Change Management Contracts

Change Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 40 55 64
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 2,113 3,449 3,296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.75% 4.49% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.37% 4.98% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 2,091 2,088
10th Percentile £363 £350 £306
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £640 £600
90th Percentile £723 £738 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +4.50% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 44 79
10th Percentile £21.61 £13.85 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.13 £21.25 £14.42
Median hourly rate £43.33 £33.66 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.73% +46.35% +17.95%
75th Percentile £55.90 £52.00 £40.13
90th Percentile £62.50 £72.63 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.67 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year +19.04% +56.25% +21.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,373 69,310 81,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.52% 90.15% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,321 47,960 56,913
10th Percentile £310 £338 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,511 1,674 2,001
10th Percentile £14.36 £13.41 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.93 £17.40 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +62.79% -18.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.00 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.95 £32.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year +36.28% +79.17% -21.74%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 19 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 December 2023. 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 +11 1,772 £550 +4.76% 883
London +16 1,011 £575 +4.55% 334
Work from Home +21 927 £525 -1.87% 577
UK excluding London 0 833 £523 +4.50% 608
North of England -6 224 £525 +5.00% 144
South East -5 210 £525 - 160
Yorkshire +2 118 £550 +10.00% 44
South West +6 114 £570 +12.59% 72
Midlands +29 103 £515 +5.64% 120
North West -10 100 £516 +3.25% 91
Scotland +18 98 £475 +5.56% 51
West Midlands +35 91 £508 +1.50% 87
East of England -3 63 £514 +20.82% 64
North East +34 10 £400 -38.46% 11
Wales -2 10 £450 -10.00% 14
Northern Ireland +16 9 £250 -52.38% 6
East Midlands -2 7 £433 -8.84% 32
Isle of Man - 3 £475 -
Channel Islands - 1 £200 - 1

Change Management
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 66 (3.12%) SharePoint
2 64 (3.03%) Confluence
3 21 (0.99%) Apache
4 20 (0.95%) IIS
5 16 (0.76%) Tomcat
6 10 (0.47%) CMS
7 8 (0.38%) Content Management Server
8 7 (0.33%) nginx
9 6 (0.28%) MTS
10 5 (0.24%) MS Exchange
10 5 (0.24%) Skype for Business
11 4 (0.19%) LiveLink
12 3 (0.14%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.14%) SAS
12 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.095%) Documentum
13 2 (0.095%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.047%) Exchange Server 2010
14 1 (0.047%) Lightstreamer
Applications
1 100 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 53 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
4 42 (1.99%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.095%) Trello
6 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.047%) CATIA
6 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 37 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
5 7 (0.33%) ION MarketView
5 7 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.24%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.24%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 200 (9.47%) Azure
2 116 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
3 90 (4.26%) AWS
4 59 (2.79%) Power Platform
5 45 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 36 (1.70%) SaaS
7 33 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
8 26 (1.23%) GCP
9 23 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 22 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (1.04%) IaaS
11 16 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
12 15 (0.71%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.62%) OCI
13 13 (0.62%) Power Automate
14 12 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (0.52%) Datadog
15 11 (0.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 127 (6.01%) Firewall
2 65 (3.08%) LAN
2 65 (3.08%) WAN
3 63 (2.98%) VPN
4 62 (2.93%) Network Security
5 55 (2.60%) DNS
6 46 (2.18%) Wireless
7 45 (2.13%) BGP
8 42 (1.99%) OSPF
9 34 (1.61%) DHCP
9 34 (1.61%) WLAN
10 33 (1.56%) TCP/IP
11 31 (1.47%) IPsec
12 24 (1.14%) VLAN
13 20 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
13 20 (0.95%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.85%) VoIP
15 17 (0.80%) HTTP
16 16 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
17 14 (0.66%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (2.46%) Power BI
2 37 (1.75%) SQL Server
3 16 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (0.76%) Relational Database
4 15 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
5 14 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (0.47%) InterSystems Cache
7 10 (0.47%) Oracle Database
7 10 (0.47%) Tableau
8 8 (0.38%) Big Data
8 8 (0.38%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.33%) Metadata
10 6 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.24%) Data Hub
11 5 (0.24%) MS Access
11 5 (0.24%) SAP BW
11 5 (0.24%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 88 (4.16%) JIRA
2 18 (0.85%) Git
3 17 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.19%) Postman
8 3 (0.14%) Synon
9 2 (0.095%) GitLab
9 2 (0.095%) JDeveloper
9 2 (0.095%) JIRA Agile
9 2 (0.095%) Selenium
10 1 (0.047%) Hudson
10 1 (0.047%) Maven
10 1 (0.047%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.047%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.047%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.047%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.047%) Toad
General
1 852 (40.32%) Finance
2 549 (25.98%) Social Skills
3 466 (22.05%) Banking
4 263 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
5 226 (10.70%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.74%) Legal
7 73 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 70 (3.31%) Telecoms
9 69 (3.27%) Manufacturing
10 63 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
11 62 (2.93%) Retail
12 56 (2.65%) Investment Banking
13 48 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (2.13%) Marketing
15 37 (1.75%) Front Office
16 35 (1.66%) Law
17 29 (1.37%) Local Government
18 24 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
