Change Control Job Trends in the West Midlands

Change Control
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Change Control skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 151 138
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 -58
Permanent jobs citing Change Control 24 51 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.46% 1.17% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.30% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 17 34 33
10th Percentile £48,700 £49,750 £31,591
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +7.48% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £81,500 £63,750 £66,148
England median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +0.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,331 3,935 2,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.65% 90.52% 88.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,236 1,773 2,535
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
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 West Midlands

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

Change Control job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Change Control
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Change Control
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Control in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Change Control in the West Midlands

Change Control
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Control within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Birmingham +4 10 £65,000 +13.04% 8
Solihull +5 4 £80,000 +45.45% 2
Warwickshire +20 3 £60,000 +18.81% 1
Wednesbury - 3 £50,000 -
Coventry - 2 £62,500 - 4
Change Control
England

Change Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (4.17%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) SaaS
3 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.33%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) DHCP
1 6 (25.00%) DNS
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
1 6 (25.00%) VLAN
1 6 (25.00%) VPN
1 6 (25.00%) WAN
2 3 (12.50%) BGP
2 3 (12.50%) IPsec
2 3 (12.50%) Network Security
2 3 (12.50%) OSPF
2 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 3 (12.50%) Softphone
2 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (12.50%) Wireshark
3 1 (4.17%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Legal
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Back Office
4 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Publishing
5 2 (8.33%) Finance
6 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Architect
1 4 (16.67%) IT Engineer
1 4 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) DBA
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 3 (12.50%) IT Support
2 3 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
2 3 (12.50%) SQL DBA
2 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) EDI
2 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.17%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.50%) Clustering
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) CRM
2 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (25.00%) ITIL
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) ERP
4 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
4 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
4 5 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (20.83%) TOGAF
5 4 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (16.67%) Analytics
5 4 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 4 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
5 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 4 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 2 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) C++
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.50%) CCNP
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) COBIT
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.50%) Firmware
1 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco
2 3 (12.50%) Dell
2 3 (12.50%) Meraki
2 3 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 3 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 3 (12.50%) VMware
2 3 (12.50%) Zscaler
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Blue Prism
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Workday