Change Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Change Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 122 134
Rank change year-on-year +33 +12 +29
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 3,044 2,865 4,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.02% 2.91% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 3.04% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,632 1,765 3,048
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,800 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £70,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,396 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.93% -2.00% +6.26%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +32 2,749 £55,000 - 803
UK excluding London +29 2,070 £52,396 +6.93% 548
Work from Home +57 1,201 £57,500 +0.18% 348
London +44 861 £72,500 +16.00% 313
North of England +44 517 £52,084 +13.23% 123
South East +10 468 £52,500 +5.00% 168
Midlands -3 365 £52,500 -2.78% 100
North West +35 288 £52,500 +2.18% 68
East of England +58 261 £55,000 +1.38% 67
South West +16 256 £50,000 +29.87% 54
West Midlands -5 248 £51,997 -3.71% 53
Yorkshire +35 165 £52,249 +22.94% 42
Scotland -18 130 £53,500 -1.83% 39
East Midlands +28 103 £54,000 +2.86% 43
North East +34 64 £45,000 +16.88% 15
Wales +22 56 £41,067 -8.74% 8
Northern Ireland +22 11 - - 5
Isle of Man - 6 £36,000 -

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
1 332 (10.91%) SAS
2 75 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 73 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 52 (1.71%) Confluence
5 16 (0.53%) WebSphere
6 15 (0.49%) Captiva
6 15 (0.49%) FileNet
7 14 (0.46%) CMS
8 9 (0.30%) Apache
9 8 (0.26%) IIS
10 5 (0.16%) nginx
10 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.099%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.099%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.066%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.066%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.066%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.033%) Tomcat
Applications
1 149 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
2 110 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 39 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.72%) Windchill
7 12 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.13%) SPSS
9 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 307 (10.09%) SAP ERP
2 42 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (0.62%) NEC Housing
5 17 (0.56%) Teamcenter
6 15 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.30%) SAP CX
8 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.16%) Primavera
10 4 (0.13%) HFM
10 4 (0.13%) Hyperion Planning
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.099%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.099%) Endur
11 3 (0.099%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.099%) Magento
12 2 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
12 2 (0.066%) SAP MDG
12 2 (0.066%) SAP MM
13 1 (0.033%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 418 (13.73%) Azure
2 294 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
3 217 (7.13%) GCP
4 150 (4.93%) Power Platform
5 119 (3.91%) AWS
6 75 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
6 75 (2.46%) Entra ID
7 71 (2.33%) SaaS
8 61 (2.00%) IaaS
9 58 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
9 58 (1.91%) PowerApps
10 48 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (1.48%) Power Automate
12 37 (1.22%) GitHub
13 35 (1.15%) PaaS
14 32 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
15 31 (1.02%) Serverless
16 28 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
18 22 (0.72%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 299 (9.82%) Broadband
2 158 (5.19%) Firewall
3 89 (2.92%) LAN
4 82 (2.69%) DNS
5 81 (2.66%) WAN
6 51 (1.68%) Wireless
7 46 (1.51%) DHCP
8 44 (1.45%) VoIP
9 41 (1.35%) VPN
10 40 (1.31%) Network Security
11 33 (1.08%) TCP/IP
12 30 (0.99%) Internet
13 29 (0.95%) SAN
14 26 (0.85%) SD-WAN
15 21 (0.69%) VLAN
16 20 (0.66%) Intranet
16 20 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
17 18 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
17 18 (0.59%) WLAN
18 17 (0.56%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (5.32%) BigQuery
2 160 (5.26%) Looker
3 109 (3.58%) Power BI
4 85 (2.79%) SQL Server
5 49 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 29 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 26 (0.85%) MySQL
9 25 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (0.79%) Data Lake
11 18 (0.59%) RDBMS
11 18 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
12 16 (0.53%) Oracle Database
13 14 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.46%) Big Data
14 13 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
15 10 (0.33%) DB2
15 10 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
16 9 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 131 (4.30%) JIRA
2 41 (1.35%) Git
3 39 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 20 (0.66%) Subversion
5 18 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
6 17 (0.56%) Visual Studio
7 13 (0.43%) Robot Framework
8 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.30%) Selenium
10 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.20%) JMeter
11 6 (0.20%) Postman
11 6 (0.20%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.16%) LabVIEW
13 4 (0.13%) GitLab
13 4 (0.13%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.099%) IBM UrbanCode
14 3 (0.099%) Sonatype Nexus
15 2 (0.066%) Hudson
15 2 (0.066%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,178 (38.70%) Social Skills
2 1,040 (34.17%) Finance
3 571 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (7.95%) Retail
5 157 (5.16%) Manufacturing
6 152 (4.99%) Law
7 150 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 122 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
9 121 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
10 117 (3.84%) Public Sector
11 110 (3.61%) Legal
12 107 (3.52%) Banking
13 87 (2.86%) Marketing
14 86 (2.83%) Telecoms
15 74 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
16 69 (2.27%) Aerospace
17 35 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (1.12%) Local Government
19 33 (1.08%) Electronics
20 31 (1.02%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 542 (17.81%) Analyst
2 397 (13.04%) Architect
3 394 (12.94%) Senior
4 350 (11.50%) Project Manager
5 336 (11.04%) Solutions Architect
6 214 (7.03%) Business Analyst
7 202 (6.64%) Lead
8 193 (6.34%) IT Manager
9 166 (5.45%) Data Engineer
