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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 47 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,423 1,223 1,748
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.58% 4.21% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 4.76% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 693 1,095
10th Percentile £315 £338 £375
25th Percentile £405 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £597 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 22 36
10th Percentile £20.79 £23.93 £20.16
25th Percentile £22.63 £27.63 £25.19
Median hourly rate £37.28 £42.79 £45.87
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% -6.70% +40.05%
75th Percentile £45.46 £58.47 £55.32
90th Percentile £66.76 £78.60 £61.56
UK median hourly rate £37.28 £42.79 £43.33
% change year-on-year -12.88% -1.25% +29.34%

All Process and 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 27,657 25,687 33,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.93% 88.34% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,611 15,867 22,695
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,806 869 1,403
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.09
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.40 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 -10 594 £525 -4.55% 232
North of England -13 273 £451 -14.10% 143
Midlands +8 206 £475 -7.32% 111
South East +11 189 £500 -4.76% 188
North West +3 178 £442 -13.41% 81
West Midlands 0 146 £475 -8.43% 60
South West +16 113 £525 -4.55% 51
Yorkshire -21 92 £487 -8.11% 48
East Midlands +24 60 £431 - 49
East of England -20 42 £475 -1.04% 52
North East -24 3 £475 -17.39% 16
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
1 130 (9.14%) Confluence
2 81 (5.69%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.77%) nginx
5 9 (0.63%) HCL Notes
6 7 (0.49%) CMS
7 6 (0.42%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.42%) Mule
7 6 (0.42%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.35%) IIS
8 5 (0.35%) JBoss
9 4 (0.28%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Moodle
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.070%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.070%) FileNet
12 1 (0.070%) Traefik
Applications
1 92 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (5.69%) Microsoft Project
3 78 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (2.67%) MS Visio
5 31 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.49%) Trello
8 5 (0.35%) Windchill
9 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.14%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.070%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.070%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.070%) Notion
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 38 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.56%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.35%) Maximo
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.21%) Kondor
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.21%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 169 (11.88%) Azure
2 139 (9.77%) AWS
3 95 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
4 94 (6.61%) GCP
5 82 (5.76%) Power Platform
6 40 (2.81%) SaaS
7 38 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (2.18%) Entra ID
8 31 (2.18%) Serverless
9 30 (2.11%) AWS KMS
10 27 (1.90%) Amazon S3
11 22 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (1.41%) Amazon ELB
13 20 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (1.41%) GitHub
14 18 (1.26%) Power Automate
15 17 (1.19%) OpenShift
16 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 96 (6.75%) Firewall
2 78 (5.48%) DNS
3 61 (4.29%) Network Security
4 42 (2.95%) VPN
5 37 (2.60%) WAN
6 32 (2.25%) SSH
7 25 (1.76%) HTTP
8 24 (1.69%) SSL
9 22 (1.55%) SMTP
10 21 (1.48%) LAN
11 20 (1.41%) DHCP
12 19 (1.34%) FTP
13 17 (1.19%) Wireless
14 16 (1.12%) TCP/IP
15 15 (1.05%) IPsec
15 15 (1.05%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
17 13 (0.91%) BGP
18 12 (0.84%) OSPF
19 11 (0.77%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.85%) Power BI
2 35 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (1.97%) SQL Server
5 24 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 23 (1.62%) Tableau
7 21 (1.48%) Metadata
8 19 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 16 (1.12%) Oracle Database
10 12 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.63%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.49%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.42%) MySQL
13 6 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.35%) Big Data
14 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.28%) Redis
16 3 (0.21%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 192 (13.49%) JIRA
2 80 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 39 (2.74%) Git
4 29 (2.04%) GitLab
4 29 (2.04%) Liquibase
5 20 (1.41%) Vagrant
6 12 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.28%) ChangeMan
9 4 (0.28%) MSI
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.21%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.21%) JUnit
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 612 (43.01%) Social Skills
2 447 (31.41%) Finance
3 242 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (10.40%) Banking
5 133 (9.35%) Public Sector
6 66 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
7 59 (4.15%) Manufacturing
8 42 (2.95%) Legal
8 42 (2.95%) Telecoms
9 39 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (2.67%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (2.11%) Retail
14 28 (1.97%) Marketing
15 26 (1.83%) Local Government
16 25 (1.76%) Law
17 18 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (1.12%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 212 (14.90%) Analyst
2 182 (12.79%) Project Manager
3 147 (10.33%) Lead
4 115 (8.08%) Change Manager
5 107 (7.52%) Business Analyst
6 86 (6.04%) Senior
7 73 (5.13%) Consultant
8 56 (3.94%) Administrator
9 49 (3.44%) Developer
10 43 (3.02%) Architect
11 41 (2.88%) IT Manager
12 39 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 39 (2.74%) Programme Manager
13 38 (2.67%) Senior Manager
14 36 (2.53%) Business Manager
15 35 (2.46%) AWS Engineer
15 35 (2.46%) Service Manager
16 32 (2.25%) Service Analyst
17 29 (2.04%) SAP Manager
18 27 (1.90%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.37%) REST
2 41 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (1.83%) RESTful
4 22 (1.55%) .NET
4 22 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 17 (1.19%) LDAP
5 17 (1.19%) SAML
6 11 (0.77%) 802.1X
6 11 (0.77%) OAuth
6 11 (0.77%) OpenID
7 10 (0.70%) .NET Framework
8 9 (0.63%) HTML
9 8 (0.56%) ISPF
9 8 (0.56%) Kafka
9 8 (0.56%) SOAP
10 7 (0.49%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.42%) CSS
11 6 (0.42%) XML
12 5 (0.35%) Middleware
12 5 (0.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 83 (5.83%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.06%) Management Information System
3 49 (3.44%) Data Centre
3 49 (3.44%) Product Ownership
4 43 (3.02%) Virtual Team
5 40 (2.81%) Cloud Native
6 39 (2.74%) PKI
7 33 (2.32%) CMDB
7 33 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.18%) Replication
9 26 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.55%) Life Science
13 18 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (1.12%) PMI
15 14 (0.98%) Mainframe
16 13 (0.91%) Tandem
17 12 (0.84%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.54%) Windows
2 87 (6.11%) Linux
3 39 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.39%) Unix
5 23 (1.62%) VMS
6 22 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 20 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
8 12 (0.84%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.28%) zOS
11 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.21%) CentOS
11 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.14%) AIX
12 2 (0.14%) Android
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.070%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.070%) Solaris
13 1 (0.070%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (27.06%) Agile
2 381 (26.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 313 (22.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 298 (20.94%) Project Management
5 290 (20.38%) ITIL
6 282 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
7 212 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 198 (13.91%) DevOps
9 191 (13.42%) Migration
10 190 (13.35%) Project Delivery
11 159 (11.17%) Service Management
12 132 (9.28%) ITSM
13 130 (9.14%) PRINCE2
14 124 (8.71%) Roadmaps
15 121 (8.50%) Decision-Making
16 116 (8.15%) CI/CD
17 105 (7.38%) ERP
18 102 (7.17%) Risk Management
19 101 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
19 101 (7.10%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 143 (10.05%) Python
2 118 (8.29%) SQL
3 92 (6.47%) PowerShell
4 39 (2.74%) Java
5 31 (2.18%) Go
6 30 (2.11%) C#
7 25 (1.76%) Groovy
8 24 (1.69%) Bash
9 20 (1.41%) JavaScript
10 17 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.05%) Perl
12 11 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.70%) COBOL
13 10 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.56%) CLIST
14 8 (0.56%) JCL
14 8 (0.56%) REXX
15 7 (0.49%) Korn
16 4 (0.28%) C++
16 4 (0.28%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 281 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 262 (18.41%) Degree
3 196 (13.77%) SC Cleared
4 83 (5.83%) PMI Certification
5 75 (5.27%) PMP
6 64 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 45 (3.16%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (2.67%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 22 (1.55%) AWS Certification
12 21 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
13 18 (1.26%) APMG
14 16 (1.12%) CISM
14 16 (1.12%) CISSP
15 14 (0.98%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.91%) CCNP
17 11 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.48%) QA
2 69 (4.85%) PMO
3 47 (3.30%) GDPR
4 37 (2.60%) SLA
5 35 (2.46%) Data Quality
6 28 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.98%) NIST
8 14 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.63%) NCSC
11 8 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.56%) MiFID
12 5 (0.35%) EMIR
12 5 (0.35%) IFRS
12 5 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.28%) Basel III
13 4 (0.28%) GMP
14 3 (0.21%) ITGC
System Software
1 94 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 64 (4.50%) Docker
3 21 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.34%) DFS Replication
5 13 (0.91%) Firmware
6 11 (0.77%) Dovecot
6 11 (0.77%) Postfix
6 11 (0.77%) Squid
7 9 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.56%) ACF2
8 8 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.56%) RACF
8 8 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.14%) NFS
12 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.070%) Snort
13 1 (0.070%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 83 (5.83%) Terraform
2 65 (4.57%) Kubernetes
3 54 (3.79%) Ansible
4 50 (3.51%) Grafana
5 49 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 29 (2.04%) SCCM
7 23 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.84%) CA Endevor
8 12 (0.84%) Kibana
8 12 (0.84%) Nessus
8 12 (0.84%) SCOM
9 11 (0.77%) Puppet
10 10 (0.70%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.63%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.49%) Tivoli
12 7 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (0.42%) HP SiteScope
14 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 277 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 128 (9.00%) ServiceNow
3 125 (8.78%) SAP
4 93 (6.54%) Oracle
5 59 (4.15%) Google
6 53 (3.72%) Cisco
7 48 (3.37%) Salesforce
8 44 (3.09%) Splunk
9 36 (2.53%) VMware
10 29 (2.04%) F5
11 25 (1.76%) Juniper
11 25 (1.76%) Workday
12 23 (1.62%) Atlassian
13 22 (1.55%) Remedy
14 21 (1.48%) CheckPoint
15 18 (1.26%) IBM
16 17 (1.19%) Fortinet
17 15 (1.05%) Citrix
18 13 (0.91%) Blue Coat
19 12 (0.84%) CyberArk