Change Control Contract Job Trends

Change Control
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Change Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 297 252
Rank change year-on-year +50 -45 +54
Contract jobs citing Change Control 395 290 433
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 0.84% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.95% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 192 295
10th Percentile £313 £333 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% - -
75th Percentile £619 £600 £644
90th Percentile £725 £675 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £510 £515
% change year-on-year -6.86% -0.97% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 24
10th Percentile £19.65 - £30.14
25th Percentile £22.81 £23.59 £43.10
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.78 £60.18
Median % change year-on-year +47.69% -48.85% -7.42%
75th Percentile £73.75 £40.00 £74.45
90th Percentile £93.75 - £78.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £40.00 £67.38
% change year-on-year +13.65% -40.64% +3.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,261 30,399 39,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.54% 87.91% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,301 18,546 26,335
10th Percentile £300 £306 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,097 1,021 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.53 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +37.98%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Change Control job vacancy trend in the UK

Change Control
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Control over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Control in the UK

Change Control
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Change Control
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Control over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Control in the UK

Change Control
Top 17 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 Control within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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 +32 352 £550 +4.76% 166
UK excluding London -14 221 £475 -6.86% 135
London +62 150 £600 +14.29% 62
Work from Home +48 129 £540 +2.86% 83
South East +11 61 £458 -20.43% 54
North of England -16 58 £550 +10.00% 29
North West -1 46 £550 +7.32% 17
South West +9 34 £425 -27.97% 11
Midlands -38 34 £550 +10.00% 25
West Midlands -39 26 £550 +4.76% 17
Scotland +1 18 £450 - 9
Yorkshire -44 10 £474 -5.20% 9
East Midlands -16 8 £650 +57.00% 8
Wales +2 7 £393 -31.98% 2
East of England -31 7 £475 +72.73% 8
North East -6 5 £550 -10.93% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £475 - 1

