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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 45 50
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,747 1,293 1,305
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.81% 4.67% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 5.14% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 802 783
10th Percentile £375 £331 £313
25th Percentile £429 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £622
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 56 48
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.61 £19.55
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £30.18
Median hourly rate £41.71 £30.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +39.03% -48.43% +20.19%
75th Percentile £71.62 £52.06 £61.60
90th Percentile £86.13 £70.08 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £37.28 £57.50
% change year-on-year +11.88% -35.17% +18.80%

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 38,995 25,146 28,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.84% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,229 16,020 18,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 1,434 1,645
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.60 £50.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -3 835 £540 -1.82% 818
North of England -27 287 £500 +11.11% 183
South East +6 278 £575 +19.79% 225
North West -23 169 £490 +8.84% 113
Midlands -43 131 £500 +5.26% 100
Yorkshire -33 103 £500 +11.11% 54
West Midlands -45 99 £515 +8.42% 63
South West -30 95 £525 +6.06% 99
East of England +1 82 £500 -4.76% 66
East Midlands -13 30 £445 +23.61% 37
North East -30 15 £425 -15.00% 18
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 96 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 77 (4.41%) Confluence
3 30 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.97%) IIS
5 11 (0.63%) SAS
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.34%) Appian
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.17%) Kentico
12 2 (0.11%) CICS
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.057%) Mattermost
13 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 67 (3.84%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) Houdini
9 2 (0.11%) NUKE
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.057%) InDesign
10 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 57 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.46%) Maximo
7 8 (0.46%) Primavera
7 8 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
9 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
10 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 5 (0.29%) Teamcenter
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 275 (15.74%) Azure
2 138 (7.90%) AWS
3 113 (6.47%) Power Platform
4 109 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (5.44%) Entra ID
6 74 (4.24%) SaaS
7 64 (3.66%) GCP
8 60 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 39 (2.23%) GitHub
11 28 (1.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 28 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
11 28 (1.60%) OCI
12 23 (1.32%) Power Automate
13 22 (1.26%) Google Workspace
14 21 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (1.14%) Serverless
16 19 (1.09%) PowerApps
17 18 (1.03%) OpenShift
18 17 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 115 (6.58%) Firewall
2 98 (5.61%) Network Security
3 62 (3.55%) DNS
4 56 (3.21%) VPN
4 56 (3.21%) WAN
5 37 (2.12%) LAN
6 32 (1.83%) DHCP
6 32 (1.83%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.60%) Wireless
8 27 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (1.37%) SD-WAN
10 22 (1.26%) BGP
11 21 (1.20%) SSL
12 20 (1.14%) OSPF
13 19 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (0.80%) MPLS
16 13 (0.74%) HTTP
17 12 (0.69%) Internet
17 12 (0.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (5.21%) Power BI
2 53 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.60%) Oracle Database
4 27 (1.55%) Metadata
5 19 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
7 14 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (0.63%) Tableau
9 9 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.40%) Db2
11 6 (0.34%) GIS
11 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
12 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 191 (10.93%) JIRA
2 56 (3.21%) Git
3 49 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.46%) GitLab
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.34%) Selenium
7 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.23%) Hudson
9 4 (0.23%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.17%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
General
1 659 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 642 (36.75%) Finance
3 299 (17.12%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (9.50%) Banking
5 152 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 86 (4.92%) Legal
7 83 (4.75%) Retail
8 82 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
9 65 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
10 63 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
11 53 (3.03%) Telecoms
12 49 (2.80%) Marketing
13 47 (2.69%) Manufacturing
14 40 (2.29%) Law
15 38 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
16 33 (1.89%) Local Government
17 29 (1.66%) Aviation
18 24 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 23 (1.32%) Financial Institution
20 19 (1.09%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 209 (11.96%) Lead
2 196 (11.22%) Project Manager
3 179 (10.25%) Analyst
4 136 (7.78%) Senior
5 133 (7.61%) Change Manager
6 116 (6.64%) Consultant
7 102 (5.84%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.43%) Senior Manager
9 54 (3.09%) Administrator
10 53 (3.03%) Network Engineer
11 49 (2.80%) Programme Manager
12 47 (2.69%) Developer
13 46 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
14 43 (2.46%) IT Manager
15 42 (2.40%) Business Manager
16 39 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
