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

 6 months to
9 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 53 48
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 -7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,743 1,285 1,341
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.77% 4.57% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 5.03% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 803 716
10th Percentile £370 £338 £321
25th Percentile £443 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £724
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 54 42
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.24 £26.72
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.63 £36.87
Median hourly rate £53.00 £27.68 £57.40
Median % change year-on-year +91.47% -51.77% +18.58%
75th Percentile £75.40 £55.56 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £52.25 £30.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +74.17% -47.13% +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 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -11 820 £550 - 1,268
North of England -13 320 £500 +11.11% 299
South East -4 278 £550 +12.24% 316
North West -12 178 £475 +5.56% 174
Yorkshire -4 129 £500 +7.70% 102
Midlands -71 106 £475 - 159
South West -29 91 £550 +4.76% 154
East of England +5 78 £505 -3.90% 119
West Midlands -74 76 £492 +3.58% 97
East Midlands -28 30 £445 +0.85% 62
North East -29 13 £413 -8.33% 24
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 94 (5.39%) SharePoint
2 79 (4.53%) Confluence
3 28 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.92%) IIS
5 10 (0.57%) CICS
6 6 (0.34%) Appian
6 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.29%) Camunda
7 5 (0.29%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.17%) Kentico
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.11%) Documentum
10 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 65 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.46%) Windchill
7 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.23%) InDesign
8 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.11%) Houdini
10 2 (0.11%) NUKE
10 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.057%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 58 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.52%) Maximo
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.52%) Teamcenter
6 8 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.23%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 267 (15.32%) Azure
2 135 (7.75%) AWS
3 121 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 109 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 94 (5.39%) Entra ID
6 72 (4.13%) GCP
7 52 (2.98%) SaaS
8 49 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (2.70%) GitHub
10 43 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
11 40 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
12 28 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 24 (1.38%) Serverless
15 23 (1.32%) OCI
15 23 (1.32%) Power Automate
16 20 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (1.15%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.15%) OneDrive
16 20 (1.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 117 (6.71%) Firewall
2 104 (5.97%) Network Security
3 78 (4.48%) DNS
4 58 (3.33%) VPN
5 53 (3.04%) WAN
6 46 (2.64%) TCP/IP
7 39 (2.24%) DHCP
8 31 (1.78%) Wireless
9 28 (1.61%) LAN
10 25 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.32%) BGP
12 19 (1.09%) OSPF
12 19 (1.09%) SAN
12 19 (1.09%) SSL
13 17 (0.98%) SD-WAN
14 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
14 16 (0.92%) VLAN
15 15 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
15 15 (0.86%) MPLS
16 14 (0.80%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (5.11%) Power BI
2 56 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.95%) Metadata
4 30 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 16 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 15 (0.86%) Db2
7 14 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.57%) Tableau
11 8 (0.46%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.40%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.34%) DataStage
13 6 (0.34%) GIS
13 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 156 (8.95%) JIRA
2 61 (3.50%) Git
3 44 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.57%) GitLab
5 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 6 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.29%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
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%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.11%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.11%) Postman
10 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 713 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 630 (36.14%) Finance
3 302 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (11.19%) Banking
5 144 (8.26%) Public Sector
6 100 (5.74%) Influencing Skills
7 85 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
8 80 (4.59%) Legal
9 75 (4.30%) Manufacturing
10 68 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
11 60 (3.44%) Retail
12 55 (3.16%) Telecoms
13 49 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (2.29%) Aerospace
14 40 (2.29%) Law
15 32 (1.84%) Local Government
15 32 (1.84%) Marketing
16 28 (1.61%) Aviation
17 27 (1.55%) Front Office
18 26 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 206 (11.82%) Lead
2 197 (11.30%) Project Manager
3 192 (11.02%) Analyst
4 141 (8.09%) Senior
5 127 (7.29%) Change Manager
6 107 (6.14%) Business Analyst
7 102 (5.85%) Consultant
8 57 (3.27%) Senior Manager
9 53 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (2.98%) Network Engineer
11 51 (2.93%) IT Manager
12 49 (2.81%) Programme Manager
13 47 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
14 42 (2.41%) Developer
15 41 (2.35%) Business Manager
16 39 (2.24%) Administrator
17 37 (2.12%) Security Engineer
