Change Control Contract Job Trends in Reading

Change Control
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Change Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 69 68
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Change Control 9 10 30
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.09% 1.28% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.36% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 23
10th Percentile £378 - £385
25th Percentile - £575 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £510
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +17.65% -0.49%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £544
90th Percentile - £645 £588
Berkshire median daily rate £400 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.89
Median hourly rate - - £60.14
75th Percentile - - £60.39
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £33.74 - £62.02
% change year-on-year - - -23.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 725 733 1,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.67% 93.61% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 400 639
10th Percentile £313 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +3.81% -0.94%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £618
90th Percentile £670 £663 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.40% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 5 34
10th Percentile £30.10 £27.35 £20.17
25th Percentile £58.00 £29.00 £53.80
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.76 £61.62
Median % change year-on-year +31.96% +0.22% -5.20%
75th Percentile £98.13 £64.73 £66.94
90th Percentile £107.00 £72.20 £86.97
Berkshire median hourly rate £62.25 £61.50 £60.07
% change year-on-year +1.23% +2.37% -1.17%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Change Control job vacancy trend in Reading

Change Control
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Control in Reading over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Change Control in Reading

Change Control
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Change Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (11.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) BGP
1 1 (11.11%) BIG-IP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) OSPF
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
1 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
4 1 (11.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Project Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) PMO Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) E-Business Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior PMO
3 2 (22.22%) Senior PMO Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Project Management
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 3 (33.33%) Project Governance
2 3 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (22.22%) Contingency Planning
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Inventory Management
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Identification
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Resource Levelling
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Remedy
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) F5
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki