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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 48 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,740 1,250 1,360
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.86% 4.56% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 5.02% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 770 828
10th Percentile £375 £325 £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 £625
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £496 £511
% change year-on-year +5.85% -2.98% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 59 57
10th Percentile £20.31 £22.16 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £31.60
Median hourly rate £38.50 £32.05 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.12% -44.26% +25.00%
75th Percentile £75.51 £66.25 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.16 £70.16 £69.70
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.95% -13.64% +13.95%

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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
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 £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +1 821 £538 -2.27% 306
North of England -25 296 £500 +11.11% 111
South East +2 267 £575 +24.32% 140
North West -15 170 £475 +5.56% 68
Midlands -27 153 £505 +6.21% 54
West Midlands -33 119 £520 +9.47% 32
Yorkshire -26 110 £500 +11.11% 32
South West -20 91 £525 +7.14% 61
East of England 0 80 £475 -6.86% 30
East Midlands -2 32 £430 +20.11% 22
North East -27 16 £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 99 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 92 (5.29%) Confluence
3 31 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.98%) IIS
5 13 (0.75%) SAS
6 10 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.46%) Appian
8 7 (0.40%) CMS
9 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.29%) Camunda
11 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.17%) Kentico
13 2 (0.11%) CICS
13 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
14 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.057%) MTS
14 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 67 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (2.93%) Microsoft Project
4 31 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) Houdini
8 2 (0.11%) NUKE
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.057%) InDesign
9 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.057%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.40%) Primavera
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) OpenText MBPM
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
11 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 276 (15.86%) Azure
2 147 (8.45%) AWS
3 108 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
4 106 (6.09%) Power Platform
5 89 (5.11%) Entra ID
6 75 (4.31%) SaaS
7 64 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (3.51%) GCP
9 42 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (1.95%) GitHub
11 27 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (1.49%) OCI
13 24 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 24 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (1.21%) Google Workspace
15 21 (1.21%) Serverless
16 19 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.44%) Firewall
2 92 (5.29%) Network Security
3 54 (3.10%) DNS
4 52 (2.99%) WAN
5 49 (2.82%) VPN
6 37 (2.13%) LAN
7 28 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (1.55%) Wireless
9 24 (1.38%) DHCP
10 23 (1.32%) BGP
11 20 (1.15%) OSPF
11 20 (1.15%) SD-WAN
11 20 (1.15%) SSL
12 19 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (0.75%) MPLS
15 12 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
15 12 (0.69%) HTTP
16 11 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.77%) Power BI
2 51 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.67%) Metadata
4 26 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.63%) Tableau
9 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.40%) Db2
11 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.34%) GIS
13 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
13 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 212 (12.18%) JIRA
2 61 (3.51%) Git
3 50 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.57%) GitLab
5 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 5 (0.29%) Liquibase
7 5 (0.29%) Selenium
7 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) Hudson
8 4 (0.23%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.23%) Maven
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) MLflow
9 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 642 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 635 (36.49%) Finance
3 283 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 154 (8.85%) Banking
6 89 (5.11%) Legal
7 80 (4.60%) Retail
8 74 (4.25%) Influencing Skills
9 69 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
10 59 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
11 53 (3.05%) Marketing
12 49 (2.82%) Telecoms
13 44 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (2.36%) Manufacturing
15 39 (2.24%) Law
16 34 (1.95%) Local Government
