Business Transformation Contracts

Business Transformation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Business Transformation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Transformation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 393 428
Rank change year-on-year +62 +35 -13
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 260 317 503
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.57% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.63% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 226 361
10th Percentile £407 £433 £406
25th Percentile £463 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £656 £750 £700
90th Percentile £761 £875 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 0
10th Percentile £22.33 £34.94 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -42.86% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Transformation 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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Business Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Transformation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Transformation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK

Business 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 Business Transformation within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +44 238 £550 -11.11% 176
London +78 122 £550 -20.86% 88
UK excluding London 0 116 £550 -8.33% 82
Work from Home +55 72 £550 -12.00% 37
Midlands +34 37 £550 -1.79% 17
West Midlands +29 33 £575 +4.55% 15
South West +9 24 £710 +23.48% 17
North of England +6 22 £525 -12.50% 16
East of England +7 17 £550 +10.00% 8
South East -22 16 £488 -21.96% 23
North West +18 12 £525 -12.50% 8
Scotland +40 6 £255 -47.69% 2
Yorkshire +2 6 £548 -10.61% 6
North East +13 3 £897 +70.85% 3
East Midlands +9 3 £530 -5.36% 2

Business 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 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.15%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.69%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.77%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 49 (18.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (6.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.31%) NetSuite
3 6 (2.31%) SAP GTS
4 2 (0.77%) Maximo
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.77%) Primavera
4 2 (0.77%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.77%) Softmar
4 2 (0.77%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.38%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.38%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.38%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (9.23%) Azure
2 13 (5.00%) AWS
3 12 (4.62%) Serverless
4 11 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (4.23%) AWS Step Functions
5 10 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
6 9 (3.46%) Amazon S3
6 9 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.92%) GCP
8 4 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.54%) PaaS
8 4 (1.54%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.54%) SaaS
9 3 (1.15%) Yammer
10 2 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.77%) dbt
10 2 (0.77%) IaaS
10 2 (0.77%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.08%) DHCP
1 8 (3.08%) DNS
1 8 (3.08%) LAN
1 8 (3.08%) MPLS
1 8 (3.08%) SAN
1 8 (3.08%) WAN
1 8 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.77%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 10 (3.85%) DynamoDB
2 10 (3.85%) Parquet
3 6 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.31%) SAP HANA
4 3 (1.15%) Power BI
5 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.38%) Big Data
6 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.38%) Impala
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.38%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.38%) Sqoop
6 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.54%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) Git
2 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 122 (46.92%) Social Skills
2 80 (30.77%) Finance
3 25 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.08%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (7.31%) Marketing
6 18 (6.92%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.00%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (3.85%) Aerospace
10 9 (3.46%) Banking
10 9 (3.46%) Manufacturing
10 9 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (3.08%) Retail
12 7 (2.69%) Social Housing
13 6 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.92%) Legal
15 4 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.54%) French Language
15 4 (1.54%) German Language
16 3 (1.15%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (13.46%) Lead
2 34 (13.08%) Analyst
3 30 (11.54%) Architect
3 30 (11.54%) Project Manager
4 29 (11.15%) Consultant
5 26 (10.00%) Senior
6 22 (8.46%) Business Analyst
7 19 (7.31%) Developer
8 18 (6.92%) Business Manager
9 15 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (5.00%) Change Manager
10 13 (5.00%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
11 12 (4.62%) Microsoft Developer
11 12 (4.62%) Transformation Manager
12 10 (3.85%) Programme Manager
13 9 (3.46%) Business Change Manager
13 9 (3.46%) Communications Manager
13 9 (3.46%) SAP Consultant
13 9 (3.46%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.38%) JSON
2 10 (3.85%) Apache Avro
3 6 (2.31%) .NET
3 6 (2.31%) HTML
4 5 (1.92%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.54%) CSS
5 4 (1.54%) Web Services
5 4 (1.54%) XML
6 2 (0.77%) Flash
6 2 (0.77%) Middleware
7 1 (0.38%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.38%) ADO
7 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.38%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.38%) REST
7 1 (0.38%) SOAP
7 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.54%) FMCG
2 15 (5.77%) Life Science
3 10 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.08%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.08%) Clustering
4 8 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.08%) Reinsurance
5 6 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.31%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.54%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (1.54%) IoT
7 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.15%) Social Media
8 3 (1.15%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.77%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.77%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.08%) Unix
1 8 (3.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (24.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (20.77%) Agile
3 44 (16.92%) Project Management
4 37 (14.23%) Change Management
5 33 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (12.69%) Roadmaps
6 29 (11.15%) ERP
7 26 (10.00%) Migration
8 23 (8.85%) Business Analysis
9 22 (8.46%) Data Ingestion
9 22 (8.46%) Workshop Facilitation
10 21 (8.08%) Business Strategy
10 21 (8.08%) Data Migration
10 21 (8.08%) IT Strategy
11 20 (7.69%) CRM
11 20 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (7.31%) Risk Management
13 17 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (6.54%) Decision-Making
14 16 (6.15%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.15%) Python
1 16 (6.15%) SQL
2 9 (3.46%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.69%) C#
3 7 (2.69%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.54%) Java
5 1 (0.38%) Bicep
5 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (13.46%) Degree
2 21 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.54%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (0.77%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.38%) CBAP
6 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.38%) IIBA
6 1 (0.38%) ISEB
6 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.38%) PMP
6 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.85%) SLA
2 7 (2.69%) PMO
2 7 (2.69%) QA
3 4 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.77%) COBIT
4 2 (0.77%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) GAAP
5 1 (0.38%) GxP
5 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (3.08%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.08%) Virtual Servers
1 8 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (3.08%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (3.08%) Nagios
1 8 (3.08%) NetBackup
1 8 (3.08%) SCCM
2 2 (0.77%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.38%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 66 (25.38%) SAP
2 33 (12.69%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.15%) Ariba
4 12 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.85%) Oracle
6 8 (3.08%) Hitachi
6 8 (3.08%) NetApp
6 8 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.08%) VMware
7 5 (1.92%) Google
8 3 (1.15%) IBM
9 2 (0.77%) Concur
9 2 (0.77%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.38%) Dell
10 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.38%) HP
10 1 (0.38%) New Relic
10 1 (0.38%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.38%) Splunk
10 1 (0.38%) Workday