Change Manager Contracts

Change Manager
UK

The median Change Manager daily rate in the UK is £559 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 365 379
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Change Manager 226 366 584
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.66% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.69% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 256 422
10th Percentile £425 £425 £417
25th Percentile £478 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +0.47% +7.50%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £688 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 9
10th Percentile £61.60 £53.73 £26.98
25th Percentile £62.42 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £64.53 £54.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.50% +13.68% +111.58%
75th Percentile £67.39 £70.94 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.66 £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 40,368 52,724 84,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.55% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 36,785 59,307
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,898 1,484 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £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 7 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 7 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 -14 185 £600 +9.09% 51
UK excluding London +16 109 £525 - 34
London 0 94 £625 +13.64% 24
Work from Home +61 79 £550 - 16
Midlands +26 29 £531 -3.41% 9
Scotland +35 24 £475 -5.00% 2
South East +12 23 £581 +1.97% 9
West Midlands +14 22 £625 +13.64% 2
North of England -8 13 £519 -13.54% 4
South West +1 12 £594 +13.10% 4
North West +12 8 £481 -3.70% 1
East of England +9 7 £514 +14.22% 3
East Midlands +14 6 £390 -25.71% 7
Yorkshire +4 5 £600 -7.69% 3
Northern Ireland 0 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 7 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.

1 128 (56.64%) Change Management
2 79 (34.96%) Social Skills
3 61 (26.99%) Finance
4 56 (24.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 54 (23.89%) Project Management
6 41 (18.14%) Agile
7 34 (15.04%) Impact Assessments
8 29 (12.83%) Public Sector
9 26 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (10.62%) SAP
11 22 (9.73%) ERP
11 22 (9.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (8.85%) ITIL
13 20 (8.85%) Microsoft
14 18 (7.96%) Programme Management
15 16 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (7.08%) Project Delivery
16 14 (6.19%) Decision-Making
16 14 (6.19%) Culture Change
16 14 (6.19%) Target Operating Model
16 14 (6.19%) Process Improvement
16 14 (6.19%) Waterfall
16 14 (6.19%) Manufacturing
17 13 (5.75%) Business Transformation
17 13 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
18 12 (5.31%) Security Cleared
18 12 (5.31%) Business Change Management
18 12 (5.31%) Retail
18 12 (5.31%) Marketing

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 (0.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) SAS
2 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.77%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (4.87%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (1.77%) OCI
4 3 (1.33%) Azure
4 3 (1.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (0.88%) AWS
5 2 (0.88%) GCP
5 2 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (0.88%) Yammer
6 1 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.44%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.44%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.44%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (1.33%) Power BI
2 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.88%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.44%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 3 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 79 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 61 (26.99%) Finance
3 29 (12.83%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.19%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.31%) Marketing
7 12 (5.31%) Retail
8 11 (4.87%) Banking
9 8 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.65%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.21%) Electronics
12 5 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.21%) Law
12 5 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.77%) Legal
14 2 (0.88%) Advertising
14 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.88%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.54%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.65%) Operational Technology
3 5 (2.21%) FMCG
4 4 (1.77%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.77%) Reinsurance
5 3 (1.33%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.88%) CMDB
6 2 (0.88%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.88%) Social Media
7 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.44%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.44%) Life Science
7 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.44%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (56.64%) Change Management
2 56 (24.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (23.89%) Project Management
4 41 (18.14%) Agile
5 34 (15.04%) Impact Assessments
6 26 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 22 (9.73%) ERP
8 21 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (8.85%) ITIL
10 18 (7.96%) Programme Management
11 16 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (7.08%) Project Delivery
12 14 (6.19%) Culture Change
12 14 (6.19%) Decision-Making
12 14 (6.19%) Process Improvement
12 14 (6.19%) Target Operating Model
12 14 (6.19%) Waterfall
13 13 (5.75%) Business Transformation
14 12 (5.31%) Business Change Management
14 12 (5.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (5.31%) Degree
1 12 (5.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.10%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (3.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.77%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 2 (0.88%) ACCA
5 2 (0.88%) APMG
5 2 (0.88%) CIMA
5 2 (0.88%) CIPD
5 2 (0.88%) CIPFA
5 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.88%) PMP
6 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.44%) PgMP
6 1 (0.44%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.10%) PMO
2 3 (1.33%) SLA
3 2 (0.88%) QA
4 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.44%) PMBOK
System Software
1 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 24 (10.62%) SAP
2 20 (8.85%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.10%) Oracle
3 7 (3.10%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.10%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.33%) Ariba
4 3 (1.33%) Google
4 3 (1.33%) Remedy
5 2 (0.88%) BMC
6 1 (0.44%) IBM
6 1 (0.44%) Planview
6 1 (0.44%) Snow
6 1 (0.44%) Workday