Change Management Contracts in the North of England

Change Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 28 36 30
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +11
Contract jobs citing Change Management 214 212 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.49% 4.45% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.22% 5.18% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 117 182
10th Percentile £313 £350 £392
25th Percentile £364 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% -6.55% +12.82%
75th Percentile £552 £585 £650
90th Percentile £663 £656 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 11
10th Percentile £47.75 - £23.15
25th Percentile - £12.53 £25.58
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.69% -14.36% +36.36%
75th Percentile - £37.18 £49.19
90th Percentile £62.00 £43.52 £52.13
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the North of England

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the North of England

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the North of England

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the North of England

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the North of England

Change Management
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 Management within the North of England 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
North West +20 117 £438 -13.92% 114
Yorkshire +2 87 £463 -10.02% 47
North East -3 9 £575 -4.17% 17
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 21 (9.81%) Confluence
2 13 (6.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.40%) JBoss
4 2 (0.93%) Apache
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.27%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.34%) SAP PP
3 4 (1.87%) SAP SD
4 3 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.47%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.47%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.47%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.47%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.47%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 15 (7.01%) Azure
1 15 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (5.61%) Entra ID
3 10 (4.67%) IaaS
4 7 (3.27%) AWS
5 5 (2.34%) GitHub
6 4 (1.87%) GCP
7 3 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.40%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.40%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.93%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.93%) CloudBees
8 2 (0.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.47%) SaaS
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.07%) Firewall
2 12 (5.61%) Network Security
3 10 (4.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.80%) SAN
5 5 (2.34%) DNS
5 5 (2.34%) MPLS
5 5 (2.34%) WAN
6 4 (1.87%) BGP
6 4 (1.87%) DHCP
6 4 (1.87%) OSPF
6 4 (1.87%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.40%) EIGRP
7 3 (1.40%) IPv4
8 2 (0.93%) SSL
8 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.93%) VPN
9 1 (0.47%) DWDM
9 1 (0.47%) L2TP
9 1 (0.47%) LAN
9 1 (0.47%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.01%) Oracle Database
2 10 (4.67%) Oracle Reports
2 10 (4.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.40%) Power BI
3 3 (1.40%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.40%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.40%) Siebel EIM
4 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.93%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.47%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.47%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.47%) Flink
5 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (9.81%) JIRA
2 9 (4.21%) Git
3 8 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.87%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.87%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (1.40%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (1.40%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.40%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.40%) Vagrant
General
1 72 (33.64%) Finance
2 61 (28.50%) Social Skills
3 52 (24.30%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.21%) Banking
4 24 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.41%) Telecoms
6 15 (7.01%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (5.14%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.74%) French Language
9 8 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.27%) Legal
11 6 (2.80%) Automotive
11 6 (2.80%) Retail
12 5 (2.34%) Military
13 3 (1.40%) Marketing
14 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.93%) Law
14 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (21.03%) Analyst
2 30 (14.02%) Project Manager
3 26 (12.15%) Business Analyst
4 22 (10.28%) Lead
5 13 (6.07%) Change Manager
6 11 (5.14%) Backup Engineer
7 10 (4.67%) Consultant
8 9 (4.21%) Commvault Engineer
9 8 (3.74%) SAP Consultant
9 8 (3.74%) Senior
10 7 (3.27%) IT Manager
11 6 (2.80%) Developer
11 6 (2.80%) IT Project Manager
11 6 (2.80%) Programme Manager
11 6 (2.80%) Release Manager
11 6 (2.80%) Storage Engineer
12 5 (2.34%) Implementation Manager
12 5 (2.34%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 5 (2.34%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 4 (1.87%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.87%) Gherkin
1 4 (1.87%) SOAP
1 4 (1.87%) Spring Boot
2 3 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.40%) JMS
2 3 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.40%) Web Services
3 1 (0.47%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.47%) Kafka
3 1 (0.47%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.47%) LDAP
3 1 (0.47%) PySpark
3 1 (0.47%) REST
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.47%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.94%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.61%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.14%) PMI
4 9 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.40%) CMDB
5 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.93%) NHS
6 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle Licensing
7 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.47%) Clustering
7 1 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.47%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.47%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.41%) Windows
2 12 (5.61%) Windows Server
3 9 (4.21%) Linux
4 4 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.93%) Unix
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.47%) CentOS
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (33.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 70 (32.71%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (25.23%) Project Management
4 51 (23.83%) Agile
5 38 (17.76%) Migration
6 32 (14.95%) ITIL
7 31 (14.49%) PRINCE2
8 30 (14.02%) Problem Management
9 28 (13.08%) Project Delivery
10 26 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (11.68%) Disaster Recovery
12 24 (11.21%) Business Case
12 24 (11.21%) Waterfall
13 22 (10.28%) Process Improvement
14 21 (9.81%) Data Migration
14 21 (9.81%) Risk Management
14 21 (9.81%) Roadmaps
15 20 (9.35%) Service Management
16 19 (8.88%) Requirements Gathering
17 18 (8.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.94%) PowerShell
2 15 (7.01%) Python
3 9 (4.21%) SQL
4 6 (2.80%) Java
5 4 (1.87%) Perl
6 3 (1.40%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.40%) Ruby
6 3 (1.40%) VB
7 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.93%) MUMPS
7 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.47%) Bash
8 1 (0.47%) Groovy
8 1 (0.47%) JCL
8 1 (0.47%) REXX
Qualifications
1 27 (12.62%) Degree
2 18 (8.41%) PMI Certification
2 18 (8.41%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.14%) PMP
5 10 (4.67%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.87%) CCNP
7 4 (1.87%) IIBA
7 4 (1.87%) ISEB
7 4 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.93%) APMG
9 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.93%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.47%) CCIE
10 1 (0.47%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.07%) PMO
2 4 (1.87%) SLA
3 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.93%) QA
4 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (7.48%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.14%) vSphere
3 10 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.27%) Firmware
5 4 (1.87%) Docker
6 3 (1.40%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.93%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (5.61%) Oracle RMAN
2 10 (4.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (3.74%) Ansible
4 6 (2.80%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.87%) NetBackup
5 4 (1.87%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.87%) Puppet
6 3 (1.40%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (1.40%) HP Data Protector
6 3 (1.40%) Kibana
6 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.93%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.93%) Grafana
7 2 (0.93%) Nagios
7 2 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.93%) Terraform
7 2 (0.93%) WSUS
7 2 (0.93%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.47%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 27 (12.62%) SAP
2 26 (12.15%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.68%) Oracle
4 12 (5.61%) VMware
5 11 (5.14%) Cisco
5 11 (5.14%) Commvault
6 7 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.27%) Splunk
7 5 (2.34%) HP
8 4 (1.87%) Brocade
8 4 (1.87%) EMC
8 4 (1.87%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.40%) BMC
9 3 (1.40%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.40%) Google
9 3 (1.40%) Huawei
9 3 (1.40%) Remedy
9 3 (1.40%) Siebel
9 3 (1.40%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.40%) Veritas