Change Management Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Change Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Change Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 25 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 +25 -33
Contract jobs citing Change Management 57 36 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 8.95% 7.89% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.18% 8.80% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 27 2
10th Percentile £325 £330 £310
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £588
90th Percentile £526 £588 £640
North West median daily rate £438 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -12.50% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.65 - -
North West median hourly rate £41.86 £28.15 £28.30
% change year-on-year +48.69% -0.53% +5.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Change Management 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 560 409 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.91% 89.69% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 239 236
10th Percentile £268 £316 £265
25th Percentile £356 £368 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £686 £650 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 23 25
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +2.41% +54.82%
75th Percentile £40.00 £33.75 £35.75
90th Percentile £71.65 £84.30 £42.25
North West median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.73
% change year-on-year +1.60% -12.53% +34.66%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Change Management job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in Cheshire

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Change Management
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 Management within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Knutsford -9 34 £413 -17.50% 2
Chester -2 9 - - 1
Crewe 0 2 £425 +46.05% 3
Ellesmere Port - 2 - -
Macclesfield -4 1 £450 -14.29% 1
Warrington -4 1 £400 -20.00% 3
Change Management
North West

Change Management
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 12 (21.05%) Confluence
2 7 (12.28%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.26%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.53%) AWS
1 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 5 (8.77%) Azure
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.26%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.75%) Alation
4 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.75%) Collibra
4 1 (1.75%) Datadog
4 1 (1.75%) GCP
4 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) DMZ
1 7 (12.28%) DNS
1 7 (12.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 7 (12.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 7 (12.28%) Network Security
1 7 (12.28%) SSH
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) RDBMS
1 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.51%) Power BI
3 1 (1.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (33.33%) JIRA
2 5 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.02%) Git
4 3 (5.26%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (5.26%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.51%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.75%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.75%) GitLab
General
1 29 (50.88%) Social Skills
2 24 (42.11%) Finance
3 15 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.54%) Banking
5 5 (8.77%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Legal
6 4 (7.02%) Local Government
7 2 (3.51%) Automotive
7 2 (3.51%) Billing
7 2 (3.51%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.51%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) Analyst
2 11 (19.30%) Project Manager
3 6 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 6 (10.53%) Programme Manager
4 4 (7.02%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Lead
4 4 (7.02%) Salesforce Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Technical Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Governance Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Technical Programme Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Banking Project Manager
6 2 (3.51%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (3.51%) ERP Support
6 2 (3.51%) IT Support
6 2 (3.51%) Junior
6 2 (3.51%) Junior Project Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.26%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.51%) XML
4 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.75%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.75%) CSS
4 1 (1.75%) HTML
4 1 (1.75%) JSON
4 1 (1.75%) Kafka
4 1 (1.75%) REST
4 1 (1.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Management Information System
1 7 (12.28%) Tandem
2 4 (7.02%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.51%) PMI
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) CMDB
4 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) PKI
4 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.54%) Windows
2 7 (12.28%) Unix
3 3 (5.26%) Linux
3 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (28.07%) Project Management
3 14 (24.56%) Agile
3 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (22.81%) ITIL
5 12 (21.05%) Project Delivery
6 10 (17.54%) Computer Science
7 8 (14.04%) Budget Management
7 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (14.04%) Incident Response
7 8 (14.04%) Migration
8 7 (12.28%) Cryptography
8 7 (12.28%) Decision-Making
8 7 (12.28%) Information Security
8 7 (12.28%) Load Balancing
8 7 (12.28%) Release Management
8 7 (12.28%) Service Delivery
8 7 (12.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (10.53%) DevOps
9 6 (10.53%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.79%) Python
2 3 (5.26%) Perl
3 2 (3.51%) Java
3 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.51%) SQL
4 1 (1.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Degree
2 9 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (12.28%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) BC Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (7.02%) PMI Certification
4 4 (7.02%) PMP
5 3 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.51%) AAT
6 2 (3.51%) ECDL
6 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.51%) MBA
6 2 (3.51%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (1.75%) CBAP
7 1 (1.75%) CISM
7 1 (1.75%) CISSP
7 1 (1.75%) CSPO
7 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Basel III
2 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) GDPR
2 2 (3.51%) PMO
3 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.75%) SEPA
3 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) VMware NSX
2 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.26%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Kibana
1 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.26%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.75%) Ansible
2 1 (1.75%) Grafana
2 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.04%) F5
2 8 (14.04%) IBM
3 7 (12.28%) VMware
4 5 (8.77%) Salesforce
4 5 (8.77%) ServiceNow
5 4 (7.02%) Computacenter
5 4 (7.02%) Gemalto
5 4 (7.02%) Thales
6 3 (5.26%) AppDynamics
6 3 (5.26%) Cloudera
6 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.26%) Snow
6 3 (5.26%) Splunk
6 3 (5.26%) Workday
7 2 (3.51%) Citrix
8 1 (1.75%) Cisco
8 1 (1.75%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.75%) Informatica