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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 51 47
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,747 1,228 1,414
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.88% 4.48% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.94% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,065 757 866
10th Percentile £368 £325 £317
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.82% -6.45%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £724 £738 £724
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £503
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.50% -8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 56 60
10th Percentile £19.78 £22.16 £18.45
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £31.60
Median hourly rate £39.75 £31.91 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.59% -39.23% +8.47%
75th Percentile £76.13 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.08 £70.08 £68.94
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £46.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.35% -7.50% +3.59%

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 38,476 24,845 30,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 90.65% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,188 15,947 20,132
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,382 1,317 2,080
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.26 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.84
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.68% -9.41%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.47 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -9.24%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +1 805 £536 -2.55% 218
North of England -20 305 £495 +10.00% 99
South East +5 263 £575 +24.32% 120
North West -11 175 £474 +5.22% 61
Midlands -11 169 £515 +8.42% 47
West Midlands -32 123 £525 +10.53% 30
Yorkshire -24 113 £500 +9.59% 30
South West -23 92 £525 +7.14% 52
East of England +3 80 £475 -6.86% 22
East Midlands +14 44 £488 +35.79% 17
North East -21 17 £425 -15.00% 9
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 91 (5.21%) Confluence
2 90 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.97%) IIS
5 13 (0.74%) SAS
6 10 (0.57%) Appian
6 10 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.46%) CMS
8 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
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%) Mattermost
13 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.057%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 64 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) Houdini
8 2 (0.11%) NUKE
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.057%) InDesign
9 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.057%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.40%) Primavera
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) OpenText MBPM
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.23%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 267 (15.28%) Azure
2 137 (7.84%) AWS
3 103 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
4 100 (5.72%) Power Platform
5 88 (5.04%) Entra ID
6 75 (4.29%) SaaS
7 64 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (3.15%) GCP
9 34 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (1.77%) GitHub
11 30 (1.72%) Google Workspace
12 26 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
13 25 (1.43%) OCI
14 23 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 22 (1.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 21 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (1.14%) Serverless
18 18 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
18 18 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 115 (6.58%) Firewall
2 87 (4.98%) Network Security
3 51 (2.92%) DNS
3 51 (2.92%) WAN
4 48 (2.75%) VPN
5 36 (2.06%) LAN
6 27 (1.55%) Wireless
7 25 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (1.37%) BGP
8 24 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 22 (1.26%) SD-WAN
10 21 (1.20%) OSPF
11 20 (1.14%) DHCP
11 20 (1.14%) SSL
12 19 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (0.80%) MPLS
15 12 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
15 12 (0.69%) HTTP
15 12 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.46%) Power BI
2 51 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.66%) Metadata
4 27 (1.55%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.63%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.57%) Tableau
9 9 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.34%) Db2
10 6 (0.34%) GIS
11 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
11 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
11 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 213 (12.19%) JIRA
2 61 (3.49%) Git
3 50 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.63%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.52%) GitLab
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 5 (0.29%) MLflow
7 5 (0.29%) Selenium
7 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) Hudson
8 4 (0.23%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.23%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.23%) Maven
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 660 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 641 (36.69%) Finance
3 290 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (9.33%) Public Sector
5 151 (8.64%) Banking
6 91 (5.21%) Legal
7 83 (4.75%) Retail
8 73 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
8 73 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 53 (3.03%) Marketing
11 47 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.40%) Manufacturing
14 39 (2.23%) Law
15 36 (2.06%) Local Government
16 29 (1.66%) Aviation
17 26 (1.49%) Financial Institution
18 20 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (0.92%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 206 (11.79%) Project Manager
2 194 (11.10%) Lead
3 169 (9.67%) Analyst
4 132 (7.56%) Change Manager
5 127 (7.27%) Senior
6 111 (6.35%) Consultant
7 95 (5.44%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.43%) Programme Manager
