Change Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Change Management
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 Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 44 65
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 +19
Contract jobs citing Change Management 786 1,228 1,742
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.26% 4.88% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 5.43% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 662 1,212
10th Percentile £311 £363 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £733 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £544 £500
% change year-on-year -5.42% +8.80% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 31 18
10th Percentile £13.63 £23.15 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.49 £35.00 £13.69
Median hourly rate £51.25 £55.00 £26.20
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +109.92% -1.06%
75th Percentile £62.00 £80.00 £39.97
90th Percentile £67.45 £87.50 £60.23
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £48.40 £22.00
% change year-on-year +3.31% +120.00% -8.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Change Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Change Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
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 Management.

Change Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Change Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Change Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
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 Management.

Change Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Change Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Change Management hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
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 34 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.89%) Confluence
4 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.38%) CMS
4 3 (0.38%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (3.18%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.51%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.38%) InDesign
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.64%) Endur
2 5 (0.64%) SAP SD
3 4 (0.51%) Loan IQ
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
4 3 (0.38%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.25%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 69 (8.78%) Azure
2 36 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (2.42%) AWS
4 16 (2.04%) Power Platform
5 13 (1.65%) SaaS
6 11 (1.40%) IaaS
6 11 (1.40%) PaaS
7 10 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.02%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (0.89%) Serverless
11 6 (0.76%) Azure Stack
11 6 (0.76%) Google Analytics
12 5 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (0.64%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.64%) Slack
13 4 (0.51%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.05%) Firewall
1 24 (3.05%) Intranet
2 20 (2.54%) BGP
3 19 (2.42%) OSPF
3 19 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (2.04%) WAN
5 15 (1.91%) Structured Cabling
6 13 (1.65%) IPsec
6 13 (1.65%) LAN
7 12 (1.53%) VPN
8 10 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (1.15%) EIGRP
10 8 (1.02%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (0.89%) DNS
11 7 (0.89%) HSRP
11 7 (0.89%) NetScaler
11 7 (0.89%) SNMP
11 7 (0.89%) Wireless
12 6 (0.76%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (1.27%) Power BI
2 6 (0.76%) NoSQL
2 6 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (0.64%) Tableau
4 4 (0.51%) Big Data
4 4 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.38%) QlikView
5 3 (0.38%) SAP HANA
5 3 (0.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.13%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.13%) OLAP
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 36 (4.58%) JIRA
2 8 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.25%) Git
4 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 402 (51.15%) Finance
2 262 (33.33%) Banking
3 179 (22.77%) Social Skills
4 72 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.94%) Telecoms
7 26 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.04%) Retail
11 13 (1.65%) Legal
12 11 (1.40%) Marketing
13 8 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.02%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.64%) Back Office
15 5 (0.64%) Local Government
16 4 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 116 (14.76%) Project Manager
2 111 (14.12%) Analyst
3 110 (13.99%) Architect
4 55 (7.00%) Change Manager
5 52 (6.62%) Business Analyst
6 48 (6.11%) Banking Analyst
7 44 (5.60%) Senior
8 43 (5.47%) Lead
9 42 (5.34%) Consultant
10 38 (4.83%) Data Analyst
11 34 (4.33%) IT Analyst
11 34 (4.33%) IT Manager
12 32 (4.07%) Business Manager
13 30 (3.82%) Resilience Manager
14 25 (3.18%) Banking Business Analyst
14 25 (3.18%) Business Change Manager
15 24 (3.05%) Senior Manager
16 22 (2.80%) Infrastructure Architect
16 22 (2.80%) Technical Writer
17 21 (2.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.54%) HTML
2 18 (2.29%) CSS
3 13 (1.65%) XML
4 11 (1.40%) REST
5 8 (1.02%) JSON
6 6 (0.76%) Jinja
7 5 (0.64%) .NET
7 5 (0.64%) IDoc
8 4 (0.51%) Middleware
8 4 (0.51%) SOAP
9 3 (0.38%) EDI
9 3 (0.38%) Kafka
9 3 (0.38%) LDAP
9 3 (0.38%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.38%) SAP XI
9 3 (0.38%) Smart Contracts
10 2 (0.25%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (0.13%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.13%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (3.82%) Management Information System
1 30 (3.82%) Product Ownership
2 25 (3.18%) Data Structures
3 21 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 14 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (1.40%) Mainframe
6 10 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 7 (0.89%) Onboarding
7 7 (0.89%) Virtual Team
8 6 (0.76%) CMDB
8 6 (0.76%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.64%) Derivative
9 5 (0.64%) LIMS
9 5 (0.64%) NHS
9 5 (0.64%) PKI
9 5 (0.64%) Replication
10 4 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.51%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.51%) FMCG
10 4 (0.51%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.45%) Windows
2 15 (1.91%) Linux
2 15 (1.91%) MVS
3 14 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.64%) Unix
4 5 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.51%) Solaris
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.38%) VMS
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.25%) CentOS
7 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (18.19%) Project Management
2 130 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 95 (12.09%) ITIL
4 92 (11.70%) Agile
5 89 (11.32%) Service Management
6 75 (9.54%) Migration
6 75 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (8.65%) ITSM
8 60 (7.63%) Risk Management
9 54 (6.87%) Project Delivery
10 50 (6.36%) DevOps
11 49 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (5.85%) PRINCE2
13 41 (5.22%) Business Case
14 37 (4.71%) User Experience
15 36 (4.58%) Cybersecurity
15 36 (4.58%) Data Migration
15 36 (4.58%) Roadmaps
16 35 (4.45%) Decision-Making
16 35 (4.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 21 (2.67%) SQL
2 19 (2.42%) JavaScript
2 19 (2.42%) Python
3 9 (1.15%) C#
4 7 (0.89%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.76%) Perl
5 6 (0.76%) Tcl
6 5 (0.64%) ABAP
7 3 (0.38%) C
8 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.25%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.13%) C++
9 1 (0.13%) R
9 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.13%) VB
9 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 103 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 91 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.00%) Degree
4 18 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 14 (1.78%) CCNP
7 10 (1.27%) CCNA
8 8 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.76%) CCIE
9 6 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.76%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.64%) APMP
10 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.64%) BC Cleared
10 5 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (0.64%) PMP
10 5 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 4 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.20%) PMO
2 24 (3.05%) QA
3 14 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.15%) SLA
5 6 (0.76%) GDPR
6 4 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.25%) COBIT
7 2 (0.25%) GRC
7 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) Basel III
8 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.13%) COREP
8 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) FINREP
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.13%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 23 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.89%) Firmware
3 6 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.38%) XenApp
4 3 (0.38%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.13%) Docker
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) Snort
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (1.91%) Ansible
2 8 (1.02%) Control-M
3 7 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.89%) Puppet
4 6 (0.76%) NetBackup
4 6 (0.76%) SCCM
5 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.38%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.38%) SCOM
6 3 (0.38%) Terraform
7 1 (0.13%) Argo
7 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.13%) Grafana
7 1 (0.13%) Istio
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 87 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.03%) ServiceNow
3 45 (5.73%) SAP
4 26 (3.31%) Cisco
5 25 (3.18%) Oracle
6 18 (2.29%) Citrix
6 18 (2.29%) NetApp
6 18 (2.29%) Splunk
7 12 (1.53%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.02%) Adobe
9 7 (0.89%) BT
9 7 (0.89%) F5
9 7 (0.89%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.89%) SolarWinds
9 7 (0.89%) VMware
10 6 (0.76%) Google
10 6 (0.76%) Juniper
10 6 (0.76%) Veritas
11 5 (0.64%) Ariba
11 5 (0.64%) Pega