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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 48 52
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,753 1,283 1,273
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.80% 4.62% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 5.09% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 789 712
10th Percentile £371 £346 £313
25th Percentile £430 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £722
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 55 40
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.16 £26.14
25th Percentile £26.07 £22.63 £35.17
Median hourly rate £50.50 £30.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +68.33% -48.54% +20.45%
75th Percentile £72.06 £58.51 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £34.67 £56.75
% change year-on-year +45.68% -38.91% +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 39,153 25,217 28,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.77% 90.89% 86.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,021 17,785
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,713 1,491 1,342
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.30 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -8 839 £539 -2.88% 858
North of England -22 308 £500 +11.11% 221
South East +4 282 £575 +17.89% 236
North West -14 183 £475 +5.56% 140
Midlands -59 113 £485 +2.11% 139
Yorkshire -17 111 £500 +9.59% 63
South West -33 89 £525 +2.44% 133
West Midlands -69 83 £500 +5.26% 76
East of England +1 73 £509 -3.05% 79
East Midlands -23 29 £430 -3.10% 63
North East -29 14 £425 -5.56% 23
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
1 101 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 82 (4.68%) Confluence
3 31 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.86%) IIS
5 10 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.34%) Appian
7 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.29%) CICS
8 5 (0.29%) CMS
8 5 (0.29%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 66 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.29%) 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
8 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.057%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 59 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
4 14 (0.80%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 9 (0.51%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.46%) Maximo
8 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.34%) Primavera
9 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
9 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.29%) iTrent
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 270 (15.40%) Azure
2 141 (8.04%) AWS
3 115 (6.56%) Power Platform
4 110 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
5 94 (5.36%) Entra ID
6 65 (3.71%) GCP
7 61 (3.48%) SaaS
8 55 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 41 (2.34%) GitHub
11 32 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
12 28 (1.60%) OCI
13 26 (1.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 25 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.31%) Serverless
16 22 (1.25%) Google Workspace
17 20 (1.14%) OpenShift
17 20 (1.14%) PowerApps
18 19 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 121 (6.90%) Firewall
2 105 (5.99%) Network Security
3 70 (3.99%) DNS
4 56 (3.19%) VPN
5 52 (2.97%) WAN
6 36 (2.05%) DHCP
7 35 (2.00%) TCP/IP
8 32 (1.83%) Wireless
9 28 (1.60%) LAN
10 24 (1.37%) SSL
11 23 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (1.08%) BGP
13 18 (1.03%) SD-WAN
14 17 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
15 15 (0.86%) OSPF
16 14 (0.80%) SNMP
17 12 (0.68%) HTTP
17 12 (0.68%) SSH
17 12 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (5.02%) Power BI
2 57 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.94%) Metadata
4 31 (1.77%) Oracle Database
5 14 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.63%) Db2
7 11 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (0.63%) Tableau
8 10 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.34%) DataStage
10 6 (0.34%) GIS
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
11 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 175 (9.98%) JIRA
2 58 (3.31%) Git
3 43 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.46%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
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%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.17%) Hudson
10 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 697 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 661 (37.71%) Finance
3 317 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (11.12%) Banking
5 145 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 85 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
7 83 (4.73%) Legal
8 78 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
9 73 (4.16%) Retail
10 66 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
11 60 (3.42%) Manufacturing
12 54 (3.08%) Telecoms
13 44 (2.51%) Marketing
14 42 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (2.17%) Law
16 29 (1.65%) Local Government
17 28 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 25 (1.43%) Aerospace
18 25 (1.43%) Front Office
19 23 (1.31%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 217 (12.38%) Lead
2 200 (11.41%) Project Manager
3 189 (10.78%) Analyst
4 136 (7.76%) Senior
5 130 (7.42%) Change Manager
6 105 (5.99%) Consultant
7 103 (5.88%) Business Analyst
8 64 (3.65%) Senior Manager
9 53 (3.02%) Network Engineer
10 50 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
11 49 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (2.74%) IT Manager
13 47 (2.68%) Programme Manager
14 45 (2.57%) Developer
15 44 (2.51%) Administrator
16 42 (2.40%) Business Manager
17 37 (2.11%) Service Manager
18 36 (2.05%) Business Change Manager
19 35 (2.00%) Security Engineer
20 32 (1.83%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (6.10%) Terraform
2 51 (2.91%) REST
3 35 (2.00%) .NET
4 29 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.43%) HTML
6 22 (1.25%) Kafka
7 21 (1.20%) CSS
8 19 (1.08%) Middleware
9 16 (0.91%) Ajax
9 16 (0.91%) OAuth
10 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
11 14 (0.80%) 802.1X
12 13 (0.74%) SOAP
13 12 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (0.57%) .NET Framework
15 9 (0.51%) OAuth2
15 9 (0.51%) React
15 9 (0.51%) Web Services
16 8 (0.46%) LDAP
16 8 (0.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 114 (6.50%) Onboarding
2 87 (4.96%) Management Information System
3 73 (4.16%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.76%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.62%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.05%) PKI
7 36 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (1.88%) Virtual Team
10 29 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.48%) Operational Technology
12 25 (1.43%) CMDB
13 24 (1.37%) PMI
14 21 (1.20%) AI Agents
15 20 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
16 19 (1.08%) Public Cloud
17 17 (0.97%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 199 (11.35%) Windows
2 105 (5.99%) Linux
3 87 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 49 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (2.17%) Unix
6 22 (1.25%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.74%) Solaris
8 12 (0.68%) VMS
9 11 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.46%) AIX
11 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.34%) SUSE
12 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.29%) HPUX
13 5 (0.29%) zOS
14 4 (0.23%) Android
15 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.17%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (40.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 472 (26.93%) Agile
3 425 (24.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 416 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 346 (19.74%) ITIL
6 315 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 298 (17.00%) Project Management
8 277 (15.80%) Project Delivery
9 246 (14.03%) Migration
10 243 (13.86%) Roadmaps
11 221 (12.61%) Decision-Making
12 215 (12.26%) Service Management
13 207 (11.81%) DevOps
14 193 (11.01%) AI
15 182 (10.38%) ITSM
16 181 (10.33%) PRINCE2
17 168 (9.58%) ERP
18 158 (9.01%) Analytics
19 157 (8.96%) Process Improvement
20 153 (8.73%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (8.90%) Python
2 142 (8.10%) SQL
3 139 (7.93%) PowerShell
4 69 (3.94%) Bash
5 49 (2.80%) PL/SQL
6 43 (2.45%) Java
7 42 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 34 (1.94%) C#
9 26 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.43%) Bicep
11 15 (0.86%) Korn
11 15 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.68%) Groovy
13 8 (0.46%) Go
13 8 (0.46%) JCL
14 7 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.34%) COBOL
15 6 (0.34%) VBScript
16 4 (0.23%) Perl
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 367 (20.94%) Security Cleared
2 267 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 210 (11.98%) Degree
4 144 (8.21%) PMP
5 131 (7.47%) PMI Certification
6 79 (4.51%) DV Cleared
7 56 (3.19%) CISSP
8 53 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (2.05%) CCNP
10 34 (1.94%) Azure Certification
11 28 (1.60%) CISM
11 28 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.54%) APMG
13 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
15 22 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (1.25%) CCNA
16 21 (1.20%) ACCA
16 21 (1.20%) AWS Certification
16 21 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.36%) PMO
2 85 (4.85%) QA
3 80 (4.56%) Data Quality
4 73 (4.16%) SLA
5 55 (3.14%) GDPR
6 43 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.88%) NIST
8 29 (1.65%) GRC
9 18 (1.03%) SOC 2
10 17 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.91%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.63%) ITGC
13 8 (0.46%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.40%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.40%) COBIT
14 7 (0.40%) GMP
15 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.29%) IFRS
17 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 118 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 86 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.51%) Docker
4 25 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.20%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.80%) vCloud
9 13 (0.74%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
10 9 (0.51%) vSphere
11 4 (0.23%) Firmware
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.17%) Squid
13 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.11%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) Postfix
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
14 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 70 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 62 (3.54%) Ansible
3 37 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (2.00%) vCenter Server
5 28 (1.60%) SCOM
6 26 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.43%) Grafana
8 24 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.20%) SCCM
10 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.63%) Avamar
12 10 (0.57%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
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
Vendors
1 334 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 183 (10.44%) ServiceNow
3 162 (9.24%) Oracle
4 122 (6.96%) SAP
5 107 (6.10%) VMware
6 78 (4.45%) Cisco
7 67 (3.82%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.68%) Google
9 41 (2.34%) Splunk
10 35 (2.00%) IBM
11 34 (1.94%) Red Hat
12 31 (1.77%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.37%) CheckPoint
13 24 (1.37%) Citrix
14 23 (1.31%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.31%) Remedy
15 22 (1.25%) F5
15 22 (1.25%) Juniper
15 22 (1.25%) Workday
16 19 (1.08%) IFS