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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 51 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,724 1,230 1,432
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.85% 4.53% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 4.99% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 760 877
10th Percentile £363 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £625
90th Percentile £711 £738 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £504
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.79% -8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 56 63
10th Percentile £19.67 £22.39 £18.10
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £30.16
Median hourly rate £38.50 £32.05 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.12% -35.90% +2.05%
75th Percentile £76.75 £68.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.10 £70.16 £68.60
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £48.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -18.46% -2.50% +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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +2 789 £535 -2.73% 225
North of England -19 303 £494 +9.78% 110
South East +2 260 £563 +17.19% 142
North West -12 173 £472 +4.89% 66
Midlands -17 169 £513 +7.89% 59
West Midlands -29 123 £515 +8.42% 38
Yorkshire -27 113 £500 +9.59% 33
South West -14 91 £525 +3.45% 59
East of England -4 81 £475 -5.00% 25
East Midlands +15 44 £488 +35.79% 21
North East -23 17 £425 -15.00% 12
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 93 (5.39%) Confluence
2 88 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.99%) IIS
5 13 (0.75%) SAS
6 10 (0.58%) Appian
6 10 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.46%) CMS
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.17%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) CICS
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.058%) Mattermost
13 1 (0.058%) MTS
13 1 (0.058%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 66 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (1.28%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) 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 65 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.41%) Primavera
7 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.35%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 258 (14.97%) Azure
2 133 (7.71%) AWS
3 100 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
4 95 (5.51%) Power Platform
5 87 (5.05%) Entra ID
6 74 (4.29%) SaaS
7 64 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (3.07%) GCP
9 32 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.74%) Google Workspace
11 29 (1.68%) GitHub
12 25 (1.45%) OCI
13 24 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
14 23 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 22 (1.28%) Power Automate
16 21 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 20 (1.16%) Serverless
18 18 (1.04%) PaaS
19 16 (0.93%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 115 (6.67%) Firewall
2 86 (4.99%) Network Security
3 51 (2.96%) WAN
4 50 (2.90%) DNS
5 47 (2.73%) VPN
6 36 (2.09%) LAN
7 27 (1.57%) Wireless
8 25 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (1.39%) BGP
10 23 (1.33%) TCP/IP
11 22 (1.28%) SD-WAN
12 21 (1.22%) OSPF
13 19 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
13 19 (1.10%) DHCP
13 19 (1.10%) SSL
14 16 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (0.81%) MPLS
16 12 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (0.70%) Internet
17 11 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.29%) Power BI
2 51 (2.96%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.68%) Metadata
4 27 (1.57%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.64%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.58%) Tableau
9 9 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.35%) Db2
11 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
11 5 (0.29%) GIS
11 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
11 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 212 (12.30%) JIRA
2 61 (3.54%) Git
3 50 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.64%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.52%) 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
9 4 (0.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 650 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 635 (36.83%) Finance
3 288 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 149 (8.64%) Banking
6 90 (5.22%) Legal
7 83 (4.81%) Retail
8 73 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
9 71 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
10 53 (3.07%) Marketing
11 52 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (2.44%) Telecoms
14 41 (2.38%) Manufacturing
15 38 (2.20%) Law
16 36 (2.09%) Local Government
17 29 (1.68%) Aviation
18 26 (1.51%) Financial Institution
19 19 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 16 (0.93%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 203 (11.77%) Project Manager
2 190 (11.02%) Lead
3 165 (9.57%) Analyst
4 130 (7.54%) Change Manager
5 128 (7.42%) Senior
6 110 (6.38%) Consultant
7 94 (5.45%) Business Analyst
8 58 (3.36%) Programme Manager
8 58 (3.36%) Senior Manager
9 55 (3.19%) Administrator
10 49 (2.84%) Developer
11 46 (2.67%) Network Engineer
12 45 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (2.55%) IT Manager
14 43 (2.49%) Business Manager
15 42 (2.44%) Service Manager
15 42 (2.44%) Support Engineer
16 37 (2.15%) Architect
17 35 (2.03%) Business Change Manager
18 34 (1.97%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.36%) REST
