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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 46 44
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,445 1,123 1,640
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.33% 4.29% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 4.78% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 952 647 1,039
10th Percentile £313 £332 £350
25th Percentile £406 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.20%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £693 £713 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 55
10th Percentile £20.79 £27.48 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.13 £31.76 £27.36
Median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -10.95%
75th Percentile £47.93 £69.06 £59.00
90th Percentile £62.25 £77.75 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% +6.23%

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 29,230 23,495 33,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.56% 89.70% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,709 14,439 22,381
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,843 743 1,976
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £16.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £61.78
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 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
London -21 594 £525 -2.78% 180
North of England -8 279 £451 -11.47% 97
Midlands +10 226 £482 -3.60% 84
South East +10 192 £492 -10.55% 137
North West +7 175 £413 -17.45% 53
West Midlands -6 149 £491 -1.80% 56
South West +14 116 £525 -4.55% 33
Yorkshire -17 99 £485 -11.91% 34
East Midlands +23 77 £445 +13.81% 28
East of England -38 34 £488 +8.33% 39
North East -25 5 £475 -17.39% 12
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
1 107 (7.40%) Confluence
2 74 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.55%) Appian
5 6 (0.42%) CMS
5 6 (0.42%) Mattermost
5 6 (0.42%) nginx
5 6 (0.42%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.35%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.28%) IIS
8 3 (0.21%) Moodle
8 3 (0.21%) SAS
9 2 (0.14%) JBoss
9 2 (0.14%) Mule
10 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.069%) CICS
10 1 (0.069%) FileNet
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
Applications
1 86 (5.95%) Microsoft Project
2 72 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 37 (2.56%) MS Visio
5 31 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.35%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.35%) Trello
8 4 (0.28%) Windchill
9 1 (0.069%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.069%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.069%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 52 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.55%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.42%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.28%) Finacle
8 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.21%) iTrent
9 3 (0.21%) Kondor
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 214 (14.81%) Azure
2 135 (9.34%) AWS
3 100 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
4 95 (6.57%) GCP
5 81 (5.61%) Power Platform
6 42 (2.91%) Entra ID
7 41 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (2.49%) SaaS
9 26 (1.80%) Serverless
10 25 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (1.52%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.45%) Google Workspace
13 19 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.31%) Google Sheets
14 18 (1.25%) GitHub
15 17 (1.18%) AWS KMS
15 17 (1.18%) OpenShift
15 17 (1.18%) PaaS
16 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
17 15 (1.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (5.88%) Firewall
2 64 (4.43%) DNS
3 60 (4.15%) Network Security
4 40 (2.77%) VPN
4 40 (2.77%) WAN
5 29 (2.01%) LAN
6 24 (1.66%) DHCP
7 21 (1.45%) TCP/IP
8 20 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (1.18%) SD-WAN
9 17 (1.18%) SSL
10 15 (1.04%) SSH
11 14 (0.97%) HTTP
12 13 (0.90%) Kerberos
13 12 (0.83%) SAN
14 11 (0.76%) BGP
14 11 (0.76%) DMZ
14 11 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 11 (0.76%) SMTP
14 11 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.64%) Power BI
2 45 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 30 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.59%) Metadata
5 20 (1.38%) Tableau
6 18 (1.25%) NoSQL
7 15 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (0.83%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.55%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.48%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.42%) MySQL
13 6 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.35%) Big Data
14 5 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
15 4 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 169 (11.70%) JIRA
2 54 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 25 (1.73%) GitLab
4 24 (1.66%) Git
4 24 (1.66%) Liquibase
5 12 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.55%) Vagrant
7 7 (0.48%) MLflow
8 5 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.28%) MSI
10 3 (0.21%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.21%) JUnit
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.14%) AdminStudio
11 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.14%) git-flow
11 2 (0.14%) Mockito
12 1 (0.069%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.069%) GoCD
12 1 (0.069%) TestRail
General
1 678 (46.92%) Social Skills
2 485 (33.56%) Finance
3 280 (19.38%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (9.97%) Public Sector
5 140 (9.69%) Banking
6 63 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
7 47 (3.25%) Manufacturing
8 45 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.11%) Legal
9 44 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 36 (2.49%) Retail
12 32 (2.21%) Financial Institution
12 32 (2.21%) Local Government
12 32 (2.21%) Marketing
12 32 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.59%) Law
14 20 (1.38%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.04%) Retail Banking
16 14 (0.97%) Billing
Job Titles
1 204 (14.12%) Analyst
2 177 (12.25%) Project Manager
3 165 (11.42%) Lead
