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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 377 377
Rank change year-on-year -51 0 +18
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 161 162 241
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.48% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.54% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 100 167
10th Percentile £425 £335 £413
25th Percentile £463 £482 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £606 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +13.85% -4.05%
75th Percentile £664 £720 £638
90th Percentile £773 £781 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -10.20% +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £25.90
25th Percentile £88.75 - £31.75
Median hourly rate £92.50 £32.28 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +186.56% -7.77% -
75th Percentile £96.25 - £47.50
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £92.50 £32.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year +186.56% -7.77% -

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 32,441 29,813 38,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.26% 88.27% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,403 18,181 25,776
10th Percentile £300 £307 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £743 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 968 1,481
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.62 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.90% +25.31%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.02 £73.83 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £30.88 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.89% -31.39% +44.18%

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 22 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 22 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 -31 147 £600 -2.04% 140
London -4 75 £608 +1.25% 63
UK excluding London -32 75 £550 -10.20% 83
Work from Home -29 53 £600 -1.03% 63
South East -3 26 £600 +2.13% 21
Midlands -44 18 £500 -9.09% 30
North of England -46 13 £550 -10.20% 26
West Midlands -31 11 £550 -8.33% 23
East of England -21 8 £600 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -19 7 £483 +20.63% 7
North West -27 7 £475 -11.21% 14
Scotland +8 5 £475 +5.56%
Yorkshire -44 5 £613 -9.26% 7
South West -5 3 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £450 -
North East -9 1 £500 -24.53% 6

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 8 (4.97%) Confluence
2 6 (3.73%) nginx
3 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.62%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.62%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (9.32%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (7.45%) Oracle EBS R12
2 12 (7.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (3.73%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (3.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (2.48%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (2.48%) SAP ERP
6 2 (1.24%) Maximo
6 2 (1.24%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (1.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.62%) Bankmaster
7 1 (0.62%) Endur
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.62%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.62%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.62%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.94%) AWS
2 14 (8.70%) Azure
3 11 (6.83%) GCP
4 8 (4.97%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.35%) SaaS
6 5 (3.11%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (2.48%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.86%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.24%) iPaaS
9 2 (1.24%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.24%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.24%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) Firewall
1 1 (0.62%) FTP
1 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.11%) Power BI
2 3 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.24%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.24%) Metadata
3 2 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.24%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.62%) Big Data
4 1 (0.62%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.62%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.62%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.62%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.62%) Tableau
4 1 (0.62%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (7.45%) JIRA
2 5 (3.11%) Git
3 3 (1.86%) JMeter
3 3 (1.86%) Locust
3 3 (1.86%) Selenium
4 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.62%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (47.20%) Finance
2 69 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 17 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.07%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.35%) Marketing
7 6 (3.73%) Legal
7 6 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.73%) Retail
8 5 (3.11%) Banking
9 4 (2.48%) Law
9 4 (2.48%) Local Government
9 4 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.86%) Billing
10 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.24%) Back Office
11 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.24%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (18.01%) Project Manager
2 23 (14.29%) Analyst
3 18 (11.18%) Consultant
4 17 (10.56%) Senior
5 16 (9.94%) Business Analyst
6 14 (8.70%) Senior Manager
7 12 (7.45%) Architect
8 10 (6.21%) Change Manager
8 10 (6.21%) Lead
8 10 (6.21%) Programme Manager
8 10 (6.21%) Senior Project Manager
9 9 (5.59%) Report Manager
10 8 (4.97%) Oracle Consultant
11 7 (4.35%) Functional Consultant
11 7 (4.35%) SAP Manager
12 6 (3.73%) Oracle Functional Consultant
13 5 (3.11%) IT Manager
13 5 (3.11%) Scrum Master
14 4 (2.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 4 (2.48%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.86%) LangChain
2 3 (1.86%) LangGraph
2 3 (1.86%) pytest
3 2 (1.24%) Playwright
3 2 (1.24%) WebCenter
4 1 (0.62%) ADO
4 1 (0.62%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.62%) gRPC
4 1 (0.62%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.62%) JAAS
4 1 (0.62%) JSSE
4 1 (0.62%) Kafka
4 1 (0.62%) MACH
4 1 (0.62%) REST
4 1 (0.62%) RESTful
4 1 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.48%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.86%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.24%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.24%) Life Science
5 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.24%) SCADA
5 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.24%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.62%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.62%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.11%) Linux
1 5 (3.11%) Windows
2 4 (2.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.68%) Agile
2 47 (29.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (23.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 31 (19.25%) Change Management
5 30 (18.63%) ERP
6 28 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (16.77%) Roadmaps
8 26 (16.15%) Project Management
9 22 (13.66%) PRINCE2
9 22 (13.66%) Project Delivery
10 21 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (11.80%) Business Strategy
12 18 (11.18%) CRM
12 18 (11.18%) Waterfall
13 16 (9.94%) Migration
14 15 (9.32%) Scrum
15 14 (8.70%) Business Analysis
16 13 (8.07%) AI
16 13 (8.07%) User Stories
17 11 (6.83%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.59%) Python
2 8 (4.97%) SQL
3 4 (2.48%) Bash
3 4 (2.48%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.24%) Java
4 2 (1.24%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.24%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.62%) Cypher
5 1 (0.62%) Scala
5 1 (0.62%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (9.94%) Degree
2 15 (9.32%) PMI Certification
2 15 (9.32%) PMP
2 15 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.83%) ACCA
5 3 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.86%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 3 (1.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 2 (1.24%) APMG
6 2 (1.24%) CIMA
6 2 (1.24%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.62%) CISM
7 1 (0.62%) CISSP
7 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.62%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.97%) QA
2 6 (3.73%) GDPR
2 6 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.73%) PMO
3 5 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.86%) SLA
5 2 (1.24%) ITGC
5 2 (1.24%) NIST
6 1 (0.62%) NCSC
6 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.48%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.48%) Docker
1 4 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.97%) Terraform
2 4 (2.48%) Consul
2 4 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.48%) Packer
2 4 (2.48%) SCCM
3 2 (1.24%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 25 (15.53%) SAP
2 24 (14.91%) Oracle
3 19 (11.80%) Microsoft
4 17 (10.56%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.48%) Citrix
6 4 (2.48%) Google
6 4 (2.48%) VMware
7 3 (1.86%) Ariba
8 2 (1.24%) Adobe
8 2 (1.24%) IFS
8 2 (1.24%) Remedy
9 1 (0.62%) Concur
9 1 (0.62%) Databricks
9 1 (0.62%) Epicor
9 1 (0.62%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.62%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.62%) Siemens
9 1 (0.62%) Sparx
9 1 (0.62%) Workday