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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 408 374
Rank change year-on-year +1 -34 -16
Permanent jobs citing Change Control 405 244 438
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.56% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.63% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 261 154 254
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,359 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +7.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £76,750
UK median annual salary £59,450 £51,000 £49,762
% change year-on-year +16.57% +2.49% -9.52%

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 73,131 38,549 56,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.32% 88.64% 81.20%
Number of salaries quoted 52,091 22,224 32,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,500
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 10 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 10 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 +25 110 £57,500 +27.78% 101
London -40 105 £70,000 - 214
North of England -36 60 £49,000 +27.39% 67
Midlands -18 51 £55,000 +14.58% 38
North West +19 48 £48,000 +33.88% 36
East of England +4 48 £54,500 -0.91% 44
West Midlands -7 39 £55,000 +10.00% 25
South West -70 21 £37,500 -28.57% 58
East Midlands -19 12 £42,500 +21.43% 13
North East -64 7 £55,000 +57.14% 11
Yorkshire -54 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 28 (6.91%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.21%) Confluence
3 11 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.23%) SAS
5 3 (0.74%) IIS
6 2 (0.49%) ArchestrA
7 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
Applications
1 34 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (6.91%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.48%) AutoCAD
4 6 (1.48%) Revit
5 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.25%) CATIA
6 1 (0.25%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.99%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.99%) Sage 200
3 4 (0.99%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.74%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.74%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.49%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.25%) ENOVIA
6 1 (0.25%) Maximo
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.25%) Primavera
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.25%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (23.21%) Azure
2 60 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (10.37%) Power Platform
4 37 (9.14%) AWS
5 28 (6.91%) Entra ID
6 21 (5.19%) SaaS
7 19 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (3.95%) Power Automate
9 16 (3.95%) PowerApps
10 14 (3.46%) GitHub
10 14 (3.46%) OneDrive
10 14 (3.46%) Serverless
11 9 (2.22%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.73%) Datadog
13 7 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.73%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.16%) Firewall
2 18 (4.44%) WAN
3 16 (3.95%) DNS
3 16 (3.95%) LAN
4 15 (3.70%) DHCP
5 12 (2.96%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.72%) Network Security
6 11 (2.72%) VPN
7 10 (2.47%) BGP
8 9 (2.22%) OSPF
8 9 (2.22%) VLAN
8 9 (2.22%) VoIP
9 8 (1.98%) Structured Cabling
10 7 (1.73%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (1.48%) SAN
11 6 (1.48%) SD-WAN
11 6 (1.48%) WLAN
12 5 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (1.23%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.99%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.17%) Power BI
2 12 (2.96%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.48%) Big Data
4 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.23%) Power Query
5 4 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.49%) Ataccama
7 2 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.25%) Db2
8 1 (0.25%) DB2 UDB
8 1 (0.25%) EDMS
8 1 (0.25%) GIS
8 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.25%) QlikView
8 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (9.38%) JIRA
2 9 (2.22%) Git
3 6 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (1.23%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.49%) GitLab
6 2 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.25%) Maven
7 1 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 173 (42.72%) Social Skills
2 148 (36.54%) Finance
3 64 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (11.36%) Organisational Skills
5 41 (10.12%) Legal
6 39 (9.63%) Manufacturing
7 27 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (6.42%) Public Sector
9 23 (5.68%) Banking
10 22 (5.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 21 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (5.19%) Law
11 21 (5.19%) Retail
12 19 (4.69%) Aerospace
13 16 (3.95%) Marketing
14 12 (2.96%) Military
15 11 (2.72%) Telecoms
16 9 (2.22%) Billing
17 8 (1.98%) Local Government
18 7 (1.73%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 80 (19.75%) Senior
2 70 (17.28%) Project Manager
3 48 (11.85%) Lead
4 40 (9.88%) Analyst
5 27 (6.67%) Senior Manager
6 23 (5.68%) IT Manager
7 21 (5.19%) Administrator
7 21 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (4.44%) Systems Administrator
9 17 (4.20%) IT Project Manager
10 16 (3.95%) IT Support
11 12 (2.96%) Architect
11 12 (2.96%) Junior
