Change Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Change Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 45 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 789 1,122 1,359
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.82% 4.65% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 5.20% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 754 966
10th Percentile £312 £289 £269
25th Percentile £406 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +8.95% +10.14%
75th Percentile £580 £625 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £640
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 40 51
10th Percentile £14.26 £20.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.73 £31.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.12 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +135.59% -5.55%
75th Percentile £61.60 £67.81 £32.50
90th Percentile £66.00 £87.97 £40.14
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £48.13 £22.45
% change year-on-year -0.27% +114.39% +0.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,509 21,592 27,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,972 19,224
10th Percentile £248 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,026 1,320 1,373
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.60 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
North of England -6 212 £514 -6.55% 112
South East -25 163 £486 -7.38% 89
South West +20 142 £550 +2.33% 55
Yorkshire -6 106 £517 -6.00% 34
Midlands -2 105 £500 -4.76% 71
North West -12 101 £508 -7.59% 69
Scotland +26 92 £450 -4.00% 44
West Midlands -3 73 £513 -2.38% 44
East of England +1 61 £350 -29.93% 44
East Midlands +22 28 £463 -11.90% 26
Wales +5 19 £530 +6.00% 6
North East +7 12 £600 -7.69% 11
Northern Ireland +6 4 £435 +16.00% 9
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 44 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.03%) Confluence
2 16 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.65%) Apache
3 13 (1.65%) IIS
3 13 (1.65%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 49 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.25%) FileZilla
6 2 (0.25%) Windchill
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.89%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.63%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.38%) iTrent
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
4 3 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Primavera
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.13%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 82 (10.39%) Azure
2 66 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (4.18%) AWS
4 18 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (2.15%) SaaS
6 15 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 13 (1.65%) Yammer
8 11 (1.39%) Entra ID
8 11 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
9 10 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (1.27%) Azure Functions
9 10 (1.27%) Serverless
10 9 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (0.89%) Azure Stack
11 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (0.89%) OneDrive
11 7 (0.89%) OpenShift
12 6 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (7.60%) Firewall
2 26 (3.30%) DNS
3 25 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 22 (2.79%) NetScaler
4 22 (2.79%) Network Security
4 22 (2.79%) VLAN
4 22 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (2.53%) BGP
5 20 (2.53%) WAN
6 18 (2.28%) Cisco ASA
6 18 (2.28%) OSPF
7 17 (2.15%) DHCP
7 17 (2.15%) VPN
8 16 (2.03%) Cisco ISE
8 16 (2.03%) IPsec
9 15 (1.90%) SAN
9 15 (1.90%) SNMP
10 14 (1.77%) EIGRP
10 14 (1.77%) LAN
11 13 (1.65%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (1.27%) NoSQL
2 9 (1.14%) Power BI
3 8 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (0.63%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.51%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.38%) Tableau
8 2 (0.25%) Big Data
8 2 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.25%) QlikView
9 1 (0.13%) DB2
9 1 (0.13%) GIS
9 1 (0.13%) HBase
9 1 (0.13%) MS Access
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (3.93%) JIRA
2 13 (1.65%) Git
3 5 (0.63%) Bitbucket
3 5 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.38%) Selenium
5 2 (0.25%) JMeter
5 2 (0.25%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.13%) Gradle
6 1 (0.13%) Maven
6 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 257 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 201 (25.48%) Finance
3 115 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (13.05%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.22%) Banking
6 56 (7.10%) Manufacturing
7 55 (6.97%) Telecoms
8 37 (4.69%) Legal
9 31 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (3.68%) Marketing
11 28 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (2.41%) Electronics
14 17 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (2.15%) Retail
15 16 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (1.90%) Publishing
17 12 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (1.27%) Local Government
19 8 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 121 (15.34%) Analyst
2 107 (13.56%) Project Manager
3 71 (9.00%) Change Manager
4 62 (7.86%) Senior
5 56 (7.10%) Lead
6 53 (6.72%) Business Analyst
7 43 (5.45%) IT Manager
8 33 (4.18%) Developer
9 32 (4.06%) Consultant
10 31 (3.93%) Architect
10 31 (3.93%) Network Engineer
11 30 (3.80%) Change Analyst
12 27 (3.42%) Business Manager