2 36 (2.09%) .NET
2 36 (2.09%) Oracle Fusion
3 22 (1.28%) CSS
3 22 (1.28%) HTML
4 18 (1.04%) .NET Framework
4 18 (1.04%) OAuth
5 17 (0.99%) Middleware
6 15 (0.87%) Web Services
7 14 (0.81%) LDAP
8 13 (0.75%) Ajax
8 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
8 13 (0.75%) RESTful
9 12 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (0.70%) SOAP
10 10 (0.58%) 802.1X
10 10 (0.58%) AngularJS
10 10 (0.58%) React
11 9 (0.52%) JSON
11 9 (0.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 78 (4.52%) Data Centre
2 78 (4.52%) Onboarding
3 62 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 48 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 47 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 34 (1.97%) PMI
7 33 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (1.68%) Operational Technology
9 28 (1.62%) CMDB
10 25 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.39%) PKI
12 22 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 20 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 16 (0.93%) AI Agents
15 16 (0.93%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 177 (10.27%) Windows
2 90 (5.22%) Linux
3 64 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (2.03%) Unix
6 19 (1.10%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.58%) Solaris
7 10 (0.58%) VMS
8 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.41%) Ubuntu
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
12 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.17%) Android
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (34.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 440 (25.52%) Agile
3 406 (23.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 376 (21.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 333 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
6 322 (18.68%) ITIL
7 303 (17.58%) Project Management
8 270 (15.66%) Migration
9 246 (14.27%) Project Delivery
10 231 (13.40%) DevOps
11 202 (11.72%) Roadmaps
12 193 (11.19%) Decision-Making
13 183 (10.61%) ERP
14 176 (10.21%) AI
15 169 (9.80%) Service Management
16 164 (9.51%) ITSM
17 163 (9.45%) Risk Management
18 147 (8.53%) PRINCE2
19 142 (8.24%) CI/CD
20 133 (7.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 149 (8.64%) SQL
2 128 (7.42%) Python
3 111 (6.44%) PowerShell
4 48 (2.78%) Bash
5 47 (2.73%) C#
6 45 (2.61%) PL/SQL
7 41 (2.38%) Java
7 41 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 23 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.64%) Korn
10 10 (0.58%) Groovy
11 9 (0.52%) Bicep
12 8 (0.46%) Go
12 8 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.29%) COBOL
13 5 (0.29%) Perl
14 4 (0.23%) ABAP
14 4 (0.23%) JCL
15 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 348 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 251 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 199 (11.54%) Degree
4 139 (8.06%) PMP
5 127 (7.37%) PMI Certification
6 62 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 56 (3.25%) CISSP
8 52 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (2.09%) CCNP
10 35 (2.03%) CISM
11 34 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
13 23 (1.33%) Azure Certification
14 22 (1.28%) Master's Degree
15 21 (1.22%) APMG
16 20 (1.16%) ACCA
16 20 (1.16%) CCNA
16 20 (1.16%) CIMA
16 20 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
17 18 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.22%) QA
2 85 (4.93%) PMO
3 81 (4.70%) SLA
4 80 (4.64%) GDPR
5 72 (4.18%) Data Quality
6 67 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (2.55%) NIST
8 24 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.33%) SOC 2
10 22 (1.28%) GRC
11 20 (1.16%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.64%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.52%) ITGC
14 7 (0.41%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.41%) COBIT
15 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.35%) IFRS
16 5 (0.29%) GMP
17 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 120 (6.96%) Active Directory
2 60 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.61%) Docker
4 22 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.93%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.81%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.52%) vCloud
9 9 (0.52%) vSphere
10 7 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.23%) KVM
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.058%) Ceph
13 1 (0.058%) Firmware
13 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.058%) Squid
13 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.058%) XenApp
13 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 88 (5.10%) Terraform
2 65 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 62 (3.60%) Ansible
4 29 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (1.62%) vCenter Server
6 22 (1.28%) Grafana
6 22 (1.28%) SCOM
7 20 (1.16%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.81%) SCCM
9 13 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.58%) Avamar
11 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.41%) PowerCLI
12 7 (0.41%) vRealize
13 6 (0.35%) Argo
13 6 (0.35%) CASB
13 6 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 295 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 197 (11.43%) ServiceNow
3 162 (9.40%) Oracle
4 146 (8.47%) SAP
5 78 (4.52%) VMware
6 68 (3.94%) Cisco
7 64 (3.71%) Salesforce
8 53 (3.07%) Google
9 32 (1.86%) Citrix
9 32 (1.86%) Splunk
10 28 (1.62%) IBM
11 26 (1.51%) Red Hat
12 25 (1.45%) IFS
13 24 (1.39%) CheckPoint
14 22 (1.28%) Juniper
15 21 (1.22%) F5
16 20 (1.16%) Zscaler
17 19 (1.10%) Remedy
18 17 (0.99%) Palo Alto
18 17 (0.99%) Workday