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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,621 1,075 1,505
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.04% 4.40% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 4.82% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 708 962
10th Percentile £325 £329 £331
25th Percentile £413 £407 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £718
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 30 58
10th Percentile £22.34 £26.15 £14.31
25th Percentile £22.68 £31.83 £29.91
Median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.94% +17.95% +0.72%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.25 £67.91
UK median hourly rate £43.86 £54.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -18.79% +12.50% -0.27%

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 34,120 22,289 31,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 91.13% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,809 14,625 20,976
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 919 2,227
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -2 708 £500 -7.41% 188
North of England -12 300 £474 +5.22% 102
Midlands -3 222 £500 - 76
South East +5 213 £510 +5.70% 123
North West +5 196 £421 -3.76% 62
West Midlands -9 152 £508 +1.55% 36
South West -10 98 £500 - 38
Yorkshire -40 95 £487 +5.30% 31
East of England -13 71 £475 -2.51% 42
East Midlands +11 68 £419 +18.29% 38
North East -20 9 £440 -23.48% 11
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
1 104 (6.42%) Confluence
2 74 (4.57%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.86%) SAS
5 9 (0.56%) Appian
6 8 (0.49%) IIS
7 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.25%) CMS
10 1 (0.062%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.062%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.062%) Moodle
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 77 (4.75%) Microsoft Project
2 71 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.85%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
7 4 (0.25%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Windchill
9 1 (0.062%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 66 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.49%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.37%) Finacle
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.31%) Primavera
7 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.19%) iTrent
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.12%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 249 (15.36%) Azure
2 128 (7.90%) AWS
3 104 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (5.18%) Power Platform
5 72 (4.44%) SaaS
6 66 (4.07%) GCP
7 60 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (3.64%) Entra ID
9 34 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (1.91%) Google Workspace
11 29 (1.79%) Power Automate
12 27 (1.67%) PaaS
13 22 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (1.36%) OpenShift
14 19 (1.17%) Google Sheets
15 18 (1.11%) OCI
16 17 (1.05%) GitHub
17 16 (0.99%) IaaS
17 16 (0.99%) PowerApps
18 14 (0.86%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 92 (5.68%) Firewall
2 63 (3.89%) Network Security
3 54 (3.33%) WAN
4 48 (2.96%) DNS
4 48 (2.96%) VPN
5 42 (2.59%) LAN
6 31 (1.91%) SD-WAN
6 31 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (1.42%) SSL
8 22 (1.36%) DHCP
9 21 (1.30%) BGP
10 19 (1.17%) OSPF
11 17 (1.05%) TCP/IP
12 16 (0.99%) SAN
13 15 (0.93%) Wireless
14 13 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
14 13 (0.80%) Internet
14 13 (0.80%) MPLS
15 12 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.13%) Power BI
2 54 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (1.23%) Metadata
5 18 (1.11%) Oracle Database
5 18 (1.11%) Tableau
6 16 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.56%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
10 8 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
11 6 (0.37%) MySQL
12 5 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.25%) Redis
13 4 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 208 (12.83%) JIRA
2 41 (2.53%) Git
3 36 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.56%) GitLab
6 8 (0.49%) MLflow
7 6 (0.37%) Liquibase
8 5 (0.31%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.25%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.25%) Hudson
9 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.25%) Maven
9 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
10 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.19%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.19%) Snyk
10 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.12%) git-flow
General
1 665 (41.02%) Social Skills
2 542 (33.44%) Finance
3 291 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 128 (7.90%) Banking
6 69 (4.26%) Legal
7 65 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
7 65 (4.01%) Retail
8 53 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (3.02%) Marketing
10 44 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (2.22%) Local Government
12 32 (1.97%) Law
13 31 (1.91%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (1.73%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.30%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.11%) Aviation
17 18 (1.11%) Investment Banking
18 17 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 189 (11.66%) Project Manager
2 187 (11.54%) Lead
3 160 (9.87%) Analyst
4 141 (8.70%) Change Manager
5 113 (6.97%) Senior
6 102 (6.29%) Business Analyst
7 101 (6.23%) Consultant
8 61 (3.76%) Administrator
9 59 (3.64%) Developer
10 57 (3.52%) Programme Manager
11 50 (3.08%) Architect
12 46 (2.84%) Business Manager
13 44 (2.71%) Senior Manager
14 39 (2.41%) Business Change Manager
14 39 (2.41%) IT Manager
