Digital Transformation Programme Contracts

Digital Transformation Programmes/Projects
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Digital Transformation Programme skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Transformation Programme over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 311 161
Rank change year-on-year +16 -150 +7
Contract jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme 247 292 946
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.67% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.78% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 214 582
10th Percentile £406 £363 £400
25th Percentile £463 £433 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £684 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 4
10th Percentile £29.95 - £25.21
25th Percentile £52.00 £53.75 £28.29
Median hourly rate £54.00 £57.50 £34.78
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +65.35% -0.64%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.25 £39.55
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 - £34.78
% change year-on-year - - -0.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Transformation Programme 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Digital Transformation Programme in the UK

Digital Transformation Programme
Top 17 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 1 May 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 -8 173 £550 - 214
UK excluding London +41 103 £525 +5.00% 136
London -5 83 £550 -0.09% 112
Work from Home +2 70 £511 +3.54% 148
Midlands +29 26 £550 +25.71% 18
North of England -1 26 £500 +11.11% 36
West Midlands +24 24 £550 +29.41% 7
South East +34 18 £538 -17.31% 31
Yorkshire +9 15 £475 +10.47% 4
Scotland +8 14 £501 +5.37% 20
South West +44 8 £468 -20.43% 19
North West -7 7 £500 +5.26% 20
Northern Ireland -3 6 £513 +156.25% 2
East of England +34 5 £650 +44.44% 9
North East +3 4 £588 - 12
East Midlands +7 2 £485 +7.78% 10
Wales - 1 £450 - 3

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 16 (6.48%) Confluence
2 9 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.24%) CMS
4 5 (2.02%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.02%) Mule
5 4 (1.62%) Sitefinity
6 2 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.81%) Apache
6 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.24%) Trello
2 7 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.21%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.81%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.62%) SAP PP
2 4 (1.62%) SAP SD
3 3 (1.21%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.21%) Shopify
4 2 (0.81%) Magento
4 2 (0.81%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.40%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 37 (14.98%) Azure
2 26 (10.53%) AWS
3 23 (9.31%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (5.67%) GCP
4 14 (5.67%) Power Platform
5 10 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.24%) SaaS
7 6 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.02%) Miro
9 4 (1.62%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (1.62%) Figma
9 4 (1.62%) GitHub
9 4 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.62%) IaaS
10 3 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.21%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.21%) PaaS
10 3 (1.21%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.81%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.88%) Skype
1 17 (6.88%) WebEx
2 2 (0.81%) Firewall
3 1 (0.40%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.64%) Power BI
2 6 (2.43%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.21%) Big Data
4 3 (1.21%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (1.21%) Metadata
5 2 (0.81%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.81%) Spark SQL
5 2 (0.81%) Tableau
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.40%) MS Access
6 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.40%) Redis
6 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (10.53%) JIRA
2 9 (3.64%) Postman
3 5 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.62%) Git
5 2 (0.81%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.81%) GitLab
6 1 (0.40%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.40%) Mocha
6 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.40%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.40%) Terragrunt
General
1 86 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 63 (25.51%) Public Sector
3 51 (20.65%) Finance
4 45 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.88%) Banking
6 15 (6.07%) Marketing
7 13 (5.26%) Local Government
8 12 (4.86%) Retail
9 9 (3.64%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.24%) French Language
10 8 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.24%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.83%) Legal
12 6 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.62%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.62%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.81%) Aviation
15 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (14.98%) Architect
2 34 (13.77%) Analyst
3 27 (10.93%) Business Analyst
4 24 (9.72%) Project Manager
5 19 (7.69%) Digital Transformation
5 19 (7.69%) Programme Manager
6 18 (7.29%) Lead
7 17 (6.88%) Developer
8 15 (6.07%) Senior
8 15 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.26%) Product Manager
10 12 (4.86%) Transformation Manager
11 11 (4.45%) Consultant
12 9 (3.64%) Digital Project Manager
12 9 (3.64%) Digital Transformation Manager
13 8 (3.24%) IT Manager
13 8 (3.24%) SAP Consultant
14 7 (2.83%) Senior Manager
15 6 (2.43%) Agile Business Analyst
15 6 (2.43%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.86%) RESTful
2 11 (4.45%) HTML
3 10 (4.05%) CSS
4 8 (3.24%) SOAP
5 7 (2.83%) CSS3
5 7 (2.83%) HTML5
6 6 (2.43%) OpenAPI
6 6 (2.43%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (2.43%) SAPUI5
6 6 (2.43%) Swagger
7 5 (2.02%) .NET
7 5 (2.02%) jQuery
7 5 (2.02%) JSON
7 5 (2.02%) Node.js
7 5 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (2.02%) RAML
7 5 (2.02%) XML
8 3 (1.21%) Ajax
8 3 (1.21%) Middleware
8 3 (1.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.67%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.86%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.64%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.24%) NHS
5 6 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.02%) Social Media
7 4 (1.62%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.21%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.21%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.21%) Life Science
8 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.02%) Windows
2 4 (1.62%) Linux
3 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.81%) SUSE
4 1 (0.40%) AIX
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (34.82%) Agile
2 54 (21.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (18.22%) Roadmaps
3 45 (18.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 43 (17.41%) Change Management
5 40 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (14.17%) Project Management
7 30 (12.15%) User Experience
8 29 (11.74%) Migration
9 27 (10.93%) DevOps
10 25 (10.12%) Scrum
11 24 (9.72%) Risk Management
12 22 (8.91%) Decision-Making
12 22 (8.91%) Interaction Design
13 20 (8.10%) User Research
13 20 (8.10%) Waterfall
13 20 (8.10%) Wireframes
14 19 (7.69%) Analytics
14 19 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.88%) JavaScript
2 13 (5.26%) SQL
3 10 (4.05%) Java
4 9 (3.64%) COBOL
4 9 (3.64%) Python
5 8 (3.24%) ABAP
6 5 (2.02%) DataWeave
7 3 (1.21%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.81%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (0.81%) Bash
8 2 (0.81%) C#
8 2 (0.81%) Groovy
8 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.40%) R
9 1 (0.40%) VB
9 1 (0.40%) VB6
9 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (14.98%) Degree
2 31 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.34%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.43%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.02%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.02%) PMP
7 4 (1.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.21%) CSPO
8 3 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.81%) CBAP
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.40%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.40%) IIBA
10 1 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.48%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.45%) QA
3 7 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.43%) GDPR
5 5 (2.02%) PMO
6 4 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.21%) WCAG
8 2 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.81%) NCSC
9 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (2.02%) Docker
2 3 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (2.43%) Kubernetes
1 6 (2.43%) Terraform
2 3 (1.21%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.40%) Kibana
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (13.36%) SAP
2 22 (8.91%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.88%) Polycom
4 14 (5.67%) Salesforce
5 13 (5.26%) Adobe
6 8 (3.24%) Oracle
7 7 (2.83%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.43%) Google
8 6 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.62%) Databricks
9 4 (1.62%) NEC
9 4 (1.62%) VMware
10 3 (1.21%) Ariba
11 2 (0.81%) Aareon
11 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.81%) Citrix
11 2 (0.81%) Civica
11 2 (0.81%) Northgate
11 2 (0.81%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.81%) Virgin Media
279 Digital Transformation Programme jobs Nationwide