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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 44 54
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,450 2,335 3,160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.98% 4.85% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 5.39% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 1,445 2,070
10th Percentile £320 £360 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £604
90th Percentile £713 £750 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £543 £500
% change year-on-year -5.53% +8.50% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 49 48
10th Percentile £14.91 £22.77 £13.50
25th Percentile £29.98 £35.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £49.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +144.98% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £33.53
90th Percentile £69.85 £87.50 £51.45
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £48.40 £21.89
% change year-on-year +3.31% +121.11% -8.79%

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 31,491 43,355 63,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.40% 90.10% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,435 45,445
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
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% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,535 1,743
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -8 742 £550 -4.35% 250
North of England -8 194 £514 -1.15% 117
South East -14 176 £463 -11.90% 108
South West +18 146 £550 +2.33% 69
Midlands -1 104 £500 -4.76% 95
Yorkshire -11 101 £525 -4.55% 33
North West -14 87 £500 - 70
West Midlands -5 74 £513 -3.53% 57
East of England -3 59 £413 -17.33% 63
East Midlands +12 27 £475 -9.52% 37
North East +5 11 £600 +20.00% 16
Change Management
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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 72 (4.97%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (2.28%) Confluence
4 9 (0.62%) IIS
5 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.48%) Apache
7 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.21%) Documentum
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.069%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.069%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 78 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (2.14%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.72%) 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 (0.28%) InDesign
8 3 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.14%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.14%) Windchill
10 1 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.55%) Endur
3 7 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.34%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.34%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.28%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.28%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 164 (11.31%) Azure
2 101 (6.97%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (4.90%) AWS
4 34 (2.34%) SaaS
5 31 (2.14%) Power Platform
6 23 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
6 23 (1.59%) Entra ID
7 21 (1.45%) Serverless
8 20 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
8 20 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
9 17 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (1.17%) Azure Functions
10 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
11 14 (0.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (0.97%) OneDrive
12 13 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (0.90%) PaaS
12 13 (0.90%) Slack
13 12 (0.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (5.86%) Firewall
2 51 (3.52%) WAN
3 42 (2.90%) LAN
4 40 (2.76%) BGP
4 40 (2.76%) OSPF
5 37 (2.55%) DNS
6 35 (2.41%) VPN
7 34 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (2.28%) Network Security
9 26 (1.79%) DHCP
10 25 (1.72%) IPsec
11 24 (1.66%) Structured Cabling
12 23 (1.59%) TCP/IP
12 23 (1.59%) VLAN
13 22 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (1.52%) NetScaler
14 21 (1.45%) Cisco ISE
15 18 (1.24%) Wireless
16 17 (1.17%) EIGRP
16 17 (1.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (1.59%) Power BI
2 17 (1.17%) NoSQL
3 16 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.90%) Oracle Database
5 13 (0.90%) SAP HANA
6 11 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (0.76%) Tableau
7 9 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
7 9 (0.62%) SQL Server
8 7 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.41%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.41%) KDB
10 5 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.21%) Big Data
12 3 (0.21%) QlikView
13 2 (0.14%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (4.14%) JIRA
2 18 (1.24%) Git
3 15 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.48%) Selenium
5 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.14%) JMeter
6 2 (0.14%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.069%) GitLab
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.069%) Visual Studio
General
1 536 (36.97%) Finance
2 428 (29.52%) Social Skills
3 227 (15.66%) Banking
4 195 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
5 166 (11.45%) Public Sector
6 68 (4.69%) Legal
7 57 (3.93%) Manufacturing
8 56 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (3.66%) Telecoms
10 48 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
10 48 (3.31%) Marketing
11 34 (2.34%) Retail
12 24 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
14 22 (1.52%) Investment Banking
14 22 (1.52%) Local Government
14 22 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.31%) Electronics
16 14 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 233 (16.07%) Project Manager
2 222 (15.31%) Analyst
3 120 (8.28%) Senior
4 103 (7.10%) Business Analyst
4 103 (7.10%) Change Manager
5 93 (6.41%) Lead
