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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 48 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,446 1,228 1,725
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.60% 4.21% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.18% 4.76% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 695 1,081
10th Percentile £313 £338 £370
25th Percentile £405 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +3.53%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £699 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 22 36
10th Percentile £20.79 £23.93 £20.16
25th Percentile £22.51 £27.63 £25.19
Median hourly rate £37.28 £42.79 £45.87
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% -6.70% +40.05%
75th Percentile £45.46 £58.47 £55.32
90th Percentile £67.33 £78.60 £61.56
UK median hourly rate £33.64 £42.79 £43.33
% change year-on-year -21.38% -1.25% +29.34%

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 27,925 25,808 32,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.90% 88.45% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,780 15,959 22,396
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,812 863 1,395
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -8 599 £525 -4.55% 183
North of England -11 277 £458 -12.86% 109
Midlands +11 215 £475 -7.32% 94
South East +12 190 £496 -5.52% 156
North West +3 178 £447 -12.48% 65
West Midlands +1 152 £475 -8.43% 52
South West +20 115 £525 -4.55% 44
Yorkshire -23 96 £495 -6.60% 37
East Midlands +20 63 £431 - 41
East of England -13 44 £500 +4.17% 36
North East -21 3 £475 -17.39% 9
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
1 129 (8.92%) Confluence
2 83 (5.74%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.76%) nginx
5 9 (0.62%) HCL Notes
6 7 (0.48%) CMS
7 6 (0.41%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.41%) Mule
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.35%) IIS
8 5 (0.35%) JBoss
9 4 (0.28%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Moodle
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.069%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.069%) FileNet
12 1 (0.069%) Traefik
Applications
1 94 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
3 80 (5.53%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (2.63%) MS Visio
5 32 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.48%) Trello
8 5 (0.35%) Windchill
9 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.14%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.069%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.069%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.069%) Notion
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 39 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.55%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.35%) Maximo
8 5 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.21%) ResourceLink
10 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 177 (12.24%) Azure
2 143 (9.89%) AWS
3 98 (6.78%) GCP
4 95 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
5 83 (5.74%) Power Platform
6 41 (2.84%) SaaS
7 38 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (2.14%) Entra ID
8 31 (2.14%) Serverless
9 30 (2.07%) AWS KMS
10 27 (1.87%) Amazon S3
11 23 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (1.38%) Amazon ELB
14 20 (1.38%) GitHub
15 18 (1.24%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.18%) OpenShift
16 17 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (6.71%) Firewall
2 79 (5.46%) DNS
3 61 (4.22%) Network Security
4 43 (2.97%) VPN
5 37 (2.56%) WAN
6 32 (2.21%) SSH
7 25 (1.73%) HTTP
8 24 (1.66%) SSL
9 22 (1.52%) SMTP
10 21 (1.45%) DHCP
10 21 (1.45%) LAN
11 19 (1.31%) FTP
12 17 (1.18%) Wireless
13 16 (1.11%) TCP/IP
14 15 (1.04%) IPsec
14 15 (1.04%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
16 13 (0.90%) BGP
17 12 (0.83%) OSPF
18 11 (0.76%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.77%) Power BI
2 35 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (2.01%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.66%) NoSQL
5 23 (1.59%) Tableau
6 22 (1.52%) Metadata
7 19 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
8 16 (1.11%) Oracle Database
9 13 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.62%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.48%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.41%) MySQL
12 6 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.35%) Big Data
13 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.28%) Redis
15 3 (0.21%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 191 (13.21%) JIRA
2 80 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 39 (2.70%) Git
4 29 (2.01%) GitLab
4 29 (2.01%) Liquibase
5 20 (1.38%) Vagrant
6 12 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.28%) ChangeMan
9 4 (0.28%) MSI
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.21%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.21%) JUnit
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 631 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 451 (31.19%) Finance
3 250 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (10.24%) Banking
5 133 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 66 (4.56%) Influencing Skills
7 58 (4.01%) Manufacturing
8 43 (2.97%) Legal
9 42 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 39 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (2.63%) Financial Institution
12 36 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (2.14%) Retail
15 29 (2.01%) Marketing
16 27 (1.87%) Law
17 26 (1.80%) Local Government
18 18 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 16 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 213 (14.73%) Analyst
2 181 (12.52%) Project Manager
3 148 (10.24%) Lead
4 120 (8.30%) Change Manager
5 109 (7.54%) Business Analyst
6 87 (6.02%) Senior
7 73 (5.05%) Consultant
8 56 (3.87%) Administrator
9 49 (3.39%) Developer
10 45 (3.11%) Architect
11 42 (2.90%) IT Manager
