Change Control Contract Job Trends in Preston

Change Control
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Change Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Change Control 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 8.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £618 -
% change year-on-year -10.93% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.46 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 39 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 89.29% 82.98% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 17 35
10th Percentile £304 £200 £298
25th Percentile £420 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% +35.29% +28.79%
75th Percentile £629 £614 £500
90th Percentile £680 £629 £625
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 44
10th Percentile £26.26 £24.48 £20.58
25th Percentile - £28.23 £21.84
Median hourly rate £41.94 £44.13 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -4.45% +22.17%
75th Percentile £47.12 £63.59 £51.63
90th Percentile £73.44 £67.84 £74.33
Lancashire median hourly rate £63.20 £40.33 £46.18
% change year-on-year +56.73% -12.68% +22.19%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Change Control relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston.

Change Control job vacancy trend in Preston

Change Control
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Change Control.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Change Control

Change Control
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Change Control.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Change Control

Change Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) BGP
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) Software-Defined Networking
1 4 (57.14%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) ITSM
2 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (71.43%) Service Management
4 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 4 (57.14%) Knowledge Management
5 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Digital Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (28.57%) Product Requirements
5 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) Perl
2 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) CCDP
3 4 (57.14%) CCNA
3 4 (57.14%) CCNP
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (42.86%) Degree
5 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (14.29%) CISM
5 1 (14.29%) CISSP
5 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft