Change Manager Contracts

Change Manager
UK

The median Change Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 387 396
Rank change year-on-year +26 +9 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Change Manager 235 359 551
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.65% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 256 394
10th Percentile £421 £422 £413
25th Percentile £475 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year - +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £653 £628 £645
90th Percentile £746 £688 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £56.15 - £27.34
25th Percentile £57.88 - £30.10
Median hourly rate £61.50 £54.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -3.57% +149.44%
75th Percentile £65.88 £69.75 £82.88
90th Percentile £68.05 £78.75 £86.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £39.98
% change year-on-year - - +78.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

Change Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Change Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Manager over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +11 194 £570 +3.64% 50
UK excluding London +29 120 £525 - 37
London +5 89 £610 +10.91% 21
Work from Home +75 87 £525 -4.55% 22
South East +25 27 £550 - 5
Midlands +36 24 £500 -9.09% 8
Scotland +44 23 £475 -5.00% 4
South West +11 21 £570 +8.57% 10
West Midlands +17 18 £531 -3.41% 4
North of England +3 18 £500 -16.67% 4
North West +9 11 £481 -3.70% 2
East of England +11 8 £478 -8.95% 3
Yorkshire +8 7 £600 -7.69% 1
East Midlands - 5 £391 - 4
Wales +19 1 £800 +88.24% 4

Change Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Change Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Change Manager in the job title.

1 139 (59.15%) Change Management
2 73 (31.06%) Social Skills
3 64 (27.23%) Finance
4 57 (24.26%) Project Management
5 56 (23.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (15.32%) Agile
6 36 (15.32%) Impact Assessments
7 33 (14.04%) Public Sector
8 29 (12.34%) SAP
9 26 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (11.06%) Programme Management
10 24 (10.21%) ITIL
11 22 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (8.94%) Manufacturing
12 21 (8.94%) Marketing
13 20 (8.51%) ERP
13 20 (8.51%) Project Delivery
13 20 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 19 (8.09%) Culture Change
15 18 (7.66%) Decision-Making
16 17 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
17 16 (6.81%) Microsoft
17 16 (6.81%) Waterfall
18 15 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 15 (6.38%) Process Improvement
19 14 (5.96%) Target Operating Model
19 14 (5.96%) Telecoms
20 13 (5.53%) Release Management
20 13 (5.53%) Digital Marketing
21 12 (5.11%) Degree

Change Manager Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.70%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.28%) Azure
3 3 (1.28%) Power Platform
4 2 (0.85%) AWS
4 2 (0.85%) GCP
4 2 (0.85%) OCI
5 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.43%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.43%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.43%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.43%) Slack
5 1 (0.43%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.43%) Yammer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.70%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.28%) Power BI
3 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.85%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
General
1 73 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 64 (27.23%) Finance
3 33 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.94%) Manufacturing
4 21 (8.94%) Marketing
5 20 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.96%) Telecoms
7 12 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.11%) Electronics
8 11 (4.68%) Retail
9 10 (4.26%) Banking
10 7 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.13%) Legal
12 5 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.70%) Law
14 2 (0.85%) Advertising
14 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.85%) International Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.40%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.55%) Operational Technology
3 4 (1.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.28%) e-Learning
4 3 (1.28%) FMCG
4 3 (1.28%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.85%) CMDB
5 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.85%) Social Media
6 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.43%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.43%) Life Science
6 1 (0.43%) PMI
6 1 (0.43%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (59.15%) Change Management
2 57 (24.26%) Project Management
3 56 (23.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (15.32%) Agile
4 36 (15.32%) Impact Assessments
5 26 (11.06%) Programme Management
5 26 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (10.21%) ITIL
7 22 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (8.51%) ERP
8 20 (8.51%) Project Delivery
9 19 (8.09%) Culture Change
10 18 (7.66%) Decision-Making
11 17 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (6.81%) Waterfall
13 15 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (6.38%) Process Improvement
14 14 (5.96%) Target Operating Model
15 13 (5.53%) Digital Marketing
15 13 (5.53%) Release Management
Qualifications
1 12 (5.11%) Degree
1 12 (5.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (2.98%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (2.98%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 2 (0.85%) APMG
5 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.43%) PMP
5 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.98%) PMO
2 2 (0.85%) QA
3 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.43%) GDPR
3 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 29 (12.34%) SAP
2 16 (6.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.70%) Ariba
4 4 (1.70%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.28%) Google
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle
7 1 (0.43%) IBM
7 1 (0.43%) Planview
7 1 (0.43%) Remedy
7 1 (0.43%) Snow