Change Manager Contracts

Change Manager
UK

The median Change Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 387 401
Rank change year-on-year +28 +14 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Change Manager 235 364 557
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.65% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 260 395
10th Percentile £414 £424 £413
25th Percentile £463 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £644
90th Percentile £748 £688 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £56.15 - £29.58
25th Percentile £57.88 - £38.98
Median hourly rate £61.50 £54.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -14.29% +180.62%
75th Percentile £65.88 £69.75 £84.00
90th Percentile £68.05 £78.75 £86.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £49.00
% change year-on-year - - +118.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Change Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Change Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Manager within the UK 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
England +3 193 £570 +3.64% 47
UK excluding London +40 120 £525 - 34
London +15 90 £600 +9.09% 22
Work from Home +79 87 £513 -6.77% 17
South East +22 28 £550 - 7
Scotland +43 24 £475 -5.00% 4
Midlands +28 22 £500 -9.09% 8
South West +19 21 £570 +8.57% 6
North of England -1 18 £500 -14.89% 2
West Midlands +18 16 £625 +13.64% 3
North West +13 11 £481 -3.70% 1
East of England +13 8 £478 -8.95% 3
Yorkshire +9 7 £600 -7.69%
East Midlands - 5 £391 - 5
Wales +15 1 £800 +88.24% 5

Change Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Change Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Change Manager in the job title.

1 137 (58.30%) Change Management
2 69 (29.36%) Social Skills
3 61 (25.96%) Finance
4 55 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 54 (22.98%) Project Management
6 36 (15.32%) Agile
7 35 (14.89%) Public Sector
8 33 (14.04%) Impact Assessments
9 30 (12.77%) SAP
10 27 (11.49%) Programme Management
11 25 (10.64%) ITIL
12 24 (10.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (9.36%) Manufacturing
13 22 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (8.51%) Project Delivery
14 20 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (8.51%) Marketing
15 18 (7.66%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (7.66%) ERP
15 18 (7.66%) Culture Change
16 16 (6.81%) Decision-Making
16 16 (6.81%) Waterfall
17 15 (6.38%) Telecoms
18 14 (5.96%) Microsoft
18 14 (5.96%) Release Management
18 14 (5.96%) Digital Marketing
18 14 (5.96%) Process Improvement
18 14 (5.96%) Target Operating Model
19 13 (5.53%) Continuous Improvement
19 13 (5.53%) Security Cleared

Change Manager Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.70%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.28%) Azure
3 3 (1.28%) Power Platform
4 2 (0.85%) AWS
4 2 (0.85%) GCP
4 2 (0.85%) OCI
5 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.43%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.43%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.43%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.43%) Slack
5 1 (0.43%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.43%) Yammer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.70%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.28%) Power BI
3 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.85%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
General
1 69 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 61 (25.96%) Finance
3 35 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.36%) Manufacturing
5 20 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (8.51%) Marketing
6 15 (6.38%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.53%) Electronics
8 12 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (4.68%) Retail
10 9 (3.83%) Banking
11 7 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.13%) Legal
13 5 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.70%) Law
15 2 (0.85%) Advertising
15 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.85%) International Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.40%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.55%) Operational Technology
3 4 (1.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.28%) e-Learning
4 3 (1.28%) FMCG
4 3 (1.28%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.85%) CMDB
5 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.43%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.43%) Life Science
6 1 (0.43%) PMI
6 1 (0.43%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (58.30%) Change Management
2 55 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (22.98%) Project Management
4 36 (15.32%) Agile
5 33 (14.04%) Impact Assessments
6 27 (11.49%) Programme Management
7 25 (10.64%) ITIL
8 24 (10.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (8.51%) Project Delivery
11 18 (7.66%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (7.66%) Culture Change
11 18 (7.66%) ERP
12 16 (6.81%) Decision-Making
12 16 (6.81%) Waterfall
13 14 (5.96%) Digital Marketing
13 14 (5.96%) Process Improvement
13 14 (5.96%) Release Management
13 14 (5.96%) Target Operating Model
14 13 (5.53%) Continuous Improvement
Qualifications
1 13 (5.53%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.11%) Degree
3 8 (3.40%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.98%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 2 (0.85%) APMG
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.43%) PMP
7 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.98%) PMO
2 2 (0.85%) QA
3 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.43%) GDPR
3 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 30 (12.77%) SAP
2 14 (5.96%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.70%) Ariba
4 4 (1.70%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.28%) Google
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle
7 1 (0.43%) IBM
7 1 (0.43%) Planview
7 1 (0.43%) Remedy
7 1 (0.43%) Snow