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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 390 412
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 -12
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 156 178 234
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.47% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.55% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 96 163
10th Percentile £425 £450 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £688 £688 £681
90th Percentile £775 £780 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -10.91% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 8
10th Percentile £13.00 - £24.86
25th Percentile £28.66 - £32.48
Median hourly rate £47.26 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.77% -41.05% -
75th Percentile £71.88 - £70.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £30.57 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.26 £28.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +68.77% -53.33% -

All Process and 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 30,120 32,351 42,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.53% 86.01% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,720 19,487 28,729
10th Percentile £296 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,911 1,239 1,585
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%
75th Percentile £42.79 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -44.34% -8.88% +65.99%

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 16 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Transformation over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Top 15 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 16 October 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 +6 144 £560 -2.61% 226
London +17 80 £595 -3.84% 97
UK excluding London -29 68 £490 -10.91% 157
Work from Home -10 47 £575 -7.07% 117
South East +19 22 £495 -15.74% 82
Midlands -23 14 £495 -3.41% 22
North of England -25 14 £463 -15.91% 26
North West -16 10 £463 -11.06% 19
East of England -2 8 £500 -16.67% 8
East Midlands -5 7 £475 +46.15% 4
West Midlands -22 7 £500 -9.09% 17
South West -2 5 £600 +29.73% 14
Scotland +2 4 - - 4
Yorkshire -29 4 £498 -26.30% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £475 - 3

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 3 (1.92%) Confluence
1 3 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.64%) Apache
2 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (5.13%) MS Visio
2 7 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.92%) SAP IBP
5 2 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (1.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (1.28%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.64%) Bankmaster
6 1 (0.64%) Endur
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.64%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.64%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.64%) SAP PP-PI
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.97%) AWS
2 11 (7.05%) Azure
2 11 (7.05%) GCP
3 7 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (3.21%) SaaS
4 5 (3.21%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.56%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.92%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (1.92%) OCI
6 3 (1.92%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.28%) Lucidchart
7 2 (1.28%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.28%) Metadata
1 2 (1.28%) Pinecone
2 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.64%) Apache Hive
2 1 (0.64%) Big Data
2 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.64%) GIS
2 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.64%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (0.64%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.64%) Power BI
2 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.64%) Tableau
2 1 (0.64%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 6 (3.85%) JIRA
2 3 (1.92%) JMeter
2 3 (1.92%) Locust
2 3 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 67 (42.95%) Finance
2 63 (40.38%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.62%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (7.69%) Marketing
5 12 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.41%) Banking
7 9 (5.77%) Manufacturing
7 9 (5.77%) Retail
8 8 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.85%) Legal
10 5 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.56%) Local Government
11 4 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.28%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.28%) Back Office
12 2 (1.28%) Billing
12 2 (1.28%) Brand Awareness
12 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 28 (17.95%) Analyst
2 26 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 21 (13.46%) Business Analyst
4 17 (10.90%) Senior
5 15 (9.62%) Consultant
5 15 (9.62%) Lead
6 14 (8.97%) Senior Manager
7 11 (7.05%) Report Manager
8 10 (6.41%) Architect
8 10 (6.41%) Programme Manager
9 9 (5.77%) Senior Project Manager
10 7 (4.49%) Change Manager
10 7 (4.49%) Programme Director
11 5 (3.21%) SAP Consultant
12 4 (2.56%) Chief Architect
12 4 (2.56%) Developer
12 4 (2.56%) Marketing Manager
12 4 (2.56%) Oracle Consultant
12 4 (2.56%) Senior Marketing Manager
13 3 (1.92%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.92%) LangChain
2 3 (1.92%) pytest
3 2 (1.28%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.28%) Playwright
4 1 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.64%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.64%) Kafka
4 1 (0.64%) MACH
4 1 (0.64%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (2.56%) Product Ownership
1 4 (2.56%) Web Conferencing
2 3 (1.92%) AI Agents
2 3 (1.92%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.92%) Data Structures
2 3 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (1.92%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.28%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.28%) FMCG
3 2 (1.28%) Life Science
3 2 (1.28%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.28%) PMI
3 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.64%) DTCC
4 1 (0.64%) Equities
4 1 (0.64%) Market Risk
4 1 (0.64%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.85%) Windows
2 4 (2.56%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (28.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (24.36%) Agile
3 35 (22.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (17.31%) Roadmaps
5 26 (16.67%) Change Management
5 26 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (15.38%) ERP
7 23 (14.74%) Migration
8 19 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (10.26%) Business Strategy
9 16 (10.26%) CRM
9 16 (10.26%) PRINCE2
9 16 (10.26%) Project Management
10 15 (9.62%) Project Delivery
10 15 (9.62%) Waterfall
11 14 (8.97%) Analytics
12 12 (7.69%) Business Analysis
12 12 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
12 12 (7.69%) Target Operating Model
12 12 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.77%) Python
2 7 (4.49%) SQL
3 4 (2.56%) Bash
3 4 (2.56%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.64%) Cypher
5 1 (0.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (9.62%) Degree
2 14 (8.97%) PMI Certification
3 13 (8.33%) ACCA
3 13 (8.33%) PMP
4 12 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.49%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.92%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.92%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 3 (1.92%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 2 (1.28%) CBAP
8 2 (1.28%) CIMA
9 1 (0.64%) APMP
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.49%) QA
2 6 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.85%) GDPR
2 6 (3.85%) PMO
3 5 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.92%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) FINRA
System Software
1 4 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (2.56%) SCCM
2 2 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.10%) SAP
3 20 (12.82%) Salesforce
4 15 (9.62%) Oracle
5 6 (3.85%) Google
6 4 (2.56%) Adobe
6 4 (2.56%) Citrix
6 4 (2.56%) Databricks
6 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.56%) VMware
7 3 (1.92%) Ariba
8 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.28%) IFS
8 2 (1.28%) Remedy
9 1 (0.64%) Calypso
9 1 (0.64%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.64%) Murex
9 1 (0.64%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.64%) Sparx
9 1 (0.64%) UiPath