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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 52 46
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,656 1,133 1,445
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 4.42% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.85% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 707 893
10th Percentile £363 £331 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £623 £628 £625
90th Percentile £705 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.48% -7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 47 70
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.63 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £29.00 £30.71
Median hourly rate £34.94 £41.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% -18.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £61.81 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.13 £70.70 £68.94
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.19% +8.00% +3.31%

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 37,409 23,372 31,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.17% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,567 15,052 20,589
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,348 1,165 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -2 765 £525 -4.55% 232
North of England -19 298 £475 +5.56% 106
South East -2 230 £575 +17.35% 137
Midlands -11 177 £515 +8.42% 66
North West -12 167 £450 +2.56% 75
West Midlands -22 126 £525 +10.53% 42
Yorkshire -22 115 £500 +8.11% 22
South West -17 85 £513 +4.59% 55
East of England -3 77 £475 -5.00% 22
East Midlands +19 49 £500 +39.66% 24
North East -18 16 £425 -15.00% 11
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 94 (5.68%) Confluence
2 85 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.03%) IIS
5 14 (0.85%) SAS
6 13 (0.79%) Appian
7 10 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.48%) CMS
9 6 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.30%) Camunda
11 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 2 (0.12%) CICS
13 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.060%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.060%) HCL Notes
14 1 (0.060%) MTS
14 1 (0.060%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 58 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.060%) Houdini
8 1 (0.060%) InDesign
8 1 (0.060%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.060%) NUKE
8 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.060%) Trello
8 1 (0.060%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.48%) Maximo
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.36%) Primavera
6 6 (0.36%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.30%) OpenText MBPM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.30%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.24%) ContrOCC
8 4 (0.24%) Finacle
8 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 241 (14.55%) Azure
2 131 (7.91%) AWS
3 101 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 77 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 72 (4.35%) SaaS
7 58 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (3.26%) GCP
9 34 (2.05%) Google Workspace
10 30 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
11 23 (1.39%) OCI
11 23 (1.39%) Power Automate
11 23 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (1.27%) GitHub
13 20 (1.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 18 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (1.09%) PaaS
14 18 (1.09%) Serverless
15 16 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 99 (5.98%) Firewall
2 73 (4.41%) Network Security
3 53 (3.20%) WAN
4 43 (2.60%) DNS
4 43 (2.60%) VPN
5 39 (2.36%) LAN
6 27 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (1.51%) SD-WAN
7 25 (1.51%) Wireless
8 24 (1.45%) BGP
9 21 (1.27%) OSPF
9 21 (1.27%) TCP/IP
10 17 (1.03%) DHCP
10 17 (1.03%) SSL
11 15 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (0.85%) MPLS
13 12 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (0.72%) Internet
14 11 (0.66%) Cisco Firepower
14 11 (0.66%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.11%) Power BI
2 51 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.69%) Metadata
4 26 (1.57%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.54%) Tableau
11 6 (0.36%) Pinecone
12 5 (0.30%) Data Mart
12 5 (0.30%) Db2
12 5 (0.30%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.30%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.30%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 207 (12.50%) JIRA
2 57 (3.44%) Git
3 50 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.60%) GitLab
6 7 (0.42%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.42%) InstallShield
6 7 (0.42%) MLflow
7 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.24%) Hudson
7 4 (0.24%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.24%) Maven
7 4 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.18%) MSBuild
8 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (0.18%) Snyk
8 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 621 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 609 (36.78%) Finance
3 266 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 140 (8.45%) Banking
6 89 (5.37%) Legal
7 81 (4.89%) Retail
8 64 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
9 61 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (3.02%) Marketing
11 47 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
13 42 (2.54%) Manufacturing
14 39 (2.36%) Law
15 36 (2.17%) Telecoms
16 35 (2.11%) Local Government
17 23 (1.39%) Aviation
17 23 (1.39%) Financial Institution
18 18 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 14 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 187 (11.29%) Project Manager
2 173 (10.45%) Lead
3 154 (9.30%) Analyst
4 130 (7.85%) Change Manager
5 120 (7.25%) Senior
6 113 (6.82%) Consultant
7 90 (5.43%) Business Analyst
8 62 (3.74%) Programme Manager
9 55 (3.32%) Administrator
10 52 (3.14%) Senior Manager
11 47 (2.84%) Developer
