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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 53 41
Rank change year-on-year +3 -12 +10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,281 1,291 2,068
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.61% 3.92% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 4.55% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 710 1,274
10th Percentile £343 £313 £370
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 40 39
10th Percentile £22.16 £26.42 £20.90
25th Percentile £22.63 £36.46 £33.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £58.30 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.54% +20.45% +77.61%
75th Percentile £58.51 £61.60 £56.03
90th Percentile £70.16 £70.00 £60.38
UK median hourly rate £34.67 £56.75 £48.40
% change year-on-year -38.91% +17.24% +69.82%

All Process and 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 25,277 28,358 37,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.89% 86.07% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,059 17,631 26,012
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £405 £420 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,509 1,303 1,436
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.55 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.53%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +4 586 £553 -3.91% 411
North of England -8 238 £450 -12.83% 205
Midlands +19 178 £475 - 139
West Midlands +18 140 £475 -2.91% 86
North West 0 139 £450 -11.24% 122
South East -6 132 £488 -2.45% 349
Yorkshire -16 95 £456 -13.10% 64
South West +25 86 £513 -6.82% 106
East of England +1 47 £530 +10.42% 92
East Midlands +13 36 £438 +23.24% 46
North East -7 2 £450 -25.00% 21
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 106 (8.27%) Confluence
2 56 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.25%) CMS
4 12 (0.94%) nginx
5 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.78%) IIS
7 6 (0.47%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.47%) Mule
7 6 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.47%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.39%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.39%) JBoss
9 4 (0.31%) CICS
10 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.078%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.078%) Moodle
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle UPK
11 1 (0.078%) Traefik
Applications
1 80 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 79 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (4.06%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (2.11%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.55%) Trello
8 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.31%) Windchill
9 3 (0.23%) InfoPath
10 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.078%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.078%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.078%) Notion
11 1 (0.078%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 41 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 8 (0.62%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.47%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (0.39%) SAP APO
6 5 (0.39%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.31%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.31%) Maximo
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.31%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.31%) VisionPLUS
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 100 (7.81%) Azure
2 86 (6.71%) AWS
3 68 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (5.07%) Power Platform
5 42 (3.28%) GCP
6 36 (2.81%) SaaS
7 30 (2.34%) Amazon S3
8 26 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 26 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 25 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (1.95%) Amazon ELB
9 25 (1.95%) AWS KMS
10 19 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (1.48%) GitHub
11 18 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (1.41%) Entra ID
12 16 (1.25%) Serverless
13 14 (1.09%) Route 53
14 13 (1.01%) Power Automate
14 13 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 95 (7.42%) Firewall
2 58 (4.53%) DNS
3 45 (3.51%) Network Security
4 34 (2.65%) WAN
5 31 (2.42%) VPN
6 29 (2.26%) SSH
7 27 (2.11%) HTTP
8 24 (1.87%) SMTP
9 23 (1.80%) FTP
10 22 (1.72%) Wireless
11 21 (1.64%) LAN
12 17 (1.33%) DHCP
13 16 (1.25%) SSL
14 14 (1.09%) BGP
14 14 (1.09%) IPsec
14 14 (1.09%) OSPF
14 14 (1.09%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.94%) IMAP
15 12 (0.94%) OpenLDAP
16 11 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.29%) Power BI
2 30 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (1.72%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.48%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 15 (1.17%) Metadata
7 15 (1.17%) Tableau
8 14 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
9 13 (1.01%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.55%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.47%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.47%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.31%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.31%) Siebel EIM
14 3 (0.23%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 2 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 153 (11.94%) JIRA
2 61 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 38 (2.97%) Git
4 25 (1.95%) Vagrant
5 15 (1.17%) GitLab
5 15 (1.17%) Liquibase
6 13 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (0.78%) MSI
8 6 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.47%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.39%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.31%) ChangeMan
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (0.23%) CA Release Automation
11 3 (0.23%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.23%) Selenium
12 2 (0.16%) AdminStudio
12 2 (0.16%) InstallShield
General
1 486 (37.94%) Social Skills
2 469 (36.61%) Finance
3 189 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (11.16%) Banking
5 115 (8.98%) Public Sector
6 61 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 58 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
8 52 (4.06%) Legal
9 51 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
10 50 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
11 41 (3.20%) Telecoms
12 39 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 39 (3.04%) Law
13 37 (2.89%) Marketing
14 32 (2.50%) Financial Institution
