Change Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Change Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 121 137
Rank change year-on-year +34 +16 +26
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 3,065 2,931 4,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.09% 2.89% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.02% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,659 1,836 2,951
10th Percentile £36,000 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,448 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.90% - +5.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Change Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Change Management.

Salary trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +31 2,756 £55,000 - 743
UK excluding London +27 2,086 £52,448 +4.90% 504
Work from Home +56 1,194 £57,500 +0.53% 327
London +47 864 £72,500 +11.54% 256
North of England +50 525 £52,500 +14.13% 125
South East -5 471 £52,500 +5.00% 103
Midlands -5 359 £52,500 - 100
North West +41 293 £52,500 - 77
South West +16 261 £50,000 +25.36% 75
East of England +65 257 £55,000 +0.69% 55
West Midlands -12 241 £51,997 -3.71% 60
Yorkshire +51 171 £55,000 +25.50% 35
Scotland -17 138 £55,000 +4.76% 39
East Midlands +9 104 £54,000 +2.86% 39
North East +32 61 £45,000 +16.88% 15
Wales +17 56 £41,067 -8.74% 14
Northern Ireland +27 13 - - 5
Isle of Man - 6 £36,000 - 1

Change 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
1 332 (10.83%) SAS
2 83 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 78 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 53 (1.73%) Confluence
5 30 (0.98%) Captiva
6 29 (0.95%) WebSphere
7 28 (0.91%) FileNet
8 14 (0.46%) CMS
9 8 (0.26%) IIS
10 7 (0.23%) Apache
11 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.13%) nginx
13 3 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.098%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.098%) CICS
13 3 (0.098%) Documentum
13 3 (0.098%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.065%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.065%) NetWeaver
14 2 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 153 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
2 113 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (2.02%) MS Visio
5 37 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.72%) Windchill
7 12 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.13%) SPSS
10 1 (0.033%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 307 (10.02%) SAP ERP
2 39 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.69%) NEC Housing
5 17 (0.55%) Teamcenter
6 15 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.29%) SAP CX
8 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.16%) HFM
9 5 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
9 5 (0.16%) Primavera
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.098%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.098%) Endur
11 3 (0.098%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.098%) Magento
12 2 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
12 2 (0.065%) SAP MDG
12 2 (0.065%) SAP MM
12 2 (0.065%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 426 (13.90%) Azure
2 300 (9.79%) Microsoft 365
3 229 (7.47%) GCP
4 153 (4.99%) Power Platform
5 118 (3.85%) AWS
6 72 (2.35%) Entra ID
6 72 (2.35%) SaaS
7 69 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
8 64 (2.09%) IaaS
9 58 (1.89%) PowerApps
10 55 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
11 52 (1.70%) GitHub
12 48 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
13 39 (1.27%) Power Automate
14 36 (1.17%) PaaS
15 31 (1.01%) Serverless
16 29 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
17 26 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
18 22 (0.72%) Smartsheet
19 21 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 299 (9.76%) Broadband
2 154 (5.02%) Firewall
3 86 (2.81%) LAN
4 80 (2.61%) DNS
4 80 (2.61%) WAN
5 45 (1.47%) Wireless
6 44 (1.44%) VoIP
7 43 (1.40%) Network Security
7 43 (1.40%) VPN
8 42 (1.37%) DHCP
9 33 (1.08%) TCP/IP
10 31 (1.01%) Internet
11 29 (0.95%) SAN
12 28 (0.91%) SD-WAN
13 22 (0.72%) Intranet
14 21 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
15 20 (0.65%) VLAN
16 19 (0.62%) Cisco IOS
17 17 (0.55%) BGP
18 16 (0.52%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (5.29%) BigQuery
2 160 (5.22%) Looker
3 110 (3.59%) Power BI
4 92 (3.00%) SQL Server
5 49 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 32 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 27 (0.88%) MySQL
8 25 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 20 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 18 (0.59%) Oracle Database
11 18 (0.59%) RDBMS
12 17 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
13 16 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (0.49%) Big Data
15 11 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (0.33%) DB2
16 10 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 145 (4.73%) JIRA
2 42 (1.37%) Git
3 36 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
5 21 (0.69%) Subversion
6 17 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.36%) Robot Framework
8 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.29%) Selenium
10 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.20%) JMeter
11 6 (0.20%) Postman
11 6 (0.20%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
12 5 (0.16%) LabVIEW
13 4 (0.13%) GitLab
13 4 (0.13%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.098%) Sonatype Nexus
15 2 (0.065%) Hudson
15 2 (0.065%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,172 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 1,054 (34.39%) Finance
3 573 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (7.77%) Retail
5 163 (5.32%) Manufacturing
6 154 (5.02%) Law
7 149 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 125 (4.08%) Banking
9 122 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
9 122 (3.98%) Public Sector
10 113 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
11 110 (3.59%) Legal
12 88 (2.87%) Marketing
13 85 (2.77%) Telecoms
14 75 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
15 68 (2.22%) Aerospace
16 37 (1.21%) Local Government
17 35 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (1.11%) Electronics
19 33 (1.08%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 551 (17.98%) Analyst
2 401 (13.08%) Senior
3 391 (12.76%) Architect
4 357 (11.65%) Project Manager
5 332 (10.83%) Solutions Architect
6 217 (7.08%) Business Analyst
7 197 (6.43%) IT Manager
8 192 (6.26%) Lead
9 164 (5.35%) Data Engineer
10 162 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
10 162 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
11 161 (5.25%) Principal Data Engineer
12 143 (4.67%) Change Manager
12 143 (4.67%) Senior Manager
13 110 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 96 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
15 94 (3.07%) IT Support
16 93 (3.03%) Support Analyst
17 87 (2.84%) Business Manager
18 86 (2.81%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (2.19%) .NET
2 45 (1.47%) HTML
3 34 (1.11%) AngularJS
4 29 (0.95%) CSS
4 29 (0.95%) Web Services
5 25 (0.82%) XML
6 22 (0.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 19 (0.62%) React
8 16 (0.52%) 802.1X
8 16 (0.52%) Middleware
9 15 (0.49%) .NET Framework
9 15 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
10 11 (0.36%) Qt
10 11 (0.36%) Spring
11 10 (0.33%) Gherkin
12 9 (0.29%) REST
13 8 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
14 7 (0.23%) EDI
14 7 (0.23%) SOAP
14 7 (0.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 303 (9.89%) Self-Motivation
2 210 (6.85%) Management Information System
3 93 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 49 (1.60%) CMDB
4 49 (1.60%) Driving Licence
5 48 (1.57%) FMCG
6 46 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 45 (1.47%) Operational Technology
7 45 (1.47%) Public Cloud
8 42 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (1.37%) PMI
9 41 (1.34%) NHS
10 39 (1.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 38 (1.24%) Product Ownership
12 29 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (0.95%) Private Cloud
13 28 (0.91%) DataPower
14 25 (0.82%) Fat Client
14 25 (0.82%) Thin Client
15 23 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 390 (12.72%) Windows
2 196 (6.39%) Linux
3 141 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 115 (3.75%) Unix
5 85 (2.77%) Windows 10
6 51 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 46 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 26 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
9 25 (0.82%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 15 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 13 (0.42%) VMS
13 11 (0.36%) Android
14 10 (0.33%) Apple iOS
15 9 (0.29%) Mac OS X
16 7 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.098%) CentOS
17 3 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.098%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,206 (39.35%) Agile
2 760 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
3 754 (24.60%) Project Management
4 601 (19.61%) Roadmaps
5 586 (19.12%) ITIL
6 414 (13.51%) ERP
7 403 (13.15%) DevOps
8 398 (12.99%) Mentoring
9 389 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 364 (11.88%) Decision-Making
11 361 (11.78%) Data Management
12 354 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 353 (11.52%) Performance Management
14 351 (11.45%) Enterprise Architecture
15 334 (10.90%) TOGAF
16 327 (10.67%) Coaching
16 327 (10.67%) Strategic Roadmap
17 323 (10.54%) Service Management
18 301 (9.82%) Risk Management
19 284 (9.27%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 283 (9.23%) SQL
2 150 (4.89%) PowerShell
3 86 (2.81%) Python
4 82 (2.68%) Java
5 69 (2.25%) C#
6 43 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 42 (1.37%) Bash
8 36 (1.17%) T-SQL
9 22 (0.72%) C
9 22 (0.72%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.62%) C++
11 8 (0.26%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.23%) PHP
13 5 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.13%) ABAP
14 4 (0.13%) Go
14 4 (0.13%) VB
14 4 (0.13%) VBA
15 3 (0.098%) COBOL
15 3 (0.098%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 548 (17.88%) Degree
2 293 (9.56%) Security Cleared
3 197 (6.43%) SC Cleared
4 119 (3.88%) PMI Certification
5 103 (3.36%) PMP
6 78 (2.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 53 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
8 52 (1.70%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 46 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.37%) CISSP
12 40 (1.31%) Azure Certification
13 37 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
14 32 (1.04%) CCNA
15 23 (0.75%) A+ Certification
15 23 (0.75%) DBS Check
16 18 (0.59%) CISM
16 18 (0.59%) HNC
17 17 (0.55%) APMG
18 16 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (7.44%) GDPR
2 128 (4.18%) PMO
3 123 (4.01%) SLA
4 104 (3.39%) QA
5 64 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (1.76%) Data Quality
7 29 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 28 (0.91%) NIST
9 19 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.55%) COBIT
11 16 (0.52%) ISO 9001
11 16 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.36%) ISO 14000
13 10 (0.33%) NEBOSH
14 7 (0.23%) CDISC
14 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.23%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.20%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 253 (8.25%) Active Directory
2 123 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 30 (0.98%) Firmware
5 21 (0.69%) Docker
6 17 (0.55%) vSphere
7 16 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.098%) RACF
10 3 (0.098%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.033%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.033%) Lustre
12 1 (0.033%) LXC
12 1 (0.033%) NFS
12 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.033%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.033%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 100 (3.26%) SCCM
2 62 (2.02%) Terraform
3 44 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 40 (1.31%) Kubernetes
5 39 (1.27%) Ansible
6 21 (0.69%) WSUS
7 15 (0.49%) SCOM
8 14 (0.46%) vCenter Server
9 12 (0.39%) Grafana
10 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
10 10 (0.33%) Nagios
11 9 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.26%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.23%) Foglight
14 6 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 5 (0.16%) Opsgenie
16 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
16 4 (0.13%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 532 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 464 (15.14%) Oracle
3 404 (13.18%) SAP
4 305 (9.95%) Hyperion
5 299 (9.76%) Anaplan
6 183 (5.97%) Google
7 168 (5.48%) VMware
8 156 (5.09%) ServiceNow
9 95 (3.10%) Cisco
10 55 (1.79%) Salesforce
11 53 (1.73%) IBM
12 46 (1.50%) Citrix
13 43 (1.40%) HP
14 30 (0.98%) Fortinet
14 30 (0.98%) Kofax
15 29 (0.95%) Apple
15 29 (0.95%) BMC
16 28 (0.91%) Pega
17 27 (0.88%) Juniper
17 27 (0.88%) Splunk