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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 45 51
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,735 1,265 1,262
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.80% 4.62% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 5.09% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 784 733
10th Percentile £368 £343 £313
25th Percentile £425 £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 £625
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.66% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 56 45
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.61 £20.30
25th Percentile £22.68 £22.63 £32.29
Median hourly rate £48.84 £30.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -48.54% +20.45%
75th Percentile £68.36 £58.39 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £48.84 £32.05 £56.52
% change year-on-year +52.39% -43.30% +17.11%

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 38,700 24,856 28,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,864 15,818 18,112
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,605 1,463 1,438
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -5 828 £539 -2.44% 1,050
North of England -22 299 £500 +11.11% 263
South East +9 288 £575 +18.86% 276
North West -15 180 £475 +5.56% 168
Midlands -64 110 £489 +2.84% 121
Yorkshire -25 104 £500 +11.11% 78
South West -32 89 £525 +3.70% 179
West Midlands -66 78 £525 +10.53% 76
East of England 0 76 £500 -4.76% 97
East Midlands -19 30 £421 -3.71% 45
North East -32 15 £425 -5.56% 20
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 99 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 74 (4.27%) Confluence
3 31 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.86%) IIS
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.35%) Appian
7 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 4 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) CICS
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.058%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.058%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 64 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Houdini
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) NUKE
9 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.12%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.058%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.058%) Revit
Business Applications
1 55 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
5 9 (0.52%) Teamcenter
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
7 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.35%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.29%) iTrent
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.29%) Primavera
9 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 268 (15.45%) Azure
2 137 (7.90%) AWS
3 110 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
3 110 (6.34%) Power Platform
4 94 (5.42%) Entra ID
5 63 (3.63%) SaaS
6 61 (3.52%) GCP
7 57 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (2.42%) GitHub
10 28 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (1.56%) OCI
12 26 (1.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 24 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.27%) Google Workspace
15 21 (1.21%) Serverless
16 20 (1.15%) PowerApps
17 19 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (1.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 123 (7.09%) Firewall
2 104 (5.99%) Network Security
3 70 (4.03%) DNS
4 57 (3.29%) VPN
5 56 (3.23%) WAN
6 37 (2.13%) DHCP
7 36 (2.07%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.02%) LAN
9 31 (1.79%) Wireless
10 26 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.27%) SD-WAN
11 22 (1.27%) SSL
12 20 (1.15%) BGP
13 18 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
14 16 (0.92%) OSPF
15 13 (0.75%) HTTP
15 13 (0.75%) MPLS
15 13 (0.75%) SNMP
16 12 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (5.01%) Power BI
2 54 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.79%) Metadata
4 29 (1.67%) Oracle Database
5 13 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (0.58%) Db2
7 10 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (0.52%) Tableau
9 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.35%) DataStage
10 6 (0.35%) GIS
10 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 171 (9.86%) JIRA
2 53 (3.05%) Git
3 43 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.52%) GitLab
4 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
5 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
5 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.35%) Selenium
7 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.29%) 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%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.17%) Hudson
9 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 686 (39.54%) Social Skills
2 646 (37.23%) Finance
3 316 (18.21%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (10.49%) Banking
5 151 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 81 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
6 81 (4.67%) Legal
7 76 (4.38%) Retail
8 73 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
9 65 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
10 54 (3.11%) Manufacturing
10 54 (3.11%) Telecoms
11 45 (2.59%) Marketing
12 40 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 39 (2.25%) Law
14 30 (1.73%) Local Government
15 27 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (1.21%) Aerospace
16 21 (1.21%) Aviation
16 21 (1.21%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 215 (12.39%) Lead
2 201 (11.59%) Project Manager
3 186 (10.72%) Analyst
4 130 (7.49%) Change Manager
5 128 (7.38%) Senior
6 108 (6.22%) Consultant
7 100 (5.76%) Business Analyst
8 62 (3.57%) Senior Manager
9 52 (3.00%) Network Engineer
10 48 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
11 47 (2.71%) Administrator
12 46 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
13 45 (2.59%) IT Manager
14 44 (2.54%) Programme Manager
15 43 (2.48%) Business Manager
15 43 (2.48%) Developer
16 37 (2.13%) Service Manager
17 36 (2.07%) Business Change Manager
18 33 (1.90%) Security Engineer
18 33 (1.90%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (6.17%) Terraform
2 50 (2.88%) REST
3 35 (2.02%) .NET
4 30 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.44%) HTML
6 22 (1.27%) CSS
7 17 (0.98%) Kafka
7 17 (0.98%) Middleware
8 16 (0.92%) Ajax
9 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
10 14 (0.81%) OAuth
10 14 (0.81%) SOAP
11 13 (0.75%) 802.1X
12 12 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (0.58%) .NET Framework
13 10 (0.58%) Web Services
14 9 (0.52%) React
15 8 (0.46%) AngularJS
15 8 (0.46%) RESTful
15 8 (0.46%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 108 (6.22%) Onboarding
2 85 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 67 (3.86%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 46 (2.65%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.02%) Security Posture
7 35 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.96%) PKI
9 31 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.73%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.50%) CMDB
12 26 (1.50%) PMI
13 25 (1.44%) Operational Technology
14 21 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
15 19 (1.10%) AI Agents
15 19 (1.10%) Public Cloud
16 18 (1.04%) FMCG
16 18 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 202 (11.64%) Windows
2 104 (5.99%) Linux
3 86 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (2.07%) Unix
6 21 (1.21%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.69%) VMS
8 11 (0.63%) Solaris
9 7 (0.40%) AIX
9 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.35%) SUSE
11 5 (0.29%) HPUX
11 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.23%) Android
13 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.17%) MVS
13 3 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (38.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 459 (26.46%) Agile
3 425 (24.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 408 (23.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 344 (19.83%) ITIL
6 316 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
7 295 (17.00%) Project Management
8 278 (16.02%) Project Delivery
9 249 (14.35%) Migration
10 226 (13.03%) Roadmaps
11 211 (12.16%) Decision-Making
11 211 (12.16%) Service Management
12 208 (11.99%) DevOps
13 190 (10.95%) AI
14 182 (10.49%) ITSM
15 175 (10.09%) ERP
16 172 (9.91%) PRINCE2
17 160 (9.22%) Analytics
18 148 (8.53%) Process Improvement
19 147 (8.47%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (8.59%) Python
2 139 (8.01%) PowerShell
3 137 (7.90%) SQL
4 69 (3.98%) Bash
5 49 (2.82%) PL/SQL
6 42 (2.42%) Java
7 41 (2.36%) JavaScript
8 34 (1.96%) C#
9 25 (1.44%) Bicep
10 23 (1.33%) T-SQL
11 15 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.75%) Korn
13 11 (0.63%) Groovy
14 8 (0.46%) Go
15 6 (0.35%) JCL
15 6 (0.35%) VBScript
16 5 (0.29%) COBOL
16 5 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
17 4 (0.23%) Perl
18 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 371 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 267 (15.39%) SC Cleared
3 205 (11.82%) Degree
4 148 (8.53%) PMP
5 134 (7.72%) PMI Certification
6 79 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.40%) CISSP
8 54 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.13%) CCNP
10 33 (1.90%) Azure Certification
11 31 (1.79%) CISM
12 27 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.50%) APMG
14 25 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
15 24 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (1.27%) CCNA
17 21 (1.21%) ACCA
17 21 (1.21%) AWS Certification
17 21 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
17 21 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.19%) PMO
2 88 (5.07%) QA
3 79 (4.55%) SLA
4 76 (4.38%) Data Quality
5 58 (3.34%) GDPR
6 51 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (2.36%) NIST
8 29 (1.67%) GRC
9 20 (1.15%) SOC 2
10 19 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.98%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.69%) ITGC
13 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.46%) COBIT
15 7 (0.40%) Accessibility
15 7 (0.40%) GMP
15 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.29%) IFRS
System Software
1 119 (6.86%) Active Directory
2 84 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (2.48%) Docker
4 26 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.21%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.86%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.81%) vCloud
9 9 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (0.52%) vSphere
10 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.17%) Firmware
10 3 (0.17%) Squid
11 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.12%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.12%) NFS
11 2 (0.12%) Postfix
12 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.058%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 64 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 60 (3.46%) Ansible
3 37 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (2.02%) vCenter Server
5 28 (1.61%) SCOM
6 25 (1.44%) Grafana
7 24 (1.38%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (1.15%) SCCM
10 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.63%) Avamar
12 9 (0.52%) 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 (0.35%) Argo
15 6 (0.35%) CASB
15 6 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 330 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 187 (10.78%) ServiceNow
3 160 (9.22%) Oracle
4 121 (6.97%) SAP
5 105 (6.05%) VMware
6 77 (4.44%) Cisco
7 68 (3.92%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.71%) Google
9 37 (2.13%) Splunk
10 34 (1.96%) IBM
11 33 (1.90%) Red Hat
12 28 (1.61%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.38%) CheckPoint
13 24 (1.38%) Citrix
14 22 (1.27%) IFS
14 22 (1.27%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.27%) Remedy
15 21 (1.21%) F5
15 21 (1.21%) Juniper
16 19 (1.10%) Workday