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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 390 334
Rank change year-on-year +7 -56 -31
Permanent jobs citing Change Control 285 248 582
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.65% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.69% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 156 151 434
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,375 £50,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +14.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £96,875 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +14.00% -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 51,545 35,897 65,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.85% 93.55% 87.04%
Number of salaries quoted 31,924 20,241 50,770
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,007
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 18 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 18 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 +60 140 £70,000 +21.74% 51
Midlands -30 39 £50,000 -13.04% 23
South East -40 38 £42,250 -11.05% 31
North of England -49 21 £57,500 +2.22% 28
South West -14 20 £33,500 -39.09% 11
West Midlands -21 20 £62,500 +8.70% 17
East of England -6 19 £59,450 -20.73% 12
North West -11 19 £57,500 - 18
East Midlands -26 19 £32,500 -38.10% 6
North East -23 1 - - 2
Yorkshire -51 1 £90,000 +64.25% 9
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 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.11%) SAS
4 3 (1.05%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (8.77%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (4.91%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (3.51%) MS Visio
5 9 (3.16%) 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 10 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.75%) 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 (28.42%) Azure
2 38 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 29 (10.18%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (9.12%) AWS
5 25 (8.77%) Google Workspace
6 17 (5.96%) SaaS
7 16 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (4.56%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.81%) Serverless
10 7 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.46%) Amazon ECR
10 7 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.46%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.46%) AWS KMS
10 7 (2.46%) IaaS
10 7 (2.46%) PaaS
10 7 (2.46%) Route 53
11 6 (2.11%) GCP
12 5 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.75%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.77%) Broadband
2 24 (8.42%) Firewall
3 11 (3.86%) LAN
4 9 (3.16%) Network Security
4 9 (3.16%) WAN
5 8 (2.81%) VLAN
5 8 (2.81%) VPN
6 7 (2.46%) DHCP
6 7 (2.46%) DNS
7 6 (2.11%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (1.75%) Multicast
8 5 (1.75%) NAS
8 5 (1.75%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.05%) BGP
9 3 (1.05%) OSPF
9 3 (1.05%) SAN
9 3 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.05%) WinSCP
9 3 (1.05%) Wireless
10 2 (0.70%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.21%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.51%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.81%) Power BI
4 6 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (2.11%) Big Data
5 4 (1.40%) DB2
5 4 (1.40%) DB2 UDB
5 4 (1.40%) QlikView
5 4 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.40%) 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 (4.91%) JIRA
2 10 (3.51%) 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 93 (32.63%) Finance
2 91 (31.93%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 24 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (5.96%) Manufacturing
6 16 (5.61%) Banking
7 14 (4.91%) Legal
7 14 (4.91%) Marketing
8 9 (3.16%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.81%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.81%) Law
9 8 (2.81%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.11%) Front Office
10 6 (2.11%) Retail
11 5 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.40%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.05%) Advertising
13 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 55 (19.30%) Senior
2 42 (14.74%) Project Manager
3 36 (12.63%) Lead
4 24 (8.42%) Network Engineer
5 23 (8.07%) Developer
6 21 (7.37%) IT Manager
7 20 (7.02%) Analyst
8 12 (4.21%) Senior Manager
9 11 (3.86%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (3.86%) Project Engineer
10 9 (3.16%) 2nd Line Support
10 9 (3.16%) Applications Support
10 9 (3.16%) IAM Developer
10 9 (3.16%) IT Support
10 9 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (2.81%) Architect
