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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 98 105
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +56
Contract jobs citing Change Control 45 25 33
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.79% 1.16% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.34% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 15 21
10th Percentile £333 £352 -
25th Percentile £472 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +1.12%
75th Percentile £613 £566 £489
90th Percentile £638 £606 £575
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +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 £35.39 £60.18
% change year-on-year +5.20% -41.19% -7.42%

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 2,217 1,865 2,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.33% 86.58% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,445 1,047 1,599
10th Percentile £213 £265 £300
25th Percentile £358 £389 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £565 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 106 156
10th Percentile £16.43 £16.00 £15.88
25th Percentile £20.73 £21.10 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.73
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -12.53% +34.66%
75th Percentile £53.13 £51.91 £47.41
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.96 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -14 15 £600 +11.63% 10
Lancashire -1 11 £550 -10.93% 4
Cheshire -10 10 £542 +8.40% 2
Cumbria - 5 £400 - 1
Merseyside - 3 £650 - 3
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 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.89%) Smartsheet
5 3 (6.67%) AWS
6 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.44%) Datadog
6 2 (4.44%) GCP
7 1 (2.22%) Lucidchart
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) BGP
1 6 (13.33%) Firewall
1 6 (13.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 6 (13.33%) VLAN
2 4 (8.89%) WebEx
3 3 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (2.22%) DWDM
4 1 (2.22%) LAN
4 1 (2.22%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (28.89%) JIRA
2 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.44%) CircleCI
3 2 (4.44%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.22%) Git
4 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 6 (13.33%) Legal
5 4 (8.89%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.67%) Banking
6 3 (6.67%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.44%) Law
7 2 (4.44%) Military
8 1 (2.22%) Automotive
8 1 (2.22%) Local Government
8 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (17.78%) Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Change Manager
4 6 (13.33%) ITIL Change Manager
4 6 (13.33%) ITIL Manager
5 5 (11.11%) Security Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Contracts Manager
6 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) ERP Implementation Manager
6 3 (6.67%) ERP Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Implementation Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Senior PMO
6 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Manager
8 1 (2.22%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (2.22%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) XMPP
2 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 8 (17.78%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.67%) PMI
5 1 (2.22%) Life Science
5 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.67%) Linux
1 12 (26.67%) Windows
2 11 (24.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.22%) Android
4 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Change Management
1 17 (37.78%) ITSM
2 16 (35.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (31.11%) Service Management
5 13 (28.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 12 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (22.22%) Agile
7 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (22.22%) DevOps
7 10 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (22.22%) Project Management
8 8 (17.78%) Incident Response
8 8 (17.78%) ITIL
8 8 (17.78%) Risk Management
9 7 (15.56%) Knowledge Management
9 7 (15.56%) Process Improvement
9 7 (15.56%) Release Management
10 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Bash
1 12 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 10 (22.22%) Python
3 8 (17.78%) Perl
4 1 (2.22%) Java
4 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 17 (37.78%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.78%) Degree
4 7 (15.56%) CCDP
4 7 (15.56%) CCNA
4 7 (15.56%) CCNP
4 7 (15.56%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (8.89%) PMI Certification
5 4 (8.89%) PMP
6 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.22%) CISM
6 1 (2.22%) CISSP
6 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) NIST
1 6 (13.33%) PMO
2 3 (6.67%) P3O
2 3 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) PMBOK
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.89%) Docker
3 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Ansible
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) AirWatch
3 1 (2.22%) Kibana
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.22%) SCCM
3 1 (2.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Red Hat
2 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.56%) Citrix
3 7 (15.56%) VMware
4 6 (13.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (8.89%) Cisco
6 3 (6.67%) Planview
7 1 (2.22%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
7 1 (2.22%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.22%) Samsung
7 1 (2.22%) Splunk