Digital Transformation Contracts

Digital Transformation
UK

The median Digital Transformation daily rate in the UK is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 519 728
Rank change year-on-year -30 +209 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Transformation 30 165 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.29% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.31% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 156 99
10th Percentile £363 £481 £406
25th Percentile £486 £513 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £652 £650 £625
90th Percentile £663 £700 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +2.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Digital Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Digital Transformation in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Transformation in the UK

Digital Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Transformation in the UK

Digital Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Transformation over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Transformation in the UK

Digital Transformation
Top 12 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 -36 26 £615 +6.96% 27
London 0 15 £638 +6.25% 11
Work from Home -18 12 £638 +13.33% 8
UK excluding London +21 11 £525 -4.55% 18
East of England +12 5 - -
South West -1 2 £525 -4.55% 2
North of England +25 1 - - 5
North West +14 1 - - 1
South East +8 1 - - 3
East Midlands +8 1 - - 2
Midlands +8 1 - - 6
Wales - 1 - - 1

Digital Transformation Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Digital Transformation contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Digital Transformation in the job title.

1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 8 (26.67%) SQL
4 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (23.33%) Management Information System
4 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (20.00%) Power BI
5 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 6 (20.00%) Project Management
5 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (20.00%) Retail
5 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
6 5 (16.67%) Google
6 5 (16.67%) Back Office
6 5 (16.67%) Service Management
6 5 (16.67%) GIS
6 5 (16.67%) Google Sheets
6 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 5 (16.67%) Line Management
7 4 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (13.33%) Change Management
7 4 (13.33%) ERP
7 4 (13.33%) PRINCE2
7 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
7 4 (13.33%) Degree
7 4 (13.33%) Agile
7 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.00%) Programme Management
8 3 (10.00%) Workflow

Digital Transformation Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (16.67%) Google Sheets
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Power BI
2 5 (16.67%) GIS
3 1 (3.33%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (20.00%) Retail
5 5 (16.67%) Back Office
6 3 (10.00%) Legal
6 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.67%) Banking
7 2 (6.67%) Law
7 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.67%) Marketing
8 1 (3.33%) Electronics
8 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.33%) Local Government
8 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (3.33%) Welsh Language
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Contactless
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.00%) Project Management
3 5 (16.67%) Line Management
3 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 5 (16.67%) Service Management
4 4 (13.33%) Agile
4 4 (13.33%) Change Management
4 4 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (13.33%) ERP
4 4 (13.33%) PRINCE2
4 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (10.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (10.00%) Workflow
6 2 (6.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (6.67%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) HND
3 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Postgraduate
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Google
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) SAP