Change Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Change Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 121 131
Rank change year-on-year +35 +10 +34
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 3,085 2,977 4,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.14% 2.83% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 2.96% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,665 1,865 2,885
10th Percentile £35,924 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £71,248
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,396 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.79% - +5.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Change Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Change Management.

Salary trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +42 2,739 £55,000 - 728
UK excluding London +34 2,111 £52,396 +4.79% 444
Work from Home +54 1,193 £57,500 +4.55% 282
London +47 858 £72,500 +11.54% 307
North of England +61 520 £52,500 +6.60% 110
South East +2 469 £51,997 +0.37% 116
Midlands -8 352 £52,500 - 70
North West +65 291 £52,500 - 64
South West +19 264 £50,000 +11.11% 50
East of England +65 255 £54,500 -0.23% 50
West Midlands -12 243 £51,997 -0.96% 45
Scotland +20 178 £55,000 -7.60% 41
Yorkshire +53 175 £54,250 +17.93% 37
East Midlands +10 97 £54,000 +2.86% 24
Wales +26 55 £41,067 -8.74% 5
North East +35 54 £45,000 -5.26% 11
Northern Ireland +21 12 - - 8
Isle of Man - 6 £36,000 - 1

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 332 (10.76%) SAS
2 88 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 83 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 54 (1.75%) Confluence
5 30 (0.97%) Captiva
6 29 (0.94%) WebSphere
7 28 (0.91%) FileNet
8 13 (0.42%) CMS
9 8 (0.26%) IIS
10 7 (0.23%) Apache
11 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.097%) CICS
12 3 (0.097%) Documentum
12 3 (0.097%) nginx
12 3 (0.097%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.065%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.065%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 157 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
2 109 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.94%) MS Visio
5 37 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 36 (1.17%) Simulink
6 36 (1.17%) Stateflow
7 22 (0.71%) Windchill
8 11 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.13%) SPSS
11 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 307 (9.95%) SAP ERP
2 38 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.58%) NEC Housing
5 17 (0.55%) Teamcenter
6 12 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.29%) SAP CX
8 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.16%) HFM
9 5 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
9 5 (0.16%) Primavera
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.097%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.097%) Magento
11 3 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
12 2 (0.065%) Endur
12 2 (0.065%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 2 (0.065%) SAP MDG
12 2 (0.065%) SAP MM
12 2 (0.065%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 426 (13.81%) Azure
2 308 (9.98%) Microsoft 365
3 226 (7.33%) GCP
4 157 (5.09%) Power Platform
5 118 (3.82%) AWS
6 75 (2.43%) SaaS
7 69 (2.24%) Entra ID
8 66 (2.14%) IaaS
9 65 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
10 58 (1.88%) PowerApps
11 54 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
12 53 (1.72%) GitHub
13 47 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
14 37 (1.20%) PaaS
15 33 (1.07%) Power Automate
16 32 (1.04%) Serverless
17 28 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
18 22 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
18 22 (0.71%) Smartsheet
19 21 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 299 (9.69%) Broadband
2 160 (5.19%) Firewall
3 86 (2.79%) LAN
4 81 (2.63%) WAN
5 79 (2.56%) DNS
6 49 (1.59%) VPN
7 47 (1.52%) Network Security
8 45 (1.46%) Wireless
9 44 (1.43%) VoIP
10 42 (1.36%) DHCP
11 31 (1.00%) TCP/IP
12 30 (0.97%) SAN
13 29 (0.94%) Internet
13 29 (0.94%) SD-WAN
14 22 (0.71%) Intranet
15 21 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
16 20 (0.65%) VLAN
17 19 (0.62%) BGP
18 18 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
19 16 (0.52%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (5.22%) BigQuery
2 159 (5.15%) Looker
3 112 (3.63%) Power BI
4 96 (3.11%) SQL Server
5 46 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 31 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 27 (0.88%) MySQL
9 24 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 18 (0.58%) Oracle Database
11 18 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
12 17 (0.55%) RDBMS
13 14 (0.45%) Big Data
14 13 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 8 (0.26%) DB2
Development Applications
1 146 (4.73%) JIRA
2 43 (1.39%) Git
3 34 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
4 33 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.71%) Subversion
6 17 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.29%) Robot Framework
8 9 (0.29%) Selenium
9 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
10 6 (0.19%) JMeter
10 6 (0.19%) Postman
10 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
11 5 (0.16%) LabVIEW
12 4 (0.13%) GitLab
12 4 (0.13%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.097%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.065%) Hudson
14 2 (0.065%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,176 (38.12%) Social Skills
2 1,056 (34.23%) Finance
3 578 (18.74%) Analytical Skills
4 234 (7.59%) Retail
5 156 (5.06%) Manufacturing
6 152 (4.93%) Law
7 149 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 134 (4.34%) Banking
9 121 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
10 118 (3.82%) Public Sector
11 111 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
12 103 (3.34%) Legal
13 91 (2.95%) Marketing
14 83 (2.69%) Telecoms
15 71 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
16 50 (1.62%) Aerospace
17 34 (1.10%) Local Government
17 34 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
18 33 (1.07%) Electronics
18 33 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 553 (17.93%) Analyst
2 409 (13.26%) Senior
3 377 (12.22%) Architect
4 362 (11.73%) Project Manager
5 333 (10.79%) Solutions Architect
6 221 (7.16%) Lead
7 217 (7.03%) Business Analyst
8 200 (6.48%) IT Manager
9 173 (5.61%) Principal Engineer
10 163 (5.28%) Data Engineer
