Change Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Change Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Change Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 120 133
Rank change year-on-year +34 +13 +32
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 3,083 3,017 4,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.13% 2.91% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 3.04% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,666 1,897 2,943
10th Percentile £35,924 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,852 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,396 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.79% - +5.26%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +34 2,744 £55,000 - 662
UK excluding London +32 2,103 £52,396 +4.79% 440
Work from Home +62 1,197 £57,500 +4.55% 269
London +43 865 £72,500 +11.54% 250
North of England +51 520 £52,500 +14.13% 113
South East -2 467 £52,500 +5.00% 91
Midlands -4 355 £52,500 - 81
North West +43 292 £52,500 +1.08% 68
South West +23 265 £50,000 +13.64% 53
East of England +62 253 £54,500 +0.46% 50
West Midlands -11 243 £51,997 -0.96% 50
Yorkshire +44 170 £54,500 +21.11% 32
Scotland +5 170 £55,000 -3.06% 45
East Midlands +13 100 £54,000 +2.86% 29
North East +32 58 £45,000 +16.88% 15
Wales +22 55 £41,067 -8.74% 11
Northern Ireland +28 12 - - 6
Isle of Man - 6 £36,000 - 1

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
1 332 (10.77%) SAS
2 87 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 81 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 54 (1.75%) Confluence
5 30 (0.97%) Captiva
6 29 (0.94%) WebSphere
7 28 (0.91%) FileNet
8 13 (0.42%) CMS
9 8 (0.26%) IIS
10 7 (0.23%) Apache
11 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.13%) nginx
13 3 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.097%) CICS
13 3 (0.097%) Documentum
13 3 (0.097%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.065%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.065%) NetWeaver
14 2 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 155 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
2 114 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 65 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (2.01%) MS Visio
5 37 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.94%) Simulink
6 29 (0.94%) Stateflow
7 22 (0.71%) Windchill
8 12 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.13%) SPSS
11 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 307 (9.96%) SAP ERP
2 38 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.65%) NEC Housing
5 17 (0.55%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.29%) SAP CX
8 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.16%) HFM
9 5 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
9 5 (0.16%) Primavera
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.097%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.097%) Endur
11 3 (0.097%) Magento
12 2 (0.065%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 2 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
12 2 (0.065%) SAP MDG
12 2 (0.065%) SAP MM
12 2 (0.065%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 427 (13.85%) Azure
2 307 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
3 227 (7.36%) GCP
4 157 (5.09%) Power Platform
5 117 (3.80%) AWS
6 74 (2.40%) SaaS
7 73 (2.37%) Entra ID
8 68 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
9 65 (2.11%) IaaS
10 58 (1.88%) PowerApps
11 53 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
11 53 (1.72%) GitHub
12 47 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (1.20%) PaaS
14 36 (1.17%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.04%) Serverless
16 29 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
17 25 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
18 22 (0.71%) Smartsheet
19 21 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 299 (9.70%) Broadband
2 159 (5.16%) Firewall
3 86 (2.79%) LAN
4 82 (2.66%) DNS
5 79 (2.56%) WAN
6 47 (1.52%) VPN
7 46 (1.49%) Wireless
8 45 (1.46%) Network Security
9 44 (1.43%) DHCP
9 44 (1.43%) VoIP
10 33 (1.07%) TCP/IP
11 30 (0.97%) Internet
11 30 (0.97%) SAN
12 29 (0.94%) SD-WAN
13 22 (0.71%) Intranet
14 21 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
15 20 (0.65%) VLAN
16 19 (0.62%) BGP
16 19 (0.62%) Cisco IOS
17 17 (0.55%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (5.25%) BigQuery
2 160 (5.19%) Looker
3 114 (3.70%) Power BI
4 94 (3.05%) SQL Server
5 48 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 32 (1.04%) Relational Database
8 27 (0.88%) MySQL
9 24 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 18 (0.58%) Oracle Database
11 18 (0.58%) RDBMS
12 17 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
12 17 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (0.45%) Big Data
14 12 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 9 (0.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 144 (4.67%) JIRA
2 43 (1.39%) Git
3 34 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 34 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
4 22 (0.71%) Subversion
5 17 (0.55%) Visual Studio
6 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 9 (0.29%) Robot Framework
7 9 (0.29%) Selenium
8 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
9 6 (0.19%) JMeter
9 6 (0.19%) Postman
9 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
10 5 (0.16%) LabVIEW
11 4 (0.13%) GitLab
11 4 (0.13%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.097%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.065%) Hudson
13 2 (0.065%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,175 (38.11%) Social Skills
2 1,054 (34.19%) Finance
3 574 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (7.65%) Retail
5 159 (5.16%) Manufacturing
6 155 (5.03%) Law
7 151 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 128 (4.15%) Banking
9 121 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
9 121 (3.92%) Public Sector
10 112 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
11 108 (3.50%) Legal
12 91 (2.95%) Marketing
13 84 (2.72%) Telecoms
14 73 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.62%) Aerospace
16 36 (1.17%) Local Government
16 36 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
17 33 (1.07%) Electronics
17 33 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 555 (18.00%) Analyst
2 409 (13.27%) Senior
3 376 (12.20%) Architect
4 360 (11.68%) Project Manager
5 332 (10.77%) Solutions Architect
