Change Control Job Trends in England

Change Control
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Change Control skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 384 336
Rank change year-on-year -6 -48 -30
Permanent jobs citing Change Control 287 235 588
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.63% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.68% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 158 148 438
10th Percentile £37,850 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £44,025 £50,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £96,625 £80,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £59,725 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.59% +10.00% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Change Control falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,696 34,624 66,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.53% 93.54% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 32,701 20,241 51,522
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Change Control relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Change Control job vacancy trend in England

Change Control
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Change Control.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Change Control

Change Control
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Control in England over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Change Control in England

Change Control
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Control within the England region over the 6 months to 24 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +67 140 £70,000 +19.15% 51
Midlands -36 39 £50,000 -13.04% 22
South East -55 37 £42,500 -10.53% 34
North of England -42 23 £57,500 +4.55% 26
East of England -5 21 £59,450 -20.73% 13
North West -11 21 £57,500 - 20
West Midlands -23 20 £62,500 +8.70% 17
East Midlands -28 19 £32,500 -38.10% 4
South West -16 18 £33,500 -39.09% 12
North East -24 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -51 1 £90,000 +71.77% 6
Change Control
UK

Change Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (5.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.79%) SAS
4 3 (1.05%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (8.71%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (3.48%) MS Visio
5 9 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.35%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.35%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.35%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.35%) Revit
6 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.35%) Maximo
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 81 (28.22%) Azure
2 39 (13.59%) Entra ID
3 29 (10.10%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (9.41%) AWS
5 25 (8.71%) Google Workspace
6 18 (6.27%) SaaS
7 15 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (4.53%) Power Platform
9 10 (3.48%) Serverless
10 8 (2.79%) IaaS
10 8 (2.79%) PaaS
11 7 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.44%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.44%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.44%) AWS KMS
11 7 (2.44%) Route 53
12 6 (2.09%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.09%) GCP
12 6 (2.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.71%) Broadband
2 21 (7.32%) Firewall
3 11 (3.83%) LAN
4 8 (2.79%) WAN
5 7 (2.44%) VLAN
5 7 (2.44%) VPN
6 6 (2.09%) DHCP
6 6 (2.09%) DNS
6 6 (2.09%) Network Security
6 6 (2.09%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (1.74%) Multicast
7 5 (1.74%) NAS
8 4 (1.39%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.05%) SAN
9 3 (1.05%) WinSCP
9 3 (1.05%) Wireless
10 2 (0.70%) MPLS
10 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.53%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.48%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.79%) Big Data
3 8 (2.79%) Power BI
4 6 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.39%) DB2
5 4 (1.39%) DB2 UDB
5 4 (1.39%) QlikView
5 4 (1.39%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.05%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.35%) MySQL
8 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (4.88%) JIRA
2 10 (3.48%) Git
3 3 (1.05%) GitLab
3 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 92 (32.06%) Finance
2 86 (29.97%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.24%) Organisational Skills
4 26 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (5.57%) Banking
7 15 (5.23%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.88%) Legal
8 14 (4.88%) Marketing
9 9 (3.14%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.79%) Law
10 8 (2.79%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.44%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.09%) Front Office
12 6 (2.09%) Retail
13 5 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.39%) Investment Banking
15 3 (1.05%) Advertising
15 3 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (19.51%) Senior
2 42 (14.63%) Project Manager
3 35 (12.20%) Lead
4 23 (8.01%) Developer
5 22 (7.67%) Analyst
5 22 (7.67%) Network Engineer
