Change Control Contracts

Change Control
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Change Control skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Change Control over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 317 295
Rank change year-on-year +29 -22 +49
Contract jobs citing Change Control 325 473 815
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.82% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.91% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 286 590
10th Percentile £315 £306 £312
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £728 £744 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £500 £455
% change year-on-year +0.20% +9.89% +13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 26 26
10th Percentile £13.55 £21.01 £16.24
25th Percentile £18.00 £40.50 £27.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £51.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +47.10% +37.25%
75th Percentile £64.10 £57.88 £45.76
90th Percentile £71.06 £70.00 £60.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.03 £41.00 £32.77
% change year-on-year +29.34% +25.11% +28.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Change Control 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Change Control
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Change Control in the UK

Change Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Change Control in the UK

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Control over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Control in the UK

Change Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Control in the UK

Change Control
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Control over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Control in the UK

Change Control
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Control within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +14 294 £523 +3.16% 216
UK excluding London +31 192 £501 +0.20% 173
London +10 121 £525 +0.72% 57
Work from Home +32 91 £501 -4.11% 89
South East +3 55 £525 +5.00% 55
Midlands +24 42 £475 -11.42% 32
West Midlands +15 35 £475 -9.52% 17
South West +30 33 £545 +3.81% 24
North of England +39 32 £525 +7.69% 34
North West +31 24 £475 +2.15% 23
Scotland +17 18 £500 -2.44% 14
Yorkshire +18 8 £558 +11.50% 11
East Midlands +23 7 £275 -50.89% 15
Wales +22 7 £645 -0.85% 8
East of England +12 7 £500 +7.53% 10

