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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 47 39
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,416 1,280 1,835
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.66% 4.15% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 4.78% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 692 1,161
10th Percentile £322 £350 £363
25th Percentile £408 £442 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £650
90th Percentile £713 £737 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% +3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 26 37
10th Percentile £20.79 £26.42 £19.10
25th Percentile £22.63 £34.20 £23.43
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.82% +58.21% +2.19%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.95 £54.56
90th Percentile £70.16 £63.80 £57.14
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £49.04 £39.02
% change year-on-year -38.83% +25.68% +11.49%

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 27,423 26,780 34,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.24% 86.85% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,402 16,344 23,845
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,814 958 1,475
10th Percentile £14.81 £15.10 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.79 £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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -11 609 £540 -1.82% 431
North of England -17 255 £450 -14.29% 156
Midlands +16 206 £475 -6.17% 100
South East +5 181 £500 - 209
North West -1 174 £437 -16.71% 95
West Midlands +10 153 £475 -8.43% 49
South West +30 113 £533 +6.50% 62
Yorkshire -40 77 £500 -9.09% 51
East Midlands +19 53 £438 - 50
East of England -16 43 £525 +40.75% 59
North East -17 3 £475 -5.00% 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
1 126 (8.90%) Confluence
2 74 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.85%) nginx
5 9 (0.64%) CMS
6 7 (0.49%) IIS
7 6 (0.42%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.42%) JBoss
7 6 (0.42%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.42%) Mule
7 6 (0.42%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.28%) CICS
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.071%) FileNet
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.071%) Traefik
10 1 (0.071%) WebLogic
Applications
1 93 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (5.01%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (2.75%) MS Visio
5 35 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.42%) Trello
7 6 (0.42%) Windchill
8 5 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.071%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.071%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.071%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.071%) Notion
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.071%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 44 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.35%) Maximo
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.35%) SAP APO
6 5 (0.35%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 4 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
7 4 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.21%) iTrent
8 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 144 (10.17%) Azure
2 129 (9.11%) AWS
3 90 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (5.65%) GCP
5 71 (5.01%) Power Platform
6 45 (3.18%) SaaS
7 34 (2.40%) AWS KMS
8 32 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (2.19%) Amazon S3
9 31 (2.19%) Serverless
10 26 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (1.69%) Amazon ELB
12 24 (1.69%) Entra ID
13 19 (1.34%) GitHub
14 16 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
17 13 (0.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 100 (7.06%) Firewall
2 74 (5.23%) DNS
3 55 (3.88%) Network Security
4 41 (2.90%) WAN
5 34 (2.40%) SSH
6 32 (2.26%) VPN
7 29 (2.05%) HTTP
8 27 (1.91%) LAN
9 26 (1.84%) SMTP
10 23 (1.62%) FTP
11 21 (1.48%) DHCP
12 20 (1.41%) Wireless
13 16 (1.13%) SD-WAN
14 15 (1.06%) SSL
15 14 (0.99%) Cisco IOS
15 14 (0.99%) TCP/IP
16 13 (0.92%) IPsec
17 12 (0.85%) BGP
17 12 (0.85%) IMAP
17 12 (0.85%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.17%) Power BI
2 37 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (1.84%) SQL Server
5 24 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 22 (1.55%) Metadata
7 20 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 17 (1.20%) Tableau
9 16 (1.13%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.64%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.49%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.49%) MySQL
13 6 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.35%) Big Data
14 5 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (0.28%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 184 (12.99%) JIRA
2 81 (5.72%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.11%) Git
4 28 (1.98%) Liquibase
5 27 (1.91%) GitLab
6 24 (1.69%) Vagrant
7 13 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.42%) MSI
8 6 (0.42%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.28%) ChangeMan
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
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%) JUnit
10 3 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 605 (42.73%) Social Skills
2 475 (33.55%) Finance
3 238 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (10.59%) Banking
5 116 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 66 (4.66%) Manufacturing
7 64 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
8 50 (3.53%) Legal
9 47 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
9 47 (3.32%) Telecoms
10 41 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (2.54%) Financial Institution
13 33 (2.33%) Marketing
14 30 (2.12%) Retail
15 29 (2.05%) Law
16 27 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 27 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (1.77%) Local Government
18 19 (1.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 228 (16.10%) Analyst
2 185 (13.06%) Project Manager
3 141 (9.96%) Lead
4 121 (8.55%) Business Analyst
5 100 (7.06%) Change Manager
6 83 (5.86%) Consultant
7 74 (5.23%) Senior
8 59 (4.17%) Administrator
9 47 (3.32%) IT Manager
10 46 (3.25%) Developer
11 44 (3.11%) Programme Manager
12 40 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
13 39 (2.75%) Service Manager
14 37 (2.61%) Architect
15 36 (2.54%) AWS Engineer
16 31 (2.19%) Service Analyst
17 30 (2.12%) Delivery Manager
17 30 (2.12%) SAP Manager
17 30 (2.12%) Senior Manager
18 29 (2.05%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.11%) REST
2 39 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (1.98%) RESTful
4 23 (1.62%) .NET
5 22 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (1.20%) LDAP
7 14 (0.99%) SAML
8 11 (0.78%) .NET Framework
9 10 (0.71%) 802.1X
9 10 (0.71%) HTML
9 10 (0.71%) OAuth
9 10 (0.71%) OpenID
10 9 (0.64%) SOAP
11 8 (0.56%) ISPF
11 8 (0.56%) Kafka
12 7 (0.49%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.49%) CSS
13 6 (0.42%) XML
14 5 (0.35%) Middleware
14 5 (0.35%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 74 (5.23%) Onboarding
2 70 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 47 (3.32%) Virtual Team
4 44 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 42 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 32 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (2.26%) Replication
8 31 (2.19%) PKI
9 26 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 26 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.77%) Life Science
11 24 (1.69%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.55%) CMDB
12 22 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (0.99%) PMI
15 13 (0.92%) Mainframe
15 13 (0.92%) Tandem
16 12 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 149 (10.52%) Windows
2 98 (6.92%) Linux
3 35 (2.47%) Unix
4 33 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.84%) VMS
6 24 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
7 22 (1.55%) Windows 10
8 15 (1.06%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.78%) 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 (0.071%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.071%) Solaris
13 1 (0.071%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (27.47%) Agile
2 366 (25.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 304 (21.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 302 (21.33%) Project Management
5 285 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
6 270 (19.07%) ITIL
7 202 (14.27%) Project Delivery
8 186 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 186 (13.14%) DevOps
9 182 (12.85%) Migration
10 158 (11.16%) Service Management
11 128 (9.04%) Risk Management
12 126 (8.90%) PRINCE2
13 120 (8.47%) ITSM
14 117 (8.26%) ERP
15 114 (8.05%) Roadmaps
16 113 (7.98%) Decision-Making
17 111 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
18 106 (7.49%) CI/CD
19 104 (7.34%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 135 (9.53%) Python
2 120 (8.47%) SQL
3 91 (6.43%) PowerShell
4 46 (3.25%) Java
5 32 (2.26%) C#
6 30 (2.12%) Go
7 28 (1.98%) Groovy
8 22 (1.55%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.41%) Perl
10 19 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.27%) Bash
12 10 (0.71%) COBOL
13 9 (0.64%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.56%) CLIST
14 8 (0.56%) JCL
14 8 (0.56%) REXX
15 7 (0.49%) Korn
16 5 (0.35%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 267 (18.86%) Degree
2 256 (18.08%) Security Cleared
3 187 (13.21%) SC Cleared
4 77 (5.44%) PMI Certification
5 72 (5.08%) PMP
6 69 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (2.82%) Master's Degree
8 35 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.40%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (1.55%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 17 (1.20%) APMG
14 17 (1.20%) 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
17 10 (0.71%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.87%) QA
2 64 (4.52%) PMO
3 48 (3.39%) GDPR
4 36 (2.54%) SLA
5 32 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 28 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.20%) NIST
8 15 (1.06%) MiFID
9 14 (0.99%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.85%) EMIR
11 11 (0.78%) NCSC
11 11 (0.78%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.28%) GMP
15 3 (0.21%) HL7
15 3 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 94 (6.64%) Active Directory
2 64 (4.52%) Docker
3 22 (1.55%) DFS Replication
4 19 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.85%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.85%) Postfix
5 12 (0.85%) Squid
6 10 (0.71%) Firmware
7 8 (0.56%) ACF2
7 8 (0.56%) RACF
7 8 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
7 8 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
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%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 73 (5.16%) Terraform
2 56 (3.95%) Grafana
3 53 (3.74%) Prometheus
4 48 (3.39%) Kubernetes
5 42 (2.97%) Ansible
6 28 (1.98%) SCCM
7 19 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.92%) Nessus
9 12 (0.85%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.71%) Kibana
10 10 (0.71%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.71%) SCOM
11 7 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.49%) Puppet
11 7 (0.49%) Tivoli
11 7 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 7 (0.49%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.42%) HP SiteScope
12 6 (0.42%) WSUS
13 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 287 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 129 (9.11%) SAP
3 117 (8.26%) ServiceNow
4 90 (6.36%) Oracle
5 57 (4.03%) Cisco
6 51 (3.60%) Google
7 48 (3.39%) Salesforce
8 46 (3.25%) Splunk
9 31 (2.19%) VMware
10 27 (1.91%) Workday
11 26 (1.84%) Remedy
12 25 (1.77%) F5
13 24 (1.69%) Juniper
14 23 (1.62%) Atlassian
15 18 (1.27%) CheckPoint
16 17 (1.20%) IBM
17 16 (1.13%) Fortinet
18 14 (0.99%) Citrix
19 12 (0.85%) CyberArk
19 12 (0.85%) Jaspersoft