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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 51 51
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,758 1,266 1,283
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 4.59% 3.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 5.05% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,055 772 697
10th Percentile £375 £343 £314
25th Percentile £439 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 55 41
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.86 £26.42
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.63 £36.75
Median hourly rate £52.25 £30.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +74.17% -48.54% +19.71%
75th Percentile £75.30 £58.26 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £32.05 £56.75
% change year-on-year +60.69% -43.52% +17.24%

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 39,416 25,077 27,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.84% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,046 15,915 17,172
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,513 1,250
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.58
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -6 844 £546 -1.18% 1,171
North of England -21 314 £500 +8.11% 293
South East +3 276 £563 +14.80% 323
North West -10 181 £475 +2.43% 180
Yorkshire -19 120 £500 +9.59% 86
Midlands -71 110 £486 +2.32% 176
South West -32 86 £550 +7.32% 176
West Midlands -63 83 £500 +5.26% 101
East of England -6 72 £509 -5.74% 131
East Midlands -29 27 £416 -6.25% 75
North East -27 13 £433 -3.89% 30
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 (5.46%) SharePoint
2 85 (4.84%) Confluence
3 30 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) IIS
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.40%) CICS
8 6 (0.34%) Appian
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.28%) Camunda
9 5 (0.28%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.17%) Kentico
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.057%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 65 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.46%) Windchill
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.23%) InDesign
7 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) Houdini
9 2 (0.11%) NUKE
9 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.057%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.057%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 59 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.80%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.51%) Maximo
5 9 (0.51%) Teamcenter
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
8 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.28%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.28%) iTrent
9 5 (0.28%) Primavera
9 5 (0.28%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.28%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 269 (15.30%) Azure
2 140 (7.96%) AWS
3 113 (6.43%) Power Platform
4 108 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
5 93 (5.29%) Entra ID
6 72 (4.10%) GCP
7 58 (3.30%) SaaS
8 51 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (2.50%) GitHub
10 38 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
11 37 (2.10%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 26 (1.48%) OCI
14 25 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.31%) Serverless
16 22 (1.25%) Google Workspace
17 21 (1.19%) OpenShift
18 19 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 116 (6.60%) Firewall
2 104 (5.92%) Network Security
3 76 (4.32%) DNS
4 55 (3.13%) VPN
5 50 (2.84%) WAN
6 40 (2.28%) DHCP
6 40 (2.28%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.82%) Wireless
8 27 (1.54%) LAN
9 24 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (1.31%) SSL
11 18 (1.02%) BGP
12 16 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
13 15 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
13 15 (0.85%) SAN
13 15 (0.85%) SD-WAN
14 14 (0.80%) OSPF
14 14 (0.80%) SNMP
15 12 (0.68%) SSH
16 11 (0.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.84%) Power BI
2 56 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 37 (2.10%) Metadata
4 32 (1.82%) Oracle Database
5 15 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.63%) Db2
9 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.57%) Tableau
10 9 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.34%) DataStage
13 6 (0.34%) GIS
13 6 (0.34%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.28%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 172 (9.78%) JIRA
2 59 (3.36%) Git
3 46 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) GitLab
4 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
7 5 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.28%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.17%) InstallShield
9 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.11%) Hudson
General
1 704 (40.05%) Social Skills
2 651 (37.03%) Finance
3 313 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (11.09%) Banking
5 140 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 92 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
7 83 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
8 80 (4.55%) Legal
9 68 (3.87%) Retail
10 67 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
11 66 (3.75%) Manufacturing
12 54 (3.07%) Telecoms
13 44 (2.50%) Marketing
13 44 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (2.22%) Law
15 31 (1.76%) Local Government
16 30 (1.71%) Aerospace
17 28 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 27 (1.54%) Front Office
19 24 (1.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 211 (12.00%) Lead
2 201 (11.43%) Project Manager
3 190 (10.81%) Analyst
4 144 (8.19%) Senior
5 126 (7.17%) Change Manager
6 106 (6.03%) Consultant
7 103 (5.86%) Business Analyst
8 63 (3.58%) Senior Manager
9 53 (3.01%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (2.96%) IT Manager
11 48 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (2.73%) Programme Manager
12 47 (2.67%) Network Engineer
13 45 (2.56%) Developer
14 43 (2.45%) Administrator
15 42 (2.39%) Business Manager
16 38 (2.16%) Service Manager
17 36 (2.05%) Business Change Manager
17 36 (2.05%) Security Engineer
18 34 (1.93%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (6.03%) Terraform
2 49 (2.79%) REST
3 32 (1.82%) .NET
4 25 (1.42%) HTML
4 25 (1.42%) Kafka
4 25 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (1.19%) CSS
6 20 (1.14%) Middleware
7 17 (0.97%) Ajax
8 16 (0.91%) OAuth
8 16 (0.91%) SOAP
9 14 (0.80%) 802.1X
10 13 (0.74%) Web Services
11 12 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (0.63%) JSON
12 11 (0.63%) XML
13 10 (0.57%) .NET Framework
14 9 (0.51%) LDAP
14 9 (0.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 128 (7.28%) Onboarding
2 89 (5.06%) Management Information System
3 76 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.62%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.22%) PKI
8 36 (2.05%) Security Posture
8 36 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.65%) Operational Technology
12 26 (1.48%) CMDB
13 24 (1.37%) AI Agents
14 23 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
14 23 (1.31%) PMI
15 20 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
16 19 (1.08%) Public Cloud
17 18 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 210 (11.95%) Windows
2 114 (6.48%) Linux
3 96 (5.46%) Windows Server
4 55 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (2.28%) Unix
6 23 (1.31%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.97%) Solaris
8 13 (0.74%) VMS
9 11 (0.63%) AIX
9 11 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.40%) SUSE
11 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.40%) zOS
12 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.28%) HPUX
14 4 (0.23%) Android
14 4 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 466 (26.51%) Agile
3 418 (23.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 411 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 353 (20.08%) ITIL
6 319 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
7 299 (17.01%) Project Management
8 282 (16.04%) Project Delivery
9 260 (14.79%) Roadmaps
10 252 (14.33%) Migration
11 227 (12.91%) Decision-Making
12 220 (12.51%) Service Management
13 209 (11.89%) DevOps
14 194 (11.04%) AI
15 187 (10.64%) PRINCE2
16 186 (10.58%) ITSM
17 166 (9.44%) ERP
18 164 (9.33%) Analytics
19 163 (9.27%) Process Improvement
20 156 (8.87%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (9.16%) Python
2 139 (7.91%) SQL
3 138 (7.85%) PowerShell
4 72 (4.10%) Bash
5 46 (2.62%) Java
6 43 (2.45%) PL/SQL
7 42 (2.39%) JavaScript
8 30 (1.71%) C#
9 25 (1.42%) Bicep
10 24 (1.37%) T-SQL
11 17 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.80%) Korn
13 12 (0.68%) Groovy
14 10 (0.57%) Go
14 10 (0.57%) JCL
15 9 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
16 8 (0.46%) COBOL
17 6 (0.34%) VBScript
18 3 (0.17%) Perl
18 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 373 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 272 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 225 (12.80%) Degree
4 149 (8.48%) PMP
5 137 (7.79%) PMI Certification
6 85 (4.84%) DV Cleared
7 47 (2.67%) CISSP
8 41 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.10%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.71%) CCNP
11 29 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 26 (1.48%) APMG
13 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 23 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
16 22 (1.25%) AWS Certification
17 21 (1.19%) ACCA
17 21 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
18 20 (1.14%) CIMA
18 20 (1.14%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.01%) QA
2 87 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 80 (4.55%) PMO
4 71 (4.04%) SLA
5 51 (2.90%) GDPR
6 43 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.82%) GRC
8 29 (1.65%) NIST
9 16 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.85%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.63%) ITGC
13 8 (0.46%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.46%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.40%) GMP
15 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.34%) IFRS
16 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 118 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 99 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.50%) Docker
4 26 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.19%) VMware NSX
6 19 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.80%) vCloud
8 14 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.74%) vSphere
10 9 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.28%) Firmware
12 4 (0.23%) RACF
13 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.17%) Squid
13 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
14 2 (0.11%) NFS
14 2 (0.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 75 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 66 (3.75%) Ansible
3 37 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (2.10%) vCenter Server
4 31 (1.76%) SCOM
5 27 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.42%) Grafana
7 24 (1.37%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.19%) SCCM
9 15 (0.85%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.68%) Avamar
11 10 (0.57%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.34%) Argo
15 5 (0.28%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 331 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 179 (10.18%) ServiceNow
3 153 (8.70%) Oracle
4 120 (6.83%) SAP
4 120 (6.83%) VMware
5 76 (4.32%) Cisco
6 59 (3.36%) Salesforce
7 49 (2.79%) Google
8 44 (2.50%) Splunk
9 38 (2.16%) IBM
10 35 (1.99%) Red Hat
10 35 (1.99%) Zscaler
11 24 (1.37%) Citrix
11 24 (1.37%) Palo Alto
12 23 (1.31%) F5
12 23 (1.31%) Remedy
13 22 (1.25%) Juniper
14 21 (1.19%) CheckPoint
15 20 (1.14%) Dell
16 19 (1.08%) Workday