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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 48 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,751 1,258 1,237
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.81% 4.60% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 5.07% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 772 708
10th Percentile £369 £346 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £629
90th Percentile £725 £738 £716
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 55 41
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.16 £26.42
25th Percentile £25.72 £22.63 £35.58
Median hourly rate £51.00 £30.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -48.54% +20.45%
75th Percentile £73.19 £58.51 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.20 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.67 £57.40
% change year-on-year +47.12% -39.60% +18.92%

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 39,005 24,820 27,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.75% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,032 15,769 17,764
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 £637 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £752
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,622 1,447 1,355
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.28 £14.84
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.87 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% +3.24%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -4 833 £539 -2.44% 1,085
North of England -23 308 £500 +11.11% 257
South East +8 289 £575 +17.59% 270
North West -13 184 £475 +5.56% 158
Midlands -66 111 £489 +2.84% 131
Yorkshire -16 109 £500 +11.11% 80
South West -38 90 £525 +2.44% 176
West Midlands -63 79 £525 +10.53% 79
East of England -3 72 £505 -4.36% 106
East Midlands -18 30 £421 -5.07% 52
North East -29 15 £425 -5.56% 21
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 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 79 (4.51%) Confluence
3 31 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.86%) IIS
5 10 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.34%) Appian
7 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.29%) CICS
8 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 4 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.057%) MTS
12 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.057%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 62 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 62 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Windchill
7 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) Houdini
8 2 (0.11%) InDesign
8 2 (0.11%) NUKE
8 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.057%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 55 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
4 14 (0.80%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 9 (0.51%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.46%) Maximo
8 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
10 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.29%) iTrent
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.29%) Primavera
10 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 272 (15.53%) Azure
2 141 (8.05%) AWS
3 112 (6.40%) Power Platform
4 109 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (5.43%) Entra ID
6 63 (3.60%) GCP
7 62 (3.54%) SaaS
8 59 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (2.51%) GitHub
10 42 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (1.54%) OCI
13 26 (1.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 23 (1.31%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.31%) Serverless
15 22 (1.26%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.14%) PowerApps
17 19 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 124 (7.08%) Firewall
2 105 (6.00%) Network Security
3 71 (4.05%) DNS
4 58 (3.31%) VPN
5 56 (3.20%) WAN
6 37 (2.11%) DHCP
7 35 (2.00%) TCP/IP
8 34 (1.94%) LAN
9 33 (1.88%) Wireless
10 26 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (1.37%) SSL
12 21 (1.20%) SD-WAN
13 20 (1.14%) BGP
14 18 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
14 18 (1.03%) Cisco Firepower
15 16 (0.91%) OSPF
16 14 (0.80%) SNMP
17 13 (0.74%) HTTP
18 12 (0.69%) SAN
18 12 (0.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (4.97%) Power BI
2 57 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.94%) Metadata
4 29 (1.66%) Oracle Database
5 14 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.63%) Db2
7 11 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.51%) Tableau
9 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.34%) DataStage
10 6 (0.34%) GIS
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
11 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 174 (9.94%) JIRA
2 56 (3.20%) Git
3 45 (2.57%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) GitLab
4 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.34%) 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 (0.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 696 (39.75%) Social Skills
2 652 (37.24%) Finance
3 318 (18.16%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (10.74%) Banking
5 152 (8.68%) Public Sector
6 82 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
6 82 (4.68%) Legal
7 76 (4.34%) Retail
8 75 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
9 64 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (3.20%) Manufacturing
11 54 (3.08%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.51%) Marketing
13 40 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (2.23%) Law
15 30 (1.71%) Local Government
16 28 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (1.31%) Aerospace
18 22 (1.26%) Front Office
19 20 (1.14%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 216 (12.34%) Lead
2 203 (11.59%) Project Manager
3 186 (10.62%) Analyst
4 134 (7.65%) Senior
5 129 (7.37%) Change Manager
6 108 (6.17%) Consultant
7 99 (5.65%) Business Analyst
8 66 (3.77%) Senior Manager
9 53 (3.03%) Network Engineer
10 48 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
11 46 (2.63%) Developer
11 46 (2.63%) IT Manager
12 45 (2.57%) Programme Manager
13 44 (2.51%) Administrator
14 42 (2.40%) Business Manager
15 37 (2.11%) Service Manager
16 35 (2.00%) Business Change Manager
16 35 (2.00%) Security Engineer
17 34 (1.94%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (6.23%) Terraform
2 49 (2.80%) REST
3 35 (2.00%) .NET
4 29 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.43%) HTML
6 21 (1.20%) CSS
6 21 (1.20%) Kafka
7 18 (1.03%) Middleware
8 16 (0.91%) Ajax
9 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
9 15 (0.86%) OAuth
10 14 (0.80%) 802.1X
10 14 (0.80%) SOAP
11 13 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (0.57%) .NET Framework
13 9 (0.51%) React
13 9 (0.51%) Web Services
14 8 (0.46%) OAuth2
14 8 (0.46%) RESTful
14 8 (0.46%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.57%) Onboarding
2 88 (5.03%) Management Information System
3 69 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.83%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.00%) PKI
7 35 (2.00%) Security Posture
7 35 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 32 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.48%) CMDB
12 25 (1.43%) PMI
13 24 (1.37%) Operational Technology
14 21 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
15 20 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (1.09%) AI Agents
16 19 (1.09%) Public Cloud
17 18 (1.03%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 201 (11.48%) Windows
2 104 (5.94%) Linux
3 86 (4.91%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (2.00%) Unix
6 21 (1.20%) 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 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.34%) SUSE
11 5 (0.29%) HPUX
11 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.29%) zOS
12 4 (0.23%) Android
13 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.17%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (39.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 465 (26.56%) Agile
3 427 (24.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 417 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 348 (19.87%) ITIL
6 319 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
7 297 (16.96%) Project Management
8 279 (15.93%) Project Delivery
9 249 (14.22%) Migration
10 233 (13.31%) Roadmaps
11 217 (12.39%) Service Management
12 213 (12.16%) Decision-Making
12 213 (12.16%) DevOps
13 189 (10.79%) AI
14 184 (10.51%) ITSM
15 178 (10.17%) PRINCE2
16 174 (9.94%) ERP
17 161 (9.19%) Analytics
18 151 (8.62%) Process Improvement
19 146 (8.34%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (8.74%) Python
2 140 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 140 (8.00%) SQL
3 70 (4.00%) Bash
4 49 (2.80%) PL/SQL
5 41 (2.34%) Java
6 40 (2.28%) JavaScript
7 34 (1.94%) C#
8 26 (1.48%) T-SQL
9 25 (1.43%) Bicep
10 15 (0.86%) Shell Script
11 14 (0.80%) Korn
12 12 (0.69%) Groovy
13 8 (0.46%) Go
13 8 (0.46%) JCL
14 7 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.34%) COBOL
15 6 (0.34%) VBScript
16 4 (0.23%) Perl
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 373 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 271 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 212 (12.11%) Degree
4 147 (8.40%) PMP
5 134 (7.65%) PMI Certification
6 79 (4.51%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.31%) CISSP
8 54 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.11%) CCNP
10 33 (1.88%) Azure Certification
11 30 (1.71%) CISM
12 28 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.48%) APMG
14 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
16 22 (1.26%) CCNA
17 21 (1.20%) ACCA
17 21 (1.20%) AWS Certification
17 21 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 20 (1.14%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.14%) PMO
2 88 (5.03%) QA
3 79 (4.51%) Data Quality
4 77 (4.40%) SLA
5 58 (3.31%) GDPR
6 50 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (2.28%) NIST
8 29 (1.66%) GRC
9 19 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 17 (0.97%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.69%) ITGC
12 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.46%) COBIT
14 7 (0.40%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.40%) GMP
14 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.29%) IFRS
System Software
1 120 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 87 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.51%) Docker
4 26 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.20%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.86%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.80%) vCloud
9 9 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (0.51%) vSphere
10 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.17%) Firmware
10 3 (0.17%) Squid
11 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Postfix
11 2 (0.11%) RACF
12 1 (0.057%) KVM
Systems Management
1 68 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 62 (3.54%) Ansible
3 37 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (2.00%) vCenter Server
5 28 (1.60%) SCOM
6 26 (1.48%) Grafana
7 25 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 24 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (1.14%) SCCM
10 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.63%) Avamar
12 9 (0.51%) 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 (0.34%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) CASB
15 6 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 330 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 188 (10.74%) ServiceNow
3 158 (9.02%) Oracle
4 118 (6.74%) SAP
5 108 (6.17%) VMware
6 78 (4.45%) Cisco
7 68 (3.88%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.68%) Google
9 39 (2.23%) Splunk
10 35 (2.00%) IBM
11 33 (1.88%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.71%) Zscaler
13 25 (1.43%) CheckPoint
14 24 (1.37%) Citrix
14 24 (1.37%) Palo Alto
14 24 (1.37%) Remedy
15 22 (1.26%) F5
15 22 (1.26%) Juniper
16 21 (1.20%) IFS
17 19 (1.09%) Workday