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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 423 371
Rank change year-on-year +15 -52 -10
Permanent jobs citing Change Control 382 247 462
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.57% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.64% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 253 155 281
10th Percentile £36,150 £35,854 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £40,693 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +8.25% -11.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% +2.00% -9.09%

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 71,365 38,632 57,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.35% 88.65% 81.19%
Number of salaries quoted 50,813 22,409 35,446
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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
South East +3 106 £57,500 +35.29% 113
London -36 103 £70,000 -1.75% 242
North of England -27 58 £49,500 +20.51% 79
East of England -3 48 £59,450 +8.09% 39
North West +15 46 £48,500 +35.27% 48
Midlands -21 43 £47,500 -5.00% 42
West Midlands -14 31 £55,000 +10.00% 27
South West -71 14 £47,500 -9.52% 72
East Midlands -16 12 £42,500 -6.37% 15
North East -61 7 £55,000 +57.14% 11
Yorkshire -61 5 £55,000 +12.24% 21
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 27 (7.07%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.40%) Confluence
3 11 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.83%) SAS
5 3 (0.79%) IIS
6 2 (0.52%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 30 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (7.07%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.62%) MS Visio
5 8 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (1.57%) AutoCAD
6 6 (1.57%) Revit
7 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.26%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.05%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.05%) Sage 200
3 4 (1.05%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.79%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.79%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.52%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.26%) Maximo
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.26%) Primavera
6 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.26%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 96 (25.13%) Azure
2 60 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (10.73%) Power Platform
4 40 (10.47%) AWS
5 29 (7.59%) Entra ID
6 21 (5.50%) SaaS
7 19 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (4.19%) Power Automate
9 16 (4.19%) PowerApps
9 16 (4.19%) Serverless
10 14 (3.66%) GitHub
10 14 (3.66%) OneDrive
11 10 (2.62%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.83%) Datadog
14 7 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.83%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.07%) Firewall
2 16 (4.19%) WAN
3 14 (3.66%) DNS
3 14 (3.66%) LAN
4 13 (3.40%) DHCP
5 11 (2.88%) Network Security
5 11 (2.88%) VPN
6 10 (2.62%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.36%) VoIP
8 8 (2.09%) BGP
9 7 (1.83%) OSPF
9 7 (1.83%) VLAN
10 6 (1.57%) SAN
10 6 (1.57%) SD-WAN
10 6 (1.57%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (1.57%) WLAN
11 5 (1.31%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (1.05%) NAS
12 4 (1.05%) Wireless
13 3 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.28%) Power BI
2 13 (3.40%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.09%) Big Data
4 5 (1.31%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.31%) Power Query
5 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.52%) Ataccama
7 2 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.26%) Db2
8 1 (0.26%) EDMS
8 1 (0.26%) GIS
8 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 37 (9.69%) JIRA
2 7 (1.83%) Git
3 6 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (1.31%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.52%) GitLab
6 2 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.26%) Maven
7 1 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 157 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 138 (36.13%) Finance
3 61 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.95%) Organisational Skills
5 37 (9.69%) Manufacturing
6 33 (8.64%) Legal
7 26 (6.81%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (5.76%) Public Sector
9 21 (5.50%) Banking
9 21 (5.50%) Law
10 20 (5.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 19 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (4.97%) Retail
12 18 (4.71%) Aerospace
13 13 (3.40%) Marketing
14 11 (2.88%) Military
15 9 (2.36%) Billing
15 9 (2.36%) Telecoms
16 8 (2.09%) Local Government
17 7 (1.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 73 (19.11%) Senior
2 65 (17.02%) Project Manager
3 50 (13.09%) Lead
4 40 (10.47%) Analyst
5 23 (6.02%) IT Manager
6 22 (5.76%) Senior Manager
7 21 (5.50%) Administrator
7 21 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (4.71%) Systems Administrator
9 17 (4.45%) IT Project Manager
10 16 (4.19%) IT Support
11 12 (3.14%) Architect
12 11 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (2.88%) ERP Manager
12 11 (2.88%) Junior
12 11 (2.88%) QA Leader
