Change Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Change Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 41 64
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 +17
Contract jobs citing Change Management 764 1,230 1,750
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.21% 5.03% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% 5.62% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 657 1,235
10th Percentile £301 £356 £331
25th Percentile £424 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +8.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +8.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 17
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.43 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £35.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +83.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £62.00 £80.00 £40.13
90th Percentile £66.36 £87.50 £63.30
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £49.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +2.05% +122.70% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,872 21,899 40,171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.82% 89.64% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,669 15,509 29,183
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 511 524
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £25.98 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £36.89
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +42.32% +53.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%

Change Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Change Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Change Management.

Change Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Change Management over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Change Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Change Management.

Change Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Change Management over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Change Management hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 35 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.92%) Confluence
4 3 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.39%) CMS
4 3 (0.39%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (3.01%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.52%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.39%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.39%) InDesign
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.52%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.39%) Endur
3 3 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
3 3 (0.39%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.26%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.26%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.26%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 61 (7.98%) Azure
2 38 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (1.96%) Power Platform
4 13 (1.70%) AWS
5 9 (1.18%) SaaS
6 8 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (1.05%) SuccessFactors
7 7 (0.92%) IaaS
7 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (0.79%) Azure Stack
8 6 (0.79%) Google Analytics
8 6 (0.79%) PaaS
9 5 (0.65%) Entra ID
9 5 (0.65%) Slack
10 4 (0.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (0.52%) Serverless
11 3 (0.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.39%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.14%) Intranet
2 23 (3.01%) Firewall
3 20 (2.62%) BGP
3 20 (2.62%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (2.49%) OSPF
5 16 (2.09%) WAN
6 15 (1.96%) Structured Cabling
7 13 (1.70%) IPsec
7 13 (1.70%) LAN
8 10 (1.31%) VPN
9 9 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (1.18%) EIGRP
10 8 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (0.92%) DNS
11 7 (0.92%) HSRP
11 7 (0.92%) NetScaler
11 7 (0.92%) SNMP
12 6 (0.79%) DHCP
12 6 (0.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (1.31%) Power BI
2 6 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (0.65%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.65%) Tableau
4 4 (0.52%) Big Data
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.39%) QlikView
6 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.26%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.13%) DBAmp
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.13%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.13%) Impala
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (4.58%) JIRA
2 6 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.13%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 401 (52.49%) Finance
2 264 (34.55%) Banking
3 161 (21.07%) Social Skills
4 69 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 43 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (4.06%) Telecoms
7 24 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.96%) Retail
12 12 (1.57%) Legal
13 11 (1.44%) Marketing
14 7 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.79%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.65%) Back Office
16 5 (0.65%) Local Government
17 4 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 111 (14.53%) Architect
2 107 (14.01%) Project Manager
3 95 (12.43%) Analyst
4 47 (6.15%) Change Manager
4 47 (6.15%) Senior
5 46 (6.02%) Business Analyst
6 42 (5.50%) Lead
7 41 (5.37%) Consultant
8 37 (4.84%) Banking Analyst
9 35 (4.58%) IT Manager
10 30 (3.93%) Business Manager
11 29 (3.80%) Data Analyst
12 27 (3.53%) Resilience Manager
13 26 (3.40%) Senior Manager
14 25 (3.27%) IT Analyst
15 23 (3.01%) Banking Business Analyst
15 23 (3.01%) Infrastructure Architect
16 22 (2.88%) Business Change Manager
16 22 (2.88%) Technical Architect
16 22 (2.88%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.62%) HTML
2 18 (2.36%) CSS
3 13 (1.70%) XML
4 8 (1.05%) REST
5 7 (0.92%) JSON
6 6 (0.79%) Jinja
7 5 (0.65%) IDoc
8 4 (0.52%) .NET
9 3 (0.39%) EDI
9 3 (0.39%) Kafka
9 3 (0.39%) LDAP
9 3 (0.39%) Middleware
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.39%) SAP XI
9 3 (0.39%) Smart Contracts
10 2 (0.26%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (0.26%) Lightning Web Components
11 1 (0.13%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.13%) WPF
11 1 (0.13%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.80%) Management Information System
2 27 (3.53%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.40%) Data Structures
4 21 (2.75%) Cloud Native
5 14 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.44%) Mainframe
7 8 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.05%) Virtual Team
8 6 (0.79%) CMDB
8 6 (0.79%) Onboarding
8 6 (0.79%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.65%) LIMS
9 5 (0.65%) PKI
9 5 (0.65%) Replication
10 4 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.52%) FMCG
10 4 (0.52%) NHS
10 4 (0.52%) PMI
10 4 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.93%) Windows
2 15 (1.96%) MVS
3 13 (1.70%) Linux
3 13 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.26%) Unix
7 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (17.15%) Project Management
2 128 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 95 (12.43%) ITIL
4 89 (11.65%) Agile
5 80 (10.47%) Service Management
6 68 (8.90%) Migration
7 59 (7.72%) ITSM
8 58 (7.59%) Risk Management
9 56 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
10 50 (6.54%) Project Delivery
11 47 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (5.76%) DevOps
12 44 (5.76%) PRINCE2
13 37 (4.84%) Roadmaps
14 35 (4.58%) Cybersecurity
15 34 (4.45%) Business Case
16 33 (4.32%) Data Migration
16 33 (4.32%) GAP Analysis
16 33 (4.32%) Programme Management
16 33 (4.32%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (2.88%) SQL
2 20 (2.62%) JavaScript
3 19 (2.49%) Python
4 8 (1.05%) C#
5 6 (0.79%) Perl
5 6 (0.79%) Tcl
6 5 (0.65%) ABAP
6 5 (0.65%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.39%) C
7 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.13%) C++
9 1 (0.13%) R
9 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.13%) VB
9 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 96 (12.57%) Security Cleared
2 84 (10.99%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.15%) Degree
4 18 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (1.83%) CCNP
6 13 (1.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 10 (1.31%) CCNA
7 10 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.79%) CCIE
10 5 (0.65%) BC Cleared
10 5 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.65%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.52%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.52%) CTC Cleared
11 4 (0.52%) PMP
11 4 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.93%) PMO
2 21 (2.75%) QA
3 15 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.57%) SLA
5 6 (0.79%) GDPR
6 4 (0.52%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.26%) COBIT
7 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) Basel III
8 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.13%) COREP
8 1 (0.13%) FINREP
8 1 (0.13%) GRC
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.13%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 20 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.92%) Firmware
3 6 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) XenApp
4 3 (0.39%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) Snort
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (1.83%) Ansible
2 8 (1.05%) Control-M
3 6 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.79%) NetBackup
3 6 (0.79%) Puppet
3 6 (0.79%) SCCM
4 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.39%) SCOM
6 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.26%) Terraform
7 1 (0.13%) Argo
7 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco UCCX
7 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.13%) Grafana
7 1 (0.13%) Istio
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 85 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.60%) ServiceNow
3 41 (5.37%) SAP
4 25 (3.27%) Cisco
5 21 (2.75%) Oracle
6 19 (2.49%) NetApp
6 19 (2.49%) Splunk
7 17 (2.23%) Citrix
8 11 (1.44%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.05%) Adobe
9 8 (1.05%) IBM
10 7 (0.92%) BT
10 7 (0.92%) F5
10 7 (0.92%) Juniper
10 7 (0.92%) SolarWinds
10 7 (0.92%) VMware
11 6 (0.79%) Google
11 6 (0.79%) Veritas
12 5 (0.65%) Ariba
12 5 (0.65%) Pega