Project Change Manager Contracts

Project Change Manager
UK

The median Project Change Manager daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 667 790
Rank change year-on-year +120 +123 -154
Contract jobs requiring a Project Change Manager 32 33 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.055% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.058% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 45
10th Percentile £343 £428 £410
25th Percentile £391 £494 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £545 £515
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +5.83% +17.71%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £685 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £406 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -20.73% +2.50% +26.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £82.50
75th Percentile - - £86.88
90th Percentile - - £87.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.50
% change year-on-year - - +240.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Project Change Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Project Change Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Change Manager in the UK

Project Change Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Change Manager in the UK

Project Change Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Change Manager over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Change Manager in the UK

Project Change Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Change Manager in the UK

Project Change Manager
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Change Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +114 29 £450 -18.18% 3
UK excluding London +70 17 £406 -20.73% 4
London +110 14 £513 -6.82%
Work from Home +115 10 £391 -22.86% 1
Midlands +32 6 £391 -32.00%
South West +26 5 £450 -11.11% 1
South East +24 4 £560 +9.27% 2
East Midlands - 4 £391 -
Scotland +33 2 - - 1
West Midlands +31 2 £475 -17.39%
North of England +27 1 £390 -
North West - 1 £390 -

Project Change Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Project Change Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Project Change Manager in the job title.

1 15 (46.88%) Project Management
2 12 (37.50%) Finance
3 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (28.13%) Change Management
5 8 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
6 6 (18.75%) Retail
7 5 (15.63%) Programme Management
7 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
7 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (15.63%) Matrix Organization
7 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
7 5 (15.63%) Business Case
8 4 (12.50%) Business Strategy
8 4 (12.50%) SAP
9 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
9 3 (9.38%) Data Modelling
9 3 (9.38%) Legal
9 3 (9.38%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (9.38%) Change Control
9 3 (9.38%) Test Strategy
9 3 (9.38%) Data Transformation
9 3 (9.38%) Target Operating Model
9 3 (9.38%) Use Case
9 3 (9.38%) Release Management
9 3 (9.38%) Data Integration
9 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
9 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
9 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery

Project Change Manager Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (9.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) Azure
1 2 (6.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.25%) SAP HANA
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Retail
3 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Legal
4 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Project Management
2 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (28.13%) Change Management
4 8 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 5 (15.63%) Business Case
5 5 (15.63%) Matrix Organization
5 5 (15.63%) Programme Management
5 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (12.50%) Business Strategy
7 3 (9.38%) Change Control
7 3 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (9.38%) Data Integration
7 3 (9.38%) Data Modelling
7 3 (9.38%) Data Transformation
7 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
7 3 (9.38%) Release Management
7 3 (9.38%) Target Operating Model
7 3 (9.38%) Test Strategy
7 3 (9.38%) Use Case
8 2 (6.25%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) SAP
3 2 (6.25%) Google