Change Management Contracts in the South East

Change Management
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 41 50
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 168 295 358
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.02% 5.05% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 5.65% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 219 251
10th Percentile £313 £245 £281
25th Percentile £375 £413 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £540 £635 £593
90th Percentile £688 £712 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 23
10th Percentile £19.10 £20.70 £13.50
25th Percentile £30.41 £32.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £59.00 £49.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% +226.63% -37.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £61.99 £25.74
90th Percentile £66.50 £77.85 £40.01
England median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £22.40
% change year-on-year -1.86% +116.07% -4.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,729 5,219 6,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.98% 89.43% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,757 3,621 4,692
10th Percentile £238 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £406 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 221 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.15 £16.15
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the South East

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Thames Valley -12 103 £485 -11.82% 43
Berkshire -9 87 £500 -9.09% 24
Surrey +3 25 £450 -10.00% 3
Hampshire -40 16 £500 -9.09% 32
Buckinghamshire -14 13 £400 -21.57% 12
Kent +11 11 £520 -0.95% 2
West Sussex -1 11 £400 +113.33% 5
Oxfordshire +3 3 £450 -18.18% 7
East Sussex +7 1 £475 -26.92% 2
Home Counties - 1 £530 -
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (3.57%) Confluence
1 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.19%) FileZilla
4 2 (1.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.57%) Teamcenter
3 5 (2.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (1.79%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.60%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.60%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.60%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.60%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.60%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.26%) Azure
2 12 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (5.36%) Azure Functions
3 9 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
3 9 (5.36%) Serverless
4 8 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.57%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.98%) AWS
7 5 (2.98%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 4 (2.38%) Smartsheet
9 3 (1.79%) PaaS
10 2 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.60%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.60%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.10%) Firewall
2 10 (5.95%) DNS
3 9 (5.36%) DHCP
4 8 (4.76%) Network Security
5 6 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (3.57%) SAN
5 6 (3.57%) SSL
5 6 (3.57%) VPN
6 5 (2.98%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.98%) VoIP
7 4 (2.38%) iSCSI
7 4 (2.38%) NAS
7 4 (2.38%) VLAN
8 3 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.19%) OSPF
9 2 (1.19%) RNC
9 2 (1.19%) RS-232
9 2 (1.19%) TACACS
9 2 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.36%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.38%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.38%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.60%) GIS
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.60%) Power BI
7 1 (0.60%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.95%) Git
1 10 (5.95%) JIRA
2 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.79%) Selenium
4 2 (1.19%) JMeter
4 2 (1.19%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.64%) Finance
3 22 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.55%) Manufacturing
6 11 (6.55%) Retail
7 6 (3.57%) Legal
8 5 (2.98%) Automotive
9 4 (2.38%) Banking
9 4 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.38%) Marketing
9 4 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.79%) Publishing
11 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.60%) Back Office
12 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (16.07%) Analyst
2 24 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 15 (8.93%) Administrator
3 15 (8.93%) Lead
4 14 (8.33%) Senior
5 13 (7.74%) Business Analyst
5 13 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (6.55%) Systems Administrator
7 10 (5.95%) Change Manager
8 9 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Azure Developer
9 8 (4.76%) Business Manager
9 8 (4.76%) Developer
9 8 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
9 8 (4.76%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 7 (4.17%) Consultant
11 6 (3.57%) Business Change Manager
11 6 (3.57%) Change Analyst
11 6 (3.57%) Site Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.76%) Kafka
1 8 (4.76%) React
2 6 (3.57%) Itk
3 5 (2.98%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (2.38%) SAP Basis
5 3 (1.79%) .NET
6 2 (1.19%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.19%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.19%) RESTful
6 2 (1.19%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.60%) JSON
7 1 (0.60%) OAuth
7 1 (0.60%) OpenID
7 1 (0.60%) OpenLayers
7 1 (0.60%) REST
7 1 (0.60%) SOAP
7 1 (0.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.55%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.95%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.98%) Life Science
4 5 (2.98%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.19%) NHS
6 2 (1.19%) PKI
6 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.19%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.60%) FMCG
7 1 (0.60%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.60%) IoT
7 1 (0.60%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.88%) Windows
2 21 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 13 (7.74%) Linux
4 9 (5.36%) Unix
4 9 (5.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (2.38%) Solaris
7 2 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.05%) Agile
2 31 (18.45%) DevOps
2 31 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (18.45%) Project Management
3 24 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (13.10%) ITIL
4 22 (13.10%) Project Delivery
5 20 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (10.12%) Migration
7 16 (9.52%) Incident Management
8 15 (8.93%) Problem Management
9 14 (8.33%) CI/CD
9 14 (8.33%) Microservices
10 13 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (7.74%) PRINCE2
11 12 (7.14%) Risk Management
12 11 (6.55%) Business Analysis
12 11 (6.55%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (6.55%) Information Security
12 11 (6.55%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.95%) PowerShell
2 9 (5.36%) Python
3 8 (4.76%) C
4 6 (3.57%) C++
4 6 (3.57%) SQL
5 3 (1.79%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.19%) AWK
6 2 (1.19%) Bourne shell
6 2 (1.19%) Java
6 2 (1.19%) Korn
6 2 (1.19%) Perl
7 1 (0.60%) C#
Qualifications
1 41 (24.40%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.31%) Degree
4 12 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.57%) CCNA
5 6 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (2.38%) MCSE
7 4 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.79%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.79%) PMP
9 2 (1.19%) APMP
9 2 (1.19%) CISM
9 2 (1.19%) CISSP
9 2 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.19%) CRISC
9 2 (1.19%) RHCE
9 2 (1.19%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.14%) PMO
2 10 (5.95%) QA
3 5 (2.98%) ISO 9001
3 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (1.79%) GDPR
4 3 (1.79%) SLA
5 2 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.60%) ITGC
6 1 (0.60%) P3O
System Software
1 21 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 15 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.36%) XenApp
4 4 (2.38%) Firmware
4 4 (2.38%) vSphere
5 3 (1.79%) XenDesktop
6 2 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.57%) Argo
2 6 (3.57%) Grafana
2 6 (3.57%) Istio
2 6 (3.57%) Kibana
2 6 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.98%) SCCM
3 5 (2.98%) SCOM
4 4 (2.38%) Ansible
4 4 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.19%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.19%) Oracle ZFS
5 2 (1.19%) Rancher
5 2 (1.19%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 2 (1.19%) yum
6 1 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 41 (24.40%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.52%) VMware
3 15 (8.93%) SAP
4 10 (5.95%) Citrix
5 8 (4.76%) Oracle
5 8 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.57%) Ivanti
7 5 (2.98%) Cisco
7 5 (2.98%) Juniper
7 5 (2.98%) Sparx
7 5 (2.98%) Workday
8 4 (2.38%) Adobe
8 4 (2.38%) BT
8 4 (2.38%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.79%) EMC
9 3 (1.79%) FireEye
9 3 (1.79%) IBM
9 3 (1.79%) Tanium
10 2 (1.19%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.19%) Veritas