Change Control Job Trends

Change Control
UK

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 359 348
Rank change year-on-year -23 -11 -33
Permanent jobs citing Change Control 299 400 511
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.75% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.83% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 152 195 362
10th Percentile £33,670 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,280 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -3.05%
75th Percentile £69,500 £63,750 £62,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £75,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,445 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.55% +10.00% +2.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,274 48,415 58,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.40% 91.16% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,681 23,366 44,999
10th Percentile £28,571 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,246 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Change Control job vacancy trend in the UK

Change Control
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Change Control.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Change Control

Change Control
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Control over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Change Control in the UK

Change Control
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Control within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +19 268 £57,500 +4.55% 259
UK excluding London -77 163 £46,445 -15.55% 234
London +76 116 £67,500 +12.50% 77
Work from Home +76 99 £46,445 -19.23% 144
South East +14 62 £43,750 -12.50% 85
Midlands -18 37 £46,445 -19.23% 36
North of England -36 25 £41,075 -15.74% 37
East Midlands +1 19 £32,500 -29.73% 17
South West +14 18 £33,500 - 35
West Midlands -1 18 £65,000 +13.04% 19
North West +7 14 £57,500 +4.55% 19
Yorkshire -32 9 £41,075 -26.19% 11
East of England +25 6 £54,000 -40.00% 33
Wales - 6 £48,500 - 5
Northern Ireland -17 5 £58,250 - 2
Scotland -53 4 £52,500 -4.55% 11
North East -22 2 £31,250 -16.67% 7

