Project Change Manager Contracts

Project Change Manager
UK

The median Project Change Manager daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 661 781
Rank change year-on-year +111 +120 -117
Contract jobs requiring a Project Change Manager 35 32 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.055% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.058% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 46
10th Percentile £317 £463 £410
25th Percentile £391 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.06% +20.88%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £634
90th Percentile £773 £690 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £406 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -21.69% +3.75% +26.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £82.50
75th Percentile - - £86.88
90th Percentile - - £87.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.50
% change year-on-year - - +240.76%

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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
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 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Project Change Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Change Manager in the UK

Project Change Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Change Manager in the UK

Project Change Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Change Manager over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Change Manager in the UK

Project Change Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Change Manager in the UK

Project Change Manager
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Change Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +105 33 £475 -13.64% 5
UK excluding London +75 18 £406 -21.69% 6
London +87 16 £513 -6.82%
Work from Home +121 11 £391 -22.77% 2
Midlands +38 7 £391 -32.09%
South East +20 5 £501 -2.34% 3
South West +19 5 £450 -11.11%
East Midlands - 4 £391 -
West Midlands +26 3 £388 -32.61%
North of England +25 1 £390 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £390 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Project 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 Project Change Manager in the job title.

1 16 (45.71%) Project Management
2 13 (37.14%) Finance
3 11 (31.43%) Change Management
4 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (22.86%) Decision-Making
5 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
6 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
6 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (17.14%) Programme Management
7 6 (17.14%) Retail
8 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
8 5 (14.29%) Business Case
8 5 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
9 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
9 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (11.43%) Business Strategy
9 4 (11.43%) SAP
9 4 (11.43%) Target Operating Model
10 3 (8.57%) Reinsurance
10 3 (8.57%) Data Transformation
10 3 (8.57%) Change Control
10 3 (8.57%) Test Strategy
10 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
10 3 (8.57%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (8.57%) Marketing
10 3 (8.57%) Use Case
10 3 (8.57%) Release Management
10 3 (8.57%) Data Integration
10 3 (8.57%) Data Modelling

Project 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 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (8.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) Azure
1 2 (5.71%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.71%) SAP HANA
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (17.14%) Retail
5 4 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (8.57%) Legal
6 3 (8.57%) Marketing
6 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Project Management
2 11 (31.43%) Change Management
3 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (22.86%) Decision-Making
5 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (17.14%) Programme Management
7 5 (14.29%) Business Case
7 5 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
8 4 (11.43%) Business Strategy
8 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
8 4 (11.43%) Target Operating Model
9 3 (8.57%) Change Control
9 3 (8.57%) Data Integration
9 3 (8.57%) Data Modelling
9 3 (8.57%) Data Transformation
9 3 (8.57%) Release Management
9 3 (8.57%) Test Strategy
9 3 (8.57%) Use Case
10 2 (5.71%) Lean Six Sigma
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) SAP
3 2 (5.71%) Google