Change Control Contracts in the North West

Change Control
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Change Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Control over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 114 133
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing Change Control 11 21 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.53% 0.76% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.90% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 10
10th Percentile £355 £267 £340
25th Percentile £384 £391 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - +13.37%
75th Percentile £611 £566 £536
90th Percentile £688 £650 £559
England median daily rate £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.25% -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.00 - -
Median hourly rate £37.00 - -
75th Percentile £38.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.15 £41.25 £54.00
% change year-on-year +16.73% -23.61% +27.06%

All Process and 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 1,840 2,341 2,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.67% 84.18% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 1,427 1,901
10th Percentile £300 £304 £313
25th Percentile £378 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -1.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £666 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 265 150
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.19 £15.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.88 £30.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% -1.77% +26.72%
75th Percentile £60.75 £46.18 £45.90
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.61 £62.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Change Control in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Control in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Change Control in the North West

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Control in the North West

Change Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Control in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Change Control in the North West

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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 3 July 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
Cheshire -3 7 £488 -7.14% 6
Manchester +7 2 - - 16
Merseyside +3 1 £523 +102.91% 4
Lancashire - 1 £387 - 7
Change Control
England

Change Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (9.09%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (9.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
1 1 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) FlexRay
2 1 (9.09%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
2 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Automotive
3 2 (18.18%) German Language
3 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Military
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Project Planner
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Functional Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Change and Release Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Change Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Project Controller
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Release Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) Software Packaging
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (36.36%) Project Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Release Management
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (18.18%) Critical Path Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 1 (9.09%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (9.09%) Microservices
5 1 (9.09%) Physical Data Model
5 1 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (9.09%) Software Distribution
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Perl
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe
3 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) EXASOL
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk