Change Control Contract Job Trends in the North West

Change Control
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Change Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 102 105
Rank change year-on-year -45 +3 +23
Contract jobs citing Change Control 28 31 22
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.71% 1.39% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.56% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 16
10th Percentile £363 £376 £241
25th Percentile £400 £448 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £494 £638 £542
90th Percentile £538 £654 £650
England median daily rate £510 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -6.42% +9.00% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £29.00 -
England median hourly rate £80.25 £46.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year +73.33% +15.75% -25.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,241 1,981 2,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.62% 88.75% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,899 1,285 1,234
10th Percentile £290 £299 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £680 £671 £679
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 132 157
10th Percentile £16.21 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.58% -25.50% +9.80%
75th Percentile £72.28 £53.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Change Control job vacancy trend in the North West

Change Control
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Control in the North West over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Change Control in the North West

Change Control
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Change Control
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 Control within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
Cheshire -2 10 £441 -29.40% 6
Manchester -36 10 £425 -29.17% 12
Merseyside -14 4 £400 -38.46% 2
Cumbria -19 3 £420 +5.00% 1
Lancashire -7 2 £619 +59.88% 10
Change Control
England

Change Control
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) LAN
2 2 (7.14%) Network Security
2 2 (7.14%) tcpdump
2 2 (7.14%) VPN
2 2 (7.14%) WAN
2 2 (7.14%) Wireshark
3 1 (3.57%) BGP
3 1 (3.57%) DHCP
3 1 (3.57%) OSPF
3 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.57%) VLAN
3 1 (3.57%) VoIP
3 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.71%) Power BI
3 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) Claude Code
4 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Legal
4 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Project Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Developer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Services Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Migration Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Service Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) JSON
1 6 (21.43%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Data Structures
2 5 (17.86%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.57%) FMCG
5 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (3.57%) PMI
5 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.14%) Apple iOS
3 2 (7.14%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Agile
1 10 (35.71%) Project Management
2 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.00%) AI
3 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (21.43%) DevOps
4 6 (21.43%) Project Delivery
5 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (17.86%) Database Security
5 5 (17.86%) Migration
5 5 (17.86%) PRINCE2
6 4 (14.29%) Analytics
6 4 (14.29%) SDLC
7 3 (10.71%) Budget Management
7 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (10.71%) CRM
7 3 (10.71%) Data Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
7 3 (10.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (10.71%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.00%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) C#
4 4 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) CCNP
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.71%) CISSP
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 2 (7.14%) PMP
4 1 (3.57%) CCNA
4 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) JNCIA
4 1 (3.57%) JNCIS
4 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Firmware
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) McAfee ePO
2 3 (10.71%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) BeyondTrust
2 3 (10.71%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (10.71%) McAfee
2 3 (10.71%) Remedy
2 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
2 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco
3 2 (7.14%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.57%) AlgoSec
4 1 (3.57%) Aruba
4 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) EXASOL
4 1 (3.57%) Juniper
4 1 (3.57%) Meraki
4 1 (3.57%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Zscaler