12 39 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
12 39 (2.70%) Programme Manager
13 38 (2.63%) Business Manager
13 38 (2.63%) Senior Manager
14 35 (2.42%) AWS Engineer
14 35 (2.42%) Service Manager
15 30 (2.07%) Service Analyst
16 29 (2.01%) SAP Manager
17 28 (1.94%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.32%) REST
2 42 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (1.80%) RESTful
4 23 (1.59%) .NET
5 22 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (1.18%) LDAP
6 17 (1.18%) SAML
7 11 (0.76%) 802.1X
7 11 (0.76%) OAuth
7 11 (0.76%) OpenID
8 10 (0.69%) .NET Framework
9 9 (0.62%) HTML
10 8 (0.55%) ISPF
10 8 (0.55%) Kafka
10 8 (0.55%) Middleware
10 8 (0.55%) SOAP
11 7 (0.48%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.41%) CSS
12 6 (0.41%) XML
13 5 (0.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.81%) Onboarding
2 73 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 49 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.25%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.97%) Cloud Native
5 43 (2.97%) Virtual Team
6 39 (2.70%) PKI
7 34 (2.35%) CMDB
8 33 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (2.14%) Replication
10 28 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 25 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.66%) Life Science
14 18 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.11%) PMI
16 14 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (0.97%) Mainframe
17 13 (0.90%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 151 (10.44%) Windows
2 88 (6.09%) Linux
3 40 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.42%) Unix
5 23 (1.59%) VMS
6 22 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 20 (1.38%) Amazon Linux
8 12 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.28%) zOS
11 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.21%) CentOS
11 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.14%) AIX
12 2 (0.14%) Android
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.069%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.069%) Solaris
13 1 (0.069%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (27.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 389 (26.90%) Agile
3 317 (21.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 300 (20.75%) Project Management
5 299 (20.68%) ITIL
6 288 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
7 214 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 203 (14.04%) DevOps
9 198 (13.69%) Migration
10 190 (13.14%) Project Delivery
11 161 (11.13%) Service Management
12 134 (9.27%) ITSM
13 131 (9.06%) PRINCE2
14 125 (8.64%) Roadmaps
15 122 (8.44%) Decision-Making
16 120 (8.30%) CI/CD
17 110 (7.61%) ERP
18 106 (7.33%) Service Delivery
19 104 (7.19%) Risk Management
20 103 (7.12%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 147 (10.17%) Python
2 119 (8.23%) SQL
3 96 (6.64%) PowerShell
4 39 (2.70%) Java
5 31 (2.14%) C#
5 31 (2.14%) Go
6 28 (1.94%) Bash
7 25 (1.73%) Groovy
8 20 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 17 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.04%) Perl
11 11 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.69%) COBOL
12 10 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.55%) CLIST
13 8 (0.55%) JCL
13 8 (0.55%) REXX
14 7 (0.48%) Korn
15 4 (0.28%) C++
15 4 (0.28%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 292 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 264 (18.26%) Degree
3 203 (14.04%) SC Cleared
4 83 (5.74%) PMI Certification
5 75 (5.19%) PMP
6 65 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 45 (3.11%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (2.63%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 22 (1.52%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (1.31%) APMG
14 16 (1.11%) CISM
14 16 (1.11%) CISSP
15 15 (1.04%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.90%) CCNP
18 11 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.53%) QA
2 70 (4.84%) PMO
3 48 (3.32%) GDPR
4 39 (2.70%) SLA
5 37 (2.56%) Data Quality
6 28 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.97%) NIST
8 14 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.62%) NCSC
11 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.55%) MiFID
12 5 (0.35%) EMIR
12 5 (0.35%) IFRS
12 5 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.28%) Basel III
13 4 (0.28%) GMP
14 3 (0.21%) ITGC
System Software
1 95 (6.57%) Active Directory
2 68 (4.70%) Docker
3 22 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.31%) DFS Replication
5 13 (0.90%) Firmware
6 11 (0.76%) Dovecot
6 11 (0.76%) Postfix
6 11 (0.76%) Squid
7 9 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.62%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.55%) ACF2
8 8 (0.55%) RACF
8 8 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.14%) NFS
12 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.069%) Snort
13 1 (0.069%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 84 (5.81%) Terraform
2 69 (4.77%) Kubernetes
3 55 (3.80%) Ansible
4 53 (3.67%) Grafana
5 52 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 29 (2.01%) SCCM
7 23 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.90%) Kibana
9 12 (0.83%) CA Endevor
9 12 (0.83%) Nessus
9 12 (0.83%) Puppet
9 12 (0.83%) SCOM
10 10 (0.69%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.62%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.48%) Tivoli
12 7 (0.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (0.41%) HP SiteScope
14 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 284 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 131 (9.06%) ServiceNow
3 128 (8.85%) SAP
4 95 (6.57%) Oracle
5 61 (4.22%) Google
6 53 (3.67%) Cisco
7 50 (3.46%) Salesforce
8 48 (3.32%) Splunk
9 37 (2.56%) VMware
10 29 (2.01%) F5
11 25 (1.73%) Juniper
11 25 (1.73%) Workday
12 23 (1.59%) Atlassian
13 22 (1.52%) Remedy
14 21 (1.45%) CheckPoint
15 18 (1.24%) IBM
16 17 (1.18%) Fortinet
17 15 (1.04%) Citrix
18 13 (0.90%) Blue Coat
19 12 (0.83%) CyberArk