12 45 (2.72%) Business Manager
12 45 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
13 42 (2.54%) IT Manager
13 42 (2.54%) Support Engineer
14 40 (2.42%) Architect
14 40 (2.42%) Service Manager
15 38 (2.29%) Network Engineer
16 35 (2.11%) Business Change Manager
17 31 (1.87%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.38%) REST
2 35 (2.11%) .NET
3 30 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.33%) CSS
4 22 (1.33%) OAuth
5 21 (1.27%) HTML
6 20 (1.21%) .NET Framework
7 17 (1.03%) Middleware
8 15 (0.91%) Web Services
9 14 (0.85%) LDAP
10 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
11 12 (0.72%) Ajax
11 12 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (0.72%) RESTful
12 11 (0.66%) React
13 10 (0.60%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.54%) JSON
14 9 (0.54%) OAuth2
14 9 (0.54%) OpenID
14 9 (0.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 74 (4.47%) Data Centre
3 63 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 50 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 46 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 32 (1.93%) PMI
8 29 (1.75%) CMDB
9 28 (1.69%) Operational Technology
10 27 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.39%) Virtual Team
13 22 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.33%) PKI
14 21 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (1.21%) Security Posture
16 19 (1.15%) Public Cloud
17 17 (1.03%) Low-Code
18 14 (0.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 177 (10.69%) Windows
2 87 (5.25%) Linux
3 58 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (2.17%) Unix
6 21 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.60%) Solaris
7 10 (0.60%) VMS
8 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.42%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.36%) AIX
10 6 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.36%) SUSE
10 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.30%) HPUX
11 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.18%) Android
14 2 (0.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (33.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 420 (25.36%) Agile
3 389 (23.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 357 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 321 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
6 302 (18.24%) ITIL
7 283 (17.09%) Project Management
8 263 (15.88%) Migration
9 227 (13.71%) DevOps
10 212 (12.80%) Project Delivery
11 191 (11.53%) Roadmaps
12 179 (10.81%) Decision-Making
12 179 (10.81%) ERP
13 158 (9.54%) Risk Management
14 157 (9.48%) AI
15 146 (8.82%) CI/CD
16 144 (8.70%) Service Management
17 142 (8.57%) ITSM
18 136 (8.21%) Validation
19 133 (8.03%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 158 (9.54%) SQL
2 116 (7.00%) Python
3 102 (6.16%) PowerShell
4 44 (2.66%) C#
4 44 (2.66%) PL/SQL
5 41 (2.48%) Bash
6 39 (2.36%) Java
7 38 (2.29%) JavaScript
8 23 (1.39%) T-SQL
9 10 (0.60%) Groovy
9 10 (0.60%) Korn
10 8 (0.48%) Go
10 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.42%) COBOL
12 6 (0.36%) Bicep
12 6 (0.36%) JCL
13 5 (0.30%) Perl
14 4 (0.24%) ABAP
14 4 (0.24%) REXX
15 3 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 327 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 235 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 195 (11.78%) Degree
4 125 (7.55%) PMP
5 114 (6.88%) PMI Certification
6 57 (3.44%) DV Cleared
7 55 (3.32%) CISSP
8 47 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (2.05%) CISM
11 32 (1.93%) CCNP
12 26 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
12 26 (1.57%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.51%) APMG
14 22 (1.33%) Azure Certification
15 21 (1.27%) ACCA
15 21 (1.27%) CIMA
15 21 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
16 18 (1.09%) CCNA
17 14 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (5.56%) QA
2 82 (4.95%) GDPR
3 79 (4.77%) PMO
4 76 (4.59%) SLA
5 71 (4.29%) Data Quality
6 70 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (2.66%) NIST
8 25 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.39%) SOC 2
10 21 (1.27%) GRC
10 21 (1.27%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.72%) IFRS
12 10 (0.60%) IFRS 17
13 9 (0.54%) ITGC
14 8 (0.48%) COBIT
14 8 (0.48%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.36%) Accessibility
15 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.36%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.30%) GMP
System Software
1 113 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (3.02%) Docker
4 21 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.79%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.48%) vSphere
10 7 (0.42%) vCloud
11 5 (0.30%) KVM
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.12%) ACF2
14 2 (0.12%) RACF
14 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.12%) XenApp
14 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.060%) Firmware
15 1 (0.060%) NFS
Systems Management
1 82 (4.95%) Terraform
2 68 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 60 (3.62%) Ansible
4 30 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.39%) vCenter Server
6 22 (1.33%) Grafana
7 21 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.03%) SCOM
9 16 (0.97%) SCCM
10 12 (0.72%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.48%) Avamar
11 8 (0.48%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.42%) PowerCLI
12 7 (0.42%) vRealize
13 6 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.36%) Argo
13 6 (0.36%) CASB
13 6 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 272 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 181 (10.93%) ServiceNow
3 157 (9.48%) Oracle
4 148 (8.94%) SAP
5 72 (4.35%) VMware
6 59 (3.56%) Salesforce
7 58 (3.50%) Cisco
8 57 (3.44%) Google
9 33 (1.99%) Citrix
10 32 (1.93%) Splunk
11 26 (1.57%) IBM
12 25 (1.51%) IFS
12 25 (1.51%) Red Hat
13 22 (1.33%) CheckPoint
14 20 (1.21%) Workday
15 19 (1.15%) Remedy
16 18 (1.09%) F5
17 17 (1.03%) Palo Alto
18 16 (0.97%) Juniper
19 15 (0.91%) Dynatrace