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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 45 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,820 2,683 3,795
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.24% 4.78% 4.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 5.33% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 1,661 2,466
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £706 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -0.99% +6.32% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 52 49
10th Percentile £14.60 £18.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.91 £35.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +128.40% -8.33%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £69.44 £87.25 £54.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £48.40 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.31% +142.00% -11.11%

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 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
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% -4.99%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 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 -1 1,464 £525 -4.55% 774
UK excluding London -2 815 £500 -0.99% 492
Work from Home +8 774 £521 -3.47% 343
London -8 735 £550 -5.29% 286
North of England -8 204 £514 +1.78% 124
South East -17 182 £450 -14.29% 119
South West +27 143 £525 -4.55% 55
Yorkshire -5 111 £525 -4.55% 44
Midlands -1 109 £506 -5.81% 99
Scotland +17 100 £475 - 32
North West -19 87 £500 - 67
West Midlands -6 78 £513 -4.65% 57
East of England -10 59 £350 -28.13% 61
East Midlands +12 28 £475 -11.63% 42
Wales +5 16 £535 +7.00% 11
North East -2 11 £600 +41.18% 15
Northern Ireland +9 10 £363 -3.33% 4

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 92 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (2.09%) Confluence
4 12 (0.66%) IIS
5 9 (0.49%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.38%) Apache
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.16%) CMS
7 3 (0.16%) Documentum
8 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.055%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.055%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.055%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.055%) nginx
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.055%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.055%) WebSphere
Applications
1 97 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (2.53%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.22%) InDesign
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.16%) Windchill
10 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.38%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.33%) Endur
4 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.33%) SAP SD
5 5 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.27%) iTrent
5 5 (0.27%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
6 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
7 3 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.16%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP WM
8 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 185 (10.16%) Azure
2 125 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (4.34%) AWS
4 39 (2.14%) SaaS
5 37 (2.03%) Power Platform
6 33 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
7 28 (1.54%) Entra ID
8 23 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (1.04%) Serverless
12 18 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (0.93%) Azure Functions
13 17 (0.93%) Yammer
14 16 (0.88%) OneDrive
15 15 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 14 (0.77%) GCP
16 14 (0.77%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 101 (5.55%) Firewall
2 56 (3.08%) WAN
3 48 (2.64%) LAN
4 44 (2.42%) BGP
5 43 (2.36%) OSPF
6 40 (2.20%) VPN
7 38 (2.09%) DNS
8 37 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
9 36 (1.98%) Network Security
10 29 (1.59%) Intranet
11 28 (1.54%) IPsec
12 27 (1.48%) DHCP
13 26 (1.43%) VLAN
14 25 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
14 25 (1.37%) Structured Cabling
15 23 (1.26%) NetScaler
16 22 (1.21%) Cisco ISE
16 22 (1.21%) TCP/IP
17 19 (1.04%) Wireless
18 18 (0.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (1.59%) Power BI
2 22 (1.21%) NoSQL
3 18 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (0.82%) Oracle Database
4 15 (0.82%) SAP HANA
5 14 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
5 14 (0.77%) Tableau
6 12 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (0.60%) SQL Server
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.33%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.33%) KDB
10 5 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (0.27%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.22%) Big Data
11 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.16%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 3 (0.16%) Metadata
12 3 (0.16%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 88 (4.84%) JIRA
2 27 (1.48%) Git
3 20 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.49%) 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 (0.055%) GitLab
7 1 (0.055%) Gradle
7 1 (0.055%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.055%) Maven
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.055%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 718 (39.45%) Finance
2 533 (29.29%) Social Skills
3 366 (20.11%) Banking
4 208 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.74%) Telecoms
7 65 (3.57%) Legal
8 60 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
9 59 (3.24%) Manufacturing
10 57 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (2.47%) Marketing
12 43 (2.36%) Retail
13 38 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 28 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.32%) Local Government
17 22 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (0.99%) Investment Banking