15 30 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 30 (2.34%) Retail
16 26 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (1.17%) Aerospace
17 15 (1.17%) French Language
Job Titles
1 211 (16.47%) Analyst
2 165 (12.88%) Project Manager
3 117 (9.13%) Business Analyst
4 116 (9.06%) Lead
5 84 (6.56%) Change Manager
6 79 (6.17%) Consultant
7 69 (5.39%) Senior
8 59 (4.61%) Administrator
9 55 (4.29%) IT Manager
10 48 (3.75%) Developer
11 45 (3.51%) Architect
12 43 (3.36%) Programme Manager
13 41 (3.20%) Service Manager
14 37 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
15 33 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
16 30 (2.34%) Senior Manager
17 28 (2.19%) AWS Engineer
18 27 (2.11%) Financial Analyst
19 26 (2.03%) SAP Manager
19 26 (2.03%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (1.64%) REST
3 19 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (1.33%) .NET
4 17 (1.33%) RESTful
5 15 (1.17%) LDAP
6 10 (0.78%) 802.1X
6 10 (0.78%) HTML
6 10 (0.78%) SOAP
6 10 (0.78%) Web Services
7 7 (0.55%) .NET Framework
7 7 (0.55%) CSS
8 6 (0.47%) Middleware
8 6 (0.47%) React
9 5 (0.39%) ADO
9 5 (0.39%) Kafka
9 5 (0.39%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.31%) JMS
10 4 (0.31%) XML
10 4 (0.31%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 65 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 51 (3.98%) Data Centre
3 50 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.58%) CMDB
6 31 (2.42%) Life Science
7 28 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (2.03%) Replication
9 23 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (1.72%) Cloud Native
10 22 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (1.48%) PKI
14 16 (1.25%) Public Cloud
15 14 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
15 14 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
15 14 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 13 (1.01%) Operational Technology
17 11 (0.86%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 125 (9.76%) Windows
2 80 (6.25%) Linux
3 26 (2.03%) VMS
3 26 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.87%) Amazon Linux
5 22 (1.72%) Unix
6 17 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 14 (1.09%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.31%) zOS
10 3 (0.23%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.078%) AIX
12 1 (0.078%) Android
12 1 (0.078%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.078%) Solaris
12 1 (0.078%) SUSE
12 1 (0.078%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (25.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 323 (25.21%) Agile
3 269 (21.00%) Project Management
4 250 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
5 236 (18.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 202 (15.77%) ITIL
7 196 (15.30%) Migration
8 171 (13.35%) Project Delivery
9 141 (11.01%) Risk Management
10 136 (10.62%) DevOps
11 132 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (9.76%) Service Management
13 115 (8.98%) ERP
14 107 (8.35%) Decision-Making
14 107 (8.35%) Roadmaps
15 97 (7.57%) PRINCE2
16 89 (6.95%) Process Improvement
17 87 (6.79%) Waterfall
18 85 (6.64%) Data Migration
19 83 (6.48%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 100 (7.81%) SQL
2 88 (6.87%) Python
3 70 (5.46%) PowerShell
4 42 (3.28%) Java
5 32 (2.50%) C#
6 26 (2.03%) Groovy
7 21 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 19 (1.48%) Go
9 18 (1.41%) Perl
9 18 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.55%) VB
11 6 (0.47%) Bash
12 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.31%) ABAP
13 4 (0.31%) Korn
13 4 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.31%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.23%) SOQL
14 3 (0.23%) SOSL
14 3 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 210 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 208 (16.24%) Degree
3 139 (10.85%) SC Cleared
4 69 (5.39%) PMI Certification
5 68 (5.31%) PMP
6 45 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.97%) DV Cleared
8 33 (2.58%) ITIL Certification
9 30 (2.34%) Master's Degree
10 26 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.64%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (1.01%) APMG
14 13 (1.01%) Azure Certification
14 13 (1.01%) CBAP
15 11 (0.86%) CCNP
16 9 (0.70%) CCNA
17 8 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 8 (0.62%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (4.76%) QA
2 54 (4.22%) PMO
3 32 (2.50%) SLA
4 31 (2.42%) GDPR
5 29 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.25%) NIST
8 13 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.86%) MiFID
9 11 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.78%) EMIR
11 7 (0.55%) NCSC
11 7 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.47%) ITGC
13 5 (0.39%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.31%) IFRS
14 4 (0.31%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.31%) P3O
15 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 65 (5.07%) Active Directory
2 49 (3.83%) Docker
3 22 (1.72%) DFS Replication
4 16 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.94%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.94%) Postfix
5 12 (0.94%) Squid
6 10 (0.78%) Firmware
7 9 (0.70%) vSphere
8 8 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.31%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.078%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.078%) Snort
12 1 (0.078%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.078%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.078%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (3.98%) Terraform
2 50 (3.90%) Grafana
3 45 (3.51%) Prometheus
4 38 (2.97%) Kubernetes
5 30 (2.34%) Ansible
6 27 (2.11%) SCCM
7 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.01%) Nessus
9 10 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (0.78%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.70%) SCOM
11 8 (0.62%) Kibana
12 6 (0.47%) HP SiteScope
13 5 (0.39%) Puppet
14 4 (0.31%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
14 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.23%) Check_MK
15 3 (0.23%) WSUS
16 2 (0.16%) Nagios
Vendors
1 253 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 138 (10.77%) SAP
3 105 (8.20%) ServiceNow
4 79 (6.17%) Oracle
5 54 (4.22%) Cisco
6 44 (3.43%) Salesforce
7 41 (3.20%) Splunk
8 32 (2.50%) Google
9 30 (2.34%) Juniper
10 26 (2.03%) Remedy
11 25 (1.95%) VMware
12 19 (1.48%) F5
12 19 (1.48%) Workday
13 14 (1.09%) CheckPoint
13 14 (1.09%) Fortinet
14 13 (1.01%) IBM
15 12 (0.94%) Jaspersoft
16 10 (0.78%) Citrix
16 10 (0.78%) Palo Alto
17 9 (0.70%) Blue Coat