Change Control Contracts in the West Midlands

Change Control
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Change Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Control over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 73 100
Rank change year-on-year +3 +27 +34
Contract jobs citing Change Control 31 35 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.21% 1.85% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.21% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 25 19
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £548
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.24% +11.05%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £579
90th Percentile £615 £595 £640
England median daily rate £523 £501 £503
% change year-on-year +4.34% -0.38% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -8.71%
75th Percentile - £13.88 £13.50
90th Percentile - £13.95 -
England median hourly rate £46.30 £48.44 £54.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -10.31% +54.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,242 1,585 1,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.71% 83.86% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 1,055 1,366
10th Percentile £193 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.06%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 114 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.03 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +8.67% +22.42%
75th Percentile £24.61 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £47.50
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.23% +1.39% +44.00%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Change Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Change Control in the West Midlands

Change Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Control in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Change Control in the West Midlands

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Control in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Control in the West Midlands

Change Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Control in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Change Control in the West Midlands

Change Control
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Warwickshire +6 22 £501 -2.24% 7
Birmingham -5 6 £600 +26.32% 3
Coventry +6 1 £550 +10.00% 5
Staffordshire +5 1 £41 -89.75% 6
Worcestershire +2 1 £550 -3.51% 4
Change Control
England

Change Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (16.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (3.23%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (9.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 17 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 14 (45.16%) Finance
3 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (22.58%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Law
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Analyst
2 10 (32.26%) Project Manager
3 6 (19.35%) Business Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) PMO Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Project Officer
5 3 (9.68%) Project Support Officer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 3 (9.68%) Support Officer
6 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.45%) IT Manager
6 2 (6.45%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Report Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior PMO
6 2 (6.45%) Senior PMO Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Service Operations Manager
7 1 (3.23%) SIEM Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Ajax
1 2 (6.45%) CSS
1 2 (6.45%) CSS3
1 2 (6.45%) HTML
1 2 (6.45%) HTML5
1 2 (6.45%) KnockoutJS
1 2 (6.45%) Node.js
1 2 (6.45%) RequireJS
1 2 (6.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Operational Technology
2 5 (16.13%) Data Structures
2 5 (16.13%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) Windows 10
2 3 (9.68%) Windows 7
2 3 (9.68%) Windows XP
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (41.94%) Project Management
3 8 (25.81%) Programme Management
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) Business Analysis
4 6 (19.35%) Resource Management
5 5 (16.13%) Business Process Modelling
5 5 (16.13%) Change Management
5 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (16.13%) Data Analysis
5 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
5 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 5 (16.13%) Waterfall
6 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery
7 3 (9.68%) Coaching
7 3 (9.68%) Contract Management
7 3 (9.68%) Project Planning
7 3 (9.68%) Test Scripting
7 3 (9.68%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) PMO
2 3 (9.68%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Ansible
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle
3 3 (9.68%) VMware
4 2 (6.45%) Adobe
5 1 (3.23%) SAP