6 77 (5.31%) Architect
7 63 (4.34%) Consultant
8 59 (4.07%) IT Manager
9 58 (4.00%) Network Engineer
10 56 (3.86%) Developer
11 52 (3.59%) Business Manager
12 44 (3.03%) Banking Analyst
12 44 (3.03%) Data Analyst
13 38 (2.62%) Senior Manager
14 37 (2.55%) Business Change Manager
15 35 (2.41%) IT Analyst
15 35 (2.41%) Programme Manager
16 30 (2.07%) Delivery Manager
17 29 (2.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.72%) React
2 19 (1.31%) XML
3 17 (1.17%) Kafka
4 16 (1.10%) AngularJS
5 15 (1.03%) HTML
5 15 (1.03%) REST
6 12 (0.83%) Jinja
7 11 (0.76%) JSON
7 11 (0.76%) Spring
8 9 (0.62%) Middleware
9 8 (0.55%) .NET
9 8 (0.55%) CSS
9 8 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
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 Basis
11 6 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.41%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.52%) Management Information System
2 62 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 39 (2.69%) Data Centre
4 35 (2.41%) Cloud Native
5 32 (2.21%) PKI
6 27 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 24 (1.66%) Replication
8 21 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.10%) CMDB
11 15 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 14 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (0.97%) Derivative
13 13 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (0.76%) Fixed Income
14 11 (0.76%) FMCG
15 10 (0.69%) Market Risk
15 10 (0.69%) NHS
15 10 (0.69%) PMI
15 10 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 141 (9.72%) Windows
2 78 (5.38%) Linux
3 59 (4.07%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.66%) Unix
5 21 (1.45%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.83%) Solaris
9 11 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.48%) MVS
11 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.14%) CentOS
12 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.14%) VMS
12 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.069%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.069%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (24.48%) Project Management
2 298 (20.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 267 (18.41%) Agile
4 222 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
5 212 (14.62%) ITIL
6 140 (9.66%) Project Delivery
7 131 (9.03%) Risk Management
8 127 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 127 (8.76%) Service Management
9 123 (8.48%) Migration
9 123 (8.48%) PRINCE2
10 116 (8.00%) DevOps
11 115 (7.93%) ITSM
12 111 (7.66%) Programme Management
13 110 (7.59%) Decision-Making
14 83 (5.72%) Business Case
15 82 (5.66%) Incident Management
16 79 (5.45%) ERP
17 78 (5.38%) Problem Management
18 74 (5.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 64 (4.41%) Python
2 59 (4.07%) SQL
3 47 (3.24%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.79%) C
5 19 (1.31%) Java
5 19 (1.31%) JavaScript
6 14 (0.97%) Perl
7 13 (0.90%) C#
8 12 (0.83%) Tcl
9 9 (0.62%) ABAP
10 8 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
10 8 (0.55%) Swift
11 7 (0.48%) C++
12 6 (0.41%) Apex Code
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
1 259 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 181 (12.48%) SC Cleared
3 150 (10.34%) Degree
4 62 (4.28%) DV Cleared
5 56 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (2.62%) CCNP
7 35 (2.41%) CCNA
8 27 (1.86%) PMP
9 26 (1.79%) PMI Certification
9 26 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 25 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
12 18 (1.24%) Master's Degree
12 18 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 10 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.69%) CCIE
14 10 (0.69%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 9 (0.62%) Six Sigma Black Belt
16 8 (0.55%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (6.62%) PMO
2 59 (4.07%) QA
3 40 (2.76%) SLA
4 38 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.52%) GDPR
6 8 (0.55%) NIST
7 5 (0.34%) GRC
7 5 (0.34%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.21%) COBIT
8 3 (0.21%) GxP
8 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.21%) P3O
8 3 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.069%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.069%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.069%) ITGC
10 1 (0.069%) NCSC
10 1 (0.069%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 75 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.38%) XenApp
4 17 (1.17%) Firmware
5 13 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.83%) 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 (0.28%) Docker
11 4 (0.28%) vSphere
12 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
13 1 (0.069%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.069%) Snort
13 1 (0.069%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 40 (2.76%) Ansible
2 33 (2.28%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.31%) NetBackup
4 16 (1.10%) Puppet
5 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.97%) SCCM
6 11 (0.76%) SCOM
7 9 (0.62%) Argo
7 9 (0.62%) Grafana
7 9 (0.62%) Istio
7 9 (0.62%) Kibana
7 9 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.55%) Control-M
8 8 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (0.41%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.41%) Terraform
10 6 (0.41%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.34%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 257 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 121 (8.34%) SAP
3 89 (6.14%) ServiceNow
4 69 (4.76%) Cisco
5 55 (3.79%) Oracle
6 49 (3.38%) VMware
7 48 (3.31%) Citrix
8 36 (2.48%) Palo Alto
9 27 (1.86%) NetApp
10 26 (1.79%) SolarWinds
11 23 (1.59%) Red Hat
12 21 (1.45%) Juniper
13 19 (1.31%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.24%) Veritas
15 15 (1.03%) Fortinet
15 15 (1.03%) IBM
16 13 (0.90%) CheckPoint
16 13 (0.90%) Splunk
17 10 (0.69%) Google
17 10 (0.69%) Workday