4 124 (8.58%) Change Manager
5 112 (7.75%) Business Analyst
6 95 (6.57%) Senior
7 80 (5.54%) Consultant
8 50 (3.46%) Architect
9 49 (3.39%) Developer
10 45 (3.11%) Programme Manager
11 44 (3.04%) Business Manager
12 38 (2.63%) Senior Manager
13 36 (2.49%) IT Manager
14 35 (2.42%) Service Manager
15 33 (2.28%) Administrator
16 32 (2.21%) Business Change Manager
17 30 (2.08%) SAP Manager
18 27 (1.87%) Transformation Manager
19 25 (1.73%) AWS Engineer
20 23 (1.59%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.81%) REST
2 38 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (2.01%) .NET
3 29 (2.01%) RESTful
4 22 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (1.45%) OAuth
6 19 (1.31%) .NET Framework
6 19 (1.31%) LDAP
6 19 (1.31%) SAML
7 14 (0.97%) Middleware
7 14 (0.97%) OpenID
8 11 (0.76%) HTML
9 10 (0.69%) ISPF
9 10 (0.69%) Web Services
10 9 (0.62%) SOAP
11 8 (0.55%) Kafka
11 8 (0.55%) NumPy
11 8 (0.55%) OAuth2
11 8 (0.55%) Pandas
11 8 (0.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.67%) Onboarding
2 81 (5.61%) Management Information System
3 68 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.84%) CMDB
5 40 (2.77%) Cloud Native
5 40 (2.77%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.49%) PKI
6 36 (2.49%) Virtual Team
7 32 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 25 (1.73%) PMI
10 24 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
11 23 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (1.31%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.25%) Replication
14 17 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
16 15 (1.04%) Life Science
17 14 (0.97%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 145 (10.03%) Windows
2 79 (5.47%) Linux
3 45 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.49%) Unix
5 31 (2.15%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.76%) VMS
7 9 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.42%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.28%) CentOS
11 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.14%) AIX
12 2 (0.14%) Android
13 1 (0.069%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.069%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.069%) Solaris
13 1 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (31.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 379 (26.23%) Agile
3 361 (24.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 318 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
5 295 (20.42%) ITIL
6 281 (19.45%) Project Management
7 239 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 225 (15.57%) Migration
9 192 (13.29%) DevOps
10 158 (10.93%) Project Delivery
11 148 (10.24%) Service Management
12 145 (10.03%) ITSM
13 136 (9.41%) PRINCE2
14 133 (9.20%) ERP
15 125 (8.65%) Decision-Making
16 122 (8.44%) Risk Management
17 119 (8.24%) Roadmaps
18 118 (8.17%) CI/CD
19 115 (7.96%) Workshop Facilitation
20 108 (7.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 145 (10.03%) SQL
2 144 (9.97%) Python
3 100 (6.92%) PowerShell
4 39 (2.70%) Bash
5 33 (2.28%) C#
6 26 (1.80%) Go
7 20 (1.38%) Java
7 20 (1.38%) PL/SQL
8 17 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 15 (1.04%) T-SQL
10 14 (0.97%) Groovy
11 13 (0.90%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.69%) CLIST
12 10 (0.69%) COBOL
12 10 (0.69%) JCL
12 10 (0.69%) REXX
13 6 (0.42%) Korn
13 6 (0.42%) Perl
14 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 276 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 270 (18.69%) Degree
3 192 (13.29%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.23%) PMI Certification
5 82 (5.67%) PMP
6 59 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (3.74%) Master's Degree
8 43 (2.98%) DV Cleared
9 34 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 22 (1.52%) APMG
12 22 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (1.31%) CISSP
14 18 (1.25%) CISM
15 16 (1.11%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.97%) AWS Certification
16 14 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.90%) CCNP
18 12 (0.83%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (6.64%) QA
2 65 (4.50%) PMO
3 56 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 55 (3.81%) GDPR
5 39 (2.70%) SLA
6 35 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.97%) IFRS
7 14 (0.97%) NIST
8 13 (0.90%) IFRS 17
9 12 (0.83%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.76%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.69%) Basel III
11 10 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.55%) MiFID
12 8 (0.55%) NCSC
13 6 (0.42%) GRC
14 5 (0.35%) EMIR
14 5 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 99 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 68 (4.71%) Docker
3 32 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.69%) ACF2
5 10 (0.69%) RACF
5 10 (0.69%) Time Sharing Option
6 9 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.55%) DFS Replication
7 8 (0.55%) Firmware
8 6 (0.42%) Dovecot
8 6 (0.42%) Postfix
8 6 (0.42%) Squid
8 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.28%) KVM
9 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.28%) vSphere
9 4 (0.28%) XenApp
9 4 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 80 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 69 (4.78%) Terraform
3 57 (3.94%) Ansible
4 40 (2.77%) Grafana
5 38 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 31 (2.15%) SCCM
7 27 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.18%) Puppet
9 14 (0.97%) Kibana
9 14 (0.97%) SCOM
10 12 (0.83%) vCenter Server
11 11 (0.76%) CA Endevor
12 9 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.62%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (0.42%) HP SiteScope
13 6 (0.42%) Nessus
13 6 (0.42%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 267 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 126 (8.72%) ServiceNow
3 115 (7.96%) SAP
4 106 (7.34%) Oracle
5 68 (4.71%) Google
6 57 (3.94%) Salesforce
7 51 (3.53%) Cisco
8 48 (3.32%) VMware
9 44 (3.04%) Splunk
10 30 (2.08%) Citrix
11 24 (1.66%) F5
12 23 (1.59%) Workday
13 18 (1.25%) Atlassian
13 18 (1.25%) Remedy
14 17 (1.18%) CheckPoint
14 17 (1.18%) Juniper
15 15 (1.04%) Fortinet
16 14 (0.97%) Adobe
17 12 (0.83%) IBM
17 12 (0.83%) Palo Alto