Digital Transformation Contracts

Digital Transformation
UK

The median Digital Transformation daily rate in the UK is £537, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 551 566
Rank change year-on-year +62 +15 +178
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Transformation 31 31 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.071% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.077% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 139
10th Percentile £353 £363 £481
25th Percentile £500 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £588 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +4.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £666 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £656 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.38 - -
25th Percentile £26.56 £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £28.75 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
75th Percentile £31.56 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £32.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Digital Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Digital Transformation in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Transformation in the UK

Digital Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Transformation in the UK

Digital Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Digital Transformation in the UK

Digital Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Transformation in the UK

Digital Transformation
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 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 +56 27 £537 -10.50% 18
London +38 16 £550 -13.73% 10
UK excluding London +66 13 £525 -3.67% 10
Work from Home +38 10 £375 -39.39% 5
South East +50 5 £487 - 4
Midlands +23 3 £525 -3.67% 2
East Midlands +11 2 £525 - 1
North West - 2 £500 - 3
North of England - 2 £500 - 3
South West +45 1 £700 +33.33%
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

Digital Transformation Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Digital Transformation contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Digital Transformation in the job title.

1 19 (61.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 16 (51.61%) Agile
3 13 (41.94%) Finance
4 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
5 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (29.03%) Project Management
6 6 (19.35%) Degree
7 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
7 5 (16.13%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.90%) PMO
8 4 (12.90%) Customer Experience
8 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
8 4 (12.90%) Change Management
8 4 (12.90%) PRINCE2
8 4 (12.90%) Risk Management
8 4 (12.90%) Local Government
9 3 (9.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (9.68%) Business Analysis
9 3 (9.68%) Programme Management
9 3 (9.68%) NEC
9 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
9 3 (9.68%) Oracle
9 3 (9.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (9.68%) PMI Certification
9 3 (9.68%) Six Sigma
9 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (9.68%) Waterfall
9 3 (9.68%) Azure

Digital Transformation Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
1 3 (9.68%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.23%) Miro
3 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.23%) SaaS
3 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.23%) Adabas
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.23%) Git
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.90%) Local Government
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Marketing
5 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 2 (6.45%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Agriculture
6 1 (3.23%) Automotive
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.23%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Educational Technology
1 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
1 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) IoT
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.23%) PMI
2 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 16 (51.61%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) Project Management
3 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.13%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (12.90%) Change Management
5 4 (12.90%) Customer Experience
5 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
5 4 (12.90%) PRINCE2
5 4 (12.90%) Risk Management
6 3 (9.68%) Backlog Management
6 3 (9.68%) Business Analysis
6 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
6 3 (9.68%) Programme Management
6 3 (9.68%) Project Delivery
6 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
6 3 (9.68%) Six Sigma
6 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (9.68%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) Python
2 1 (3.23%) Java
2 1 (3.23%) Natural
2 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) PMI Certification
2 3 (9.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.45%) PMP
4 1 (3.23%) CBAP
4 1 (3.23%) CISSP
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) CSPO
4 1 (3.23%) IIBA
4 1 (3.23%) MCP
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) PMO
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) NEC
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Ariba
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.23%) DocuSign
3 1 (3.23%) SAP