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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 46 42
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,422 1,311 1,805
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.64% 4.22% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 4.83% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 720 1,138
10th Percentile £317 £350 £374
25th Percentile £406 £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 £738 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 26 35
10th Percentile £20.79 £25.03 £21.09
25th Percentile £22.63 £30.61 £24.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £49.04 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% +13.18% +35.41%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.36 £55.08
90th Percentile £70.16 £73.00 £61.63
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £44.08 £41.67
% change year-on-year -31.94% +5.80% +24.37%

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 27,581 27,123 34,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.93% 87.40% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,503 16,556 23,537
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,803 997 1,447
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.62
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.26 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 26 November 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 26 November 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 26 November 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 -11 610 £525 -4.55% 225
North of England -17 260 £450 -14.29% 143
Midlands +12 206 £475 -9.52% 86
South East +9 185 £500 -4.31% 197
North West -3 175 £438 -15.87% 80
West Midlands +5 151 £475 -9.52% 48
South West +26 111 £529 -1.17% 39
Yorkshire -32 81 £500 -4.76% 48
East Midlands +25 55 £425 - 36
East of England -14 42 £523 +10.00% 48
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
1 126 (8.86%) Confluence
2 77 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.84%) nginx
5 9 (0.63%) CMS
6 6 (0.42%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.42%) IIS
6 6 (0.42%) JBoss
6 6 (0.42%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.42%) Mule
6 6 (0.42%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.28%) CICS
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.14%) Moodle
9 1 (0.070%) FileNet
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.070%) Traefik
9 1 (0.070%) WebLogic
Applications
1 93 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (2.74%) MS Visio
5 34 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.42%) Trello
7 6 (0.42%) Windchill
8 5 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.070%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.070%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.070%) Notion
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.070%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 44 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.56%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.35%) Maximo
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.35%) SAP APO
8 5 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.21%) Kondor
10 3 (0.21%) ResourceLink
10 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 150 (10.55%) Azure
2 132 (9.28%) AWS
3 91 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (5.91%) GCP
5 75 (5.27%) Power Platform
6 50 (3.52%) SaaS
7 34 (2.39%) AWS KMS
8 33 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (2.18%) Amazon S3
9 31 (2.18%) Serverless
10 26 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (1.83%) Entra ID
10 26 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (1.69%) Amazon ELB
13 21 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
14 18 (1.27%) GitHub
15 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (1.05%) Power Automate
15 15 (1.05%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 102 (7.17%) Firewall
2 77 (5.41%) DNS
3 58 (4.08%) Network Security
4 43 (3.02%) WAN
5 37 (2.60%) VPN
6 34 (2.39%) SSH
7 29 (2.04%) HTTP
8 27 (1.90%) LAN
9 26 (1.83%) SMTP
10 22 (1.55%) DHCP
10 22 (1.55%) FTP
11 21 (1.48%) Wireless
12 17 (1.20%) SD-WAN
13 15 (1.05%) SSL
13 15 (1.05%) TCP/IP
14 14 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
15 13 (0.91%) IPsec
16 12 (0.84%) BGP
16 12 (0.84%) IMAP
16 12 (0.84%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (4.43%) Power BI
2 37 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 24 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 22 (1.55%) Metadata
7 20 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (1.34%) Tableau
9 16 (1.13%) Oracle Database
10 11 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.63%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.49%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.49%) MySQL
12 7 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.35%) Big Data
14 5 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.28%) Redis
16 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 185 (13.01%) JIRA
2 81 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 43 (3.02%) Git
4 29 (2.04%) Liquibase
5 27 (1.90%) GitLab
6 24 (1.69%) Vagrant
7 12 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.42%) MSI
9 4 (0.28%) ChangeMan
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.21%) CA Release Automation
10 3 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 606 (42.62%) Social Skills
2 475 (33.40%) Finance
3 246 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (10.55%) Banking
5 123 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 67 (4.71%) Manufacturing
7 65 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
8 51 (3.59%) Legal
9 46 (3.23%) Telecoms
10 44 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
12 37 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
12 37 (2.60%) Financial Institution
13 31 (2.18%) Marketing
14 30 (2.11%) Retail
15 29 (2.04%) Law
16 25 (1.76%) Local Government
16 25 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
17 24 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (1.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 228 (16.03%) Analyst