Change Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 20 (6.69%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.67%) IIS
4 4 (1.34%) Confluence
5 2 (0.67%) HCL Notes
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 35 (11.71%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (7.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (6.69%) MS Visio
4 13 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (4.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.67%) Windchill
7 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.67%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.67%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) Primavera
3 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 67 (22.41%) Azure
2 31 (10.37%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (9.03%) Entra ID
4 20 (6.69%) SaaS
5 17 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (5.35%) AWS
7 15 (5.02%) Google Workspace
8 14 (4.68%) PaaS
9 13 (4.35%) IaaS
10 8 (2.68%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.67%) GCP
11 5 (1.67%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.34%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.34%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.34%) Route 53
12 4 (1.34%) Smartsheet
13 3 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.00%) Datadog
13 3 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 41 (13.71%) Firewall
2 20 (6.69%) LAN
3 16 (5.35%) Network Security
4 15 (5.02%) Broadband
5 14 (4.68%) DHCP
5 14 (4.68%) DNS
6 12 (4.01%) WAN
7 8 (2.68%) MPLS
7 8 (2.68%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.68%) VLAN
8 7 (2.34%) BGP
8 7 (2.34%) OSPF
8 7 (2.34%) VPN
9 5 (1.67%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (1.67%) Multicast
9 5 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.34%) Internet
10 4 (1.34%) Structured Cabling
10 4 (1.34%) Wireless
10 4 (1.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.68%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.34%) Power BI
4 4 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.67%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.33%) Ataccama
7 1 (0.33%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) Metadata
7 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (14.38%) JIRA
2 37 (12.37%) Git
3 31 (10.37%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 139 (46.49%) Social Skills
2 99 (33.11%) Finance
3 52 (17.39%) Organisational Skills
4 25 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (6.69%) Manufacturing
7 17 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (5.02%) Legal
8 15 (5.02%) Public Sector
9 14 (4.68%) Marketing
10 12 (4.01%) Banking
11 10 (3.34%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.68%) Law
13 6 (2.01%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.67%) Police
15 4 (1.34%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.34%) Retail
16 2 (0.67%) Local Government
16 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (18.06%) Lead
2 46 (15.38%) Senior
3 36 (12.04%) Network Engineer
4 33 (11.04%) Project Manager
5 27 (9.03%) Analyst
6 22 (7.36%) IT Manager
7 15 (5.02%) Developer
8 14 (4.68%) Applications Support
9 12 (4.01%) Support Analyst
10 11 (3.68%) 2nd Line Support
10 11 (3.68%) Project Engineer
11 10 (3.34%) Senior Network Engineer
12 8 (2.68%) Applications Support Analyst
12 8 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.68%) Innovation Manager
13 7 (2.34%) Architect
13 7 (2.34%) Deployment Engineer
13 7 (2.34%) Network Deployment Engineer
13 7 (2.34%) Support Engineer
14 6 (2.01%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.35%) LDAP
2 15 (5.02%) GraphQL
2 15 (5.02%) OAuth
2 15 (5.02%) OpenID
2 15 (5.02%) REST
2 15 (5.02%) SAML
2 15 (5.02%) SOAP
3 10 (3.34%) .NET
4 5 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (1.34%) RESTful
6 3 (1.00%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.67%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (0.67%) WCF
8 1 (0.33%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.33%) EDI
8 1 (0.33%) JSON
8 1 (0.33%) SAP Basis
8 1 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.69%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.02%) Cyber Threat
2 15 (5.02%) Cyberattack
2 15 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.68%) Driving Licence
5 10 (3.34%) Life Science
6 9 (3.01%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.68%) PKI
8 6 (2.01%) CMDB
8 6 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.67%) Clustering
9 5 (1.67%) Wiki
10 4 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.04%) Windows
2 21 (7.02%) Linux
3 20 (6.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.01%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.67%) Android
5 5 (1.67%) VMS
6 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 60 (20.07%) Mentoring
3 58 (19.40%) Change Management
4 55 (18.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 53 (17.73%) Agile
6 49 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (16.05%) Project Delivery
8 43 (14.38%) Project Management
9 42 (14.05%) Cybersecurity
10 39 (13.04%) Configuration Management
10 39 (13.04%) Roadmaps
10 39 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 36 (12.04%) Technical Leadership
12 34 (11.37%) ITIL
13 33 (11.04%) DevOps
14 27 (9.03%) Process Improvement
14 27 (9.03%) Programme Delivery
14 27 (9.03%) Strategic Thinking
15 26 (8.70%) Programme Management
15 26 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 46 (15.38%) SQL
2 34 (11.37%) PowerShell
3 30 (10.03%) Python
4 23 (7.69%) Bash
5 20 (6.69%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.34%) C#
7 4 (1.34%) Go
8 3 (1.00%) Bicep
8 3 (1.00%) C++
8 3 (1.00%) Java
9 2 (0.67%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.67%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.33%) Rust
10 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (24.41%) Degree
2 67 (22.41%) Security Cleared
3 43 (14.38%) Cisco Certification
4 37 (12.37%) SC Cleared
5 28 (9.36%) CCNP
6 21 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (6.69%) CCIE
8 15 (5.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (5.02%) CCNA
9 9 (3.01%) CCA
9 9 (3.01%) Citrix Certification
9 9 (3.01%) MCP
9 9 (3.01%) MCSA
9 9 (3.01%) MCSE
9 9 (3.01%) PMI Certification
9 9 (3.01%) PMP
10 8 (2.68%) DBS Check
10 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.68%) HNC
11 7 (2.34%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.38%) QA
2 30 (10.03%) Def Stans
3 23 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (6.35%) NIST
5 17 (5.69%) SLA
6 16 (5.35%) PMO
7 15 (5.02%) NCSC
8 8 (2.68%) Data Quality
8 8 (2.68%) GDPR
9 5 (1.67%) NEBOSH
10 4 (1.34%) GMP
11 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
11 3 (1.00%) ISO 9001
11 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.67%) COBIT
12 2 (0.67%) GRC
12 2 (0.67%) MiFID
12 2 (0.67%) SOC 1
12 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (13.38%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.68%) Firmware
4 12 (4.01%) Hyper-V
5 9 (3.01%) Docker
6 7 (2.34%) vCloud
7 1 (0.33%) iptables
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (5.69%) Ansible
2 14 (4.68%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.34%) Terraform
5 7 (2.34%) Puppet
6 5 (1.67%) Nagios
7 4 (1.34%) Grafana
8 3 (1.00%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (1.00%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.67%) SCCM
10 1 (0.33%) Autotask
10 1 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (28.09%) Microsoft
2 43 (14.38%) Cisco
3 26 (8.70%) VMware
4 21 (7.02%) Fortinet
5 16 (5.35%) F5
6 15 (5.02%) CheckPoint
7 11 (3.68%) Oracle
7 11 (3.68%) SAP
8 10 (3.34%) Citrix
8 10 (3.34%) Juniper
9 7 (2.34%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.01%) Dell
11 5 (1.67%) Arista
11 5 (1.67%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.00%) Meraki
12 3 (1.00%) NEC
12 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.00%) Sage
12 3 (1.00%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.00%) Zscaler