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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 34 57
Rank change year-on-year -33 +23 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 35 56 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.99% 5.36% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 6.22% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 44
10th Percentile £415 £121 £200
25th Percentile £434 £372 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £478
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.86% +21.86%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £626
90th Percentile £650 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £23.08 £32.50 -
25th Percentile £26.94 £40.75 £26.42
Median hourly rate £34.25 £60.00 £27.67
Median % change year-on-year -42.92% +116.84% -55.73%
75th Percentile £41.94 £72.50 £28.93
90th Percentile £46.03 - -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -10.95%

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 1,427 900 1,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 81.26% 86.12% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 416 830
10th Percentile £194 £243 £250
25th Percentile £345 £368 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £596
90th Percentile £675 £694 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 152 447
10th Percentile £13.90 £15.62 £14.10
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.16 £40.00 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -49.60% +31.26% +35.44%
75th Percentile £60.56 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -18 15 £450 -21.74% 13
Bedfordshire -21 8 £585 +377.55% 4
Cambridgeshire -15 4 £488 +8.33% 5
Essex - 4 £425 - 6
Suffolk +5 2 £475 -4.43% 4
Norfolk -26 2 - - 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 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Windchill
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.86%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.86%) Infor M3
2 1 (2.86%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) Azure
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
3 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) Structured Cabling
1 5 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) Network Security
3 2 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (5.71%) DNS
3 2 (5.71%) VPN
4 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Metadata
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
1 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Local Government
5 3 (8.57%) Finance
5 3 (8.57%) Legal
5 3 (8.57%) Retail
6 2 (5.71%) Law
6 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Analyst
2 9 (25.71%) Project Manager
3 7 (20.00%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Data Centre Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Data Centre Project Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Lead
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Windows Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) e-Learning
2 2 (5.71%) Life Science
2 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) PMI
3 1 (2.86%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.86%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 9 (25.71%) PRINCE2
3 8 (22.86%) Project Management
4 7 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (17.14%) Coaching
6 5 (14.29%) Agile
6 5 (14.29%) Business Analysis
6 5 (14.29%) Data Analysis
6 5 (14.29%) Line Management
6 5 (14.29%) Migration
6 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.43%) ERP
7 4 (11.43%) Impact Assessments
7 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
7 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
7 4 (11.43%) Project Planning
7 4 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (8.57%) Decision-Making
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) Degree
4 5 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.86%) APMG
6 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.86%) CCNP
6 1 (2.86%) CIPD
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Ansible
1 1 (2.86%) SCCM
1 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Cisco
2 3 (8.57%) IFS
2 3 (8.57%) SAP
2 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.57%) VMware
3 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.71%) PTC
4 1 (2.86%) Ariba
4 1 (2.86%) Computacenter
4 1 (2.86%) EMC
4 1 (2.86%) Infor
4 1 (2.86%) Progress
4 1 (2.86%) Qualys
4 1 (2.86%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) Tenable