Change Manager Contracts in England

Change Manager
UK > England

The median Change Manager daily rate in England is £570 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 357 385
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Change Manager 192 331 478
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.66% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.69% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 242 343
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £488 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £668 £646 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £56.15 - £29.23
25th Percentile £57.88 - £34.97
Median hourly rate £61.50 £54.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -3.57% +24.51%
75th Percentile £65.88 £61.13 £77.06
90th Percentile £68.05 £73.95 £84.63
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £54.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +13.89% -14.29% +180.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,483 47,741 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,890 33,903 48,246
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,432 1,409 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Change Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Change Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Change Manager in England

Change Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Change Manager in England

Change Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Manager in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Manager in England

Change Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Manager in England

Change Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
London +17 89 £600 +9.09% 19
South East +13 26 £575 +4.55% 7
South West +8 23 £570 +8.57% 6
Midlands +32 22 £515 -6.36% 8
North of England +2 18 £500 -13.04% 3
West Midlands +20 16 £625 +13.64% 4
North West +9 11 £481 -10.42% 2
East of England +11 8 £478 -8.95%
Yorkshire +13 7 £600 -7.69%
East Midlands - 5 £391 - 4
Change Manager
UK

Change Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Change Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Change Manager in the job title.

1 103 (53.65%) Change Management
2 58 (30.21%) Finance
3 50 (26.04%) Social Skills
4 45 (23.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (17.71%) Project Management
6 32 (16.67%) Public Sector
7 25 (13.02%) SAP
7 25 (13.02%) ITIL
7 25 (13.02%) Programme Management
8 23 (11.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (10.94%) Manufacturing
10 20 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (9.90%) Agile
11 19 (9.90%) Marketing
11 19 (9.90%) Impact Assessments
11 19 (9.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (8.85%) Telecoms
13 16 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
13 16 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (8.33%) Decision-Making
14 15 (7.81%) Project Delivery
14 15 (7.81%) Electronics
14 15 (7.81%) ERP
15 14 (7.29%) Release Management
15 14 (7.29%) Process Improvement
15 14 (7.29%) Target Operating Model
16 13 (6.77%) Security Cleared
16 13 (6.77%) Microsoft
17 12 (6.25%) Business Case
18 11 (5.73%) Analytical Skills

Change Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.56%) Azure
3 3 (1.56%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.04%) AWS
4 2 (1.04%) GCP
5 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.52%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.52%) OCI
5 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.52%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.52%) Slack
5 1 (0.52%) Yammer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.56%) Data Lake
1 3 (1.56%) Power BI
2 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.04%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
General
1 58 (30.21%) Finance
2 50 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.94%) Manufacturing
5 19 (9.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (9.90%) Marketing
6 17 (8.85%) Telecoms
7 15 (7.81%) Electronics
8 11 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (4.17%) Retail
10 7 (3.65%) Banking
11 6 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.60%) Legal
12 5 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (2.08%) Law
13 4 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.04%) International Banking
14 2 (1.04%) Local Government
14 2 (1.04%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.13%) Operational Technology
2 3 (1.56%) FMCG
2 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
2 3 (1.56%) Reinsurance
3 2 (1.04%) CMDB
3 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.52%) Life Science
4 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.52%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (53.65%) Change Management
2 45 (23.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (17.71%) Project Management
4 25 (13.02%) ITIL
4 25 (13.02%) Programme Management
5 23 (11.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 20 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (9.90%) Agile
7 19 (9.90%) Impact Assessments
8 16 (8.33%) Decision-Making
8 16 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
8 16 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (7.81%) ERP
9 15 (7.81%) Project Delivery
10 14 (7.29%) Process Improvement
10 14 (7.29%) Release Management
10 14 (7.29%) Target Operating Model
11 12 (6.25%) Business Case
12 11 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (5.73%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 13 (6.77%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.17%) Degree
2 8 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (1.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.52%) APMG
6 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.65%) PMO
2 2 (1.04%) QA
3 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 25 (13.02%) SAP
2 13 (6.77%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.08%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.56%) Google
4 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.52%) Ariba
5 1 (0.52%) IBM
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle
5 1 (0.52%) Planview
5 1 (0.52%) Remedy