6 216 (7.01%) Business Analyst
7 213 (6.91%) Lead
8 199 (6.45%) IT Manager
9 167 (5.42%) Principal Engineer
10 164 (5.32%) Data Engineer
11 162 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
12 161 (5.22%) Principal Data Engineer
13 144 (4.67%) Change Manager
14 143 (4.64%) Senior Manager
15 109 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 97 (3.15%) Support Analyst
17 96 (3.11%) IT Support
18 95 (3.08%) Senior Project Manager
19 87 (2.82%) Business Manager
19 87 (2.82%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (2.21%) .NET
2 43 (1.39%) HTML
3 35 (1.14%) AngularJS
4 29 (0.94%) CSS
4 29 (0.94%) Web Services
5 23 (0.75%) XML
6 22 (0.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 20 (0.65%) React
8 17 (0.55%) Middleware
9 16 (0.52%) 802.1X
10 15 (0.49%) .NET Framework
10 15 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (0.39%) Spring
12 11 (0.36%) Qt
13 10 (0.32%) Gherkin
14 9 (0.29%) REST
15 8 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
15 8 (0.26%) SOAP
16 7 (0.23%) EDI
16 7 (0.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 304 (9.86%) Self-Motivation
2 210 (6.81%) Management Information System
3 96 (3.11%) Data Centre
4 49 (1.59%) Driving Licence
5 48 (1.56%) CMDB
6 46 (1.49%) FMCG
7 45 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 43 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.39%) Operational Technology
8 43 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 42 (1.36%) PMI
10 40 (1.30%) NHS
11 39 (1.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 39 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
12 37 (1.20%) Product Ownership
13 30 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
14 29 (0.94%) Algorithms
14 29 (0.94%) Private Cloud
15 28 (0.91%) DataPower
16 25 (0.81%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 399 (12.94%) Windows
2 182 (5.90%) Linux
3 146 (4.74%) Windows Server
4 116 (3.76%) Unix
5 85 (2.76%) Windows 10
6 49 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 44 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 25 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
9 23 (0.75%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.39%) VMS
12 11 (0.36%) Android
13 10 (0.32%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.26%) Mac OS X
15 7 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.097%) CentOS
16 3 (0.097%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.097%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,196 (38.79%) Agile
2 759 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
2 759 (24.62%) Project Management
3 591 (19.17%) ITIL
4 586 (19.01%) Roadmaps
5 411 (13.33%) ERP
6 403 (13.07%) DevOps
7 402 (13.04%) Mentoring
8 388 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 364 (11.81%) Decision-Making
10 360 (11.68%) Data Management
11 358 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 353 (11.45%) Performance Management
13 350 (11.35%) Enterprise Architecture
14 334 (10.83%) TOGAF
15 329 (10.67%) Coaching
16 327 (10.61%) Strategic Roadmap
17 325 (10.54%) Service Management
18 300 (9.73%) Risk Management
19 286 (9.28%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 284 (9.21%) SQL
2 145 (4.70%) PowerShell
3 89 (2.89%) Python
4 83 (2.69%) Java
5 69 (2.24%) C#
6 46 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 40 (1.30%) Bash
8 37 (1.20%) T-SQL
9 29 (0.94%) MATLAB
10 23 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 22 (0.71%) C
12 19 (0.62%) C++
13 8 (0.26%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.23%) PHP
15 6 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.13%) ABAP
16 4 (0.13%) Go
16 4 (0.13%) R
16 4 (0.13%) VB
16 4 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 545 (17.68%) Degree
2 295 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 200 (6.49%) SC Cleared
4 119 (3.86%) PMI Certification
5 103 (3.34%) PMP
6 78 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
8 52 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 50 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (1.39%) CISSP
12 40 (1.30%) Azure Certification
13 34 (1.10%) CCNA
13 34 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
14 23 (0.75%) A+ Certification
14 23 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 19 (0.62%) CISM
15 19 (0.62%) DV Cleared
16 17 (0.55%) APMG
16 17 (0.55%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (7.43%) GDPR
2 126 (4.09%) PMO
3 119 (3.86%) SLA
4 108 (3.50%) QA
5 63 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 29 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 27 (0.88%) NIST
9 26 (0.84%) Accessibility
10 19 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.55%) COBIT
12 16 (0.52%) ISO 9001
12 16 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.36%) ISO 14000
14 10 (0.32%) NEBOSH
15 7 (0.23%) CDISC
15 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.23%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.19%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 257 (8.34%) Active Directory
2 126 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.01%) Firmware
5 21 (0.68%) Docker
6 18 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.55%) vSphere
8 11 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.097%) RACF
10 3 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.032%) Lustre
12 1 (0.032%) LXC
12 1 (0.032%) NFS
12 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.032%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.032%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 101 (3.28%) SCCM
2 62 (2.01%) Terraform
3 45 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (1.27%) Ansible
4 39 (1.27%) Kubernetes
5 21 (0.68%) WSUS
6 16 (0.52%) vCenter Server
7 15 (0.49%) SCOM
8 13 (0.42%) Grafana
9 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.32%) Nagios
10 9 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.23%) Foglight
13 6 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 5 (0.16%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
15 4 (0.13%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 531 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 464 (15.05%) Oracle
3 403 (13.07%) SAP
4 305 (9.89%) Hyperion
5 299 (9.70%) Anaplan
6 182 (5.90%) Google
7 171 (5.55%) VMware
8 155 (5.03%) ServiceNow
9 98 (3.18%) Cisco
10 55 (1.78%) Salesforce
11 53 (1.72%) IBM
12 46 (1.49%) HP
13 45 (1.46%) Citrix
14 31 (1.01%) Fortinet
15 30 (0.97%) Kofax
16 29 (0.94%) Apple
16 29 (0.94%) Dell
17 28 (0.91%) BMC
17 28 (0.91%) Juniper
17 28 (0.91%) Pega