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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 51 44
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,595 1,032 1,451
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 4.33% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.74% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 660 917
10th Percentile £350 £331 £313
25th Percentile £415 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 28 68
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.88 £15.53
25th Percentile £22.63 £32.05 £30.31
Median hourly rate £34.87 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.26% - -3.50%
75th Percentile £63.94 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £86.63 £70.75 £69.65
UK median hourly rate £30.21 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -44.06% +8.00% -0.49%

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 35,433 21,759 31,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 91.31% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,494 14,185 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,215 937 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
% change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -2 707 £525 -4.55% 230
North of England -14 288 £475 +5.56% 91
Midlands +4 208 £500 +5.26% 68
South East -3 206 £538 +11.05% 130
North West -4 163 £428 -5.00% 44
West Midlands -13 136 £513 +7.89% 39
Yorkshire -29 115 £489 +8.61% 36
South West -6 94 £525 +5.00% 45
East of England -9 80 £488 -2.50% 29
East Midlands +23 70 £430 +18.46% 29
North East -20 10 £425 -24.44% 13
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 (5.96%) Confluence
2 78 (4.89%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.88%) SAS
5 13 (0.82%) IIS
6 12 (0.75%) Appian
7 8 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.31%) CMS
10 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.25%) HCL Notes
11 3 (0.19%) Camunda
12 2 (0.13%) CICS
12 2 (0.13%) Kentico
12 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.063%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.063%) MTS
13 1 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.063%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 63 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 28 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 64 (4.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.38%) Finacle
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.38%) Primavera
6 6 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Maximo
8 3 (0.19%) OpenText MBPM
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 241 (15.11%) Azure
2 124 (7.77%) AWS
3 99 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (5.58%) Power Platform
5 64 (4.01%) SaaS
6 63 (3.95%) Entra ID
7 57 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (3.51%) GCP
9 34 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 34 (2.13%) Google Workspace
10 28 (1.76%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.57%) OpenShift
12 21 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (1.32%) PaaS
13 20 (1.25%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.19%) GitHub
14 19 (1.19%) OCI
15 18 (1.13%) PowerApps
16 16 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 15 (0.94%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.95%) Firewall
2 57 (3.57%) Network Security
3 46 (2.88%) DNS
4 44 (2.76%) WAN
5 39 (2.45%) VPN
6 36 (2.26%) LAN
7 23 (1.44%) SD-WAN
7 23 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (1.32%) SSL
9 20 (1.25%) DHCP
10 18 (1.13%) BGP
10 18 (1.13%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.07%) SAN
12 16 (1.00%) OSPF
13 13 (0.82%) Wireless
14 12 (0.75%) MPLS
14 12 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
15 11 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
16 10 (0.63%) Intranet
17 9 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.33%) Power BI
2 52 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (1.44%) Metadata
4 19 (1.19%) Oracle Database
5 17 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.94%) Tableau
7 11 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.50%) Pinecone
11 7 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.25%) Oracle BI EE
13 4 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.25%) Pentaho
13 4 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 203 (12.73%) JIRA
2 47 (2.95%) Git
3 44 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.63%) GitLab
6 9 (0.56%) MLflow
7 7 (0.44%) AdminStudio
7 7 (0.44%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.25%) Hudson
8 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.25%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.25%) Maven
8 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.19%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.19%) Snyk
10 2 (0.13%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Forms
General
1 629 (39.44%) Social Skills
2 556 (34.86%) Finance
3 256 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 132 (8.28%) Banking
6 79 (4.95%) Legal
7 77 (4.83%) Retail
8 59 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
9 56 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.95%) Marketing
11 39 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (2.19%) Law
14 31 (1.94%) Local Government
15 30 (1.88%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.76%) Telecoms
17 22 (1.38%) Aviation
18 21 (1.32%) Financial Institution
19 16 (1.00%) Investment Banking
19 16 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 190 (11.91%) Project Manager
2 167 (10.47%) Lead
3 147 (9.22%) Analyst
4 141 (8.84%) Change Manager
5 119 (7.46%) Senior
6 102 (6.39%) Consultant
7 92 (5.77%) Business Analyst
8 61 (3.82%) Programme Manager
9 59 (3.70%) Administrator
10 52 (3.26%) Developer
11 49 (3.07%) Senior Manager
12 44 (2.76%) Architect
13 42 (2.63%) Business Manager
14 38 (2.38%) Business Change Manager
15 37 (2.32%) Delivery Manager
16 36 (2.26%) IT Manager
17 35 (2.19%) Support Engineer
18 31 (1.94%) Service Manager
19 29 (1.82%) Security Manager
20 26 (1.63%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.01%) REST
2 33 (2.07%) .NET
3 28 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.50%) Middleware
4 24 (1.50%) OAuth
5 21 (1.32%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.32%) CSS
6 18 (1.13%) HTML
7 16 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (0.94%) Web Services
9 13 (0.82%) LDAP
10 12 (0.75%) RESTful
11 11 (0.69%) React
12 10 (0.63%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.63%) Pandas
12 10 (0.63%) pytest
13 9 (0.56%) Django
13 9 (0.56%) NumPy
13 9 (0.56%) OpenID
13 9 (0.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.70%) Management Information System
3 69 (4.33%) Data Centre
4 59 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.26%) PMI
8 33 (2.07%) CMDB
9 27 (1.69%) PKI
10 26 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.38%) Virtual Team
13 20 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.19%) Operational Technology
15 18 (1.13%) Low-Code
16 16 (1.00%) Security Posture
17 15 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
17 15 (0.94%) Public Cloud
18 12 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 172 (10.78%) Windows
2 74 (4.64%) Linux
3 60 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.13%) Unix
5 28 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.50%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.50%) Solaris
8 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.38%) VMS
10 5 (0.31%) AIX
10 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.31%) SUSE
10 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.25%) HPUX
12 2 (0.13%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.13%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (32.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 378 (23.70%) Agile
3 373 (23.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 327 (20.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 318 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
6 288 (18.06%) ITIL
7 277 (17.37%) Project Management
8 265 (16.61%) Migration
9 210 (13.17%) DevOps
10 180 (11.29%) ERP
10 180 (11.29%) Project Delivery
11 169 (10.60%) Roadmaps
12 155 (9.72%) Decision-Making
13 153 (9.59%) Risk Management
14 140 (8.78%) Validation
15 137 (8.59%) ITSM
16 136 (8.53%) CI/CD
17 124 (7.77%) AI
18 122 (7.65%) Workshop Facilitation
19 120 (7.52%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 162 (10.16%) SQL
2 103 (6.46%) Python
3 88 (5.52%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.88%) C#
5 43 (2.70%) Bash
5 43 (2.70%) PL/SQL
6 34 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 31 (1.94%) Java
8 24 (1.50%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.56%) Groovy
9 9 (0.56%) Korn
10 8 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.38%) COBOL
11 6 (0.38%) JCL
12 5 (0.31%) Go
13 4 (0.25%) Bicep
13 4 (0.25%) REXX
14 3 (0.19%) ABAP
14 3 (0.19%) C++
14 3 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 321 (20.13%) Security Cleared
2 221 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 201 (12.60%) Degree
4 115 (7.21%) PMP
5 106 (6.65%) PMI Certification
6 54 (3.39%) CISSP
7 53 (3.32%) DV Cleared
8 40 (2.51%) CISM
9 39 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (2.01%) Master's Degree
12 26 (1.63%) APMG
13 25 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
14 24 (1.50%) CCNP
14 24 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
15 20 (1.25%) Azure Certification
16 19 (1.19%) ACCA
16 19 (1.19%) CIMA
17 14 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 12 (0.75%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (5.77%) QA
2 83 (5.20%) GDPR
3 78 (4.89%) Data Quality
4 71 (4.45%) PMO
5 65 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 60 (3.76%) SLA
7 43 (2.70%) NIST
8 23 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 21 (1.32%) SOC 2
10 15 (0.94%) GRC
10 15 (0.94%) IFRS
11 13 (0.82%) IFRS 17
12 9 (0.56%) Basel III
13 8 (0.50%) ITGC
14 7 (0.44%) COBIT
15 6 (0.38%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
17 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 114 (7.15%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.51%) Docker
3 55 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 21 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.94%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.50%) vSphere
10 6 (0.38%) Firmware
10 6 (0.38%) KVM
10 6 (0.38%) vCloud
11 4 (0.25%) XenApp
11 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.19%) NFS
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.13%) ACF2
13 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.13%) RACF
13 2 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 82 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 72 (4.51%) Terraform
3 61 (3.82%) Ansible
4 32 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.57%) Grafana
6 24 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.50%) SCCM
7 23 (1.44%) vCenter Server
8 22 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.00%) SCOM
10 10 (0.63%) Puppet
11 7 (0.44%) Kibana
11 7 (0.44%) PowerCLI
11 7 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.38%) Avamar
12 6 (0.38%) CASB
12 6 (0.38%) Cisco Prime
12 6 (0.38%) vRealize
13 5 (0.31%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 262 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 168 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 148 (9.28%) Oracle
3 148 (9.28%) SAP
4 78 (4.89%) VMware
5 63 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 56 (3.51%) Google
7 46 (2.88%) Cisco
8 33 (2.07%) Citrix
9 32 (2.01%) Splunk
10 26 (1.63%) IFS
11 22 (1.38%) Workday
12 20 (1.25%) IBM
12 20 (1.25%) Remedy
13 19 (1.19%) CheckPoint
14 18 (1.13%) Red Hat
15 17 (1.07%) Dynatrace
15 17 (1.07%) F5
16 15 (0.94%) Juniper
16 15 (0.94%) Palo Alto