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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 51 46
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,682 1,171 1,444
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.79% 4.41% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.85% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 730 887
10th Percentile £365 £330 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £624 £634 £625
90th Percentile £706 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £503
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.50% -8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 51 70
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.63 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £28.60 £30.71
Median hourly rate £34.87 £37.28 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -25.44% +2.05%
75th Percentile £60.75 £69.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.10 £70.16 £67.64
UK median hourly rate £34.94 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -30.13% - +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 37,874 24,162 31,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 90.93% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,840 15,529 20,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,216 2,288
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -3.85%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +2 776 £525 -4.55% 307
North of England -21 297 £482 +7.11% 140
South East 0 239 £575 +17.35% 178
Midlands -9 174 £515 +8.42% 65
North West -12 168 £453 +2.95% 93
West Midlands -30 127 £515 +8.42% 39
Yorkshire -24 111 £500 +8.11% 33
South West -17 91 £525 - 67
East of England -8 79 £475 -5.00% 43
East Midlands +15 45 £513 +43.16% 26
North East -21 18 £425 -15.00% 16
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 94 (5.59%) Confluence
2 84 (4.99%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.01%) IIS
5 14 (0.83%) SAS
6 12 (0.71%) Appian
7 10 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.48%) CMS
9 6 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.30%) Camunda
11 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 2 (0.12%) CICS
13 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
14 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.059%) Oracle Spatial
14 1 (0.059%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 58 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.059%) Houdini
8 1 (0.059%) InDesign
8 1 (0.059%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.059%) NUKE
8 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.059%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.48%) Maximo
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.42%) Primavera
6 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.36%) OpenText MBPM
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
7 6 (0.36%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.30%) ContrOCC
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.30%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.24%) Finacle
9 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 237 (14.09%) Azure
2 129 (7.67%) AWS
3 97 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 77 (4.58%) Entra ID
6 72 (4.28%) SaaS
7 57 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (3.09%) GCP
9 33 (1.96%) Google Workspace
10 31 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (1.49%) GitHub
12 24 (1.43%) OCI
13 23 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
14 22 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 19 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (1.07%) PaaS
17 18 (1.07%) Serverless
18 17 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.30%) Firewall
2 75 (4.46%) Network Security
3 51 (3.03%) WAN
4 45 (2.68%) DNS
5 44 (2.62%) VPN
6 37 (2.20%) LAN
7 25 (1.49%) BGP
7 25 (1.49%) SD-WAN
7 25 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (1.49%) Wireless
8 22 (1.31%) OSPF
9 19 (1.13%) TCP/IP
10 18 (1.07%) DHCP
11 17 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (1.01%) SSL
12 15 (0.89%) MPLS
13 14 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
15 12 (0.71%) Internet
16 11 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.04%) Power BI
2 53 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.72%) Metadata
4 27 (1.61%) Oracle Database
5 20 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (0.71%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (0.54%) Tableau
10 5 (0.30%) Data Mart
10 5 (0.30%) Db2
10 5 (0.30%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.30%) Neo4j
10 5 (0.30%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (0.30%) Pinecone
10 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 206 (12.25%) JIRA
2 57 (3.39%) Git
3 50 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.59%) GitLab
6 7 (0.42%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.42%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.36%) MLflow
8 5 (0.30%) Selenium
8 5 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.24%) Hudson
9 4 (0.24%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.24%) Liquibase
9 4 (0.24%) Maven
10 3 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.18%) Snyk
10 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 633 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 624 (37.10%) Finance
3 277 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 142 (8.44%) Banking
6 90 (5.35%) Legal
7 81 (4.82%) Retail
8 67 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (3.15%) Marketing
10 47 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
12 43 (2.56%) Manufacturing
13 39 (2.32%) Law
14 38 (2.26%) Telecoms
15 36 (2.14%) Local Government
16 25 (1.49%) Aviation
17 23 (1.37%) Financial Institution
18 18 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 15 (0.89%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 191 (11.36%) Project Manager
2 178 (10.58%) Lead
3 162 (9.63%) Analyst
4 133 (7.91%) Change Manager
5 121 (7.19%) Senior
6 109 (6.48%) Consultant
7 94 (5.59%) Business Analyst
8 62 (3.69%) Programme Manager
9 56 (3.33%) Administrator
10 54 (3.21%) Senior Manager