15 33 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
16 32 (1.97%) Network Engineer
17 30 (1.85%) SAP Manager
17 30 (1.85%) Support Engineer
18 28 (1.73%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.90%) REST
2 34 (2.10%) .NET
3 26 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.42%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.36%) OAuth
6 20 (1.23%) Middleware
7 16 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (0.93%) CSS
9 14 (0.86%) SAML
9 14 (0.86%) Web Services
10 13 (0.80%) LDAP
11 12 (0.74%) HTML
12 11 (0.68%) OpenID
12 11 (0.68%) RESTful
13 10 (0.62%) pytest
13 10 (0.62%) React
13 10 (0.62%) SOAP
14 9 (0.56%) Django
14 9 (0.56%) NumPy
14 9 (0.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.31%) Management Information System
2 70 (4.32%) Onboarding
2 70 (4.32%) Product Ownership
3 64 (3.95%) Data Centre
4 42 (2.59%) Virtual Team
5 40 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (2.34%) CMDB
6 38 (2.34%) PMI
7 32 (1.97%) Cloud Native
8 29 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.73%) PKI
10 27 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.99%) Low-Code
13 16 (0.99%) Operational Technology
13 16 (0.99%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.80%) Mainframe
14 13 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 159 (9.81%) Windows
2 66 (4.07%) Linux
3 54 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 33 (2.04%) Unix
5 29 (1.79%) Windows 10
6 18 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.37%) Solaris
9 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.31%) AIX
10 5 (0.31%) VMS
10 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.25%) HPUX
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.25%) SUSE
12 3 (0.19%) CentOS
12 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.12%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (31.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 393 (24.24%) Agile
3 386 (23.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 337 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
5 325 (20.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 313 (19.31%) ITIL
7 300 (18.51%) Project Management
8 272 (16.78%) Migration
9 218 (13.45%) DevOps
10 192 (11.84%) Project Delivery
11 181 (11.17%) ERP
12 167 (10.30%) Roadmaps
13 154 (9.50%) Decision-Making
14 148 (9.13%) ITSM
15 146 (9.01%) Risk Management
16 141 (8.70%) Validation
17 134 (8.27%) Service Management
18 129 (7.96%) Cybersecurity
19 128 (7.90%) CI/CD
20 124 (7.65%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 157 (9.69%) SQL
2 98 (6.05%) Python
3 86 (5.31%) PowerShell
4 48 (2.96%) C#
5 41 (2.53%) PL/SQL
6 38 (2.34%) Bash
7 27 (1.67%) Java
8 26 (1.60%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.42%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.62%) Korn
11 9 (0.56%) CLIST
11 9 (0.56%) COBOL
11 9 (0.56%) Groovy
11 9 (0.56%) JCL
11 9 (0.56%) REXX
11 9 (0.56%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.31%) Go
12 5 (0.31%) Perl
13 3 (0.19%) ABAP
13 3 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 337 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 245 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 227 (14.00%) Degree
4 107 (6.60%) PMI Certification
4 107 (6.60%) PMP
5 49 (3.02%) CISSP
6 45 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 43 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (2.28%) CISM
9 34 (2.10%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
11 29 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 27 (1.67%) APMG
12 27 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.60%) CCNP
14 17 (1.05%) Azure Certification
15 16 (0.99%) ACCA
15 16 (0.99%) CIMA
16 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.86%) QA
2 81 (5.00%) GDPR
3 75 (4.63%) PMO
4 73 (4.50%) Data Quality
5 64 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (3.58%) SLA
7 42 (2.59%) NIST
8 21 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.30%) SOC 2
9 17 (1.05%) IFRS
10 16 (0.99%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.93%) IFRS 17
12 10 (0.62%) Basel III
12 10 (0.62%) GRC
13 8 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.49%) ITGC
14 7 (0.43%) COBIT
15 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.31%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 116 (7.16%) Active Directory
2 50 (3.08%) Docker
3 39 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.17%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.56%) ACF2
7 9 (0.56%) RACF
7 9 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.49%) Firmware
8 8 (0.49%) vSphere
9 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.31%) KVM
10 5 (0.31%) XenApp
10 5 (0.31%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.12%) NFS
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 75 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.45%) Terraform
3 52 (3.21%) Ansible
4 33 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.42%) Grafana
5 23 (1.42%) SCCM
6 22 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 10 (0.62%) Puppet
9 9 (0.56%) CA Endevor
9 9 (0.56%) Tivoli
9 9 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 8 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.49%) Kibana
10 8 (0.49%) SCOM
11 7 (0.43%) PowerCLI
12 6 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.37%) CASB
12 6 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 268 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 162 (9.99%) ServiceNow
3 156 (9.62%) SAP
4 147 (9.07%) Oracle
5 64 (3.95%) Google
6 63 (3.89%) Salesforce
7 60 (3.70%) VMware
8 58 (3.58%) Cisco
9 38 (2.34%) Citrix
10 29 (1.79%) Workday
11 26 (1.60%) Splunk
12 25 (1.54%) IFS
13 21 (1.30%) F5
14 19 (1.17%) Juniper
15 18 (1.11%) CheckPoint
16 17 (1.05%) Atlassian
16 17 (1.05%) Palo Alto
17 16 (0.99%) Red Hat
17 16 (0.99%) Remedy
18 14 (0.86%) Sage