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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 48 57
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,853 2,777 3,724
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.27% 4.69% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 5.22% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 1,730 2,421
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £712 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 56 61
10th Percentile £14.09 £21.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £28.32 £32.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £48.27 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +115.47% -1.23%
75th Percentile £61.60 £72.50 £37.53
90th Percentile £68.60 £87.50 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £48.13 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.31% +140.65% -9.95%

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 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 17 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 3 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
England +1 1,492 £525 -4.55% 762
UK excluding London -3 797 £500 -2.44% 528
Work from Home +7 787 £523 -4.04% 285
London -2 787 £550 -4.35% 264
North of England -4 207 £515 -6.45% 143
South East -21 167 £475 -9.52% 106
South West +17 141 £550 +2.33% 67
Yorkshire -6 106 £514 -6.55% 37
Midlands +2 104 £488 -7.14% 105
Scotland +32 103 £463 -1.33% 44
North West -15 96 £515 -4.85% 89
West Midlands -8 74 £500 -4.76% 62
East of England +3 61 £425 -14.91% 54
East Midlands +24 28 £475 -9.52% 41
Wales +6 19 £530 +6.00% 14
North East +5 12 £600 -7.69% 19
Northern Ireland +8 4 £435 +16.00% 6

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 86 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.32%) Confluence
3 37 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.76%) IIS
5 11 (0.59%) Tomcat
6 10 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.32%) CMS
8 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.16%) Documentum
9 1 (0.054%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.054%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.054%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.054%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.054%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.054%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 100 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (3.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (2.59%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.22%) InDesign
7 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.11%) Windchill
10 1 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.49%) SAP SD
3 7 (0.38%) Endur
3 7 (0.38%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.32%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.22%) iTrent
5 4 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 4 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.16%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.16%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.16%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 194 (10.47%) Azure
2 122 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
3 89 (4.80%) AWS
4 46 (2.48%) SaaS
5 37 (2.00%) Power Platform
6 27 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
7 26 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.40%) Entra ID
8 22 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
11 19 (1.03%) PaaS
11 19 (1.03%) Serverless
12 17 (0.92%) IaaS
13 16 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (0.86%) Yammer
14 15 (0.81%) Azure Functions
15 14 (0.76%) Slack
16 13 (0.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 103 (5.56%) Firewall
2 59 (3.18%) WAN
3 51 (2.75%) LAN
4 48 (2.59%) VPN
5 47 (2.54%) BGP
6 46 (2.48%) OSPF
7 36 (1.94%) DNS
7 36 (1.94%) IPsec
8 35 (1.89%) Network Security
9 34 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
11 27 (1.46%) Wireless
12 25 (1.35%) DHCP
12 25 (1.35%) Intranet
12 25 (1.35%) Structured Cabling
12 25 (1.35%) TCP/IP
13 23 (1.24%) NetScaler
13 23 (1.24%) VLAN
14 20 (1.08%) Cisco ISE
15 19 (1.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (1.40%) Power BI
2 18 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (0.92%) NoSQL
4 12 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (0.59%) Oracle Database
5 11 (0.59%) SAP HANA
5 11 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
5 11 (0.59%) SQL Server
5 11 (0.59%) Tableau
6 8 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.32%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (0.32%) KDB
8 5 (0.27%) Big Data
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.16%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.16%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 90 (4.86%) JIRA
2 24 (1.30%) Git
3 22 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
5 5 (0.27%) Selenium
6 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) JMeter
8 2 (0.11%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.054%) GitLab
9 1 (0.054%) Gradle
9 1 (0.054%) Maven
General
1 739 (39.88%) Finance
2 539 (29.09%) Social Skills
3 379 (20.45%) Banking
4 222 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (10.52%) Public Sector
6 82 (4.43%) Telecoms
7 73 (3.94%) Legal
8 70 (3.78%) Manufacturing
9 61 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
10 59 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (2.75%) Marketing
12 43 (2.32%) Retail
13 42 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 30 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 26 (1.40%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
18 22 (1.19%) Electronics
19 21 (1.13%) Local Government
20 17 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 294 (15.87%) Analyst
2 271 (14.62%) Project Manager
3 168 (9.07%) Architect
4 139 (7.50%) Business Analyst
5 137 (7.39%) Change Manager
6 121 (6.53%) Senior
