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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 45 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,818 2,718 3,719
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.26% 4.71% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 5.25% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,072 1,690 2,412
10th Percentile £325 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +8.60% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £706 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 50 55
10th Percentile £14.22 £22.96 £13.50
25th Percentile £29.91 £35.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £49.00 £48.40 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +120.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.44 £37.06
90th Percentile £69.19 £87.50 £51.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.75 £48.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.07% +141.33% -13.83%

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 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -1 1,455 £525 -4.55% 785
UK excluding London -1 793 £500 -1.96% 520
Work from Home +7 787 £521 -3.47% 326
London -5 753 £550 -4.35% 279
North of England -8 195 £514 -2.10% 129
South East -17 174 £466 -11.24% 109
South West +22 142 £550 +2.33% 76
Scotland +36 108 £475 - 35
Midlands -3 102 £500 -6.98% 104
Yorkshire -9 101 £525 -4.55% 32
North West -18 88 £500 -1.48% 79
West Midlands -8 72 £513 -4.65% 63
East of England 0 60 £425 -14.91% 62
East Midlands +17 27 £475 -9.52% 40
Wales +4 16 £535 +7.00% 15
North East 0 11 £600 +9.09% 19
Northern Ireland +5 4 £435 +16.00% 3

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 88 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 40 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (1.98%) Confluence
4 11 (0.61%) IIS
5 8 (0.44%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.39%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.17%) 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
1 100 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (2.75%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) InDesign
8 3 (0.17%) 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 46 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.44%) Endur
3 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.39%) SAP SD
3 7 (0.39%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.33%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.28%) iTrent
5 5 (0.28%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
7 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.17%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.17%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.17%) SAP WM
8 2 (0.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 189 (10.40%) Azure
2 119 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
3 86 (4.73%) AWS
4 42 (2.31%) SaaS
5 35 (1.93%) Power Platform
6 29 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
7 27 (1.49%) Entra ID
8 23 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (1.16%) Serverless
11 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (0.94%) Azure Functions
12 17 (0.94%) IaaS
12 17 (0.94%) PaaS
13 16 (0.88%) Yammer
14 14 (0.77%) OneDrive
14 14 (0.77%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.39%) Firewall
2 53 (2.92%) WAN
3 45 (2.48%) LAN
4 41 (2.26%) BGP
4 41 (2.26%) OSPF
4 41 (2.26%) VPN
5 38 (2.09%) DNS
6 36 (1.98%) Network Security
7 34 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
8 28 (1.54%) Intranet
8 28 (1.54%) IPsec
9 27 (1.49%) DHCP
10 26 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
11 25 (1.38%) Structured Cabling
11 25 (1.38%) VLAN
12 23 (1.27%) NetScaler
13 22 (1.21%) TCP/IP
14 21 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
14 21 (1.16%) Wireless
15 17 (0.94%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (1.43%) Power BI
2 19 (1.05%) NoSQL
3 18 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.72%) SAP HANA
6 12 (0.66%) Oracle Database
6 12 (0.66%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 11 (0.61%) Tableau
8 10 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.33%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.33%) KDB
11 5 (0.28%) Big Data
11 5 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
12 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.17%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 87 (4.79%) JIRA
2 25 (1.38%) Git
3 23 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.39%) Selenium
5 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (0.11%) JMeter
6 2 (0.11%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.055%) GitLab
7 1 (0.055%) Gradle
7 1 (0.055%) Maven
7 1 (0.055%) Visual Studio
General
1 720 (39.60%) Finance
2 538 (29.59%) Social Skills
3 365 (20.08%) Banking
4 215 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (10.73%) Public Sector
6 78 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 70 (3.85%) Legal
8 69 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 64 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
10 55 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
11 53 (2.92%) Marketing
12 44 (2.42%) Retail
13 41 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
14 29 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 29 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.27%) Investment Banking
17 21 (1.16%) Electronics
17 21 (1.16%) Local Government
18 17 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 282 (15.51%) Analyst
2 269 (14.80%) Project Manager
3 160 (8.80%) Architect
4 140 (7.70%) Change Manager
