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 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 14 42
Rank change year-on-year -19 +28 -27
Contract jobs citing Change Management 47 57 12
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 6.86% 10.63% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 12.39% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 6
10th Percentile £317 £437 £366
25th Percentile £358 £500 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% -2.33% +53.57%
75th Percentile £478 £561 £575
90th Percentile £500 £576 £581
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +2.56%

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 618 460 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 90.22% 85.82% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 277 208
10th Percentile £293 £336 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £613
North West median daily rate £450 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -5.86% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 18 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £14.83 £21.83 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.31 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.69% +34.62% +61.79%
75th Percentile £37.56 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £72.88 £47.50 £36.60
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -40.83% +25.00% +45.92%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -17 30 £402 -24.93% 4
Chester -3 6 - - 2
Macclesfield -6 2 £475 -9.52%
Warrington -14 1 £400 -15.79% 3
Crewe - 1 £525 - 4
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 11 (23.40%) Confluence
2 7 (14.89%) SharePoint
3 4 (8.51%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) AWS
2 4 (8.51%) OpenShift
2 4 (8.51%) SaaS
3 2 (4.26%) Azure
4 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) Datadog
4 1 (2.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) SSH
2 5 (10.64%) DMZ
2 5 (10.64%) DNS
2 5 (10.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 5 (10.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (10.64%) Network Security
3 1 (2.13%) Firewall
3 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) RDBMS
1 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (34.04%) JIRA
2 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.64%) Git
4 4 (8.51%) SonarQube
4 4 (8.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (8.51%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (6.38%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 27 (57.45%) Social Skills
2 16 (34.04%) Finance
3 15 (31.91%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Banking
5 6 (12.77%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (8.51%) Legal
7 4 (8.51%) Publishing
8 2 (4.26%) Automotive
9 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (31.91%) Analyst
2 7 (14.89%) Business Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (10.64%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Programme Manager
5 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) DevOps Specialist
5 3 (6.38%) Service Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Service Transition Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Transition Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Change Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Governance Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Product Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Product Business Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.13%) Change Analyst
7 1 (2.13%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.13%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (2.13%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (8.51%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.26%) XML
4 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.13%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.13%) CSS
4 1 (2.13%) HTML
4 1 (2.13%) JSON
4 1 (2.13%) Kafka
4 1 (2.13%) REST
4 1 (2.13%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Management Information System
1 7 (14.89%) Tandem
2 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) CMDB
4 1 (2.13%) PKI
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Windows
2 7 (14.89%) Unix
3 4 (8.51%) Linux
3 4 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (31.91%) Project Delivery
3 14 (29.79%) Project Management
4 13 (27.66%) Agile
4 13 (27.66%) ITIL
5 11 (23.40%) Computer Science
6 10 (21.28%) DevOps
6 10 (21.28%) Release Management
7 9 (19.15%) Service Management
8 8 (17.02%) Incident Response
8 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.89%) Cryptography
9 7 (14.89%) Information Security
9 7 (14.89%) ITSM
9 7 (14.89%) Service Delivery
9 7 (14.89%) Strategic Thinking
10 6 (12.77%) Business Strategy
10 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
10 6 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (12.77%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) Python
2 4 (8.51%) Java
2 4 (8.51%) Perl
3 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Degree
2 7 (14.89%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (14.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) BC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (8.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.13%) CBAP
4 1 (2.13%) CISM
4 1 (2.13%) CISSP
4 1 (2.13%) CSPO
4 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) PMO
3 1 (2.13%) Basel III
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) GRC
3 1 (2.13%) GxP
3 1 (2.13%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) SEPA
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
1 4 (8.51%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Kibana
1 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
1 4 (8.51%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Grafana
2 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.02%) IBM
3 6 (12.77%) F5
3 6 (12.77%) ServiceNow
4 5 (10.64%) VMware
5 4 (8.51%) AppDynamics
5 4 (8.51%) Cloudera
5 4 (8.51%) Gemalto
5 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
5 4 (8.51%) Splunk
5 4 (8.51%) Thales
6 2 (4.26%) Computacenter
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco
7 1 (2.13%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.13%) SAP