Change Control
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 11 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.23%) Confluence
4 3 (0.92%) IBM Domino
4 3 (0.92%) IBM Notes
5 2 (0.62%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.31%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 30 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (6.77%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (5.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Loan IQ
2 3 (0.92%) Aareon QL
2 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.62%) Primavera
3 2 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.31%) Changepoint
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.31%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 58 (17.85%) Azure
2 28 (8.62%) AWS
3 14 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (3.69%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (3.08%) GitHub
7 7 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (2.15%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (1.85%) IaaS
8 6 (1.85%) SaaS
9 5 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.54%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.23%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.23%) GCP
10 4 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.23%) PaaS
10 4 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (10.46%) Firewall
2 29 (8.92%) VPN
3 20 (6.15%) WAN
4 18 (5.54%) LAN
5 15 (4.62%) Cisco Nexus
6 13 (4.00%) TCP/IP
7 12 (3.69%) DMZ
8 10 (3.08%) Wireless
9 9 (2.77%) DNS
10 8 (2.46%) WLAN
11 6 (1.85%) BGP
11 6 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.85%) OSPF
12 5 (1.54%) DHCP
12 5 (1.54%) MPLS
12 5 (1.54%) Network Security
12 5 (1.54%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (1.54%) WAAS
13 4 (1.23%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (1.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.62%) MySQL
1 15 (4.62%) Relational Database
2 14 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.77%) Power BI
4 8 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.46%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.92%) Big Data
7 3 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.92%) OLAP
7 3 (0.92%) OLTP
7 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.92%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.62%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.62%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (3.38%) JIRA
2 8 (2.46%) GitLab
2 8 (2.46%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.85%) AppScan
3 6 (1.85%) Burp Suite
3 6 (1.85%) Git
3 6 (1.85%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.23%) Subversion
5 2 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
General
1 98 (30.15%) Finance
2 97 (29.85%) Social Skills
3 50 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 45 (13.85%) Banking
5 40 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.15%) Investment Banking
7 19 (5.85%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (4.31%) Financial Institution
9 13 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (3.38%) Marketing
11 11 (3.38%) Retail
12 10 (3.08%) Legal
12 10 (3.08%) Manufacturing
12 10 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.46%) Billing
13 8 (2.46%) Local Government
14 7 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.85%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 68 (20.92%) Project Manager
2 40 (12.31%) Analyst
3 27 (8.31%) Senior
4 21 (6.46%) Business Analyst
5 19 (5.85%) Network Engineer
6 15 (4.62%) Administrator
7 13 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
7 13 (4.00%) IT Manager
7 13 (4.00%) Lead
8 12 (3.69%) Blue Coat Engineer
8 12 (3.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 12 (3.69%) Juniper Engineer
9 11 (3.38%) DBA
10 10 (3.08%) Commercial Manager
10 10 (3.08%) Programme Manager
11 9 (2.77%) PMO Analyst
12 8 (2.46%) Consultant
12 8 (2.46%) Contracts Manager
12 8 (2.46%) Site Engineer
12 8 (2.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.54%) Middleware
3 4 (1.23%) .NET
4 3 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.92%) SAP PI
5 2 (0.62%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.62%) Kafka
5 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.62%) PySpark
5 2 (0.62%) React
5 2 (0.62%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.62%) REST
5 2 (0.62%) Unity DI Container
6 1 (0.31%) EDI
6 1 (0.31%) Web Services
6 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.00%) PKI
2 23 (7.08%) Public Cloud
3 17 (5.23%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.31%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.46%) Life Science
6 7 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.85%) Derivative
7 6 (1.85%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.54%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.54%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.54%) PMI
9 4 (1.23%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.92%) NHS
10 3 (0.92%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (0.62%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.62%) Windows
2 22 (6.77%) Linux
3 12 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.15%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.85%) CentOS
5 6 (1.85%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (34.46%) Project Management
2 86 (26.46%) Agile
3 76 (23.38%) Project Delivery
4 52 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (14.46%) Risk Management
6 41 (12.62%) Change Management
6 41 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (12.31%) Decision-Making
8 37 (11.38%) Migration
9 35 (10.77%) DevOps
10 32 (9.85%) PRINCE2
10 32 (9.85%) Programme Management
11 31 (9.54%) Business Case
11 31 (9.54%) Configuration Management
12 25 (7.69%) ITIL
12 25 (7.69%) Waterfall
13 23 (7.08%) Project Governance
14 20 (6.15%) Analytics
14 20 (6.15%) High Availability
15 19 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 28 (8.62%) PowerShell
2 25 (7.69%) SQL
3 12 (3.69%) Bash
4 11 (3.38%) Python
5 6 (1.85%) C#
6 3 (0.92%) Java
7 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.31%) Ada
8 1 (0.31%) C
8 1 (0.31%) C++
8 1 (0.31%) RPG
8 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 75 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 44 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.46%) Degree
4 31 (9.54%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 10 (3.08%) PMI Certification
7 10 (3.08%) PMP
8 8 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.85%) APMP
10 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.54%) BC Cleared
11 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.92%) APMG
13 2 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.62%) CASP
13 2 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.46%) PMO
2 39 (12.00%) QA
3 18 (5.54%) SLA
4 15 (4.62%) JSP 440
5 5 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.54%) GMP
5 5 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.23%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.92%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.62%) GDPR
8 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.62%) NCSC
8 2 (0.62%) NIST
9 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.31%) COREP
9 1 (0.31%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.31%) GxP
System Software
1 21 (6.46%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.69%) Docker
3 8 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.85%) vSphere
5 5 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.54%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.23%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.92%) Firmware
8 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.31%) XenApp
9 1 (0.31%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (6.77%) Terraform
2 19 (5.85%) Ansible
2 19 (5.85%) OPNET
3 15 (4.62%) Grafana
4 13 (4.00%) Graylog
4 13 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.69%) Puppet
6 11 (3.38%) Kubernetes
6 11 (3.38%) Nagios
7 10 (3.08%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.46%) SCCM
9 7 (2.15%) Nessus
10 6 (1.85%) HP Fortify
10 6 (1.85%) WebInspect
11 5 (1.54%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.54%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.92%) WSUS
13 2 (0.62%) CEMLI
14 1 (0.31%) Observium
14 1 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 106 (32.62%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.85%) Cisco
3 18 (5.54%) Fortinet
4 17 (5.23%) Juniper
4 17 (5.23%) SAP
5 14 (4.31%) CheckPoint
6 13 (4.00%) Splunk
7 12 (3.69%) Blue Coat
8 10 (3.08%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.08%) VMware
9 8 (2.46%) Citrix
9 8 (2.46%) Oracle
10 7 (2.15%) Databricks
11 6 (1.85%) Adobe
11 6 (1.85%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.85%) Veracode
12 5 (1.54%) Qualys
13 4 (1.23%) IBM
13 4 (1.23%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.23%) SolarWinds