Change Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 27 (6.84%) Confluence
2 22 (5.57%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.52%) MQSeries
5 3 (0.76%) CICS
5 3 (0.76%) CMS
5 3 (0.76%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.76%) IIS
5 3 (0.76%) Smallworld
6 2 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
Applications
1 34 (8.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (5.57%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (5.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (4.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.77%) Primavera
3 6 (1.52%) Endur
4 4 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.51%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.25%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.25%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (15.95%) Azure
2 30 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (6.08%) Power Platform
4 23 (5.82%) SaaS
5 16 (4.05%) AWS
6 14 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (3.54%) OCI
7 11 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 11 (2.78%) Lucidchart
8 9 (2.28%) GitHub
8 9 (2.28%) PaaS
9 8 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (1.77%) GCP
10 7 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.52%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.52%) Smartsheet
12 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.01%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.89%) Firewall
2 13 (3.29%) BGP
3 12 (3.04%) VPN
4 11 (2.78%) DNS
4 11 (2.78%) VLAN
5 10 (2.53%) LAN
6 9 (2.28%) WAN
7 8 (2.03%) Network Security
8 7 (1.77%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (1.77%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.52%) DHCP
9 6 (1.52%) MPLS
9 6 (1.52%) NGFW
9 6 (1.52%) OSPF
10 5 (1.27%) HTTPS
10 5 (1.27%) WebEx
11 4 (1.01%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.01%) Wireless
12 3 (0.76%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.30%) Power BI
2 11 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.03%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.27%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.76%) DB2
5 3 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.76%) GIS
5 3 (0.76%) Metadata
5 3 (0.76%) QGIS
5 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.76%) Tableau
6 2 (0.51%) Big Data
6 2 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.25%) IMS/DB
7 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 46 (11.65%) JIRA
2 13 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.28%) Git
4 6 (1.52%) GitLab
5 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.51%) JUnit
5 2 (0.51%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.25%) JMeter
6 1 (0.25%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 157 (39.75%) Social Skills
2 138 (34.94%) Finance
3 72 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.63%) Public Sector
5 41 (10.38%) Banking
6 40 (10.13%) Manufacturing
7 21 (5.32%) Telecoms
8 20 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (4.56%) Legal
10 17 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (4.05%) Financial Institution
12 15 (3.80%) Investment Banking
13 11 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (2.03%) Back Office
14 8 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.52%) Private Banking
17 5 (1.27%) Marketing
17 5 (1.27%) Retail
18 4 (1.01%) Billing
Job Titles
1 87 (22.03%) Analyst
2 58 (14.68%) Project Manager
3 36 (9.11%) Senior
4 33 (8.35%) Lead
5 22 (5.57%) Developer
6 21 (5.32%) Business Analyst
7 17 (4.30%) Network Engineer
7 17 (4.30%) PMO Analyst
8 15 (3.80%) Data Analyst
9 12 (3.04%) Architect
9 12 (3.04%) Change Manager
9 12 (3.04%) Senior Manager
10 11 (2.78%) IT Analyst
10 11 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (2.53%) Contracts Manager
11 10 (2.53%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (2.53%) Infrastructure Manager
11 10 (2.53%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 10 (2.53%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.54%) XML
2 13 (3.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (1.77%) .NET
4 5 (1.27%) ADO
4 5 (1.27%) JMS
4 5 (1.27%) JSON
4 5 (1.27%) Middleware
4 5 (1.27%) XMPP
5 3 (0.76%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.76%) EDI
5 3 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.76%) SOAP
5 3 (0.76%) WinForms
6 2 (0.51%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (0.51%) Kafka
6 2 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.25%) ISPF
7 1 (0.25%) ODBC
7 1 (0.25%) WPF
7 1 (0.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.61%) Data Centre
2 28 (7.09%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.56%) Virtual Team
4 15 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.04%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.78%) CMDB
8 10 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.53%) PMI
9 7 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.77%) SCADA
10 6 (1.52%) AS400
10 6 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.52%) Life Science
10 6 (1.52%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.92%) Windows
2 31 (7.85%) Windows Server
3 27 (6.84%) Linux
4 13 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.27%) Unix
5 5 (1.27%) VMS
6 3 (0.76%) zOS
7 2 (0.51%) AIX
8 1 (0.25%) Android
8 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.25%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (31.39%) Agile
2 99 (25.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 82 (20.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 77 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (17.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 68 (17.22%) Project Management
7 67 (16.96%) Project Delivery
8 61 (15.44%) DevOps
9 54 (13.67%) Migration
10 53 (13.42%) Change Management
11 46 (11.65%) ITIL
11 46 (11.65%) Waterfall
12 40 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
12 40 (10.13%) PRINCE2
12 40 (10.13%) Risk Management
13 37 (9.37%) ERP
13 37 (9.37%) Project Governance
14 35 (8.86%) Decision-Making
14 35 (8.86%) ITSM
14 35 (8.86%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.37%) SQL
2 26 (6.58%) Python
3 25 (6.33%) PowerShell
4 19 (4.81%) Bash
5 14 (3.54%) Perl
6 11 (2.78%) Java
7 8 (2.03%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.52%) C#
8 6 (1.52%) RPG
9 5 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.51%) COBOL
11 2 (0.51%) Korn
12 1 (0.25%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.25%) JCL
12 1 (0.25%) REXX
12 1 (0.25%) Tcl
12 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 80 (20.25%) SC Cleared
3 52 (13.16%) Degree
4 27 (6.84%) PMI Certification
5 22 (5.57%) PMP
6 16 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.29%) CCNA
8 12 (3.04%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.04%) CCNP
9 9 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.28%) CCDP
9 9 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.03%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.03%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.77%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.52%) ACCA
12 6 (1.52%) CIMA
13 4 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.41%) PMO
2 34 (8.61%) QA
3 15 (3.80%) NIST
4 14 (3.54%) Data Quality
5 13 (3.29%) GDPR
5 13 (3.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.03%) SLA
7 5 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.01%) P3O
9 3 (0.76%) GxP
10 2 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.51%) GMP
10 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.51%) SEPA
11 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.25%) GRC
11 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (6.08%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.03%) Docker
3 7 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.76%) RACF
5 2 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.51%) vSphere
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.25%) SRDF
6 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (4.30%) Terraform
2 16 (4.05%) Ansible
2 16 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.52%) Control-M
4 5 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.01%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.01%) SCCM
6 3 (0.76%) Grafana
6 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.51%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.51%) WSUS
8 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.25%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.25%) Kibana
8 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 47 (11.90%) Oracle
3 36 (9.11%) SAP
4 23 (5.82%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.05%) Cisco
6 14 (3.54%) IBM
6 14 (3.54%) VMware
7 13 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 12 (3.04%) Citrix
8 12 (3.04%) Fortinet
9 10 (2.53%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.77%) Planview
11 6 (1.52%) OpenLink
11 6 (1.52%) Workday
12 5 (1.27%) Aruba
12 5 (1.27%) Google
12 5 (1.27%) Remedy
12 5 (1.27%) Software AG
12 5 (1.27%) webMethods
13 4 (1.01%) Splunk
182 Change Control jobs Nationwide