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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 91 118
Rank change year-on-year -13 +27 +39
Contract jobs citing Change Control 31 29 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.41% 1.22% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.47% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 16
10th Percentile £381 £246 £360
25th Percentile £469 £391 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £638 £552 £489
90th Percentile £650 £650 £519
England median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £23.55 - -
25th Percentile £24.66 - -
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
75th Percentile £52.63 - -
90th Percentile £65.30 - -
England median hourly rate £26.81 £41.25 £60.11
% change year-on-year -35.01% -31.37% +13.47%

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 1,947 1,976 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.82% 83.38% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 1,148 1,662
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £677 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 107 163
10th Percentile £13.51 £16.40 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.34 £27.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +57.30%
75th Percentile £51.63 £57.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.45 £70.90 £66.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

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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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 17 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 September 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
Manchester -9 11 £600 +16.50% 9
Cheshire -21 11 £625 +25.00% 2
Cumbria +8 5 £400 +70.21% 1
Merseyside +4 3 £650 +152.43% 2
Lancashire -1 1 £387 -37.33% 9
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 (3.23%) JBoss
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.90%) Smartsheet
4 1 (3.23%) AWS
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) Lucidchart
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) FlexRay
2 1 (3.23%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Automotive
3 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) German Language
5 2 (6.45%) Law
6 1 (3.23%) Legal
6 1 (3.23%) Local Government
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Military
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Analyst
1 6 (19.35%) Change Manager
1 6 (19.35%) ITIL Change Manager
1 6 (19.35%) ITIL Manager
2 5 (16.13%) Security Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Contracts Manager
4 3 (9.68%) ERP Implementation Manager
4 3 (9.68%) ERP Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Implementation Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Project Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Senior PMO
5 2 (6.45%) Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Functional Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Project Planner
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.23%) Software Packaging
1 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.68%) PMI
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Life Science
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Change Management
2 11 (35.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (32.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (25.81%) Project Management
4 8 (25.81%) Release Management
4 8 (25.81%) Risk Management
5 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 7 (22.58%) DevOps
5 7 (22.58%) ITIL
5 7 (22.58%) ITSM
6 6 (19.35%) Agile
6 6 (19.35%) Incident Response
6 6 (19.35%) Process Improvement
6 6 (19.35%) Roadmaps
6 6 (19.35%) Service Management
7 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (16.13%) Information Security
7 5 (16.13%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (16.13%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) SQL
2 1 (3.23%) Java
2 1 (3.23%) Perl
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) PMI Certification
3 4 (12.90%) PMP
4 3 (9.68%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) NIST
2 4 (12.90%) PMO
3 3 (9.68%) P3O
3 3 (9.68%) SLA
4 1 (3.23%) PMBOK
4 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) SCCM
2 1 (3.23%) AirWatch
2 1 (3.23%) Kibana
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.68%) Planview
4 1 (3.23%) Adobe
4 1 (3.23%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.23%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) EXASOL
4 1 (3.23%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) Samsung
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk