Change Management Contracts in England

Change Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Change Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 45 54
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,512 2,452 3,127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.06% 4.83% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 5.36% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 1,533 2,030
10th Percentile £331 £363 £325
25th Percentile £431 £458 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £606
90th Percentile £714 £742 £689
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.89% +10.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 52 59
10th Percentile £14.35 £21.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £29.91 £33.55 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +116.07% -4.03%
75th Percentile £61.60 £80.00 £37.78
90th Percentile £67.78 £87.50 £53.20
UK median hourly rate £47.75 £48.13 £22.45
% change year-on-year -0.79% +114.39% +0.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Change Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 25 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 803 £550 -4.35% 240
North of England -5 210 £514 -6.55% 104
South East -21 168 £485 -7.62% 95
South West +19 142 £550 +2.33% 49
Midlands -4 105 £500 -4.76% 67
Yorkshire -5 104 £514 -6.55% 32
North West -10 101 £513 -6.82% 63
West Midlands -5 73 £513 -2.38% 42
East of England +1 61 £350 -29.93% 39
East Midlands +23 28 £463 -11.90% 24
North East +6 12 £600 -7.69% 10
Change Management
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Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 72 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.38%) Confluence
2 36 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.06%) IIS
4 15 (0.99%) Tomcat
5 14 (0.93%) Apache
6 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.20%) Documentum
7 2 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.066%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.066%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.066%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.066%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 83 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.98%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.26%) InDesign
8 3 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.13%) Windchill
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.066%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.066%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.46%) SAP SD
3 7 (0.46%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.40%) Endur
4 6 (0.40%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.26%) SAP PLM
7 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.20%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.13%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 169 (11.18%) Azure
2 109 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
3 75 (4.96%) AWS
4 39 (2.58%) SaaS
5 36 (2.38%) Power Platform
6 24 (1.59%) Entra ID
7 21 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
8 19 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
8 19 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
10 17 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (1.12%) IaaS
10 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (1.12%) PaaS
10 17 (1.12%) Serverless
11 14 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (0.86%) Azure Functions
12 13 (0.86%) OneDrive
12 13 (0.86%) Slack
13 10 (0.66%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.95%) Firewall
2 56 (3.70%) WAN
3 47 (3.11%) LAN
4 44 (2.91%) BGP
5 43 (2.84%) OSPF
6 42 (2.78%) VPN
7 34 (2.25%) DNS
8 32 (2.12%) IPsec
8 32 (2.12%) Network Security
8 32 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
9 29 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
10 27 (1.79%) TCP/IP
11 26 (1.72%) Wireless
12 24 (1.59%) Structured Cabling
13 23 (1.52%) DHCP
13 23 (1.52%) NetScaler
14 21 (1.39%) VLAN
15 20 (1.32%) Cisco ISE
16 19 (1.26%) WLAN
17 16 (1.06%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (1.46%) Power BI
2 16 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (0.86%) NoSQL
4 12 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (0.73%) Oracle Database
5 11 (0.73%) SAP HANA
6 10 (0.66%) Tableau
7 9 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (0.53%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.40%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (0.40%) KDB
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.20%) Big Data
11 3 (0.20%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.20%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 59 (3.90%) JIRA
2 15 (0.99%) Git
2 15 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.40%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.33%) Selenium
5 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.13%) JMeter
7 2 (0.13%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.066%) GitLab
General
1 579 (38.29%) Finance
2 434 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 246 (16.27%) Banking
4 204 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
5 175 (11.57%) Public Sector
6 78 (5.16%) Legal
7 67 (4.43%) Telecoms
8 62 (4.10%) Manufacturing
9 56 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (3.37%) Marketing
12 37 (2.45%) Retail
13 26 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
13 26 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (1.65%) Electronics
14 25 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.59%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.39%) Local Government
17 16 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 242 (16.01%) Project Manager
2 241 (15.94%) Analyst
3 120 (7.94%) Business Analyst
4 114 (7.54%) Senior
5 101 (6.68%) Change Manager
6 95 (6.28%) Lead
7 85 (5.62%) Architect
8 65 (4.30%) Consultant
9 64 (4.23%) IT Manager
10 56 (3.70%) Banking Analyst
11 54 (3.57%) Developer
12 52 (3.44%) Network Engineer
13 46 (3.04%) Data Analyst
14 44 (2.91%) Business Manager
15 41 (2.71%) IT Analyst
16 35 (2.31%) Programme Manager
17 34 (2.25%) Administrator
18 32 (2.12%) Resilience Manager
18 32 (2.12%) Senior Manager
19 29 (1.92%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.52%) React
2 18 (1.19%) AngularJS
3 17 (1.12%) XML
4 16 (1.06%) FIX Protocol
4 16 (1.06%) HTML
4 16 (1.06%) REST
5 14 (0.93%) Kafka
6 13 (0.86%) Spring
7 12 (0.79%) Jinja
8 11 (0.73%) CSS
9 10 (0.66%) JSON
10 9 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (0.53%) .NET
11 8 (0.53%) Middleware
12 6 (0.40%) ActiveMQ
12 6 (0.40%) Itk
12 6 (0.40%) SAP Fiori
12 6 (0.40%) Visualforce
13 5 (0.33%) IDoc
13 5 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.82%) Management Information System
2 65 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 43 (2.84%) Data Centre
4 38 (2.51%) PKI
5 31 (2.05%) Cloud Native
6 25 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 25 (1.65%) Replication
7 24 (1.59%) Derivative
8 21 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.26%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.19%) CMDB
11 14 (0.93%) NHS
11 14 (0.93%) Virtual Team
12 13 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (0.86%) Fixed Income
12 13 (0.86%) IVR
12 13 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (0.73%) FMCG
14 10 (0.66%) Market Risk
14 10 (0.66%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 159 (10.52%) Windows
2 101 (6.68%) Linux
3 61 (4.03%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.92%) Unix
5 22 (1.46%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.73%) Solaris
7 11 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.46%) MVS
10 4 (0.26%) VMS
11 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.13%) CentOS
12 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (24.07%) Project Management
2 303 (20.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 267 (17.66%) Agile
4 237 (15.67%) ITIL
5 236 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (9.66%) Service Management
7 140 (9.26%) Project Delivery
8 132 (8.73%) Migration
9 129 (8.53%) ITSM
10 128 (8.47%) Risk Management
11 126 (8.33%) PRINCE2
12 115 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 115 (7.61%) DevOps
13 114 (7.54%) Decision-Making
14 113 (7.47%) Programme Management
15 91 (6.02%) Incident Management
16 82 (5.42%) Business Case
17 81 (5.36%) ERP
18 79 (5.22%) Roadmaps
19 78 (5.16%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 61 (4.03%) Python
2 54 (3.57%) SQL
3 46 (3.04%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.59%) C
5 23 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 21 (1.39%) Java
7 14 (0.93%) Perl
8 13 (0.86%) C#
9 12 (0.79%) Tcl
10 8 (0.53%) Swift
11 7 (0.46%) C++
11 7 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.40%) ABAP
12 6 (0.40%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.26%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.13%) AWK
14 2 (0.13%) Bash
14 2 (0.13%) Bourne shell
14 2 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 263 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 184 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 146 (9.66%) Degree
4 61 (4.03%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (2.38%) CCNP
7 34 (2.25%) CCNA
8 28 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 26 (1.72%) PMP
10 25 (1.65%) PMI Certification
11 24 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 11 (0.73%) Six Sigma Black Belt
15 10 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (0.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 9 (0.60%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (6.75%) PMO
2 64 (4.23%) QA
3 38 (2.51%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.38%) SLA
5 24 (1.59%) GDPR
6 8 (0.53%) NIST
7 6 (0.40%) GRC
8 5 (0.33%) COBIT
8 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 4 (0.26%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.13%) GxP
10 2 (0.13%) NCSC
10 2 (0.13%) P3O
10 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.066%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.066%) IFRS
System Software
1 74 (4.89%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.19%) XenApp
4 17 (1.12%) Firmware
5 14 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.79%) XenDesktop
7 8 (0.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 6 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.26%) vSphere
11 3 (0.20%) Docker
11 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.066%) Snort
13 1 (0.066%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 40 (2.65%) Ansible
2 28 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.26%) NetBackup
4 18 (1.19%) Puppet
5 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.93%) SCCM
7 13 (0.86%) FortiGate
8 12 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
8 12 (0.79%) SCOM
9 10 (0.66%) Terraform
10 8 (0.53%) Control-M
10 8 (0.53%) Grafana
11 6 (0.40%) Argo
11 6 (0.40%) Istio
11 6 (0.40%) Kibana
11 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.40%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 5 (0.33%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 260 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 131 (8.66%) SAP
3 79 (5.22%) ServiceNow
4 76 (5.03%) Cisco
5 58 (3.84%) Oracle
6 48 (3.17%) Citrix
7 46 (3.04%) VMware
8 43 (2.84%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.85%) Juniper
10 25 (1.65%) NetApp
10 25 (1.65%) Red Hat
11 23 (1.52%) SolarWinds
12 19 (1.26%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.19%) Fortinet
13 18 (1.19%) Veritas
14 16 (1.06%) Avaya
15 14 (0.93%) IBM
16 13 (0.86%) CheckPoint
17 10 (0.66%) Remedy
17 10 (0.66%) Splunk