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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 165 151
Rank change year-on-year -137 -14 +3
Contract jobs citing Digital Transformation Programme 282 880 1,619
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.55% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.72% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 550 962
10th Percentile £363 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £631
90th Percentile £686 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £31.91 -
25th Percentile £53.75 £34.78 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.55 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.39% +13.00% +48.94%
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £39.55 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +13.00% +5.26%

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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £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 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 May 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 18 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 -126 238 £550 - 117
UK excluding London -63 127 £500 - 62
London -114 120 £550 - 64
Work from Home -143 102 £500 -9.09% 63
North of England -44 46 £500 +2.04% 18
North West +30 32 £500 +1.01% 10
South East +35 31 £650 +30.00% 22
Scotland +28 19 £475 +0.26% 1
Midlands 0 19 £438 -12.50% 10
West Midlands +5 14 £425 -10.53% 8
Yorkshire -59 13 £513 +6.49% 6
South West -8 10 £588 -4.08% 6
East Midlands +9 5 £450 -10.00% 2
East of England -2 1 £450 -35.71%
Northern Ireland - 1 £200 - 3
North East - 1 - - 2

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 (4.26%) Confluence
2 5 (1.77%) CMS
3 4 (1.42%) govService
3 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.71%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.71%) Magento
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.35%) Softmar
3 1 (0.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (15.96%) Azure
2 24 (8.51%) AWS
3 16 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (5.67%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.13%) GCP
6 4 (1.42%) Power Automate
6 4 (1.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 4 (1.42%) Serverless
7 3 (1.06%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.06%) GitHub
7 3 (1.06%) SaaS
7 3 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.71%) IaaS
8 2 (0.71%) PaaS
8 2 (0.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.84%) Firewall
2 5 (1.77%) Internet
2 5 (1.77%) Intranet
3 4 (1.42%) SSL
4 2 (0.71%) DNS
4 2 (0.71%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (0.71%) Network Security
4 2 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.71%) Wireless
4 2 (0.71%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.35%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.35%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.35%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.35%) DHCP
5 1 (0.35%) HTTP
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.45%) Relational Database
2 20 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.55%) Power BI
4 6 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.06%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.06%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.06%) Tableau
7 2 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.35%) Big Data
8 1 (0.35%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.35%) DB2
8 1 (0.35%) NewSQL
8 1 (0.35%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (7.09%) JUnit
2 19 (6.74%) Git
3 15 (5.32%) JIRA
4 10 (3.55%) Jenkins
5 9 (3.19%) Cucumber
5 9 (3.19%) REST Assured
5 9 (3.19%) Selenium
5 9 (3.19%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.71%) Maven
6 2 (0.71%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) GitLab
7 1 (0.35%) Gradle
7 1 (0.35%) Mockito
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.35%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.35%) TestNG
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.34%) Public Sector
3 40 (14.18%) Finance
4 32 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.74%) Retail
6 14 (4.96%) Law
7 13 (4.61%) Banking
8 10 (3.55%) Marketing
9 8 (2.84%) Legal
10 6 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.77%) Local Government
11 5 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.77%) Police
11 5 (1.77%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.06%) Automotive
14 2 (0.71%) Electronics
14 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 46 (16.31%) Analyst
2 38 (13.48%) Developer
3 34 (12.06%) Architect
4 31 (10.99%) Business Analyst
5 24 (8.51%) Project Manager
6 21 (7.45%) Senior
7 20 (7.09%) Java Developer
7 20 (7.09%) Lead
8 18 (6.38%) Delivery Manager
9 16 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (5.32%) Consultant
11 10 (3.55%) Technical Analyst
12 9 (3.19%) Head of Customer Experience
12 9 (3.19%) Head of Digital
12 9 (3.19%) Java Engineer
13 8 (2.84%) Lead Developer
13 8 (2.84%) Scrum Master
14 7 (2.48%) Digital Analyst
14 7 (2.48%) Digital Business Analyst
14 7 (2.48%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.06%) REST
2 21 (7.45%) Spring Boot
3 20 (7.09%) React
3 20 (7.09%) Spring
4 18 (6.38%) Hibernate
4 18 (6.38%) JPA
5 9 (3.19%) .NET
5 9 (3.19%) Java EE
6 6 (2.13%) JSON
6 6 (2.13%) OpenAPI
6 6 (2.13%) Swagger
7 4 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.42%) XML
8 3 (1.06%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.06%) Middleware
9 2 (0.71%) CSS
9 2 (0.71%) HTML
9 2 (0.71%) jQuery
9 2 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
10 1 (0.35%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.55%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.13%) Mobile Banking
3 6 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.77%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (1.42%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.06%) FMCG
6 3 (1.06%) IoT
6 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.06%) PKI
6 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.71%) NHS
7 2 (0.71%) Online Banking
7 2 (0.71%) Robotics
7 2 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.48%) Windows
2 6 (2.13%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.06%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.71%) Android
4 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.71%) Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (37.23%) Agile
2 55 (19.50%) DevOps
3 51 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (14.54%) Scrum
5 39 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 34 (12.06%) Project Management
7 32 (11.35%) Microservices
8 28 (9.93%) Mentoring
9 26 (9.22%) Project Delivery
9 26 (9.22%) Software Engineering
10 24 (8.51%) Decision-Making
11 23 (8.16%) Customer Experience
11 23 (8.16%) Migration
12 22 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (7.80%) Service Design
13 21 (7.45%) Analytics
13 21 (7.45%) Digital Engineering
13 21 (7.45%) Roadmaps
14 20 (7.09%) CRM
14 20 (7.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 35 (12.41%) Java
2 21 (7.45%) TypeScript
3 19 (6.74%) SQL
4 10 (3.55%) Python
5 6 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.06%) C#
7 3 (1.06%) C++
7 3 (1.06%) Go
7 3 (1.06%) R
8 2 (0.71%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.35%) Bash
9 1 (0.35%) C
9 1 (0.35%) PHP
9 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.35%) Ruby
9 1 (0.35%) Scala
9 1 (0.35%) SOQL
9 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 42 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.74%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.38%) Degree
5 6 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.13%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.13%) PMP
5 6 (2.13%) Postgraduate
6 5 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.42%) MCSE
8 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.06%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.71%) CBAP
9 2 (0.71%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.61%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.26%) QA
3 10 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.42%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.42%) GDPR
5 3 (1.06%) PMO
5 3 (1.06%) SLA
6 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) GxP
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) NIST
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (8.16%) Docker
2 9 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.55%) Ansible
3 6 (2.13%) Terraform
4 3 (1.06%) SCCM
5 2 (0.71%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.35%) Grafana
6 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.96%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.84%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.13%) Oracle
4 6 (2.13%) SAP
4 6 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.06%) Adobe
5 3 (1.06%) Google
6 2 (0.71%) Cadence
6 2 (0.71%) Cisco
6 2 (0.71%) Citrix
6 2 (0.71%) Databricks
6 2 (0.71%) IBM
6 2 (0.71%) Marketo
6 2 (0.71%) Pardot
6 2 (0.71%) QNX
6 2 (0.71%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (0.71%) VMware
7 1 (0.35%) CheckPoint