Change Management Contracts in England

Change Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 43 53
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,442 2,331 3,251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.91% 4.91% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 5.46% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,455 2,133
10th Percentile £312 £363 £324
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £613
90th Percentile £713 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £547 £500
% change year-on-year -6.31% +9.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 48 46
10th Percentile £15.53 £18.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.30 £36.50 £14.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +109.26% +4.17%
75th Percentile £61.60 £72.50 £39.97
90th Percentile £69.65 £87.50 £53.25
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £51.82 £24.00
% change year-on-year -3.50% +115.90% +5.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London -8 720 £550 -6.58% 312
North of England -10 204 £514 +2.80% 131
South East -20 180 £450 -14.29% 128
South West +27 139 £550 - 47
Yorkshire -5 112 £525 -4.55% 47
Midlands -3 107 £513 -4.65% 97
North West -17 86 £500 - 71
West Midlands -12 75 £519 -3.49% 54
East of England -13 60 £350 -28.13% 66
East Midlands +14 29 £475 -11.63% 42
North East +1 11 £600 +41.18% 16
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 75 (5.20%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (2.22%) Confluence
4 11 (0.76%) IIS
5 9 (0.62%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.49%) Apache
7 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.21%) Documentum
8 1 (0.069%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.069%) CMS
8 1 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.069%) nginx
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.069%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (2.01%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.35%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.28%) InDesign
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.21%) Windchill
10 2 (0.14%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.069%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.49%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.42%) Endur
4 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.35%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.35%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.28%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 167 (11.58%) Azure
2 108 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (4.79%) AWS
4 35 (2.43%) Power Platform
5 34 (2.36%) SaaS
6 27 (1.87%) Entra ID
7 23 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
8 21 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
10 19 (1.32%) Serverless
11 17 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (1.18%) Azure Functions
12 16 (1.11%) OneDrive
13 15 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
14 14 (0.97%) IaaS
15 13 (0.90%) GCP
15 13 (0.90%) PaaS
15 13 (0.90%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 89 (6.17%) Firewall
2 53 (3.68%) WAN
3 44 (3.05%) LAN
4 41 (2.84%) BGP
5 40 (2.77%) OSPF
6 37 (2.57%) DNS
6 37 (2.57%) Wi-Fi
7 35 (2.43%) VPN
8 33 (2.29%) Network Security
9 26 (1.80%) DHCP
10 25 (1.73%) IPsec
11 24 (1.66%) Structured Cabling
12 23 (1.60%) Cisco ASA
12 23 (1.60%) NetScaler
12 23 (1.60%) VLAN
13 22 (1.53%) TCP/IP
14 21 (1.46%) Cisco ISE
15 19 (1.32%) Wireless
16 18 (1.25%) EIGRP
16 18 (1.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (1.87%) Power BI
2 20 (1.39%) NoSQL
3 16 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (1.11%) SAP HANA
4 15 (1.04%) Oracle Database
5 14 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (0.97%) Tableau
6 12 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
7 10 (0.69%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.42%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.42%) KDB
8 6 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
9 5 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.21%) Big Data
11 3 (0.21%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 3 (0.21%) Metadata
11 3 (0.21%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 60 (4.16%) JIRA
2 21 (1.46%) Git
3 14 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.62%) Selenium
5 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.14%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.14%) JMeter
6 2 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.069%) GitLab
7 1 (0.069%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.069%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 531 (36.82%) Finance
2 426 (29.54%) Social Skills
3 228 (15.81%) Banking
4 192 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
5 166 (11.51%) Public Sector
6 62 (4.30%) Legal
7 55 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (3.54%) Manufacturing
9 50 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
10 47 (3.26%) Telecoms
11 44 (3.05%) Marketing
12 33 (2.29%) Retail
13 27 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (1.60%) Local Government
14 23 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 19 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (1.11%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.97%) Electronics
19 13 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 214 (14.84%) Project Manager
2 211 (14.63%) Analyst
3 130 (9.02%) Senior
4 101 (7.00%) Business Analyst
5 99 (6.87%) Change Manager
6 96 (6.66%) Lead
7 81 (5.62%) Architect
8 69 (4.79%) Consultant
9 63 (4.37%) Developer
10 61 (4.23%) Network Engineer
11 60 (4.16%) IT Manager
12 50 (3.47%) Business Manager
13 43 (2.98%) Senior Manager
14 37 (2.57%) Programme Manager
15 33 (2.29%) Data Analyst
16 32 (2.22%) Banking Analyst
16 32 (2.22%) Business Change Manager
16 32 (2.22%) Delivery Manager
17 29 (2.01%) Administrator
