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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 41 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 80 53 54
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.65% 4.33% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 4.92% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 28 36
10th Percentile £416 £336 £203
25th Percentile £425 £444 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £375
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +36.00% -21.05%
75th Percentile £552 £652 £517
90th Percentile £726 £715 £575
England median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 2
10th Percentile - £20.70 £27.90
25th Percentile £22.63 - £30.12
Median hourly rate £22.68 £22.63 £35.09
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -35.50% -40.28%
75th Percentile £34.87 £27.32 £40.04
90th Percentile £65.00 £31.00 £42.27
England median hourly rate £41.00 £32.05 £52.50
% change year-on-year +27.93% -38.95% +13.87%

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 1,726 1,078 1,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.70% 88.14% 83.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 513 584
10th Percentile £192 £200 £200
25th Percentile £399 £365 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £551
90th Percentile £679 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 247 538
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.51 £17.97 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £82.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +17 52 £475 -5.47% 9
Cambridgeshire -6 14 £525 -4.55% 2
Essex -18 6 £450 -9.91% 5
Bedfordshire +1 5 £525 +10.53% 4
Suffolk -6 2 £450 +5.88% 3
Norfolk - 1 - - 2
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:

Applications
1 15 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Maximo
2 2 (2.50%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.25%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.50%) Azure
2 7 (8.75%) AWS
3 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.00%) SaaS
4 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (3.75%) PaaS
4 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.50%) OCI
5 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.50%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) Structured Cabling
2 8 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (5.00%) SNMP
4 3 (3.75%) Firewall
4 3 (3.75%) LAN
4 3 (3.75%) WAN
5 2 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (2.50%) Network Security
6 1 (1.25%) Intranet
6 1 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (3.75%) QlikView
2 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.25%) Hudson
General
1 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (6.25%) Aerospace
3 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Aviation
4 4 (5.00%) Law
4 4 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Retail
5 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Back Office
6 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) Project Manager
2 14 (17.50%) Administrator
2 14 (17.50%) SAP Administrator
2 14 (17.50%) SAP Support
3 10 (12.50%) SAP Security Administrator
3 10 (12.50%) Security Administrator
4 9 (11.25%) Analyst
5 8 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 8 (10.00%) Data Centre Manager
5 8 (10.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
6 7 (8.75%) Data Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Consultant
7 5 (6.25%) Lead
7 5 (6.25%) Senior
8 4 (5.00%) Financial Controller
8 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Service Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Security Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) eBPF
1 4 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (2.50%) .NET
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.25%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.50%) BYOD
3 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.25%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.25%) NHS
4 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Android
2 1 (1.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (21.25%) Project Management
2 17 (21.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (18.75%) SDLC
5 14 (17.50%) Risk Management
5 14 (17.50%) SAP Security
6 13 (16.25%) ERP
7 11 (13.75%) Agile
7 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
8 10 (12.50%) Project Planning
9 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 8 (10.00%) DevOps
9 8 (10.00%) Project Delivery
10 7 (8.75%) ITIL
10 7 (8.75%) ITSM
10 7 (8.75%) Line Management
10 7 (8.75%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.50%) SQL
2 4 (5.00%) Bash
2 4 (5.00%) Python
3 2 (2.50%) C#
3 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.50%) X++
4 1 (1.25%) ABAP
4 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (33.75%) Security Cleared
2 19 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 7 (8.75%) Degree
5 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.25%) PMI Certification
5 5 (6.25%) PMP
6 4 (5.00%) ACCA
6 4 (5.00%) CIMA
7 3 (3.75%) CISSP
7 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.50%) CISM
8 2 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.25%) CCSP
9 1 (1.25%) CIPD
9 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.25%) ISACA
9 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) QA
1 3 (3.75%) SLA
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) Terraform
2 4 (5.00%) Ansible
2 4 (5.00%) Grafana
2 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (23.75%) SAP
2 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.50%) Oracle
4 5 (6.25%) IBM
4 5 (6.25%) Planon
5 4 (5.00%) Cribl.io
5 4 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.00%) IFS
5 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.00%) Splunk
6 2 (2.50%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco
6 2 (2.50%) F5
6 2 (2.50%) VMware
6 2 (2.50%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.25%) Apple
7 1 (1.25%) Computacenter
7 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.25%) Google
7 1 (1.25%) OpenAI