18 36 (2.07%) Service Manager
19 34 (1.95%) Architect
19 34 (1.95%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (6.02%) Terraform
2 46 (2.64%) REST
3 30 (1.72%) .NET
4 29 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 26 (1.49%) Kafka
6 23 (1.32%) HTML
6 23 (1.32%) Middleware
7 19 (1.09%) CSS
8 17 (0.98%) Ajax
9 15 (0.86%) SOAP
10 14 (0.80%) 802.1X
10 14 (0.80%) OAuth
10 14 (0.80%) Web Services
11 13 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (0.75%) JSON
11 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (0.63%) XML
13 9 (0.52%) .NET Framework
13 9 (0.52%) RESTful
14 7 (0.40%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 128 (7.34%) Onboarding
2 95 (5.45%) Management Information System
3 82 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 76 (4.36%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 42 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.24%) PKI
8 36 (2.07%) Security Posture
9 35 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (1.95%) CMDB
11 33 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
12 32 (1.84%) Operational Technology
13 27 (1.55%) AI Agents
14 23 (1.32%) Virtual Team
15 21 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
16 20 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (1.15%) Mainframe
16 20 (1.15%) Public Cloud
17 18 (1.03%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 216 (12.39%) Windows
2 110 (6.31%) Linux
3 98 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 51 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (2.12%) Unix
6 24 (1.38%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.86%) Solaris
8 11 (0.63%) VMS
9 10 (0.57%) zOS
10 9 (0.52%) AIX
10 9 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.34%) SUSE
14 4 (0.23%) Android
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.17%) CentOS
15 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (43.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 459 (26.33%) Agile
3 420 (24.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 418 (23.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 342 (19.62%) ITIL
6 310 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
7 287 (16.47%) Project Delivery
8 282 (16.18%) Project Management
9 274 (15.72%) Roadmaps
10 247 (14.17%) Migration
11 218 (12.51%) Service Management
12 216 (12.39%) Decision-Making
13 203 (11.65%) AI
14 200 (11.47%) DevOps
15 191 (10.96%) PRINCE2
16 181 (10.38%) ITSM
17 165 (9.47%) Analytics
18 160 (9.18%) Risk Management
19 158 (9.06%) Process Improvement
20 153 (8.78%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 161 (9.24%) Python
2 143 (8.20%) PowerShell
3 129 (7.40%) SQL
4 73 (4.19%) Bash
5 43 (2.47%) Java
6 37 (2.12%) JavaScript
7 36 (2.07%) PL/SQL
8 29 (1.66%) C#
9 26 (1.49%) Bicep
10 23 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.75%) JCL
12 13 (0.75%) Korn
13 11 (0.63%) Go
14 9 (0.52%) Groovy
14 9 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
15 8 (0.46%) COBOL
16 6 (0.34%) VBScript
17 3 (0.17%) ABAP
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 380 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 276 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 224 (12.85%) Degree
4 138 (7.92%) PMP
5 131 (7.52%) PMI Certification
6 85 (4.88%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.24%) CISSP
8 38 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.55%) APMG
10 27 (1.55%) CCNP
11 26 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.32%) AWS Certification
12 23 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 18 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.98%) ACCA
15 16 (0.92%) CIMA
16 15 (0.86%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.62%) Data Quality
2 90 (5.16%) QA
3 74 (4.25%) PMO
4 69 (3.96%) SLA
5 37 (2.12%) GDPR
6 32 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.66%) GRC
8 20 (1.15%) NIST
9 16 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.63%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.57%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.52%) ITGC
14 8 (0.46%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.34%) GMP
15 6 (0.34%) IFRS
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 115 (6.60%) Active Directory
2 101 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.58%) Docker
4 26 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (1.43%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.03%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.80%) vCloud
9 13 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
10 10 (0.57%) vSphere
11 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.34%) Firmware
13 4 (0.23%) RACF
14 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.17%) Squid
14 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
15 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
15 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 77 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.67%) Ansible
3 38 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (1.95%) vCenter Server
5 31 (1.78%) SCOM
6 28 (1.61%) Grafana
7 26 (1.49%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (1.26%) SCCM
10 16 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.69%) Avamar
12 9 (0.52%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.34%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.29%) Control-M
16 5 (0.29%) NetBackup
16 5 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 355 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 174 (9.98%) ServiceNow
3 137 (7.86%) Oracle
4 123 (7.06%) SAP
5 121 (6.94%) VMware
6 77 (4.42%) Cisco
7 55 (3.16%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.70%) Splunk
9 44 (2.52%) Google
10 39 (2.24%) IBM
11 35 (2.01%) Zscaler
12 34 (1.95%) Red Hat
13 29 (1.66%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.49%) Citrix
15 25 (1.43%) F5
16 23 (1.32%) Juniper
17 21 (1.20%) Remedy
17 21 (1.20%) Workday
18 20 (1.15%) CheckPoint
18 20 (1.15%) Dell
2,389 Change Management jobs in England