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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 51 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,671 1,149 1,456
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.81% 4.40% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.84% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 720 899
10th Percentile £364 £330 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £706 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £524 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +4.80% -1.48% -7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 47 70
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.63 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £29.00 £30.71
Median hourly rate £34.87 £41.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.95% -18.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.10 £70.70 £68.94
UK median hourly rate £34.94 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -1 778 £525 -4.55% 319
North of England -21 292 £475 +5.56% 122
South East -2 233 £575 +17.59% 152
Midlands -9 175 £520 +9.47% 64
North West -17 165 £453 +2.95% 86
West Midlands -23 128 £525 +10.53% 40
Yorkshire -27 110 £500 +11.11% 28
South West -14 87 £519 +2.22% 67
East of England 0 79 £475 -5.00% 30
East Midlands +15 45 £513 +43.16% 24
North East -22 17 £425 -15.00% 11
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 (5.69%) Confluence
2 84 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.02%) IIS
5 14 (0.84%) SAS
6 12 (0.72%) Appian
7 10 (0.60%) 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
14 1 (0.060%) HCL Notes
14 1 (0.060%) Mattermost
14 1 (0.060%) MTS
14 1 (0.060%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 58 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (2.69%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.44%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.060%) Houdini
8 1 (0.060%) InDesign
8 1 (0.060%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.060%) NUKE
8 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.060%) Trello
8 1 (0.060%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 65 (3.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.60%) 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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 239 (14.30%) Azure
2 130 (7.78%) AWS
3 97 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (5.27%) Power Platform
5 77 (4.61%) Entra ID
6 72 (4.31%) SaaS
7 58 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (3.11%) GCP
9 33 (1.97%) Google Workspace
10 32 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (1.56%) GitHub
12 24 (1.44%) OCI
13 23 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
14 22 (1.32%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 19 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (1.08%) PaaS
17 18 (1.08%) Serverless
18 17 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 104 (6.22%) Firewall
2 74 (4.43%) Network Security
3 51 (3.05%) WAN
4 44 (2.63%) DNS
4 44 (2.63%) VPN
5 37 (2.21%) LAN
6 25 (1.50%) SD-WAN
6 25 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (1.50%) Wireless
7 24 (1.44%) BGP
8 21 (1.26%) OSPF
9 19 (1.14%) TCP/IP
10 18 (1.08%) DHCP
11 17 (1.02%) SSL
12 16 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
13 14 (0.84%) MPLS
14 12 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (0.72%) Internet
15 11 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.07%) Power BI
2 51 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.74%) Metadata
4 27 (1.62%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.54%) Tableau
11 5 (0.30%) Data Mart
11 5 (0.30%) Db2
11 5 (0.30%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.30%) Neo4j
11 5 (0.30%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.30%) Pinecone
11 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 209 (12.51%) JIRA
2 57 (3.41%) Git
3 50 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.60%) GitLab
6 7 (0.42%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.42%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.36%) MLflow
8 5 (0.30%) Selenium
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
9 4 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.18%) Snyk
10 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 628 (37.58%) Social Skills
2 615 (36.80%) Finance
3 270 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.10%) Public Sector
5 140 (8.38%) Banking
6 90 (5.39%) Legal
7 81 (4.85%) Retail
8 66 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (2.99%) Marketing
11 49 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (2.57%) Manufacturing
14 39 (2.33%) Law
15 37 (2.21%) Telecoms
16 36 (2.15%) Local Government
17 24 (1.44%) Aviation
18 23 (1.38%) Financial Institution
19 18 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 14 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 189 (11.31%) Project Manager
2 175 (10.47%) Lead
3 158 (9.46%) Analyst
4 133 (7.96%) Change Manager
5 121 (7.24%) Senior
6 112 (6.70%) Consultant
7 93 (5.57%) Business Analyst
8 63 (3.77%) Programme Manager
9 55 (3.29%) Administrator
10 54 (3.23%) Senior Manager
11 48 (2.87%) Developer
12 45 (2.69%) Business Manager
12 45 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (2.63%) IT Manager
14 42 (2.51%) Support Engineer
