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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 105 101
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +52
Contract jobs citing Change Control 30 20 33
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.08% 0.97% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.09% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 10 17
10th Percentile £360 £355 £370
25th Percentile £458 £366 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £461 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £489
90th Percentile - £580 £610
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% - -
England median hourly rate £81.50 £40.00 £58.66
% change year-on-year +103.75% -31.81% -9.75%

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 2,397 1,830 2,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.63% 89.05% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,542 1,093 1,616
10th Percentile £213 £268 £306
25th Percentile £358 £380 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 104 226
10th Percentile £16.47 £18.04 £12.62
25th Percentile £22.85 £23.36 £16.02
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year +42.23% +18.68% -28.91%
75th Percentile £63.40 £56.51 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.00 £79.66 £54.38
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 22 February 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 22 February 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
Lancashire -6 12 £550 -10.93% 4
Cheshire -13 10 £457 +28.37% 5
Manchester -25 7 £470 +17.50% 12
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 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.67%) Datadog
4 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) BGP
1 6 (20.00%) Firewall
1 6 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 6 (20.00%) VLAN
2 4 (13.33%) WebEx
3 3 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) DWDM
4 1 (3.33%) LAN
4 1 (3.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) CircleCI
2 2 (6.67%) GitLab
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Legal
4 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.33%) Military
7 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Change Manager
4 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Coordinator
5 1 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.33%) ITIL Change Manager
5 1 (3.33%) ITIL Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (3.33%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Systems Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) XMPP
2 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Linux
1 10 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 10 (33.33%) Windows
1 10 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (36.67%) ITSM
3 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (30.00%) Service Management
5 8 (26.67%) Agile
5 8 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (23.33%) Change Management
6 7 (23.33%) Knowledge Management
6 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (20.00%) Project Management
8 5 (16.67%) DevOps
8 5 (16.67%) High Availability
8 5 (16.67%) Process Improvement
9 4 (13.33%) Mobile Device Management
9 4 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (13.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) Bash
1 12 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (30.00%) Python
3 7 (23.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) CCDP
3 7 (23.33%) CCNA
3 7 (23.33%) CCNP
3 7 (23.33%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (20.00%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.33%) CISM
5 1 (3.33%) CISSP
5 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.67%) NIST
1 2 (6.67%) PMO
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Grafana
3 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 7 (23.33%) Citrix
2 7 (23.33%) VMware
3 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.33%) Cisco
5 3 (10.00%) LabWare
6 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow