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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 47 58
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,824 2,715 3,686
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.24% 4.69% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 5.22% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 1,689 2,390
10th Percentile £325 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +8.60% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £706 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 50 56
10th Percentile £14.18 £22.96 £13.50
25th Percentile £29.91 £35.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.40 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +116.65% -7.44%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.44 £37.66
90th Percentile £69.25 £87.50 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.00 £48.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.55% +141.33% -16.67%

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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 0 1,463 £525 -4.55% 762
Work from Home +9 792 £523 -3.24% 327
UK excluding London -1 791 £500 -2.44% 521
London -4 759 £550 -4.35% 257
North of England -5 199 £514 -2.10% 128
South East -16 173 £475 -9.52% 107
South West +22 141 £550 +2.33% 79
Scotland +34 104 £475 - 37
Midlands -2 103 £500 -9.09% 104
Yorkshire -7 103 £525 -4.55% 37
North West -14 90 £500 -3.85% 76
West Midlands -10 74 £506 -6.90% 63
East of England -2 59 £425 -15.00% 61
East Midlands +23 27 £475 -11.63% 40
Wales +1 16 £535 +7.00% 15
North East +4 11 £600 +9.09% 17
Northern Ireland +4 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 87 (4.77%) SharePoint
2 40 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (2.08%) Confluence
4 12 (0.66%) IIS
5 9 (0.49%) Tomcat
6 8 (0.44%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) CMS
8 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.16%) Documentum
9 1 (0.055%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.055%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.055%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.055%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.055%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.055%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.055%) WebSphere
Applications
1 99 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (3.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (2.69%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) InDesign
8 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.11%) Windchill
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.44%) Endur
3 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.38%) SAP SD
3 7 (0.38%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.33%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.27%) iTrent
5 5 (0.27%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
7 3 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP WM
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 190 (10.42%) Azure
2 119 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (4.77%) AWS
4 42 (2.30%) SaaS
5 35 (1.92%) Power Platform
6 28 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
7 27 (1.48%) Entra ID
8 23 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (1.15%) Serverless
11 19 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (0.93%) Azure Functions
12 17 (0.93%) IaaS
12 17 (0.93%) PaaS
13 16 (0.88%) Yammer
14 14 (0.77%) OneDrive
14 14 (0.77%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 99 (5.43%) Firewall
2 54 (2.96%) WAN
3 46 (2.52%) LAN
4 42 (2.30%) VPN
5 41 (2.25%) BGP
5 41 (2.25%) OSPF
6 38 (2.08%) DNS
7 36 (1.97%) Network Security
8 34 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
9 28 (1.54%) Intranet
9 28 (1.54%) IPsec
10 27 (1.48%) DHCP
11 26 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
12 25 (1.37%) Structured Cabling
13 24 (1.32%) VLAN
14 23 (1.26%) NetScaler
14 23 (1.26%) TCP/IP
15 21 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
15 21 (1.15%) Wireless
16 17 (0.93%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (1.43%) Power BI
2 19 (1.04%) NoSQL
3 18 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.71%) SAP HANA
6 12 (0.66%) Oracle Database
6 12 (0.66%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
7 11 (0.60%) Tableau
8 10 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.33%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.33%) KDB
11 5 (0.27%) Big Data
11 5 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
12 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.16%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.16%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 89 (4.88%) JIRA
2 25 (1.37%) Git
3 23 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) Selenium
5 6 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (0.11%) JMeter
7 2 (0.11%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.055%) GitLab
8 1 (0.055%) Gradle
8 1 (0.055%) Maven
8 1 (0.055%) Visual Studio
General
1 723 (39.64%) Finance
2 535 (29.33%) Social Skills
3 367 (20.12%) Banking
4 219 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
5 191 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 79 (4.33%) Telecoms
7 71 (3.89%) Legal
8 69 (3.78%) Manufacturing
9 63 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 55 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
11 53 (2.91%) Marketing
12 44 (2.41%) Retail
13 41 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
14 29 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 29 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
15 24 (1.32%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.15%) Electronics
16 21 (1.15%) Local Government
17 18 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 283 (15.52%) Analyst
2 270 (14.80%) Project Manager
3 161 (8.83%) Architect
4 139 (7.62%) Change Manager
5 131 (7.18%) Business Analyst
