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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 101 108
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +52
Contract jobs citing Change Control 43 23 33
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.64% 1.10% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.25% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 12 18
10th Percentile £358 £356 £371
25th Percentile £463 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £511 £445
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% +14.89% +4.71%
75th Percentile £611 £561 £489
90th Percentile £638 £575 £601
England median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £48.04 - -
25th Percentile £51.91 £36.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.98 £37.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.41% - -
75th Percentile £66.68 £38.00 -
90th Percentile £70.92 - -
England median hourly rate £46.47 £37.00 £60.14
% change year-on-year +25.59% -38.48% -7.48%

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 2,293 1,847 2,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.49% 88.42% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 1,070 1,631
10th Percentile £213 £275 £306
25th Percentile £358 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £551 £567 £591
90th Percentile £650 £656 £683
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 99 191
10th Percentile £16.37 £16.05 £12.74
25th Percentile £22.58 £21.98 £17.13
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% -10.00% -6.42%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.63 £75.30 £55.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 29 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Control in the North West over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

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 29 January 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 -3 12 £550 -10.93% 2
Manchester -14 12 £475 +1.33% 7
Cheshire -15 10 £508 +18.57% 8
Cumbria - 5 £400 - 2
Merseyside -9 3 £650 +24.40% 2
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 6 (13.95%) SharePoint
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.63%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.65%) AWS
4 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.65%) Datadog
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) Smartsheet
5 1 (2.33%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) BGP
1 6 (13.95%) Firewall
1 6 (13.95%) Software-Defined Networking
1 6 (13.95%) VLAN
2 4 (9.30%) WebEx
3 3 (6.98%) Network Security
4 1 (2.33%) DWDM
4 1 (2.33%) LAN
4 1 (2.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) CircleCI
2 2 (4.65%) GitLab
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Legal
3 7 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 6 (13.95%) Finance
5 4 (9.30%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Law
6 2 (4.65%) Military
6 2 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.33%) Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Local Government
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Analyst
3 5 (11.63%) Change Manager
3 5 (11.63%) Lead
3 5 (11.63%) Security Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) ITIL Change Manager
4 4 (9.30%) ITIL Manager
4 4 (9.30%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Contracts Manager
5 3 (6.98%) ERP Implementation Manager
5 3 (6.98%) ERP Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Implementation Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) PMO Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) XMPP
2 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Product Ownership
2 9 (20.93%) Onboarding
3 4 (9.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Life Science
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.33%) PMI
5 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.33%) SCADA
5 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.58%) Linux
1 11 (25.58%) Windows
2 10 (23.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (23.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.33%) Android
3 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Change Management
1 15 (34.88%) ITSM
2 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (30.23%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (27.91%) Service Management
4 12 (27.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (23.26%) Agile
5 10 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (23.26%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
6 9 (20.93%) Project Management
7 8 (18.60%) DevOps
7 8 (18.60%) Risk Management
8 7 (16.28%) Incident Response
8 7 (16.28%) Knowledge Management
9 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
9 6 (13.95%) Information Security
9 6 (13.95%) ITIL
9 6 (13.95%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) Bash
1 12 (27.91%) PowerShell
2 9 (20.93%) Python
3 7 (16.28%) Perl
4 1 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
2 17 (39.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (16.28%) CCDP
3 7 (16.28%) CCNA
3 7 (16.28%) CCNP
3 7 (16.28%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (16.28%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.65%) PMP
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) CISM
5 1 (2.33%) CISSP
5 1 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) NIST
2 4 (9.30%) PMO
3 3 (6.98%) QA
3 3 (6.98%) SLA
4 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.33%) NEBOSH
5 1 (2.33%) P3O
5 1 (2.33%) PMBOK
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.98%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Grafana
3 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.65%) Terraform
4 1 (2.33%) AirWatch
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.33%) SCCM
4 1 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Red Hat
2 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
3 7 (16.28%) Citrix
3 7 (16.28%) VMware
4 4 (9.30%) Cisco
4 4 (9.30%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.98%) LabWare
6 1 (2.33%) Planview
6 1 (2.33%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.33%) Samsung