10 162 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
10 162 (5.32%) Principal Engineer
11 161 (5.29%) Principal Data Engineer
12 139 (4.57%) Change Manager
13 138 (4.53%) Senior Manager
14 112 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 93 (3.06%) Consultant
16 92 (3.02%) Senior Project Manager
17 90 (2.96%) IT Support
17 90 (2.96%) Support Analyst
18 86 (2.83%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (2.17%) .NET
2 47 (1.54%) HTML
3 36 (1.18%) AngularJS
4 31 (1.02%) CSS
5 29 (0.95%) Web Services
6 28 (0.92%) XML
7 23 (0.76%) React
8 22 (0.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 17 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (0.53%) 802.1X
11 14 (0.46%) .NET Framework
11 14 (0.46%) Middleware
12 13 (0.43%) Spring
13 11 (0.36%) Qt
13 11 (0.36%) REST
14 10 (0.33%) Gherkin
15 8 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
16 7 (0.23%) SOAP
16 7 (0.23%) YAML
17 6 (0.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 305 (10.02%) Self-Motivation
2 208 (6.83%) Management Information System
3 91 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 52 (1.71%) CMDB
5 49 (1.61%) Driving Licence
6 47 (1.54%) FMCG
7 46 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 46 (1.51%) Public Cloud
8 45 (1.48%) Operational Technology
9 41 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (1.31%) NHS
10 40 (1.31%) PMI
11 39 (1.28%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 36 (1.18%) Product Ownership
13 29 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 25 (0.82%) Fat Client
14 25 (0.82%) Thin Client
14 25 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 24 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
16 23 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 382 (12.55%) Windows
2 185 (6.08%) Linux
3 134 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 103 (3.38%) Unix
5 89 (2.92%) Windows 10
6 52 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 47 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 27 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
9 25 (0.82%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.53%) Ubuntu
11 15 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 13 (0.43%) VMS
13 11 (0.36%) Android
14 10 (0.33%) Apple iOS
15 9 (0.30%) Mac OS X
16 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.13%) CentOS
17 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
18 3 (0.099%) Amazon Linux
19 2 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,192 (39.16%) Agile
2 764 (25.10%) Problem-Solving
3 745 (24.47%) Project Management
4 599 (19.68%) Roadmaps
5 579 (19.02%) ITIL
6 414 (13.60%) ERP
7 398 (13.07%) Mentoring
8 391 (12.84%) DevOps
9 390 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 368 (12.09%) Data Management
11 365 (11.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 363 (11.93%) Decision-Making
13 357 (11.73%) Enterprise Architecture
14 352 (11.56%) Performance Management
15 334 (10.97%) TOGAF
16 327 (10.74%) Strategic Roadmap
17 315 (10.35%) Service Management
18 311 (10.22%) Coaching
19 298 (9.79%) Risk Management
20 291 (9.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 257 (8.44%) SQL
2 142 (4.66%) PowerShell
3 86 (2.83%) Python
4 73 (2.40%) Java
5 66 (2.17%) C#
6 46 (1.51%) JavaScript
7 43 (1.41%) Bash
8 33 (1.08%) T-SQL
9 22 (0.72%) PL/SQL
10 21 (0.69%) C
11 19 (0.62%) C++
12 8 (0.26%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.23%) PHP
14 5 (0.16%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.13%) ABAP
15 4 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.13%) Go
15 4 (0.13%) VB
15 4 (0.13%) VBA
16 3 (0.099%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 545 (17.90%) Degree
2 291 (9.56%) Security Cleared
3 193 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 120 (3.94%) PMI Certification
5 106 (3.48%) PMP
6 77 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 52 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 51 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
9 49 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.31%) CISSP
12 38 (1.25%) Azure Certification
13 37 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
14 32 (1.05%) CCNA
15 23 (0.76%) A+ Certification
15 23 (0.76%) DBS Check
16 20 (0.66%) DV Cleared
17 18 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 17 (0.56%) APMG
18 17 (0.56%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (7.00%) GDPR
2 124 (4.07%) PMO
2 124 (4.07%) SLA
3 104 (3.42%) QA
4 61 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (1.84%) Data Quality
6 29 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 28 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.85%) NIST
9 19 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.53%) COBIT
11 16 (0.53%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.36%) ISO 14000
13 10 (0.33%) NEBOSH
14 7 (0.23%) CDISC
14 7 (0.23%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.20%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 248 (8.15%) Active Directory
2 113 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (1.71%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.02%) Firmware
5 21 (0.69%) Docker
6 18 (0.59%) vSphere
7 15 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.066%) NFS
10 2 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.033%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.033%) Lustre
11 1 (0.033%) LXC
11 1 (0.033%) RACF
11 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.033%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.033%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 99 (3.25%) SCCM
2 60 (1.97%) Terraform
3 45 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (1.38%) Ansible
5 41 (1.35%) Kubernetes
6 20 (0.66%) WSUS
7 18 (0.59%) SCOM
8 11 (0.36%) Nagios
9 10 (0.33%) Grafana
9 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.33%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.23%) Foglight
13 6 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 5 (0.16%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.13%) Prometheus
15 4 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 527 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 448 (14.72%) Oracle
3 387 (12.71%) SAP
4 304 (9.99%) Hyperion
5 299 (9.82%) Anaplan
6 184 (6.04%) Google
7 160 (5.26%) VMware
8 142 (4.66%) ServiceNow
9 96 (3.15%) Cisco
10 59 (1.94%) Salesforce
11 45 (1.48%) Citrix
12 42 (1.38%) HP
13 37 (1.22%) IBM
14 31 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 29 (0.95%) Apple
16 28 (0.92%) Remedy
17 27 (0.89%) BMC
18 26 (0.85%) Juniper
19 25 (0.82%) Splunk
20 24 (0.79%) Meraki