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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 405 429
Rank change year-on-year +57 +24 -16
Contract jobs citing Business Transformation 263 302 506
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.54% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.61% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 214 364
10th Percentile £410 £443 £410
25th Percentile £475 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £652 £750 £720
90th Percentile £755 £875 £784
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -4.58% +14.29% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 0
10th Percentile £22.33 £24.83 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £31.18 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% - -
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +73 249 £550 -8.33% 161
London +79 125 £550 -16.98% 73
UK excluding London +14 119 £573 -4.58% 90
Work from Home +52 70 £550 -12.00% 41
Midlands +38 36 £550 -4.35% 24
West Midlands +33 32 £575 - 22
South West +17 28 £710 +20.85% 14
North of England +10 23 £525 -12.50% 17
East of England +8 20 £550 +10.00% 9
South East -16 17 £501 -16.58% 21
North West +13 14 £525 -12.50% 12
Yorkshire -5 5 £500 -18.37% 3
North East +14 3 £897 +70.85% 2
East Midlands +9 3 £530 -5.36% 2
Scotland +39 2 - - 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 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.14%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.66%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 49 (18.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (6.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (2.66%) SAP GTS
4 6 (2.28%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.76%) Maximo
5 2 (0.76%) Primavera
5 2 (0.76%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.76%) Softmar
5 2 (0.76%) Teamcenter
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 PM
6 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.89%) Azure
2 15 (5.70%) AWS
3 13 (4.94%) Serverless
4 11 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (4.18%) AWS Step Functions
5 10 (3.80%) Amazon MSK
6 9 (3.42%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.90%) GCP
9 4 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.52%) PaaS
9 4 (1.52%) SaaS
10 3 (1.14%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.14%) Yammer
11 2 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.76%) dbt
11 2 (0.76%) IaaS
11 2 (0.76%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.38%) Boomi
12 1 (0.38%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.04%) DHCP
1 8 (3.04%) DNS
1 8 (3.04%) LAN
1 8 (3.04%) MPLS
1 8 (3.04%) SAN
1 8 (3.04%) WAN
1 8 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.76%) Intranet
3 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.46%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.18%) DynamoDB
3 10 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (3.80%) Parquet
4 7 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.66%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.76%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.76%) Power BI
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.38%) Big Data
6 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.38%) Sqoop
6 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Git
1 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (0.76%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.38%) Gradle
2 1 (0.38%) JUnit
2 1 (0.38%) Maven
2 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
General
1 125 (47.53%) Social Skills
2 84 (31.94%) Finance
3 24 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.75%) Presentation Skills
5 20 (7.60%) Marketing
6 17 (6.46%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 13 (4.94%) Telecoms
9 11 (4.18%) Aerospace
10 9 (3.42%) Banking
10 9 (3.42%) Manufacturing
10 9 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (3.04%) Retail
12 7 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.66%) Social Housing
13 5 (1.90%) Legal
14 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.52%) French Language
15 3 (1.14%) German Language
15 3 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 36 (13.69%) Lead
2 35 (13.31%) Analyst
3 30 (11.41%) Project Manager
4 29 (11.03%) Consultant
4 29 (11.03%) Senior
5 28 (10.65%) Architect
6 24 (9.13%) Business Analyst
7 20 (7.60%) Developer
8 18 (6.84%) Business Manager
9 16 (6.08%) Functional Consultant
10 13 (4.94%) Change Manager
10 13 (4.94%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.94%) Transformation Manager
11 12 (4.56%) Microsoft Developer
12 11 (4.18%) Programme Manager
13 10 (3.80%) SAP Consultant
13 10 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
13 10 (3.80%) Senior Manager
14 9 (3.42%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.70%) JSON
2 10 (3.80%) Apache Avro
3 7 (2.66%) .NET
4 6 (2.28%) ASP.NET
4 6 (2.28%) HTML
5 5 (1.90%) Web Services
5 5 (1.90%) XML
6 4 (1.52%) CSS
7 2 (0.76%) Flash
7 2 (0.76%) Middleware
8 1 (0.38%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.38%) ADO
8 1 (0.38%) EJB
8 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.38%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.38%) Java EE
8 1 (0.38%) JMS
8 1 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.38%) SAPUI5
8 1 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.46%) FMCG
1 17 (6.46%) Life Science
2 10 (3.80%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.42%) Reinsurance
4 8 (3.04%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.04%) Clustering
4 8 (3.04%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.28%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.14%) Industry 4.0
7 3 (1.14%) IoT
7 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.14%) Social Media
7 3 (1.14%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.76%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (0.76%) Freedom of Information Act
8 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.42%) Windows
2 8 (3.04%) Unix
3 2 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 57 (21.67%) Agile
3 45 (17.11%) Project Management
4 34 (12.93%) Change Management
4 34 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (12.17%) Roadmaps
6 31 (11.79%) Migration
7 28 (10.65%) ERP
8 25 (9.51%) Business Analysis
8 25 (9.51%) Workshop Facilitation
9 22 (8.37%) Data Ingestion
9 22 (8.37%) Data Migration
10 21 (7.98%) CRM
10 21 (7.98%) IT Strategy
11 20 (7.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (7.22%) Business Strategy
12 19 (7.22%) Decision-Making
12 19 (7.22%) Risk Management
13 16 (6.08%) PRINCE2
13 16 (6.08%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.46%) Python
1 17 (6.46%) SQL
2 9 (3.42%) C#
2 9 (3.42%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.66%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.28%) Java
5 1 (0.38%) Bash
5 1 (0.38%) Bicep
5 1 (0.38%) C
5 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.38%) Go
5 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (12.93%) Degree
2 24 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.46%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.28%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (0.76%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.38%) CBAP
6 1 (0.38%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (0.38%) CISM
6 1 (0.38%) CISSP
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 8 (3.04%) PMO
2 7 (2.66%) SLA
3 6 (2.28%) QA
4 5 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.76%) COBIT
6 2 (0.76%) GDPR
6 2 (0.76%) NCSC
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (3.04%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.04%) Virtual Servers
1 8 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (3.04%) VMware Workstation
2 2 (0.76%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (3.04%) Nagios
1 8 (3.04%) NetBackup
1 8 (3.04%) SCCM
2 2 (0.76%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.38%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 67 (25.48%) SAP
2 32 (12.17%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.32%) Ariba
4 12 (4.56%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.04%) Hitachi
5 8 (3.04%) NetApp
5 8 (3.04%) Oracle
5 8 (3.04%) VMware
6 5 (1.90%) Google
7 4 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.14%) IBM
9 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.76%) Concur
9 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.76%) Workday
10 1 (0.38%) Capita
10 1 (0.38%) NEC
10 1 (0.38%) Planview
10 1 (0.38%) Splunk
10 1 (0.38%) Wrike