Change Management Contracts in the North West

Change Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 48 37
Rank change year-on-year +20 -11 +15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 117 101 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.95% 3.67% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.59% 4.25% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 68 111
10th Percentile £277 £343 £400
25th Percentile £358 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% -7.59% +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £675
90th Percentile £665 £652 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £47.75 £29.91 £22.58
25th Percentile - £31.73 £23.15
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.18 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% +11.82% +10.14%
75th Percentile - - £39.06
90th Percentile £62.00 £53.03 £54.63
England median hourly rate £57.50 £48.75 £48.40
% change year-on-year +17.95% +0.72% +116.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Change Management 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 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the North West

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the North West

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management 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 Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +17 55 £431 -9.21% 62
Cheshire +20 37 £393 -21.40% 26
Merseyside +9 15 £625 +38.89% 11
Cumbria -8 7 £469 -8.98% 3
Lancashire -1 3 £475 -25.49% 41
Change Management
England

Change Management
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 11 (9.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.42%) Confluence
3 3 (2.56%) JBoss
4 2 (1.71%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.85%) IIS
5 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.85%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.85%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.85%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.40%) Azure
1 11 (9.40%) Entra ID
1 11 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (8.55%) IaaS
3 5 (4.27%) AWS
4 3 (2.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.85%) Asana
5 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.85%) Nutanix
5 1 (0.85%) OCI
5 1 (0.85%) SaaS
5 1 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.26%) Firewall
1 12 (10.26%) Network Security
2 10 (8.55%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (5.13%) SAN
4 5 (4.27%) MPLS
4 5 (4.27%) WAN
5 4 (3.42%) BGP
5 4 (3.42%) DNS
5 4 (3.42%) OSPF
5 4 (3.42%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.56%) DHCP
6 3 (2.56%) EIGRP
6 3 (2.56%) IPv4
7 2 (1.71%) VPN
8 1 (0.85%) Internet
8 1 (0.85%) Intranet
8 1 (0.85%) L2TP
8 1 (0.85%) LAN
8 1 (0.85%) SSL
8 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.55%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.56%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.56%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.56%) Siebel EIM
3 2 (1.71%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (10.26%) JIRA
2 3 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (2.56%) CA Release Automation
2 3 (2.56%) Git
2 3 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.56%) SonarQube
2 3 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (17.09%) Finance
4 18 (15.38%) Telecoms
5 13 (11.11%) Banking
5 13 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 11 (9.40%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.98%) Manufacturing
8 6 (5.13%) Legal
9 5 (4.27%) Automotive
9 5 (4.27%) Military
10 4 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.56%) Marketing
11 3 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.71%) Law
12 2 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.71%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (30.77%) Analyst
2 21 (17.95%) Business Analyst
3 12 (10.26%) Project Manager
4 11 (9.40%) Change Manager
5 10 (8.55%) Lead
6 6 (5.13%) Release Manager
6 6 (5.13%) Storage Engineer
7 5 (4.27%) Implementation Manager
7 5 (4.27%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 5 (4.27%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 4 (3.42%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.42%) Developer
8 4 (3.42%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (2.56%) Help Desk Support
9 3 (2.56%) Help Desk Support Analyst
9 3 (2.56%) Product Manager
9 3 (2.56%) SAP Analyst
9 3 (2.56%) Technical Manager
9 3 (2.56%) Technical Support Analyst
9 3 (2.56%) Telecoms Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (2.56%) JMS
1 3 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (2.56%) SOAP
1 3 (2.56%) Spring Boot
1 3 (2.56%) Web Services
2 1 (0.85%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.85%) LDAP
2 1 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.85%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.71%) CMDB
3 2 (1.71%) NHS
3 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.85%) Blog
4 1 (0.85%) Clustering
4 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.85%) PMI
4 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.82%) Windows
2 11 (9.40%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.98%) Linux
4 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) CentOS
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (32.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 34 (29.06%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (23.93%) ITIL
4 24 (20.51%) Agile
4 24 (20.51%) Project Management
5 17 (14.53%) Migration
5 17 (14.53%) Project Delivery
5 17 (14.53%) Roadmaps
6 16 (13.68%) Business Case
6 16 (13.68%) Waterfall
7 15 (12.82%) PRINCE2
7 15 (12.82%) Service Management
8 14 (11.97%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (11.97%) Problem Management
8 14 (11.97%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (11.97%) Service Delivery
9 13 (11.11%) Line Management
9 13 (11.11%) Process Improvement
10 11 (9.40%) Analytics
10 11 (9.40%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.26%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.27%) Python
2 5 (4.27%) SQL
3 4 (3.42%) Perl
4 3 (2.56%) Java
4 3 (2.56%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.71%) MUMPS
6 1 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (11.97%) SC Cleared
1 14 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.40%) Degree
3 10 (8.55%) Azure Certification
3 10 (8.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.13%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.27%) PMP
6 4 (3.42%) CCNP
6 4 (3.42%) IIBA
6 4 (3.42%) ISEB
7 3 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (1.71%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.85%) APMG
9 1 (0.85%) CCIE
9 1 (0.85%) CCNA
9 1 (0.85%) CIMA
9 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.42%) SLA
2 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.85%) GDPR
2 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.85%) PMO
2 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 15 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.55%) vSphere
3 9 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.98%) Firmware
5 3 (2.56%) Docker
6 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (8.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.42%) NetBackup
3 3 (2.56%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (2.56%) HP Data Protector
3 3 (2.56%) Kibana
3 3 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.56%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.71%) Ansible
4 2 (1.71%) Nagios
4 2 (1.71%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Terraform
5 1 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.40%) Cisco
2 11 (9.40%) Oracle
2 11 (9.40%) VMware
3 10 (8.55%) SAP
4 5 (4.27%) HP
5 4 (3.42%) Brocade
5 4 (3.42%) EMC
5 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.42%) Splunk
6 3 (2.56%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.56%) BMC
6 3 (2.56%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.56%) Huawei
6 3 (2.56%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.56%) Remedy
6 3 (2.56%) Siebel
6 3 (2.56%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.56%) Veritas
7 2 (1.71%) Fortinet