Change Management Contracts

Change Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 44 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,797 2,717 3,758
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.22% 4.74% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 5.29% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 1,674 2,450
10th Percentile £313 £352 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £541 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +8.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £600
90th Percentile £706 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 54 52
10th Percentile £14.40 £21.82 £13.50
25th Percentile £29.91 £35.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.70 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +122.46% -8.79%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.44 £36.83
90th Percentile £69.55 £86.75 £52.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.00 £48.40 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.24% +142.00% -10.95%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 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 -1 1,452 £525 -4.55% 771
UK excluding London -6 792 £500 - 515
Work from Home +7 766 £523 -3.24% 317
London -10 742 £550 -4.35% 295
North of England -8 193 £514 +1.78% 121
South East -19 181 £466 -11.24% 145
South West +22 143 £550 +2.33% 55
Midlands -4 105 £506 -3.57% 95
Yorkshire -10 101 £525 -4.55% 37
Scotland +25 99 £475 +4.11% 39
North West -20 86 £500 - 72
West Midlands -8 75 £513 -2.38% 58
East of England -7 59 £413 -17.33% 62
East Midlands +16 27 £475 -9.52% 36
Wales +6 16 £535 +7.00% 11
North East +2 11 £600 +23.08% 14
Northern Ireland +1 4 £435 +16.00% 3

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 89 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (2.06%) Confluence
4 11 (0.61%) IIS
5 8 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.39%) Apache
7 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.17%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) Documentum
8 1 (0.056%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.056%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.056%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.056%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.056%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 99 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (2.78%) MS Visio
5 28 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) InDesign
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.11%) Windchill
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.45%) Endur
3 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.39%) SAP SD
3 7 (0.39%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.28%) iTrent
5 5 (0.28%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
6 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
7 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.17%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 181 (10.07%) Azure
2 118 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (4.51%) AWS
4 39 (2.17%) SaaS
5 34 (1.89%) Power Platform
6 32 (1.78%) SuccessFactors
7 23 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
8 22 (1.22%) Entra ID
9 21 (1.17%) Serverless
10 20 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
10 20 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (0.95%) Azure Functions
13 16 (0.89%) Yammer
14 14 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (0.78%) OneDrive
14 14 (0.78%) Slack
15 13 (0.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (5.34%) Firewall
2 53 (2.95%) WAN
3 45 (2.50%) LAN
4 41 (2.28%) BGP
4 41 (2.28%) OSPF
5 38 (2.11%) DNS
5 38 (2.11%) VPN
6 36 (2.00%) Network Security
7 35 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
8 29 (1.61%) Intranet
9 28 (1.56%) IPsec
10 27 (1.50%) DHCP
11 25 (1.39%) Structured Cabling
11 25 (1.39%) VLAN
12 24 (1.34%) Cisco ASA
13 23 (1.28%) TCP/IP
14 22 (1.22%) NetScaler
15 21 (1.17%) Cisco ISE
16 18 (1.00%) Wireless
17 17 (0.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (1.45%) Power BI
2 19 (1.06%) NoSQL
3 18 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 13 (0.72%) SAP HANA
6 12 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 11 (0.61%) Tableau
8 10 (0.56%) SQL Server
9 8 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.33%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.33%) KDB
11 5 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
12 4 (0.22%) Big Data
12 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.17%) QlikView
14 2 (0.11%) NonStop SQL
14 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 86 (4.79%) JIRA
2 24 (1.34%) Git
3 21 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.39%) Selenium
5 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.11%) JMeter
6 2 (0.11%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.056%) GitLab
7 1 (0.056%) Gradle
7 1 (0.056%) Maven
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.056%) Visual Studio
General
1 707 (39.34%) Finance
2 531 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 361 (20.09%) Banking
4 211 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 190 (10.57%) Public Sector
6 71 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 68 (3.78%) Legal
8 62 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 61 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.56%) Marketing
12 43 (2.39%) Retail
13 39 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 30 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 22 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
16 22 (1.22%) Investment Banking
16 22 (1.22%) Local Government
17 17 (0.95%) Publishing
18 16 (0.89%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 274 (15.25%) Analyst
2 261 (14.52%) Project Manager
3 157 (8.74%) Architect
4 133 (7.40%) Change Manager
5 129 (7.18%) Senior
6 127 (7.07%) Business Analyst
