Change Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Change Management
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 Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 44 50
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 786 1,107 1,362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.83% 4.71% 4.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 5.26% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 743 970
10th Percentile £310 £300 £269
25th Percentile £409 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% +9.83%
75th Percentile £578 £618 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £640
UK median daily rate £515 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% +9.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 38 48
10th Percentile £13.93 £21.76 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.65 £32.52 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.75 £48.40 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.34% +142.00% -10.79%
75th Percentile £61.60 £75.94 £32.50
90th Percentile £67.64 £88.90 £40.84
UK median hourly rate £49.00 £48.70 £22.34
% change year-on-year +0.62% +117.98% -6.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
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 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -4 199 £514 -3.47% 136
South East -21 171 £475 -9.52% 111
South West +19 140 £550 +2.33% 71
Midlands 0 103 £500 -5.88% 100
Yorkshire -6 103 £520 -5.55% 36
Scotland +33 102 £475 - 40
North West -11 91 £502 -4.38% 83
West Midlands -6 73 £500 -5.88% 61
East of England -6 60 £425 -15.00% 58
East Midlands +22 28 £475 -9.52% 38
Wales +3 16 £535 +7.00% 15
North East +3 12 £600 -7.69% 19
Northern Ireland +5 4 £435 +16.00% 5
Change Management
UK

Change Management
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 43 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.78%) Confluence
4 7 (0.89%) Apache
4 7 (0.89%) IIS
4 7 (0.89%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 45 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.25%) FileZilla
6 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.25%) Windchill
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 20 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.89%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.64%) iTrent
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
4 3 (0.38%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 79 (10.05%) Azure
2 58 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (4.20%) AWS
4 21 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (2.04%) SaaS
6 13 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (1.65%) Azure Functions
6 13 (1.65%) Entra ID
6 13 (1.65%) Serverless
6 13 (1.65%) Yammer
7 12 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
8 10 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.27%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.02%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.02%) OpenShift
10 7 (0.89%) Azure Stack
10 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (7.63%) Firewall
2 25 (3.18%) DNS
3 23 (2.93%) VLAN
3 23 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
4 22 (2.80%) NetScaler
5 21 (2.67%) Network Security
6 19 (2.42%) BGP
6 19 (2.42%) OSPF
6 19 (2.42%) TCP/IP
6 19 (2.42%) VPN
6 19 (2.42%) WAN
7 18 (2.29%) Cisco ASA
8 16 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
8 16 (2.04%) DHCP
9 15 (1.91%) IPsec
9 15 (1.91%) LAN
9 15 (1.91%) SAN
9 15 (1.91%) SNMP
10 14 (1.78%) EIGRP
11 13 (1.65%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.65%) NoSQL
2 10 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.02%) Power BI
5 7 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
7 5 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.64%) SAP HANA
7 5 (0.64%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.38%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.38%) Tableau
9 2 (0.25%) Big Data
9 2 (0.25%) Impala
9 2 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.25%) QlikView
10 1 (0.13%) Metadata
10 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.13%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (3.94%) JIRA
2 16 (2.04%) Git
3 5 (0.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.64%) Selenium
4 4 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.25%) JMeter
5 2 (0.25%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.13%) Gradle
6 1 (0.13%) Maven
6 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 262 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 198 (25.19%) Finance
3 114 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (13.49%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.76%) Banking
6 51 (6.49%) Manufacturing
7 46 (5.85%) Telecoms
8 32 (4.07%) Legal
8 32 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (3.56%) Marketing
11 25 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
12 16 (2.04%) Retail
13 15 (1.91%) Electronics
13 15 (1.91%) Publishing
14 11 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.40%) Local Government
15 8 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 115 (14.63%) Analyst
2 112 (14.25%) Project Manager
3 72 (9.16%) Change Manager
4 62 (7.89%) Lead
5 60 (7.63%) Senior
6 48 (6.11%) Business Analyst
7 42 (5.34%) IT Manager
8 35 (4.45%) Developer
9 32 (4.07%) Consultant
9 32 (4.07%) Network Engineer
10 31 (3.94%) Architect
10 31 (3.94%) Business Manager
11 30 (3.82%) Change Analyst
12 26 (3.31%) Business Change Manager
13 24 (3.05%) Full Stack Developer
14 22 (2.80%) Administrator
14 22 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (2.67%) Service Manager
16 17 (2.16%) Delivery Manager
16 17 (2.16%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.05%) React
2 17 (2.16%) AngularJS
3 16 (2.04%) Kafka
4 12 (1.53%) Jinja
4 12 (1.53%) Spring
5 10 (1.27%) REST
6 8 (1.02%) XML
7 7 (0.89%) HTML
7 7 (0.89%) JSON
8 6 (0.76%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (0.76%) CSS
8 6 (0.76%) Itk
8 6 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (0.64%) .NET
9 5 (0.64%) SAP Basis
10 3 (0.38%) LDAP
10 3 (0.38%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.38%) Visualforce
11 2 (0.25%) 802.1X
11 2 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.63%) Management Information System
2 35 (4.45%) Product Ownership
3 23 (2.93%) Replication
4 22 (2.80%) PKI
5 14 (1.78%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.65%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.53%) LIMS
7 12 (1.53%) NHS
7 12 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.15%) CMDB
9 9 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.02%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.89%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.89%) IoT
11 7 (0.89%) Life Science
11 7 (0.89%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.76%) IVR
12 6 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 108 (13.74%) Windows
2 67 (8.52%) Linux
3 48 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.04%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.53%) Unix
6 10 (1.27%) Solaris
6 10 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (1.02%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.89%) MVS
10 6 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.25%) VMS
11 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.13%) CentOS
12 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (27.61%) Project Management
2 172 (21.88%) Agile
3 157 (19.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 135 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (15.78%) ITIL
6 87 (11.07%) DevOps
6 87 (11.07%) Project Delivery
7 85 (10.81%) PRINCE2
8 77 (9.80%) Service Management
9 74 (9.41%) Programme Management
10 72 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 70 (8.91%) Risk Management
12 69 (8.78%) ITSM
13 59 (7.51%) Decision-Making
14 56 (7.12%) Business Analysis
15 55 (7.00%) Roadmaps
16 54 (6.87%) Service Delivery
17 49 (6.23%) Migration
18 48 (6.11%) Problem Management
19 46 (5.85%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 50 (6.36%) Python
2 29 (3.69%) PowerShell
3 22 (2.80%) SQL
4 21 (2.67%) C
5 17 (2.16%) Java
6 14 (1.78%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.78%) Perl
7 12 (1.53%) Tcl
8 8 (1.02%) Swift
9 6 (0.76%) C++
10 5 (0.64%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (0.38%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.38%) C#
13 2 (0.25%) AWK
13 2 (0.25%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.25%) Groovy
13 2 (0.25%) Korn
13 2 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 165 (20.99%) Security Cleared
2 91 (11.58%) Degree
2 91 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.00%) DV Cleared
4 30 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (2.93%) CCNA
6 22 (2.80%) CCNP
7 16 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 13 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.53%) PMP
10 10 (1.27%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.76%) APMG
15 5 (0.64%) MCSE
15 5 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.51%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.63%) PMO
2 43 (5.47%) QA
3 17 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.91%) SLA
5 12 (1.53%) GDPR
6 5 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.64%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.38%) GRC
7 3 (0.38%) NIST
7 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.25%) COBIT
8 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.13%) Basel III
9 1 (0.13%) COREP
9 1 (0.13%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.13%) FINREP
9 1 (0.13%) GxP
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 49 (6.23%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.42%) XenApp
4 17 (2.16%) Firmware
5 12 (1.53%) XenDesktop
6 11 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (1.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 6 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.64%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.51%) vSphere
11 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.13%) Docker
13 1 (0.13%) HDFS
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 43 (5.47%) Ansible
2 18 (2.29%) NetBackup
3 16 (2.04%) Puppet
4 15 (1.91%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.15%) SCCM
5 9 (1.15%) SCOM
6 7 (0.89%) Argo
6 7 (0.89%) Grafana
6 7 (0.89%) Istio
6 7 (0.89%) Kibana
6 7 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (0.76%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.64%) Terraform
9 4 (0.51%) Rancher
9 4 (0.51%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 3 (0.38%) Nagios
10 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 137 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.03%) SAP
3 40 (5.09%) VMware
4 38 (4.83%) Cisco
5 33 (4.20%) Citrix
6 32 (4.07%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.80%) Oracle
7 22 (2.80%) SolarWinds
8 19 (2.42%) Palo Alto
9 17 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 17 (2.16%) Veritas
10 12 (1.53%) IBM
11 11 (1.40%) CheckPoint
11 11 (1.40%) InterSystems
11 11 (1.40%) NetApp
12 10 (1.27%) Juniper
13 8 (1.02%) Avaya
13 8 (1.02%) Ivanti
13 8 (1.02%) Okta
14 7 (0.89%) BT