Digital Transformation Strategy Contracts

Digital Transformation Strategy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Digital Transformation Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Transformation Strategy 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 504 574 703
Rank change year-on-year +70 +129 +126
Contract jobs citing Digital Transformation Strategy 16 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.018% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.021% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile £290 - £386
25th Percentile £317 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £334 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -34.93% -14.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £431 £553 £633
90th Percentile £569 £581 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £317 - £445
% change year-on-year - - -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £62.85
25th Percentile £61.50 - £64.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile £65.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +280.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Transformation Strategy 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 Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Transformation Strategy in the UK

Digital Transformation Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Transformation Strategy in the UK

Digital Transformation Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Transformation Strategy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Transformation Strategy in the UK

Digital Transformation Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Transformation Strategy in the UK

Digital Transformation Strategy
Top 13 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 Strategy 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
UK excluding London - 14 £317 - 14
England +62 13 £317 -38.15% 31
Work from Home +47 9 £450 - 15
East of England - 4 - - 1
South East - 3 - - 8
North of England - 2 £317 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £296 -
Midlands - 2 £296 -
North West - 2 £317 - 5
London +31 1 £450 -12.20% 24
South West - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £350 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Digital Transformation Strategy
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 5 (31.25%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Domino
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Notes
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Automotive
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Systems Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Information Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Information Systems Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Blockchain
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Business Case
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Business Analysis
3 5 (31.25%) Information Management
3 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Change Management
4 4 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 4 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Project Management
4 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (18.75%) Backlog Management
5 3 (18.75%) CRM
5 3 (18.75%) Feasibility Study
5 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Business Process Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
1 5 (31.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Citrix
1 1 (6.25%) Lotus
1 1 (6.25%) Zscaler