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

 6 months to
2 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 49 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,631 1,056 1,535
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.26% 4.36% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 4.79% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,049 685 993
10th Percentile £325 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £724
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 27 54
10th Percentile £21.65 £23.60 £14.13
25th Percentile £22.63 £31.76 £25.35
Median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £35.86
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +58.26% -25.30%
75th Percentile £47.11 £70.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £41.86 £57.12 £37.18
% change year-on-year -26.73% +53.64% -22.54%

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 32,913 22,023 32,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.03% 90.83% 86.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,101 14,513 21,559
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,010 854 2,155
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.00 £15.92
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.88 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -2 695 £513 -2.38% 182
North of England -15 297 £475 +5.56% 112
Midlands -1 233 £500 - 102
South East +8 219 £500 - 147
North West +2 195 £430 +4.44% 61
West Midlands -7 157 £510 +2.00% 58
South West +7 108 £525 +0.96% 39
Yorkshire -32 94 £488 -2.50% 35
East Midlands +16 74 £425 +20.06% 42
East of England -19 66 £475 -4.90% 52
North East -17 8 £440 -23.48% 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
1 113 (6.93%) Confluence
2 73 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.80%) SAS
5 9 (0.55%) Appian
6 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) CMS
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.061%) JBoss
10 1 (0.061%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 84 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
2 74 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 35 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (2.08%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.25%) Trello
9 3 (0.18%) Windchill
10 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.061%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 62 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.43%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.37%) Finacle
7 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.31%) Primavera
8 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.18%) iTrent
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 257 (15.76%) Azure
2 141 (8.65%) AWS
3 102 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (5.33%) Power Platform
5 80 (4.90%) GCP
6 62 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (3.56%) Entra ID
8 56 (3.43%) SaaS
9 28 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (1.59%) PaaS
11 25 (1.53%) Power Automate
12 23 (1.41%) Google Workspace
13 21 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.23%) OpenShift
15 19 (1.16%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.16%) Serverless
16 18 (1.10%) IaaS
16 18 (1.10%) OCI
17 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
18 15 (0.92%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 99 (6.07%) Firewall
2 66 (4.05%) Network Security
3 54 (3.31%) WAN
4 47 (2.88%) VPN
5 46 (2.82%) DNS
6 44 (2.70%) LAN
7 29 (1.78%) SD-WAN
8 26 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.41%) SSL
10 21 (1.29%) BGP
11 20 (1.23%) DHCP
12 19 (1.16%) OSPF
13 17 (1.04%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.92%) SAN
15 14 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (0.86%) Wireless
16 13 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
16 13 (0.80%) Internet
16 13 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
17 12 (0.74%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.23%) Power BI
2 49 (3.00%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.35%) Metadata
5 21 (1.29%) Tableau
6 19 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (1.10%) Oracle Database
8 15 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
9 12 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
10 9 (0.55%) MySQL
11 8 (0.49%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.49%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.31%) Redis
14 4 (0.25%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 209 (12.81%) JIRA
2 44 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 36 (2.21%) Git
4 19 (1.16%) GitLab
5 17 (1.04%) Liquibase
6 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.49%) MLflow
8 5 (0.31%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.25%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.25%) Hudson
9 4 (0.25%) JUnit
9 4 (0.25%) Maven
10 3 (0.18%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.12%) git-flow
General
1 688 (42.18%) Social Skills
2 544 (33.35%) Finance
3 309 (18.95%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (9.99%) Public Sector
5 140 (8.58%) Banking
6 70 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
7 63 (3.86%) Retail
8 62 (3.80%) Legal
9 55 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (2.45%) Marketing
12 39 (2.39%) Manufacturing
13 37 (2.27%) Local Government
14 34 (2.08%) Telecoms
15 31 (1.90%) Law
16 28 (1.72%) Financial Institution
17 27 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
18 22 (1.35%) Investment Banking
19 18 (1.10%) Aviation
20 16 (0.98%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 195 (11.96%) Project Manager
2 186 (11.40%) Lead
3 172 (10.55%) Analyst
4 141 (8.65%) Change Manager
5 113 (6.93%) Senior
6 109 (6.68%) Business Analyst
7 104 (6.38%) Consultant
8 56 (3.43%) Administrator
9 55 (3.37%) Programme Manager
10 54 (3.31%) Developer
11 52 (3.19%) Business Manager
12 47 (2.88%) Architect
13 40 (2.45%) Senior Manager
14 39 (2.39%) Business Change Manager
15 34 (2.08%) IT Manager
15 34 (2.08%) Network Engineer
16 30 (1.84%) Delivery Manager
16 30 (1.84%) Service Manager
16 30 (1.84%) Support Engineer
17 29 (1.78%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.37%) REST
2 33 (2.02%) .NET
3 28 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 26 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (1.35%) .NET Framework
6 21 (1.29%) Middleware
6 21 (1.29%) OAuth
7 20 (1.23%) RESTful
8 18 (1.10%) SAML
9 15 (0.92%) Web Services
10 14 (0.86%) OpenID
11 13 (0.80%) LDAP
12 10 (0.61%) ISPF
12 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
12 10 (0.61%) pytest
13 9 (0.55%) CSS
13 9 (0.55%) Django
13 9 (0.55%) NumPy
13 9 (0.55%) Pandas
14 8 (0.49%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.27%) Management Information System
2 75 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 72 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.68%) Data Centre
5 41 (2.51%) Virtual Team
6 38 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 38 (2.33%) CMDB
7 34 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.08%) PMI
8 31 (1.90%) PKI
9 29 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.59%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.29%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (0.98%) Operational Technology
15 16 (0.98%) Replication
16 15 (0.92%) Low-Code
16 15 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 165 (10.12%) Windows
2 65 (3.99%) Linux
3 56 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.84%) Unix
4 30 (1.84%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.25%) CentOS
9 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.12%) Android
12 1 (0.061%) AIX
12 1 (0.061%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.061%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (32.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 407 (24.95%) Agile
3 396 (24.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 351 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
5 318 (19.50%) ITIL
6 311 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 294 (18.03%) Project Management
8 266 (16.31%) Migration
9 226 (13.86%) DevOps
10 190 (11.65%) Project Delivery
11 158 (9.69%) ERP
12 154 (9.44%) ITSM
12 154 (9.44%) Roadmaps
13 147 (9.01%) Service Management
14 144 (8.83%) Risk Management
15 143 (8.77%) Decision-Making
16 137 (8.40%) PRINCE2
17 135 (8.28%) Validation
18 132 (8.09%) Workshop Facilitation
19 128 (7.85%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 162 (9.93%) SQL
2 121 (7.42%) Python
3 97 (5.95%) PowerShell
4 45 (2.76%) C#
5 38 (2.33%) Bash
6 33 (2.02%) PL/SQL
7 26 (1.59%) Java
8 21 (1.29%) T-SQL
9 18 (1.10%) JavaScript
10 14 (0.86%) Go
11 11 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.61%) CLIST
12 10 (0.61%) COBOL
12 10 (0.61%) Groovy
12 10 (0.61%) JCL
12 10 (0.61%) REXX
13 7 (0.43%) Korn
14 6 (0.37%) Perl
15 3 (0.18%) ABAP
15 3 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 337 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 245 (15.02%) Degree
3 237 (14.53%) SC Cleared
4 103 (6.32%) PMI Certification
5 99 (6.07%) PMP
6 53 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 46 (2.82%) CISSP
8 45 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 39 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (2.39%) Master's Degree
10 38 (2.33%) CISM
11 36 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
12 28 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 26 (1.59%) APMG
14 25 (1.53%) CCNP
15 17 (1.04%) Azure Certification
15 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
16 13 (0.80%) ACCA
16 13 (0.80%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.89%) QA
2 81 (4.97%) GDPR
3 79 (4.84%) PMO
4 68 (4.17%) Data Quality
5 63 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (3.31%) SLA
7 39 (2.39%) NIST
8 18 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (1.04%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.98%) IFRS
11 15 (0.92%) IFRS 17
11 15 (0.92%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.61%) Basel III
13 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.43%) NCSC
15 6 (0.37%) Accessibility
15 6 (0.37%) COBIT
15 6 (0.37%) GRC
15 6 (0.37%) MiFID
16 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 109 (6.68%) Active Directory
2 60 (3.68%) Docker
3 41 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.61%) ACF2
8 10 (0.61%) RACF
8 10 (0.61%) Time Sharing Option
9 8 (0.49%) Firmware
9 8 (0.49%) vSphere
10 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.31%) KVM
11 5 (0.31%) XenApp
11 5 (0.31%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.12%) NFS
12 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.061%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 82 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 63 (3.86%) Terraform
3 54 (3.31%) Ansible
4 36 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.59%) Grafana
6 25 (1.53%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.35%) SCCM
8 17 (1.04%) vCenter Server
9 14 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.67%) Puppet
11 10 (0.61%) CA Endevor
12 9 (0.55%) Kibana
12 9 (0.55%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 8 (0.49%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.49%) SCOM
14 7 (0.43%) PowerCLI
15 6 (0.37%) CASB
15 6 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 273 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 161 (9.87%) ServiceNow
3 146 (8.95%) SAP
4 132 (8.09%) Oracle
5 67 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 62 (3.80%) VMware
7 61 (3.74%) Google
8 58 (3.56%) Cisco
9 36 (2.21%) Citrix
10 33 (2.02%) Workday
11 31 (1.90%) Splunk
12 23 (1.41%) Atlassian
12 23 (1.41%) F5
13 18 (1.10%) CheckPoint
13 18 (1.10%) Remedy
14 17 (1.04%) Juniper
14 17 (1.04%) Palo Alto
15 16 (0.98%) IFS
16 15 (0.92%) Fortinet
17 14 (0.86%) SolarWinds
586 Change Management jobs in England