2 184 (12.94%) Project Manager
3 142 (9.99%) Lead
4 118 (8.30%) Business Analyst
5 100 (7.03%) Change Manager
6 82 (5.77%) Consultant
7 79 (5.56%) Senior
8 58 (4.08%) Administrator
9 49 (3.45%) Developer
10 46 (3.23%) IT Manager
11 42 (2.95%) Programme Manager
12 40 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
13 39 (2.74%) Architect
14 37 (2.60%) Service Manager
15 35 (2.46%) AWS Engineer
15 35 (2.46%) Senior Manager
16 31 (2.18%) Business Manager
16 31 (2.18%) SAP Manager
16 31 (2.18%) Service Analyst
17 29 (2.04%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (3.16%) REST
2 40 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (1.90%) RESTful
4 24 (1.69%) .NET
5 22 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (1.20%) LDAP
7 14 (0.98%) SAML
8 11 (0.77%) .NET Framework
9 10 (0.70%) 802.1X
9 10 (0.70%) OAuth
9 10 (0.70%) OpenID
10 9 (0.63%) HTML
10 9 (0.63%) SOAP
11 8 (0.56%) ISPF
11 8 (0.56%) Kafka
12 7 (0.49%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.42%) CSS
13 6 (0.42%) XML
14 5 (0.35%) Middleware
14 5 (0.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 78 (5.49%) Onboarding
2 75 (5.27%) Management Information System
3 46 (3.23%) Virtual Team
4 45 (3.16%) Data Centre
5 43 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 37 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 33 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
8 32 (2.25%) Replication
9 31 (2.18%) PKI
10 28 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.76%) Life Science
13 24 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 24 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.55%) CMDB
15 18 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (0.98%) Mainframe
16 14 (0.98%) PMI
17 13 (0.91%) Tandem
18 12 (0.84%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.55%) Windows
2 98 (6.89%) Linux
3 36 (2.53%) Unix
4 32 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.83%) VMS
6 24 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
7 23 (1.62%) Windows 10
8 15 (1.05%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.42%) CentOS
11 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.28%) zOS
12 2 (0.14%) AIX
12 2 (0.14%) Android
12 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.070%) Debian
13 1 (0.070%) Solaris
13 1 (0.070%) SUSE
13 1 (0.070%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (27.29%) Agile
2 368 (25.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 311 (21.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 302 (21.24%) Project Management
5 287 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
6 272 (19.13%) ITIL
7 203 (14.28%) Project Delivery
8 191 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 187 (13.15%) DevOps
10 183 (12.87%) Migration
11 159 (11.18%) Service Management
12 128 (9.00%) PRINCE2
13 122 (8.58%) ITSM
13 122 (8.58%) Risk Management
14 121 (8.51%) Roadmaps
15 119 (8.37%) Decision-Making
15 119 (8.37%) ERP
16 109 (7.67%) Cybersecurity
17 107 (7.52%) CI/CD
18 102 (7.17%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 137 (9.63%) Python
2 120 (8.44%) SQL
3 92 (6.47%) PowerShell
4 45 (3.16%) Java
5 32 (2.25%) C#
6 31 (2.18%) Go
7 28 (1.97%) Groovy
8 21 (1.48%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.41%) Perl
9 20 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.34%) Bash
11 10 (0.70%) COBOL
11 10 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.63%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.56%) CLIST
13 8 (0.56%) JCL
13 8 (0.56%) REXX
14 7 (0.49%) Korn
15 4 (0.28%) LotusScript
15 4 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 269 (18.92%) Degree
2 262 (18.42%) Security Cleared
3 191 (13.43%) SC Cleared
4 80 (5.63%) PMI Certification
5 74 (5.20%) PMP
6 69 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (3.02%) Master's Degree
8 37 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (2.32%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (1.55%) AWS Certification
13 20 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
15 18 (1.27%) APMG
16 16 (1.13%) CCNP
17 12 (0.84%) Azure Certification
17 12 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 11 (0.77%) CCNA
19 10 (0.70%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (4.99%) QA
2 67 (4.71%) PMO
3 48 (3.38%) GDPR
4 37 (2.60%) SLA
5 34 (2.39%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.13%) NIST
8 14 (0.98%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.91%) MiFID
10 11 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.70%) EMIR
11 10 (0.70%) NCSC
11 10 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.35%) IFRS
13 5 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.28%) GMP
15 3 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 92 (6.47%) Active Directory
2 66 (4.64%) Docker
3 22 (1.55%) DFS Replication
4 18 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.84%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.84%) Postfix
5 12 (0.84%) Squid
6 9 (0.63%) Firmware
7 8 (0.56%) ACF2
7 8 (0.56%) RACF
7 8 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.49%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.42%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.21%) vSphere
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.070%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 74 (5.20%) Terraform
2 53 (3.73%) Grafana
3 52 (3.66%) Prometheus
4 49 (3.45%) Kubernetes
5 42 (2.95%) Ansible
6 27 (1.90%) SCCM
7 20 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.91%) Nessus
9 12 (0.84%) CA Endevor
10 11 (0.77%) Kibana
11 10 (0.70%) Proxmox
11 10 (0.70%) SCOM
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
14 6 (0.42%) HP SiteScope
14 6 (0.42%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 290 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 130 (9.14%) SAP
3 121 (8.51%) ServiceNow
4 96 (6.75%) Oracle
5 60 (4.22%) Cisco
6 54 (3.80%) Google
7 48 (3.38%) Salesforce
8 44 (3.09%) Splunk
9 30 (2.11%) VMware
10 28 (1.97%) Workday
11 26 (1.83%) Remedy
12 25 (1.76%) F5
13 24 (1.69%) Juniper
14 23 (1.62%) Atlassian
15 19 (1.34%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.27%) Fortinet
17 17 (1.20%) IBM
18 15 (1.05%) Citrix
19 12 (0.84%) CyberArk
19 12 (0.84%) Jaspersoft