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 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 321 176 145
Rank change year-on-year -145 -31 +12
Contract jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme 271 827 1,647
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 1.48% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.64% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 519 979
10th Percentile £363 £410 £375
25th Percentile £456 £469 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £503
% change year-on-year - -0.50% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £31.91 £37.25
25th Percentile - £34.78 £40.63
Median hourly rate - £39.55 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -16.74% +102.13%
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £39.55 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +13.00% +48.94%

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 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%

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 1 June 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 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 -154 219 £550 - 141
UK excluding London -76 130 £500 - 67
London -121 103 £550 - 71
Work from Home -146 93 £500 -9.09% 58
North of England -51 46 £500 +1.01% 14
North West +31 33 £500 +1.01% 10
South East +15 33 £625 +25.00% 17
Scotland +32 23 £475 +4.40% 5
Midlands -3 17 £463 -5.13% 15
West Midlands -8 12 £475 +5.56% 7
Yorkshire -57 12 £550 +11.39% 4
South West -13 9 £588 -2.08% 11
East Midlands +8 5 £450 -10.00% 8
East of England 0 1 £450 -35.71% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £200 - 1
North East - 1 - -

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 (4.43%) Confluence
2 5 (1.85%) CMS
3 4 (1.48%) govService
3 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.74%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) SAS
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.37%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.37%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.37%) Softmar
3 1 (0.37%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.97%) Azure
2 25 (9.23%) AWS
3 16 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (5.90%) Power Platform
4 11 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (2.95%) GCP
6 4 (1.48%) Power Automate
6 4 (1.48%) SaaS
6 4 (1.48%) Serverless
7 3 (1.11%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.11%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.74%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.74%) dbt
8 2 (0.74%) GitHub
8 2 (0.74%) IaaS
8 2 (0.74%) PaaS
8 2 (0.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.69%) Firewall
2 5 (1.85%) Internet
2 5 (1.85%) Intranet
3 4 (1.48%) DNS
4 3 (1.11%) SSL
5 2 (0.74%) LoRaWAN
5 2 (0.74%) Network Security
5 2 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.74%) Wireless
5 2 (0.74%) ZigBee
6 1 (0.37%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.37%) DHCP
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
1 21 (7.75%) Relational Database
2 10 (3.69%) Power BI
3 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.48%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.11%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.11%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.74%) Tableau
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.37%) DB2
7 1 (0.37%) GIS
7 1 (0.37%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 20 (7.38%) JUnit
2 18 (6.64%) Git
3 14 (5.17%) JIRA
4 11 (4.06%) Jenkins
5 9 (3.32%) Cucumber
5 9 (3.32%) REST Assured
5 9 (3.32%) Selenium
5 9 (3.32%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.74%) Maven
7 1 (0.37%) Ant
7 1 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.37%) Gradle
7 1 (0.37%) Mockito
7 1 (0.37%) Postman
7 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.37%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.37%) TestNG
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 69 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.88%) Public Sector
3 41 (15.13%) Finance
4 32 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.64%) Retail
6 15 (5.54%) Law
7 10 (3.69%) Banking
8 8 (2.95%) Marketing
9 6 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.21%) Legal
9 6 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.85%) Local Government
10 5 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.85%) Police
11 4 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.11%) Automotive
12 3 (1.11%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.74%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 48 (17.71%) Analyst
2 37 (13.65%) Developer
3 32 (11.81%) Architect
4 28 (10.33%) Business Analyst
5 22 (8.12%) Project Manager
6 21 (7.75%) Lead
7 20 (7.38%) Java Developer
7 20 (7.38%) Senior
8 17 (6.27%) Consultant
9 16 (5.90%) Delivery Manager
9 16 (5.90%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.69%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (3.32%) Data Analyst
11 9 (3.32%) Head of Customer Experience
11 9 (3.32%) Head of Digital
11 9 (3.32%) Java Engineer
12 8 (2.95%) Lead Developer
13 7 (2.58%) Digital Business Analyst
13 7 (2.58%) IT Manager
13 7 (2.58%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.55%) REST
2 22 (8.12%) Spring Boot
3 21 (7.75%) React
3 21 (7.75%) Spring
4 18 (6.64%) Hibernate
4 18 (6.64%) JPA
5 9 (3.32%) .NET
5 9 (3.32%) Java EE
6 6 (2.21%) OpenAPI
6 6 (2.21%) Swagger
7 5 (1.85%) JSON
8 4 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (1.11%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.11%) Middleware
9 3 (1.11%) XML
10 2 (0.74%) CSS
10 2 (0.74%) HTML
10 2 (0.74%) jQuery
10 2 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
11 1 (0.37%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (3.69%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (1.85%) Data Centre
3 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (1.48%) Mainframe
4 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.11%) FMCG
5 3 (1.11%) IoT
5 3 (1.11%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (1.11%) PKI
5 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.74%) Replication
6 2 (0.74%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.32%) Windows
2 6 (2.21%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.48%) Linux
4 3 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.74%) Android
5 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.74%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (36.90%) Agile
2 53 (19.56%) DevOps
3 47 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (14.39%) Scrum
6 31 (11.44%) Microservices
7 28 (10.33%) Mentoring
8 27 (9.96%) Migration
9 26 (9.59%) Software Engineering
10 25 (9.23%) Customer Experience
10 25 (9.23%) Decision-Making
10 25 (9.23%) Project Management
11 22 (8.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (8.12%) Digital Engineering
11 22 (8.12%) Project Delivery
11 22 (8.12%) Service Design
12 21 (7.75%) Analytics
13 20 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (7.38%) CRM
13 20 (7.38%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.28%) Java
2 20 (7.38%) SQL
2 20 (7.38%) TypeScript
3 10 (3.69%) Python
4 6 (2.21%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.11%) C++
6 3 (1.11%) Go
6 3 (1.11%) R
7 2 (0.74%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.74%) C#
7 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.37%) Bash
8 1 (0.37%) C
8 1 (0.37%) PHP
8 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.37%) Ruby
8 1 (0.37%) Scala
8 1 (0.37%) SOQL
8 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.01%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.27%) Degree
5 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.21%) Postgraduate
6 5 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.48%) MCSE
7 4 (1.48%) PMP
8 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.11%) BC Cleared
8 3 (1.11%) CISSP
8 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CBAP
10 1 (0.37%) CCNP
10 1 (0.37%) ISEB
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.80%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.69%) QA
4 4 (1.48%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.48%) GDPR
4 4 (1.48%) PMO
5 3 (1.11%) SLA
6 2 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) GxP
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (8.86%) Docker
2 10 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.69%) Ansible
3 5 (1.85%) Terraform
4 3 (1.11%) SCCM
5 2 (0.74%) CEMLI
5 2 (0.74%) Nessus
6 1 (0.37%) Grafana
6 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (8.49%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.95%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.58%) Atlassian
3 7 (2.58%) Oracle
4 5 (1.85%) Google
5 4 (1.48%) SAP
5 4 (1.48%) VMware
6 3 (1.11%) Adobe
6 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.74%) Cadence
7 2 (0.74%) Cisco
7 2 (0.74%) Citrix
7 2 (0.74%) Databricks
7 2 (0.74%) IBM
7 2 (0.74%) Pardot
7 2 (0.74%) QNX
7 2 (0.74%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.74%) Splunk
8 1 (0.37%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.37%) Optimizely