19 22 (1.04%) Electronics
20 21 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 385 (18.22%) Analyst
2 311 (14.72%) Project Manager
3 175 (8.28%) Business Analyst
4 173 (8.19%) Change Manager
5 149 (7.05%) Lead
6 121 (5.73%) Senior
7 101 (4.78%) Banking Analyst
8 86 (4.07%) Consultant
9 83 (3.93%) IT Manager
10 76 (3.60%) Architect
11 71 (3.36%) Developer
12 70 (3.31%) Business Manager
13 60 (2.84%) Service Analyst
14 57 (2.70%) Service Manager
15 50 (2.37%) Business Change Manager
16 48 (2.27%) Network Engineer
17 47 (2.22%) Support Engineer
18 46 (2.18%) Banking Business Analyst
19 44 (2.08%) IT Analyst
20 41 (1.94%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (2.79%) FIX Protocol
2 35 (1.66%) HTML
3 27 (1.28%) CSS
4 18 (0.85%) SailPoint
5 17 (0.80%) LDAP
6 16 (0.76%) XML
7 15 (0.71%) .NET
8 14 (0.66%) Middleware
8 14 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (0.62%) AngularJS
9 13 (0.62%) Web Services
10 12 (0.57%) REST
11 10 (0.47%) React
12 8 (0.38%) Spring
13 6 (0.28%) 802.1X
13 6 (0.28%) SOAP
14 5 (0.24%) JSON
14 5 (0.24%) Loki
14 5 (0.24%) Velocity
14 5 (0.24%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 101 (4.78%) Management Information System
2 71 (3.36%) Derivative
3 68 (3.22%) Data Centre
4 59 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 56 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 51 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 45 (2.13%) PKI
8 43 (2.04%) CMDB
9 28 (1.33%) NHS
10 27 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 22 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (0.95%) Cloud Native
12 20 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
13 18 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (0.85%) Mainframe
13 18 (0.85%) Operational Technology
13 18 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 17 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.66%) Public Cloud
16 13 (0.62%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 204 (9.65%) Windows
2 200 (9.47%) Linux
3 106 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.65%) Unix
5 31 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 18 (0.85%) VMS
8 18 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (0.76%) Windows 10
10 13 (0.62%) SUSE
11 9 (0.43%) AIX
11 9 (0.43%) Android
11 9 (0.43%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.33%) Solaris
13 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.28%) CentOS
14 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (19.78%) Agile
2 396 (18.74%) Project Management
3 343 (16.23%) ITIL
4 342 (16.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 319 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
6 225 (10.65%) Service Management
7 191 (9.04%) Migration
8 181 (8.57%) Incident Management
9 163 (7.71%) ITSM
10 161 (7.62%) Project Delivery
11 148 (7.00%) PRINCE2
12 138 (6.53%) Business Case
12 138 (6.53%) Risk Management
13 133 (6.29%) Decision-Making
13 133 (6.29%) Waterfall
14 120 (5.68%) Roadmaps
15 108 (5.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 106 (5.02%) DevOps
17 105 (4.97%) Programme Management
18 104 (4.92%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 104 (4.92%) SQL
2 84 (3.98%) PowerShell
3 68 (3.22%) Python
4 60 (2.84%) Java
5 35 (1.66%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.04%) Bash
7 21 (0.99%) Shell Script
8 16 (0.76%) C
9 10 (0.47%) C#
10 9 (0.43%) Go
10 9 (0.43%) MUMPS
11 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.28%) ABAP
12 6 (0.28%) C++
13 4 (0.19%) VB
14 3 (0.14%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.14%) Perl
14 3 (0.14%) PHP
14 3 (0.14%) RPG
14 3 (0.14%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 333 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 237 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 208 (9.84%) Degree
4 71 (3.36%) DV Cleared
5 50 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
6 48 (2.27%) PMI Certification
7 46 (2.18%) PMP
8 37 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.66%) CCNA
10 33 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.14%) CCNP
12 17 (0.80%) CISSP
13 16 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 16 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 15 (0.71%) APMG
15 13 (0.62%) ISEB
16 12 (0.57%) CISM
17 10 (0.47%) APMP
17 10 (0.47%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.78%) PMO
2 92 (4.35%) QA
3 45 (2.13%) SLA
4 44 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.04%) GDPR
7 21 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 20 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.76%) COBIT
10 15 (0.71%) NIST
11 14 (0.66%) ISO 9000
12 11 (0.52%) EMIR
13 10 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
14 9 (0.43%) Accessibility
15 8 (0.38%) GRC
15 8 (0.38%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.33%) NCSC
17 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.28%) MiFID
17 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 122 (5.77%) Active Directory
2 35 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 16 (0.76%) Docker
5 15 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.33%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.28%) XenApp
10 5 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.19%) Firmware
11 4 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.14%) PowerHA
12 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.095%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.047%) NFS
14 1 (0.047%) Samba
14 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (2.27%) ITRS Geneos
2 35 (1.66%) SCCM
3 31 (1.47%) Terraform
4 29 (1.37%) Ansible
5 26 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.99%) SCOM
7 18 (0.85%) FortiGate
8 17 (0.80%) Grafana
9 16 (0.76%) Kubernetes
9 16 (0.76%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.38%) Nagios
11 8 (0.38%) Rundeck
12 7 (0.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 7 (0.33%) Puppet
12 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.28%) Istio
13 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.28%) SCOrch
14 4 (0.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 246 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 125 (5.92%) ServiceNow
3 122 (5.77%) SAP
4 99 (4.69%) Oracle
5 85 (4.02%) Cisco
6 59 (2.79%) VMware
7 53 (2.51%) Juniper
8 39 (1.85%) IBM
9 37 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 32 (1.51%) Salesforce
11 30 (1.42%) Google
12 26 (1.23%) Red Hat
12 26 (1.23%) Workday
13 23 (1.09%) Citrix
14 22 (1.04%) Fortinet
15 21 (0.99%) Avaya
15 21 (0.99%) Remedy
16 20 (0.95%) Splunk
17 19 (0.90%) Sparx
18 17 (0.80%) SolarWinds