Change Management Contracts in the North West

Change Management
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Change Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 40 54
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 94 157 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.48% 4.95% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 5.46% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 102 115
10th Percentile £350 £401 £244
25th Percentile £441 £438 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +10.53% +3.26%
75th Percentile £598 £675 £578
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £29.91 £22.58 £13.25
25th Percentile £31.73 £23.15 £21.13
Median hourly rate £37.18 £33.25 £30.19
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +10.14% -24.53%
75th Percentile - £39.06 £36.18
90th Percentile £53.03 £54.63 £37.29
England median hourly rate £50.00 £48.70 £22.28
% change year-on-year +2.67% +118.57% -7.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Change Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,328 2,877 3,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.25% 90.70% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 2,043 2,606
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 162
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £36.65 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -39.67% +82.66% +10.08%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.44
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.98 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

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 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the North West

Change Management
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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the North West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 -9 44 £500 -0.99% 37
Cheshire -2 16 £500 +11.11% 20
Cumbria -13 16 £515 +7.57% 13
Merseyside -3 10 £450 -10.00% 9
Lancashire -3 6 £638 -8.93% 11
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 7 (7.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.19%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.06%) IIS
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.06%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) SAP SD
2 3 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.06%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.06%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.06%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.83%) Azure
2 10 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (7.45%) Azure Stack
3 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.26%) AWS
5 4 (4.26%) GCP
6 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.06%) OCI
7 1 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.09%) BGP
1 17 (18.09%) OSPF
2 15 (15.96%) Firewall
3 14 (14.89%) IPsec
4 13 (13.83%) Cisco ASA
4 13 (13.83%) Cisco Firepower
4 13 (13.83%) Cisco ISE
4 13 (13.83%) EIGRP
4 13 (13.83%) HSRP
4 13 (13.83%) NetScaler
4 13 (13.83%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (12.77%) SNMP
5 12 (12.77%) Spanning Tree
6 6 (6.38%) TCP/IP
7 5 (5.32%) VPN
8 4 (4.26%) MPLS
8 4 (4.26%) Value-Added Service
8 4 (4.26%) VLAN
8 4 (4.26%) Wireshark
9 3 (3.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (6.38%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (3.19%) Power BI
2 3 (3.19%) Tableau
3 1 (1.06%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 27 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.28%) Public Sector
3 17 (18.09%) Finance
4 12 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (11.70%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.19%) Banking
8 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.19%) Legal
8 3 (3.19%) Local Government
8 3 (3.19%) Police
8 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.13%) Billing
9 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.06%) German Language
10 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Publishing
10 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (19.15%) Network Engineer
2 15 (15.96%) Analyst
3 12 (12.77%) Senior
4 9 (9.57%) Architect
4 9 (9.57%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.38%) Change Manager
6 6 (6.38%) Data Architect
6 6 (6.38%) Lead
6 6 (6.38%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.32%) Change Analyst
7 5 (5.32%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Trainer
8 4 (4.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.19%) Business Manager
9 3 (3.19%) Consultant
9 3 (3.19%) IT Manager
10 2 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.77%) Jinja
2 6 (6.38%) JSON
2 6 (6.38%) REST
2 6 (6.38%) XML
3 1 (1.06%) .NET
3 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.06%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.45%) Reference Data
3 6 (6.38%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.32%) Industry 4.0
4 5 (5.32%) IoT
4 5 (5.32%) Robotics
5 4 (4.26%) CMDB
6 3 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.19%) NHS
7 2 (2.13%) Cyberattack
7 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.06%) Insider Threat
8 1 (1.06%) IVR
8 1 (1.06%) Life Science
8 1 (1.06%) PMI
8 1 (1.06%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Windows
2 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.06%) Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.06%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.79%) ITIL
2 20 (21.28%) ITSM
3 19 (20.21%) Agile
4 14 (14.89%) Network Management
4 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (13.83%) DevOps
5 13 (13.83%) Project Management
6 12 (12.77%) Project Delivery
7 11 (11.70%) Business Analysis
7 11 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.64%) Business Case
8 10 (10.64%) Roadmaps
9 9 (9.57%) Analytics
9 9 (9.57%) Service Management
9 9 (9.57%) Value Proposition
10 8 (8.51%) Data Modelling
10 8 (8.51%) Data Protection
10 8 (8.51%) Migration
10 8 (8.51%) PRINCE2
10 8 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.83%) Python
2 12 (12.77%) Perl
2 12 (12.77%) Tcl
3 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (19.15%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (18.09%) CCNP
3 15 (15.96%) Degree
3 15 (15.96%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.96%) Security Cleared
4 14 (14.89%) CCNA
5 4 (4.26%) CCIE
5 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.26%) VCAP
6 3 (3.19%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.13%) APMG
7 2 (2.13%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.13%) PMP
7 2 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.06%) CCSE
8 1 (1.06%) CISSP
8 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.06%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) GDPR
2 3 (3.19%) PMO
3 1 (1.06%) GxP
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (13.83%) Firmware
2 5 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (12.77%) Ansible
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.06%) Nagios
2 1 (1.06%) SCCM
2 1 (1.06%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
1 18 (19.15%) SolarWinds
2 14 (14.89%) Cisco
3 13 (13.83%) Citrix
3 13 (13.83%) Palo Alto
4 11 (11.70%) SAP
5 5 (5.32%) Pega
6 4 (4.26%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.13%) Oracle
9 1 (1.06%) Avaya
9 1 (1.06%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.06%) Proofpoint
9 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.06%) Symantec
9 1 (1.06%) Verint
9 1 (1.06%) VMware
9 1 (1.06%) Zscaler