6 21 (7.32%) IT Manager
7 13 (4.53%) Delivery Manager
8 12 (4.18%) Senior Manager
9 11 (3.83%) Project Engineer
10 10 (3.48%) Technical Leader
11 9 (3.14%) Applications Support
11 9 (3.14%) IAM Developer
11 9 (3.14%) IT Support
11 9 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (2.79%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 8 (2.79%) SAP Manager
12 8 (2.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.79%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.71%) GraphQL
1 25 (8.71%) LDAP
1 25 (8.71%) OAuth
1 25 (8.71%) OpenID
1 25 (8.71%) REST
1 25 (8.71%) SAML
1 25 (8.71%) SOAP
2 8 (2.79%) .NET
3 4 (1.39%) Kafka
3 4 (1.39%) RESTful
4 3 (1.05%) Blazor
5 2 (0.70%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.70%) Web Services
6 1 (0.35%) CSS
6 1 (0.35%) CSS3
6 1 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.35%) HTML
6 1 (0.35%) HTML5
6 1 (0.35%) Playwright
6 1 (0.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.71%) Cyber Threat
1 25 (8.71%) Cyberattack
2 20 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.88%) Driving Licence
4 11 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.09%) Life Science
6 6 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.74%) Wiki
8 4 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.39%) Clustering
8 4 (1.39%) CMDB
8 4 (1.39%) Derivative
8 4 (1.39%) OTC Derivatives
8 4 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.80%) Windows
2 21 (7.32%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.83%) Linux
4 4 (1.39%) Unix
4 4 (1.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) CentOS
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (26.13%) Agile
2 65 (22.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 63 (21.95%) Mentoring
4 53 (18.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (16.72%) Project Delivery
6 47 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (16.38%) Roadmaps
7 43 (14.98%) Cybersecurity
8 41 (14.29%) DevOps
9 38 (13.24%) Project Management
10 33 (11.50%) Change Management
10 33 (11.50%) Risk Management
11 32 (11.15%) Validation
12 31 (10.80%) Regulatory Compliance
13 30 (10.45%) Programme Delivery
13 30 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (9.06%) CI/CD
14 26 (9.06%) Identity Access Management
15 25 (8.71%) AI
15 25 (8.71%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 58 (20.21%) SQL
2 39 (13.59%) PowerShell
3 31 (10.80%) Python
4 29 (10.10%) Bash
5 28 (9.76%) T-SQL
6 14 (4.88%) C#
7 13 (4.53%) Java
8 8 (2.79%) C++
9 6 (2.09%) Rust
10 4 (1.39%) Go
11 2 (0.70%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.70%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.70%) Bicep
12 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 46 (16.03%) Degree
2 36 (12.54%) Security Cleared
3 28 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.67%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (4.88%) CCNP
6 13 (4.53%) DBS Check
7 12 (4.18%) PMI Certification
7 12 (4.18%) PMP
8 11 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (3.83%) CCIE
8 11 (3.83%) CCNA
8 11 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (3.48%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.79%) HNC
10 8 (2.79%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.09%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.74%) JNCIA
12 5 (1.74%) JNCIP
12 5 (1.74%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (9.76%) NIST
3 25 (8.71%) NCSC
4 18 (6.27%) PMO
4 18 (6.27%) QA
5 13 (4.53%) Data Quality
6 12 (4.18%) SLA
7 9 (3.14%) GDPR
8 6 (2.09%) GMP
9 5 (1.74%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 5 (1.74%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.74%) GxP
9 5 (1.74%) NEBOSH
10 4 (1.39%) MiFID
11 3 (1.05%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.70%) COBIT
12 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.70%) SOC 1
12 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (15.68%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.23%) Firmware
3 11 (3.83%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.74%) vSphere
6 4 (1.39%) Docker
7 2 (0.70%) vCloud
8 1 (0.35%) iptables
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (5.92%) Ansible
1 17 (5.92%) Kubernetes
1 17 (5.92%) Terraform
2 6 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.39%) Grafana
5 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.70%) Nagios
5 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.70%) Puppet
5 2 (0.70%) SCCM
5 2 (0.70%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.35%) Autotask
6 1 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 76 (26.48%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.71%) Cisco
3 17 (5.92%) SAP
3 17 (5.92%) VMware
4 14 (4.88%) Fortinet
5 11 (3.83%) Juniper
6 10 (3.48%) Citrix
6 10 (3.48%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.44%) Databricks
7 7 (2.44%) F5
7 7 (2.44%) Veeam
8 6 (2.09%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.74%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.39%) JD Edwards
10 4 (1.39%) Oracle
10 4 (1.39%) QNAP
10 4 (1.39%) Synology
11 3 (1.05%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.05%) Dell
11 3 (1.05%) NEC