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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 46 43
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,345 1,296 1,833
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.57% 4.17% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 4.82% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 697 1,155
10th Percentile £336 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 30 38
10th Percentile £20.79 £26.42 £19.20
25th Percentile £22.51 £34.20 £23.76
Median hourly rate £30.00 £56.75 £39.17
Median % change year-on-year -47.13% +44.89% +18.68%
75th Percentile £45.46 £60.95 £54.89
90th Percentile £70.16 £66.40 £59.69
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.44% +35.00% +14.29%

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 26,653 26,912 35,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.59% 86.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,923 16,411 24,057
10th Percentile £295 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,722 972 1,474
10th Percentile £14.70 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.40 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% -20.54% +27.14%

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 5 November 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 -9 579 £550 -4.35% 509
North of England -18 240 £450 -13.88% 196
Midlands +19 195 £475 -6.17% 104
South East -2 166 £500 - 444
North West -5 160 £439 -16.23% 117
West Midlands +6 147 £475 -7.32% 58
South West +33 110 £529 +1.68% 84
Yorkshire -34 75 £500 -9.09% 58
East Midlands +19 48 £441 - 44
East of England -11 45 £525 +10.53% 79
North East -17 3 £475 -5.00% 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
1 119 (8.85%) Confluence
2 69 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.89%) nginx
5 8 (0.59%) CMS
6 6 (0.45%) JBoss
6 6 (0.45%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.45%) Mule
6 6 (0.45%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.37%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.37%) IIS
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.30%) CICS
9 2 (0.15%) Moodle
10 1 (0.074%) FileNet
10 1 (0.074%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle UPK
10 1 (0.074%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
Applications
1 88 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (4.98%) Microsoft Project
4 36 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.68%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 5 (0.37%) Trello
6 5 (0.37%) Windchill
7 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.074%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.074%) Notion
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.074%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 44 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
3 11 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.37%) Maximo
6 5 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.37%) SAP APO
6 5 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.30%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.30%) VisionPLUS
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.22%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 127 (9.44%) Azure
2 116 (8.62%) AWS
3 79 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (5.06%) GCP
5 66 (4.91%) Power Platform
6 40 (2.97%) SaaS
7 34 (2.53%) AWS KMS
8 32 (2.38%) Amazon S3
9 30 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (2.16%) Serverless
11 26 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (1.93%) Entra ID
11 26 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 25 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (1.78%) Amazon ELB
14 17 (1.26%) GitHub
15 15 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
16 13 (0.97%) Route 53
16 13 (0.97%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 94 (6.99%) Firewall
2 70 (5.20%) DNS
3 51 (3.79%) Network Security
4 35 (2.60%) WAN
5 34 (2.53%) SSH
6 31 (2.30%) VPN
7 29 (2.16%) HTTP
8 26 (1.93%) SMTP
9 23 (1.71%) FTP
10 22 (1.64%) LAN
11 21 (1.56%) Wireless
12 20 (1.49%) DHCP
13 16 (1.19%) SSL
14 14 (1.04%) IPsec
15 13 (0.97%) TCP/IP
16 12 (0.89%) IMAP
16 12 (0.89%) OpenLDAP
16 12 (0.89%) SD-WAN
17 11 (0.82%) BGP
17 11 (0.82%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.09%) Power BI
2 36 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (1.78%) NoSQL
5 23 (1.71%) Metadata
6 21 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 19 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 16 (1.19%) Tableau
9 12 (0.89%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.59%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.52%) MySQL
13 6 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.45%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.37%) Big Data
14 5 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (0.30%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.22%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 180 (13.38%) JIRA
2 78 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.12%) Git
4 28 (2.08%) Liquibase
5 27 (2.01%) GitLab
6 24 (1.78%) Vagrant
7 12 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.74%) MSI
9 6 (0.45%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.30%) ChangeMan
10 4 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.30%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (0.22%) CA Release Automation
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.22%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.22%) Selenium
12 2 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 559 (41.56%) Social Skills
2 456 (33.90%) Finance
3 206 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (10.78%) Banking
5 114 (8.48%) Public Sector
6 67 (4.98%) Manufacturing
7 61 (4.54%) Influencing Skills
8 51 (3.79%) Legal
9 47 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
10 44 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
10 44 (3.27%) Telecoms
11 35 (2.60%) Financial Institution
12 34 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 31 (2.30%) Marketing
14 27 (2.01%) Law
14 27 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
14 27 (2.01%) Retail
15 21 (1.56%) Local Government
16 17 (1.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 224 (16.65%) Analyst
2 180 (13.38%) Project Manager
3 127 (9.44%) Lead
4 118 (8.77%) Business Analyst
5 96 (7.14%) Change Manager