11 8 (2.81%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 8 (2.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (2.81%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.77%) GraphQL
1 25 (8.77%) LDAP
1 25 (8.77%) OAuth
1 25 (8.77%) OpenID
1 25 (8.77%) REST
1 25 (8.77%) SAML
1 25 (8.77%) SOAP
2 7 (2.46%) .NET
3 4 (1.40%) Kafka
3 4 (1.40%) RESTful
4 2 (0.70%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.70%) Blazor
4 2 (0.70%) Web Services
5 1 (0.35%) CSS
5 1 (0.35%) EDI
5 1 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.35%) HTML
5 1 (0.35%) Middleware
5 1 (0.35%) Playwright
5 1 (0.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.77%) Cyber Threat
1 25 (8.77%) Cyberattack
2 19 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.32%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.91%) Driving Licence
5 11 (3.86%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.46%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.11%) CMDB
8 6 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.11%) Life Science
9 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.75%) Wiki
10 4 (1.40%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.40%) Clustering
10 4 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.40%) Derivative
10 4 (1.40%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.23%) Windows
2 20 (7.02%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.56%) Linux
4 4 (1.40%) Unix
4 4 (1.40%) 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 72 (25.26%) Agile
2 64 (22.46%) Mentoring
3 63 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (16.84%) Project Delivery
6 46 (16.14%) Cybersecurity
6 46 (16.14%) Roadmaps
7 45 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (13.68%) DevOps
9 38 (13.33%) Project Management
10 34 (11.93%) Risk Management
11 33 (11.58%) Change Management
12 31 (10.88%) Regulatory Compliance
12 31 (10.88%) Validation
13 30 (10.53%) Programme Delivery
13 30 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (9.12%) CI/CD
14 26 (9.12%) Identity Access Management
14 26 (9.12%) ITIL
15 25 (8.77%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 58 (20.35%) SQL
2 39 (13.68%) PowerShell
3 31 (10.88%) Python
4 29 (10.18%) Bash
5 28 (9.82%) T-SQL
6 13 (4.56%) C#
6 13 (4.56%) Java
7 8 (2.81%) C++
8 6 (2.11%) Rust
9 4 (1.40%) Go
10 2 (0.70%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.70%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (0.70%) Bicep
11 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 43 (15.09%) Degree
2 38 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 30 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.12%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (5.26%) CCNP
6 13 (4.56%) CCIE
7 12 (4.21%) CCNA
7 12 (4.21%) DBS Check
7 12 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (4.21%) PMI Certification
7 12 (4.21%) PMP
8 10 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.51%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.81%) HNC
10 6 (2.11%) CCA
10 6 (2.11%) Citrix Certification
10 6 (2.11%) MCSA
10 6 (2.11%) MCSE
10 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (2.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (9.82%) NIST
3 25 (8.77%) NCSC
4 18 (6.32%) PMO
4 18 (6.32%) QA
5 13 (4.56%) SLA
6 11 (3.86%) Data Quality
7 9 (3.16%) GDPR
8 5 (1.75%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (1.75%) GMP
8 5 (1.75%) GxP
8 5 (1.75%) NEBOSH
9 4 (1.40%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.40%) MiFID
10 3 (1.05%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.70%) COBIT
11 2 (0.70%) GRC
11 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.70%) SOC 1
11 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (15.44%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.61%) Firmware
3 11 (3.86%) Hyper-V
3 11 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.75%) vSphere
5 4 (1.40%) Docker
6 2 (0.70%) vCloud
7 1 (0.35%) iptables
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (6.32%) Terraform
2 17 (5.96%) Ansible
2 17 (5.96%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.40%) Grafana
4 4 (1.40%) Nagios
5 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
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%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 76 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.18%) Cisco
3 19 (6.67%) VMware
4 16 (5.61%) Fortinet
4 16 (5.61%) SAP
5 11 (3.86%) Citrix
5 11 (3.86%) Juniper
6 9 (3.16%) F5
6 9 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.81%) CheckPoint
8 7 (2.46%) Databricks
8 7 (2.46%) Veeam
9 5 (1.75%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.40%) Dell
10 4 (1.40%) JD Edwards
10 4 (1.40%) Oracle
10 4 (1.40%) QNAP
10 4 (1.40%) Synology
11 3 (1.05%) Meraki
11 3 (1.05%) NEC