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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 47 52
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,724 1,286 1,276
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.77% 4.64% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 5.10% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 800 752
10th Percentile £375 £331 £308
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £496 £513
% change year-on-year +5.95% -3.32% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 57 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.92 £19.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £29.73
Median hourly rate £41.71 £30.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +39.03% -48.43% +20.19%
75th Percentile £61.81 £58.25 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £34.67 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.32% -36.97% +13.95%

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 38,743 25,202 28,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.84% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,962 16,051 18,351
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,572 1,476 1,524
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.17 £17.87 £18.08
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% -3.67%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -3 825 £540 -1.91% 250
North of England -26 291 £500 +11.11% 136
South East +5 278 £575 +20.73% 160
North West -16 175 £479 +6.44% 93
Midlands -56 115 £493 +3.68% 76
Yorkshire -26 101 £500 +17.65% 34
South West -33 90 £525 +3.70% 73
East of England +1 83 £475 -9.52% 43
West Midlands -58 83 £525 +10.53% 54
East Midlands -13 30 £413 +14.11% 22
North East -27 15 £425 -15.00% 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 96 (5.57%) SharePoint
2 73 (4.23%) Confluence
3 29 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.99%) IIS
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.35%) Appian
7 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 4 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.058%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.058%) MTS
12 1 (0.058%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 66 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 40 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Houdini
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) NUKE
9 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.058%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 56 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.46%) Maximo
7 8 (0.46%) Primavera
8 7 (0.41%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.35%) SAP PM
9 6 (0.35%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.23%) iTrent
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 274 (15.89%) Azure
2 137 (7.95%) AWS
3 111 (6.44%) Power Platform
4 107 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (5.57%) Entra ID
6 69 (4.00%) SaaS
7 63 (3.65%) GCP
8 62 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
10 40 (2.32%) GitHub
11 27 (1.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 26 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (1.51%) OCI
13 24 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (1.33%) Power Automate
15 22 (1.28%) Google Workspace
16 21 (1.22%) Serverless
17 19 (1.10%) PowerApps
18 18 (1.04%) OpenShift
19 17 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 115 (6.67%) Firewall
2 100 (5.80%) Network Security
3 61 (3.54%) DNS
4 55 (3.19%) VPN
5 54 (3.13%) WAN
6 36 (2.09%) LAN
7 33 (1.91%) DHCP
7 33 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 29 (1.68%) Wireless
9 27 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (1.22%) SD-WAN
11 20 (1.16%) SSL
12 19 (1.10%) BGP
13 18 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (0.99%) OSPF
15 16 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
16 13 (0.75%) MPLS
17 12 (0.70%) Internet
17 12 (0.70%) VLAN
18 11 (0.64%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.22%) Power BI
2 56 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.57%) Oracle Database
4 26 (1.51%) Metadata
5 17 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (0.64%) Tableau
10 8 (0.46%) Db2
11 7 (0.41%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.35%) GIS
12 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
13 5 (0.29%) DataStage
13 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 182 (10.56%) JIRA
2 50 (2.90%) Git
3 43 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.41%) AdminStudio
5 7 (0.41%) GitLab
5 7 (0.41%) InstallShield
5 7 (0.41%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.35%) Selenium
7 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) Hudson
8 4 (0.23%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.17%) Maven
9 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
General
1 667 (38.69%) Social Skills
2 649 (37.65%) Finance
3 309 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (10.15%) Banking
5 148 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 84 (4.87%) Legal
7 82 (4.76%) Retail
8 81 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
9 70 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
10 62 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
11 52 (3.02%) Telecoms
12 47 (2.73%) Manufacturing
12 47 (2.73%) Marketing
13 39 (2.26%) Law
14 35 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
15 30 (1.74%) Local Government
16 23 (1.33%) Aviation
16 23 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (1.22%) Financial Institution
18 20 (1.16%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 218 (12.65%) Lead
2 198 (11.48%) Project Manager
3 179 (10.38%) Analyst
4 128 (7.42%) Senior
5 125 (7.25%) Change Manager
6 114 (6.61%) Consultant
7 98 (5.68%) Business Analyst
8 59 (3.42%) Senior Manager
9 51 (2.96%) Network Engineer
10 50 (2.90%) Administrator
11 47 (2.73%) Developer
12 46 (2.67%) Programme Manager
13 45 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
14 42 (2.44%) Business Manager
14 42 (2.44%) IT Manager
15 39 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
16 37 (2.15%) Support Engineer
17 36 (2.09%) Business Change Manager
17 36 (2.09%) Service Manager
18 31 (1.80%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (5.97%) Terraform
2 51 (2.96%) REST
3 36 (2.09%) .NET
4 30 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.45%) HTML
6 23 (1.33%) CSS
7 17 (0.99%) Middleware
8 16 (0.93%) Ajax
9 15 (0.87%) Kafka
10 14 (0.81%) OAuth
10 14 (0.81%) SOAP
11 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.70%) .NET Framework
12 12 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (0.64%) 802.1X
13 11 (0.64%) Web Services
14 9 (0.52%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.52%) React
15 8 (0.46%) SPFx
15 8 (0.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.92%) Onboarding
2 84 (4.87%) Management Information System
3 72 (4.18%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.71%) Product Ownership
5 48 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.97%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.91%) PKI
10 29 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.62%) Operational Technology
11 28 (1.62%) PMI
12 27 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
14 24 (1.39%) CMDB
15 21 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.16%) AI Agents
17 19 (1.10%) Public Cloud
18 18 (1.04%) FMCG
19 16 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 200 (11.60%) Windows
2 95 (5.51%) Linux
3 84 (4.87%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.91%) Unix
6 19 (1.10%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.58%) Solaris
7 10 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.58%) VMS
8 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.35%) AIX
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.35%) SUSE
11 5 (0.29%) HPUX
11 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.17%) Android
12 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.12%) CentOS
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (37.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 445 (25.81%) Agile
3 410 (23.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 395 (22.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 333 (19.32%) ITIL
6 318 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
7 303 (17.58%) Project Management
8 273 (15.84%) Project Delivery
9 254 (14.73%) Migration
10 218 (12.65%) Roadmaps
11 213 (12.35%) DevOps
12 202 (11.72%) Decision-Making
13 197 (11.43%) Service Management
14 189 (10.96%) AI
15 183 (10.61%) ERP
16 180 (10.44%) ITSM
17 161 (9.34%) PRINCE2
18 152 (8.82%) Risk Management
19 151 (8.76%) Analytics
20 147 (8.53%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 142 (8.24%) SQL
2 140 (8.12%) Python
3 130 (7.54%) PowerShell
4 65 (3.77%) Bash
5 46 (2.67%) PL/SQL
6 44 (2.55%) Java
7 42 (2.44%) C#
7 42 (2.44%) JavaScript
8 24 (1.39%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.33%) Bicep
10 14 (0.81%) Korn
11 12 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.52%) Groovy
13 8 (0.46%) Go
14 6 (0.35%) VBScript
15 5 (0.29%) COBOL
16 4 (0.23%) JCL
16 4 (0.23%) Perl
17 3 (0.17%) ABAP
17 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 352 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 251 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 204 (11.83%) Degree
4 145 (8.41%) PMP
5 131 (7.60%) PMI Certification
6 72 (4.18%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.42%) CISSP
8 54 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (2.20%) CCNP
10 33 (1.91%) CISM
11 28 (1.62%) APMG
12 27 (1.57%) Azure Certification
13 24 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
14 23 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
16 21 (1.22%) CCNA
16 21 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 20 (1.16%) ACCA
17 20 (1.16%) CIMA
18 19 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.10%) QA
2 84 (4.87%) PMO
3 81 (4.70%) SLA
4 72 (4.18%) Data Quality
5 65 (3.77%) GDPR
6 55 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (2.44%) NIST
8 30 (1.74%) GRC
9 21 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.22%) SOC 2
10 17 (0.99%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.64%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.58%) ITGC
13 7 (0.41%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.41%) COBIT
13 7 (0.41%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.35%) GMP
15 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 124 (7.19%) Active Directory
2 79 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (2.20%) Docker
4 25 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.16%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.81%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.75%) vCloud
10 9 (0.52%) vSphere
11 7 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.058%) Ceph
13 1 (0.058%) Firmware
13 1 (0.058%) KVM
13 1 (0.058%) NFS
13 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.058%) Squid
Systems Management
1 63 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.42%) Ansible
3 38 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (2.03%) vCenter Server
5 27 (1.57%) SCOM
6 23 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.28%) Grafana
8 21 (1.22%) Prometheus
9 17 (0.99%) SCCM
10 16 (0.93%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.70%) Avamar
12 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.41%) vRealize
13 7 (0.41%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.35%) Argo
14 6 (0.35%) CASB
14 6 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
15 5 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 329 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 189 (10.96%) ServiceNow
3 158 (9.16%) Oracle
4 130 (7.54%) SAP
5 100 (5.80%) VMware
6 73 (4.23%) Cisco
7 64 (3.71%) Salesforce
8 49 (2.84%) Google
9 33 (1.91%) Splunk
10 32 (1.86%) IBM
11 30 (1.74%) Red Hat
12 27 (1.57%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.39%) Citrix
13 24 (1.39%) IFS
14 23 (1.33%) CheckPoint
15 22 (1.28%) Remedy
16 20 (1.16%) Juniper
16 20 (1.16%) Palo Alto
17 19 (1.10%) F5
17 19 (1.10%) Workday