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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 392 430
Rank change year-on-year +65 +38 -31
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 262 324 511
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.63% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 226 361
10th Percentile £409 £425 £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 £650 £750 £694
90th Percentile £765 £875 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 0
10th Percentile £22.33 £34.94 -
25th Percentile £35.58 £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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Transformation in the UK

Business Transformation
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 Business Transformation within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +62 235 £550 -9.28% 151
UK excluding London +14 121 £550 -4.35% 93
London +76 116 £550 -21.43% 65
Work from Home +46 69 £550 -13.73% 51
Midlands +31 40 £563 +0.45% 25
West Midlands +35 35 £575 +4.55% 23
North of England +11 23 £525 -12.50% 15
South West +7 22 £710 +17.11% 17
East of England +15 17 £550 +10.00% 6
South East -10 16 £488 -18.71% 24
North West +14 12 £525 -12.50% 8
Scotland +46 7 £263 -46.15% 3
Yorkshire 0 7 £548 -8.75% 5
East Midlands +16 4 £530 -5.36% 2
North East +14 3 £897 +70.85% 2
Wales +20 2 £775 - 4

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 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.53%) 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 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.67%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 49 (18.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (6.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.29%) SAP GTS
4 5 (1.91%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.76%) Maximo
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.76%) Primavera
5 2 (0.76%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.76%) Softmar
5 2 (0.76%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.76%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.38%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.38%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.38%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (8.78%) Azure
2 14 (5.34%) AWS
3 12 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
3 12 (4.58%) Serverless
4 11 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (4.20%) AWS Step Functions
5 10 (3.82%) Amazon MSK
6 9 (3.44%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.91%) GCP
7 5 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.91%) SaaS
8 4 (1.53%) PaaS
8 4 (1.53%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.15%) Yammer
10 2 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.76%) dbt
10 2 (0.76%) IaaS
10 2 (0.76%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.05%) DHCP
1 8 (3.05%) DNS
1 8 (3.05%) LAN
1 8 (3.05%) MPLS
1 8 (3.05%) SAN
1 8 (3.05%) WAN
1 8 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
2 10 (3.82%) DynamoDB
2 10 (3.82%) Parquet
3 5 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.91%) SAP HANA
4 3 (1.15%) Power BI
5 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.76%) 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 (1.53%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) Git
2 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 122 (46.56%) Social Skills
2 84 (32.06%) Finance
3 27 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.40%) Presentation Skills
5 21 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.87%) Marketing
7 14 (5.34%) Pharmaceutical
8 12 (4.58%) Telecoms
9 11 (4.20%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.82%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.44%) Banking
12 8 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (2.67%) Legal
13 7 (2.67%) Retail
13 7 (2.67%) Social Housing
14 6 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.91%) German Language
16 4 (1.53%) French Language
17 3 (1.15%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (14.12%) Analyst
2 35 (13.36%) Lead
3 33 (12.60%) Project Manager
4 30 (11.45%) Architect
5 29 (11.07%) Consultant
6 25 (9.54%) Senior
7 22 (8.40%) Business Analyst
8 18 (6.87%) Business Manager
9 17 (6.49%) Developer
10 13 (4.96%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.96%) Functional Consultant
10 13 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.96%) Transformation Manager
11 12 (4.58%) Change Manager
11 12 (4.58%) Microsoft Developer
12 10 (3.82%) Programme Manager
13 9 (3.44%) Business Change Manager
13 9 (3.44%) Business Project Manager
13 9 (3.44%) Communications Manager
13 9 (3.44%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.34%) JSON
2 10 (3.82%) Apache Avro
3 6 (2.29%) HTML
4 4 (1.53%) .NET
4 4 (1.53%) CSS
4 4 (1.53%) Web Services
4 4 (1.53%) XML
5 3 (1.15%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.76%) Flash
6 2 (0.76%) 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 15 (5.73%) Life Science
2 14 (5.34%) FMCG
3 11 (4.20%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.05%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.05%) Clustering
4 8 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.91%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (1.91%) IoT
7 5 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.91%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.15%) Social Media
9 3 (1.15%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.76%) Biopharmaceutical
10 2 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.44%) Windows
2 8 (3.05%) Unix
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (20.61%) Agile
3 53 (20.23%) Project Management
4 37 (14.12%) Change Management
5 36 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (12.60%) Roadmaps
7 32 (12.21%) ERP
8 26 (9.92%) Migration
9 24 (9.16%) Business Analysis
10 22 (8.40%) Data Ingestion
10 22 (8.40%) Data Migration
11 21 (8.02%) IT Strategy
11 21 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (7.63%) Workshop Facilitation
13 19 (7.25%) CRM
13 19 (7.25%) Risk Management
14 18 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (6.87%) Decision-Making
15 17 (6.49%) Business Strategy
15 17 (6.49%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.11%) Python
1 16 (6.11%) SQL
2 9 (3.44%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.91%) C#
5 4 (1.53%) Java
6 1 (0.38%) Bicep
6 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 36 (13.74%) Degree
2 24 (9.16%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.53%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.15%) PMP
6 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (0.76%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.38%) CBAP
7 1 (0.38%) IIBA
7 1 (0.38%) ISEB
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.82%) SLA
2 9 (3.44%) PMO
3 7 (2.67%) QA
4 4 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.76%) COBIT
5 2 (0.76%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) GAAP
6 1 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (3.05%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.05%) Virtual Servers
1 8 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (3.05%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (3.05%) Nagios
1 8 (3.05%) NetBackup
1 8 (3.05%) SCCM
2 3 (1.15%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.38%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 66 (25.19%) SAP
2 35 (13.36%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.87%) Ariba
4 10 (3.82%) Oracle
5 9 (3.44%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.05%) Hitachi
6 8 (3.05%) NetApp
6 8 (3.05%) VMware
7 7 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.91%) Google
9 3 (1.15%) IBM
10 2 (0.76%) Concur
10 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.76%) Workday
11 1 (0.38%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.38%) New Relic
11 1 (0.38%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.38%) Sage
11 1 (0.38%) Splunk