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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 50 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,711 1,221 1,443
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 4.47% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.93% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 757 880
10th Percentile £363 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £625
90th Percentile £712 £726 £715
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £504
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.73% -8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 55 68
10th Percentile £19.36 £22.35 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £23.13 £30.29
Median hourly rate £37.43 £37.28 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -28.99% +7.15%
75th Percentile £74.20 £69.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £86.83 £70.93 £67.91
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -23.00% - +2.67%

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 38,320 24,760 31,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,128 15,919 20,389
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,284 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -2 786 £525 -4.55% 387
North of England -18 304 £479 +6.33% 114
South East -5 251 £575 +17.59% 159
North West -14 174 £458 +4.03% 74
Midlands -17 170 £513 +7.89% 72
West Midlands -36 123 £515 +8.42% 48
Yorkshire -25 113 £500 +11.11% 31
South West -10 94 £519 +5.87% 119
East of England -6 78 £475 -5.00% 25
East Midlands +15 45 £500 +39.28% 24
North East -19 17 £425 -15.00% 11
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 (5.49%) Confluence
2 84 (4.91%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.99%) IIS
5 14 (0.82%) SAS
6 10 (0.58%) Appian
6 10 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.47%) CMS
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.18%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) CICS
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.058%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.058%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 61 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.058%) Houdini
9 1 (0.058%) InDesign
9 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.058%) NUKE
9 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 67 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.47%) Maximo
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.41%) Primavera
6 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
7 6 (0.35%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 242 (14.14%) Azure
2 130 (7.60%) AWS
3 97 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (5.20%) Power Platform
5 81 (4.73%) Entra ID
6 73 (4.27%) SaaS
7 61 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (2.98%) GCP
9 31 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.81%) Google Workspace
10 27 (1.58%) GitHub
11 25 (1.46%) OCI
12 23 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
12 23 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (1.23%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 19 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (1.05%) PaaS
16 18 (1.05%) Serverless
17 15 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.43%) Firewall
2 80 (4.68%) Network Security
3 49 (2.86%) WAN
4 47 (2.75%) DNS
5 43 (2.51%) VPN
6 35 (2.05%) LAN
7 25 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (1.46%) Wireless
8 24 (1.40%) BGP
9 23 (1.34%) SD-WAN
10 21 (1.23%) OSPF
11 20 (1.17%) TCP/IP
12 19 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (0.99%) DHCP
13 17 (0.99%) SSL
14 16 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (0.82%) MPLS
16 12 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (0.70%) Internet
17 11 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.09%) Power BI
2 52 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.81%) Metadata
4 27 (1.58%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.70%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.58%) Tableau
10 9 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.35%) Db2
12 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
12 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 209 (12.22%) JIRA
2 60 (3.51%) Git
3 51 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.58%) GitLab
6 7 (0.41%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.41%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.29%) MLflow
8 5 (0.29%) Selenium
9 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.23%) Hudson
9 4 (0.23%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.23%) Liquibase
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
10 3 (0.18%) Snyk
10 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 648 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 636 (37.17%) Finance
3 281 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 147 (8.59%) Banking
6 91 (5.32%) Legal
7 82 (4.79%) Retail
8 71 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
9 69 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
10 53 (3.10%) Marketing
11 48 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (2.51%) Manufacturing
14 40 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 39 (2.28%) Law
16 37 (2.16%) Local Government
17 26 (1.52%) Aviation
17 26 (1.52%) Financial Institution
18 18 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 15 (0.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 197 (11.51%) Project Manager
2 182 (10.64%) Lead
3 165 (9.64%) Analyst
4 135 (7.89%) Change Manager
5 122 (7.13%) Senior
6 109 (6.37%) Consultant
7 93 (5.44%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.51%) Programme Manager
9 56 (3.27%) Administrator
9 56 (3.27%) Senior Manager
10 48 (2.81%) Developer
11 45 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
12 44 (2.57%) Business Manager
13 43 (2.51%) IT Manager
14 42 (2.45%) Network Engineer
14 42 (2.45%) Support Engineer
15 40 (2.34%) Service Manager
16 37 (2.16%) Architect
17 35 (2.05%) Business Change Manager
18 32 (1.87%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.33%) REST
2 37 (2.16%) .NET
3 35 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.34%) CSS
4 23 (1.34%) HTML
5 20 (1.17%) .NET Framework
5 20 (1.17%) OAuth
6 17 (0.99%) Middleware
7 15 (0.88%) Web Services
8 14 (0.82%) LDAP
9 13 (0.76%) Ajax
9 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
9 13 (0.76%) RESTful
10 12 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (0.70%) SOAP
11 11 (0.64%) React
12 10 (0.58%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.53%) OAuth2
13 9 (0.53%) OpenID
13 9 (0.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.73%) Management Information System
2 75 (4.38%) Data Centre
3 71 (4.15%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.62%) Product Ownership
5 49 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 46 (2.69%) Cloud Native
7 32 (1.87%) PMI
8 30 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.64%) CMDB
9 28 (1.64%) Operational Technology
10 25 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 22 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 22 (1.29%) PKI
12 21 (1.23%) Security Posture
13 20 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (1.05%) Public Cloud
15 15 (0.88%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 176 (10.29%) Windows
2 86 (5.03%) Linux
3 65 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (1.99%) Unix
6 18 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.58%) Solaris
7 10 (0.58%) VMS
8 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.35%) AIX
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.35%) SUSE
10 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.29%) HPUX
11 5 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.18%) Android
13 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.12%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (33.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 436 (25.48%) Agile
3 406 (23.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 368 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 334 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
6 314 (18.35%) ITIL
7 298 (17.42%) Project Management
8 268 (15.66%) Migration
9 234 (13.68%) Project Delivery
10 227 (13.27%) DevOps
11 197 (11.51%) Roadmaps
12 194 (11.34%) Decision-Making
13 188 (10.99%) ERP
14 168 (9.82%) AI
15 165 (9.64%) Risk Management
16 158 (9.23%) ITSM
16 158 (9.23%) Service Management
17 142 (8.30%) CI/CD
18 141 (8.24%) PRINCE2
19 138 (8.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 154 (9.00%) SQL
2 123 (7.19%) Python
3 109 (6.37%) PowerShell
4 48 (2.81%) C#
5 46 (2.69%) PL/SQL
6 43 (2.51%) Bash
7 40 (2.34%) Java
8 38 (2.22%) JavaScript
9 24 (1.40%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.64%) Korn
11 10 (0.58%) Groovy
12 8 (0.47%) Go
12 8 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.41%) Bicep
13 7 (0.41%) COBOL
14 6 (0.35%) JCL
15 5 (0.29%) Perl
16 4 (0.23%) ABAP
16 4 (0.23%) REXX
17 3 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 346 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 249 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 195 (11.40%) Degree
4 134 (7.83%) PMP
5 122 (7.13%) PMI Certification
6 60 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 54 (3.16%) CISSP
8 51 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (2.05%) CCNP
10 33 (1.93%) CISM
11 27 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (1.40%) APMG
12 24 (1.40%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.29%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.23%) ACCA
14 21 (1.23%) CIMA
15 20 (1.17%) CCNA
15 20 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
16 15 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.44%) QA
2 83 (4.85%) PMO
3 81 (4.73%) GDPR
4 80 (4.68%) SLA
5 72 (4.21%) Data Quality
6 65 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (2.51%) NIST
8 24 (1.40%) GRC
8 24 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.34%) SOC 2
10 20 (1.17%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.64%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.58%) IFRS
13 9 (0.53%) ITGC
14 8 (0.47%) IFRS 17
15 7 (0.41%) Accessibility
16 6 (0.35%) COBIT
16 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.29%) GMP
System Software
1 117 (6.84%) Active Directory
2 62 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.63%) Docker
4 21 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.53%) vSphere
8 8 (0.47%) vCloud
9 6 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.23%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.12%) ACF2
12 2 (0.12%) RACF
12 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.058%) Firmware
13 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.058%) NFS
13 1 (0.058%) Squid
Systems Management
1 83 (4.85%) Terraform
2 65 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 59 (3.45%) Ansible
4 27 (1.58%) vCenter Server
5 26 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (1.29%) Grafana
7 21 (1.23%) SCOM
7 21 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.17%) Prometheus
9 15 (0.88%) SCCM
10 12 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.58%) Avamar
12 8 (0.47%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.41%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.41%) PowerCLI
13 7 (0.41%) vRealize
14 6 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.35%) Argo
14 6 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 282 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 190 (11.10%) ServiceNow
3 165 (9.64%) Oracle
4 150 (8.77%) SAP
5 79 (4.62%) VMware
6 64 (3.74%) Cisco
6 64 (3.74%) Salesforce
7 53 (3.10%) Google
8 33 (1.93%) Citrix
9 31 (1.81%) Splunk
10 27 (1.58%) IBM
11 25 (1.46%) IFS
11 25 (1.46%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.34%) CheckPoint
13 19 (1.11%) F5
13 19 (1.11%) Juniper
13 19 (1.11%) Remedy
13 19 (1.11%) Workday
14 17 (0.99%) Fortinet
15 16 (0.94%) Palo Alto