Change Control Contracts with Work from Home Options

Change Control
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 256 288 320
Rank change year-on-year +32 +32 -5
Contract jobs citing Change Control 91 181 343
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.72% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.81% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 108 263
10th Percentile £270 £400 £326
25th Percentile £454 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.50% +13.64%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £600
90th Percentile £712 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.20% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 5
10th Percentile - £12.50 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £23.41 £16.24
Median hourly rate £14.00 £44.75 £32.77
Median % change year-on-year -68.72% +36.56% -27.18%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £62.19 £57.63 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £51.49 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.97% +47.10% +37.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,242 22,482 39,977
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,879 28,991
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 516 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.66 £13.78
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.29
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Change Control
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Change Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Change Control trend for jobs with a WFH option

Change Control
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Change Control.

Change Control daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Change Control over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Change Control daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Control
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Change Control.

Change Control hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Control
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Change Control over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Change Control hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.20%) IIS
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.10%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (1.10%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 14 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (12.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (12.09%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.30%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.10%) Primavera
2 1 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.48%) Azure
2 13 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (3.30%) GitHub
5 2 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.10%) IaaS
6 1 (1.10%) Miro
6 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.10%) Route 53
6 1 (1.10%) SaaS
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) Firewall
1 7 (7.69%) WAN
2 6 (6.59%) VPN
3 5 (5.49%) LAN
3 5 (5.49%) MPLS
4 4 (4.40%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.40%) WAAS
5 3 (3.30%) ADSL
5 3 (3.30%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (3.30%) Ethernet
5 3 (3.30%) Internet
5 3 (3.30%) PSTN
5 3 (3.30%) Wireless
6 2 (2.20%) WLAN
7 1 (1.10%) BGP
7 1 (1.10%) DHCP
7 1 (1.10%) DMZ
7 1 (1.10%) DNS
7 1 (1.10%) OSPF
7 1 (1.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.40%) MySQL
3 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.30%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.10%) Power BI
4 1 (1.10%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) JIRA
2 1 (1.10%) AppScan
2 1 (1.10%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.10%) Git
2 1 (1.10%) GitLab
2 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (35.16%) Finance
2 30 (32.97%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.68%) Banking
4 15 (16.48%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.79%) Billing
5 8 (8.79%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.69%) Telecoms
7 5 (5.49%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.49%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.49%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.30%) Local Government
8 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.20%) Electronics
9 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.20%) Legal
9 2 (2.20%) Marketing
10 1 (1.10%) Environmental Health
10 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) Project Manager
2 12 (13.19%) Analyst
3 9 (9.89%) Commercial Manager
4 8 (8.79%) Contracts Manager
5 7 (7.69%) Senior
6 6 (6.59%) Administrator
6 6 (6.59%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.59%) DBA
7 5 (5.49%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Engineering Manager
8 4 (4.40%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Network Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) PowerShell Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) SCCM Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Coordinator
9 3 (3.30%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 3 (3.30%) IT Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Programme Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (2.20%) REST
2 1 (1.10%) Middleware
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.10%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.19%) Public Cloud
2 8 (8.79%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.40%) Derivative
3 4 (4.40%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.20%) Clustering
5 2 (2.20%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Life Science
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) PKI
6 1 (1.10%) SCADA
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Windows
2 6 (6.59%) Linux
3 4 (4.40%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.20%) CentOS
4 2 (2.20%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.36%) Agile
2 31 (34.07%) Project Management
3 22 (24.18%) Project Delivery
4 18 (19.78%) Risk Management
5 17 (18.68%) Decision-Making
6 15 (16.48%) Change Management
7 13 (14.29%) PRINCE2
7 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (13.19%) Migration
8 12 (13.19%) Project Governance
9 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (9.89%) Contract Management
10 9 (9.89%) DevOps
10 9 (9.89%) Waterfall
11 8 (8.79%) Business Case
11 8 (8.79%) ITIL
12 7 (7.69%) Configuration Management
12 7 (7.69%) Roadmaps
13 6 (6.59%) Customer Service
13 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.79%) SQL
3 2 (2.20%) Bash
4 1 (1.10%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.29%) Degree
4 6 (6.59%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.49%) APMP
6 4 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.40%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (4.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (3.30%) BC Cleared
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.10%) CISSP
9 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.10%) CRISC
9 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.10%) ISEB
9 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.10%) MCSE
9 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.58%) PMO
2 13 (14.29%) SLA
3 10 (10.99%) QA
4 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.10%) GxP
5 1 (1.10%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.10%) NCSC
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (9.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.20%) vSphere
3 1 (1.10%) Docker
3 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.10%) VMware Server
3 1 (1.10%) XenApp
3 1 (1.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.79%) Terraform
2 6 (6.59%) Ansible
3 5 (5.49%) SCCM
4 4 (4.40%) Grafana
5 3 (3.30%) Nagios
5 3 (3.30%) Puppet
5 3 (3.30%) WSUS
6 2 (2.20%) Graylog
6 2 (2.20%) Nessus
6 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.10%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.10%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.10%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 25 (27.47%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.79%) Cisco
3 5 (5.49%) SAP
4 4 (4.40%) Citrix
4 4 (4.40%) VMware
5 3 (3.30%) Avaya
5 3 (3.30%) BT
5 3 (3.30%) Computacenter
5 3 (3.30%) Openreach
6 2 (2.20%) Cadence
6 2 (2.20%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.20%) F5
6 2 (2.20%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.20%) Genesys
6 2 (2.20%) Juniper
6 2 (2.20%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.20%) Qualys
6 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.20%) Splunk
7 1 (1.10%) NEC