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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 50 45
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,571 1,062 1,449
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 4.37% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.79% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 680 926
10th Percentile £350 £331 £319
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 30 64
10th Percentile £20.26 £26.15 £14.91
25th Percentile £22.63 £31.83 £29.98
Median hourly rate £34.94 £53.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +7.50% +2.05%
75th Percentile £61.81 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.18 £72.50 £69.85
UK median hourly rate £34.87 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.43% +8.00% +3.31%

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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -5 684 £501 -8.92% 233
North of England -13 283 £475 +5.56% 94
Midlands +2 214 £503 +0.60% 62
South East -5 204 £529 +8.24% 121
North West -3 166 £451 +0.11% 47
West Midlands -8 142 £515 +2.90% 38
Yorkshire -32 109 £487 +5.35% 39
South West -6 97 £500 - 37
East of England -8 77 £475 -2.51% 37
East Midlands +17 70 £428 +17.77% 24
North East -17 8 £433 -24.78% 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 95 (6.05%) Confluence
2 76 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.89%) SAS
5 11 (0.70%) IIS
6 10 (0.64%) Appian
7 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.064%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.064%) Moodle
10 1 (0.064%) MTS
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.064%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (4.20%) Microsoft Project
2 63 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 28 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.46%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Trello
9 2 (0.13%) Windchill
10 1 (0.064%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 65 (4.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.38%) Finacle
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.32%) Primavera
8 4 (0.25%) Maximo
8 4 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.13%) Global One
10 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 235 (14.96%) Azure
2 121 (7.70%) AWS
3 94 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (5.60%) Power Platform
5 67 (4.26%) SaaS
6 59 (3.76%) Entra ID
7 57 (3.63%) GCP
8 54 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
10 33 (2.10%) Google Workspace
11 30 (1.91%) Power Automate
12 24 (1.53%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (1.40%) PaaS
14 20 (1.27%) Google Sheets
15 18 (1.15%) OCI
16 17 (1.08%) GitHub
17 16 (1.02%) Asana
17 16 (1.02%) PowerApps
18 15 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.96%) Firewall
2 55 (3.50%) Network Security
3 50 (3.18%) DNS
4 46 (2.93%) WAN
5 45 (2.86%) VPN
6 36 (2.29%) LAN
7 26 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (1.59%) SD-WAN
9 22 (1.40%) SSL
10 21 (1.34%) DHCP
11 18 (1.15%) BGP
11 18 (1.15%) TCP/IP
12 17 (1.08%) SAN
13 16 (1.02%) OSPF
14 15 (0.95%) Wireless
15 13 (0.83%) MPLS
16 12 (0.76%) Internet
16 12 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
17 11 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
17 11 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.39%) Power BI
2 51 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (1.46%) Metadata
4 18 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
5 17 (1.08%) Tableau
6 14 (0.89%) Oracle Database
7 11 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.51%) Pinecone
11 6 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (0.38%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.25%) Pentaho
12 4 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 199 (12.67%) JIRA
2 45 (2.86%) Git
3 40 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.64%) GitLab
6 9 (0.57%) MLflow
7 8 (0.51%) InstallShield
8 7 (0.45%) AdminStudio
9 5 (0.32%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.25%) Hudson
10 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.25%) Maven
10 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.19%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.19%) Snyk
12 2 (0.13%) git-flow
12 2 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.064%) TestRail
General
1 621 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 538 (34.25%) Finance
3 265 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.25%) Public Sector
5 127 (8.08%) Banking
6 76 (4.84%) Legal
7 69 (4.39%) Retail
8 57 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.99%) Marketing
11 44 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.10%) Law
13 30 (1.91%) Local Government
14 29 (1.85%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (1.65%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.34%) Aviation
16 21 (1.34%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.02%) Aerospace
17 16 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 182 (11.58%) Project Manager
2 164 (10.44%) Lead
3 149 (9.48%) Analyst
4 135 (8.59%) Change Manager
5 118 (7.51%) Senior
6 102 (6.49%) Consultant
7 92 (5.86%) Business Analyst
8 61 (3.88%) Programme Manager
9 56 (3.56%) Administrator
10 53 (3.37%) Developer
11 49 (3.12%) Senior Manager
12 45 (2.86%) Architect
13 43 (2.74%) Business Manager
14 38 (2.42%) IT Manager
15 37 (2.36%) Business Change Manager
15 37 (2.36%) Delivery Manager
16 34 (2.16%) Support Engineer
17 31 (1.97%) Service Manager
18 29 (1.85%) SAP Manager
19 27 (1.72%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.99%) REST
2 32 (2.04%) .NET
3 27 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.53%) OAuth
