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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 95 124
Rank change year-on-year -7 +29 +39
Contract jobs citing Change Control 35 30 23
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.55% 1.25% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.50% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 19
10th Percentile £319 £377 £363
25th Percentile £387 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £638 £575 £489
90th Percentile £650 £636 £500
England median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £23.92 - -
25th Percentile £25.58 - -
Median hourly rate £37.23 - -
75th Percentile £52.53 - -
90th Percentile £65.26 - -
England median hourly rate £37.23 £40.00 £67.38
% change year-on-year -6.93% -40.64% +3.67%

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 2,015 2,004 2,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.16% 83.60% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,337 1,092 1,741
10th Percentile £251 £300 £274
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £678 £653 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 111 175
10th Percentile £14.13 £19.18 £15.85
25th Percentile £17.30 £27.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +40.00%
75th Percentile £44.61 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £65.18 £71.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +28.57%

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 18 October 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 18 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Control in the North West

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 18 October 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 -11 12 £600 +12.41% 7
Cheshire -13 12 £617 +23.40% 8
Cumbria - 5 £400 - 1
Merseyside - 3 £650 - 1
Lancashire +3 2 £387 -37.33% 11
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 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) JBoss
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) Smartsheet
4 3 (8.57%) AWS
5 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.71%) Datadog
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.86%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) FlexRay
2 1 (2.86%) DWDM
2 1 (2.86%) LAN
2 1 (2.86%) Unified Communications
2 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.71%) CircleCI
3 2 (5.71%) GitLab
3 2 (5.71%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.86%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Automotive
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.71%) German Language
5 2 (5.71%) Law
6 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Local Government
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Military
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Analyst
2 6 (17.14%) Change Manager
2 6 (17.14%) ITIL Change Manager
2 6 (17.14%) ITIL Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Contracts Manager
4 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) ERP Implementation Manager
4 3 (8.57%) ERP Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Implementation Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Senior PMO
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Functional Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) PMO Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.57%) PMI
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Life Science
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Change Management
2 11 (31.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 11 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (28.57%) DevOps
3 10 (28.57%) Project Management
4 9 (25.71%) Agile
4 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
5 8 (22.86%) Incident Response
5 8 (22.86%) ITIL
5 8 (22.86%) Risk Management
6 7 (20.00%) ITSM
6 7 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 7 (20.00%) Release Management
6 7 (20.00%) Service Management
7 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
7 6 (17.14%) Security Operations
8 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (14.29%) Project Governance
8 5 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) Bash
2 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) Java
3 1 (2.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Degree
3 4 (11.43%) PMI Certification
3 4 (11.43%) PMP
4 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.86%) CISM
5 1 (2.86%) CISSP
5 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) NIST
1 6 (17.14%) PMO
2 3 (8.57%) P3O
2 3 (8.57%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Ansible
1 2 (5.71%) Grafana
1 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) AirWatch
2 1 (2.86%) Kibana
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.86%) SCCM
2 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
1 6 (17.14%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.57%) Planview
3 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.86%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) EXASOL
3 1 (2.86%) Rapid7
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.86%) Samsung
3 1 (2.86%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) Splunk