Change Control Contracts in the Thames Valley

Change Control
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Change Control skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Change Control over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 119 112
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 +10
Contract jobs citing Change Control 40 31 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.52% 1.09% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.19% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 44
10th Percentile £212 £363 £290
25th Percentile £379 £453 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £464
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +12.13% +19.68%
75th Percentile £547 £579 £502
90th Percentile £588 £664 £538
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £53.37 - £28.38
25th Percentile £56.16 - £31.56
Median hourly rate £60.14 £81.37 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +109.99% +51.96%
75th Percentile £67.81 - £46.56
90th Percentile £69.36 - £50.13
South East median hourly rate £60.14 £50.00 £43.64
% change year-on-year +20.28% +14.57% +71.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Change Control 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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,613 3,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.94% 91.78% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,814 2,089
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 63 84
10th Percentile £14.09 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £64.57 £66.21 £24.06
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £64.46
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Change Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Change Control in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Control in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Change Control in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Control in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Control in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Control in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Change Control in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Control in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Control in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Control within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 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
Berkshire +1 37 £525 - 14
Buckinghamshire +25 3 £327 -31.16% 4
Change Control
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (5.00%) AWS
2 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 12 (30.00%) Firewall
2 11 (27.50%) VPN
3 9 (22.50%) DMZ
4 2 (5.00%) 3G
4 2 (5.00%) 4G
4 2 (5.00%) 5G
4 2 (5.00%) GPRS
4 2 (5.00%) MPLS
4 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
5 1 (2.50%) Network Security
5 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.50%) VoLTE
5 1 (2.50%) VoWiFi
5 1 (2.50%) WAN
5 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.00%) MySQL
2 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
General
1 9 (22.50%) Banking
1 9 (22.50%) Investment Banking
2 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.00%) Environmental Health
6 2 (5.00%) Law
6 2 (5.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Juniper Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Senior
4 7 (17.50%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Configuration Specialist
5 3 (7.50%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Lead
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Commercial Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Database Specialist
6 2 (5.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.00%) PMI
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Project Management
2 9 (22.50%) Architectural Patterns
2 9 (22.50%) Design Patterns
2 9 (22.50%) High Availability
2 9 (22.50%) ITSM
3 6 (15.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (12.50%) Business Strategy
4 5 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (12.50%) Line Management
4 5 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
4 5 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (10.00%) Agile
5 4 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.50%) Business Case
6 3 (7.50%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (5.00%) PgMP
5 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.50%) APMP
6 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.50%) CCNA
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.50%) ISEB
6 1 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) PMO
2 2 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Ansible
1 2 (5.00%) Grafana
1 2 (5.00%) Graylog
1 2 (5.00%) Nagios
1 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Cisco
2 10 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 9 (22.50%) Blue Coat
3 9 (22.50%) Fortinet
3 9 (22.50%) Juniper
4 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.50%) Citrix
6 2 (5.00%) F5
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle
6 2 (5.00%) Splunk
7 1 (2.50%) Dell
7 1 (2.50%) Meraki
7 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds