Change Management Contracts

Change Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 48 58
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,852 2,793 3,696
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.28% 4.67% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 5.19% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,750 2,395
10th Percentile £331 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £712 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £518 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +8.95% +10.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 55 64
10th Percentile £14.44 £21.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £29.91 £32.22 £14.19
Median hourly rate £48.00 £48.13 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% +114.39% +0.13%
75th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £37.66
90th Percentile £67.50 £87.50 £52.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £47.12 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.81% +135.59% -5.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +2 1,505 £525 -4.55% 642
London +2 799 £550 -4.35% 247
UK excluding London -1 789 £500 -3.38% 424
Work from Home +7 782 £523 -3.91% 250
North of England -6 212 £514 -6.55% 111
South East -25 163 £486 -7.38% 91
South West +20 142 £550 +2.33% 53
Yorkshire -6 106 £517 -6.00% 34
Midlands -2 105 £500 -4.76% 71
North West -12 101 £508 -7.59% 68
Scotland +26 92 £450 -4.00% 44
West Midlands -3 73 £513 -2.38% 44
East of England +1 61 £350 -29.93% 45
East Midlands +22 28 £463 -11.90% 26
Wales +5 19 £530 +6.00% 6
North East +7 12 £600 -7.69% 11
Northern Ireland +6 4 £435 +16.00% 9

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 87 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.32%) Confluence
3 37 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.08%) IIS
5 17 (0.92%) Tomcat
6 16 (0.86%) Apache
7 5 (0.27%) CMS
8 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.16%) Documentum
9 1 (0.054%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.054%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.054%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.054%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.054%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.054%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 103 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (2.59%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.22%) InDesign
8 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.11%) Windchill
10 1 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.49%) SAP SD
3 7 (0.38%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.32%) Endur
4 6 (0.32%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
7 3 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.16%) iTrent
7 3 (0.16%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.16%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP WM
7 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 194 (10.48%) Azure
2 124 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
3 88 (4.75%) AWS
4 46 (2.48%) SaaS
5 39 (2.11%) Power Platform
6 27 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
7 25 (1.35%) Entra ID
8 21 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (1.03%) IaaS
10 19 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
10 19 (1.03%) PaaS
11 18 (0.97%) Serverless
12 16 (0.86%) Yammer
13 15 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (0.76%) Azure Functions
14 14 (0.76%) Slack
15 13 (0.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 101 (5.45%) Firewall
2 56 (3.02%) WAN
3 48 (2.59%) LAN
4 46 (2.48%) VPN
5 45 (2.43%) BGP
6 44 (2.38%) OSPF
7 36 (1.94%) DNS
8 35 (1.89%) IPsec
8 35 (1.89%) Network Security
9 32 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
10 31 (1.67%) TCP/IP
11 26 (1.40%) Wireless
12 25 (1.35%) DHCP
12 25 (1.35%) Structured Cabling
13 23 (1.24%) NetScaler
14 22 (1.19%) Intranet
14 22 (1.19%) VLAN
15 20 (1.08%) Cisco ISE
16 19 (1.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (1.35%) Power BI
2 18 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (0.86%) NoSQL
4 12 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (0.59%) Oracle Database
5 11 (0.59%) SAP HANA
5 11 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
5 11 (0.59%) SQL Server
6 10 (0.54%) Tableau
7 8 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.32%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (0.32%) KDB
9 5 (0.27%) Big Data
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.16%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.16%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 87 (4.70%) JIRA
2 23 (1.24%) Git
3 22 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
5 5 (0.27%) Selenium
6 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) JMeter
8 2 (0.11%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.054%) GitLab
9 1 (0.054%) Gradle
9 1 (0.054%) Maven
General
1 743 (40.12%) Finance
2 530 (28.62%) Social Skills
3 378 (20.41%) Banking
4 226 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 192 (10.37%) Public Sector
6 90 (4.86%) Telecoms
7 79 (4.27%) Legal
8 70 (3.78%) Manufacturing
9 60 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
10 59 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (2.75%) Marketing
12 46 (2.48%) Retail
13 43 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 31 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
16 25 (1.35%) Electronics
17 24 (1.30%) Investment Banking
18 21 (1.13%) Local Government
19 17 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 290 (15.66%) Analyst
2 271 (14.63%) Project Manager
3 172 (9.29%) Architect
4 142 (7.67%) Business Analyst
5 134 (7.24%) Change Manager
6 123 (6.64%) Senior
7 111 (5.99%) Lead
8 80 (4.32%) Consultant
9 76 (4.10%) IT Manager
10 75 (4.05%) Banking Analyst
11 64 (3.46%) Developer
12 54 (2.92%) Business Manager
