Change Management Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Change Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Change Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 30 56
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 -12
Contract jobs citing Change Management 81 56 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.62% 5.83% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 6.45% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 39 45
10th Percentile £423 £395 £203
25th Percentile £425 £415 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +42.86% -29.86%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £550
90th Percentile £703 £700 £601
England median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 2
10th Percentile - £23.40 £27.90
25th Percentile - £29.00 £30.12
Median hourly rate £22.63 £45.00 £35.09
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +28.26% -42.72%
75th Percentile £22.68 £69.38 £40.04
90th Percentile £43.91 £72.50 £42.27
England median hourly rate £34.87 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -30.26% -4.76% +1.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Change Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,759 868 1,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.67% 90.42% 84.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 459 668
10th Percentile £200 £230 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £681 £675 £675
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 173 613
10th Percentile £14.34 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.09 £16.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -10.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £83.70 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Change Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Change Management job vacancy trend in the East of England

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Change Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Change Management

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the East of England

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Change Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Change Management

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the East of England

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +8 45 £475 -5.47% 10
Cambridgeshire -10 13 £510 -4.67% 8
Bedfordshire -4 11 £585 -26.88% 2
Essex -5 10 £450 +8.50% 4
Suffolk -9 1 £450 -5.26% 1
Norfolk -22 1 - - 1
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (19.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Maximo
2 4 (4.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.47%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.23%) Infor M3
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.23%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.35%) Azure
2 5 (6.17%) AWS
3 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (3.70%) PaaS
4 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.70%) SaaS
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.47%) OCI
5 2 (2.47%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.47%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.35%) Structured Cabling
2 9 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.70%) SNMP
4 2 (2.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (2.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (2.47%) Firewall
4 2 (2.47%) LAN
4 2 (2.47%) WAN
5 1 (1.23%) Intranet
5 1 (1.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (3.70%) QlikView
2 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.23%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.23%) Metadata
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.23%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Git
2 2 (2.47%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.23%) Hudson
3 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 25 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.46%) Finance
3 8 (9.88%) Aerospace
4 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.17%) Retail
6 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Aviation
6 4 (4.94%) Law
6 4 (4.94%) Local Government
6 4 (4.94%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.47%) Back Office
8 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Legal
8 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (27.16%) Project Manager
2 15 (18.52%) Administrator
3 14 (17.28%) Analyst
3 14 (17.28%) SAP Administrator
3 14 (17.28%) SAP Support
4 13 (16.05%) Business Analyst
5 11 (13.58%) Senior
6 10 (12.35%) SAP Security Administrator
6 10 (12.35%) Security Administrator
7 9 (11.11%) Data Centre Manager
7 9 (11.11%) Data Centre Project Manager
8 5 (6.17%) Data Manager
9 4 (4.94%) Financial Controller
9 4 (4.94%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (4.94%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 4 (4.94%) Lead
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 3 (3.70%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) eBPF
1 3 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (2.47%) .NET
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.47%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.47%) BYOD
3 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.47%) Life Science
3 2 (2.47%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.23%) NHS
4 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.23%) PMI
4 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.70%) Windows
1 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 22 (27.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 18 (22.22%) Project Management
4 17 (20.99%) PRINCE2
5 16 (19.75%) Risk Management
6 15 (18.52%) ERP
6 15 (18.52%) SDLC
7 14 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (17.28%) SAP Security
8 11 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (12.35%) Business Analysis
9 10 (12.35%) Project Planning
10 9 (11.11%) Agile
10 9 (11.11%) Line Management
10 9 (11.11%) Migration
11 8 (9.88%) Data Migration
11 8 (9.88%) Decision-Making
11 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (9.88%) Mentoring
11 8 (9.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.41%) SQL
2 3 (3.70%) Bash
2 3 (3.70%) Python
3 2 (2.47%) C#
3 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.47%) X++
4 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (35.80%) Security Cleared
2 24 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 9 (11.11%) Degree
5 5 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.17%) PMI Certification
6 4 (4.94%) ACCA
6 4 (4.94%) CIMA
6 4 (4.94%) PMP
7 1 (1.23%) CIPD
7 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.70%) SLA
2 2 (2.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Terraform
2 3 (3.70%) Ansible
2 3 (3.70%) Grafana
2 3 (3.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (24.69%) SAP
2 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.41%) Oracle
4 5 (6.17%) IBM
4 5 (6.17%) IFS
4 5 (6.17%) Planon
5 4 (4.94%) VMware
6 3 (3.70%) Cribl.io
6 3 (3.70%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.70%) Splunk
7 2 (2.47%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.47%) Cisco
7 2 (2.47%) F5
8 1 (1.23%) Ariba
8 1 (1.23%) Computacenter
8 1 (1.23%) Infor
8 1 (1.23%) Salesforce