Change Management Contracts in England

Change Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Change Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 44 54
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,465 2,393 3,142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.98% 4.86% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 5.40% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 1,489 2,048
10th Percentile £325 £362 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £600
90th Percentile £713 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £544 £500
% change year-on-year -5.42% +8.80% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 48 49
10th Percentile £14.44 £22.58 £13.50
25th Percentile £29.91 £35.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +143.49% -17.13%
75th Percentile £61.60 £72.50 £35.56
90th Percentile £69.50 £87.50 £51.30
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £48.40 £22.14
% change year-on-year +3.31% +118.61% -8.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,802 44,352 63,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 31,133 45,414
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,738
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -5 759 £550 -4.35% 259
North of England -8 201 £514 -2.10% 125
South East -18 173 £475 -9.52% 106
South West +23 141 £550 +2.33% 73
Yorkshire -6 105 £525 -4.55% 33
Midlands -6 103 £500 -6.98% 107
North West -14 90 £500 -1.48% 75
West Midlands -8 74 £506 -5.81% 65
East of England -5 59 £425 -14.91% 56
East Midlands +21 27 £475 -9.52% 41
North East +3 11 £600 +9.09% 19
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 70 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 40 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (2.25%) Confluence
4 9 (0.61%) IIS
5 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.48%) Apache
7 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.20%) Documentum
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.068%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.068%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (2.05%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.34%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.27%) InDesign
8 3 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.14%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.14%) Windchill
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.55%) Endur
3 7 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.41%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.34%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.34%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.27%) SAP PLM
7 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 169 (11.54%) Azure
2 104 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
3 75 (5.12%) AWS
4 35 (2.39%) SaaS
5 32 (2.18%) Power Platform
6 27 (1.84%) Entra ID
7 23 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
8 22 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (1.43%) Serverless
10 17 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (1.16%) Azure Functions
10 17 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
11 15 (1.02%) IaaS
11 15 (1.02%) PaaS
12 14 (0.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (0.96%) OneDrive
13 13 (0.89%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 89 (6.08%) Firewall
2 53 (3.62%) WAN
3 44 (3.00%) LAN
4 40 (2.73%) BGP
4 40 (2.73%) OSPF
5 39 (2.66%) VPN
6 36 (2.46%) DNS
7 34 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (2.25%) Network Security
9 25 (1.71%) DHCP
9 25 (1.71%) IPsec
10 24 (1.64%) Cisco ASA
10 24 (1.64%) Structured Cabling
10 24 (1.64%) VLAN
11 23 (1.57%) NetScaler
12 22 (1.50%) TCP/IP
13 21 (1.43%) Cisco ISE
13 21 (1.43%) Wireless
14 17 (1.16%) EIGRP
15 16 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (1.57%) Power BI
2 17 (1.16%) NoSQL
3 16 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.89%) SAP HANA
6 12 (0.82%) Oracle Database
7 11 (0.75%) Tableau
8 10 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (0.68%) SQL Server
9 9 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.41%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.41%) KDB
12 5 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
13 4 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.20%) Big Data
14 3 (0.20%) QlikView
15 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (4.10%) JIRA
2 18 (1.23%) Git
3 15 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.48%) Selenium
5 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (0.14%) JMeter
7 2 (0.14%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.068%) GitLab
8 1 (0.068%) Visual Studio
General
1 550 (37.54%) Finance
2 430 (29.35%) Social Skills
3 234 (15.97%) Banking
4 198 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
5 169 (11.54%) Public Sector
6 69 (4.71%) Legal
7 60 (4.10%) Manufacturing
8 57 (3.89%) Telecoms
9 56 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
10 51 (3.48%) Marketing
11 48 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (2.39%) Retail
13 24 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
13 24 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.64%) Investment Banking
14 23 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.43%) Electronics
16 21 (1.43%) Local Government
17 15 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 238 (16.25%) Project Manager
2 229 (15.63%) Analyst
3 116 (7.92%) Senior
4 107 (7.30%) Business Analyst
4 107 (7.30%) Change Manager
5 93 (6.35%) Lead
6 80 (5.46%) Architect
7 62 (4.23%) Consultant
8 60 (4.10%) IT Manager
9 57 (3.89%) Network Engineer
10 56 (3.82%) Developer
11 52 (3.55%) Banking Analyst
12 51 (3.48%) Business Manager
13 47 (3.21%) Data Analyst
14 38 (2.59%) IT Analyst
15 37 (2.53%) Senior Manager
16 36 (2.46%) Business Change Manager
16 36 (2.46%) Programme Manager