13 53 (2.86%) Data Analyst
13 53 (2.86%) Network Engineer
14 50 (2.70%) IT Analyst
15 44 (2.38%) Change Analyst
16 39 (2.11%) Administrator
17 38 (2.05%) Programme Manager
18 37 (2.00%) Business Change Manager
18 37 (2.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (1.67%) HTML
2 26 (1.40%) CSS
3 24 (1.30%) React
4 22 (1.19%) REST
5 20 (1.08%) XML
6 19 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 17 (0.92%) Kafka
8 15 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
9 14 (0.76%) JSON
10 13 (0.70%) Spring
11 12 (0.65%) Jinja
12 9 (0.49%) .NET
12 9 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
12 9 (0.49%) Middleware
13 8 (0.43%) ActiveMQ
14 7 (0.38%) LDAP
15 6 (0.32%) Itk
15 6 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
15 6 (0.32%) Visualforce
16 5 (0.27%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.72%) Management Information System
2 79 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 47 (2.54%) Data Centre
4 41 (2.21%) PKI
5 35 (1.89%) Cloud Native
6 30 (1.62%) Data Structures
7 28 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (1.35%) Replication
9 23 (1.24%) Derivative
10 22 (1.19%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.03%) CMDB
12 15 (0.81%) IVR
12 15 (0.81%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.76%) NHS
14 13 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (0.70%) Fixed Income
14 13 (0.70%) FMCG
14 13 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.70%) Mainframe
15 12 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 173 (9.34%) Windows
2 114 (6.16%) Linux
3 63 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.78%) Unix
5 22 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.81%) MVS
6 15 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.70%) Solaris
7 13 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.54%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.32%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.054%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (23.22%) Project Management
2 353 (19.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 324 (17.49%) Agile
4 287 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
5 265 (14.31%) ITIL
6 185 (9.99%) Service Management
7 161 (8.69%) Migration
8 155 (8.37%) Project Delivery
9 149 (8.05%) ITSM
10 142 (7.67%) DevOps
11 137 (7.40%) PRINCE2
12 135 (7.29%) Risk Management
13 134 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 122 (6.59%) Programme Management
15 121 (6.53%) Decision-Making
16 100 (5.40%) Incident Management
17 96 (5.18%) Roadmaps
18 95 (5.13%) Business Analysis
18 95 (5.13%) ERP
19 92 (4.97%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 71 (3.83%) Python
2 55 (2.97%) SQL
3 51 (2.75%) PowerShell
4 38 (2.05%) JavaScript
5 24 (1.30%) C
6 21 (1.13%) Java
7 14 (0.76%) C#
7 14 (0.76%) Perl
8 12 (0.65%) Tcl
9 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
9 8 (0.43%) Swift
10 7 (0.38%) C++
11 6 (0.32%) ABAP
11 6 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.16%) Bash
14 2 (0.11%) Bourne shell
14 2 (0.11%) Groovy
14 2 (0.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 282 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 199 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 163 (8.80%) Degree
4 62 (3.35%) DV Cleared
5 54 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (2.05%) CCNP
7 34 (1.84%) CCNA
8 31 (1.67%) PMP
9 28 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 28 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 27 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
11 26 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 11 (0.59%) Six Sigma Black Belt
16 10 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 9 (0.49%) CCIE
17 9 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.05%) PMO
2 81 (4.37%) QA
3 40 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 40 (2.16%) SLA
4 24 (1.30%) GDPR
5 8 (0.43%) NIST
6 6 (0.32%) GRC
7 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.22%) COBIT
8 4 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.16%) ISO 9000
9 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.11%) Basel III
10 2 (0.11%) GxP
10 2 (0.11%) IFRS
10 2 (0.11%) NCSC
10 2 (0.11%) P3O
10 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.97%) XenApp
4 17 (0.92%) Firmware
5 13 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.65%) XenDesktop
7 9 (0.49%) Docker
8 8 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 7 (0.38%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.32%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.27%) vSphere
12 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.054%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.054%) HDFS
14 1 (0.054%) Snort
14 1 (0.054%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 48 (2.59%) Ansible
2 37 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.08%) NetBackup
4 18 (0.97%) Puppet
5 17 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.86%) SCCM
7 15 (0.81%) Terraform
8 14 (0.76%) SCOM
9 13 (0.70%) FortiGate
9 13 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (0.43%) Control-M
10 8 (0.43%) Grafana
11 7 (0.38%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.32%) Argo
12 6 (0.32%) Istio
12 6 (0.32%) Kibana
12 6 (0.32%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 5 (0.27%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 286 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 161 (8.69%) SAP
3 113 (6.10%) ServiceNow
4 80 (4.32%) Cisco
5 65 (3.51%) Oracle
6 51 (2.75%) Citrix
7 49 (2.65%) VMware
8 43 (2.32%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.51%) Juniper
9 28 (1.51%) NetApp
10 27 (1.46%) Red Hat
11 26 (1.40%) SolarWinds
12 23 (1.24%) Splunk
13 21 (1.13%) Avaya
14 20 (1.08%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.03%) Salesforce
15 19 (1.03%) Veritas
16 17 (0.92%) IBM
17 16 (0.86%) Ariba
18 14 (0.76%) CheckPoint