5 129 (7.10%) Business Analyst
6 124 (6.82%) Senior
7 118 (6.49%) Lead
8 79 (4.35%) Consultant
9 73 (4.02%) IT Manager
10 68 (3.74%) Banking Analyst
11 64 (3.52%) Developer
12 61 (3.36%) Business Manager
13 57 (3.14%) Network Engineer
14 54 (2.97%) Data Analyst
15 47 (2.59%) Business Change Manager
15 47 (2.59%) IT Analyst
16 43 (2.37%) Change Analyst
17 41 (2.26%) Senior Manager
18 38 (2.09%) Programme Manager
19 35 (1.93%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.82%) HTML
2 26 (1.43%) CSS
3 25 (1.38%) React
4 22 (1.21%) XML
5 21 (1.16%) REST
6 19 (1.05%) Kafka
7 17 (0.94%) AngularJS
8 14 (0.77%) JSON
9 12 (0.66%) Jinja
10 11 (0.61%) Spring
11 10 (0.55%) Middleware
12 9 (0.50%) .NET
12 9 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (0.44%) ActiveMQ
13 8 (0.44%) Lightning Web Components
13 8 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (0.39%) IDoc
14 7 (0.39%) LDAP
15 6 (0.33%) Itk
15 6 (0.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.23%) Management Information System
2 77 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 45 (2.48%) Data Centre
4 36 (1.98%) Cloud Native
4 36 (1.98%) PKI
5 31 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 28 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 24 (1.32%) Replication
9 17 (0.94%) CMDB
9 17 (0.94%) Derivative
10 16 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 14 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (0.72%) Fixed Income
12 13 (0.72%) FMCG
12 13 (0.72%) Mainframe
13 12 (0.66%) LIMS
13 12 (0.66%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.61%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 158 (8.69%) Windows
2 94 (5.17%) Linux
3 64 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 28 (1.54%) Unix
5 21 (1.16%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (0.83%) MVS
7 15 (0.83%) Solaris
8 14 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.55%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (0.28%) VMS
13 4 (0.22%) CentOS
14 3 (0.17%) 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
1 424 (23.32%) Project Management
2 355 (19.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 318 (17.49%) Agile
4 276 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
5 249 (13.70%) ITIL
6 167 (9.19%) Service Management
7 160 (8.80%) Migration
7 160 (8.80%) Project Delivery
8 147 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 141 (7.76%) DevOps
10 138 (7.59%) PRINCE2
11 137 (7.54%) Risk Management
12 135 (7.43%) ITSM
13 120 (6.60%) Decision-Making
14 119 (6.55%) Programme Management
15 96 (5.28%) ERP
16 94 (5.17%) Business Case
17 92 (5.06%) Business Analysis
17 92 (5.06%) Incident Management
17 92 (5.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 71 (3.91%) Python
2 59 (3.25%) SQL
3 49 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 26 (1.43%) C
6 20 (1.10%) Java
7 14 (0.77%) C#
7 14 (0.77%) Perl
8 12 (0.66%) Tcl
9 9 (0.50%) ABAP
10 8 (0.44%) Swift
11 7 (0.39%) C++
11 7 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.33%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.11%) Bourne shell
13 2 (0.11%) Groovy
13 2 (0.11%) Korn
13 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 280 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 199 (10.95%) SC Cleared
3 167 (9.19%) Degree
4 61 (3.36%) DV Cleared
5 56 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (2.15%) CCNP
7 34 (1.87%) CCNA
8 31 (1.71%) PMP
9 28 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 27 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 26 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
13 20 (1.10%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 11 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 10 (0.55%) CCIE
17 10 (0.55%) Six Sigma Black Belt
18 8 (0.44%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.00%) PMO
2 76 (4.18%) QA
3 41 (2.26%) SLA
4 40 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.21%) GDPR
6 8 (0.44%) NIST
7 7 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 6 (0.33%) GRC
9 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.17%) COBIT
10 3 (0.17%) GxP
10 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.11%) Basel III
11 2 (0.11%) NCSC
11 2 (0.11%) P3O
11 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.055%) IFRS
12 1 (0.055%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 84 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.10%) XenApp
4 17 (0.94%) Firmware
5 13 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.66%) XenDesktop
7 9 (0.50%) Docker
8 8 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.28%) vSphere
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.17%) 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 (2.75%) Ansible
2 40 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.10%) NetBackup
4 18 (0.99%) Puppet
5 16 (0.88%) SCCM
6 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.72%) SCOM
7 13 (0.72%) Terraform
8 9 (0.50%) 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 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (0.39%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.28%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 282 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 155 (8.53%) SAP
3 119 (6.55%) ServiceNow
4 77 (4.24%) Cisco
5 66 (3.63%) Oracle
6 53 (2.92%) Citrix
7 51 (2.81%) VMware
8 38 (2.09%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.60%) NetApp
10 27 (1.49%) SolarWinds
11 24 (1.32%) Splunk
12 23 (1.27%) Red Hat
13 20 (1.10%) Juniper
13 20 (1.10%) Salesforce
14 19 (1.05%) Veritas
15 18 (0.99%) IBM
16 16 (0.88%) Fortinet
17 15 (0.83%) Ariba
18 14 (0.77%) CheckPoint
19 12 (0.66%) Avaya