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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 42 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +19
Contract jobs citing Change Management 751 1,198 1,790
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.12% 5.02% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 5.60% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 654 1,280
10th Percentile £300 £356 £338
25th Percentile £425 £443 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +7.50% +7.53%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £739 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £541 £505
% change year-on-year -5.17% +7.18% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 30 19
10th Percentile £13.78 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £19.06 £32.19 £17.95
Median hourly rate £51.25 £53.57 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% +53.04% +54.32%
75th Percentile £61.81 £80.00 £49.88
90th Percentile £65.27 £87.50 £72.35
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 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 36 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.33%) Confluence
3 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.27%) CMS
5 2 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.00%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.53%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.40%) InDesign
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.53%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
3 3 (0.40%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.27%) Endur
4 2 (0.27%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.27%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (8.66%) Azure
2 38 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (2.40%) AWS
4 15 (2.00%) Power Platform
5 14 (1.86%) SaaS
6 8 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (1.07%) IaaS
7 7 (0.93%) PaaS
7 7 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
8 6 (0.80%) Azure Stack
8 6 (0.80%) Entra ID
8 6 (0.80%) Google Analytics
8 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (0.67%) Slack
10 4 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.40%) GCP
11 3 (0.40%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.40%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.60%) Firewall
2 24 (3.20%) Intranet
3 22 (2.93%) BGP
3 22 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (2.66%) OSPF
5 17 (2.26%) WAN
6 15 (2.00%) Structured Cabling
7 14 (1.86%) LAN
8 12 (1.60%) IPsec
9 10 (1.33%) EIGRP
9 10 (1.33%) VPN
10 9 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (1.07%) NX-OS
12 7 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
12 7 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 7 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 7 (0.93%) HSRP
12 7 (0.93%) NetScaler
12 7 (0.93%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (1.33%) Power BI
2 6 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (0.67%) Tableau
4 4 (0.53%) Big Data
4 4 (0.53%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.40%) QlikView
5 3 (0.40%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.27%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.13%) GIS
7 1 (0.13%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.13%) OLAP
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (4.79%) JIRA
2 6 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 395 (52.60%) Finance
2 251 (33.42%) Banking
3 157 (20.91%) Social Skills
4 69 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 51 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.73%) Legal
12 13 (1.73%) Retail
13 11 (1.46%) Marketing
14 8 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.80%) Local Government
15 6 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.67%) Back Office
17 4 (0.53%) Front Office
17 4 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (14.25%) Architect
2 99 (13.18%) Project Manager
3 85 (11.32%) Analyst
4 50 (6.66%) Senior
5 45 (5.99%) Change Manager
6 44 (5.86%) Consultant
7 43 (5.73%) Business Analyst
8 38 (5.06%) Lead
9 35 (4.66%) IT Manager
10 30 (3.99%) Senior Manager
11 29 (3.86%) Banking Analyst
11 29 (3.86%) Business Manager
12 24 (3.20%) Resilience Manager
13 23 (3.06%) Developer
14 22 (2.93%) Banking Business Analyst
14 22 (2.93%) Network Engineer
14 22 (2.93%) Technical Architect
14 22 (2.93%) Technical Writer
15 21 (2.80%) Data Analyst
15 21 (2.80%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.53%) HTML
2 17 (2.26%) CSS
3 13 (1.73%) XML
4 8 (1.07%) REST
5 7 (0.93%) JSON
6 6 (0.80%) Jinja
7 5 (0.67%) IDoc
8 4 (0.53%) .NET
9 3 (0.40%) EDI
9 3 (0.40%) Kafka
9 3 (0.40%) LDAP
9 3 (0.40%) Middleware
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.40%) SAP XI
9 3 (0.40%) Smart Contracts
10 2 (0.27%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (0.27%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.27%) SailPoint
10 2 (0.27%) TensorFlow
11 1 (0.13%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.73%) Management Information System
2 26 (3.46%) Data Structures
3 24 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 13 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.46%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.46%) Mainframe
7 8 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (1.07%) Virtual Team
8 7 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 7 (0.93%) Security Posture
9 6 (0.80%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.67%) FMCG
10 5 (0.67%) LIMS
10 5 (0.67%) NHS
10 5 (0.67%) Replication
11 4 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.53%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.40%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.26%) Windows
2 17 (2.26%) Linux
3 15 (2.00%) MVS
4 9 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.07%) Unix
6 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.40%) Solaris
7 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 127 (16.91%) Project Management
3 92 (12.25%) ITIL
4 84 (11.19%) Agile
5 74 (9.85%) Service Management
6 58 (7.72%) Migration
7 56 (7.46%) Risk Management
8 52 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (6.52%) ITSM
10 47 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (6.26%) Project Delivery
11 43 (5.73%) DevOps
12 42 (5.59%) Cybersecurity
13 41 (5.46%) PRINCE2
14 34 (4.53%) Problem Management
14 34 (4.53%) Programme Management
14 34 (4.53%) Roadmaps
15 33 (4.39%) GAP Analysis
15 33 (4.39%) Workflow
16 32 (4.26%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (2.93%) SQL
2 20 (2.66%) JavaScript
2 20 (2.66%) Python
3 8 (1.07%) C#
4 7 (0.93%) Perl
5 6 (0.80%) Tcl
6 5 (0.67%) ABAP
7 4 (0.53%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.40%) C
8 3 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.13%) C++
10 1 (0.13%) R
10 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.13%) VB
10 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 98 (13.05%) Security Cleared
2 85 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.06%) Degree
4 21 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (2.13%) CCNP
6 13 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 11 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.33%) CCNA
9 7 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.80%) CCIE
10 6 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.67%) BC Cleared
11 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.53%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.40%) ISEB
13 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.60%) PMO
2 17 (2.26%) QA
3 16 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.46%) SLA
5 5 (0.67%) GDPR
5 5 (0.67%) NIST
6 4 (0.53%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.27%) COBIT
7 2 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
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%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 18 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.93%) Firmware
3 4 (0.53%) Docker
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.13%) Snort
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) vSphere
4 1 (0.13%) XenApp
4 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (2.13%) Ansible
2 8 (1.07%) Control-M
3 6 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.80%) NetBackup
3 6 (0.80%) Puppet
4 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.40%) SCCM
6 2 (0.27%) SCOM
6 2 (0.27%) Terraform
7 1 (0.13%) Argo
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%) Nessus
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 89 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 84 (11.19%) ServiceNow
3 42 (5.59%) SAP
4 27 (3.60%) Cisco
5 23 (3.06%) Oracle
6 19 (2.53%) NetApp
6 19 (2.53%) Splunk
7 15 (2.00%) Citrix
8 10 (1.33%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.20%) F5
9 9 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.07%) Adobe
10 8 (1.07%) IBM
11 7 (0.93%) BT
11 7 (0.93%) SolarWinds
12 6 (0.80%) Ariba
12 6 (0.80%) Google
12 6 (0.80%) Veritas
12 6 (0.80%) VMware
12 6 (0.80%) Zscaler