Transition Management Contracts

Transition Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Transition Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Transition Management over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 649 763
Rank change year-on-year +98 +114 -102
Contract jobs citing Transition Management 16 45 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.080% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.089% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 36 55
10th Percentile - £413 £405
25th Percentile £400 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -1.09%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £575
90th Percentile £606 £694 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £475
% change year-on-year - +2.63% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Transition 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 36,764 50,288 79,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.53% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,622 34,810 55,795
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,524 1,667 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Transition Management over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 12 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 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 +67 16 £550 +5.77% 11
UK excluding London +28 10 £488 - 7
Work from Home +110 7 £550 +2.33% 7
London +71 6 £550 - 4
North of England +20 5 £575 +21.05% 2
North West +13 3 - - 1
South East +7 3 £400 -33.44% 2
Midlands +22 1 £620 +60.00% 1
West Midlands +16 1 £620 +60.00%
North East +10 1 £575 -
South West +8 1 £600 +8.11% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Retail
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Service Manager
1 9 (56.25%) Service Transition Manager
1 9 (56.25%) Transition Manager
2 2 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Service Transition Leader
2 2 (12.50%) Service Transition Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) ERP Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (6.25%) SAP Manager
3 1 (6.25%) SAP Transition Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Service Design Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Service Design Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Service Design Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Strategy Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Test Strategy Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (6.25%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) ITIL
1 8 (50.00%) Service Design
2 7 (43.75%) Project Management
3 6 (37.50%) Project Delivery
4 5 (31.25%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (25.00%) Budget Management
5 4 (25.00%) ERP
5 4 (25.00%) Service Management
6 3 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (18.75%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2
6 3 (18.75%) Programme Delivery
7 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
7 2 (12.50%) Project Governance
7 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery Management
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
1 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) Cadence
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Remedy
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow