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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 49 53
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,737 1,274 1,278
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 4.62% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 5.09% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,049 782 711
10th Percentile £371 £345 £313
25th Percentile £430 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 55 40
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.16 £26.14
25th Percentile £25.90 £22.63 £35.17
Median hourly rate £50.50 £30.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +68.33% -48.54% +20.45%
75th Percentile £68.36 £58.51 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £34.67 £56.75
% change year-on-year +45.68% -38.91% +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 38,948 25,051 28,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.90% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,873 15,912 17,703
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
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 2,701 1,483 1,330
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.73 £66.58
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -7 835 £540 -2.00% 1,381
North of England -22 304 £500 +11.11% 343
South East +11 278 £575 +17.89% 323
North West -16 178 £475 +5.56% 222
Yorkshire -16 112 £500 +9.59% 93
Midlands -66 110 £480 +1.05% 194
South West -35 88 £525 +2.44% 197
West Midlands -66 82 £500 +5.26% 108
East of England -6 73 £509 -3.05% 129
East Midlands -24 27 £416 -6.25% 86
North East -27 14 £425 -5.56% 32
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
1 100 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 80 (4.61%) Confluence
3 30 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.86%) IIS
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.35%) Appian
7 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.29%) CICS
8 5 (0.29%) CMS
8 5 (0.29%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.058%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 66 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.29%) Windchill
7 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) Houdini
8 2 (0.12%) InDesign
8 2 (0.12%) NUKE
8 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.12%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.058%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.058%) Revit
Business Applications
1 59 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
6 8 (0.46%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.35%) Primavera
8 6 (0.35%) SAP PM
8 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.29%) iTrent
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 263 (15.14%) Azure
2 138 (7.94%) AWS
3 114 (6.56%) Power Platform
4 109 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
5 92 (5.30%) Entra ID
6 65 (3.74%) GCP
7 61 (3.51%) SaaS
8 52 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
9 41 (2.36%) GitHub
10 32 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.55%) OCI
12 26 (1.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 25 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.32%) Serverless
15 22 (1.27%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.15%) OpenShift
16 20 (1.15%) PowerApps
17 19 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 117 (6.74%) Firewall
2 102 (5.87%) Network Security
3 69 (3.97%) DNS
4 53 (3.05%) VPN
5 52 (2.99%) WAN
6 36 (2.07%) DHCP
7 35 (2.01%) TCP/IP
8 32 (1.84%) Wireless
9 28 (1.61%) LAN
10 24 (1.38%) SSL
11 23 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (1.09%) BGP
13 18 (1.04%) SD-WAN
14 17 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
15 15 (0.86%) OSPF
16 14 (0.81%) SNMP
17 12 (0.69%) HTTP
17 12 (0.69%) SSH
17 12 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (5.01%) Power BI
2 57 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.96%) Metadata
4 31 (1.78%) Oracle Database
5 14 (0.81%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.63%) Db2
8 11 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (0.63%) Tableau
9 10 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.35%) DataStage
11 6 (0.35%) GIS
11 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
12 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 172 (9.90%) JIRA
2 57 (3.28%) Git
3 43 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.46%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.35%) Selenium
8 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.17%) Hudson
10 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 693 (39.90%) Social Skills
2 657 (37.82%) Finance
3 316 (18.19%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (11.17%) Banking
5 144 (8.29%) Public Sector
6 85 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
7 83 (4.78%) Legal
8 78 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
9 72 (4.15%) Retail
10 66 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
11 60 (3.45%) Manufacturing
12 54 (3.11%) Telecoms
13 44 (2.53%) Marketing
14 42 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (2.19%) Law
16 29 (1.67%) Local Government
17 27 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 25 (1.44%) Front Office
19 24 (1.38%) Aerospace
20 23 (1.32%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 212 (12.20%) Lead
2 199 (11.46%) Project Manager
3 189 (10.88%) Analyst
4 135 (7.77%) Senior
5 129 (7.43%) Change Manager
6 105 (6.04%) Consultant
7 103 (5.93%) Business Analyst
8 64 (3.68%) Senior Manager
9 51 (2.94%) Network Engineer
10 49 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
11 48 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (2.76%) IT Manager
12 45 (2.59%) Programme Manager
13 44 (2.53%) Administrator
13 44 (2.53%) Developer
14 42 (2.42%) Business Manager
15 37 (2.13%) Service Manager
16 36 (2.07%) Business Change Manager
17 35 (2.01%) Security Engineer
18 32 (1.84%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (6.10%) Terraform
2 50 (2.88%) REST
3 35 (2.01%) .NET
4 28 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.44%) HTML
6 22 (1.27%) Kafka
7 21 (1.21%) CSS
8 19 (1.09%) Middleware
9 16 (0.92%) Ajax
9 16 (0.92%) OAuth
10 14 (0.81%) 802.1X
10 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
11 12 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (0.69%) SOAP
12 10 (0.58%) .NET Framework
13 9 (0.52%) OAuth2
13 9 (0.52%) React
13 9 (0.52%) Web Services
14 8 (0.46%) LDAP
14 8 (0.46%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.62%) Onboarding
2 87 (5.01%) Management Information System
3 71 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.80%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.65%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.07%) PKI
7 36 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (1.90%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.44%) Operational Technology
12 24 (1.38%) CMDB
12 24 (1.38%) PMI
13 21 (1.21%) AI Agents
14 20 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
15 19 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
15 19 (1.09%) Public Cloud
16 17 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 198 (11.40%) Windows
2 105 (6.04%) Linux
3 87 (5.01%) Windows Server
4 49 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (2.19%) Unix
6 22 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.75%) Solaris
8 12 (0.69%) VMS
9 11 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.46%) AIX
11 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.35%) SUSE
12 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.29%) HPUX
13 5 (0.29%) zOS
14 4 (0.23%) Android
15 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.17%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (40.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 468 (26.94%) Agile
3 417 (24.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 410 (23.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 346 (19.92%) ITIL
6 313 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
7 295 (16.98%) Project Management
8 275 (15.83%) Project Delivery
9 245 (14.10%) Migration
10 242 (13.93%) Roadmaps
11 219 (12.61%) Decision-Making
12 213 (12.26%) Service Management
13 202 (11.63%) DevOps
14 192 (11.05%) AI
15 182 (10.48%) ITSM
16 180 (10.36%) PRINCE2
17 167 (9.61%) ERP
18 158 (9.10%) Analytics
18 158 (9.10%) Process Improvement
19 152 (8.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (8.92%) Python
2 140 (8.06%) SQL
3 137 (7.89%) PowerShell
4 69 (3.97%) Bash
5 49 (2.82%) PL/SQL
6 43 (2.48%) Java
7 42 (2.42%) JavaScript
8 33 (1.90%) C#
9 26 (1.50%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.44%) Bicep
11 15 (0.86%) Korn
11 15 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.69%) Groovy
13 8 (0.46%) Go
13 8 (0.46%) JCL
14 7 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.35%) COBOL
15 6 (0.35%) VBScript
16 4 (0.23%) Perl
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 363 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 265 (15.26%) SC Cleared
3 209 (12.03%) Degree
4 143 (8.23%) PMP
5 130 (7.48%) PMI Certification
6 78 (4.49%) DV Cleared
7 55 (3.17%) CISSP
8 50 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (1.96%) Azure Certification
10 33 (1.90%) CCNP
11 28 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.55%) APMG
12 27 (1.55%) CISM
13 24 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
15 22 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (1.21%) ACCA
16 21 (1.21%) AWS Certification
16 21 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 20 (1.15%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.24%) PMO
2 85 (4.89%) QA
3 80 (4.61%) Data Quality
4 73 (4.20%) SLA
5 54 (3.11%) GDPR
6 42 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.84%) NIST
8 29 (1.67%) GRC
9 17 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.98%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.92%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.63%) ITGC
12 8 (0.46%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.40%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.40%) COBIT
13 7 (0.40%) GMP
14 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.29%) IFRS
16 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 117 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 86 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.53%) Docker
4 25 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.21%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.81%) vCloud
9 13 (0.75%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
10 9 (0.52%) vSphere
11 4 (0.23%) Firmware
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.17%) Squid
13 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.12%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.12%) NFS
13 2 (0.12%) Postfix
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
14 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 70 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 62 (3.57%) Ansible
3 36 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (2.01%) vCenter Server
5 28 (1.61%) SCOM
6 26 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.44%) Grafana
8 24 (1.38%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.21%) SCCM
10 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.63%) Avamar
12 10 (0.58%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
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
Vendors
1 332 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 182 (10.48%) ServiceNow
3 161 (9.27%) Oracle
4 121 (6.97%) SAP
5 107 (6.16%) VMware
6 78 (4.49%) Cisco
7 65 (3.74%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.71%) Google
9 41 (2.36%) Splunk
10 34 (1.96%) IBM
10 34 (1.96%) Red Hat
11 31 (1.78%) Zscaler
12 24 (1.38%) CheckPoint
12 24 (1.38%) Citrix
13 23 (1.32%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.27%) F5
14 22 (1.27%) Juniper
14 22 (1.27%) Remedy
14 22 (1.27%) Workday
15 19 (1.09%) IFS