7 118 (6.37%) Lead
8 78 (4.21%) Consultant
9 77 (4.16%) Banking Analyst
10 74 (3.99%) IT Manager
11 63 (3.40%) Developer
12 60 (3.24%) Business Manager
13 56 (3.02%) Network Engineer
14 55 (2.97%) Data Analyst
15 48 (2.59%) IT Analyst
16 45 (2.43%) Change Analyst
17 42 (2.27%) Business Change Manager
18 39 (2.10%) Programme Manager
19 37 (2.00%) Administrator
19 37 (2.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (1.67%) HTML
2 25 (1.35%) CSS
2 25 (1.35%) React
3 22 (1.19%) REST
4 20 (1.08%) XML
5 19 (1.03%) AngularJS
6 17 (0.92%) Kafka
7 14 (0.76%) JSON
8 13 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
8 13 (0.70%) Spring
9 12 (0.65%) Jinja
10 10 (0.54%) Middleware
11 9 (0.49%) .NET
12 8 (0.43%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (0.43%) Lightning Web Components
13 7 (0.38%) LDAP
14 6 (0.32%) Itk
14 6 (0.32%) Visualforce
15 5 (0.27%) Oracle Fusion
15 5 (0.27%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 78 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 47 (2.54%) Data Centre
4 41 (2.21%) PKI
5 34 (1.83%) Cloud Native
6 30 (1.62%) Data Structures
6 30 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (1.35%) Replication
8 24 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.13%) Derivative
10 17 (0.92%) CMDB
11 15 (0.81%) Virtual Team
12 14 (0.76%) NHS
13 13 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (0.70%) Fixed Income
13 13 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (0.70%) Mainframe
14 12 (0.65%) FMCG
14 12 (0.65%) LIMS
14 12 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 164 (8.85%) Windows
2 106 (5.72%) Linux
3 62 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.78%) Unix
5 20 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.81%) MVS
6 15 (0.81%) Solaris
7 14 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.32%) VMS
13 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.11%) CentOS
14 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.054%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (22.99%) Project Management
2 359 (19.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 325 (17.54%) Agile
4 285 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 264 (14.25%) ITIL
6 177 (9.55%) Service Management
7 164 (8.85%) Migration
8 163 (8.80%) Project Delivery
9 143 (7.72%) DevOps
9 143 (7.72%) ITSM
10 140 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 136 (7.34%) PRINCE2
11 136 (7.34%) Risk Management
12 122 (6.58%) Programme Management
13 119 (6.42%) Decision-Making
14 98 (5.29%) ERP
14 98 (5.29%) Incident Management
15 96 (5.18%) Roadmaps
16 95 (5.13%) Business Case
17 93 (5.02%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 71 (3.83%) Python
2 56 (3.02%) SQL
3 49 (2.64%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 25 (1.35%) C
6 21 (1.13%) Java
7 15 (0.81%) C#
8 14 (0.76%) Perl
9 12 (0.65%) Tcl
10 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
10 8 (0.43%) Swift
11 7 (0.38%) ABAP
11 7 (0.38%) C++
12 6 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.16%) Bash
14 2 (0.11%) Bourne shell
14 2 (0.11%) Korn
14 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 283 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 198 (10.69%) SC Cleared
3 165 (8.90%) Degree
4 62 (3.35%) DV Cleared
5 58 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (2.27%) CCNP
7 36 (1.94%) CCNA
8 33 (1.78%) PMP
9 29 (1.57%) PMI Certification
10 28 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
11 27 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 18 (0.97%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 11 (0.59%) Six Sigma Black Belt
16 10 (0.54%) CCIE
16 10 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 8 (0.43%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (6.10%) PMO
2 82 (4.43%) QA
3 41 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.16%) SLA
5 24 (1.30%) GDPR
6 8 (0.43%) NIST
7 6 (0.32%) GRC
8 5 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.16%) COBIT
10 3 (0.16%) GxP
10 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.11%) Basel III
11 2 (0.11%) IFRS
11 2 (0.11%) NCSC
11 2 (0.11%) P3O
11 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.054%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 81 (4.37%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.03%) XenApp
4 17 (0.92%) Firmware
5 13 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.65%) XenDesktop
7 9 (0.49%) Docker
8 8 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 7 (0.38%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.32%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.27%) vSphere
12 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
13 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.054%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 1 (0.054%) HDFS
15 1 (0.054%) Snort
15 1 (0.054%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 48 (2.59%) Ansible
2 37 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.08%) NetBackup
4 18 (0.97%) Puppet
5 16 (0.86%) SCCM
6 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (0.76%) SCOM
8 13 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 13 (0.70%) Terraform
9 12 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (0.43%) Control-M
10 8 (0.43%) Grafana
11 7 (0.38%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.32%) Argo
12 6 (0.32%) Istio
12 6 (0.32%) Kibana
12 6 (0.32%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 5 (0.27%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 284 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 158 (8.53%) SAP
3 113 (6.10%) ServiceNow
4 81 (4.37%) Cisco
5 65 (3.51%) Oracle
6 52 (2.81%) Citrix
7 50 (2.70%) VMware
8 43 (2.32%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.51%) Juniper
9 28 (1.51%) NetApp
10 26 (1.40%) SolarWinds
10 26 (1.40%) Splunk
11 23 (1.24%) Red Hat
12 20 (1.08%) Fortinet
13 19 (1.03%) Veritas
14 17 (0.92%) IBM
14 17 (0.92%) Salesforce
15 16 (0.86%) Ariba
16 15 (0.81%) Avaya
17 14 (0.76%) CheckPoint