6 122 (6.69%) Senior
7 118 (6.47%) Lead
8 79 (4.33%) Consultant
9 73 (4.00%) IT Manager
10 70 (3.84%) Banking Analyst
11 64 (3.51%) Developer
12 60 (3.29%) Business Manager
13 57 (3.13%) Network Engineer
14 54 (2.96%) Data Analyst
15 47 (2.58%) IT Analyst
16 44 (2.41%) Business Change Manager
17 42 (2.30%) Change Analyst
18 40 (2.19%) Senior Manager
19 39 (2.14%) Programme Manager
20 35 (1.92%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.81%) HTML
2 26 (1.43%) CSS
2 26 (1.43%) React
3 21 (1.15%) REST
3 21 (1.15%) XML
4 19 (1.04%) Kafka
5 18 (0.99%) AngularJS
6 14 (0.77%) JSON
7 12 (0.66%) Jinja
7 12 (0.66%) Spring
8 11 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (0.55%) Middleware
10 9 (0.49%) .NET
11 8 (0.44%) ActiveMQ
11 8 (0.44%) Lightning Web Components
12 7 (0.38%) IDoc
12 7 (0.38%) LDAP
13 6 (0.33%) Itk
13 6 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
13 6 (0.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.37%) Management Information System
2 77 (4.22%) Product Ownership
3 46 (2.52%) Data Centre
4 36 (1.97%) Cloud Native
4 36 (1.97%) PKI
5 31 (1.70%) Data Structures
6 28 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 24 (1.32%) Replication
9 19 (1.04%) Derivative
10 17 (0.93%) CMDB
11 16 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 13 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (0.71%) Fixed Income
12 13 (0.71%) FMCG
12 13 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (0.71%) Mainframe
13 12 (0.66%) LIMS
13 12 (0.66%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.60%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 161 (8.83%) Windows
2 99 (5.43%) Linux
3 64 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.59%) Unix
5 21 (1.15%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (0.82%) MVS
7 15 (0.82%) Solaris
8 14 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.55%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (0.27%) VMS
13 4 (0.22%) CentOS
14 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.055%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (23.36%) Project Management
2 353 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 317 (17.38%) Agile
4 277 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
5 249 (13.65%) ITIL
6 166 (9.10%) Service Management
7 160 (8.77%) Migration
8 158 (8.66%) Project Delivery
9 144 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 142 (7.79%) DevOps
11 136 (7.46%) Risk Management
12 134 (7.35%) ITSM
12 134 (7.35%) PRINCE2
13 121 (6.63%) Decision-Making
14 119 (6.52%) Programme Management
15 96 (5.26%) ERP
16 94 (5.15%) Business Case
16 94 (5.15%) Incident Management
16 94 (5.15%) Roadmaps
17 92 (5.04%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 72 (3.95%) Python
2 58 (3.18%) SQL
3 49 (2.69%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.03%) JavaScript
5 27 (1.48%) C
6 21 (1.15%) Java
7 15 (0.82%) C#
8 14 (0.77%) Perl
9 12 (0.66%) Tcl
10 9 (0.49%) ABAP
11 8 (0.44%) Swift
12 7 (0.38%) C++
12 7 (0.38%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.33%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.11%) Bourne shell
14 2 (0.11%) Groovy
14 2 (0.11%) Korn
14 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 279 (15.30%) Security Cleared
2 196 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 168 (9.21%) Degree
4 62 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 57 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (2.19%) CCNP
7 34 (1.86%) CCNA
8 31 (1.70%) PMP
9 28 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 27 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 26 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
13 21 (1.15%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 11 (0.60%) Six Sigma Black Belt
16 11 (0.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 10 (0.55%) CCIE
18 8 (0.44%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.14%) PMO
2 76 (4.17%) QA
3 40 (2.19%) Data Quality
3 40 (2.19%) SLA
4 23 (1.26%) GDPR
5 8 (0.44%) NIST
6 6 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (0.33%) GRC
7 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.16%) COBIT
8 3 (0.16%) GxP
8 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.11%) Basel III
9 2 (0.11%) NCSC
9 2 (0.11%) P3O
9 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.055%) ITGC
10 1 (0.055%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 84 (4.61%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.10%) XenApp
4 17 (0.93%) Firmware
5 13 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.66%) XenDesktop
7 9 (0.49%) Docker
8 8 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.27%) vSphere
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.055%) HDFS
14 1 (0.055%) Snort
14 1 (0.055%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 50 (2.74%) Ansible
2 40 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.10%) NetBackup
4 18 (0.99%) Puppet
5 16 (0.88%) SCCM
6 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.71%) SCOM
7 13 (0.71%) Terraform
8 11 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
9 8 (0.44%) Argo
9 8 (0.44%) Control-M
9 8 (0.44%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.44%) Grafana
9 8 (0.44%) Istio
9 8 (0.44%) Kibana
9 8 (0.44%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (0.38%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.27%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 284 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 157 (8.61%) SAP
3 116 (6.36%) ServiceNow
4 78 (4.28%) Cisco
5 64 (3.51%) Oracle
6 53 (2.91%) Citrix
7 51 (2.80%) VMware
8 38 (2.08%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.59%) NetApp
10 27 (1.48%) SolarWinds
11 24 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 24 (1.32%) Splunk
12 21 (1.15%) Juniper
13 19 (1.04%) Veritas
14 18 (0.99%) IBM
14 18 (0.99%) Salesforce
15 16 (0.88%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.82%) Ariba
17 14 (0.77%) CheckPoint
18 13 (0.71%) Avaya