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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 48 49
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,738 1,280 1,350
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 4.65% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 5.12% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 796 818
10th Percentile £375 £331 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £624
90th Percentile £725 £727 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.20% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 58 56
10th Percentile £20.31 £22.16 £19.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £31.30
Median hourly rate £41.36 £32.05 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -44.26% +18.80%
75th Percentile £76.13 £67.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.75 £70.16 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £48.75 £56.25
% change year-on-year -15.17% -13.33% +16.22%

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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 0 823 £537 -2.32% 345
North of England -21 293 £500 +11.11% 123
South East +1 270 £575 +24.32% 133
North West -17 170 £475 +5.56% 76
Midlands -30 150 £513 +7.89% 58
West Midlands -39 116 £525 +10.53% 37
Yorkshire -27 108 £500 +11.11% 37
South West -24 91 £525 +7.14% 61
East of England -6 79 £475 -8.65% 36
East Midlands -8 32 £430 +19.44% 21
North East -30 15 £425 -15.00% 12
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 97 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 90 (5.18%) Confluence
3 30 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.98%) IIS
5 11 (0.63%) SAS
6 10 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.46%) Appian
8 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.35%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.17%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) CICS
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.058%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.058%) Mattermost
13 1 (0.058%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 69 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) Houdini
8 2 (0.12%) NUKE
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.058%) InDesign
9 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.46%) Maximo
7 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.40%) Primavera
8 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.35%) SAP PM
10 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.23%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
12 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 275 (15.82%) Azure
2 146 (8.40%) AWS
3 108 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
3 108 (6.21%) Power Platform
4 88 (5.06%) Entra ID
5 75 (4.32%) SaaS
6 64 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (3.45%) GCP
8 41 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
9 35 (2.01%) GitHub
10 27 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
11 26 (1.50%) OCI
12 24 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 24 (1.38%) Power Automate
13 23 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (1.21%) Google Workspace
15 20 (1.15%) Serverless
16 19 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.44%) Firewall
2 93 (5.35%) Network Security
3 57 (3.28%) DNS
4 53 (3.05%) WAN
5 50 (2.88%) VPN
6 37 (2.13%) LAN
7 31 (1.78%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.61%) DHCP
8 28 (1.61%) Wireless
9 27 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (1.44%) BGP
11 23 (1.32%) SD-WAN
12 22 (1.27%) OSPF
13 20 (1.15%) SSL
14 19 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
16 13 (0.75%) HTTP
16 13 (0.75%) MPLS
16 13 (0.75%) VLAN
17 12 (0.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.89%) Power BI
2 52 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.61%) Oracle Database
4 27 (1.55%) Metadata
5 19 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.63%) Tableau
9 10 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.40%) Db2
13 6 (0.35%) GIS
13 6 (0.35%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
14 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 209 (12.03%) JIRA
2 62 (3.57%) Git
3 50 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.52%) GitLab
4 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
5 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
6 5 (0.29%) Selenium
6 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
7 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.23%) Hudson
7 4 (0.23%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.23%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.23%) Maven
7 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
7 4 (0.23%) Snyk
7 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
General
1 643 (37.00%) Social Skills
2 633 (36.42%) Finance
3 284 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (9.49%) Public Sector
5 155 (8.92%) Banking
6 89 (5.12%) Legal
7 79 (4.55%) Retail
8 76 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
9 66 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
10 59 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
11 52 (2.99%) Marketing
12 50 (2.88%) Telecoms
13 45 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.42%) Manufacturing
15 38 (2.19%) Law
16 34 (1.96%) Local Government
17 30 (1.73%) Aviation
18 24 (1.38%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 17 (0.98%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 201 (11.57%) Project Manager
2 195 (11.22%) Lead
3 175 (10.07%) Analyst
4 139 (8.00%) Senior
5 135 (7.77%) Change Manager
6 111 (6.39%) Consultant
7 101 (5.81%) Business Analyst
8 59 (3.39%) Senior Manager
9 58 (3.34%) Administrator
10 54 (3.11%) Network Engineer
11 53 (3.05%) Programme Manager
12 46 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (2.53%) Business Manager
13 44 (2.53%) Developer
14 42 (2.42%) IT Manager
14 42 (2.42%) Support Engineer
15 41 (2.36%) Service Manager
16 40 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
17 36 (2.07%) Security Engineer
18 34 (1.96%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.34%) REST
2 36 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
3 34 (1.96%) .NET
4 24 (1.38%) CSS
4 24 (1.38%) HTML
5 16 (0.92%) Ajax
5 16 (0.92%) Middleware
6 15 (0.86%) Web Services
7 14 (0.81%) OAuth
7 14 (0.81%) SOAP
8 13 (0.75%) .NET Framework
8 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (0.69%) 802.1X
10 11 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (0.58%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.52%) RESTful
12 9 (0.52%) Spring
13 8 (0.46%) Jakarta EE
13 8 (0.46%) JSON
13 8 (0.46%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 85 (4.89%) Onboarding
2 84 (4.83%) Management Information System
3 81 (4.66%) Data Centre
4 66 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 51 (2.93%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.84%) PMI
9 29 (1.67%) CMDB
10 28 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 27 (1.55%) Operational Technology
11 27 (1.55%) PKI
11 27 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
14 22 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.21%) Public Cloud
16 19 (1.09%) AI Agents
17 18 (1.04%) Data Structures
18 15 (0.86%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 192 (11.05%) Windows
2 91 (5.24%) Linux
3 73 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.84%) Unix
6 20 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.58%) Solaris
8 9 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.52%) VMS
9 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.35%) AIX
10 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.35%) SUSE
11 5 (0.29%) HPUX
11 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.12%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (34.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 456 (26.24%) Agile
3 414 (23.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 387 (22.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 328 (18.87%) ITIL
6 319 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
7 300 (17.26%) Project Management
8 278 (16.00%) Migration
9 256 (14.73%) Project Delivery
10 232 (13.35%) DevOps
11 208 (11.97%) Roadmaps
12 200 (11.51%) Decision-Making
13 191 (10.99%) AI
14 187 (10.76%) ERP
15 186 (10.70%) Service Management
16 176 (10.13%) ITSM
17 155 (8.92%) PRINCE2
18 152 (8.75%) Risk Management
19 144 (8.29%) CI/CD
20 139 (8.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 139 (8.00%) SQL
2 134 (7.71%) Python
3 113 (6.50%) PowerShell
4 53 (3.05%) Bash
5 45 (2.59%) C#
6 44 (2.53%) PL/SQL
7 43 (2.47%) Java
8 42 (2.42%) JavaScript
9 22 (1.27%) T-SQL
10 17 (0.98%) Bicep
11 13 (0.75%) Korn
12 9 (0.52%) Groovy
13 8 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.40%) Go
15 5 (0.29%) COBOL
15 5 (0.29%) Perl
16 4 (0.23%) JCL
16 4 (0.23%) VBScript
17 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 371 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 270 (15.54%) SC Cleared
3 197 (11.33%) Degree
4 146 (8.40%) PMP
5 136 (7.83%) PMI Certification
6 71 (4.09%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.39%) CISSP
8 55 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.13%) CCNP
10 36 (2.07%) CISM
11 30 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (1.50%) APMG
14 24 (1.38%) Azure Certification
15 23 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
16 22 (1.27%) CCNA
17 21 (1.21%) Master's Degree
17 21 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 18 (1.04%) ACCA
18 18 (1.04%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.18%) QA
2 84 (4.83%) PMO
2 84 (4.83%) SLA
3 76 (4.37%) GDPR
4 74 (4.26%) Data Quality
5 66 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.53%) NIST
7 26 (1.50%) GRC
7 26 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 23 (1.32%) SOC 2
9 20 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.58%) ITGC
12 7 (0.40%) COBIT
12 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.29%) Accessibility
14 5 (0.29%) GMP
14 5 (0.29%) IFRS
15 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 123 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (2.47%) Docker
4 24 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.86%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.58%) vCloud
9 8 (0.46%) vSphere
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.17%) KVM
12 1 (0.058%) Ceph
12 1 (0.058%) Firmware
12 1 (0.058%) NFS
12 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.058%) Squid
12 1 (0.058%) XenApp
12 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 98 (5.64%) Terraform
2 64 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 61 (3.51%) Ansible
4 34 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.84%) vCenter Server
6 25 (1.44%) SCOM
7 21 (1.21%) Grafana
8 20 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.09%) Prometheus
10 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.86%) SCCM
11 12 (0.69%) Avamar
12 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.35%) Argo
14 6 (0.35%) CASB
14 6 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.35%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 320 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 206 (11.85%) ServiceNow
3 160 (9.21%) Oracle
4 150 (8.63%) SAP
5 89 (5.12%) VMware
6 77 (4.43%) Cisco
7 63 (3.62%) Salesforce
8 45 (2.59%) Google
9 33 (1.90%) Splunk
10 31 (1.78%) IBM
11 29 (1.67%) Red Hat
12 28 (1.61%) Citrix
13 26 (1.50%) Zscaler
14 25 (1.44%) IFS
15 24 (1.38%) Juniper
16 23 (1.32%) CheckPoint
17 20 (1.15%) F5
17 20 (1.15%) Remedy
18 19 (1.09%) Workday
19 18 (1.04%) Palo Alto