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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 48 44
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,447 1,118 1,613
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.33% 4.25% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 4.75% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 646 1,019
10th Percentile £313 £331 £350
25th Percentile £406 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.29%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £719 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 22 53
10th Percentile £20.79 £27.16 £16.31
25th Percentile £25.00 £31.76 £28.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £55.37 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% +48.93% -10.95%
75th Percentile - £66.56 £59.00
90th Percentile £59.50 £72.50 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -2.80%

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 29,288 23,559 32,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.67% 89.65% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,737 14,462 22,056
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £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 1,829 754 1,953
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.01 £16.66
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - +1.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -20 598 £520 -3.70% 231
North of England -6 277 £451 -12.74% 97
Midlands +3 228 £475 -5.00% 108
South East +8 191 £500 -9.09% 146
North West +10 173 £413 -17.40% 54
West Midlands -2 150 £489 -2.30% 69
South West +16 116 £525 -4.55% 34
Yorkshire -19 99 £487 -15.30% 33
East Midlands +23 78 £445 +13.81% 39
East of England -36 34 £488 +8.33% 44
North East -23 5 £475 -17.39% 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
1 108 (7.46%) Confluence
2 75 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.55%) Appian
5 7 (0.48%) CMS
5 7 (0.48%) nginx
6 6 (0.41%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.35%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.28%) IIS
9 3 (0.21%) Moodle
9 3 (0.21%) Mule
9 3 (0.21%) SAS
10 2 (0.14%) CICS
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.069%) FileNet
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
Applications
1 84 (5.81%) Microsoft Project
2 71 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 38 (2.63%) MS Visio
5 31 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.41%) Trello
8 5 (0.35%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.28%) Windchill
10 1 (0.069%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.069%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.069%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 52 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.55%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.28%) Finacle
8 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.21%) iTrent
9 3 (0.21%) Kondor
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 214 (14.79%) Azure
2 135 (9.33%) AWS
3 100 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
4 95 (6.57%) GCP
5 81 (5.60%) Power Platform
6 44 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (2.90%) Entra ID
8 36 (2.49%) SaaS
9 26 (1.80%) Serverless
10 25 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (1.52%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.45%) Google Workspace
13 19 (1.31%) AWS KMS
13 19 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.31%) GitHub
13 19 (1.31%) Google Sheets
14 18 (1.24%) PaaS
15 17 (1.17%) OpenShift
16 16 (1.11%) Amazon S3
16 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 84 (5.81%) Firewall
2 66 (4.56%) DNS
3 58 (4.01%) Network Security
4 40 (2.76%) VPN
5 39 (2.70%) WAN
6 28 (1.94%) LAN
7 24 (1.66%) DHCP
8 21 (1.45%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (1.24%) SD-WAN
11 17 (1.17%) SSH
11 17 (1.17%) SSL
12 16 (1.11%) HTTP
13 13 (0.90%) Kerberos
13 13 (0.90%) SMTP
14 12 (0.83%) SAN
15 11 (0.76%) DMZ
15 11 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 11 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 10 (0.69%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.63%) Power BI
2 45 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 31 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.59%) Metadata
5 20 (1.38%) Tableau
6 18 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (0.83%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.55%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.48%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.48%) Pinecone
14 6 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (0.41%) MySQL
14 6 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.35%) Big Data
15 5 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
16 4 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 171 (11.82%) JIRA
2 57 (3.94%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.80%) Git
4 25 (1.73%) GitLab
5 24 (1.66%) Liquibase
6 12 (0.83%) Visual Studio
7 10 (0.69%) Vagrant
8 7 (0.48%) MLflow
9 6 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.28%) MSI
11 3 (0.21%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.21%) JUnit
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.14%) AdminStudio
12 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.14%) ChangeMan
12 2 (0.14%) git-flow
12 2 (0.14%) Mockito
13 1 (0.069%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.069%) SonarQube
General
1 681 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 484 (33.45%) Finance
3 281 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (9.95%) Public Sector
5 142 (9.81%) Banking
6 65 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
7 49 (3.39%) Manufacturing
8 45 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
9 44 (3.04%) Legal
10 39 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 36 (2.49%) Retail
12 33 (2.28%) Local Government
13 32 (2.21%) Financial Institution
13 32 (2.21%) Marketing
14 31 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (1.59%) Law
16 20 (1.38%) Investment Banking
17 14 (0.97%) Billing
17 14 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 204 (14.10%) Analyst
2 179 (12.37%) Project Manager
3 165 (11.40%) Lead
