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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 48 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,627 1,093 1,516
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.13% 4.46% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 4.90% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 710 972
10th Percentile £325 £331 £336
25th Percentile £414 £408 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £638
90th Percentile £700 £701 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 30 55
10th Percentile £22.04 £26.15 £14.18
25th Percentile £22.68 £31.83 £26.57
Median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.94% +49.35% -20.45%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.25 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £43.86 £54.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -18.79% +33.33% -15.85%

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 33,651 22,305 32,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,531 14,664 21,253
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 886 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.80 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%
75th Percentile £67.13 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -4 707 £500 -4.76% 186
North of England -13 296 £475 +5.56% 118
Midlands -4 226 £500 -0.05% 89
South East +15 218 £510 +4.08% 136
North West -2 196 £451 +2.97% 59
West Midlands -12 153 £507 +1.15% 44
South West -6 103 £525 +5.00% 44
Yorkshire -40 91 £487 +8.22% 45
East Midlands +13 71 £450 +27.12% 43
East of England -14 68 £475 -2.51% 42
North East -14 9 £440 -23.48% 15
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
1 111 (6.82%) Confluence
2 75 (4.61%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.80%) SAS
5 9 (0.55%) Appian
6 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.37%) IIS
7 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) CMS
9 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.061%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.061%) Moodle
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (4.79%) Microsoft Project
2 71 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 32 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (1.91%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.25%) Trello
9 3 (0.18%) Windchill
10 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.061%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 65 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.49%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.37%) Finacle
6 6 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.31%) Primavera
7 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) iTrent
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 256 (15.73%) Azure
2 130 (7.99%) AWS
3 107 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (5.35%) Power Platform
5 70 (4.30%) GCP
5 70 (4.30%) SaaS
6 65 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (3.63%) Entra ID
8 34 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (1.84%) Google Workspace
10 28 (1.72%) PaaS
10 28 (1.72%) Power Automate
11 22 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (1.29%) OpenShift
13 20 (1.23%) OCI
14 19 (1.17%) Google Sheets
15 18 (1.11%) IaaS
16 17 (1.04%) GitHub
17 16 (0.98%) PowerApps
18 14 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 97 (5.96%) Firewall
2 63 (3.87%) Network Security
3 55 (3.38%) WAN
4 50 (3.07%) DNS
5 46 (2.83%) VPN
6 43 (2.64%) LAN
7 31 (1.91%) SD-WAN
8 30 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.41%) SSL
10 22 (1.35%) DHCP
11 21 (1.29%) BGP
12 19 (1.17%) OSPF
13 17 (1.04%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.92%) SAN
14 15 (0.92%) Wireless
15 13 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
15 13 (0.80%) Internet
15 13 (0.80%) MPLS
15 13 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.12%) Power BI
2 52 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.41%) Metadata
4 21 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.29%) Tableau
5 15 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 15 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
9 7 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
10 6 (0.37%) MySQL
10 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.31%) Redis
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.25%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 210 (12.91%) JIRA
2 39 (2.40%) Git
3 36 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.61%) GitLab
6 9 (0.55%) Liquibase
7 8 (0.49%) MLflow
8 5 (0.31%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.25%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.25%) Hudson
9 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.25%) JUnit
9 4 (0.25%) Maven
9 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.18%) Snyk
10 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 675 (41.49%) Social Skills
2 546 (33.56%) Finance
3 295 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 132 (8.11%) Banking
6 68 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
7 65 (4.00%) Legal
8 63 (3.87%) Retail
9 54 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (3.01%) Marketing
11 46 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.21%) Local Government
12 36 (2.21%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.84%) Law
14 29 (1.78%) Telecoms
15 28 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.35%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.23%) Investment Banking
18 18 (1.11%) Aviation
19 17 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 192 (11.80%) Lead
2 189 (11.62%) Project Manager
3 163 (10.02%) Analyst
4 146 (8.97%) Change Manager
5 115 (7.07%) Senior
6 106 (6.52%) Consultant
7 101 (6.21%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.69%) Administrator
9 58 (3.56%) Programme Manager