17 30 (2.05%) Resilience Manager
18 29 (1.98%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.77%) React
2 18 (1.23%) XML
3 17 (1.16%) AngularJS
4 16 (1.09%) Kafka
5 15 (1.02%) HTML
5 15 (1.02%) REST
6 12 (0.82%) Jinja
6 12 (0.82%) Spring
7 11 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (0.75%) JSON
8 9 (0.61%) Middleware
9 8 (0.55%) .NET
9 8 (0.55%) CSS
10 7 (0.48%) IDoc
10 7 (0.48%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (0.41%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (0.41%) Itk
11 6 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.41%) Visualforce
12 5 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.60%) Management Information System
2 64 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 43 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 34 (2.32%) Cloud Native
5 32 (2.18%) PKI
6 27 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 24 (1.64%) Replication
8 21 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.30%) Derivative
11 15 (1.02%) CMDB
11 15 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 13 (0.89%) Fixed Income
12 13 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (0.75%) FMCG
14 11 (0.75%) NHS
15 10 (0.68%) Market Risk
15 10 (0.68%) PMI
15 10 (0.68%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 149 (10.17%) Windows
2 87 (5.94%) Linux
3 62 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.77%) Unix
5 21 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (0.89%) Solaris
8 12 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.68%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.48%) MVS
12 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.27%) CentOS
14 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.20%) VMS
15 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.068%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (24.37%) Project Management
2 294 (20.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 264 (18.02%) Agile
4 223 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
5 220 (15.02%) ITIL
6 141 (9.62%) Project Delivery
7 131 (8.94%) Migration
8 130 (8.87%) Service Management
9 127 (8.67%) Risk Management
10 123 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 121 (8.26%) PRINCE2
12 116 (7.92%) DevOps
13 114 (7.78%) ITSM
14 113 (7.71%) Decision-Making
15 111 (7.58%) Programme Management
16 87 (5.94%) Business Case
17 83 (5.67%) Incident Management
18 81 (5.53%) ERP
19 77 (5.26%) Roadmaps
20 76 (5.19%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (4.37%) Python
2 56 (3.82%) SQL
3 46 (3.14%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.84%) C
5 20 (1.37%) Java
6 19 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.96%) C#
7 14 (0.96%) Perl
8 12 (0.82%) Tcl
9 9 (0.61%) ABAP
10 8 (0.55%) Swift
11 7 (0.48%) C++
12 6 (0.41%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.14%) AWK
14 2 (0.14%) Bourne shell
14 2 (0.14%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 261 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 180 (12.29%) SC Cleared
3 150 (10.24%) Degree
4 62 (4.23%) DV Cleared
5 56 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (2.66%) CCNP
7 34 (2.32%) CCNA
8 26 (1.77%) PMP
8 26 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 25 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.71%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
11 18 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 17 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 11 (0.75%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 11 (0.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.68%) CCIE
15 8 (0.55%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (6.96%) PMO
2 60 (4.10%) QA
3 38 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.46%) SLA
5 23 (1.57%) GDPR
6 8 (0.55%) NIST
7 6 (0.41%) GRC
8 5 (0.34%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.20%) COBIT
9 3 (0.20%) GxP
9 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.14%) NCSC
10 2 (0.14%) P3O
10 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.068%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.068%) ITGC
11 1 (0.068%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 79 (5.39%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.37%) XenApp
4 17 (1.16%) Firmware
5 13 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.82%) XenDesktop
7 8 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (0.48%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.41%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.27%) Docker
11 4 (0.27%) vSphere
12 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.068%) Snort
14 1 (0.068%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 42 (2.87%) Ansible
2 32 (2.18%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.30%) NetBackup
4 18 (1.23%) Puppet
5 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.96%) SCCM
7 11 (0.75%) SCOM
8 10 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
9 8 (0.55%) Argo
9 8 (0.55%) Control-M
9 8 (0.55%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.55%) Grafana
9 8 (0.55%) Istio
9 8 (0.55%) Kibana
9 8 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.55%) Terraform
10 7 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.41%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.34%) PingFederate
12 5 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 260 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 125 (8.53%) SAP
3 81 (5.53%) ServiceNow
4 73 (4.98%) Cisco
5 56 (3.82%) Oracle
6 50 (3.41%) Citrix
7 49 (3.34%) VMware
8 38 (2.59%) Palo Alto
9 27 (1.84%) NetApp
10 25 (1.71%) SolarWinds
11 23 (1.57%) Red Hat
12 21 (1.43%) Juniper
13 18 (1.23%) Veritas
14 17 (1.16%) Salesforce
15 15 (1.02%) IBM
16 14 (0.96%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.89%) CheckPoint
18 11 (0.75%) Splunk
19 10 (0.68%) Workday
20 9 (0.61%) Google