Change Control Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Change Control
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Change Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 124 142
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 +40
Contract jobs citing Change Control 59 37 45
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.26% 1.03% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.19% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 23 29
10th Percentile £334 £356 £345
25th Percentile £466 £438 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -3.23%
75th Percentile £613 £547 £544
90th Percentile £638 £575 £653
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £23.92 - -
25th Percentile £25.58 - -
Median hourly rate £37.23 - £44.00
75th Percentile £52.53 - -
90th Percentile £65.26 - -
England median hourly rate £37.23 £35.39 £60.18
% change year-on-year +5.20% -41.19% -7.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,173 3,118 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.81% 86.73% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,783 2,721
10th Percentile £215 £260 £288
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 159 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.18 £15.65
25th Percentile £19.32 £17.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.96 £29.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +2.47% +28.64%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.10 £62.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Change Control job vacancy trend in the North of England

Change Control
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Change Control.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Change Control

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Control in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Control in the North of England

Change Control
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Change Control.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Change Control

Change Control
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Control in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Control in the North of England

Change Control
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -9 46 £550 +7.32% 16
Yorkshire -42 11 £474 -5.20% 11
North East -3 5 £550 -10.93% 1
Change Control
England

Change Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (11.86%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.39%) Confluence
4 1 (1.69%) CICS
4 1 (1.69%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) Azure
2 7 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.17%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.78%) Smartsheet
5 3 (5.08%) AWS
5 3 (5.08%) GCP
6 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.39%) Datadog
6 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.69%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.69%) PaaS
7 1 (1.69%) SaaS
7 1 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) Firewall
2 6 (10.17%) BGP
2 6 (10.17%) Software-Defined Networking
2 6 (10.17%) VLAN
3 5 (8.47%) WebEx
4 3 (5.08%) Network Security
5 2 (3.39%) LAN
5 2 (3.39%) Unified Communications
5 2 (3.39%) WAN
6 1 (1.69%) DWDM
6 1 (1.69%) IPsec
6 1 (1.69%) MPLS
6 1 (1.69%) SSL
6 1 (1.69%) VPN
6 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) Power BI
2 1 (1.69%) DB2
2 1 (1.69%) Power Query
2 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) JIRA
2 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) CircleCI
3 2 (3.39%) GitLab
4 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.69%) Git
4 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (25.42%) Finance
4 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
5 7 (11.86%) Legal
6 6 (10.17%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (8.47%) Banking
8 3 (5.08%) Investment Banking
9 2 (3.39%) Law
9 2 (3.39%) Military
10 1 (1.69%) Automotive
10 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.69%) Local Government
10 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (16.95%) Analyst
3 7 (11.86%) Change Manager
4 6 (10.17%) ITIL Change Manager
4 6 (10.17%) ITIL Manager
4 6 (10.17%) Security Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Lead
5 5 (8.47%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Contracts Manager
6 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) ERP Implementation Manager
6 3 (5.08%) ERP Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Implementation Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Senior
6 3 (5.08%) Senior PMO
6 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Network Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Network Project Manager
7 2 (3.39%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) XMPP
2 3 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.69%) ISPF
3 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Product Ownership
2 8 (13.56%) Onboarding
3 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (5.08%) PMI
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) Life Science
6 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.03%) Linux
1 13 (22.03%) Windows
2 12 (20.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (18.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.69%) Android
4 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
1 20 (33.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (32.20%) Change Management
3 18 (30.51%) ITSM
4 17 (28.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (25.42%) Service Management
6 14 (23.73%) Project Management
7 13 (22.03%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
8 12 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (18.64%) Agile
9 11 (18.64%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (18.64%) Risk Management
10 10 (16.95%) DevOps
10 10 (16.95%) Process Improvement
11 9 (15.25%) ITIL
12 8 (13.56%) Incident Response
12 8 (13.56%) Knowledge Management
13 7 (11.86%) Decision-Making
13 7 (11.86%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) Bash
1 13 (22.03%) PowerShell
2 11 (18.64%) Python
3 9 (15.25%) Perl
4 2 (3.39%) SQL
5 1 (1.69%) COBOL
5 1 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.69%) Java
5 1 (1.69%) JCL
Qualifications
1 20 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 18 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.95%) Degree
4 8 (13.56%) CCDP
4 8 (13.56%) CCNA
4 8 (13.56%) CCNP
4 8 (13.56%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.78%) PMI Certification
5 4 (6.78%) PMP
6 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.69%) CISM
6 1 (1.69%) CISSP
6 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) PMO
2 6 (10.17%) NIST
3 5 (8.47%) QA
4 3 (5.08%) P3O
4 3 (5.08%) SLA
5 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.69%) GDPR
5 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.69%) PMBOK
5 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.78%) Docker
3 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.69%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (1.69%) RACF
4 1 (1.69%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.39%) Ansible
3 2 (3.39%) Grafana
3 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.39%) Terraform
4 1 (1.69%) AirWatch
4 1 (1.69%) Kibana
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.69%) SCCM
4 1 (1.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.34%) Red Hat
3 8 (13.56%) Citrix
3 8 (13.56%) VMware
4 7 (11.86%) ServiceNow
5 6 (10.17%) Cisco
6 4 (6.78%) Planview
7 3 (5.08%) SAP
8 1 (1.69%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.69%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.69%) Databricks
8 1 (1.69%) EXASOL
8 1 (1.69%) F5
8 1 (1.69%) Google
8 1 (1.69%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.69%) Samsung
8 1 (1.69%) Splunk