4 123 (8.50%) Change Manager
5 113 (7.81%) Business Analyst
6 96 (6.63%) Senior
7 79 (5.46%) Consultant
8 50 (3.46%) Architect
8 50 (3.46%) Developer
9 43 (2.97%) Business Manager
9 43 (2.97%) Programme Manager
10 39 (2.70%) Senior Manager
11 38 (2.63%) IT Manager
12 34 (2.35%) Service Manager
13 33 (2.28%) Administrator
14 31 (2.14%) Business Change Manager
15 29 (2.00%) SAP Manager
16 27 (1.87%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (1.87%) Transformation Manager
17 24 (1.66%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.80%) REST
2 38 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (2.07%) .NET
4 29 (2.00%) RESTful
5 23 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
6 21 (1.45%) OAuth
7 20 (1.38%) LDAP
8 19 (1.31%) .NET Framework
8 19 (1.31%) SAML
9 14 (0.97%) Middleware
9 14 (0.97%) OpenID
10 11 (0.76%) HTML
11 10 (0.69%) ISPF
11 10 (0.69%) Web Services
12 9 (0.62%) SOAP
13 8 (0.55%) CSS
13 8 (0.55%) Kafka
13 8 (0.55%) NumPy
13 8 (0.55%) Pandas
13 8 (0.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.67%) Onboarding
2 81 (5.60%) Management Information System
3 65 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 40 (2.76%) Cloud Native
4 40 (2.76%) CMDB
5 39 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.49%) PKI
6 36 (2.49%) Virtual Team
7 33 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 24 (1.66%) PMI
9 24 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
10 23 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.38%) Replication
12 19 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.31%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.04%) Life Science
15 14 (0.97%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 147 (10.16%) Windows
2 80 (5.53%) Linux
3 44 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.49%) Unix
5 31 (2.14%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.90%) VMS
7 10 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.28%) CentOS
12 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.14%) AIX
13 2 (0.14%) Android
13 2 (0.14%) zOS
14 1 (0.069%) Debian
14 1 (0.069%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.069%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (31.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 379 (26.19%) Agile
3 361 (24.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 317 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
5 295 (20.39%) ITIL
6 283 (19.56%) Project Management
7 237 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 223 (15.41%) Migration
9 198 (13.68%) DevOps
10 157 (10.85%) Project Delivery
11 149 (10.30%) Service Management
12 145 (10.02%) ITSM
13 135 (9.33%) PRINCE2
14 133 (9.19%) ERP
15 122 (8.43%) Decision-Making
16 120 (8.29%) CI/CD
17 119 (8.22%) Roadmaps
18 118 (8.15%) Risk Management
19 115 (7.95%) Workshop Facilitation
20 107 (7.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 146 (10.09%) SQL
2 145 (10.02%) Python
3 101 (6.98%) PowerShell
4 38 (2.63%) Bash
5 34 (2.35%) C#
6 26 (1.80%) Go
7 21 (1.45%) Java
8 20 (1.38%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.17%) JavaScript
10 16 (1.11%) Groovy
11 15 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 13 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.69%) CLIST
13 10 (0.69%) COBOL
13 10 (0.69%) JCL
13 10 (0.69%) REXX
14 6 (0.41%) Korn
14 6 (0.41%) Perl
15 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 274 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 273 (18.87%) Degree
3 191 (13.20%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.15%) PMI Certification
5 81 (5.60%) PMP
6 59 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (3.66%) Master's Degree
8 43 (2.97%) DV Cleared
9 34 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 22 (1.52%) APMG
13 19 (1.31%) CISSP
13 19 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (1.24%) CISM
15 17 (1.17%) Azure Certification
16 15 (1.04%) AWS Certification
17 12 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
17 12 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 11 (0.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (6.43%) QA
2 64 (4.42%) PMO
3 55 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.80%) GDPR
4 37 (2.56%) SLA
5 34 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.97%) IFRS
6 14 (0.97%) NIST
7 13 (0.90%) IFRS 17
8 12 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.62%) Basel III
12 8 (0.55%) MiFID
12 8 (0.55%) NCSC
13 6 (0.41%) GRC
14 5 (0.35%) EMIR
14 5 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 99 (6.84%) Active Directory
2 70 (4.84%) Docker
3 31 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.24%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.69%) ACF2
5 10 (0.69%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.69%) RACF
5 10 (0.69%) Time Sharing Option
6 9 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.55%) Firmware
8 7 (0.48%) Dovecot
8 7 (0.48%) Postfix
8 7 (0.48%) Squid
9 6 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.28%) KVM
10 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.28%) vSphere
10 4 (0.28%) XenApp
10 4 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 81 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 71 (4.91%) Terraform
3 57 (3.94%) Ansible
4 42 (2.90%) Grafana
5 40 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 31 (2.14%) SCCM
7 27 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.17%) Puppet
9 14 (0.97%) Kibana
9 14 (0.97%) SCOM
10 12 (0.83%) CA Endevor
10 12 (0.83%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.62%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 7 (0.48%) Nessus
12 7 (0.48%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.41%) HP SiteScope
13 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 265 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 127 (8.78%) ServiceNow
3 115 (7.95%) SAP
4 107 (7.39%) Oracle
5 69 (4.77%) Google
6 57 (3.94%) Salesforce
7 49 (3.39%) Cisco
8 47 (3.25%) VMware
9 44 (3.04%) Splunk
10 29 (2.00%) Citrix
11 24 (1.66%) F5
12 23 (1.59%) Workday
13 18 (1.24%) Atlassian
13 18 (1.24%) Remedy
14 17 (1.17%) CheckPoint
15 16 (1.11%) Juniper
16 15 (1.04%) Fortinet
17 14 (0.97%) Adobe
18 12 (0.83%) IBM
18 12 (0.83%) Meraki