Change Management Contracts

Change Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 45 56
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,795 2,694 3,727
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.22% 4.73% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 5.27% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 1,664 2,424
10th Percentile £313 £352 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £541 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +8.25% +6.38%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £600
90th Percentile £701 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -0.99% +6.32% +9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 51 52
10th Percentile £14.35 £23.15 £13.50
25th Percentile £29.91 £35.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.40 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +121.11% -8.79%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £36.83
90th Percentile £69.60 £87.50 £52.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.00 £48.40 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.83% +142.00% -10.95%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -1 1,449 £525 -4.55% 771
UK excluding London -5 789 £500 -0.99% 525
Work from Home +8 771 £521 -3.47% 312
London -9 742 £550 -4.35% 275
North of England -7 194 £514 +0.78% 122
South East -12 176 £463 -11.90% 132
South West +25 145 £550 +2.33% 62
Midlands -3 104 £500 -4.76% 106
Yorkshire -11 101 £525 -4.55% 40
Scotland +27 99 £475 +1.33% 34
North West -18 87 £500 - 69
West Midlands -6 74 £513 -2.38% 66
East of England -7 59 £413 -17.33% 69
East Midlands +14 27 £475 -9.52% 39
Wales +4 16 £535 +7.00% 13
North East +2 11 £600 +23.08% 15
Northern Ireland +2 4 £435 +16.00% 4

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 89 (4.96%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (2.06%) Confluence
4 11 (0.61%) IIS
5 8 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.39%) Apache
7 4 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.17%) Documentum
9 1 (0.056%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.056%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.056%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.056%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.056%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 99 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (2.79%) MS Visio
5 28 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) InDesign
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.11%) Windchill
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.45%) Endur
3 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.39%) SAP SD
3 7 (0.39%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.28%) iTrent
5 5 (0.28%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
6 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
7 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.17%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 182 (10.14%) Azure
2 116 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (4.51%) AWS
4 39 (2.17%) SaaS
5 34 (1.89%) Power Platform
6 31 (1.73%) SuccessFactors
7 23 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
7 23 (1.28%) Entra ID
8 21 (1.17%) Serverless
9 20 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (0.95%) Azure Functions
12 16 (0.89%) Yammer
13 14 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 14 (0.78%) OneDrive
13 14 (0.78%) Slack
14 13 (0.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.29%) Firewall
2 52 (2.90%) WAN
3 44 (2.45%) LAN
4 41 (2.28%) BGP
4 41 (2.28%) OSPF
5 39 (2.17%) DNS
6 38 (2.12%) VPN
7 36 (2.01%) Network Security
8 34 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
9 29 (1.62%) Intranet
10 28 (1.56%) DHCP
10 28 (1.56%) IPsec
11 25 (1.39%) Structured Cabling
12 24 (1.34%) Cisco ASA
12 24 (1.34%) VLAN
13 23 (1.28%) TCP/IP
14 22 (1.23%) NetScaler
15 21 (1.17%) Cisco ISE
16 18 (1.00%) Wireless
17 17 (0.95%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (1.45%) Power BI
2 19 (1.06%) NoSQL
3 18 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 13 (0.72%) SAP HANA
6 11 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
6 11 (0.61%) Tableau
7 10 (0.56%) SQL Server
8 8 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.33%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.33%) KDB
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (0.22%) Big Data
11 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.17%) QlikView
13 2 (0.11%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.11%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 87 (4.85%) JIRA
2 24 (1.34%) Git
3 21 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.39%) Selenium
5 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.11%) JMeter
6 2 (0.11%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.056%) GitLab
7 1 (0.056%) Gradle
7 1 (0.056%) Maven
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.056%) Visual Studio
General
1 706 (39.33%) Finance
2 526 (29.30%) Social Skills
3 360 (20.06%) Banking
4 210 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
5 191 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 73 (4.07%) Telecoms
7 69 (3.84%) Legal
8 64 (3.57%) Manufacturing
9 61 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (2.73%) Marketing
12 42 (2.34%) Retail
13 39 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 29 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 22 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
16 22 (1.23%) Investment Banking
16 22 (1.23%) Local Government
17 18 (1.00%) Electronics
18 17 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 274 (15.26%) Analyst
2 265 (14.76%) Project Manager
3 157 (8.75%) Architect
4 132 (7.35%) Change Manager
5 127 (7.08%) Senior
6 126 (7.02%) Business Analyst
7 118 (6.57%) Lead
8 80 (4.46%) Consultant
9 71 (3.96%) IT Manager
10 64 (3.57%) Developer
11 63 (3.51%) Business Manager
12 61 (3.40%) Banking Analyst
13 58 (3.23%) Network Engineer
14 50 (2.79%) Data Analyst
15 47 (2.62%) Business Change Manager
16 43 (2.40%) IT Analyst
17 42 (2.34%) Change Analyst
17 42 (2.34%) Senior Manager
18 37 (2.06%) Programme Manager
19 35 (1.95%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.84%) HTML
2 26 (1.45%) CSS
3 25 (1.39%) React
4 22 (1.23%) XML
5 20 (1.11%) REST
6 19 (1.06%) Kafka
7 17 (0.95%) AngularJS
8 14 (0.78%) JSON
9 12 (0.67%) Jinja
10 11 (0.61%) Spring
11 10 (0.56%) Middleware
12 9 (0.50%) .NET
13 8 (0.45%) ActiveMQ
13 8 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
13 8 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (0.39%) IDoc
14 7 (0.39%) LDAP
15 6 (0.33%) Itk
15 6 (0.33%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.29%) Management Information System
2 74 (4.12%) Product Ownership
3 43 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 37 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 36 (2.01%) PKI
6 31 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 28 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.34%) Replication
10 18 (1.00%) CMDB
11 16 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 15 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (0.78%) Derivative
13 14 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.72%) FMCG
14 13 (0.72%) Mainframe
15 12 (0.67%) LIMS
15 12 (0.67%) Reference Data
16 11 (0.61%) Fixed Income
16 11 (0.61%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 150 (8.36%) Windows
2 88 (4.90%) Linux
3 61 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.39%) Unix
5 21 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (0.84%) MVS
7 15 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.67%) Solaris
9 11 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
11 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.11%) VMS
11 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.056%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.056%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (23.45%) Project Management
2 356 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 314 (17.49%) Agile
4 266 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
5 242 (13.48%) ITIL
6 162 (9.03%) Service Management
7 156 (8.69%) Project Delivery
8 153 (8.52%) Migration
9 146 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 139 (7.74%) Risk Management
11 138 (7.69%) DevOps
12 137 (7.63%) PRINCE2
13 133 (7.41%) ITSM
14 118 (6.57%) Decision-Making
14 118 (6.57%) Programme Management
15 94 (5.24%) ERP
16 93 (5.18%) Incident Management
17 91 (5.07%) Roadmaps
18 90 (5.01%) Business Analysis
19 89 (4.96%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 71 (3.96%) Python
2 61 (3.40%) SQL
3 49 (2.73%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 26 (1.45%) C
6 19 (1.06%) Java
7 14 (0.78%) C#
7 14 (0.78%) Perl
8 12 (0.67%) Tcl
9 9 (0.50%) ABAP
10 8 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
10 8 (0.45%) Swift
11 7 (0.39%) C++
12 6 (0.33%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.11%) AWK
13 2 (0.11%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.11%) Korn
13 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 274 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 195 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 164 (9.14%) Degree
4 62 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 57 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (2.17%) CCNP
7 35 (1.95%) CCNA
8 30 (1.67%) PMP
9 28 (1.56%) PMI Certification
10 27 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 26 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 18 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 10 (0.56%) CCIE
16 10 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 9 (0.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
18 8 (0.45%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.85%) PMO
2 73 (4.07%) QA
3 44 (2.45%) SLA
4 40 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.23%) GDPR
6 8 (0.45%) NIST
7 7 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.28%) GRC
8 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.17%) COBIT
9 3 (0.17%) GxP
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) P3O
9 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.11%) Basel III
10 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.056%) IFRS
11 1 (0.056%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.056%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 80 (4.46%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.11%) XenApp
4 17 (0.95%) Firmware
5 13 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.67%) XenDesktop
7 9 (0.50%) Docker
8 8 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 8 (0.45%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.28%) vSphere
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.056%) Snort
13 1 (0.056%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 48 (2.67%) Ansible
2 40 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.11%) NetBackup
4 16 (0.89%) Puppet
4 16 (0.89%) SCCM
5 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.72%) SCOM
7 11 (0.61%) Terraform
8 9 (0.50%) Argo
8 9 (0.50%) Grafana
8 9 (0.50%) Istio
8 9 (0.50%) Kibana
8 9 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.45%) Control-M
9 8 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (0.39%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.28%) Rancher
12 5 (0.28%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 278 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 150 (8.36%) SAP
3 125 (6.96%) ServiceNow
4 74 (4.12%) Cisco
5 62 (3.45%) Oracle
6 51 (2.84%) Citrix
6 51 (2.84%) VMware
7 36 (2.01%) Palo Alto
8 29 (1.62%) NetApp
9 28 (1.56%) SolarWinds
10 25 (1.39%) Splunk
11 23 (1.28%) Red Hat
12 21 (1.17%) Juniper
13 20 (1.11%) Salesforce
14 19 (1.06%) Veritas
15 18 (1.00%) IBM
16 17 (0.95%) Fortinet
17 15 (0.84%) Ariba
18 14 (0.78%) CheckPoint
19 13 (0.72%) Google