Change Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Change Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 123 131
Rank change year-on-year +37 +8 +33
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 3,062 3,008 4,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.15% 2.82% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 2.95% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,662 1,891 2,897
10th Percentile £35,924 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,250 £42,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,375 £73,750 £71,248
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,396 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.79% - +5.26%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,814 101,905 146,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 95.67% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 59,590 59,680 83,719
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +40 2,716 £55,000 - 657
UK excluding London +35 2,095 £52,396 +4.79% 417
Work from Home +53 1,180 £57,500 +4.55% 249
London +48 850 £71,495 +9.99% 247
North of England +75 516 £52,500 +5.53% 116
South East +1 461 £51,350 -1.25% 92
Midlands -8 348 £52,500 - 72
North West +70 288 £52,500 - 71
South West +22 265 £50,000 +11.11% 46
East of England +64 254 £54,500 +0.46% 43
West Midlands -3 240 £51,849 -1.24% 49
Scotland +14 178 £55,000 -8.16% 38
Yorkshire +74 177 £54,750 +19.02% 36
East Midlands +10 96 £54,000 +2.86% 22
Wales +29 55 £41,067 -8.74% 8
North East +25 51 £45,000 -7.69% 11
Northern Ireland +27 12 - - 8
Isle of Man - 6 £36,000 - 1

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
1 332 (10.84%) SAS
2 88 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 85 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 54 (1.76%) Confluence
5 30 (0.98%) Captiva
6 29 (0.95%) WebSphere
7 28 (0.91%) FileNet
8 13 (0.42%) CMS
9 7 (0.23%) IIS
10 6 (0.20%) Apache
10 6 (0.20%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.098%) CICS
12 3 (0.098%) Documentum
12 3 (0.098%) nginx
12 3 (0.098%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.065%) Alfresco
13 2 (0.065%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 155 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 105 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.89%) MS Visio
5 36 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (1.18%) Simulink
5 36 (1.18%) Stateflow
6 22 (0.72%) Windchill
7 10 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.13%) SPSS
10 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 307 (10.03%) SAP ERP
2 38 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.56%) Teamcenter
5 16 (0.52%) NEC Housing
6 13 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.29%) SAP CX
8 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.16%) HFM
9 5 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
9 5 (0.16%) Primavera
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.098%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.098%) Magento
11 3 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
12 2 (0.065%) Endur
12 2 (0.065%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 2 (0.065%) SAP MDG
12 2 (0.065%) SAP MM
12 2 (0.065%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 426 (13.91%) Azure
2 307 (10.03%) Microsoft 365
3 227 (7.41%) GCP
4 156 (5.09%) Power Platform
5 115 (3.76%) AWS
6 74 (2.42%) SaaS
7 70 (2.29%) Entra ID
8 66 (2.16%) IaaS
9 64 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
10 57 (1.86%) PowerApps
11 54 (1.76%) GitHub
12 53 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
13 47 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (1.18%) PaaS
15 32 (1.05%) Serverless
16 31 (1.01%) Power Automate
17 27 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
18 22 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
19 19 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 299 (9.76%) Broadband
2 158 (5.16%) Firewall
3 86 (2.81%) LAN
4 82 (2.68%) WAN
5 81 (2.65%) DNS
6 51 (1.67%) VPN
7 47 (1.53%) Network Security
8 45 (1.47%) Wireless
9 43 (1.40%) DHCP
10 42 (1.37%) VoIP
11 31 (1.01%) TCP/IP
12 30 (0.98%) SAN
13 29 (0.95%) Internet
13 29 (0.95%) SD-WAN
14 23 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
15 22 (0.72%) Intranet
16 20 (0.65%) BGP
16 20 (0.65%) VLAN
17 18 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
18 17 (0.56%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 159 (5.19%) Looker
3 110 (3.59%) Power BI
4 97 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 45 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 30 (0.98%) Relational Database
8 27 (0.88%) MySQL
9 24 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 18 (0.59%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
14 16 (0.52%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.46%) Big Data
16 10 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
16 10 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 8 (0.26%) DB2
Development Applications
1 151 (4.93%) JIRA
2 45 (1.47%) Git
3 34 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
4 33 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.69%) Subversion
6 16 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.29%) Selenium
9 8 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
10 6 (0.20%) JMeter
10 6 (0.20%) Postman
10 6 (0.20%) SoapUI
11 5 (0.16%) LabVIEW
12 4 (0.13%) GitLab
12 4 (0.13%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.098%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.065%) Hudson
14 2 (0.065%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,172 (38.28%) Social Skills
2 1,041 (34.00%) Finance
3 584 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (7.54%) Retail
5 155 (5.06%) Manufacturing
6 151 (4.93%) Law
7 146 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 135 (4.41%) Banking
9 122 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
10 116 (3.79%) Public Sector
11 111 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
12 104 (3.40%) Legal
13 89 (2.91%) Marketing
14 79 (2.58%) Telecoms
15 71 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
16 49 (1.60%) Aerospace
17 32 (1.05%) Local Government
18 31 (1.01%) Electronics
18 31 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
19 30 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 553 (18.06%) Analyst
2 407 (13.29%) Senior
3 376 (12.28%) Architect
4 358 (11.69%) Project Manager
5 332 (10.84%) Solutions Architect
6 222 (7.25%) Lead
7 217 (7.09%) Business Analyst
8 198 (6.47%) IT Manager
