Change Management Contracts

Change Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Change Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 44 56
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,791 2,716 3,828
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.16% 4.82% 4.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 5.37% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 1,686 2,498
10th Percentile £310 £350 £325
25th Percentile £421 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +8.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £703 £740 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -0.99% +6.32% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 50 52
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.91 £35.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.82 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +118.17% +1.76%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £40.72
90th Percentile £69.38 £87.50 £57.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £48.70 £22.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +121.35% -2.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Change Management 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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
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% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
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% -4.88%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management 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 -2 1,442 £525 -4.55% 830
UK excluding London -2 808 £500 -0.99% 508
Work from Home +5 758 £515 -4.59% 364
London -9 720 £550 -5.98% 346
North of England -8 204 £514 +2.80% 133
South East -18 180 £450 -14.29% 128
South West +28 139 £550 -1.79% 50
Yorkshire -5 112 £525 -4.55% 45
Midlands -2 107 £513 -4.65% 90
Scotland +27 100 £475 +4.11% 38
North West -15 86 £500 - 76
West Midlands -12 75 £519 -3.49% 53
East of England -11 60 £350 -28.13% 62
East Midlands +12 29 £475 -11.63% 35
Wales +8 16 £535 +7.00% 18
North East +1 11 £600 +41.18% 15
Northern Ireland +6 10 £363 -3.33% 3

Change Management
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 91 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (2.01%) Confluence
4 12 (0.67%) IIS
5 9 (0.50%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.39%) Apache
7 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.17%) Documentum
8 2 (0.11%) CMS
8 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.056%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.056%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.056%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.056%) nginx
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.056%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 94 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.46%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.22%) InDesign
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.17%) Windchill
10 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.056%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 46 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.39%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.34%) Endur
4 6 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.34%) SAP SD
5 5 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.28%) iTrent
5 5 (0.28%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
6 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
7 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.17%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.17%) SAP WM
8 2 (0.11%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 183 (10.22%) Azure
2 122 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (4.41%) AWS
4 39 (2.18%) SaaS
5 37 (2.07%) Power Platform
6 32 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
7 28 (1.56%) Entra ID
8 23 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (1.06%) Serverless
12 18 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (0.95%) Azure Functions
13 17 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (0.95%) Yammer
14 16 (0.89%) OneDrive
15 15 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 14 (0.78%) GCP
16 14 (0.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 101 (5.64%) Firewall
2 55 (3.07%) WAN
3 47 (2.62%) LAN
4 43 (2.40%) BGP
5 42 (2.35%) OSPF
6 38 (2.12%) DNS
6 38 (2.12%) VPN
7 37 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
8 36 (2.01%) Network Security
9 29 (1.62%) Intranet
10 28 (1.56%) IPsec
11 27 (1.51%) DHCP
12 26 (1.45%) VLAN
13 25 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
13 25 (1.40%) Structured Cabling
14 23 (1.28%) NetScaler
15 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
16 21 (1.17%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (1.06%) Wireless
18 18 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (1.62%) Power BI
2 22 (1.23%) NoSQL
3 18 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.89%) SAP HANA
5 15 (0.84%) Oracle Database
6 14 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
6 14 (0.78%) Tableau
7 12 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.61%) SQL Server
9 7 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.34%) KDB
11 5 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
11 5 (0.28%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.22%) Big Data
12 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (0.17%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 3 (0.17%) Metadata
13 3 (0.17%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 86 (4.80%) JIRA
2 27 (1.51%) Git
3 21 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Selenium
5 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.11%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.11%) JMeter
6 2 (0.11%) MSI
7 1 (0.056%) GitLab
7 1 (0.056%) Gradle
7 1 (0.056%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.056%) Maven
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.056%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 699 (39.03%) Finance
2 527 (29.42%) Social Skills
3 354 (19.77%) Banking
4 206 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
5 191 (10.66%) Public Sector
6 64 (3.57%) Legal
6 64 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 60 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 57 (3.18%) Manufacturing
9 56 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
10 46 (2.57%) Marketing
11 41 (2.29%) Retail
12 33 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 28 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (1.34%) Local Government
16 19 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.95%) Publishing
18 16 (0.89%) Investment Banking
19 14 (0.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 260 (14.52%) Analyst
2 245 (13.68%) Project Manager
3 154 (8.60%) Architect
4 139 (7.76%) Senior
5 131 (7.31%) Change Manager
6 124 (6.92%) Business Analyst
7 120 (6.70%) Lead
8 85 (4.75%) Consultant
9 72 (4.02%) IT Manager
10 69 (3.85%) Developer
11 63 (3.52%) Network Engineer
12 61 (3.41%) Business Manager
13 49 (2.74%) Senior Manager
14 47 (2.62%) Banking Analyst
15 42 (2.35%) Business Change Manager
16 41 (2.29%) Change Analyst
17 39 (2.18%) Programme Manager
18 37 (2.07%) Data Analyst
19 35 (1.95%) Administrator
20 33 (1.84%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.79%) HTML
2 26 (1.45%) React
3 25 (1.40%) CSS
4 22 (1.23%) XML
5 20 (1.12%) Kafka
6 18 (1.01%) REST
7 17 (0.95%) AngularJS
8 13 (0.73%) JSON
9 12 (0.67%) Jinja
10 11 (0.61%) Spring
11 8 (0.45%) .NET
11 8 (0.45%) ActiveMQ
11 8 (0.45%) Middleware
11 8 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (0.39%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (0.39%) IDoc
12 7 (0.39%) LDAP
12 7 (0.39%) SAP Basis
12 7 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
13 6 (0.34%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 78 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 45 (2.51%) Data Centre
4 37 (2.07%) Cloud Native
4 37 (2.07%) PKI
5 31 (1.73%) Data Structures
5 31 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (1.40%) Replication
7 23 (1.28%) Onboarding
8 17 (0.95%) FMCG
9 16 (0.89%) CMDB
9 16 (0.89%) Virtual Team
10 14 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (0.73%) NHS
12 12 (0.67%) LIMS
12 12 (0.67%) Mainframe
12 12 (0.67%) Reference Data
13 10 (0.56%) Derivative
13 10 (0.56%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 152 (8.49%) Windows
2 86 (4.80%) Linux
3 62 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.40%) Unix
5 24 (1.34%) Windows 10
6 18 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (0.84%) MVS
7 15 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.67%) Solaris
8 12 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
11 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.11%) VMS
11 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.056%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.056%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (22.61%) Project Management
2 359 (20.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 318 (17.76%) Agile
4 249 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
5 236 (13.18%) ITIL
6 158 (8.82%) Project Delivery
7 148 (8.26%) Service Management
8 147 (8.21%) Migration
9 146 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 139 (7.76%) DevOps
10 139 (7.76%) Risk Management
11 132 (7.37%) PRINCE2
12 122 (6.81%) ITSM
13 108 (6.03%) Decision-Making
14 107 (5.97%) Programme Management
15 99 (5.53%) Roadmaps
16 92 (5.14%) ERP
17 89 (4.97%) Incident Management
18 88 (4.91%) Business Analysis
18 88 (4.91%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.24%) Python
2 64 (3.57%) SQL
3 49 (2.74%) PowerShell
4 39 (2.18%) JavaScript
5 25 (1.40%) C
6 21 (1.17%) Java
7 14 (0.78%) C#
7 14 (0.78%) Perl
8 12 (0.67%) Tcl
9 9 (0.50%) ABAP
10 8 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
10 8 (0.45%) Swift
11 6 (0.34%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.34%) C++
11 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.11%) Bourne shell
12 2 (0.11%) Korn
12 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 284 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 193 (10.78%) SC Cleared
3 169 (9.44%) Degree
4 74 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 58 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (2.23%) CCNP
7 34 (1.90%) CCNA
8 27 (1.51%) PMP
9 26 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
10 25 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.28%) PMI Certification
12 22 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 21 (1.17%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 11 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 10 (0.56%) CCIE
18 9 (0.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
19 8 (0.45%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.42%) PMO
2 69 (3.85%) QA
3 50 (2.79%) SLA
4 46 (2.57%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.23%) GDPR
6 7 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
6 7 (0.39%) NIST
7 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.22%) GRC
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) P3O
9 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.11%) Basel III
10 2 (0.11%) COBIT
10 2 (0.11%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.11%) GxP
10 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.056%) IFRS
11 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 87 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.12%) XenApp
4 17 (0.95%) Firmware
5 14 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.67%) XenDesktop
7 8 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.39%) Docker
8 7 (0.39%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.28%) vSphere
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.056%) Snort
13 1 (0.056%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 50 (2.79%) Ansible
2 40 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.12%) NetBackup
4 16 (0.89%) Puppet
5 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.78%) SCCM
6 12 (0.67%) Terraform
7 11 (0.61%) SCOM
8 10 (0.56%) Argo
8 10 (0.56%) Grafana
8 10 (0.56%) Istio
8 10 (0.56%) Kibana
8 10 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.45%) Control-M
10 7 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (0.39%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.28%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 287 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 154 (8.60%) SAP
3 136 (7.59%) ServiceNow
4 78 (4.36%) Cisco
5 63 (3.52%) Oracle
6 52 (2.90%) VMware
7 50 (2.79%) Citrix
8 38 (2.12%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.62%) NetApp
10 28 (1.56%) SolarWinds
11 27 (1.51%) Splunk
12 22 (1.23%) IBM
13 21 (1.17%) Red Hat
14 20 (1.12%) Juniper
15 19 (1.06%) Salesforce
15 19 (1.06%) Veritas
16 18 (1.01%) Fortinet
17 15 (0.84%) CheckPoint
18 13 (0.73%) Ariba
18 13 (0.73%) Google