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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 46 44
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,545 1,136 1,588
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.28% 4.51% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 4.98% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 689 1,019
10th Percentile £313 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £644
90th Percentile £688 £713 £706
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 29 60
10th Percentile £20.88 £25.30 £15.13
25th Percentile £22.63 £31.76 £25.19
Median hourly rate £41.86 £54.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +45.24% -22.54%
75th Percentile £50.74 £68.75 £59.94
90th Percentile £83.68 £74.00 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -26.24% +52.62% -19.27%

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 31,372 22,802 33,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.81% 90.52% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,079 14,552 21,849
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,949 811 2,155
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +6.15% -7.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.58
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.82
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -12.31% +1.20% -8.24%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -18 637 £525 - 201
North of England -13 295 £465 -2.11% 102
Midlands +2 244 £500 - 77
South East +4 199 £500 - 179
North West +6 189 £414 -8.00% 59
West Midlands -2 168 £502 -2.34% 55
South West +17 114 £525 - 39
Yorkshire -29 102 £488 -2.50% 32
East Midlands +22 76 £425 +20.06% 22
East of England -25 54 £475 -2.51% 57
North East -19 4 £475 -17.39% 13
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
1 104 (6.73%) Confluence
2 74 (4.79%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.65%) SAS
5 9 (0.58%) Appian
6 6 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.32%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.32%) IIS
8 4 (0.26%) CMS
9 3 (0.19%) Mattermost
9 3 (0.19%) Moodle
10 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.065%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.065%) JBoss
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.065%) Traefik
Applications
1 83 (5.37%) Microsoft Project
2 75 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 37 (2.39%) MS Visio
5 32 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.32%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.26%) Trello
7 4 (0.26%) Windchill
8 1 (0.065%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.065%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.065%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.065%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 59 (3.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 11 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.45%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.32%) Finacle
6 5 (0.32%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.32%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.19%) iTrent
7 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.19%) Primavera
8 2 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 243 (15.73%) Azure
2 143 (9.26%) AWS
3 105 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
4 97 (6.28%) GCP
5 83 (5.37%) Power Platform
6 54 (3.50%) Entra ID
7 52 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (3.17%) SaaS
9 25 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (1.42%) Power Automate
10 22 (1.42%) Serverless
11 21 (1.36%) Google Workspace
11 21 (1.36%) PaaS
12 19 (1.23%) Google Sheets
12 19 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (1.23%) OpenShift
13 18 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (1.10%) IaaS
15 16 (1.04%) GitHub
16 15 (0.97%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.83%) Firewall
2 61 (3.95%) Network Security
3 56 (3.62%) DNS
4 48 (3.11%) VPN
5 46 (2.98%) WAN
6 34 (2.20%) LAN
7 25 (1.62%) DHCP
8 23 (1.49%) SD-WAN
8 23 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (1.42%) TCP/IP
10 18 (1.17%) SSL
11 17 (1.10%) BGP
12 15 (0.97%) OSPF
13 13 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (0.84%) Kerberos
13 13 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
13 13 (0.84%) Wireless
14 12 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.78%) Internet
15 11 (0.71%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.40%) Power BI
2 48 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.42%) Metadata
3 22 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.23%) Tableau
5 17 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.97%) Oracle Database
7 13 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (0.78%) NoSQL
8 12 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.65%) MySQL
11 8 (0.52%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.52%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.39%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.32%) Big Data
14 4 (0.26%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 184 (11.91%) JIRA
2 47 (3.04%) Jenkins
3 32 (2.07%) Git
4 23 (1.49%) GitLab
5 21 (1.36%) Liquibase
6 12 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.52%) MLflow
8 4 (0.26%) JUnit
8 4 (0.26%) Maven
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.13%) git-flow
10 2 (0.13%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.13%) Mockito
10 2 (0.13%) MSI
10 2 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.065%) InstallShield
11 1 (0.065%) TestDirector
11 1 (0.065%) Toad
General
1 683 (44.21%) Social Skills
2 506 (32.75%) Finance
3 291 (18.83%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.51%) Public Sector
5 136 (8.80%) Banking
6 71 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
7 59 (3.82%) Legal
8 52 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
9 51 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (2.91%) Retail
11 40 (2.59%) Manufacturing
12 36 (2.33%) Local Government
13 33 (2.14%) Telecoms
14 31 (2.01%) Marketing
14 31 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
15 30 (1.94%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.88%) Law
17 19 (1.23%) Investment Banking
18 16 (1.04%) Publishing
18 16 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 196 (12.69%) Analyst
2 191 (12.36%) Project Manager
3 167 (10.81%) Lead
4 131 (8.48%) Change Manager
5 110 (7.12%) Business Analyst
6 109 (7.06%) Senior
7 96 (6.21%) Consultant
8 51 (3.30%) Business Manager
9 50 (3.24%) Administrator
9 50 (3.24%) Programme Manager
10 49 (3.17%) Developer
11 47 (3.04%) Architect
12 39 (2.52%) Senior Manager
13 37 (2.39%) Business Change Manager
14 34 (2.20%) Service Manager
15 33 (2.14%) SAP Manager
16 32 (2.07%) IT Manager
17 31 (2.01%) Delivery Manager
18 28 (1.81%) Network Engineer
19 26 (1.68%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.75%) REST
2 32 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (1.88%) .NET
4 24 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.55%) RESTful
5 22 (1.42%) OAuth
6 21 (1.36%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.23%) SAML
8 15 (0.97%) Middleware
8 15 (0.97%) Web Services
9 14 (0.91%) OpenID
10 13 (0.84%) LDAP
11 12 (0.78%) CSS
12 11 (0.71%) HTML
13 10 (0.65%) ISPF
13 10 (0.65%) pytest
13 10 (0.65%) SOAP
14 9 (0.58%) Django
14 9 (0.58%) NumPy
14 9 (0.58%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.70%) Management Information System
2 81 (5.24%) Onboarding
3 68 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 42 (2.72%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.65%) CMDB
7 35 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 32 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (2.01%) PKI
10 28 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.81%) PMI
11 24 (1.55%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.42%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (0.97%) e-Learning
16 15 (0.97%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.84%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 155 (10.03%) Windows
2 65 (4.21%) Linux
3 50 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.33%) Unix
5 33 (2.14%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.26%) CentOS
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.19%) VMS
11 2 (0.13%) Android
11 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.065%) AIX
12 1 (0.065%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.065%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (32.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 387 (25.05%) Agile
3 374 (24.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 335 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
5 304 (19.68%) ITIL
6 286 (18.51%) Project Management
7 281 (18.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 251 (16.25%) Migration
9 213 (13.79%) DevOps
10 174 (11.26%) Project Delivery
11 154 (9.97%) ITSM
12 143 (9.26%) Service Management
13 139 (9.00%) ERP
14 138 (8.93%) Risk Management
14 138 (8.93%) Roadmaps
15 137 (8.87%) PRINCE2
16 135 (8.74%) Decision-Making
17 128 (8.28%) Validation
18 125 (8.09%) CI/CD
19 123 (7.96%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 154 (9.97%) SQL
2 131 (8.48%) Python
3 97 (6.28%) PowerShell
4 41 (2.65%) C#
5 39 (2.52%) Bash
6 25 (1.62%) Java
7 22 (1.42%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.36%) Go
8 21 (1.36%) JavaScript
9 17 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.65%) CLIST
11 10 (0.65%) COBOL
11 10 (0.65%) JCL
11 10 (0.65%) REXX
12 5 (0.32%) Groovy
12 5 (0.32%) Korn
13 4 (0.26%) Perl
13 4 (0.26%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.19%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 316 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 259 (16.76%) Degree
3 221 (14.30%) SC Cleared
4 96 (6.21%) PMI Certification
5 89 (5.76%) PMP
6 50 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (3.11%) Master's Degree
8 45 (2.91%) DV Cleared
9 44 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (2.01%) CISSP
11 28 (1.81%) CISM
12 27 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
12 27 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 23 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (1.29%) APMG
14 20 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (0.97%) Azure Certification
15 15 (0.97%) CCNP
16 13 (0.84%) MBA
17 11 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (6.28%) QA
2 72 (4.66%) GDPR
3 67 (4.34%) Data Quality
4 60 (3.88%) PMO
5 52 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (3.11%) SLA
7 22 (1.42%) NIST
8 16 (1.04%) IFRS
8 16 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.97%) IFRS 17
10 12 (0.78%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.65%) Basel III
11 10 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.52%) MiFID
12 8 (0.52%) NCSC
13 7 (0.45%) GRC
14 5 (0.32%) EMIR
15 4 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 67 (4.34%) Docker
3 35 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.65%) ACF2
5 10 (0.65%) RACF
5 10 (0.65%) Time Sharing Option
6 9 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.52%) Firmware
7 8 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.32%) KVM
9 5 (0.32%) vSphere
9 5 (0.32%) XenApp
9 5 (0.32%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.13%) NFS
10 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.065%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 87 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 62 (4.01%) Terraform
3 55 (3.56%) Ansible
4 35 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.88%) Grafana
6 28 (1.81%) SCCM
7 27 (1.75%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.97%) Puppet
9 14 (0.91%) vCenter Server
10 12 (0.78%) Kibana
11 10 (0.65%) CA Endevor
11 10 (0.65%) SCOM
12 9 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.58%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 8 (0.52%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.32%) PowerCLI
15 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.32%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 279 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 147 (9.51%) SAP
3 144 (9.32%) ServiceNow
4 110 (7.12%) Oracle
5 70 (4.53%) Google
6 56 (3.62%) Cisco
7 55 (3.56%) Salesforce
7 55 (3.56%) VMware
8 37 (2.39%) Splunk
9 36 (2.33%) Citrix
10 29 (1.88%) Workday
11 25 (1.62%) F5
12 21 (1.36%) Atlassian
13 19 (1.23%) Juniper
14 17 (1.10%) CheckPoint
14 17 (1.10%) Remedy
15 15 (0.97%) Adobe
15 15 (0.97%) Sage
16 14 (0.91%) Fortinet
16 14 (0.91%) SolarWinds