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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 50 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 48 47 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.70% 3.11% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 3.81% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 40
10th Percentile £425 £227 £318
25th Percentile £463 £333 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £485 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% -0.51% +14.71%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £600
90th Percentile £745 £588 £681
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile - - £52.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.42 £53.75
Median hourly rate £23.13 £27.67 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% -51.88% +325.93%
75th Percentile £29.16 £36.34 £59.38
90th Percentile £31.00 £40.79 £59.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £58.30 £48.40
% change year-on-year -48.54% +20.45% +77.61%

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 1,162 1,233 1,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.52% 81.60% 87.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 448 892
10th Percentile £200 £210 £226
25th Percentile £375 £306 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £627
90th Percentile £686 £638 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 386 360
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.70 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.41 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.06 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -35.61% +97.17% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management 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 16 September 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
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 16 September 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
Cambridgeshire +12 21 £650 +33.33% 25
Hertfordshire +1 20 £525 - 31
Suffolk +8 3 £550 - 9
Essex -3 2 £520 +15.56% 26
Bedfordshire -14 2 £450 +267.35% 11
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.08%) PTC Creo
4 1 (2.08%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.08%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.42%) Datadog
2 3 (6.25%) Azure
3 2 (4.17%) AWS
3 2 (4.17%) GCP
3 2 (4.17%) Lucidchart
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) Firewall
1 3 (6.25%) WAN
1 3 (6.25%) Wireless
2 2 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (4.17%) DHCP
2 2 (4.17%) DNS
2 2 (4.17%) LAN
2 2 (4.17%) PuTTY
2 2 (4.17%) WLAN
3 1 (2.08%) IP Telephony
3 1 (2.08%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.08%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.08%) Tableau
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 4 (8.33%) Legal
3 4 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Aviation
4 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.25%) Retail
5 2 (4.17%) Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) French Language
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Local Government
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Publishing
6 1 (2.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 5 (10.42%) Programme Manager
3 4 (8.33%) Administrator
3 4 (8.33%) Analyst
3 4 (8.33%) Consultant
3 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 4 (8.33%) SAP Administrator
3 4 (8.33%) SAP Support
3 4 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (6.25%) Lead
4 3 (6.25%) Senior Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Business Consultant
5 2 (4.17%) Business Process Consultant
5 2 (4.17%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Network Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Process Consultant
5 2 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) FIDO
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 3 (6.25%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.08%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.08%) Life Science
2 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
1 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) Agile
2 14 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (25.00%) Project Management
4 9 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 8 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 7 (14.58%) Project Delivery
6 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.42%) AIOps
8 5 (10.42%) DevOps
8 5 (10.42%) ERP
8 5 (10.42%) Observability
8 5 (10.42%) Time Management
8 5 (10.42%) Waterfall
9 4 (8.33%) ITIL
9 4 (8.33%) ITSM
9 4 (8.33%) PRINCE2
9 4 (8.33%) Programme Delivery
9 4 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.17%) SQL
2 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.08%) Python
2 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) APMG
3 2 (4.17%) CCNA
3 2 (4.17%) CCNP
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.08%) PMP
4 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) NIST
1 3 (6.25%) PMO
2 2 (4.17%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.17%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) SLA
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.08%) IFRS
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) ITGC
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Grafana
2 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.08%) Ansible
3 1 (2.08%) SCCM
3 1 (2.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.75%) SAP
3 5 (10.42%) Splunk
4 3 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.25%) Twitter
4 3 (6.25%) Workday
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) IFS
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle
5 2 (4.17%) Peregrine
5 2 (4.17%) Remedy
6 1 (2.08%) EMC
6 1 (2.08%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (2.08%) Progress
6 1 (2.08%) PTC
6 1 (2.08%) Qualys
6 1 (2.08%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.08%) Tenable