16 39 (2.23%) Support Engineer
17 38 (2.18%) Service Manager
18 35 (2.00%) Business Change Manager
19 31 (1.77%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.09%) REST
2 35 (2.00%) .NET
3 33 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.37%) HTML
5 23 (1.32%) CSS
6 16 (0.92%) Ajax
7 15 (0.86%) Middleware
7 15 (0.86%) SOAP
8 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
8 13 (0.74%) OAuth
9 12 (0.69%) .NET Framework
9 12 (0.69%) 802.1X
9 12 (0.69%) Kafka
9 12 (0.69%) Web Services
10 11 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (0.52%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.46%) React
12 8 (0.46%) SPFx
12 8 (0.46%) Spring
13 7 (0.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.78%) Onboarding
2 88 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 76 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 49 (2.80%) Cloud Native
6 46 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.89%) PKI
7 33 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 33 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (1.60%) CMDB
9 28 (1.60%) PMI
10 27 (1.55%) Operational Technology
10 27 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.14%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.09%) Public Cloud
15 17 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
16 16 (0.92%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 203 (11.62%) Windows
2 95 (5.44%) Linux
3 82 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.83%) Unix
6 18 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) Solaris
7 10 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.57%) VMS
8 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.34%) AIX
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.34%) SUSE
11 5 (0.29%) HPUX
11 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.17%) Android
12 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.11%) CentOS
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (35.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 452 (25.87%) Agile
3 413 (23.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 396 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 342 (19.58%) ITIL
6 320 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
7 300 (17.17%) Project Management
8 262 (15.00%) Migration
9 261 (14.94%) Project Delivery
10 228 (13.05%) DevOps
11 224 (12.82%) Roadmaps
12 206 (11.79%) Decision-Making
13 202 (11.56%) Service Management
14 191 (10.93%) AI
15 187 (10.70%) ERP
15 187 (10.70%) ITSM
16 161 (9.22%) PRINCE2
17 155 (8.87%) Analytics
18 148 (8.47%) Risk Management
19 145 (8.30%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 141 (8.07%) SQL
2 139 (7.96%) Python
3 127 (7.27%) PowerShell
4 62 (3.55%) Bash
5 44 (2.52%) PL/SQL
6 43 (2.46%) Java
7 42 (2.40%) C#
7 42 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 23 (1.32%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.14%) Bicep
10 14 (0.80%) Korn
11 9 (0.52%) Go
11 9 (0.52%) Groovy
11 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.29%) COBOL
12 5 (0.29%) VBScript
13 4 (0.23%) JCL
13 4 (0.23%) Perl
14 3 (0.17%) ABAP
14 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 365 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 261 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 205 (11.73%) Degree
4 147 (8.41%) PMP
5 133 (7.61%) PMI Certification
6 72 (4.12%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.38%) CISSP
8 50 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (2.06%) CISM
10 34 (1.95%) CCNP
11 28 (1.60%) Azure Certification
12 27 (1.55%) APMG
12 27 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
13 25 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
14 24 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
15 22 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 21 (1.20%) CCNA
17 20 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
18 18 (1.03%) ACCA
18 18 (1.03%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (4.87%) QA
2 84 (4.81%) PMO
2 84 (4.81%) SLA
3 78 (4.46%) Data Quality
4 72 (4.12%) GDPR
5 60 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.52%) NIST
7 27 (1.55%) GRC
8 25 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.32%) SOC 2
10 19 (1.09%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.57%) ITGC
13 7 (0.40%) COBIT
13 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.34%) GMP
15 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 126 (7.21%) Active Directory
2 76 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.40%) Docker
4 25 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.09%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.80%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.69%) vCloud
10 8 (0.46%) vSphere
11 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.11%) KVM
14 1 (0.057%) Ceph
14 1 (0.057%) Firmware
14 1 (0.057%) NFS
14 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.057%) Squid
Systems Management
1 105 (6.01%) Terraform
2 67 (3.84%) Kubernetes
3 59 (3.38%) Ansible
4 37 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (1.95%) vCenter Server
6 27 (1.55%) SCOM
7 24 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.26%) Grafana
9 21 (1.20%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.86%) SCCM
12 12 (0.69%) Avamar
13 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.40%) vRealize
14 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.34%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) CASB
15 6 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 335 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 200 (11.45%) ServiceNow
3 160 (9.16%) Oracle
4 137 (7.84%) SAP
5 98 (5.61%) VMware
6 77 (4.41%) Cisco
7 65 (3.72%) Salesforce
8 50 (2.86%) Google
9 34 (1.95%) Splunk
10 31 (1.77%) IBM
11 30 (1.72%) Red Hat
12 27 (1.55%) Zscaler
13 25 (1.43%) IFS
13 25 (1.43%) Remedy
14 24 (1.37%) Citrix
15 23 (1.32%) CheckPoint
16 22 (1.26%) Juniper
17 21 (1.20%) F5
18 19 (1.09%) Workday
19 18 (1.03%) Thales