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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 48 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,456 1,203 1,644
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.59% 4.32% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 4.86% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 944 693 1,023
10th Percentile £313 £335 £363
25th Percentile £404 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £736 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 19 37
10th Percentile £20.50 £24.83 £18.06
25th Percentile £22.16 £29.38 £28.30
Median hourly rate £41.86 £54.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +11.57% +66.90%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.38 £55.81
90th Percentile £60.00 £83.00 £62.93
UK median hourly rate £41.86 £54.00 £45.87
% change year-on-year -22.49% +17.74% +43.33%

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 28,067 24,730 32,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.57% 88.83% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,937 15,201 21,830
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,762 813 1,440
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%
75th Percentile £57.44 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -13 595 £525 -4.55% 208
North of England -9 281 £451 -13.68% 95
Midlands +12 229 £475 -5.00% 93
South East +10 186 £474 -9.76% 173
North West +5 176 £424 -15.25% 54
West Midlands +1 154 £475 -5.00% 57
South West +16 119 £525 +2.94% 31
Yorkshire -16 103 £489 -11.18% 33
East Midlands +27 75 £402 -2.55% 36
East of England -21 45 £510 +13.33% 43
North East -22 2 £500 -13.04% 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
1 116 (7.97%) Confluence
2 85 (5.84%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.69%) nginx
5 8 (0.55%) 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 (0.34%) IIS
9 4 (0.27%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Appian
10 3 (0.21%) Moodle
11 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.069%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.069%) FileNet
12 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.069%) Traefik
Applications
1 86 (5.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (5.70%) Microsoft Project
3 82 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (2.75%) MS Visio
5 35 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.48%) Trello
8 5 (0.34%) Acrobat
8 5 (0.34%) Windchill
9 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.14%) PTC Creo
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 44 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.69%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.34%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.27%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.21%) Kondor
10 3 (0.21%) Maximo
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.21%) ResourceLink
10 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 194 (13.32%) Azure
2 140 (9.62%) AWS
3 104 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 101 (6.94%) GCP
5 90 (6.18%) Power Platform
6 40 (2.75%) SaaS
7 38 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (2.20%) Entra ID
9 28 (1.92%) Serverless
10 25 (1.72%) AWS KMS
11 24 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.51%) Amazon S3
13 21 (1.44%) GitHub
14 20 (1.37%) Power Automate
15 18 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (1.17%) PaaS
16 17 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (1.10%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 88 (6.04%) Firewall
2 71 (4.88%) DNS
3 59 (4.05%) Network Security
4 41 (2.82%) VPN
5 38 (2.61%) WAN
6 29 (1.99%) SSH
7 24 (1.65%) SSL
8 23 (1.58%) LAN
9 22 (1.51%) HTTP
10 20 (1.37%) TCP/IP
11 19 (1.30%) DHCP
12 18 (1.24%) SMTP
13 17 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (1.10%) FTP
15 15 (1.03%) IPsec
15 15 (1.03%) SD-WAN
15 15 (1.03%) Wireless
16 11 (0.76%) Cisco IPT
16 11 (0.76%) DMVPN
16 11 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.22%) Power BI
2 34 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (2.27%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (1.65%) Tableau
5 22 (1.51%) Metadata
5 22 (1.51%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 13 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.48%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (0.41%) MySQL
11 6 (0.41%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.34%) Big Data
12 5 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.27%) Redis
14 3 (0.21%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.21%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 181 (12.43%) JIRA
2 68 (4.67%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.06%) Git
4 27 (1.85%) GitLab
4 27 (1.85%) Liquibase
5 16 (1.10%) Vagrant
6 8 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.27%) ChangeMan
7 4 (0.27%) MSI
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.21%) InstallShield
8 3 (0.21%) JUnit
8 3 (0.21%) MLflow
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.14%) AdminStudio
9 2 (0.14%) Mockito
10 1 (0.069%) GCC
General
1 649 (44.57%) Social Skills
2 459 (31.52%) Finance
3 274 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.65%) Banking
5 141 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 66 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
7 56 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 43 (2.95%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.75%) Legal
10 38 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
10 38 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.40%) Financial Institution
13 33 (2.27%) Retail
14 31 (2.13%) Local Government
14 31 (2.13%) Marketing
15 24 (1.65%) Law
16 16 (1.10%) Investment Banking
17 15 (1.03%) Billing
17 15 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 209 (14.35%) Analyst
2 183 (12.57%) Project Manager
3 158 (10.85%) Lead
4 125 (8.59%) Change Manager
5 112 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 87 (5.98%) Senior
7 78 (5.36%) Consultant
8 49 (3.37%) Administrator
