Change Advisory Board Contract Job Trends

Change-Advisory Board (CAB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Change Advisory Board skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 528 615
Rank change year-on-year +8 +87 +174
Contract jobs citing Change Advisory Board 20 34 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.089% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.10% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 24
10th Percentile £224 £252 £315
25th Percentile £434 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -5.30% +10.29%
75th Percentile £688 £603 £575
90th Percentile - £659 £647
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £384 £475
% change year-on-year +62.87% -19.21% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £25.06
25th Percentile - - £29.52
Median hourly rate - - £33.72
75th Percentile - - £36.51
90th Percentile - - £37.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £28.81
% change year-on-year - - +121.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Change Advisory Board 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,384 32,587 44,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.48% 85.74% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,234 19,934 30,109
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,808 1,420 1,570
10th Percentile £14.24 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.76
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.09% -0.72% +48.79%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £74.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +81.70%

Change Advisory Board
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Change Advisory Board as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Change Advisory Board in the UK

Change Advisory Board
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Change Advisory Board.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Change Advisory Board

Change Advisory Board
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Advisory Board over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Advisory Board in the UK

Change Advisory Board
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Change Advisory Board.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Change Advisory Board

Change Advisory Board
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Advisory Board within the UK over the 6 months to 22 September 2025. 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
England +16 13 £575 +15.00% 24
UK excluding London -14 9 £625 +62.87% 23
Work from Home +15 7 £500 +34.68% 11
London +7 5 £500 -17.70% 5
South East +20 2 £625 +141.55% 8
Scotland -3 2 £188 -45.45% 4
North of England -24 2 £675 - 7
Wales - 2 £625 -
South West - 1 £330 - 1

Change Advisory Board
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
1 3 (15.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) MQTT
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Local Government
4 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.00%) Dutch Language
5 1 (5.00%) French Language
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) SAP Manager
2 3 (15.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (15.00%) IT Services Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Service Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Services Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Platform Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Change Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SCCM Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Change Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SharePoint Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (15.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Life Science
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
1 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Change Management
1 9 (45.00%) ITIL
2 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (30.00%) Service Management
3 5 (25.00%) Change Control
3 5 (25.00%) ITSM
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 3 (15.00%) BPR
5 3 (15.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Validation
6 2 (10.00%) Budget Management
6 2 (10.00%) Service Continuity Management
6 2 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) ITGC
1 3 (15.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 3 (15.00%) Ariba
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Avaya
4 1 (5.00%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow