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

 6 months to
6 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 54 47
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,742 1,266 1,324
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.76% 4.56% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 5.02% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 791 705
10th Percentile £370 £335 £321
25th Percentile £443 £406 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 54 40
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.65 £26.42
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.63 £35.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -48.43% +20.19%
75th Percentile £75.40 £55.56 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +83.33% -47.13% +17.24%

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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -9 822 £550 - 1,139
North of England -12 320 £500 +9.29% 289
South East 0 277 £550 +12.24% 347
North West -13 180 £475 +5.56% 169
Yorkshire -7 127 £500 +7.70% 91
Midlands -70 105 £480 +1.05% 181
South West -32 89 £563 +7.14% 150
East of England +3 79 £505 -6.14% 112
West Midlands -68 78 £500 +5.26% 107
East Midlands -19 27 £416 -6.52% 74
North East -26 13 £413 -8.33% 30
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 94 (5.40%) SharePoint
2 78 (4.48%) Confluence
3 29 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.92%) IIS
5 10 (0.57%) CICS
6 6 (0.34%) Appian
6 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.29%) Camunda
7 5 (0.29%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.17%) Kentico
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.11%) Documentum
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 66 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.46%) Windchill
7 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.23%) InDesign
8 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.11%) Houdini
10 2 (0.11%) NUKE
10 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.057%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.057%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 57 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.52%) Maximo
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.52%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
8 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.23%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 265 (15.21%) Azure
2 136 (7.81%) AWS
3 122 (7.00%) Power Platform
4 106 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
5 91 (5.22%) Entra ID
6 71 (4.08%) GCP
7 54 (3.10%) SaaS
8 49 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (2.76%) GitHub
10 44 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
11 40 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
12 28 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 24 (1.38%) Serverless
15 23 (1.32%) OCI
15 23 (1.32%) Power Automate
16 20 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (1.15%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.15%) OneDrive
16 20 (1.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 114 (6.54%) Firewall
2 101 (5.80%) Network Security
3 78 (4.48%) DNS
4 53 (3.04%) VPN
5 50 (2.87%) WAN
6 43 (2.47%) TCP/IP
7 39 (2.24%) DHCP
8 31 (1.78%) Wireless
9 28 (1.61%) LAN
10 25 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (1.09%) SAN
12 18 (1.03%) BGP
12 18 (1.03%) SSL
13 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (0.86%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.80%) OSPF
15 14 (0.80%) SNMP
16 13 (0.75%) VLAN
17 12 (0.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.17%) Power BI
2 58 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 35 (2.01%) Metadata
4 30 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 16 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 15 (0.86%) Db2
7 13 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.57%) Tableau
10 9 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.46%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.40%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.34%) DataStage
13 6 (0.34%) GIS
13 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 154 (8.84%) JIRA
2 57 (3.27%) Git
3 44 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.57%) GitLab
5 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.17%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.17%) InstallShield
9 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.11%) Postman
10 2 (0.11%) Snyk
10 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 710 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 635 (36.45%) Finance
3 303 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.08%) Banking
5 142 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 95 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
7 85 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
8 80 (4.59%) Legal
9 72 (4.13%) Manufacturing
10 68 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
11 62 (3.56%) Retail
12 55 (3.16%) Telecoms
13 47 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (2.18%) Law
15 37 (2.12%) Aerospace
16 35 (2.01%) Marketing
17 33 (1.89%) Local Government
18 28 (1.61%) Aviation
19 27 (1.55%) Front Office
20 26 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 207 (11.88%) Lead
2 195 (11.19%) Project Manager
3 192 (11.02%) Analyst
4 144 (8.27%) Senior
5 128 (7.35%) Change Manager
6 106 (6.08%) Business Analyst
7 102 (5.86%) Consultant
8 58 (3.33%) Senior Manager
9 54 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
10 51 (2.93%) IT Manager
11 49 (2.81%) Programme Manager
12 47 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
13 46 (2.64%) Network Engineer
14 43 (2.47%) Developer
15 42 (2.41%) Business Manager
16 39 (2.24%) Administrator
17 37 (2.12%) Security Engineer
18 36 (2.07%) Service Manager