15 40 (2.39%) Service Manager
16 39 (2.33%) Architect
16 39 (2.33%) Network Engineer
17 35 (2.09%) Business Change Manager
18 31 (1.86%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.35%) REST
2 36 (2.15%) .NET
3 33 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.32%) CSS
4 22 (1.32%) HTML
5 21 (1.26%) OAuth
6 20 (1.20%) .NET Framework
7 17 (1.02%) Middleware
8 15 (0.90%) Web Services
9 14 (0.84%) LDAP
9 14 (0.84%) RESTful
10 13 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
11 12 (0.72%) Ajax
12 11 (0.66%) React
12 11 (0.66%) SOAP
13 10 (0.60%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.54%) JSON
14 9 (0.54%) OAuth2
14 9 (0.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 75 (4.49%) Data Centre
3 63 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 61 (3.65%) Product Ownership
5 49 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (2.69%) Cloud Native
7 31 (1.86%) PMI
8 29 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.68%) Operational Technology
10 27 (1.62%) CMDB
11 24 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.26%) PKI
15 20 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 19 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (1.14%) Public Cloud
17 16 (0.96%) Low-Code
18 14 (0.84%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 175 (10.47%) Windows
2 90 (5.39%) Linux
3 60 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (2.15%) Unix
6 19 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.60%) Solaris
7 10 (0.60%) 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%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.30%) HPUX
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
1 560 (33.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 431 (25.79%) Agile
3 394 (23.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 358 (21.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 322 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
6 303 (18.13%) ITIL
7 283 (16.94%) Project Management
8 265 (15.86%) Migration
9 226 (13.52%) DevOps
10 218 (13.05%) Project Delivery
11 196 (11.73%) Roadmaps
12 184 (11.01%) Decision-Making
13 181 (10.83%) ERP
14 162 (9.69%) Risk Management
15 161 (9.63%) AI
16 147 (8.80%) Service Management
17 146 (8.74%) CI/CD
17 146 (8.74%) ITSM
18 133 (7.96%) Validation
19 132 (7.90%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 157 (9.40%) SQL
2 122 (7.30%) Python
3 105 (6.28%) PowerShell
4 48 (2.87%) C#
5 45 (2.69%) PL/SQL
6 42 (2.51%) Bash
7 40 (2.39%) Java
8 38 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 24 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.66%) Korn
11 10 (0.60%) 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
1 331 (19.81%) Security Cleared
2 239 (14.30%) SC Cleared
3 197 (11.79%) Degree
4 125 (7.48%) PMP
5 114 (6.82%) PMI Certification
6 56 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 54 (3.23%) CISSP
8 50 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (2.03%) CCNP
11 33 (1.97%) CISM
12 27 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
13 25 (1.50%) APMG
13 25 (1.50%) Master's Degree
14 22 (1.32%) Azure Certification
15 21 (1.26%) ACCA
15 21 (1.26%) CIMA
15 21 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
16 19 (1.14%) CCNA
17 15 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.57%) QA
2 82 (4.91%) GDPR
3 80 (4.79%) PMO
3 80 (4.79%) SLA
4 71 (4.25%) Data Quality
5 69 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.57%) NIST
7 25 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 23 (1.38%) SOC 2
9 22 (1.32%) PCI DSS
10 21 (1.26%) GRC
11 10 (0.60%) IFRS
12 9 (0.54%) ITGC
13 8 (0.48%) COBIT
13 8 (0.48%) IFRS 17
13 8 (0.48%) ISO 9001
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 (6.88%) Active Directory
2 57 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (2.87%) Docker
4 21 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.02%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.48%) vSphere
9 7 (0.42%) vCloud
10 5 (0.30%) KVM
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.12%) ACF2
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.12%) XenApp
13 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.060%) Squid
Systems Management
1 82 (4.91%) Terraform
2 66 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 60 (3.59%) Ansible
4 27 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.38%) vCenter Server
6 22 (1.32%) Grafana
7 21 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.20%) Prometheus
9 18 (1.08%) SCOM
10 16 (0.96%) SCCM
11 12 (0.72%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.48%) Avamar
12 8 (0.48%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.42%) PowerCLI
13 7 (0.42%) vRealize
14 6 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.36%) Argo
14 6 (0.36%) CASB
14 6 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 269 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 183 (10.95%) ServiceNow
3 161 (9.63%) Oracle
4 148 (8.86%) SAP
5 73 (4.37%) VMware
6 60 (3.59%) Cisco
6 60 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 55 (3.29%) Google
8 33 (1.97%) Citrix
9 32 (1.92%) Splunk
10 26 (1.56%) IBM
11 25 (1.50%) IFS
11 25 (1.50%) Red Hat
12 22 (1.32%) CheckPoint
13 20 (1.20%) Workday
14 19 (1.14%) Remedy
15 18 (1.08%) F5
16 17 (1.02%) Palo Alto
17 16 (0.96%) Juniper
18 15 (0.90%) Fortinet