7 120 (6.68%) Lead
8 81 (4.51%) Consultant
9 71 (3.95%) IT Manager
10 64 (3.56%) Business Manager
10 64 (3.56%) Developer
11 60 (3.34%) Banking Analyst
12 59 (3.28%) Network Engineer
13 49 (2.73%) Data Analyst
14 47 (2.62%) Business Change Manager
15 43 (2.39%) Senior Manager
16 42 (2.34%) Change Analyst
16 42 (2.34%) IT Analyst
17 37 (2.06%) Programme Manager
18 34 (1.89%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.84%) HTML
2 26 (1.45%) CSS
3 25 (1.39%) React
4 22 (1.22%) XML
5 20 (1.11%) Kafka
6 19 (1.06%) REST
7 17 (0.95%) AngularJS
8 14 (0.78%) JSON
9 12 (0.67%) Jinja
10 11 (0.61%) Spring
11 9 (0.50%) .NET
11 9 (0.50%) Middleware
12 8 (0.45%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (0.39%) IDoc
13 7 (0.39%) LDAP
13 7 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
14 6 (0.33%) Itk
14 6 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.29%) Management Information System
2 76 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 43 (2.39%) Data Centre
4 39 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 36 (2.00%) PKI
6 31 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 28 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.34%) Replication
10 18 (1.00%) CMDB
11 16 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 15 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (0.78%) Derivative
14 13 (0.72%) FMCG
14 13 (0.72%) Mainframe
15 12 (0.67%) LIMS
15 12 (0.67%) Reference Data
16 11 (0.61%) Fixed Income
16 11 (0.61%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 150 (8.35%) Windows
2 88 (4.90%) Linux
3 61 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.39%) Unix
5 21 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 18 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.83%) MVS
9 12 (0.67%) Solaris
10 11 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.056%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.056%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (23.43%) Project Management
2 360 (20.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 315 (17.53%) Agile
4 266 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
5 239 (13.30%) ITIL
6 162 (9.02%) Service Management
7 157 (8.74%) Project Delivery
8 155 (8.63%) Migration
9 147 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 139 (7.74%) DevOps
10 139 (7.74%) Risk Management
11 137 (7.62%) PRINCE2
12 133 (7.40%) ITSM
13 118 (6.57%) Decision-Making
14 116 (6.46%) Programme Management
15 95 (5.29%) Roadmaps
16 94 (5.23%) ERP
17 93 (5.18%) Incident Management
18 91 (5.06%) Business Analysis
19 87 (4.84%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 71 (3.95%) Python
2 62 (3.45%) SQL
3 49 (2.73%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 26 (1.45%) C
6 19 (1.06%) Java
7 14 (0.78%) C#
7 14 (0.78%) Perl
8 12 (0.67%) Tcl
9 9 (0.50%) ABAP
10 8 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
10 8 (0.45%) Swift
11 7 (0.39%) C++
12 6 (0.33%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.11%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.11%) Korn
13 2 (0.11%) R
13 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 275 (15.30%) Security Cleared
2 193 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 163 (9.07%) Degree
4 65 (3.62%) DV Cleared
5 57 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (2.17%) CCNP
7 35 (1.95%) CCNA
8 30 (1.67%) PMP
9 28 (1.56%) PMI Certification
10 27 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 26 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (1.06%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 10 (0.56%) CCIE
15 10 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 9 (0.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
17 8 (0.45%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.90%) PMO
2 73 (4.06%) QA
3 44 (2.45%) SLA
4 41 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.22%) GDPR
6 8 (0.45%) NIST
7 7 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.28%) GRC
8 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.17%) COBIT
9 3 (0.17%) GxP
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) P3O
9 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.11%) Basel III
10 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.056%) IFRS
11 1 (0.056%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.056%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 79 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.11%) XenApp
4 17 (0.95%) Firmware
5 13 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.67%) XenDesktop
7 9 (0.50%) Docker
8 8 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 7 (0.39%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.28%) vSphere
12 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
12 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.056%) Snort
14 1 (0.056%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 48 (2.67%) Ansible
2 41 (2.28%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.11%) NetBackup
4 16 (0.89%) Puppet
4 16 (0.89%) SCCM
5 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.72%) SCOM
7 11 (0.61%) Terraform
8 10 (0.56%) Argo
8 10 (0.56%) Grafana
8 10 (0.56%) Istio
8 10 (0.56%) Kibana
8 10 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.45%) Control-M
9 8 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (0.39%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 5 (0.28%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 282 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 149 (8.29%) SAP
3 126 (7.01%) ServiceNow
4 74 (4.12%) Cisco
5 62 (3.45%) Oracle
6 51 (2.84%) Citrix
6 51 (2.84%) VMware
7 36 (2.00%) Palo Alto
8 29 (1.61%) NetApp
9 28 (1.56%) SolarWinds
10 25 (1.39%) Splunk
11 23 (1.28%) Red Hat
12 22 (1.22%) Juniper
13 19 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.06%) Veritas
14 18 (1.00%) Fortinet
14 18 (1.00%) IBM
15 15 (0.83%) Ariba
16 14 (0.78%) CheckPoint
17 13 (0.72%) Google