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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 43 48
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 44 50 74
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.16% 3.52% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 4.36% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile £459 £121 £348
25th Percentile £463 £333 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £638
90th Percentile £750 £600 £810
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +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% +105.36%
75th Percentile £29.16 £35.59 £59.38
90th Percentile £31.00 £39.59 £59.75
England median hourly rate £28.79 £56.75 £45.87
% change year-on-year -49.26% +23.72% +41.12%

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 1,250 1,148 1,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.80% 80.85% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 452 893
10th Percentile £198 £220 £225
25th Percentile £367 £317 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £568 £613
90th Percentile £682 £650 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 262 374
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £13.91
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.14 £27.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.36% +37.93% -4.76%
75th Percentile £59.25 £61.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.68 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +28.77%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +14 19 £673 +37.95% 12
Hertfordshire -13 17 £525 -4.55% 17
Suffolk +6 4 £513 -6.82% 11
Essex 0 2 £520 +30.00% 5
Bedfordshire -18 2 £488 +297.96% 5
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 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (4.55%) Windchill
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.27%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.27%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.36%) Datadog
2 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.82%) Azure
4 2 (4.55%) AWS
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 2 (4.55%) Lucidchart
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.27%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (4.55%) DHCP
1 2 (4.55%) DNS
1 2 (4.55%) Firewall
1 2 (4.55%) LAN
1 2 (4.55%) PuTTY
1 2 (4.55%) WAN
1 2 (4.55%) Wireless
1 2 (4.55%) WLAN
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Power BI
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.27%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.27%) Tableau
General
1 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Legal
4 3 (6.82%) Aerospace
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Aviation
4 3 (6.82%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.82%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.55%) Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) French Language
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Publishing
6 1 (2.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Project Manager
2 5 (11.36%) Programme Manager
3 4 (9.09%) Administrator
3 4 (9.09%) Analyst
3 4 (9.09%) Consultant
3 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 4 (9.09%) SAP Administrator
3 4 (9.09%) SAP Support
3 4 (9.09%) Senior
3 4 (9.09%) Senior Manager
4 3 (6.82%) Lead
5 2 (4.55%) Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Business Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Business Process Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Network Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Process Consultant
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Agile
2 14 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (29.55%) Project Management
4 7 (15.91%) Project Delivery
4 7 (15.91%) Risk Management
4 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps
4 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.36%) AIOps
6 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (11.36%) DevOps
6 5 (11.36%) ERP
6 5 (11.36%) Migration
6 5 (11.36%) Observability
6 5 (11.36%) Programme Delivery
6 5 (11.36%) Time Management
6 5 (11.36%) Waterfall
7 4 (9.09%) ITSM
7 4 (9.09%) PRINCE2
7 4 (9.09%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.55%) SQL
2 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.27%) Python
2 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.55%) APMG
4 2 (4.55%) CCNA
4 2 (4.55%) CCNP
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.55%) PMP
5 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) NIST
1 3 (6.82%) PMO
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.27%) IFRS
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Grafana
2 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.27%) Ansible
3 1 (2.27%) SCCM
3 1 (2.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) SAP
3 5 (11.36%) Splunk
4 3 (6.82%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.82%) IFS
4 3 (6.82%) Twitter
4 3 (6.82%) Workday
5 2 (4.55%) Cisco
5 2 (4.55%) Peregrine
5 2 (4.55%) Remedy
6 1 (2.27%) EMC
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) Progress
6 1 (2.27%) PTC
6 1 (2.27%) Qualys
6 1 (2.27%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.27%) Tenable