19 17 (0.93%) Publishing
20 14 (0.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 268 (14.73%) Analyst
2 255 (14.01%) Project Manager
3 160 (8.79%) Architect
4 140 (7.69%) Senior
5 131 (7.20%) Change Manager
6 125 (6.87%) Business Analyst
7 120 (6.59%) Lead
8 86 (4.73%) Consultant
9 75 (4.12%) IT Manager
10 68 (3.74%) Developer
11 63 (3.46%) Network Engineer
12 61 (3.35%) Business Manager
13 52 (2.86%) Banking Analyst
14 49 (2.69%) Senior Manager
15 43 (2.36%) Business Change Manager
16 42 (2.31%) Change Analyst
17 40 (2.20%) Data Analyst
18 38 (2.09%) Programme Manager
19 36 (1.98%) IT Analyst
20 35 (1.92%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.81%) HTML
2 26 (1.43%) CSS
2 26 (1.43%) React
3 22 (1.21%) XML
4 20 (1.10%) Kafka
5 18 (0.99%) REST
6 17 (0.93%) AngularJS
7 13 (0.71%) JSON
8 12 (0.66%) Jinja
9 11 (0.60%) Spring
10 9 (0.49%) .NET
11 8 (0.44%) ActiveMQ
11 8 (0.44%) Middleware
11 8 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
11 8 (0.44%) SailPoint
12 7 (0.38%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (0.38%) IDoc
12 7 (0.38%) LDAP
12 7 (0.38%) SAP Basis
12 7 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.27%) Management Information System
2 78 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 46 (2.53%) Data Centre
4 39 (2.14%) Cloud Native
5 36 (1.98%) PKI
6 32 (1.76%) Data Structures
7 31 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 25 (1.37%) Replication
10 17 (0.93%) FMCG
11 16 (0.88%) CMDB
11 16 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 14 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (0.66%) LIMS
13 12 (0.66%) Mainframe
13 12 (0.66%) NHS
13 12 (0.66%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.60%) Derivative
15 10 (0.55%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 152 (8.35%) Windows
2 86 (4.73%) Linux
3 62 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.37%) Unix
5 24 (1.32%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (0.82%) MVS
7 15 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.66%) Solaris
8 12 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.60%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.27%) 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 (0.055%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.055%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (22.80%) Project Management
2 360 (19.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 328 (18.02%) Agile
4 252 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
5 239 (13.13%) ITIL
6 160 (8.79%) Project Delivery
7 154 (8.46%) Migration
7 154 (8.46%) Service Management
8 149 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 139 (7.64%) Risk Management
10 138 (7.58%) DevOps
10 138 (7.58%) PRINCE2
11 128 (7.03%) ITSM
12 113 (6.21%) Decision-Making
13 107 (5.88%) Programme Management
14 101 (5.55%) Roadmaps
15 93 (5.11%) ERP
16 92 (5.05%) Incident Management
17 90 (4.95%) Business Analysis
18 89 (4.89%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (4.12%) Python
2 65 (3.57%) SQL
3 49 (2.69%) PowerShell
4 39 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 25 (1.37%) C
6 21 (1.15%) Java
7 14 (0.77%) C#
7 14 (0.77%) Perl
8 12 (0.66%) Tcl
9 9 (0.49%) ABAP
10 8 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
10 8 (0.44%) Swift
11 6 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.33%) C++
11 6 (0.33%) 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
1 289 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 196 (10.77%) SC Cleared
3 168 (9.23%) Degree
4 75 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 60 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (2.25%) CCNP
7 35 (1.92%) CCNA
8 26 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
8 26 (1.43%) PMP
9 25 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 24 (1.32%) PMI Certification
11 21 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 10 (0.55%) CCIE
16 9 (0.49%) Six Sigma Black Belt
17 8 (0.44%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.66%) PMO
2 69 (3.79%) QA
3 50 (2.75%) SLA
4 47 (2.58%) Data Quality
5 23 (1.26%) GDPR
6 7 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
6 7 (0.38%) NIST
7 5 (0.27%) GRC
7 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.16%) P3O
8 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.11%) Basel III
9 2 (0.11%) COBIT
9 2 (0.11%) GxP
9 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.055%) IFRS
10 1 (0.055%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.055%) MiFID
System Software
1 87 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.10%) XenApp
4 17 (0.93%) Firmware
5 14 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.66%) XenDesktop
7 8 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.38%) Docker
8 7 (0.38%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.27%) vSphere
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.055%) Snort
13 1 (0.055%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 49 (2.69%) Ansible
2 40 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.10%) NetBackup
4 16 (0.88%) Puppet
5 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.77%) SCCM
6 11 (0.60%) SCOM
6 11 (0.60%) Terraform
7 10 (0.55%) Argo
7 10 (0.55%) Grafana
7 10 (0.55%) Istio
7 10 (0.55%) Kibana
7 10 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.44%) Control-M
9 7 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (0.38%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 5 (0.27%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 293 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 154 (8.46%) SAP
3 137 (7.53%) ServiceNow
4 79 (4.34%) Cisco
5 63 (3.46%) Oracle
6 52 (2.86%) VMware
7 50 (2.75%) Citrix
8 37 (2.03%) Palo Alto
9 30 (1.65%) NetApp
10 28 (1.54%) SolarWinds
11 27 (1.48%) Splunk
12 22 (1.21%) IBM
12 22 (1.21%) Juniper
13 21 (1.15%) Red Hat
14 19 (1.04%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.04%) Salesforce
14 19 (1.04%) Veritas
15 15 (0.82%) CheckPoint
16 14 (0.77%) F5
17 13 (0.71%) Google