8 49 (3.37%) Developer
9 45 (3.09%) Architect
10 38 (2.61%) Business Manager
10 38 (2.61%) Senior Manager
11 37 (2.54%) IT Manager
12 34 (2.34%) Programme Manager
13 32 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
14 31 (2.13%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (2.13%) Service Manager
15 29 (1.99%) Business Change Manager
15 29 (1.99%) SAP Manager
16 27 (1.85%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.43%) REST
2 39 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (1.85%) RESTful
4 23 (1.58%) .NET
5 22 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (1.17%) SAML
7 16 (1.10%) LDAP
8 13 (0.89%) Middleware
8 13 (0.89%) OAuth
9 11 (0.76%) .NET Framework
9 11 (0.76%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.76%) HTML
9 11 (0.76%) OpenID
10 8 (0.55%) ISPF
10 8 (0.55%) Kafka
10 8 (0.55%) SOAP
11 7 (0.48%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.48%) CSS
12 6 (0.41%) XML
13 5 (0.34%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.91%) Onboarding
2 77 (5.29%) Management Information System
3 61 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.09%) Cloud Native
5 43 (2.95%) Data Centre
6 40 (2.75%) CMDB
7 39 (2.68%) Virtual Team
8 37 (2.54%) PKI
9 27 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.79%) Replication
11 25 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (1.44%) PMI
15 20 (1.37%) Life Science
16 18 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
17 14 (0.96%) e-Learning
17 14 (0.96%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 158 (10.85%) Windows
2 82 (5.63%) Linux
3 40 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.61%) Unix
5 29 (1.99%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.30%) VMS
7 16 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
8 12 (0.82%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.27%) zOS
12 3 (0.21%) CentOS
12 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.14%) AIX
13 2 (0.14%) Android
14 1 (0.069%) Debian
14 1 (0.069%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.069%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (29.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 378 (25.96%) Agile
3 335 (23.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 302 (20.74%) ITIL
5 301 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
6 298 (20.47%) Project Management
7 223 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 200 (13.74%) DevOps
9 192 (13.19%) Migration
10 183 (12.57%) Project Delivery
11 151 (10.37%) Service Management
12 142 (9.75%) ITSM
13 133 (9.13%) PRINCE2
14 124 (8.52%) Roadmaps
15 121 (8.31%) Decision-Making
16 120 (8.24%) ERP
17 112 (7.69%) CI/CD
18 106 (7.28%) Service Delivery
19 105 (7.21%) Risk Management
20 103 (7.07%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 143 (9.82%) Python
2 126 (8.65%) SQL
3 96 (6.59%) PowerShell
4 34 (2.34%) Bash
5 29 (1.99%) Go
6 28 (1.92%) C#
6 28 (1.92%) Java
7 21 (1.44%) Groovy
8 18 (1.24%) JavaScript
8 18 (1.24%) PL/SQL
9 12 (0.82%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.69%) COBOL
10 10 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.62%) Perl
12 8 (0.55%) CLIST
12 8 (0.55%) JCL
12 8 (0.55%) REXX
13 7 (0.48%) Korn
14 5 (0.34%) C++
15 4 (0.27%) C
Qualifications
1 295 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 271 (18.61%) Degree
3 205 (14.08%) SC Cleared
4 91 (6.25%) PMI Certification
5 82 (5.63%) PMP
6 62 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (3.50%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 21 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
12 19 (1.30%) APMG
12 19 (1.30%) AWS Certification
13 18 (1.24%) CISM
13 18 (1.24%) CISSP
14 16 (1.10%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 11 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.76%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.70%) QA
2 71 (4.88%) PMO
3 50 (3.43%) GDPR
4 44 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 38 (2.61%) SLA
6 29 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.17%) NIST
8 14 (0.96%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.62%) IFRS
11 8 (0.55%) Basel III
11 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.55%) MiFID
11 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.48%) IFRS 17
12 7 (0.48%) NCSC
13 5 (0.34%) EMIR
13 5 (0.34%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) GMP
System Software
1 91 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 68 (4.67%) Docker
3 23 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.10%) DFS Replication
5 13 (0.89%) Firmware
5 13 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.69%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.69%) Postfix
6 10 (0.69%) Squid
7 8 (0.55%) ACF2
7 8 (0.55%) RACF
7 8 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
7 8 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.21%) XenApp
9 3 (0.21%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.14%) NFS
10 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 78 (5.36%) Terraform
2 73 (5.01%) Kubernetes
3 54 (3.71%) Ansible
4 51 (3.50%) Grafana
5 50 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 36 (2.47%) SCCM
7 29 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.96%) Puppet
9 13 (0.89%) SCOM
10 12 (0.82%) CA Endevor
10 12 (0.82%) Kibana
11 11 (0.76%) Nessus
12 10 (0.69%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.62%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.48%) Tivoli
14 7 (0.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 6 (0.41%) HP SiteScope
16 5 (0.34%) WSUS
17 4 (0.27%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 285 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 130 (8.93%) ServiceNow
3 127 (8.72%) SAP
4 99 (6.80%) Oracle
5 63 (4.33%) Google
6 58 (3.98%) Salesforce
7 52 (3.57%) Cisco
8 47 (3.23%) Splunk
9 38 (2.61%) VMware
10 28 (1.92%) F5
11 26 (1.79%) Workday
12 23 (1.58%) Juniper
13 22 (1.51%) CheckPoint
14 21 (1.44%) Atlassian
15 20 (1.37%) Citrix
15 20 (1.37%) Remedy
16 16 (1.10%) IBM
17 15 (1.03%) Fortinet
18 13 (0.89%) Adobe
18 13 (0.89%) Dynatrace