Change Control Contracts in the UK excluding London

Change Control
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 247 217
Rank change year-on-year +40 -30 +27
Contract jobs citing Change Control 193 221 379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.92% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.03% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 146 284
10th Percentile £306 £344 £250
25th Percentile £444 £403 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £581 £584 £538
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 17
10th Percentile £13.40 £14.16 £13.94
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.22 £17.50
Median hourly rate £53.03 £40.00 £32.77
Median % change year-on-year +32.58% +22.06% +28.51%
75th Percentile £67.81 £50.00 £46.11
90th Percentile £71.28 £62.00 £59.12
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% +42.86% +37.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Change Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Change Control in the UK excluding London

Change Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Control in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Change Control in the UK excluding London

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Control in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Control in the UK excluding London

Change Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Control in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Change Control in the UK excluding London

Change Control
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Control in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Control in the UK excluding London

Change Control
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East 0 52 £525 +5.00% 54
Midlands +22 40 £475 -5.00% 32
West Midlands +19 35 £475 -2.56% 20
North of England +31 34 £525 +10.53% 29
South West +33 33 £545 +3.81% 27
North West +27 25 £475 +6.74% 21
Scotland +21 21 £500 -2.44% 14
Yorkshire +20 9 £558 +11.50% 8
East of England +8 8 £500 +7.53% 12
Wales +19 7 £645 -0.85% 7
East Midlands +22 5 £355 -36.61% 12
Change Control
UK

Change Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.11%) Confluence
2 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.22%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Aareon QL
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.04%) Primavera
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.54%) Azure
2 13 (6.74%) AWS
3 11 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (3.11%) GitHub
6 6 (3.11%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.59%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.55%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.55%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.52%) GCP
11 1 (0.52%) OCI
11 1 (0.52%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.40%) Firewall
2 19 (9.84%) VPN
3 13 (6.74%) Cisco Nexus
4 11 (5.70%) WAN
5 10 (5.18%) DMZ
5 10 (5.18%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.15%) LAN
7 5 (2.59%) DNS
7 5 (2.59%) MPLS
7 5 (2.59%) WAAS
8 4 (2.07%) DHCP
8 4 (2.07%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (2.07%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (2.07%) SAN
9 3 (1.55%) ADSL
9 3 (1.55%) Ethernet
9 3 (1.55%) Internet
9 3 (1.55%) Network Security
9 3 (1.55%) PSTN
9 3 (1.55%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.22%) MySQL
2 11 (5.70%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.66%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.59%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.55%) Power BI
7 2 (1.04%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.52%) IDMS
8 1 (0.52%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 11 (5.70%) JIRA
2 5 (2.59%) AppScan
2 5 (2.59%) Burp Suite
2 5 (2.59%) GitLab
2 5 (2.59%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.59%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.04%) Git
3 2 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 49 (25.39%) Finance
2 45 (23.32%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.58%) Public Sector
4 27 (13.99%) Banking
5 24 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.25%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (6.22%) Billing
8 10 (5.18%) Investment Banking
8 10 (5.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (4.15%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.11%) Legal
10 6 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.59%) Law
11 5 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.04%) Electronics
12 2 (1.04%) Environmental Health
12 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.04%) Marketing
13 1 (0.52%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 34 (17.62%) Project Manager
2 21 (10.88%) Analyst
3 14 (7.25%) Commercial Manager
3 14 (7.25%) Network Engineer
3 14 (7.25%) Senior
4 12 (6.22%) Contracts Manager
5 10 (5.18%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 10 (5.18%) Cisco Engineer
5 10 (5.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 10 (5.18%) Juniper Engineer
6 9 (4.66%) Administrator
7 8 (4.15%) Business Analyst
7 8 (4.15%) DBA
8 7 (3.63%) Lead
8 7 (3.63%) Senior Manager
8 7 (3.63%) Senior Project Manager
8 7 (3.63%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (2.59%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (2.59%) PMO Analyst
9 5 (2.59%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.18%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.04%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.44%) Public Cloud
2 23 (11.92%) PKI
3 12 (6.22%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.11%) Life Science
5 4 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.07%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.55%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.04%) CCTV
7 2 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.04%) NHS
7 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.04%) PMI
7 2 (1.04%) Replication
7 2 (1.04%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.44%) Windows
2 17 (8.81%) Linux
3 5 (2.59%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.07%) CentOS
4 4 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (32.12%) Project Management
2 57 (29.53%) Agile
3 29 (15.03%) Risk Management
4 27 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (12.95%) Decision-Making
6 24 (12.44%) DevOps
7 23 (11.92%) Project Delivery
8 18 (9.33%) Business Case
9 16 (8.29%) Change Management
9 16 (8.29%) Configuration Management
9 16 (8.29%) Contract Management
9 16 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (7.77%) ITIL
11 14 (7.25%) High Availability
11 14 (7.25%) Service Management
11 14 (7.25%) Waterfall
12 13 (6.74%) Mentoring
13 12 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (6.22%) ITSM
13 12 (6.22%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.77%) PowerShell
2 12 (6.22%) SQL
3 9 (4.66%) Bash
4 5 (2.59%) Python
5 2 (1.04%) C#
Qualifications
1 45 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.92%) DV Cleared
2 23 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.29%) Degree
3 16 (8.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.59%) BC Cleared
5 4 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.07%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.55%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.55%) PMP
7 2 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.04%) CASP
7 2 (1.04%) CCNA
7 2 (1.04%) CISSP
7 2 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.04%) CRISC
7 2 (1.04%) GCED
7 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.04%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.54%) QA
2 21 (10.88%) SLA
3 18 (9.33%) PMO
4 15 (7.77%) JSP 440
5 5 (2.59%) GMP
6 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.04%) GDPR
8 1 (0.52%) COREP
8 1 (0.52%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.52%) FINREP
8 1 (0.52%) NCSC
8 1 (0.52%) NIST
8 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.59%) Docker
2 5 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.59%) vSphere
3 4 (2.07%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.07%) VMware Server
4 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 19 (9.84%) OPNET
2 16 (8.29%) Terraform
3 13 (6.74%) Ansible
4 12 (6.22%) Grafana
5 10 (5.18%) Graylog
5 10 (5.18%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.15%) Nagios
7 6 (3.11%) Kubernetes
7 6 (3.11%) Nessus
7 6 (3.11%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.11%) Puppet
7 6 (3.11%) SCCM
8 5 (2.59%) HP Fortify
8 5 (2.59%) WebInspect
9 4 (2.07%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.04%) CEMLI
11 1 (0.52%) Observium
11 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (35.75%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.81%) Cisco
3 11 (5.70%) CheckPoint
4 10 (5.18%) Blue Coat
4 10 (5.18%) Fortinet
4 10 (5.18%) Juniper
4 10 (5.18%) Splunk
5 7 (3.63%) SAP
6 6 (3.11%) Adobe
7 5 (2.59%) Checkmarx
7 5 (2.59%) Citrix
7 5 (2.59%) Oracle
7 5 (2.59%) Veracode
7 5 (2.59%) VMware
8 3 (1.55%) Aareon
8 3 (1.55%) BT
8 3 (1.55%) Openreach
8 3 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.04%) Avaya
9 2 (1.04%) Computacenter