18 27 (1.87%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.80%) React
2 19 (1.32%) XML
3 18 (1.25%) Kafka
4 16 (1.11%) AngularJS
5 15 (1.04%) HTML
6 14 (0.97%) REST
7 12 (0.83%) Jinja
8 11 (0.76%) Spring
9 10 (0.69%) JSON
10 8 (0.55%) CSS
11 7 (0.49%) .NET
11 7 (0.49%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (0.49%) IDoc
11 7 (0.49%) Middleware
11 7 (0.49%) SAP Basis
11 7 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
12 6 (0.42%) ActiveMQ
12 6 (0.42%) Itk
12 6 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
12 6 (0.42%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 77 (5.34%) Management Information System
2 66 (4.58%) Product Ownership
3 39 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 36 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 32 (2.22%) PKI
6 28 (1.94%) Data Structures
7 25 (1.73%) Replication
8 24 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.04%) FMCG
10 15 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 14 (0.97%) CMDB
12 13 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (0.90%) NHS
13 11 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.69%) Derivative
14 10 (0.69%) Reference Data
15 9 (0.62%) Life Science
15 9 (0.62%) Market Risk
15 9 (0.62%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 143 (9.92%) Windows
2 75 (5.20%) Linux
3 61 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.66%) Unix
4 24 (1.66%) Windows 10
5 17 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (0.83%) Solaris
7 12 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.49%) MVS
10 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.14%) CentOS
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.14%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.069%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.069%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (23.30%) Project Management
2 302 (20.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (18.79%) Agile
4 208 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
5 204 (14.15%) ITIL
6 139 (9.64%) Project Delivery
7 127 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 127 (8.81%) Risk Management
8 120 (8.32%) Migration
9 116 (8.04%) DevOps
10 115 (7.98%) PRINCE2
11 111 (7.70%) Service Management
12 103 (7.14%) ITSM
13 100 (6.93%) Decision-Making
14 99 (6.87%) Programme Management
15 81 (5.62%) Problem Management
15 81 (5.62%) Roadmaps
16 79 (5.48%) ERP
17 78 (5.41%) Business Case
18 77 (5.34%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (4.72%) Python
2 62 (4.30%) SQL
3 48 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.73%) C
5 21 (1.46%) Java
5 21 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 14 (0.97%) Perl
7 13 (0.90%) C#
8 12 (0.83%) Tcl
9 9 (0.62%) ABAP
10 8 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
10 8 (0.55%) Swift
11 6 (0.42%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.42%) C++
12 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.14%) AWK
13 2 (0.14%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.14%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 270 (18.72%) Security Cleared
2 181 (12.55%) SC Cleared
3 151 (10.47%) Degree
4 74 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 55 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (2.57%) CCNP
7 34 (2.36%) CCNA
8 25 (1.73%) PMP
9 24 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
10 23 (1.60%) PMI Certification
11 21 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 20 (1.39%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.83%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 11 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 10 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.69%) CCIE
17 9 (0.62%) Six Sigma Black Belt
18 7 (0.49%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (6.10%) PMO
2 57 (3.95%) QA
3 44 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.98%) SLA
5 22 (1.53%) GDPR
6 7 (0.49%) NIST
7 5 (0.35%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.28%) GRC
9 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.21%) P3O
9 3 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.14%) COBIT
10 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.14%) GxP
10 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.069%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.069%) ITGC
11 1 (0.069%) NCSC
11 1 (0.069%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 82 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.39%) XenApp
4 17 (1.18%) Firmware
5 14 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.83%) XenDesktop
7 8 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.42%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.42%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.28%) vSphere
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.14%) Docker
13 1 (0.069%) Snort
13 1 (0.069%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 41 (2.84%) Ansible
2 33 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.32%) NetBackup
4 16 (1.11%) Puppet
5 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.90%) SCCM
7 10 (0.69%) Argo
7 10 (0.69%) Grafana
7 10 (0.69%) Istio
7 10 (0.69%) Kibana
7 10 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.69%) SCOM
8 8 (0.55%) Control-M
9 7 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (0.42%) Terraform
10 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.35%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 265 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 125 (8.67%) SAP
3 104 (7.21%) ServiceNow
4 71 (4.92%) Cisco
5 55 (3.81%) Oracle
6 49 (3.40%) VMware
7 47 (3.26%) Citrix
8 38 (2.64%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.94%) NetApp
10 26 (1.80%) SolarWinds
11 21 (1.46%) Red Hat
12 20 (1.39%) Juniper
13 18 (1.25%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.25%) Veritas
14 16 (1.11%) Fortinet
15 14 (0.97%) CheckPoint
15 14 (0.97%) IBM
15 14 (0.97%) Splunk
16 11 (0.76%) Aruba
17 10 (0.69%) Google