2.53%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.27%) Java
4 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.63%) Cypher
5 1 (0.63%) Scala
5 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (9.49%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.86%) Degree
2 14 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.23%) PMI Certification
3 13 (8.23%) PMP
4 10 (6.33%) ACCA
5 2 (1.27%) APMG
5 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.27%) CIMA
5 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (1.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 2 (1.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) CISM
6 1 (0.63%) CISSP
6 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.06%) QA
2 7 (4.43%) PMO
3 6 (3.80%) GDPR
3 6 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.90%) SLA
6 2 (1.27%) ITGC
6 2 (1.27%) NIST
7 1 (0.63%) NCSC
7 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.53%) Docker
1 4 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.06%) Terraform
2 4 (2.53%) Consul
2 4 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.53%) Packer
2 4 (2.53%) SCCM
3 2 (1.27%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 25 (15.82%) SAP
2 23 (14.56%) Oracle
3 18 (11.39%) Microsoft
4 17 (10.76%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.53%) Citrix
6 4 (2.53%) Google
6 4 (2.53%) VMware
7 2 (1.27%) Adobe
7 2 (1.27%) Ariba
7 2 (1.27%) IFS
8 1 (0.63%) BT
8 1 (0.63%) Concur
8 1 (0.63%) Epicor
8 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.63%) Remedy
8 1 (0.63%) Siemens
8 1 (0.63%) Sparx
8 1 (0.63%) Workday