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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 49 50
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 39 41 67
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.56% 3.20% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 3.92% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 41
10th Percentile £438 £121 £313
25th Percentile £463 £270 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £569 £613
90th Percentile £700 £600 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £21.99 - -
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.42 -
Median hourly rate £23.13 £27.67 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £32.26 -
90th Percentile £36.33 £38.25 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £44.08 £39.17
% change year-on-year -31.94% +12.55% +22.39%

All Process and 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 1,314 1,047 1,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.16% 81.61% 88.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 420 879
10th Percentile £185 £240 £225
25th Percentile £363 £320 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £679 £675 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 222 373
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £28.34 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.36% +34.93% -6.67%
75th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 -7 17 £525 -4.55% 16
Cambridgeshire +1 13 £500 +5.26% 11
Suffolk +12 4 £513 -6.82% 6
Essex -1 2 £520 - 9
Bedfordshire -20 2 £488 +297.96% 4
Norfolk -19 1 - - 3
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 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (7.69%) Windchill
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (2.56%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) ResourceLink
1 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
2 3 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) GCP
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.56%) Lucidchart
4 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
1 3 (7.69%) Wireless
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (5.13%) DHCP
2 2 (5.13%) DNS
2 2 (5.13%) LAN
2 2 (5.13%) PuTTY
2 2 (5.13%) WAN
2 2 (5.13%) WLAN
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.56%) Tableau
General
1 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Aerospace
3 4 (10.26%) Legal
4 3 (7.69%) Aviation
4 3 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) French Language
6 1 (2.56%) Law
6 1 (2.56%) Publishing
6 1 (2.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Project Manager
2 6 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Administrator
3 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 4 (10.26%) SAP Administrator
3 4 (10.26%) SAP Support
3 4 (10.26%) Senior
3 4 (10.26%) Senior Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Network Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Process Consultant
6 1 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) e-Learning
2 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) NHS
3 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Windows
2 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Project Management
2 12 (30.77%) Agile
3 9 (23.08%) Project Delivery
3 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (12.82%) Impact Assessments
5 5 (12.82%) PRINCE2
5 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.82%) Time Management
5 5 (12.82%) Waterfall
6 4 (10.26%) Business Case
6 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (10.26%) ERP
6 4 (10.26%) Migration
6 4 (10.26%) Project Governance
6 4 (10.26%) Risk Management
6 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
7 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.13%) SQL
2 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.56%) Python
2 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.13%) CCNA
5 2 (5.13%) CCNP
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.13%) PMP
5 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.56%) APMG
6 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) NIST
1 3 (7.69%) PMO
2 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.56%) IFRS
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Ansible
1 1 (2.56%) SCCM
1 1 (2.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (2.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) SAP
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco
3 3 (7.69%) IFS
3 3 (7.69%) Workday
4 2 (5.13%) Peregrine
4 2 (5.13%) PTC
4 2 (5.13%) Remedy
5 1 (2.56%) EMC
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) Progress
5 1 (2.56%) Qualys
5 1 (2.56%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Tenable
5 1 (2.56%) VMware