13 23 (2.92%) Administrator
13 23 (2.92%) Service Manager
14 22 (2.79%) Full Stack Developer
15 21 (2.66%) Business Change Manager
15 21 (2.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (2.15%) Delivery Manager
16 17 (2.15%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.79%) React
2 18 (2.28%) AngularJS
3 15 (1.90%) Kafka
4 13 (1.65%) Spring
5 12 (1.52%) Jinja
6 10 (1.27%) REST
7 8 (1.01%) XML
8 7 (0.89%) HTML
8 7 (0.89%) JSON
9 6 (0.76%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (0.76%) CSS
9 6 (0.76%) Itk
10 5 (0.63%) .NET
10 5 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.51%) SAP Basis
12 3 (0.38%) LDAP
12 3 (0.38%) Lightning Web Components
12 3 (0.38%) Visualforce
13 2 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
13 2 (0.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 35 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.04%) Replication
4 23 (2.92%) PKI
5 15 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 14 (1.77%) NHS
7 12 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.52%) IVR
7 12 (1.52%) LIMS
8 11 (1.39%) CMDB
9 10 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.01%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.89%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.89%) IoT
11 7 (0.89%) Life Science
11 7 (0.89%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 117 (14.83%) Windows
2 72 (9.13%) Linux
3 47 (5.96%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.28%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.52%) Unix
6 10 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.01%) Solaris
8 7 (0.89%) MVS
8 7 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.25%) VMS
9 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (27.38%) Project Management
2 170 (21.55%) Agile
3 148 (18.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 143 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
5 138 (17.49%) ITIL
6 87 (11.03%) PRINCE2
7 86 (10.90%) Service Management
8 83 (10.52%) DevOps
9 81 (10.27%) Project Delivery
10 76 (9.63%) ITSM
10 76 (9.63%) Programme Management
11 72 (9.13%) Risk Management
12 61 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (7.48%) Decision-Making
14 58 (7.35%) Business Analysis
15 56 (7.10%) Roadmaps
16 52 (6.59%) Problem Management
16 52 (6.59%) Service Delivery
17 50 (6.34%) Migration
18 44 (5.58%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 49 (6.21%) Python
2 29 (3.68%) PowerShell
3 21 (2.66%) C
3 21 (2.66%) SQL
4 16 (2.03%) Java
5 15 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.77%) Perl
7 12 (1.52%) Tcl
8 8 (1.01%) Swift
9 6 (0.76%) C++
10 5 (0.63%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.51%) C#
12 3 (0.38%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.25%) AWK
13 2 (0.25%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.25%) Groovy
13 2 (0.25%) Korn
13 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 168 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 92 (11.66%) SC Cleared
3 88 (11.15%) Degree
4 54 (6.84%) DV Cleared
5 30 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (3.04%) CCNA
7 22 (2.79%) CCNP
8 17 (2.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 13 (1.65%) PMP
10 11 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.39%) PMI Certification
11 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 9 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (0.63%) APMG
15 5 (0.63%) ISEB
15 5 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.73%) PMO
2 47 (5.96%) QA
3 18 (2.28%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.90%) SLA
5 12 (1.52%) GDPR
6 5 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.38%) COBIT
8 3 (0.38%) GRC
8 3 (0.38%) ISO 9000
8 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.38%) NIST
9 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.13%) Basel III
10 1 (0.13%) COREP
10 1 (0.13%) FINREP
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS
10 1 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 47 (5.96%) Active Directory
2 26 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.28%) XenApp
4 17 (2.15%) Firmware
5 12 (1.52%) XenDesktop
6 11 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (1.01%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 6 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.63%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.51%) vSphere
11 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
13 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.13%) Docker
13 1 (0.13%) HDFS
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 43 (5.45%) Ansible
2 18 (2.28%) NetBackup
3 16 (2.03%) Puppet
4 14 (1.77%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.14%) SCCM
5 9 (1.14%) SCOM
6 6 (0.76%) Argo
6 6 (0.76%) Grafana
6 6 (0.76%) Istio
6 6 (0.76%) Kibana
6 6 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (0.76%) Terraform
6 6 (0.76%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.51%) Nagios
7 4 (0.51%) Rancher
7 4 (0.51%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 143 (18.12%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.63%) SAP
3 39 (4.94%) VMware
4 38 (4.82%) Cisco
5 33 (4.18%) ServiceNow
6 32 (4.06%) Citrix
7 22 (2.79%) SolarWinds
8 21 (2.66%) Oracle
9 20 (2.53%) Red Hat
10 19 (2.41%) Palo Alto
11 17 (2.15%) Veritas
12 14 (1.77%) Avaya
13 12 (1.52%) IBM
13 12 (1.52%) Juniper
14 11 (1.39%) CheckPoint
14 11 (1.39%) InterSystems
14 11 (1.39%) NetApp
15 9 (1.14%) Verint
16 8 (1.01%) Okta
17 7 (0.89%) BT