10 57 (3.50%) Developer
11 49 (3.01%) Architect
12 47 (2.89%) Business Manager
13 43 (2.64%) Senior Manager
14 39 (2.40%) Business Change Manager
15 38 (2.34%) IT Manager
16 33 (2.03%) Delivery Manager
17 32 (1.97%) Network Engineer
17 32 (1.97%) Support Engineer
18 30 (1.84%) SAP Manager
19 28 (1.72%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.20%) REST
2 35 (2.15%) .NET
3 29 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.54%) OAuth
5 23 (1.41%) .NET Framework
6 20 (1.23%) Middleware
7 18 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (1.04%) SAML
9 14 (0.86%) OpenID
9 14 (0.86%) Web Services
10 13 (0.80%) CSS
10 13 (0.80%) LDAP
10 13 (0.80%) RESTful
11 10 (0.61%) HTML
11 10 (0.61%) ISPF
11 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
11 10 (0.61%) pytest
12 9 (0.55%) Django
12 9 (0.55%) Pandas
12 9 (0.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.35%) Management Information System
2 71 (4.36%) Onboarding
2 71 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 62 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 43 (2.64%) Virtual Team
5 41 (2.52%) PMI
6 39 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.34%) CMDB
8 30 (1.84%) Cloud Native
9 29 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.60%) PKI
12 24 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (0.98%) Operational Technology
15 16 (0.98%) Public Cloud
15 16 (0.98%) Replication
16 15 (0.92%) Low-Code
17 14 (0.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 160 (9.83%) Windows
2 63 (3.87%) Linux
3 56 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.78%) Unix
5 27 (1.66%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.31%) VMS
11 4 (0.25%) AIX
12 3 (0.18%) CentOS
12 3 (0.18%) HPUX
12 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.18%) Solaris
12 3 (0.18%) SUSE
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (31.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 402 (24.71%) Agile
3 395 (24.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 342 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
5 329 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 318 (19.55%) ITIL
7 302 (18.56%) Project Management
8 273 (16.78%) Migration
9 225 (13.83%) DevOps
10 190 (11.68%) Project Delivery
11 178 (10.94%) ERP
12 162 (9.96%) Roadmaps
13 152 (9.34%) Decision-Making
13 152 (9.34%) ITSM
14 147 (9.04%) Risk Management
15 141 (8.67%) Service Management
16 140 (8.60%) Validation
17 130 (7.99%) PRINCE2
18 129 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
19 128 (7.87%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 160 (9.83%) SQL
2 102 (6.27%) Python
3 95 (5.84%) PowerShell
4 49 (3.01%) C#
5 37 (2.27%) Bash
5 37 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 28 (1.72%) Java
7 25 (1.54%) T-SQL
8 21 (1.29%) JavaScript
9 10 (0.61%) CLIST
9 10 (0.61%) COBOL
9 10 (0.61%) Groovy
9 10 (0.61%) JCL
9 10 (0.61%) REXX
10 9 (0.55%) Korn
11 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.37%) Go
12 6 (0.37%) Perl
13 3 (0.18%) ABAP
13 3 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 342 (21.02%) Security Cleared
2 248 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 234 (14.38%) Degree
4 113 (6.95%) PMI Certification
5 108 (6.64%) PMP
6 48 (2.95%) CISSP
7 46 (2.83%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 37 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.27%) CISM
10 36 (2.21%) Master's Degree
11 30 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (1.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 28 (1.72%) APMG
14 26 (1.60%) CCNP
15 18 (1.11%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.98%) ACCA
16 16 (0.98%) CIMA
16 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.96%) QA
2 78 (4.79%) GDPR
3 77 (4.73%) PMO
4 70 (4.30%) Data Quality
5 64 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (3.44%) SLA
7 41 (2.52%) NIST
8 21 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 17 (1.04%) IFRS
11 16 (0.98%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.92%) IFRS 17
13 10 (0.61%) Basel III
14 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.55%) GRC
15 7 (0.43%) COBIT
15 7 (0.43%) ITGC
16 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.31%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 116 (7.13%) Active Directory
2 52 (3.20%) Docker
3 41 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) ACF2
7 10 (0.61%) RACF
7 10 (0.61%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.49%) Firmware
8 8 (0.49%) vSphere
9 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.31%) KVM
10 5 (0.31%) XenApp
10 5 (0.31%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.12%) NFS
11 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.061%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 77 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.44%) Terraform
3 49 (3.01%) Ansible
4 33 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.41%) SCCM
6 21 (1.29%) Grafana
7 20 (1.23%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.04%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.61%) CA Endevor
9 10 (0.61%) Puppet
10 9 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.55%) Tivoli
10 9 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 8 (0.49%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.49%) Kibana
11 8 (0.49%) SCOM
12 7 (0.43%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.37%) CASB
13 6 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 278 (17.09%) Microsoft
2 166 (10.20%) ServiceNow
3 157 (9.65%) SAP
4 144 (8.85%) Oracle
5 65 (4.00%) Google
5 65 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 61 (3.75%) VMware
7 58 (3.56%) Cisco
8 37 (2.27%) Citrix
9 33 (2.03%) Workday
10 24 (1.48%) Splunk
11 23 (1.41%) Atlassian
11 23 (1.41%) IFS
12 21 (1.29%) F5
13 19 (1.17%) Juniper
14 18 (1.11%) CheckPoint
15 17 (1.04%) Palo Alto
16 15 (0.92%) Remedy
16 15 (0.92%) SolarWinds
17 14 (0.86%) Fortinet