Change Control Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Change Control
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Change Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 45 42
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 +20
Contract jobs citing Change Control 10 8 15
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.57% 1.76% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.96% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £315 £301 £435
25th Percentile £348 £356 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £500 £453
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +10.38% +13.25%
75th Percentile £638 £519 £489
90th Percentile - £553 -
North West median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.50 - -
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £37.23 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Change Control falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 563 409 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.38% 89.89% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 245 239
10th Percentile £268 £306 £265
25th Percentile £350 £363 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £550
90th Percentile £673 £651 £592
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 22 25
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.80
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.51 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +2.41% +48.40%
75th Percentile £40.75 £33.75 £35.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £85.15 £42.25
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £30.40 £37.75
% change year-on-year +15.13% -19.47% +46.26%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Change Control relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Change Control job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Change Control
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Change Control.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Change Control

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Control in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Control in Cheshire

Change Control
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Change Control.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Change Control

Change Control
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Control within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 December 2025. 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
Chester -7 4 £625 +13.64% 1
Knutsford -22 3 £334 -6.32%
Warrington -3 1 £475 -5.00% 2
Crewe - 1 - - 2
Change Control
North West

Change Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Smartsheet
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Datadog
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Automotive
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior PMO
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Project Planner
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) PMI
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Project Management
1 7 (70.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Project Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Change Management
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Management
4 3 (30.00%) Portfolio Management
4 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Programme Management
4 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (30.00%) Strategic Planning
4 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (20.00%) Budget Management
5 2 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (30.00%) PMP
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) PMO
2 3 (30.00%) P3O
3 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Planview
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk