Transition Management Contracts

Transition Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Transition Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Transition Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 606 794
Rank change year-on-year +75 +188 +2
Contract jobs citing Transition Management 18 21 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.045% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.050% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 29
10th Percentile £510 £388 £360
25th Percentile £514 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% - -
75th Percentile £597 £606 £550
90th Percentile £626 £790 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Transition Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,490 41,786 73,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.08% 88.59% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,955 28,261 50,998
10th Percentile £310 £311 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,122 1,595 1,727
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.35
25th Percentile £20.03 £18.93 £17.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
% change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%

Transition Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Transition Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Transition Management in the UK

Transition Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Transition Management in the UK

Transition Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Transition Management in the UK

Transition Management
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Transition Management within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +78 17 £569 +13.75% 5
UK excluding London +44 10 £575 +21.05% 4
London +54 7 £563 -25.99% 2
North of England +32 7 £575 +17.95% 1
North West +27 6 - -
Work from Home +69 5 £575 +15.00% 1
Midlands - 2 £620 - 2
South East +38 1 £515 +3.00%
West Midlands - 1 £620 - 2
North East - 1 £575 -
East Midlands - 1 - -

Transition 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Billing
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Service Manager
2 9 (50.00%) Service Transition Manager
2 9 (50.00%) Transition Manager
3 6 (33.33%) Network Manager
3 6 (33.33%) Network Services Manager
4 5 (27.78%) Service Design Manager
5 3 (16.67%) IT Manager
6 2 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) IT Services Manager
7 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Service Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Service Transition Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Transition Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Service Design
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (38.89%) ITIL
3 7 (38.89%) Roadmaps
3 7 (38.89%) Supplier Management
4 6 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 6 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
4 6 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 6 (33.33%) Product Management
4 6 (33.33%) Programme Management
4 6 (33.33%) Project Management
4 6 (33.33%) Scorecard
4 6 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
6 4 (22.22%) Software License Management
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) TOWER Software
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) VMware