11 48 (2.85%) Developer
12 45 (2.68%) Business Manager
12 45 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
12 45 (2.68%) IT Manager
13 42 (2.50%) Support Engineer
14 41 (2.44%) Network Engineer
15 40 (2.38%) Service Manager
16 39 (2.32%) Architect
17 35 (2.08%) Business Change Manager
18 31 (1.84%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.33%) REST
2 36 (2.14%) .NET
3 34 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.31%) CSS
4 22 (1.31%) HTML
5 21 (1.25%) OAuth
6 20 (1.19%) .NET Framework
7 17 (1.01%) Middleware
8 15 (0.89%) Web Services
9 14 (0.83%) LDAP
9 14 (0.83%) RESTful
10 13 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
11 12 (0.71%) Ajax
12 11 (0.65%) React
12 11 (0.65%) SOAP
13 10 (0.59%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.54%) JSON
14 9 (0.54%) OAuth2
14 9 (0.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.88%) Management Information System
2 75 (4.46%) Data Centre
3 65 (3.86%) Onboarding
4 61 (3.63%) Product Ownership
5 49 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (2.68%) Cloud Native
7 30 (1.78%) PMI
8 29 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.66%) CMDB
9 28 (1.66%) Operational Technology
10 25 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 23 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (1.31%) PKI
14 20 (1.19%) Security Posture
15 19 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.13%) Public Cloud
16 16 (0.95%) Low-Code
17 14 (0.83%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 175 (10.40%) Windows
2 88 (5.23%) Linux
3 62 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (2.14%) Unix
6 19 (1.13%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.59%) Solaris
7 10 (0.59%) VMS
8 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.36%) AIX
10 6 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.36%) SUSE
10 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.30%) HPUX
11 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.18%) Android
14 2 (0.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (33.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 431 (25.62%) Agile
3 402 (23.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 360 (21.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 330 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
6 306 (18.19%) ITIL
7 287 (17.06%) Project Management
8 269 (15.99%) Migration
9 226 (13.44%) DevOps
10 220 (13.08%) Project Delivery
11 195 (11.59%) Roadmaps
12 189 (11.24%) Decision-Making
13 186 (11.06%) ERP
14 165 (9.81%) AI
14 165 (9.81%) Risk Management
15 150 (8.92%) Service Management
16 149 (8.86%) ITSM
17 145 (8.62%) CI/CD
18 134 (7.97%) PRINCE2
18 134 (7.97%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 158 (9.39%) SQL
2 123 (7.31%) Python
3 105 (6.24%) PowerShell
4 48 (2.85%) C#
5 45 (2.68%) PL/SQL
6 42 (2.50%) Bash
7 40 (2.38%) Java
8 38 (2.26%) JavaScript
9 24 (1.43%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.65%) Korn
11 10 (0.59%) Groovy
12 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.48%) Go
14 7 (0.42%) COBOL
15 6 (0.36%) Bicep
15 6 (0.36%) JCL
16 5 (0.30%) Perl
17 4 (0.24%) ABAP
17 4 (0.24%) REXX
18 3 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 335 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 241 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 197 (11.71%) Degree
4 127 (7.55%) PMP
5 115 (6.84%) PMI Certification
6 58 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 54 (3.21%) CISSP
8 50 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (2.02%) CCNP
11 33 (1.96%) CISM
12 27 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
13 25 (1.49%) APMG
14 24 (1.43%) Master's Degree
15 21 (1.25%) ACCA
15 21 (1.25%) Azure Certification
15 21 (1.25%) CIMA
15 21 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
16 19 (1.13%) CCNA
17 15 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.53%) QA
2 82 (4.88%) GDPR
3 81 (4.82%) SLA
4 80 (4.76%) PMO
5 70 (4.16%) Data Quality
6 68 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (2.56%) NIST
8 26 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.37%) GRC
9 23 (1.37%) SOC 2
10 22 (1.31%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.59%) IFRS
12 9 (0.54%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.54%) ITGC
13 8 (0.48%) COBIT
13 8 (0.48%) IFRS 17
14 7 (0.42%) Accessibility
15 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.36%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.30%) GMP
System Software
1 115 (6.84%) Active Directory
2 58 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (2.85%) Docker
4 21 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.95%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.89%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.48%) vCloud
8 8 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.48%) vSphere
9 6 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.24%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.12%) ACF2
12 2 (0.12%) RACF
12 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.059%) Firmware
13 1 (0.059%) NFS
Systems Management
1 81 (4.82%) Terraform
2 66 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 60 (3.57%) Ansible
4 27 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.49%) vCenter Server
6 22 (1.31%) Grafana
7 21 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.19%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.19%) SCOM
9 16 (0.95%) SCCM
10 12 (0.71%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.54%) Avamar
12 8 (0.48%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.42%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.42%) PowerCLI
13 7 (0.42%) vRealize
14 6 (0.36%) Argo
14 6 (0.36%) CASB
14 6 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 272 (16.17%) Microsoft
2 184 (10.94%) ServiceNow
3 162 (9.63%) Oracle
4 149 (8.86%) SAP
5 75 (4.46%) VMware
6 62 (3.69%) Cisco
7 61 (3.63%) Salesforce
8 55 (3.27%) Google
9 33 (1.96%) Citrix
10 32 (1.90%) Splunk
11 26 (1.55%) IBM
12 25 (1.49%) IFS
13 24 (1.43%) Red Hat
14 23 (1.37%) CheckPoint
15 20 (1.19%) F5
16 19 (1.13%) Juniper
16 19 (1.13%) Remedy
16 19 (1.13%) Workday
17 17 (1.01%) Palo Alto
18 16 (0.95%) Fortinet