Change Management Contracts in the Midlands

Change Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 40 46
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 88 105 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.60% 3.81% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.25% 4.63% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 66 98
10th Percentile £320 £333 £263
25th Percentile £400 £438 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% +13.51%
75th Percentile £566 £638 £598
90th Percentile £638 £725 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £20.91 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £27.89 £13.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £31.76 £18.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.44% +38.46% -30.26%
75th Percentile £38.51 £45.45 £24.29
90th Percentile £50.65 £72.90 £30.76
England median hourly rate £57.50 £48.75 £48.40
% change year-on-year +17.95% +0.72% +116.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +11 72 £500 -2.44% 80
East Midlands -4 13 £354 -25.47% 23
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.41%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (2.27%) Confluence
3 2 (2.27%) IIS
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.27%) Open Workbench
5 1 (1.14%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (1.14%) QuarkXPress
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.23%) Power Platform
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.55%) Mimecast
4 3 (3.41%) Azure
4 3 (3.41%) OCI
5 2 (2.27%) AWS
5 2 (2.27%) GCP
5 2 (2.27%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.14%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.27%) Firewall
2 2 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.27%) NGFW
2 2 (2.27%) WAN
2 2 (2.27%) Wireless
3 1 (1.14%) BGP
3 1 (1.14%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.14%) IPv4
3 1 (1.14%) LAN
3 1 (1.14%) MPLS
3 1 (1.14%) Network Security
3 1 (1.14%) OSPF
3 1 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) Power BI
2 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.27%) Tableau
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Git
General
1 37 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.27%) Finance
3 12 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.23%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (10.23%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.95%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.95%) Law
7 5 (5.68%) Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.41%) Legal
9 2 (2.27%) Back Office
10 1 (1.14%) Advertising
10 1 (1.14%) Games
10 1 (1.14%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.14%) Marketing
10 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (14.77%) Analyst
1 13 (14.77%) Lead
2 12 (13.64%) Change Manager
3 9 (10.23%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.95%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.95%) Business Manager
4 7 (7.95%) IT Manager
5 6 (6.82%) Business Change Manager
6 5 (5.68%) Service Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Change Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Finance Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Programme Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Support Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Tester
8 3 (3.41%) Business Change Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Customer Support Manager
8 3 (3.41%) IT Services Manager
8 3 (3.41%) Project Officer
8 3 (3.41%) Transformation Manager
8 3 (3.41%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) Middleware
2 4 (4.55%) .NET
3 2 (2.27%) HTML
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.27%) Web Services
4 1 (1.14%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Operational Technology
2 7 (7.95%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.68%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.68%) SCADA
4 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.41%) Educational Technology
5 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.27%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.14%) PMI
7 1 (1.14%) Social Media
7 1 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Windows
2 2 (2.27%) Linux
3 1 (1.14%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (27.27%) Agile
3 17 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (18.18%) Project Management
5 14 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.77%) Project Delivery
6 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (13.64%) Decision-Making
8 11 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (11.36%) Business Analysis
9 10 (11.36%) Impact Assessments
9 10 (11.36%) ITIL
10 9 (10.23%) Risk Management
10 9 (10.23%) Service Management
10 9 (10.23%) Waterfall
11 8 (9.09%) Business Case
11 8 (9.09%) Business Change Management
11 8 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (9.09%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.55%) SQL
2 3 (3.41%) VB
3 2 (2.27%) C#
3 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.27%) Python
3 2 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.27%) CCNA
4 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.27%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (1.14%) APMG
5 1 (1.14%) APMP
5 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.14%) CCNP
5 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) GDPR
1 3 (3.41%) PMO
2 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.27%) QA
3 1 (1.14%) MiFID
3 1 (1.14%) NCSC
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) Docker
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) HP ALM
1 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.27%) Grafana
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.23%) Oracle
3 5 (5.68%) Cisco
3 5 (5.68%) SAP
4 4 (4.55%) HP
4 4 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.55%) Proofpoint
4 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.41%) BMC
5 3 (3.41%) Remedy
6 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.27%) Google
6 2 (2.27%) NEC
6 2 (2.27%) UiPath
6 2 (2.27%) Workday
7 1 (1.14%) Apple
7 1 (1.14%) Civica
7 1 (1.14%) Huawei
7 1 (1.14%) Infor
7 1 (1.14%) JD Edwards