11 162 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
12 161 (5.22%) Principal Data Engineer
13 143 (4.64%) Change Manager
13 143 (4.64%) Senior Manager
14 106 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 99 (3.21%) Support Analyst
16 97 (3.14%) IT Support
17 96 (3.11%) Senior Project Manager
18 88 (2.85%) IT Analyst
19 86 (2.79%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (2.24%) .NET
2 43 (1.39%) HTML
3 35 (1.13%) AngularJS
4 29 (0.94%) CSS
4 29 (0.94%) Web Services
5 23 (0.75%) XML
6 22 (0.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 20 (0.65%) Middleware
7 20 (0.65%) React
8 15 (0.49%) .NET Framework
8 15 (0.49%) 802.1X
8 15 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (0.42%) Spring
10 11 (0.36%) Qt
11 10 (0.32%) Gherkin
12 9 (0.29%) REST
12 9 (0.29%) SOAP
13 8 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
14 7 (0.23%) EDI
15 6 (0.19%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 301 (9.76%) Self-Motivation
2 211 (6.84%) Management Information System
3 101 (3.27%) Data Centre
4 48 (1.56%) CMDB
4 48 (1.56%) Driving Licence
5 46 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
6 45 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 44 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.39%) FMCG
8 43 (1.39%) Operational Technology
9 42 (1.36%) PMI
10 40 (1.30%) NHS
10 40 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 39 (1.26%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 37 (1.20%) Product Ownership
13 36 (1.17%) Algorithms
14 30 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
14 30 (0.97%) Private Cloud
15 28 (0.91%) DataPower
16 25 (0.81%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 400 (12.97%) Windows
2 176 (5.71%) Linux
3 148 (4.80%) Windows Server
4 118 (3.82%) Unix
5 85 (2.76%) Windows 10
6 48 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 42 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 23 (0.75%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (0.39%) VMS
13 10 (0.32%) Android
14 9 (0.29%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.26%) Mac OS X
16 7 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.097%) CentOS
17 3 (0.097%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.097%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,196 (38.77%) Agile
2 759 (24.60%) Problem-Solving
3 756 (24.51%) Project Management
4 591 (19.16%) ITIL
5 582 (18.87%) Roadmaps
6 411 (13.32%) ERP
7 398 (12.90%) DevOps
7 398 (12.90%) Mentoring
8 380 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 364 (11.80%) Decision-Making
10 359 (11.64%) Data Management
11 355 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 352 (11.41%) Performance Management
13 346 (11.22%) Enterprise Architecture
14 334 (10.83%) TOGAF
15 332 (10.76%) Coaching
16 326 (10.57%) Strategic Roadmap
17 320 (10.37%) Service Management
18 296 (9.59%) Risk Management
19 285 (9.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 282 (9.14%) SQL
2 141 (4.57%) PowerShell
3 87 (2.82%) Python
4 80 (2.59%) Java
5 69 (2.24%) C#
6 46 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 38 (1.23%) Bash
7 38 (1.23%) T-SQL
8 36 (1.17%) MATLAB
9 22 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 20 (0.65%) C
11 16 (0.52%) C++
12 8 (0.26%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.19%) PHP
15 4 (0.13%) ABAP
15 4 (0.13%) Go
15 4 (0.13%) R
15 4 (0.13%) VB
15 4 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 547 (17.73%) Degree
2 294 (9.53%) Security Cleared
3 204 (6.61%) SC Cleared
4 119 (3.86%) PMI Certification
5 103 (3.34%) PMP
6 78 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 54 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
8 50 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 48 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 47 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (1.43%) CISSP
12 39 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 33 (1.07%) CCNA
13 33 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
14 23 (0.75%) A+ Certification
14 23 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.65%) CISM
16 19 (0.62%) DV Cleared
17 17 (0.55%) HNC
18 16 (0.52%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (7.49%) GDPR
2 122 (3.95%) PMO
3 118 (3.82%) SLA
4 106 (3.44%) QA
5 63 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.62%) Data Quality
7 30 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (0.91%) NIST
9 23 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 19 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.55%) COBIT
12 16 (0.52%) ISO 9001
12 16 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.36%) ISO 14000
14 10 (0.32%) NEBOSH
15 7 (0.23%) CDISC
15 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.23%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.19%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 256 (8.30%) Active Directory
2 131 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (1.91%) Hyper-V
4 32 (1.04%) Firmware
5 21 (0.68%) Docker
6 19 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.52%) vSphere
8 11 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.097%) RACF
10 3 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.032%) Lustre
12 1 (0.032%) LXC
12 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.032%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.032%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 101 (3.27%) SCCM
2 63 (2.04%) Terraform
3 47 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (1.30%) Kubernetes
5 39 (1.26%) Ansible
6 21 (0.68%) WSUS
7 17 (0.55%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.49%) SCOM
9 14 (0.45%) Grafana
10 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
10 10 (0.32%) Nagios
11 9 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.26%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.23%) Foglight
14 6 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 5 (0.16%) Opsgenie
16 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
16 4 (0.13%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 524 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 466 (15.11%) Oracle
3 403 (13.06%) SAP
4 305 (9.89%) Hyperion
5 299 (9.69%) Anaplan
6 180 (5.83%) Google
7 176 (5.71%) VMware
8 156 (5.06%) ServiceNow
9 95 (3.08%) Cisco
10 54 (1.75%) Salesforce
11 53 (1.72%) IBM
12 45 (1.46%) Citrix
12 45 (1.46%) HP
13 32 (1.04%) Dell
14 31 (1.00%) Fortinet
15 30 (0.97%) Kofax
16 29 (0.94%) Apple
17 28 (0.91%) Pega
18 27 (0.88%) Juniper
18 27 (0.88%) Splunk