11 12 (2.96%) Network Engineer
11 12 (2.96%) Senior Project Manager
11 12 (2.96%) Systems Manager
12 11 (2.72%) ERP Manager
12 11 (2.72%) QA Leader
13 10 (2.47%) Applications Engineer
13 10 (2.47%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.17%) Terraform
2 9 (2.22%) Spring
2 9 (2.22%) Spring Boot
3 7 (1.73%) REST
4 6 (1.48%) .NET
4 6 (1.48%) MIDP
5 5 (1.23%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.23%) Node.js
5 5 (1.23%) ODBC
5 5 (1.23%) YAML
6 4 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.99%) OAuth
6 4 (0.99%) RESTful
7 3 (0.74%) Blazor
7 3 (0.74%) JSON
7 3 (0.74%) Middleware
7 3 (0.74%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.49%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.49%) Classic ASP
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.15%) Management Information System
2 29 (7.16%) Data Centre
3 25 (6.17%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.43%) Driving Licence
5 14 (3.46%) Operational Technology
5 14 (3.46%) PMI
6 13 (3.21%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.72%) LIMS
8 11 (2.72%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.72%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.47%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.98%) Life Science
10 8 (1.98%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.73%) Social Media
12 5 (1.23%) Cyber Security Posture
12 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (0.99%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.58%) Windows
2 33 (8.15%) Windows Server
3 19 (4.69%) Linux
4 8 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.23%) CentOS
5 5 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (34.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 133 (32.84%) Agile
3 107 (26.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 81 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (19.01%) PRINCE2
6 75 (18.52%) Project Delivery
7 68 (16.79%) Project Management
8 64 (15.80%) Validation
9 63 (15.56%) Change Management
10 61 (15.06%) DevOps
11 49 (12.10%) ITIL
12 46 (11.36%) Migration
13 45 (11.11%) Risk Management
13 45 (11.11%) Roadmaps
13 45 (11.11%) Service Management
14 44 (10.86%) ERP
15 42 (10.37%) Decision-Making
16 37 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
16 37 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 36 (8.89%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 47 (11.60%) SQL
2 25 (6.17%) Python
3 20 (4.94%) PowerShell
4 16 (3.95%) Java
5 11 (2.72%) C#
6 8 (1.98%) C++
7 6 (1.48%) Bicep
7 6 (1.48%) C
8 5 (1.23%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.23%) Rust
9 4 (0.99%) VBA
10 3 (0.74%) Bash
11 2 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (20.25%) Degree
2 52 (12.84%) Security Cleared
3 41 (10.12%) PMI Certification
4 35 (8.64%) PMP
5 33 (8.15%) DV Cleared
6 31 (7.65%) SC Cleared
7 21 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (3.46%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.96%) DBS Check
10 11 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (2.47%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.73%) CCNP
12 7 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (1.73%) Postgraduate
13 6 (1.48%) CISSP
13 6 (1.48%) RIBA
14 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
14 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (13.83%) QA
2 44 (10.86%) PMO
3 31 (7.65%) Data Quality
4 22 (5.43%) Accessibility
5 20 (4.94%) GxP
6 19 (4.69%) SLA
7 17 (4.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (3.46%) GMP
9 12 (2.96%) GDPR
10 11 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (1.98%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 8 (1.98%) GLP
11 8 (1.98%) Good Clinical Practice
12 6 (1.48%) MISRA
13 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.74%) NIST
14 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.49%) MiFID
14 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (9.14%) Active Directory
2 18 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.98%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.73%) Firmware
4 7 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.73%) vSphere
5 3 (0.74%) KVM
5 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.49%) Docker
6 2 (0.49%) UAG
6 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.49%) XenApp
7 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (3.46%) Ansible
2 13 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (2.96%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.73%) vCenter Server
5 6 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.23%) Nessus
7 4 (0.99%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.74%) SCCM
9 2 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.25%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.25%) Grafana
10 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 136 (33.58%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.90%) SAP
3 22 (5.43%) VMware
4 17 (4.20%) Cisco
5 15 (3.70%) Oracle
5 15 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.21%) Apple
7 10 (2.47%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.47%) Splunk
8 8 (1.98%) Aderant
9 7 (1.73%) Google
9 7 (1.73%) iManage
9 7 (1.73%) Intapp
10 6 (1.48%) Autodesk
10 6 (1.48%) Citrix
11 5 (1.23%) NEC
11 5 (1.23%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.99%) Sage
12 4 (0.99%) Sophos