Change Advisory Board Contract Job Trends in the North West

Change-Advisory Board (CAB)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Change Advisory Board skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Change Advisory Board 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.097% - 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £451 - £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 - £540
Median % change year-on-year - - +145.45%
75th Percentile £498 - £580
90th Percentile £525 - £630
England median daily rate £451 £488 £485
% change year-on-year -7.49% +0.52% +21.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Change Advisory Board 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,634 1,793 2,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.86% 90.69% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,654 1,149 1,591
10th Percentile £227 £275 £313
25th Percentile £371 £390 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £572 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 114 258
10th Percentile £19.18 £16.61 £10.99
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.78 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year +43.68% +32.63% -36.22%
75th Percentile £71.13 £59.98 £45.00
90th Percentile £82.18 £80.04 £52.17
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -1.52% -12.00%

Change Advisory Board
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Change Advisory Board job vacancy trend in the North West

Change Advisory Board
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Change Advisory Board.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Change Advisory Board

Change Advisory Board
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Change Advisory Board.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Change Advisory Board

Change Advisory Board
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Advisory Board within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 March 2026. 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
Manchester - 3 £452 - 1
Change Advisory Board
England

Change Advisory Board
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Manager
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) VCAP
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (33.33%) vMotion
1 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware