ChangeMan Contract Job Trends

Serena ChangeMan SSM
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ChangeMan skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 551 638
Rank change year-on-year -4 +87 -
Contract jobs citing ChangeMan 7 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.016% 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.14% 0.12% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £276 £375 -
25th Percentile £299 £398 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £342 £484 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% - -
75th Percentile £359 £503 -
90th Percentile £359 £509 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £489 -
% change year-on-year -26.75% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

ChangeMan falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,989 5,035 6,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 13.07% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 3,265 4,803
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 182 234
10th Percentile £28.59 £28.33 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £86.83 £71.84 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ChangeMan in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ChangeMan

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ChangeMan

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Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ChangeMan within the UK over the 6 months to 30 August 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 +22 7 £342 -29.41% 2
UK excluding London +2 4 £358 -26.75% 2
London +20 3 £325 -26.14%
Yorkshire - 3 £358 - 2
North of England - 3 £358 - 2
Work from Home +25 1 £358 -25.42%
Midlands -16 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

ChangeMan
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 7 (100.00%) CICS
1 7 (100.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 7 (100.00%) VisionPLUS
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) COBOL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Mainframe
2 4 (57.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
3 3 (42.86%) Batch Scheduling
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) COBOL
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft