Change Management Contract Job Trends in England

Change Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Change Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 46 51
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,752 1,289 1,260
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.81% 4.65% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 5.12% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,049 801 734
10th Percentile £370 £338 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £730 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.66% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 57 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.92 £20.38
25th Percentile £22.68 £22.63 £30.88
Median hourly rate £48.84 £30.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -48.43% +23.48%
75th Percentile £65.22 £58.27 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £48.84 £34.67 £55.00
% change year-on-year +40.89% -36.97% +17.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,013 25,190 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.87% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,073 16,045 18,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,593 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Change Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Change Management job vacancy trend in England

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Change Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Change Management

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Change Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Change Management

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
London -6 838 £540 -2.26% 474
North of England -25 298 £500 +11.11% 159
South East +10 290 £564 +18.17% 199
North West -16 179 £475 +5.56% 96
Midlands -64 113 £492 +3.63% 90
Yorkshire -29 104 £500 +11.11% 49
South West -33 88 £525 +2.44% 115
West Midlands -60 81 £525 +10.53% 60
East of England +2 80 £475 -9.52% 72
East Midlands -17 30 £421 +5.25% 30
North East -25 15 £425 -15.00% 16
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 100 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 71 (4.05%) Confluence
3 31 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.86%) IIS
5 10 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.34%) Appian
7 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 4 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) CICS
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.057%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 63 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 63 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.23%) Windchill
7 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) Houdini
8 2 (0.11%) InDesign
8 2 (0.11%) NUKE
8 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.057%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 56 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.80%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
6 8 (0.46%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
7 7 (0.40%) Primavera
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.23%) iTrent
10 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 276 (15.75%) Azure
2 139 (7.93%) AWS
3 113 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 112 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (5.48%) Entra ID
6 64 (3.65%) SaaS
7 60 (3.42%) GCP
8 59 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
10 41 (2.34%) GitHub
11 27 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
12 26 (1.48%) OCI
13 25 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 24 (1.37%) Power Automate
15 22 (1.26%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.14%) OpenShift
16 20 (1.14%) PowerApps
16 20 (1.14%) Serverless
17 19 (1.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 126 (7.19%) Firewall
2 105 (5.99%) Network Security
3 69 (3.94%) DNS
4 60 (3.42%) VPN
5 58 (3.31%) WAN
6 37 (2.11%) LAN
7 36 (2.05%) DHCP
8 35 (2.00%) TCP/IP
9 32 (1.83%) Wireless
10 28 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.31%) SD-WAN
12 21 (1.20%) BGP
12 21 (1.20%) SSL
13 19 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
14 18 (1.03%) Cisco Firepower
15 17 (0.97%) OSPF
16 13 (0.74%) HTTP
16 13 (0.74%) MPLS
16 13 (0.74%) SAN
17 12 (0.68%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.14%) Power BI
2 54 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.77%) Metadata
4 29 (1.66%) Oracle Database
5 16 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.57%) Db2
8 10 (0.57%) Tableau
9 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.34%) DataStage
10 6 (0.34%) GIS
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
11 5 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 172 (9.82%) JIRA
2 53 (3.03%) Git
3 43 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.46%) GitLab
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
6 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.34%) Selenium
8 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.23%) Hudson
9 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.11%) Liquibase
General
1 687 (39.21%) Social Skills
2 661 (37.73%) Finance
3 316 (18.04%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (10.45%) Banking
5 154 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 83 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
7 82 (4.68%) Legal
8 80 (4.57%) Retail
9 73 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
10 65 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
11 54 (3.08%) Telecoms
12 52 (2.97%) Manufacturing
13 45 (2.57%) Marketing
14 40 (2.28%) Law
15 39 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.71%) Local Government
17 26 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (1.20%) Aviation
18 21 (1.20%) Financial Institution
18 21 (1.20%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 220 (12.56%) Lead
2 203 (11.59%) Project Manager
3 184 (10.50%) Analyst
4 128 (7.31%) Senior
5 126 (7.19%) Change Manager
6 113 (6.45%) Consultant
7 99 (5.65%) Business Analyst
8 61 (3.48%) Senior Manager
9 53 (3.03%) Network Engineer
10 47 (2.68%) Administrator
11 46 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
12 45 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
12 45 (2.57%) Developer
12 45 (2.57%) IT Manager
12 45 (2.57%) Programme Manager
13 42 (2.40%) Business Manager
14 36 (2.05%) Service Manager
15 35 (2.00%) Business Change Manager
16 32 (1.83%) Senior Project Manager
16 32 (1.83%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (6.05%) Terraform
2 50 (2.85%) REST
3 35 (2.00%) .NET
4 29 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.43%) HTML
6 22 (1.26%) CSS
7 17 (0.97%) Kafka
7 17 (0.97%) Middleware
8 16 (0.91%) Ajax
9 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
10 14 (0.80%) OAuth
10 14 (0.80%) SOAP
11 13 (0.74%) 802.1X
12 12 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (0.63%) .NET Framework
14 10 (0.57%) Web Services
15 9 (0.51%) React
16 8 (0.46%) AngularJS
16 8 (0.46%) LDAP
16 8 (0.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 109 (6.22%) Onboarding
2 85 (4.85%) Management Information System
3 75 (4.28%) Data Centre
4 67 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.57%) Cloud Native
5 45 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.94%) PKI
7 34 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 32 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.54%) Operational Technology
11 27 (1.54%) PMI
12 25 (1.43%) CMDB
13 21 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
14 20 (1.14%) AI Agents
15 19 (1.08%) Public Cloud
16 18 (1.03%) FMCG
16 18 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 204 (11.64%) Windows
2 103 (5.88%) Linux
3 88 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (2.00%) Unix
6 21 (1.20%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.68%) VMS
8 11 (0.63%) Solaris
9 7 (0.40%) AIX
9 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.34%) SUSE
11 5 (0.29%) HPUX
11 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.23%) Android
13 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.17%) MVS
13 3 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 672 (38.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 456 (26.03%) Agile
3 424 (24.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 409 (23.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 349 (19.92%) ITIL
6 324 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
7 304 (17.35%) Project Management
8 283 (16.15%) Project Delivery
9 256 (14.61%) Migration
10 235 (13.41%) Roadmaps
11 211 (12.04%) Decision-Making
12 210 (11.99%) Service Management
13 208 (11.87%) DevOps
14 195 (11.13%) AI
15 182 (10.39%) ITSM
16 180 (10.27%) ERP
17 174 (9.93%) PRINCE2
18 160 (9.13%) Analytics
19 159 (9.08%) Risk Management
20 147 (8.39%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 147 (8.39%) Python
2 140 (7.99%) SQL
3 138 (7.88%) PowerShell
4 67 (3.82%) Bash
5 48 (2.74%) PL/SQL
6 41 (2.34%) JavaScript
7 40 (2.28%) Java
8 36 (2.05%) C#
9 24 (1.37%) Bicep
10 23 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 15 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.80%) Korn
13 11 (0.63%) Groovy
14 8 (0.46%) Go
15 6 (0.34%) JCL
15 6 (0.34%) VBScript
16 5 (0.29%) COBOL
16 5 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
17 4 (0.23%) Perl
18 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 371 (21.18%) Security Cleared
2 268 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 213 (12.16%) Degree
4 151 (8.62%) PMP
5 138 (7.88%) PMI Certification
6 76 (4.34%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.31%) CISSP
8 54 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.11%) CCNP
10 32 (1.83%) CISM
11 31 (1.77%) Azure Certification
12 28 (1.60%) APMG
13 27 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
14 25 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
15 23 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
16 22 (1.26%) CCNA
16 22 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 21 (1.20%) ACCA
18 20 (1.14%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.14%) PMO
2 88 (5.02%) QA
3 79 (4.51%) SLA
4 77 (4.39%) Data Quality
5 64 (3.65%) GDPR
6 55 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (2.40%) NIST
8 30 (1.71%) GRC
9 20 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.14%) SOC 2
10 18 (1.03%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.68%) ITGC
12 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.46%) COBIT
14 7 (0.40%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.40%) GMP
14 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
17 4 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 125 (7.13%) Active Directory
2 85 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.34%) Docker
4 25 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.14%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.86%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.74%) vCloud
9 9 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (0.51%) vSphere
10 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.17%) Firmware
10 3 (0.17%) Squid
11 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Postfix
12 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.057%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 62 (3.54%) Kubernetes
2 60 (3.42%) Ansible
3 42 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (2.00%) vCenter Server
5 27 (1.54%) SCOM
6 25 (1.43%) Grafana
7 24 (1.37%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (1.14%) SCCM
10 14 (0.80%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.68%) Avamar
12 9 (0.51%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.40%) vRealize
14 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.34%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) CASB
15 6 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 333 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 191 (10.90%) ServiceNow
3 159 (9.08%) Oracle
4 125 (7.13%) SAP
5 106 (6.05%) VMware
6 78 (4.45%) Cisco
7 67 (3.82%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.63%) Google
9 37 (2.11%) Splunk
10 34 (1.94%) IBM
11 31 (1.77%) Red Hat
12 29 (1.66%) Zscaler
13 25 (1.43%) Citrix
14 24 (1.37%) CheckPoint
15 23 (1.31%) IFS
16 22 (1.26%) F5
16 22 (1.26%) Palo Alto
16 22 (1.26%) Remedy
17 21 (1.20%) Juniper
17 21 (1.20%) Workday