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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 167 165
Rank change year-on-year -145 -2 -13
Contract jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme 291 926 1,541
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 1.57% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.74% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 575 925
10th Percentile £363 £404 £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 £638
90th Percentile £684 £700 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.25% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £25.21 -
25th Percentile £53.75 £28.29 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £34.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.35% -0.64% +48.94%
75th Percentile £61.25 £39.55 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £34.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -0.64% +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 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -128 245 £550 - 123
London -114 127 £550 - 54
UK excluding London -59 125 £494 -1.25% 63
Work from Home -126 109 £500 -9.09% 71
North of England -34 46 £450 -8.16% 19
North West +30 31 £475 -3.06% 10
South East +17 30 £650 +30.00% 20
Midlands +6 19 £438 -12.50% 16
Scotland +21 18 £475 +3.54% 1
West Midlands +8 14 £425 -10.53% 12
Yorkshire -54 14 £430 -10.65% 5
South West +12 10 £588 -7.84% 3
East Midlands +17 5 £450 -10.00% 4
East of England +4 1 £450 -35.71% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £200 - 3
North East - 1 - - 4

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 (4.12%) Confluence
2 7 (2.41%) CMS
3 4 (1.37%) govService
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.69%) 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 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.69%) 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 (0.69%) Magento
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.69%) 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 (17.53%) Azure
2 29 (9.97%) AWS
3 15 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (5.15%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.09%) GCP
5 8 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.37%) Power Automate
6 4 (1.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 4 (1.37%) Serverless
7 3 (1.03%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (1.03%) GitHub
7 3 (1.03%) SaaS
7 3 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.69%) IaaS
8 2 (0.69%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.69%) PaaS
8 2 (0.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.44%) Firewall
2 6 (2.06%) Internet
3 5 (1.72%) Intranet
4 4 (1.37%) SSL
5 3 (1.03%) Network Security
6 2 (0.69%) DNS
6 2 (0.69%) HTTP
6 2 (0.69%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.69%) Wireless
6 2 (0.69%) 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%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (7.22%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.44%) Power BI
4 6 (2.06%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.37%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (1.03%) NoSQL
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 2 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.34%) Big Data
9 1 (0.34%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.34%) DataStage
9 1 (0.34%) DB2
9 1 (0.34%) GIS
9 1 (0.34%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (7.90%) Git
2 20 (6.87%) JUnit
3 18 (6.19%) JIRA
4 14 (4.81%) Jenkins
5 10 (3.44%) Selenium
6 9 (3.09%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.09%) REST Assured
6 9 (3.09%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.72%) Maven
7 5 (1.72%) Postman
8 3 (1.03%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.34%) Ant
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%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 60 (20.62%) Public Sector
3 42 (14.43%) Finance
4 32 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.53%) Retail
6 14 (4.81%) Banking
6 14 (4.81%) Law
7 12 (4.12%) Marketing
8 8 (2.75%) Legal
9 6 (2.06%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.72%) Local Government
10 5 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.72%) Police
10 5 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.03%) Automotive
13 2 (0.69%) Electronics
13 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 47 (16.15%) Analyst
2 43 (14.78%) Developer
3 33 (11.34%) Architect
4 31 (10.65%) Business Analyst
5 24 (8.25%) Project Manager
6 21 (7.22%) Java Developer
7 20 (6.87%) Senior
8 19 (6.53%) Lead
9 18 (6.19%) Delivery Manager
10 16 (5.50%) Consultant
10 16 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.44%) Technical Analyst
12 9 (3.09%) Head of Customer Experience
12 9 (3.09%) Head of Digital
12 9 (3.09%) Java Engineer
13 8 (2.75%) Lead Developer
13 8 (2.75%) Scrum Master
14 7 (2.41%) Digital Business Analyst
14 7 (2.41%) Junior
14 7 (2.41%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.03%) REST
2 22 (7.56%) Spring Boot
3 21 (7.22%) React
3 21 (7.22%) Spring
4 18 (6.19%) Hibernate
4 18 (6.19%) JPA
5 9 (3.09%) .NET
5 9 (3.09%) Java EE
6 6 (2.06%) JSON
6 6 (2.06%) OpenAPI
6 6 (2.06%) Swagger
7 4 (1.37%) Node.js
7 4 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.37%) XML
8 3 (1.03%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.03%) HTML
8 3 (1.03%) Middleware
9 2 (0.69%) CSS
9 2 (0.69%) jQuery
9 2 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.12%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.06%) Mobile Banking
3 6 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.37%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (1.37%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
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 (0.69%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.69%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.41%) Windows
2 6 (2.06%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.03%) Linux
3 3 (1.03%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.69%) Android
4 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (38.83%) Agile
2 61 (20.96%) DevOps
3 50 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (15.12%) Scrum
5 35 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (11.00%) Microservices
6 32 (11.00%) Project Management
7 28 (9.62%) Mentoring
7 28 (9.62%) Software Engineering
8 25 (8.59%) Digital Engineering
8 25 (8.59%) Migration
8 25 (8.59%) Project Delivery
9 24 (8.25%) Customer Experience
9 24 (8.25%) Decision-Making
10 23 (7.90%) Analytics
10 23 (7.90%) Roadmaps
11 22 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (7.56%) Service Design
12 21 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (6.87%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.71%) Java
2 22 (7.56%) SQL
3 21 (7.22%) TypeScript
4 11 (3.78%) Python
5 6 (2.06%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.72%) C#
6 5 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.03%) C++
7 3 (1.03%) Go
7 3 (1.03%) R
7 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.69%) 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 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.53%) Degree
3 19 (6.53%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.06%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.06%) PMP
5 6 (2.06%) Postgraduate
6 5 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.37%) MCSE
8 3 (1.03%) BC Cleared
8 3 (1.03%) CISSP
9 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.69%) CBAP
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) ISEB
10 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.81%) QA
2 13 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.37%) GDPR
5 3 (1.03%) PMO
5 3 (1.03%) SLA
6 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) GxP
7 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
7 1 (0.34%) NIST
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (8.25%) Docker
2 10 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (8.25%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.44%) Ansible
3 7 (2.41%) Terraform
4 3 (1.03%) SCCM
5 2 (0.69%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.34%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.47%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.09%) SAP
4 8 (2.75%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.41%) Oracle
6 6 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.03%) Adobe
7 3 (1.03%) Google
8 2 (0.69%) Cadence
8 2 (0.69%) Cisco
8 2 (0.69%) Databricks
8 2 (0.69%) IBM
8 2 (0.69%) Marketo
8 2 (0.69%) Pardot
8 2 (0.69%) QNX
8 2 (0.69%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) AlgoSec
9 1 (0.34%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.34%) Optimizely