Change Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Change Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 42 47
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 814 1,114 1,414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.86% 4.90% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 5.50% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 736 1,008
10th Percentile £300 £300 £274
25th Percentile £400 £412 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £556
90th Percentile £650 £700 £646
UK median daily rate £513 £541 £505
% change year-on-year -5.17% +7.18% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 37 40
10th Percentile £14.44 £17.18 -
25th Percentile £28.32 £29.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.40 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +131.69% -7.16%
75th Percentile £61.60 £63.75 £32.50
90th Percentile £68.88 £83.82 £51.03
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £49.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +2.05% +122.70% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
North of England -8 224 £515 +1.98% 124
South East -19 180 £455 -13.21% 129
South West +19 128 £525 -6.25% 55
Yorkshire -2 116 £520 -5.55% 45
Midlands -5 107 £513 -4.65% 98
North West -3 102 £515 +3.00% 71
Scotland +17 95 £475 +5.56% 16
West Midlands -12 76 £525 -2.33% 51
East of England -10 61 £350 -26.32% 54
East Midlands +12 28 £475 -9.52% 46
Wales +9 17 £535 +7.00% 15
North East +2 11 £600 +41.18% 11
Northern Ireland +4 10 £363 -9.38% 3
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 46 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.58%) Confluence
3 19 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.98%) IIS
4 8 (0.98%) Tomcat
5 6 (0.74%) Apache
6 3 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 45 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.37%) Windchill
8 2 (0.25%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.12%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 17 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.86%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.74%) SAP Payroll
4 5 (0.61%) iTrent
4 5 (0.61%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
6 3 (0.37%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.12%) Primavera
8 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 79 (9.71%) Azure
2 66 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (4.55%) AWS
4 21 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (2.46%) SaaS
6 17 (2.09%) SuccessFactors
7 13 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (1.60%) Azure Functions
7 13 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (1.60%) Entra ID
7 13 (1.60%) Serverless
7 13 (1.60%) Yammer
8 11 (1.35%) OpenShift
8 11 (1.35%) Power Platform
9 10 (1.23%) OneDrive
10 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (0.74%) Azure Stack
11 6 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.61%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 61 (7.49%) Firewall
2 23 (2.83%) DNS
2 23 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
3 22 (2.70%) NetScaler
3 22 (2.70%) VLAN
4 20 (2.46%) Network Security
5 18 (2.21%) BGP
5 18 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
5 18 (2.21%) OSPF
5 18 (2.21%) TCP/IP
6 17 (2.09%) VPN
7 15 (1.84%) Cisco ISE
7 15 (1.84%) IPsec
7 15 (1.84%) SAN
7 15 (1.84%) SNMP
7 15 (1.84%) WAN
8 14 (1.72%) DHCP
8 14 (1.72%) EIGRP
9 13 (1.60%) Cisco Firepower
9 13 (1.60%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.60%) NoSQL
2 12 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.23%) Power BI
4 7 (0.86%) Oracle Database
4 7 (0.86%) SAP HANA
5 6 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.37%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.37%) Tableau
7 2 (0.25%) GIS
7 2 (0.25%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.25%) Impala
7 2 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (0.25%) QlikView
7 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.12%) Metadata
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.12%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (4.42%) JIRA
2 16 (1.97%) Git
3 10 (1.23%) Bitbucket
4 7 (0.86%) Selenium
5 6 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.25%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.25%) JMeter
6 2 (0.25%) MSI
7 1 (0.12%) Gradle
7 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.12%) Maven
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 259 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 223 (27.40%) Finance
3 137 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (13.39%) Public Sector
5 81 (9.95%) Banking
6 40 (4.91%) Manufacturing
7 35 (4.30%) Telecoms
8 33 (4.05%) Legal
9 29 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (2.95%) Marketing
13 19 (2.33%) Publishing
14 17 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (1.97%) Retail
16 14 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (1.60%) Local Government
18 10 (1.23%) Military
19 9 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 107 (13.14%) Project Manager
2 99 (12.16%) Analyst
3 82 (10.07%) Senior
4 63 (7.74%) Lead
5 59 (7.25%) Change Manager
6 47 (5.77%) Business Analyst
7 43 (5.28%) Consultant
8 39 (4.79%) Architect
8 39 (4.79%) IT Manager
9 37 (4.55%) Developer
10 33 (4.05%) Business Manager
11 32 (3.93%) Network Engineer
12 28 (3.44%) Change Analyst
13 27 (3.32%) Senior Manager
14 25 (3.07%) Business Change Manager
15 23 (2.83%) Administrator
15 23 (2.83%) Delivery Manager
16 22 (2.70%) Service Manager
17 18 (2.21%) Full Stack Developer
17 18 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.21%) Kafka
1 18 (2.21%) React
2 12 (1.47%) Jinja
3 10 (1.23%) AngularJS
4 9 (1.11%) REST
4 9 (1.11%) XML
5 7 (0.86%) HTML
5 7 (0.86%) SAP Basis
5 7 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (0.74%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (0.74%) CSS
6 6 (0.74%) Itk
6 6 (0.74%) JSON
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.61%) Spring
8 4 (0.49%) Web Services
9 3 (0.37%) .NET
9 3 (0.37%) LDAP
9 3 (0.37%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.37%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.88%) Management Information System
2 46 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 23 (2.83%) PKI
3 23 (2.83%) Replication
4 16 (1.97%) Cloud Native
5 13 (1.60%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (1.47%) LIMS
6 12 (1.47%) NHS
7 11 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.23%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (0.98%) IoT
9 8 (0.98%) Public Cloud
10 7 (0.86%) CMDB
10 7 (0.86%) Data Structures
10 7 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.86%) Mainframe
10 7 (0.86%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 113 (13.88%) Windows
2 69 (8.48%) Linux
3 45 (5.53%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.70%) Unix
5 19 (2.33%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.47%) Solaris
7 11 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.98%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.86%) MVS
11 5 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.25%) CentOS
12 2 (0.25%) VMS
12 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (25.68%) Project Management
2 167 (20.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 157 (19.29%) Agile
4 137 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (13.02%) ITIL
6 88 (10.81%) Project Delivery
7 84 (10.32%) DevOps
8 81 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (9.83%) PRINCE2
10 71 (8.72%) Risk Management
11 67 (8.23%) Service Management
12 61 (7.49%) Roadmaps
13 59 (7.25%) Programme Management
14 58 (7.13%) Decision-Making
14 58 (7.13%) ITSM
15 55 (6.76%) Service Delivery
16 54 (6.63%) Business Analysis
17 50 (6.14%) Problem Management
18 49 (6.02%) Migration
19 48 (5.90%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 46 (5.65%) Python
2 31 (3.81%) PowerShell
3 27 (3.32%) SQL
4 14 (1.72%) Perl
5 13 (1.60%) C
6 12 (1.47%) Tcl
7 11 (1.35%) Java
8 10 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 8 (0.98%) Swift
10 6 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.74%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (0.61%) C++
12 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.25%) AWK
14 2 (0.25%) Bourne shell
14 2 (0.25%) Korn
14 2 (0.25%) R
15 1 (0.12%) Groovy
15 1 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 177 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 115 (14.13%) Degree
3 95 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 65 (7.99%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (2.83%) CCNA
7 20 (2.46%) CCNP
8 13 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.98%) APMG
12 8 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.98%) CIPD
12 8 (0.98%) PMP
12 8 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.74%) MCSE
14 5 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.02%) PMO
2 31 (3.81%) QA
3 21 (2.58%) SLA
4 16 (1.97%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.35%) GDPR
6 8 (0.98%) NIST
7 7 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.37%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) COBIT
10 2 (0.25%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.12%) Basel III
11 1 (0.12%) COREP
11 1 (0.12%) FINREP
11 1 (0.12%) GxP
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 9000
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.12%) P3O
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.21%) XenApp
4 17 (2.09%) Firmware
5 14 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.23%) XenDesktop
7 8 (0.98%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (0.98%) Docker
8 6 (0.74%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.74%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.49%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.49%) vSphere
11 3 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 48 (5.90%) Ansible
2 19 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.21%) NetBackup
4 16 (1.97%) Puppet
5 10 (1.23%) Argo
5 10 (1.23%) Grafana
5 10 (1.23%) Istio
5 10 (1.23%) Kibana
5 10 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.11%) SCOM
7 8 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (0.86%) Terraform
9 6 (0.74%) Rancher
9 6 (0.74%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 6 (0.74%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.61%) SCCM
11 4 (0.49%) Nagios
12 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.25%) CEMLI
13 2 (0.25%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 153 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.35%) SAP
3 55 (6.76%) ServiceNow
4 40 (4.91%) VMware
5 35 (4.30%) Cisco
6 31 (3.81%) Citrix
7 24 (2.95%) Oracle
8 22 (2.70%) SolarWinds
9 21 (2.58%) Palo Alto
10 19 (2.33%) Red Hat
11 17 (2.09%) Veritas
12 13 (1.60%) IBM
12 13 (1.60%) Salesforce
13 11 (1.35%) CheckPoint
13 11 (1.35%) InterSystems
13 11 (1.35%) NetApp
14 9 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 9 (1.11%) Ivanti
14 9 (1.11%) Tanium
15 8 (0.98%) Okta