Digital Transformation Programme Contracts

Digital Transformation Programmes/Projects
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Digital Transformation Programme skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Transformation Programme over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 162 173
Rank change year-on-year -164 +11 -21
Contract jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme 292 955 1,511
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 1.60% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.78% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 588 903
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £433 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £684 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 £23.15 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -14.29% +48.94%
75th Percentile £61.25 £39.55 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Transformation Programme is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Digital Transformation Programme
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Transformation Programme as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Transformation Programme in the UK

Digital Transformation Programme
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme.

Daily rate trend for Digital Transformation Programme in the UK

Digital Transformation Programme
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Transformation Programme in the UK

Digital Transformation Programme
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Transformation Programme in the UK

Digital Transformation Programme
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -127 245 £550 - 92
London -122 127 £550 - 40
UK excluding London -57 126 £500 - 47
Work from Home -135 109 £494 -10.23% 53
North of England -34 46 £450 -8.16% 10
North West +26 31 £475 -3.06% 7
South East +23 30 £650 +30.00% 13
Scotland +14 19 £475 +4.40% 3
Midlands -1 19 £438 -7.89% 14
West Midlands +12 14 £425 -8.11% 12
Yorkshire -53 14 £430 -12.91% 2
South West +11 10 £588 -7.84% 7
East Midlands +12 5 £450 -10.00% 2
East of England +11 1 £450 -30.77%
Northern Ireland - 1 £200 - 1
North East - 1 - - 1

Digital Transformation Programme
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.11%) Confluence
2 7 (2.40%) CMS
3 4 (1.37%) govService
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.68%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.03%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.68%) Magento
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.34%) Softmar
4 1 (0.34%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (17.47%) Azure
2 28 (9.59%) AWS
3 16 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (5.14%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (2.74%) GCP
7 4 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.37%) GitHub
7 4 (1.37%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.37%) SaaS
7 4 (1.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (1.37%) Serverless
8 3 (1.03%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (1.03%) IaaS
8 3 (1.03%) PaaS
8 3 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.68%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.42%) Firewall
2 6 (2.05%) Internet
3 5 (1.71%) Intranet
4 4 (1.37%) SSL
5 3 (1.03%) Network Security
6 2 (0.68%) DNS
6 2 (0.68%) HTTP
6 2 (0.68%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.68%) Wireless
6 2 (0.68%) ZigBee
7 1 (0.34%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.34%) DHCP
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (7.19%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.42%) Power BI
4 6 (2.05%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.05%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.37%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (1.03%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.03%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.03%) Tableau
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.34%) Big Data
8 1 (0.34%) IDMS
8 1 (0.34%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.34%) NewSQL
8 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (7.88%) Git
2 20 (6.85%) JUnit
3 18 (6.16%) JIRA
4 14 (4.79%) Jenkins
5 10 (3.42%) Selenium
6 9 (3.08%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.08%) REST Assured
6 9 (3.08%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.71%) Maven
7 5 (1.71%) Postman
8 3 (1.03%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.34%) Ant
9 1 (0.34%) GitLab
9 1 (0.34%) Gradle
9 1 (0.34%) Mockito
9 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.34%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.34%) TestNG
9 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 60 (20.55%) Public Sector
3 43 (14.73%) Finance
4 33 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.51%) Retail
6 14 (4.79%) Banking
6 14 (4.79%) Law
7 12 (4.11%) Marketing
8 8 (2.74%) Legal
9 6 (2.05%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.05%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.71%) Local Government
10 5 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.71%) Police
11 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.03%) Automotive
13 2 (0.68%) Electronics
13 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (16.10%) Analyst
2 43 (14.73%) Developer
3 35 (11.99%) Architect
4 31 (10.62%) Business Analyst
5 24 (8.22%) Project Manager
6 21 (7.19%) Java Developer
7 20 (6.85%) Senior
8 18 (6.16%) Delivery Manager
8 18 (6.16%) Lead
9 17 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (5.48%) Consultant
11 10 (3.42%) Technical Analyst
12 9 (3.08%) Head of Customer Experience
12 9 (3.08%) Head of Digital
12 9 (3.08%) Java Engineer
13 8 (2.74%) Lead Developer
13 8 (2.74%) Scrum Master
14 7 (2.40%) Digital Business Analyst
14 7 (2.40%) Junior
14 7 (2.40%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.99%) REST
2 22 (7.53%) Spring Boot
3 21 (7.19%) React
3 21 (7.19%) Spring
4 18 (6.16%) Hibernate
4 18 (6.16%) JPA
5 9 (3.08%) .NET
5 9 (3.08%) Java EE
6 6 (2.05%) JSON
6 6 (2.05%) OpenAPI
6 6 (2.05%) Swagger
7 5 (1.71%) XML
8 4 (1.37%) HTML
8 4 (1.37%) Node.js
8 4 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (1.03%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.03%) Middleware
10 2 (0.68%) CSS
10 2 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.11%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.05%) Mobile Banking
3 6 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.71%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.37%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (1.37%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.03%) IoT
6 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.03%) PKI
6 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.68%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (0.68%) Robotics
7 2 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.40%) Windows
2 6 (2.05%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.03%) Linux
3 3 (1.03%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.68%) Android
4 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (38.36%) Agile
2 61 (20.89%) DevOps
3 50 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (14.73%) Scrum
5 35 (11.99%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (10.62%) Microservices
6 31 (10.62%) Project Management
7 29 (9.93%) Mentoring
8 28 (9.59%) Software Engineering
9 25 (8.56%) Digital Engineering
9 25 (8.56%) Migration
9 25 (8.56%) Project Delivery
10 24 (8.22%) Customer Experience
10 24 (8.22%) Decision-Making
10 24 (8.22%) Roadmaps
11 23 (7.88%) Analytics
12 22 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (7.53%) Service Design
13 20 (6.85%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.01%) Java
2 23 (7.88%) SQL
3 21 (7.19%) TypeScript
4 10 (3.42%) Python
5 6 (2.05%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.05%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.71%) C#
7 3 (1.03%) C++
7 3 (1.03%) Go
7 3 (1.03%) R
7 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.34%) Bash
9 1 (0.34%) C
9 1 (0.34%) PHP
9 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.34%) Ruby
9 1 (0.34%) Scala
9 1 (0.34%) SOQL
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.85%) Degree
4 19 (6.51%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.05%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.05%) PMP
7 6 (2.05%) Postgraduate
8 5 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.37%) MCSE
10 3 (1.03%) BC Cleared
10 3 (1.03%) CISSP
11 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.68%) CBAP
12 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.34%) ISEB
12 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.34%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.79%) QA
2 13 (4.45%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.71%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.37%) GDPR
6 3 (1.03%) PMO
6 3 (1.03%) SLA
7 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.34%) GxP
8 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.34%) NCSC
8 1 (0.34%) NIST
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (7.88%) Docker
2 10 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.34%) IAG
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (7.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.42%) Ansible
3 7 (2.40%) Terraform
4 3 (1.03%) SCCM
5 2 (0.68%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.34%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (8.90%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.45%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.08%) SAP
4 8 (2.74%) Atlassian
4 8 (2.74%) Oracle
5 7 (2.40%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.03%) Adobe
7 2 (0.68%) Cadence
7 2 (0.68%) Cisco
7 2 (0.68%) Databricks
7 2 (0.68%) Google
7 2 (0.68%) IBM
7 2 (0.68%) Marketo
7 2 (0.68%) Pardot
7 2 (0.68%) QNX
7 2 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) AlgoSec
8 1 (0.34%) F5
8 1 (0.34%) Optimizely