9 56 (3.21%) Senior Manager
10 55 (3.15%) Administrator
11 49 (2.80%) Developer
12 46 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
12 46 (2.63%) Network Engineer
13 45 (2.58%) IT Manager
14 43 (2.46%) Business Manager
14 43 (2.46%) Service Manager
15 42 (2.40%) Support Engineer
16 37 (2.12%) Architect
17 35 (2.00%) Business Change Manager
17 35 (2.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (3.43%) REST
2 36 (2.06%) .NET
2 36 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 24 (1.37%) CSS
3 24 (1.37%) HTML
4 18 (1.03%) .NET Framework
4 18 (1.03%) OAuth
5 17 (0.97%) Middleware
5 17 (0.97%) Web Services
6 15 (0.86%) Ajax
7 14 (0.80%) LDAP
7 14 (0.80%) SOAP
8 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
8 13 (0.74%) RESTful
9 11 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (0.57%) 802.1X
10 10 (0.57%) AngularJS
10 10 (0.57%) React
11 9 (0.52%) JSON
11 9 (0.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.75%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.58%) Onboarding
3 78 (4.46%) Data Centre
4 62 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 48 (2.75%) Cloud Native
5 48 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (1.95%) PMI
7 33 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (1.66%) CMDB
8 29 (1.66%) Operational Technology
9 25 (1.43%) Virtual Team
10 24 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.37%) PKI
10 24 (1.37%) Security Posture
11 22 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.03%) AI Agents
14 16 (0.92%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 180 (10.30%) Windows
2 90 (5.15%) Linux
3 65 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (1.95%) Unix
6 19 (1.09%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) Solaris
7 10 (0.57%) VMS
8 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.34%) AIX
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.34%) SUSE
10 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.29%) HPUX
12 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.17%) Android
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.11%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 608 (34.80%) Stakeholder Management
2 449 (25.70%) Agile
3 411 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 385 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 336 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 328 (18.78%) ITIL
7 307 (17.57%) Project Management
8 274 (15.68%) Migration
9 252 (14.42%) Project Delivery
10 231 (13.22%) DevOps
11 206 (11.79%) Roadmaps
12 198 (11.33%) Decision-Making
13 188 (10.76%) ERP
14 182 (10.42%) AI
15 178 (10.19%) Service Management
16 170 (9.73%) ITSM
17 165 (9.44%) Risk Management
18 150 (8.59%) PRINCE2
19 142 (8.13%) CI/CD
20 135 (7.73%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 149 (8.53%) SQL
2 129 (7.38%) Python
3 113 (6.47%) PowerShell
4 48 (2.75%) Bash
5 47 (2.69%) C#
6 45 (2.58%) PL/SQL
7 42 (2.40%) Java
7 42 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 23 (1.32%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.63%) Bicep
9 11 (0.63%) Korn
10 10 (0.57%) Groovy
11 8 (0.46%) Go
11 8 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.29%) COBOL
12 5 (0.29%) Perl
13 4 (0.23%) ABAP
13 4 (0.23%) JCL
14 3 (0.17%) SOQL
14 3 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 358 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 258 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 201 (11.51%) Degree
4 142 (8.13%) PMP
5 132 (7.56%) PMI Certification
6 65 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 57 (3.26%) CISSP
8 52 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (2.06%) CCNP
10 35 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 35 (2.00%) CISM
11 30 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (1.37%) Azure Certification
13 22 (1.26%) Master's Degree
14 21 (1.20%) APMG
15 20 (1.14%) ACCA
15 20 (1.14%) CCNA
15 20 (1.14%) CIMA
16 19 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
17 18 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.32%) QA
2 85 (4.87%) PMO
3 82 (4.69%) SLA
4 80 (4.58%) GDPR
5 72 (4.12%) Data Quality
6 67 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (2.52%) NIST
8 25 (1.43%) GRC
9 24 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (1.32%) SOC 2
11 20 (1.14%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.52%) ITGC
14 7 (0.40%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.40%) COBIT
15 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.34%) IFRS
16 5 (0.29%) GMP
17 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 122 (6.98%) Active Directory
2 62 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.58%) Docker
4 24 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.92%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.80%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.52%) vCloud
9 9 (0.52%) vSphere
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.23%) KVM
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.057%) Ceph
13 1 (0.057%) Firmware
13 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.057%) Squid
13 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.057%) XenApp
13 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 90 (5.15%) Terraform
2 65 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 60 (3.43%) Ansible
4 30 (1.72%) vCenter Server
5 29 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (1.26%) Grafana
7 21 (1.20%) SCOM
8 20 (1.14%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.80%) SCCM
10 10 (0.57%) Avamar
11 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.40%) PowerCLI
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 6 (0.34%) Argo
13 6 (0.34%) CASB
13 6 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 300 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 203 (11.62%) ServiceNow
3 163 (9.33%) Oracle
4 148 (8.47%) SAP
5 80 (4.58%) VMware
6 68 (3.89%) Cisco
7 64 (3.66%) Salesforce
8 53 (3.03%) Google
9 31 (1.77%) Citrix
9 31 (1.77%) Splunk
10 30 (1.72%) IBM
11 27 (1.55%) Red Hat
12 25 (1.43%) IFS
13 24 (1.37%) CheckPoint
14 22 (1.26%) Juniper
15 21 (1.20%) F5
16 20 (1.14%) Zscaler
17 19 (1.09%) Remedy
18 17 (0.97%) Fortinet
18 17 (0.97%) Palo Alto