Change Management Contracts in Scotland

Change Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 69 72
Rank change year-on-year +31 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 99 110 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.71% 4.10% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 4.43% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 80 68
10th Percentile £312 £277 £321
25th Percentile £352 £356 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% +1.39% +10.43%
75th Percentile £537 £525 £541
90th Percentile £589 £600 £623
UK median daily rate £510 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +8.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £15.15 - -
25th Percentile £19.31 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £22.00
75th Percentile £37.38 - £23.00
90th Percentile £43.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -0.49% +128.40% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,846 2,481 3,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 92.51% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,747 2,226
10th Percentile £220 £260 £250
25th Percentile £363 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.67 £11.25 £18.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in Scotland

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Change Management in Scotland

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in Scotland

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in Scotland

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in Scotland

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 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
Glasgow +7 33 £425 -10.53% 8
Edinburgh +20 27 £511 +27.81% 14
Aberdeen +5 11 £550 +12.82% 8
West Lothian - 6 £230 -
Lanarkshire +5 3 £500 +17.65% 6
South Lanarkshire -1 2 £450 +4.05% 2
Renfrewshire -7 2 £475 +31.03%
Fife - 2 £365 - 2
Perthshire +4 1 - - 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 6
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 15 (15.15%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (17.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (16.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.13%) Microsoft 365
1 13 (13.13%) Yammer
2 7 (7.07%) AWS
3 5 (5.05%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (2.02%) OCI
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.01%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.01%) Azure
5 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.01%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.07%) Firewall
2 2 (2.02%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (2.02%) SNMP
3 1 (1.01%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.02%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.01%) Big Data
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (7.07%) JIRA
2 5 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.01%) Git
3 1 (1.01%) Gradle
3 1 (1.01%) Maven
General
1 51 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.19%) Public Sector
3 17 (17.17%) Finance
4 14 (14.14%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (11.11%) Publishing
7 3 (3.03%) Banking
7 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (28.28%) Analyst
2 17 (17.17%) Change Analyst
2 17 (17.17%) Change Manager
3 14 (14.14%) Project Manager
4 12 (12.12%) Lead
5 11 (11.11%) IT Manager
6 9 (9.09%) IT Change Manager
7 8 (8.08%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.05%) Business Change Manager
8 5 (5.05%) Business Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Consultant
9 4 (4.04%) IT Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Life and Pensions Project Manager
10 3 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.03%) Designer
10 3 (3.03%) Service Designer
10 3 (3.03%) Training Manager
11 2 (2.02%) IT Business Analyst
11 2 (2.02%) Service Management Consultant
11 2 (2.02%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.06%) Wiki
3 5 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.04%) PKI
5 3 (3.03%) e-Learning
5 3 (3.03%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.01%) FMCG
6 1 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.06%) Linux
2 3 (3.03%) Windows
3 1 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.35%) Agile
2 34 (34.34%) Project Management
3 25 (25.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (17.17%) Waterfall
6 16 (16.16%) Roadmaps
7 13 (13.13%) Business Analysis
7 13 (13.13%) ITIL
7 13 (13.13%) Project Delivery
8 12 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (12.12%) Infographics
9 10 (10.10%) Coaching
10 9 (9.09%) Service Delivery
10 9 (9.09%) Target Operating Model
11 8 (8.08%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (8.08%) PRINCE2
12 7 (7.07%) DevOps
12 7 (7.07%) Impact Assessments
12 7 (7.07%) Programme Management
13 6 (6.06%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.05%) Python
2 1 (1.01%) Bash
2 1 (1.01%) Groovy
2 1 (1.01%) Ruby
2 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.10%) Degree
2 5 (5.05%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.02%) ACCA
4 2 (2.02%) CIMA
4 2 (2.02%) CIPD
4 2 (2.02%) CIPFA
5 1 (1.01%) APMG
5 1 (1.01%) CCSA
5 1 (1.01%) CCSE
5 1 (1.01%) CISSP
5 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.01%) PMP
5 1 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (5.05%) PMO
2 5 (5.05%) QA
3 3 (3.03%) SLA
4 1 (1.01%) Basel III
4 1 (1.01%) COREP
4 1 (1.01%) FINREP
4 1 (1.01%) IFRS
4 1 (1.01%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.06%) Ansible
2 5 (5.05%) Terraform
3 2 (2.02%) Nagios
3 2 (2.02%) OpenView
4 1 (1.01%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.08%) SAP
3 4 (4.04%) Oracle
3 4 (4.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.03%) Cisco
5 2 (2.02%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.02%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.01%) AlienVault
6 1 (1.01%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.01%) IFS