12 11 (2.88%) Systems Manager
13 10 (2.62%) Applications Engineer
13 10 (2.62%) Business Systems Manager
13 10 (2.62%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.28%) Terraform
2 9 (2.36%) Spring
2 9 (2.36%) Spring Boot
3 7 (1.83%) REST
4 6 (1.57%) .NET
4 6 (1.57%) MIDP
5 5 (1.31%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.31%) Node.js
5 5 (1.31%) ODBC
6 4 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.05%) OAuth
6 4 (1.05%) RESTful
7 3 (0.79%) Blazor
7 3 (0.79%) JSON
7 3 (0.79%) ModSecurity
7 3 (0.79%) YAML
8 2 (0.52%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.52%) Classic ASP
8 2 (0.52%) Middleware
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.90%) Management Information System
2 27 (7.07%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.28%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.97%) Driving Licence
5 14 (3.66%) PMI
6 13 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.14%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.88%) Operational Technology
8 11 (2.88%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.88%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.62%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.62%) LIMS
10 8 (2.09%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.83%) Life Science
11 7 (1.83%) Social Media
12 5 (1.31%) Cyber Security Posture
13 4 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (1.05%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.66%) Windows
2 34 (8.90%) Windows Server
3 19 (4.97%) Linux
4 8 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.31%) CentOS
5 5 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (34.55%) Agile
2 127 (33.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 99 (25.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 78 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (19.11%) PRINCE2
6 71 (18.59%) Project Delivery
7 63 (16.49%) DevOps
8 60 (15.71%) Project Management
9 59 (15.45%) Validation
10 58 (15.18%) Change Management
11 48 (12.57%) ITIL
12 44 (11.52%) ERP
12 44 (11.52%) Migration
12 44 (11.52%) Roadmaps
13 43 (11.26%) Risk Management
13 43 (11.26%) Service Management
14 39 (10.21%) Decision-Making
15 36 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 35 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (8.90%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 47 (12.30%) SQL
2 23 (6.02%) Python
3 20 (5.24%) PowerShell
4 16 (4.19%) Java
5 11 (2.88%) C#
6 8 (2.09%) C++
7 6 (1.57%) Bicep
7 6 (1.57%) C
8 5 (1.31%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.31%) Rust
9 4 (1.05%) VBA
10 3 (0.79%) Bash
11 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (21.20%) Degree
2 48 (12.57%) Security Cleared
3 39 (10.21%) PMI Certification
4 33 (8.64%) DV Cleared
4 33 (8.64%) PMP
5 27 (7.07%) SC Cleared
6 21 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (4.19%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.14%) DBS Check
10 10 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (2.62%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.83%) CCNP
11 7 (1.83%) CISSP
11 7 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.83%) Postgraduate
12 6 (1.57%) RIBA
13 5 (1.31%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (14.40%) QA
2 42 (10.99%) PMO
3 32 (8.38%) Data Quality
4 21 (5.50%) Accessibility
5 19 (4.97%) GxP
5 19 (4.97%) SLA
6 17 (4.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (3.40%) GMP
8 11 (2.88%) GDPR
8 11 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (2.09%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 8 (2.09%) GLP
9 8 (2.09%) Good Clinical Practice
10 6 (1.57%) MISRA
11 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.79%) NIST
12 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.52%) MiFID
12 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (9.95%) Active Directory
2 18 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.09%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.83%) Firmware
4 7 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.83%) vSphere
5 3 (0.79%) KVM
5 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.52%) Docker
6 2 (0.52%) UAG
6 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.52%) XenApp
7 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (3.40%) Kubernetes
1 13 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.14%) Ansible
3 7 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.83%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.31%) Nessus
5 4 (1.05%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.79%) SCCM
7 2 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.26%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.26%) Grafana
8 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 129 (33.77%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.38%) SAP
3 22 (5.76%) VMware
4 15 (3.93%) Cisco
4 15 (3.93%) Oracle
5 14 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.40%) Apple
7 10 (2.62%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.62%) Splunk
8 8 (2.09%) Aderant
8 8 (2.09%) iManage
9 7 (1.83%) Google
9 7 (1.83%) Intapp
10 6 (1.57%) Autodesk
10 6 (1.57%) Citrix
11 5 (1.31%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.05%) Databricks
12 4 (1.05%) Sage
12 4 (1.05%) Sophos