5 21 (1.34%) Middleware
6 20 (1.27%) .NET Framework
6 20 (1.27%) CSS
7 17 (1.08%) HTML
8 16 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (0.95%) Web Services
10 14 (0.89%) LDAP
11 11 (0.70%) React
11 11 (0.70%) RESTful
12 10 (0.64%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.64%) Pandas
12 10 (0.64%) pytest
12 10 (0.64%) SAML
13 9 (0.57%) Django
13 9 (0.57%) NumPy
13 9 (0.57%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 77 (4.90%) Management Information System
2 76 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 68 (4.33%) Data Centre
4 60 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 44 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (2.42%) CMDB
7 36 (2.29%) PMI
8 32 (2.04%) Cloud Native
9 27 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.53%) PKI
13 18 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.08%) Low-Code
14 17 (1.08%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
16 15 (0.95%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.83%) Security Posture
18 12 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 158 (10.06%) Windows
2 66 (4.20%) Linux
3 56 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.16%) Unix
5 24 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.45%) Solaris
9 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.38%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.32%) SUSE
11 5 (0.32%) VMS
12 4 (0.25%) AIX
12 4 (0.25%) HPUX
12 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.13%) CentOS
13 2 (0.13%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (32.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 369 (23.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 365 (23.23%) Agile
4 322 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
5 318 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 284 (18.08%) ITIL
7 278 (17.70%) Project Management
8 262 (16.68%) Migration
9 197 (12.54%) DevOps
10 178 (11.33%) ERP
11 175 (11.14%) Project Delivery
12 174 (11.08%) Roadmaps
13 157 (9.99%) Decision-Making
14 145 (9.23%) Validation
15 144 (9.17%) Risk Management
16 139 (8.85%) ITSM
17 128 (8.15%) CI/CD
18 121 (7.70%) Workshop Facilitation
19 120 (7.64%) Service Management
20 116 (7.38%) AI
Programming Languages
1 156 (9.93%) SQL
2 96 (6.11%) Python
3 82 (5.22%) PowerShell
4 44 (2.80%) C#
5 41 (2.61%) PL/SQL
6 37 (2.36%) Bash
7 31 (1.97%) JavaScript
8 26 (1.65%) Java
9 23 (1.46%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.57%) Korn
11 8 (0.51%) Groovy
12 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.32%) Go
14 4 (0.25%) Bicep
14 4 (0.25%) COBOL
14 4 (0.25%) JCL
15 3 (0.19%) ABAP
15 3 (0.19%) C++
15 3 (0.19%) Perl
15 3 (0.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 332 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 233 (14.83%) SC Cleared
3 200 (12.73%) Degree
4 111 (7.07%) PMP
5 105 (6.68%) PMI Certification
6 51 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 48 (3.06%) CISSP
8 41 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 37 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.36%) CISM
10 34 (2.16%) Master's Degree
11 27 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
12 26 (1.65%) APMG
12 26 (1.65%) CCNP
13 24 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (1.15%) ACCA
14 18 (1.15%) CIMA
15 16 (1.02%) Azure Certification
16 15 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 12 (0.76%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (5.86%) QA
2 83 (5.28%) GDPR
3 80 (5.09%) Data Quality
4 75 (4.77%) PMO
5 65 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (3.63%) SLA
7 42 (2.67%) NIST
8 23 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.34%) SOC 2
10 19 (1.21%) PCI DSS
11 17 (1.08%) IFRS
12 15 (0.95%) IFRS 17
13 14 (0.89%) GRC
14 9 (0.57%) Basel III
15 8 (0.51%) ITGC
16 7 (0.45%) COBIT
17 5 (0.32%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.32%) ISO 9001
18 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 113 (7.19%) Active Directory
2 51 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (3.18%) Docker
4 20 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 19 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.89%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.51%) vSphere
9 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.38%) KVM
11 5 (0.32%) Firmware
11 5 (0.32%) vCloud
12 4 (0.25%) XenApp
12 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.19%) NFS
14 2 (0.13%) ACF2
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.13%) RACF
14 2 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
15 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 75 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.01%) Terraform
3 56 (3.56%) Ansible
4 30 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.46%) Grafana
5 23 (1.46%) SCCM
6 22 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (1.34%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.89%) SCOM
9 10 (0.64%) Puppet
10 8 (0.51%) Kibana
11 7 (0.45%) PowerCLI
12 6 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.38%) CASB
12 6 (0.38%) Cisco Prime
13 5 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.32%) vRealize
14 4 (0.25%) Avamar
14 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 252 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 174 (11.08%) ServiceNow
3 152 (9.68%) SAP
4 146 (9.29%) Oracle
5 72 (4.58%) VMware
6 63 (4.01%) Salesforce
7 55 (3.50%) Google
8 51 (3.25%) Cisco
9 32 (2.04%) Citrix
10 31 (1.97%) Splunk
11 26 (1.65%) IFS
12 23 (1.46%) Workday
13 19 (1.21%) CheckPoint
13 19 (1.21%) F5
14 18 (1.15%) Palo Alto
15 17 (1.08%) Juniper
15 17 (1.08%) Remedy
16 16 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 16 (1.02%) IBM
17 14 (0.89%) Sage