Change Control Job Trends in the North West

Change Control
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Change Control skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 177 170
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +96
Permanent jobs citing Change Control 17 28 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.28% 0.54% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.60% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 20
10th Percentile - £46,400 £23,750
25th Percentile - £50,000 £29,010
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,854 £55,000 £41,774
Median % change year-on-year -34.81% +31.66% -0.77%
75th Percentile £57,813 £60,000 £51,556
90th Percentile £65,300 £65,000 £60,741
England median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +0.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,116 4,694 3,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.01% 90.27% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 2,311 2,675
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,320 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Change Control job vacancy trend in the North West

Change Control
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Change Control.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Change Control

Change Control
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Control in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Change Control in the North West

Change Control
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Control within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Cumbria +10 6 £35,854 -34.81% 1
Merseyside +2 5 - - 4
Manchester +10 3 £48,750 -15.22% 10
Cheshire - 2 £65,000 - 4
Change Control
England

Change Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.88%) Datadog
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VLAN
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Police
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Development Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Development Support Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Support Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Systems Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Systems Development Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Systems Support
2 6 (35.29%) Systems Support Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) QC Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Change Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL Change Manager
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Java Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Supply Chain Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) ITIL
2 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (41.18%) Data Security
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (35.29%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (23.53%) Component Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Data Interpretation
5 4 (23.53%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (23.53%) Validation
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) DevOps
7 2 (11.76%) Change Management
7 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 6 (35.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 4 (23.53%) GMP
3 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) Firmware
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow