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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 47 41
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,416 1,291 1,804
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.65% 4.22% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 4.81% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 719 1,131
10th Percentile £315 £350 £370
25th Percentile £405 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 24 37
10th Percentile £20.79 £21.62 £21.23
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.85 £25.00
Median hourly rate £37.28 £42.79 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% -1.25% +29.34%
75th Percentile £45.46 £58.95 £55.15
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.80 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £41.67
% change year-on-year -27.71% -0.40% +21.08%

All Process and 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 27,266 26,819 34,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.52% 87.66% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,363 16,442 23,467
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.59% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,775 968 1,450
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.26 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -23.79% -23.99% +24.04%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 -10 608 £525 -4.55% 161
North of England -18 255 £450 -14.29% 157
Midlands +14 205 £475 -9.52% 84
South East +11 188 £500 -3.85% 156
North West -2 172 £439 -16.03% 79
West Midlands +6 151 £475 -9.52% 43
South West +23 113 £525 +0.96% 42
Yorkshire -29 80 £500 -4.76% 65
East Midlands +28 54 £425 - 40
East of England -16 40 £523 +8.85% 39
North East -20 3 £475 -17.39% 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
1 125 (8.83%) Confluence
2 76 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.85%) nginx
5 8 (0.56%) CMS
6 6 (0.42%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.42%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.42%) Mule
6 6 (0.42%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.35%) IIS
7 5 (0.35%) JBoss
8 4 (0.28%) CICS
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.14%) Moodle
11 1 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.071%) FileNet
11 1 (0.071%) Traefik
Applications
1 93 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (5.58%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (2.68%) MS Visio
5 33 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.49%) Windchill
8 6 (0.42%) Trello
9 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.14%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.071%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.071%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.071%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.071%) Notion
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 42 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.56%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.35%) Maximo
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.35%) SAP APO
7 5 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.21%) Kondor
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.21%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 158 (11.16%) Azure
2 139 (9.82%) AWS
3 93 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (6.36%) GCP
5 78 (5.51%) Power Platform
6 48 (3.39%) SaaS
7 36 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.33%) AWS KMS
9 31 (2.19%) Serverless
10 30 (2.12%) Amazon S3
11 28 (1.98%) Entra ID
12 25 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (1.62%) Amazon ELB
15 21 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.34%) GitHub
17 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
18 15 (1.06%) Power Automate
18 15 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 96 (6.78%) Firewall
2 76 (5.37%) DNS
3 59 (4.17%) Network Security
4 40 (2.82%) WAN
5 38 (2.68%) VPN
6 33 (2.33%) SSH
7 27 (1.91%) HTTP
8 25 (1.77%) SMTP
9 23 (1.62%) LAN
10 21 (1.48%) FTP
11 19 (1.34%) DHCP
11 19 (1.34%) Wireless
12 17 (1.20%) SSL
13 15 (1.06%) SD-WAN
13 15 (1.06%) TCP/IP
14 14 (0.99%) IPsec
15 12 (0.85%) BGP
15 12 (0.85%) IMAP
15 12 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
16 11 (0.78%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.52%) Power BI
2 37 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (1.91%) SQL Server
5 24 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 23 (1.62%) Metadata
6 23 (1.62%) Tableau
7 20 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 16 (1.13%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.49%) MySQL
12 6 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.35%) Big Data
13 5 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.28%) Redis
15 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 181 (12.78%) JIRA
2 80 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.97%) Git
4 29 (2.05%) Liquibase
5 27 (1.91%) GitLab
6 23 (1.62%) Vagrant
7 12 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.35%) MSI
8 5 (0.35%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.28%) ChangeMan
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.21%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.21%) JUnit
10 3 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.21%) Selenium
10 3 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 608 (42.94%) Social Skills
2 468 (33.05%) Finance
3 252 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (10.24%) Banking
5 125 (8.83%) Public Sector
6 65 (4.59%) Manufacturing
7 62 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
8 48 (3.39%) Legal
9 47 (3.32%) Telecoms
10 42 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
10 42 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
11 37 (2.61%) Financial Institution
12 32 (2.26%) Marketing
13 29 (2.05%) Retail
14 27 (1.91%) Law
15 25 (1.77%) Local Government
16 24 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 20 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (1.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 224 (15.82%) Analyst
2 181 (12.78%) Project Manager
3 142 (10.03%) Lead
4 115 (8.12%) Business Analyst
5 106 (7.49%) Change Manager
6 81 (5.72%) Consultant
6 81 (5.72%) Senior
7 54 (3.81%) Administrator
8 47 (3.32%) Developer
9 45 (3.18%) IT Manager
10 42 (2.97%) Programme Manager
11 41 (2.90%) Architect
11 41 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (2.54%) Senior Manager
13 35 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
13 35 (2.47%) Service Manager
14 33 (2.33%) Business Manager
15 32 (2.26%) Service Analyst
16 30 (2.12%) SAP Manager
17 28 (1.98%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (3.32%) REST
2 39 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (1.84%) RESTful
4 24 (1.69%) .NET
5 22 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
6 18 (1.27%) LDAP
7 16 (1.13%) SAML
8 11 (0.78%) .NET Framework
8 11 (0.78%) 802.1X
9 10 (0.71%) OAuth
9 10 (0.71%) OpenID
10 9 (0.64%) HTML
11 8 (0.56%) ISPF
11 8 (0.56%) Kafka
11 8 (0.56%) SOAP
12 7 (0.49%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.42%) CSS
13 6 (0.42%) SailPoint
13 6 (0.42%) XML
14 5 (0.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.79%) Onboarding
2 74 (5.23%) Management Information System
3 48 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.18%) Data Centre
4 45 (3.18%) Virtual Team
5 37 (2.61%) Cloud Native
6 33 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (2.19%) CMDB
7 31 (2.19%) Replication
8 30 (2.12%) PKI
9 29 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.69%) Life Science
12 24 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (0.99%) Mainframe
14 14 (0.99%) PMI
15 13 (0.92%) Tandem
16 12 (0.85%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 145 (10.24%) Windows
2 90 (6.36%) Linux
3 33 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.19%) Unix
5 25 (1.77%) VMS
6 23 (1.62%) Amazon Linux
7 22 (1.55%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.85%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.28%) zOS
11 3 (0.21%) CentOS
11 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.14%) AIX
12 2 (0.14%) Android
12 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.071%) Debian
13 1 (0.071%) Solaris
13 1 (0.071%) SUSE
13 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (27.05%) Agile
2 371 (26.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 315 (22.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 298 (21.05%) Project Management
5 291 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
6 280 (19.77%) ITIL
7 202 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 197 (13.91%) Project Delivery
9 188 (13.28%) DevOps
10 186 (13.14%) Migration
11 162 (11.44%) Service Management
12 129 (9.11%) ITSM
13 125 (8.83%) Decision-Making
14 124 (8.76%) Roadmaps
15 123 (8.69%) PRINCE2
16 116 (8.19%) ERP
17 115 (8.12%) Risk Management
18 112 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
19 110 (7.77%) CI/CD
20 101 (7.13%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 137 (9.68%) Python
2 115 (8.12%) SQL
3 91 (6.43%) PowerShell
4 43 (3.04%) Java
5 31 (2.19%) C#
5 31 (2.19%) Go
6 27 (1.91%) Groovy
7 20 (1.41%) JavaScript
8 19 (1.34%) Bash
9 18 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.20%) Perl
11 11 (0.78%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.71%) COBOL
13 9 (0.64%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.56%) CLIST
14 8 (0.56%) JCL
14 8 (0.56%) REXX
15 7 (0.49%) Korn
16 4 (0.28%) Formula Language
16 4 (0.28%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 268 (18.93%) Security Cleared
2 267 (18.86%) Degree
3 198 (13.98%) SC Cleared
4 80 (5.65%) PMI Certification
5 73 (5.16%) PMP
6 67 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (3.04%) Master's Degree
8 38 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (2.19%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (1.55%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
12 20 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 17 (1.20%) APMG
14 16 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
15 14 (0.99%) CCNP
16 12 (0.85%) Azure Certification
16 12 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 10 (0.71%) A+ Certification
18 9 (0.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.37%) QA
2 67 (4.73%) PMO
3 48 (3.39%) GDPR
4 39 (2.75%) SLA
5 36 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 28 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.06%) NIST
8 14 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.78%) NCSC
10 11 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.71%) MiFID
12 8 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.49%) EMIR
14 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.35%) IFRS
14 5 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.28%) GMP
16 3 (0.21%) ITGC
System Software
1 92 (6.50%) Active Directory
2 64 (4.52%) Docker
3 21 (1.48%) DFS Replication
4 18 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.85%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.85%) Postfix
5 12 (0.85%) Squid
6 9 (0.64%) Firmware
7 8 (0.56%) ACF2
7 8 (0.56%) RACF
7 8 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.49%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.42%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.071%) Snort
12 1 (0.071%) XenApp
12 1 (0.071%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 74 (5.23%) Terraform
2 51 (3.60%) Grafana
3 50 (3.53%) Prometheus
4 49 (3.46%) Kubernetes
5 43 (3.04%) Ansible
6 27 (1.91%) SCCM
7 20 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.92%) Nessus
9 12 (0.85%) CA Endevor
10 11 (0.78%) SCOM
11 10 (0.71%) Kibana
11 10 (0.71%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.56%) Puppet
13 7 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.49%) Tivoli
13 7 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 7 (0.49%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.42%) HP SiteScope
15 5 (0.35%) WSUS
16 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 286 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 131 (9.25%) SAP
3 130 (9.18%) ServiceNow
4 92 (6.50%) Oracle
5 56 (3.95%) Google
6 55 (3.88%) Cisco
7 52 (3.67%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.97%) Splunk
9 27 (1.91%) F5
9 27 (1.91%) Workday
10 26 (1.84%) VMware
11 23 (1.62%) Atlassian
11 23 (1.62%) Juniper
11 23 (1.62%) Remedy
12 20 (1.41%) CheckPoint
13 17 (1.20%) Fortinet
13 17 (1.20%) IBM
14 14 (0.99%) Citrix
15 13 (0.92%) Blue Coat
16 12 (0.85%) Jaspersoft