Change Control Contracts with Work from Home Options

Change Control
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Change Control skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Change Control over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 282 320
Rank change year-on-year +24 +38 -9
Contract jobs citing Change Control 94 193 348
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 0.75% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.83% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 117 268
10th Percentile £264 £400 £344
25th Percentile £463 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +13.31%
75th Percentile £592 £623 £600
90th Percentile £712 £693 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 6
10th Percentile - £12.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £13.25 £26.02 £16.56
Median hourly rate £14.00 £42.00 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +59.18% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £34.44
90th Percentile £62.19 £57.50 £35.00
UK median hourly rate £48.17 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.66% +42.86% +37.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Change Control 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Change Control
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Change Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Change Control trend for jobs with a WFH option

Change Control
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Change Control.

Change Control daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Change Control over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Change Control daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Control
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Change Control.

Change Control hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Control
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Change Control over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Change Control hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.13%) IIS
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (10.64%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.06%) Primavera
2 1 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.89%) Azure
2 13 (13.83%) AWS
3 4 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.19%) GitHub
5 2 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.06%) IaaS
6 1 (1.06%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.06%) Route 53
6 1 (1.06%) SaaS
6 1 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) Firewall
2 6 (6.38%) VPN
2 6 (6.38%) WAN
3 5 (5.32%) MPLS
4 4 (4.26%) LAN
4 4 (4.26%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.26%) WAAS
5 3 (3.19%) ADSL
5 3 (3.19%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (3.19%) Ethernet
5 3 (3.19%) Internet
5 3 (3.19%) PSTN
5 3 (3.19%) Wireless
6 2 (2.13%) WLAN
7 1 (1.06%) BGP
7 1 (1.06%) DMZ
7 1 (1.06%) GSM
7 1 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.06%) OSPF
7 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.26%) MySQL
2 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.19%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.13%) Power BI
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.26%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) AppScan
2 1 (1.06%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.06%) Git
2 1 (1.06%) GitLab
2 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (36.17%) Finance
2 30 (31.91%) Social Skills
3 19 (20.21%) Banking
4 13 (13.83%) Public Sector
5 12 (12.77%) Billing
6 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (8.51%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (8.51%) Telecoms
8 5 (5.32%) Financial Institution
8 5 (5.32%) Investment Banking
9 4 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (3.19%) Local Government
10 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.13%) Electronics
11 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.13%) Legal
11 2 (2.13%) Marketing
12 1 (1.06%) Automotive
12 1 (1.06%) Law
12 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) Project Manager
2 13 (13.83%) Commercial Manager
3 12 (12.77%) Analyst
3 12 (12.77%) Contracts Manager
4 7 (7.45%) Senior
5 6 (6.38%) DBA
6 5 (5.32%) Administrator
6 5 (5.32%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.32%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.26%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) IT Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Network Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) PMO Analyst
7 4 (4.26%) PowerShell Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) SCCM Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (3.19%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 3 (3.19%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (2.13%) REST
2 1 (1.06%) Middleware
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.02%) Public Cloud
2 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.26%) Derivative
4 4 (4.26%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.13%) Clustering
6 2 (2.13%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.06%) Life Science
7 1 (1.06%) SCADA
7 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.06%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.83%) Windows
2 5 (5.32%) Linux
3 4 (4.26%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.06%) CentOS
5 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (42.55%) Agile
2 33 (35.11%) Project Management
3 21 (22.34%) Project Delivery
4 20 (21.28%) Decision-Making
5 17 (18.09%) Risk Management
6 13 (13.83%) Change Management
6 13 (13.83%) Contract Management
6 13 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (12.77%) PRINCE2
7 12 (12.77%) Project Governance
8 11 (11.70%) Migration
9 9 (9.57%) Business Case
9 9 (9.57%) Waterfall
10 8 (8.51%) DevOps
10 8 (8.51%) ITIL
10 8 (8.51%) Programme Management
11 7 (7.45%) Configuration Management
11 7 (7.45%) Contingency Planning
12 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.51%) PowerShell
1 8 (8.51%) SQL
2 1 (1.06%) Bash
2 1 (1.06%) C#
2 1 (1.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.89%) Degree
2 14 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.38%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) APMP
4 4 (4.26%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (3.19%) BC Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.06%) CISSP
7 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.06%) CRISC
7 1 (1.06%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.06%) MCSA
7 1 (1.06%) MCSE
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.09%) SLA
2 16 (17.02%) PMO
3 9 (9.57%) QA
4 2 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.06%) FedRAMP
5 1 (1.06%) GxP
5 1 (1.06%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.06%) NCSC
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
5 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (8.51%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.06%) vSphere
2 1 (1.06%) XenApp
2 1 (1.06%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.51%) Terraform
2 6 (6.38%) Ansible
3 5 (5.32%) SCCM
4 4 (4.26%) Grafana
5 3 (3.19%) Nagios
5 3 (3.19%) Puppet
5 3 (3.19%) WSUS
6 2 (2.13%) Graylog
6 2 (2.13%) Nessus
6 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.06%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.06%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.06%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 24 (25.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.51%) Cisco
3 4 (4.26%) Citrix
3 4 (4.26%) SAP
4 3 (3.19%) Avaya
4 3 (3.19%) BT
4 3 (3.19%) Computacenter
4 3 (3.19%) Openreach
4 3 (3.19%) VMware
5 2 (2.13%) Cadence
5 2 (2.13%) F5
5 2 (2.13%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.13%) Genesys
5 2 (2.13%) Juniper
5 2 (2.13%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.13%) Qualys
5 2 (2.13%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.13%) Splunk
6 1 (1.06%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow