Change Management Contracts in the South West

Change Management
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 61 57
Rank change year-on-year +23 -4 -5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 140 134 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.39% 3.71% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.28% 4.14% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 97 105
10th Percentile £400 £370 £315
25th Percentile £463 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +19.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £556
90th Percentile £694 £743 £613
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 2
10th Percentile - £54.50 £36.63
25th Percentile £31.60 £72.50 £38.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £85.00 £43.89
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +93.68% +68.80%
75th Percentile £60.00 £93.33 £49.41
90th Percentile £61.25 £101.70 £51.26
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
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,234 3,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.16% 89.63% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 2,378 2,346
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 332 195
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £16.05 £20.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.10 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -9.98% +25.36% +12.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.39 £69.93
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the South West

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the South West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Bristol +23 56 £500 -6.98% 19
Wiltshire -2 32 £575 -0.43% 13
Gloucestershire +6 17 £675 +25.58% 8
Somerset +5 12 £590 -9.23% 11
Devon -8 8 £465 -2.11% 6
Cornwall -1 6 - - 2
Dorset - 2 £300 - 6
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 8 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.14%) Confluence
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.71%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.86%) Azure
2 8 (5.71%) AWS
2 8 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.86%) Azure Stack
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.29%) Network Security
2 11 (7.86%) Firewall
3 7 (5.00%) LAN
3 7 (5.00%) WAN
4 6 (4.29%) FTP
4 6 (4.29%) SAN
5 5 (3.57%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (2.86%) DHCP
6 4 (2.86%) DNS
7 3 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.43%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.43%) Skype
8 2 (1.43%) SMTP
8 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.71%) 4G
9 1 (0.71%) 5G
9 1 (0.71%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (4.29%) JIRA
General
1 39 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.43%) Finance
3 29 (20.71%) Public Sector
4 17 (12.14%) Telecoms
5 16 (11.43%) Manufacturing
6 15 (10.71%) Electronics
6 15 (10.71%) Marketing
7 7 (5.00%) Legal
8 5 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.86%) Banking
9 4 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.86%) Law
9 4 (2.86%) Retail
10 3 (2.14%) Local Government
10 3 (2.14%) Military
10 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.43%) Advertising
11 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 29 (20.71%) Project Manager
2 13 (9.29%) Developer
2 13 (9.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 11 (7.86%) Change Manager
3 11 (7.86%) Senior
4 10 (7.14%) Platform Manager
5 9 (6.43%) Change and Release Manager
5 9 (6.43%) IT Manager
5 9 (6.43%) ITIL Change Manager
5 9 (6.43%) ITIL Manager
5 9 (6.43%) ITIL Release Manager
5 9 (6.43%) Release Manager
6 8 (5.71%) Architect
7 7 (5.00%) Analyst
7 7 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
7 7 (5.00%) Service Manager
8 6 (4.29%) Network Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) Senior Manager
8 6 (4.29%) Service Transition Manager
8 6 (4.29%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) AngularJS
1 13 (9.29%) React
1 13 (9.29%) Spring
2 4 (2.86%) JSON
2 4 (2.86%) REST
2 4 (2.86%) XML
3 2 (1.43%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.43%) PKI
2 15 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.29%) Replication
4 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.86%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.86%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.14%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.43%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.71%) CMDB
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.71%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.71%) PMI
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.00%) Windows
2 11 (7.86%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.43%) Linux
4 4 (2.86%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.71%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (43.57%) Project Management
2 44 (31.43%) Agile
3 38 (27.14%) Programme Management
4 31 (22.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (20.71%) ITIL
6 26 (18.57%) PRINCE2
7 24 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (16.43%) Decision-Making
9 22 (15.71%) Security Patching
10 21 (15.00%) Risk Management
11 15 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (10.71%) Digital Marketing
11 15 (10.71%) Project Delivery
11 15 (10.71%) Project Planning
12 14 (10.00%) DevOps
13 13 (9.29%) Earned Value Management
13 13 (9.29%) OOP
13 13 (9.29%) Secure Coding
13 13 (9.29%) Software Architecture
13 13 (9.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.29%) C
1 13 (9.29%) Java
1 13 (9.29%) Python
2 8 (5.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (2.86%) Search Processing Language
4 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.43%) C#
5 2 (1.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (58.57%) Security Cleared
2 44 (31.43%) SC Cleared
3 33 (23.57%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.71%) Degree
5 8 (5.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.43%) ISEB
7 2 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.71%) APMG
8 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.57%) PMO
2 15 (10.71%) QA
3 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.86%) SLA
4 2 (1.43%) COBIT
4 2 (1.43%) GDPR
4 2 (1.43%) NIST
5 1 (0.71%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.29%) VMware NSX
3 5 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.71%) XenApp
6 1 (0.71%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (4.29%) vCenter Server
2 3 (2.14%) SCCM
3 2 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.43%) OPNET
3 2 (1.43%) SCOM
4 1 (0.71%) Check_MK
4 1 (0.71%) Puppet
4 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (17.14%) SAP
2 20 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.14%) VMware
4 7 (5.00%) Cisco
5 6 (4.29%) CheckPoint
5 6 (4.29%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.29%) Veeam
6 5 (3.57%) Splunk
7 3 (2.14%) Remedy
8 2 (1.43%) Dell
8 2 (1.43%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.71%) ArcSight
9 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.71%) Citrix
9 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.71%) Ivanti
9 1 (0.71%) Juniper
9 1 (0.71%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow