Change Manager Contracts

Change Manager
UK

The median Change Manager daily rate in the UK is £561 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 362 397
Rank change year-on-year +7 +35 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Change Manager 231 363 570
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.65% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.68% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 253 411
10th Percentile £425 £425 £413
25th Percentile £478 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.84% +1.89% +6.00%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £643
90th Percentile £750 £685 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 9
10th Percentile £56.21 £53.73 £26.98
25th Percentile £58.03 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £61.06 £54.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.07% +13.68% +111.58%
75th Percentile £65.28 £70.94 £63.00
90th Percentile £67.81 £75.75 £82.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.06 £55.00 £30.96
% change year-on-year +11.02% +77.65% +37.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Change Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Change Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Manager in the UK

Change Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Manager within the UK 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
England -9 191 £600 +9.09% 54
UK excluding London +4 109 £525 - 35
London +17 97 £625 +13.64% 25
Work from Home +50 81 £550 - 18
Midlands +30 29 £531 -3.41% 10
South East +12 24 £581 +1.97% 6
West Midlands +14 22 £625 +13.64% 4
Scotland +28 21 £475 -5.00% 1
South West -5 14 £579 +10.24% 7
North of England -4 13 £519 -13.54% 4
North West +14 8 £481 -3.70% 1
East of England +5 7 £514 +14.22% 4
East Midlands - 6 £390 - 6
Yorkshire +7 5 £600 -7.69% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 1
Wales +18 1 £800 +88.24% 2

Change Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Change Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Change Manager in the job title.

1 131 (56.71%) Change Management
2 80 (34.63%) Social Skills
3 63 (27.27%) Finance
4 58 (25.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 58 (25.11%) Project Management
5 40 (17.32%) Agile
6 34 (14.72%) Impact Assessments
7 29 (12.55%) Public Sector
8 27 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (10.82%) SAP
10 22 (9.52%) ERP
10 22 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (9.09%) ITIL
12 20 (8.66%) Microsoft
12 20 (8.66%) Project Delivery
13 19 (8.23%) Programme Management
14 17 (7.36%) Decision-Making
15 16 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (6.49%) Process Improvement
16 15 (6.49%) Manufacturing
16 15 (6.49%) Marketing
17 14 (6.06%) Waterfall
17 14 (6.06%) Target Operating Model
18 13 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
18 13 (5.63%) Business Transformation
18 13 (5.63%) Degree
18 13 (5.63%) Culture Change
19 12 (5.19%) Roadmaps
19 12 (5.19%) Stakeholder Map

Change Manager Skill Set
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 2 (0.87%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) SAS
2 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.73%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.73%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.30%) Azure
3 3 (1.30%) OCI
3 3 (1.30%) Power Platform
4 2 (0.87%) AWS
4 2 (0.87%) GCP
4 2 (0.87%) Yammer
5 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.43%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.43%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.43%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.43%) Slack
5 1 (0.43%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
1 3 (1.30%) Power BI
2 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.87%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 3 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 80 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 63 (27.27%) Finance
3 29 (12.55%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.49%) Manufacturing
5 15 (6.49%) Marketing
6 13 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.19%) Retail
8 11 (4.76%) Banking
9 8 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.46%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.60%) Electronics
10 6 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.16%) Law
11 5 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.73%) Legal
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.87%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.46%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.60%) Operational Technology
3 4 (1.73%) FMCG
3 4 (1.73%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.73%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.30%) e-Learning
5 2 (0.87%) CMDB
5 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.87%) Social Media
6 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.43%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.43%) Life Science
6 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.43%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (56.71%) Change Management
2 58 (25.11%) Project Management
2 58 (25.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (17.32%) Agile
4 34 (14.72%) Impact Assessments
5 27 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 22 (9.52%) ERP
6 22 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (9.09%) ITIL
8 20 (8.66%) Project Delivery
9 19 (8.23%) Programme Management
10 17 (7.36%) Decision-Making
11 16 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (6.49%) Process Improvement
13 14 (6.06%) Target Operating Model
13 14 (6.06%) Waterfall
14 13 (5.63%) Business Transformation
14 13 (5.63%) Culture Change
15 12 (5.19%) Roadmaps
15 12 (5.19%) Stakeholder Map
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (5.63%) Degree
2 12 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.73%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.30%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 2 (0.87%) ACCA
6 2 (0.87%) APMG
6 2 (0.87%) CIMA
6 2 (0.87%) CIPD
6 2 (0.87%) CIPFA
6 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.87%) PMP
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) PgMP
7 1 (0.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.03%) PMO
2 3 (1.30%) SLA
3 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.43%) GDPR
3 1 (0.43%) PMBOK
3 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 25 (10.82%) SAP
2 20 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.60%) Oracle
5 3 (1.30%) Ariba
5 3 (1.30%) Google
5 3 (1.30%) Remedy
6 2 (0.87%) BMC
7 1 (0.43%) IBM
7 1 (0.43%) Planview
7 1 (0.43%) Snow