Change Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Change Management
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 Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 42 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +21
Contract jobs citing Change Management 779 1,209 1,738
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.26% 4.91% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 5.47% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 648 1,213
10th Percentile £310 £361 £328
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £726 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -5.09% +8.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 31 18
10th Percentile £13.63 £23.15 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.49 £35.00 £13.69
Median hourly rate £51.25 £55.00 £26.20
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +109.92% +0.77%
75th Percentile £62.00 £80.00 £39.97
90th Percentile £67.45 £87.50 £60.23
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £48.40 £22.00
% change year-on-year +3.31% +120.00% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +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% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Change Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Change Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
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 Management.

Change Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Change Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Change Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
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 Management.

Change Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Change Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Change Management hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
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 34 (4.36%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.77%) Confluence
4 3 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.39%) CMS
4 3 (0.39%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (3.21%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.51%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.39%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.39%) InDesign
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.64%) Endur
2 5 (0.64%) SAP SD
3 4 (0.51%) Loan IQ
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
4 3 (0.39%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.26%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (8.34%) Azure
2 35 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (2.18%) AWS
4 16 (2.05%) Power Platform
5 10 (1.28%) SaaS
6 9 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.03%) IaaS
7 8 (1.03%) PaaS
7 8 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
8 7 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (0.90%) Serverless
9 6 (0.77%) Azure Stack
9 6 (0.77%) Entra ID
9 6 (0.77%) Google Analytics
10 5 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (0.64%) Mimecast
10 5 (0.64%) Slack
11 4 (0.51%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.08%) Intranet
2 23 (2.95%) Firewall
3 20 (2.57%) BGP
3 20 (2.57%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (2.44%) OSPF
5 16 (2.05%) WAN
6 15 (1.93%) Structured Cabling
7 13 (1.67%) IPsec
7 13 (1.67%) LAN
8 10 (1.28%) VPN
9 9 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (1.16%) EIGRP
10 8 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (0.90%) DNS
11 7 (0.90%) HSRP
11 7 (0.90%) NetScaler
11 7 (0.90%) SNMP
12 6 (0.77%) DHCP
12 6 (0.77%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (1.28%) Power BI
2 6 (0.77%) NoSQL
2 6 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (0.64%) Tableau
4 4 (0.51%) Big Data
4 4 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.39%) QlikView
5 3 (0.39%) SAP HANA
5 3 (0.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.13%) DBAmp
6 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.13%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.13%) Impala
6 1 (0.13%) Metadata
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 35 (4.49%) JIRA
2 7 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.26%) Git
3 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 400 (51.35%) Finance
2 265 (34.02%) Banking
3 175 (22.46%) Social Skills
4 72 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 54 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.98%) Telecoms
7 25 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (1.93%) Manufacturing
10 15 (1.93%) Retail
11 13 (1.67%) Legal
12 11 (1.41%) Marketing
13 8 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.03%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.64%) Back Office
15 5 (0.64%) Local Government
16 4 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 113 (14.51%) Project Manager
2 110 (14.12%) Architect
3 108 (13.86%) Analyst
4 51 (6.55%) Change Manager
5 49 (6.29%) Business Analyst
6 47 (6.03%) Banking Analyst
7 45 (5.78%) Senior
8 42 (5.39%) Lead
9 41 (5.26%) Consultant
10 38 (4.88%) Data Analyst
11 35 (4.49%) IT Manager
12 32 (4.11%) Business Manager
12 32 (4.11%) IT Analyst
13 30 (3.85%) Resilience Manager
14 25 (3.21%) Business Change Manager
14 25 (3.21%) Senior Manager
15 24 (3.08%) Banking Business Analyst
16 22 (2.82%) Infrastructure Architect
16 22 (2.82%) Technical Writer
17 21 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.57%) HTML
2 18 (2.31%) CSS
3 13 (1.67%) XML
4 11 (1.41%) REST
5 8 (1.03%) JSON
6 6 (0.77%) Jinja
7 5 (0.64%) .NET
7 5 (0.64%) IDoc
8 4 (0.51%) Middleware
8 4 (0.51%) SOAP
9 3 (0.39%) EDI
9 3 (0.39%) Kafka
9 3 (0.39%) LDAP
9 3 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.39%) SAP XI
9 3 (0.39%) Smart Contracts
10 2 (0.26%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (0.13%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.13%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.72%) Management Information System
1 29 (3.72%) Product Ownership
2 25 (3.21%) Data Structures
3 21 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 14 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (1.41%) Mainframe
6 10 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 7 (0.90%) Virtual Team
8 6 (0.77%) CMDB
8 6 (0.77%) Onboarding
8 6 (0.77%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.64%) Derivative
9 5 (0.64%) LIMS
9 5 (0.64%) PKI
9 5 (0.64%) Replication
10 4 (0.51%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.51%) PMI
10 4 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.98%) Windows
2 15 (1.93%) MVS
3 13 (1.67%) Linux
3 13 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.26%) Unix
7 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (17.97%) Project Management
2 130 (16.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 97 (12.45%) ITIL
4 92 (11.81%) Agile
5 91 (11.68%) Service Management
6 74 (9.50%) Migration
7 70 (8.99%) ITSM
7 70 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (7.70%) Risk Management
9 53 (6.80%) Project Delivery
10 50 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (6.42%) PRINCE2
11 46 (5.91%) DevOps
12 38 (4.88%) Business Case
13 37 (4.75%) Programme Management
14 36 (4.62%) Data Migration
14 36 (4.62%) User Experience
15 35 (4.49%) Decision-Making
15 35 (4.49%) Roadmaps
15 35 (4.49%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (2.82%) SQL
2 19 (2.44%) JavaScript
2 19 (2.44%) Python
3 9 (1.16%) C#
4 7 (0.90%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.77%) Perl
5 6 (0.77%) Tcl
6 5 (0.64%) ABAP
7 3 (0.39%) C
7 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.13%) C++
9 1 (0.13%) R
9 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.13%) VB
9 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 97 (12.45%) Security Cleared
2 87 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.93%) Degree
4 18 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (1.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 14 (1.80%) CCNP
7 10 (1.28%) CCNA
8 8 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.77%) CCIE
10 6 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.77%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.64%) APMP
11 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.64%) BC Cleared
11 5 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.64%) PMP
11 5 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.24%) PMO
2 24 (3.08%) QA
3 14 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.54%) SLA
5 6 (0.77%) GDPR
6 4 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.26%) COBIT
7 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) Basel III
8 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.13%) COREP
8 1 (0.13%) FINREP
8 1 (0.13%) GRC
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.13%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 21 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.90%) Firmware
3 6 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) XenApp
4 3 (0.39%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.13%) Docker
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) Snort
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (1.80%) Ansible
2 8 (1.03%) Control-M
3 7 (0.90%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.77%) NetBackup
4 6 (0.77%) Puppet
4 6 (0.77%) SCCM
5 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.39%) SCOM
7 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.26%) Terraform
8 1 (0.13%) Argo
8 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.13%) Grafana
8 1 (0.13%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.13%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.76%) ServiceNow
3 44 (5.65%) SAP
4 25 (3.21%) Cisco
5 23 (2.95%) Oracle
6 19 (2.44%) Splunk
7 18 (2.31%) Citrix
7 18 (2.31%) NetApp
8 11 (1.41%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.03%) Adobe
10 7 (0.90%) BT
10 7 (0.90%) F5
10 7 (0.90%) Juniper
10 7 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.90%) SolarWinds
10 7 (0.90%) VMware
11 6 (0.77%) Google
11 6 (0.77%) Veritas
12 5 (0.64%) Ariba
12 5 (0.64%) Pega