19 35 (2.01%) Business Change Manager
20 34 (1.95%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (6.08%) Terraform
2 44 (2.53%) REST
3 30 (1.72%) .NET
3 30 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 26 (1.49%) Kafka
5 23 (1.32%) HTML
5 23 (1.32%) Middleware
6 19 (1.09%) CSS
7 17 (0.98%) Ajax
8 15 (0.86%) SOAP
9 14 (0.80%) 802.1X
9 14 (0.80%) Web Services
10 13 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
10 13 (0.75%) OAuth
11 11 (0.63%) XML
12 10 (0.57%) JSON
13 9 (0.52%) .NET Framework
13 9 (0.52%) RESTful
14 7 (0.40%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 128 (7.35%) Onboarding
2 96 (5.51%) Management Information System
3 81 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 76 (4.36%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (2.58%) Cloud Native
7 41 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (2.18%) PKI
9 35 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 35 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
11 31 (1.78%) Operational Technology
12 30 (1.72%) CMDB
13 27 (1.55%) AI Agents
14 25 (1.44%) Virtual Team
15 21 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
16 20 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (1.15%) Mainframe
16 20 (1.15%) PMI
16 20 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 214 (12.28%) Windows
2 113 (6.49%) Linux
3 97 (5.57%) Windows Server
4 53 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (2.30%) Unix
6 22 (1.26%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.98%) Solaris
8 11 (0.63%) AIX
8 11 (0.63%) VMS
9 10 (0.57%) zOS
10 9 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.46%) SUSE
11 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.29%) HPUX
15 4 (0.23%) Android
15 4 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 747 (42.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 457 (26.23%) Agile
3 425 (24.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 414 (23.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 340 (19.52%) ITIL
6 315 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
7 284 (16.30%) Project Delivery
8 283 (16.25%) Project Management
9 272 (15.61%) Roadmaps
10 252 (14.47%) Migration
11 220 (12.63%) Decision-Making
12 213 (12.23%) Service Management
13 207 (11.88%) AI
14 199 (11.42%) DevOps
15 190 (10.91%) PRINCE2
16 178 (10.22%) ITSM
17 166 (9.53%) Analytics
18 160 (9.18%) Risk Management
19 159 (9.13%) Process Improvement
20 156 (8.96%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 157 (9.01%) Python
2 141 (8.09%) PowerShell
3 131 (7.52%) SQL
4 73 (4.19%) Bash
5 42 (2.41%) Java
6 37 (2.12%) JavaScript
7 36 (2.07%) PL/SQL
8 29 (1.66%) C#
9 26 (1.49%) Bicep
10 23 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.75%) JCL
12 13 (0.75%) Korn
13 11 (0.63%) Go
14 9 (0.52%) Groovy
14 9 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
15 8 (0.46%) COBOL
16 6 (0.34%) VBScript
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
18 2 (0.11%) DCL
Qualifications
1 380 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 275 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 226 (12.97%) Degree
4 142 (8.15%) PMP
5 134 (7.69%) PMI Certification
6 84 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.35%) CISSP
8 38 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.55%) APMG
10 27 (1.55%) CCNP
11 26 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.32%) AWS Certification
12 23 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 18 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.98%) ACCA
15 16 (0.92%) CIMA
16 15 (0.86%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 88 (5.05%) QA
3 74 (4.25%) PMO
4 69 (3.96%) SLA
5 39 (2.24%) GDPR
6 35 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.78%) GRC
8 22 (1.26%) NIST
9 16 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.57%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.52%) ITGC
14 8 (0.46%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.40%) GMP
16 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.34%) IFRS
17 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 114 (6.54%) Active Directory
2 101 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.58%) Docker
4 26 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (1.44%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.03%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.80%) vCloud
9 13 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
10 10 (0.57%) vSphere
11 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.29%) Firmware
13 4 (0.23%) RACF
14 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.17%) Squid
14 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
15 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
15 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 77 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 61 (3.50%) Ansible
3 36 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (1.95%) vCenter Server
5 31 (1.78%) SCOM
6 28 (1.61%) Grafana
7 26 (1.49%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.21%) SCCM
8 21 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.92%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.69%) Avamar
11 9 (0.52%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.34%) Argo
14 6 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.29%) Control-M
15 5 (0.29%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 353 (20.26%) Microsoft
2 171 (9.82%) ServiceNow
3 146 (8.38%) Oracle
4 122 (7.00%) SAP
5 121 (6.95%) VMware
6 73 (4.19%) Cisco
7 55 (3.16%) Salesforce
8 45 (2.58%) Google
9 43 (2.47%) Splunk
10 38 (2.18%) IBM
11 36 (2.07%) Red Hat
12 35 (2.01%) Zscaler
13 26 (1.49%) Citrix
14 25 (1.44%) Palo Alto
15 22 (1.26%) F5
16 21 (1.21%) Juniper
16 21 (1.21%) Remedy
17 20 (1.15%) Dell
17 20 (1.15%) Workday
18 19 (1.09%) Thales
2,253 Change Management jobs in England