6 82 (6.10%) Consultant
7 73 (5.43%) Senior
8 53 (3.94%) Administrator
9 47 (3.49%) IT Manager
10 44 (3.27%) Programme Manager
11 40 (2.97%) Developer
11 40 (2.97%) Service Manager
12 39 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
13 35 (2.60%) Architect
13 35 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
14 32 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
15 31 (2.30%) Service Analyst
16 30 (2.23%) SAP Manager
16 30 (2.23%) Senior Manager
17 28 (2.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.12%) REST
2 38 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (2.08%) RESTful
4 24 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (1.34%) .NET
6 17 (1.26%) LDAP
7 10 (0.74%) 802.1X
7 10 (0.74%) HTML
7 10 (0.74%) SAML
8 9 (0.67%) OAuth
9 8 (0.59%) OpenID
9 8 (0.59%) SOAP
10 7 (0.52%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.52%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.52%) CSS
10 7 (0.52%) Kafka
11 5 (0.37%) Middleware
11 5 (0.37%) Node.js
11 5 (0.37%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.37%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 64 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 63 (4.68%) Management Information System
3 43 (3.20%) Data Centre
3 43 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 40 (2.97%) Virtual Team
5 36 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 32 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (2.30%) Replication
8 26 (1.93%) Life Science
9 25 (1.86%) PKI
10 24 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.71%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (1.56%) CMDB
14 16 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
15 13 (0.97%) PMI
15 13 (0.97%) Tandem
16 12 (0.89%) Operational Technology
17 11 (0.82%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 137 (10.19%) Windows
2 92 (6.84%) Linux
3 34 (2.53%) Unix
4 30 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.93%) VMS
6 24 (1.78%) Amazon Linux
7 22 (1.64%) Windows 10
8 14 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.37%) CentOS
11 4 (0.30%) zOS
12 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.15%) Android
13 2 (0.15%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.074%) AIX
14 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.074%) Solaris
14 1 (0.074%) SUSE
14 1 (0.074%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (26.99%) Agile
2 349 (25.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 291 (21.64%) Project Management
4 276 (20.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 258 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
6 244 (18.14%) ITIL
7 189 (14.05%) Project Delivery
8 181 (13.46%) Migration
9 180 (13.38%) DevOps
10 165 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 146 (10.86%) Service Management
12 128 (9.52%) Risk Management
13 115 (8.55%) ERP
14 114 (8.48%) PRINCE2
15 109 (8.10%) Decision-Making
16 104 (7.73%) Roadmaps
17 100 (7.43%) CI/CD
17 100 (7.43%) ITSM
18 99 (7.36%) Cybersecurity
19 94 (6.99%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 132 (9.81%) Python
2 111 (8.25%) SQL
3 87 (6.47%) PowerShell
4 45 (3.35%) Java
5 31 (2.30%) C#
6 30 (2.23%) Go
7 27 (2.01%) Groovy
8 23 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 18 (1.34%) Perl
10 15 (1.12%) Bash
10 15 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.52%) VB
13 6 (0.45%) Korn
14 5 (0.37%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.30%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.30%) TypeScript
16 3 (0.22%) ABAP
16 3 (0.22%) SOQL
16 3 (0.22%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 249 (18.51%) Degree
2 230 (17.10%) Security Cleared
3 166 (12.34%) SC Cleared
4 68 (5.06%) PMI Certification
5 66 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (4.76%) PMP
7 39 (2.90%) Master's Degree
8 33 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (2.30%) DV Cleared
10 26 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
11 22 (1.64%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (1.34%) APMG
14 15 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 14 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.89%) Azure Certification
17 11 (0.82%) CCNP
18 10 (0.74%) A+ Certification
18 10 (0.74%) CBAP
19 9 (0.67%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.83%) QA
2 61 (4.54%) PMO
3 46 (3.42%) GDPR
4 34 (2.53%) SLA
5 29 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.34%) NIST
8 15 (1.12%) MiFID
9 14 (1.04%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.89%) EMIR
10 12 (0.89%) NCSC
10 12 (0.89%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.37%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.30%) GMP
13 4 (0.30%) IFRS
14 3 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 87 (6.47%) Active Directory
2 63 (4.68%) Docker
3 22 (1.64%) DFS Replication
3 22 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.89%) Dovecot
4 12 (0.89%) Postfix
4 12 (0.89%) Squid
5 10 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.52%) Firmware
7 5 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.22%) vSphere
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.074%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.074%) RACF
11 1 (0.074%) Snort
11 1 (0.074%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 71 (5.28%) Terraform
2 57 (4.24%) Grafana
3 54 (4.01%) Prometheus
4 47 (3.49%) Kubernetes
5 40 (2.97%) Ansible
6 29 (2.16%) SCCM
7 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.97%) Nessus
9 10 (0.74%) Kibana
9 10 (0.74%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.67%) SCOM
11 7 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.52%) Puppet
12 6 (0.45%) HP SiteScope
13 5 (0.37%) CA Endevor
13 5 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.37%) WSUS
14 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.22%) Check_MK
15 3 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 277 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 126 (9.37%) SAP
3 111 (8.25%) ServiceNow
4 83 (6.17%) Oracle
5 52 (3.87%) Cisco
6 49 (3.64%) Salesforce
7 48 (3.57%) Splunk
8 40 (2.97%) Google
9 32 (2.38%) VMware
10 26 (1.93%) Workday
11 25 (1.86%) Remedy
12 24 (1.78%) Juniper
13 23 (1.71%) F5
14 22 (1.64%) Atlassian
15 18 (1.34%) IBM
16 17 (1.26%) CheckPoint
17 13 (0.97%) Citrix
17 13 (0.97%) Fortinet
18 12 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
19 11 (0.82%) Blue Coat