Technology Transformation Contracts

Technology Transformation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Technology Transformation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technology Transformation over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 421 507
Rank change year-on-year -4 +86 +50
Contract jobs citing Technology Transformation 96 153 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.42% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 123 161
10th Percentile £409 £465 £400
25th Percentile £510 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.13% -3.69%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £838 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £88.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £88.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Technology Transformation 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 26,555 36,687 51,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.22% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,047 23,611 35,552
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,084 2,428 1,693
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

Technology Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Transformation in the UK

Technology Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Transformation in the UK

Technology Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Transformation over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Transformation in the UK

Technology Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Transformation in the UK

Technology Transformation
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Transformation within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +19 93 £585 -2.50% 466
London -8 57 £600 - 238
UK excluding London +27 33 £540 -1.82% 316
Work from Home +10 25 £625 +3.09% 345
North of England +14 16 £540 +0.47% 78
Yorkshire +10 9 £540 +5.37% 10
South West +46 6 £669 - 34
North West +8 5 £617 +2.83% 58
South East +43 4 £270 -55.00% 78
Midlands +10 4 £555 -9.02% 60
West Midlands +11 3 £555 +1.83% 33
Scotland +6 2 £480 -4.05% 38
North East -1 2 £575 +9.52% 10
East of England +20 1 £425 -37.04% 18
East Midlands +5 1 £115 -84.67% 24

Technology Transformation
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 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.08%) Maximo
2 2 (2.08%) SAP ERP
2 2 (2.08%) SAP WM
3 1 (1.04%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.04%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.33%) Azure
1 8 (8.33%) SaaS
2 6 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (5.21%) AWS
4 3 (3.13%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.08%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.04%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.04%) PaaS
6 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.08%) Power BI
2 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.04%) MS Access
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) GitLab
2 4 (4.17%) JIRA
3 2 (2.08%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.04%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.04%) Gatling
4 1 (1.04%) Git
4 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.04%) JMeter
4 1 (1.04%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.04%) Vagrant
General
1 47 (48.96%) Finance
2 40 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.63%) Banking
4 14 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.58%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.25%) Legal
6 4 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Marketing
7 3 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Aviation
8 2 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.08%) Retail
9 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Local Government
9 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.04%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (13.54%) Analyst
1 13 (13.54%) Project Manager
2 11 (11.46%) Architect
2 11 (11.46%) Business Analyst
3 10 (10.42%) Lead
4 8 (8.33%) Senior
5 7 (7.29%) Change Manager
6 6 (6.25%) Senior Manager
7 5 (5.21%) Business Manager
7 5 (5.21%) IT Manager
7 5 (5.21%) IT Project Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Business Change Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Programme Manager
8 4 (4.17%) SAP Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.17%) Transformation Manager
9 3 (3.13%) Consultant
9 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.04%) ADO
1 1 (1.04%) PyTorch
1 1 (1.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.08%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.08%) Robotics
4 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.04%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.04%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.04%) PKI
5 1 (1.04%) PMI
5 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.17%) Windows
2 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.08%) Linux
3 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.21%) Agile
2 28 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (28.13%) Project Management
4 21 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (16.67%) Change Management
6 15 (15.63%) Project Delivery
7 14 (14.58%) Business Case
8 13 (13.54%) Migration
8 13 (13.54%) Waterfall
9 12 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (8.33%) Process Improvement
12 7 (7.29%) Analytics
12 7 (7.29%) Budget Management
12 7 (7.29%) Business Analysis
12 7 (7.29%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (7.29%) Roadmaps
12 7 (7.29%) TOGAF
13 6 (6.25%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.29%) SQL
2 4 (4.17%) Java
3 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.13%) Python
4 1 (1.04%) Bash
4 1 (1.04%) C++
4 1 (1.04%) Go
4 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) Degree
4 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.17%) PMP
5 2 (2.08%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.04%) APMG
6 1 (1.04%) APMP
6 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.04%) MBA
6 1 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) PMO
2 2 (2.08%) QA
3 1 (1.04%) COBIT
3 1 (1.04%) COSO
3 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.04%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.13%) Terraform
2 1 (1.04%) Ansible
2 1 (1.04%) Consul
2 1 (1.04%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.58%) SAP
3 2 (2.08%) Blue Prism
3 2 (2.08%) iManage
3 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.08%) Workday
4 1 (1.04%) Aderant
4 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.04%) Cisco
4 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle
4 1 (1.04%) Salesforce