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 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 376 411
Rank change year-on-year +22 +35 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Change Manager 239 358 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.65% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 254 396
10th Percentile £425 £421 £411
25th Percentile £475 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year - +2.09% +7.75%
75th Percentile £656 £634 £645
90th Percentile £744 £688 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £56.15 - £27.34
25th Percentile £57.88 - £30.10
Median hourly rate £61.50 £54.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -3.57% +149.44%
75th Percentile £65.88 £69.75 £82.88
90th Percentile £68.05 £78.75 £86.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £39.98
% change year-on-year - - +78.08%

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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

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 12 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 12 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 +12 198 £570 +3.64% 53
UK excluding London +47 121 £525 - 37
London +15 92 £600 +9.09% 23
Work from Home +64 88 £525 -4.55% 25
Midlands +34 27 £531 -3.41% 9
South East +20 27 £550 -1.79% 5
Scotland +47 23 £475 -5.00% 3
West Midlands +15 21 £650 +18.18% 4
South West +9 21 £570 +8.57% 11
North of England -2 18 £500 -16.67% 5
North West +16 11 £481 -3.70% 2
Yorkshire +10 7 £600 -7.69% 2
East of England +9 6 £478 -8.95% 1
East Midlands - 5 £391 - 5
Wales +20 1 £800 +88.24% 4

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 139 (58.16%) Change Management
2 78 (32.64%) Social Skills
3 64 (26.78%) Finance
4 57 (23.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 56 (23.43%) Project Management
6 38 (15.90%) Agile
7 37 (15.48%) Impact Assessments
8 34 (14.23%) Public Sector
9 28 (11.72%) SAP
10 26 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (10.88%) Programme Management
11 24 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (9.62%) ITIL
13 21 (8.79%) Manufacturing
13 21 (8.79%) Marketing
14 20 (8.37%) ERP
14 20 (8.37%) Project Delivery
14 20 (8.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (7.95%) Culture Change
16 18 (7.53%) Decision-Making
17 17 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
18 16 (6.69%) Waterfall
18 16 (6.69%) Microsoft
19 15 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
20 14 (5.86%) Process Improvement
20 14 (5.86%) Target Operating Model
20 14 (5.86%) Telecoms
21 13 (5.44%) Release Management
21 13 (5.44%) Digital Marketing
21 13 (5.44%) Stakeholder Map

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 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.26%) Azure
3 3 (1.26%) Power Platform
4 2 (0.84%) AWS
4 2 (0.84%) GCP
4 2 (0.84%) OCI
5 1 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.42%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.42%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.42%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.42%) Slack
5 1 (0.42%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.42%) Yammer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.26%) Power BI
3 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.84%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
General
1 78 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 64 (26.78%) Finance
3 34 (14.23%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.79%) Manufacturing
4 21 (8.79%) Marketing
5 20 (8.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.86%) Telecoms
7 12 (5.02%) Electronics
8 11 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (4.60%) Retail
9 10 (4.18%) Banking
10 8 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.09%) Legal
13 4 (1.67%) Law
13 4 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.84%) Advertising
14 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.84%) International Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.35%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.51%) Operational Technology
3 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.26%) e-Learning
4 3 (1.26%) FMCG
4 3 (1.26%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.84%) CMDB
5 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.84%) Social Media
6 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.42%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.42%) Life Science
6 1 (0.42%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.42%) PMI
6 1 (0.42%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (58.16%) Change Management
2 57 (23.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 56 (23.43%) Project Management
4 38 (15.90%) Agile
5 37 (15.48%) Impact Assessments
6 26 (10.88%) Programme Management
6 26 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 24 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (9.62%) ITIL
9 20 (8.37%) ERP
9 20 (8.37%) Project Delivery
10 19 (7.95%) Culture Change
11 18 (7.53%) Decision-Making
12 17 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (6.69%) Waterfall
14 15 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (5.86%) Process Improvement
15 14 (5.86%) Target Operating Model
16 13 (5.44%) Digital Marketing
16 13 (5.44%) Release Management
Qualifications
1 12 (5.02%) Degree
1 12 (5.02%) Security Cleared
2 7 (2.93%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (2.93%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 2 (0.84%) APMG
5 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.42%) PMP
5 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.42%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.93%) PMO
2 2 (0.84%) QA
3 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.42%) GDPR
3 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 28 (11.72%) SAP
2 16 (6.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.51%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.09%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.26%) Ariba
5 3 (1.26%) Google
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle
7 1 (0.42%) IBM
7 1 (0.42%) Planview
7 1 (0.42%) Remedy
7 1 (0.42%) Snow