9 174 (5.68%) Principal Engineer
10 163 (5.32%) Data Engineer
11 162 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
12 161 (5.26%) Principal Data Engineer
13 142 (4.64%) Senior Manager
14 140 (4.57%) Change Manager
15 104 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 102 (3.33%) Support Analyst
17 100 (3.27%) IT Support
18 96 (3.14%) Senior Project Manager
19 89 (2.91%) IT Analyst
20 86 (2.81%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (2.25%) .NET
2 42 (1.37%) HTML
3 35 (1.14%) AngularJS
4 29 (0.95%) CSS
4 29 (0.95%) Web Services
5 22 (0.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 22 (0.72%) XML
6 21 (0.69%) Middleware
7 20 (0.65%) React
8 15 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (0.49%) Spring
9 14 (0.46%) .NET Framework
9 14 (0.46%) 802.1X
10 10 (0.33%) Gherkin
10 10 (0.33%) Qt
10 10 (0.33%) SOAP
11 8 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (0.26%) REST
12 7 (0.23%) EDI
13 6 (0.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 291 (9.50%) Self-Motivation
2 206 (6.73%) Management Information System
3 100 (3.27%) Data Centre
4 49 (1.60%) CMDB
5 46 (1.50%) Driving Licence
5 46 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
6 45 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 44 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.40%) Operational Technology
9 42 (1.37%) PMI
10 40 (1.31%) Public Cloud
11 39 (1.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 39 (1.27%) NHS
12 37 (1.21%) Product Ownership
13 36 (1.18%) Algorithms
13 36 (1.18%) FMCG
14 30 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
14 30 (0.98%) Private Cloud
15 28 (0.91%) DataPower
16 25 (0.82%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 401 (13.10%) Windows
2 177 (5.78%) Linux
3 150 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 118 (3.85%) Unix
5 84 (2.74%) Windows 10
6 48 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 41 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 23 (0.75%) Windows 7
10 15 (0.49%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (0.39%) VMS
13 11 (0.36%) Android
14 9 (0.29%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.26%) Mac OS X
15 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.098%) zOS
17 2 (0.065%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,190 (38.86%) Agile
2 761 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
3 746 (24.36%) Project Management
4 584 (19.07%) ITIL
5 577 (18.84%) Roadmaps
6 408 (13.32%) ERP
7 395 (12.90%) DevOps
8 394 (12.87%) Mentoring
9 376 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 366 (11.95%) Decision-Making
11 359 (11.72%) Data Management
12 351 (11.46%) Performance Management
13 343 (11.20%) Enterprise Architecture
14 341 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
15 334 (10.91%) TOGAF
16 333 (10.88%) Coaching
17 325 (10.61%) Strategic Roadmap
18 315 (10.29%) Service Management
19 293 (9.57%) Risk Management
20 271 (8.85%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 282 (9.21%) SQL
2 142 (4.64%) PowerShell
3 88 (2.87%) Python
4 82 (2.68%) Java
5 70 (2.29%) C#
6 46 (1.50%) JavaScript
7 39 (1.27%) Bash
8 38 (1.24%) T-SQL
9 36 (1.18%) MATLAB
10 22 (0.72%) PL/SQL
11 20 (0.65%) C
12 16 (0.52%) C++
13 8 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.26%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.20%) PHP
15 5 (0.16%) R
16 4 (0.13%) Go
16 4 (0.13%) VB
16 4 (0.13%) VBA
16 4 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 539 (17.60%) Degree
2 293 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 206 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 117 (3.82%) PMI Certification
5 101 (3.30%) PMP
6 78 (2.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 51 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
8 48 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 45 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 41 (1.34%) CISSP
11 39 (1.27%) Azure Certification
12 32 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 31 (1.01%) CCNA
14 23 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 21 (0.69%) A+ Certification
16 19 (0.62%) DV Cleared
17 18 (0.59%) CISM
18 17 (0.56%) HNC
19 16 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (7.54%) GDPR
2 124 (4.05%) PMO
3 118 (3.85%) SLA
4 104 (3.40%) QA
5 63 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.63%) Data Quality
7 30 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (0.91%) NIST
9 21 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 19 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.56%) COBIT
12 16 (0.52%) ISO 9001
12 16 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.36%) GRC
13 11 (0.36%) ISO 14000
14 10 (0.33%) NEBOSH
15 7 (0.23%) CDISC
15 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.23%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 257 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 134 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (1.93%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.01%) Firmware
5 21 (0.69%) Docker
5 21 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.49%) vSphere
7 11 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.098%) RACF
9 3 (0.098%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.065%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.033%) Lustre
11 1 (0.033%) LXC
11 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.033%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.033%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 102 (3.33%) SCCM
2 64 (2.09%) Terraform
3 48 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (1.31%) Kubernetes
5 38 (1.24%) Ansible
6 21 (0.69%) WSUS
7 19 (0.62%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.49%) Grafana
9 14 (0.46%) SCOM
10 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
11 9 (0.29%) Nagios
12 8 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.26%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.23%) Foglight
14 6 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 5 (0.16%) Opsgenie
15 5 (0.16%) Puppet
16 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 517 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 465 (15.19%) Oracle
3 403 (13.16%) SAP
4 305 (9.96%) Hyperion
5 299 (9.76%) Anaplan
6 179 (5.85%) Google
6 179 (5.85%) VMware
7 157 (5.13%) ServiceNow
8 97 (3.17%) Cisco
9 54 (1.76%) Salesforce
10 53 (1.73%) IBM
11 46 (1.50%) Citrix
12 45 (1.47%) HP
13 33 (1.08%) Dell
14 30 (0.98%) Apple
14 30 (0.98%) Fortinet
14 30 (0.98%) Kofax
15 28 (0.91%) Pega
16 27 (0.88%) Juniper
16 27 (0.88%) Splunk