17 31 (1.78%) Aviation
18 25 (1.44%) Financial Institution
19 22 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 17 (0.98%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 200 (11.49%) Project Manager
2 196 (11.26%) Lead
3 173 (9.94%) Analyst
4 134 (7.70%) Senior
5 133 (7.64%) Change Manager
6 110 (6.32%) Consultant
7 99 (5.69%) Business Analyst
8 58 (3.33%) Administrator
9 57 (3.28%) Senior Manager
10 54 (3.10%) Programme Manager
11 51 (2.93%) Network Engineer
12 47 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
13 46 (2.64%) Developer
14 44 (2.53%) Business Manager
15 43 (2.47%) IT Manager
16 42 (2.41%) Service Manager
17 41 (2.36%) Support Engineer
18 40 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
19 36 (2.07%) Architect
19 36 (2.07%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.28%) REST
2 36 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
3 34 (1.95%) .NET
4 23 (1.32%) CSS
4 23 (1.32%) HTML
5 16 (0.92%) Middleware
6 15 (0.86%) Ajax
6 15 (0.86%) OAuth
6 15 (0.86%) Web Services
7 14 (0.80%) .NET Framework
7 14 (0.80%) SOAP
8 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (0.63%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (0.63%) RESTful
10 10 (0.57%) AngularJS
11 9 (0.52%) JSON
11 9 (0.52%) Spring
12 8 (0.46%) Kafka
12 8 (0.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.83%) Management Information System
2 83 (4.77%) Onboarding
3 81 (4.66%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.74%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.84%) PMI
9 28 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 27 (1.55%) CMDB
10 27 (1.55%) Operational Technology
10 27 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.49%) PKI
12 25 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 22 (1.26%) Public Cloud
15 20 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
16 19 (1.09%) AI Agents
17 18 (1.03%) Data Structures
18 15 (0.86%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 188 (10.80%) Windows
2 91 (5.23%) Linux
3 69 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.90%) Unix
6 18 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) Solaris
7 10 (0.57%) VMS
8 8 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.34%) AIX
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.34%) SUSE
11 5 (0.29%) HPUX
11 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.17%) Android
14 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.11%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (34.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 454 (26.09%) Agile
3 409 (23.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 386 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 327 (18.79%) ITIL
6 320 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
7 304 (17.47%) Project Management
8 276 (15.86%) Migration
9 258 (14.83%) Project Delivery
10 233 (13.39%) DevOps
11 210 (12.07%) Roadmaps
12 198 (11.38%) Decision-Making
13 188 (10.80%) ERP
14 185 (10.63%) Service Management
15 183 (10.52%) AI
16 172 (9.89%) ITSM
17 155 (8.91%) PRINCE2
18 153 (8.79%) Risk Management
19 144 (8.28%) CI/CD
20 131 (7.53%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 136 (7.82%) SQL
2 132 (7.59%) Python
3 115 (6.61%) PowerShell
4 53 (3.05%) Bash
5 46 (2.64%) C#
6 43 (2.47%) Java
7 42 (2.41%) JavaScript
7 42 (2.41%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.21%) T-SQL
9 17 (0.98%) Bicep
10 13 (0.75%) Korn
11 10 (0.57%) Groovy
12 8 (0.46%) Go
13 7 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.29%) COBOL
14 5 (0.29%) Perl
15 4 (0.23%) JCL
16 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.17%) SOQL
16 3 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 372 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 271 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 195 (11.21%) Degree
4 144 (8.28%) PMP
5 134 (7.70%) PMI Certification
6 70 (4.02%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.39%) CISSP
8 53 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.13%) CCNP
10 36 (2.07%) CISM
11 30 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
13 24 (1.38%) APMG
13 24 (1.38%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
15 20 (1.15%) CCNA
15 20 (1.15%) Master's Degree
15 20 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 18 (1.03%) ACCA
16 18 (1.03%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.17%) QA
2 85 (4.89%) PMO
2 85 (4.89%) SLA
3 76 (4.37%) GDPR
4 70 (4.02%) Data Quality
5 66 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.53%) NIST
7 26 (1.49%) GRC
7 26 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 23 (1.32%) SOC 2
9 20 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.57%) ITGC
12 7 (0.40%) COBIT
13 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.29%) Accessibility
14 5 (0.29%) GMP
14 5 (0.29%) IFRS
15 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 122 (7.01%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.53%) Docker
4 25 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.92%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.80%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.57%) vCloud
10 9 (0.52%) vSphere
11 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.23%) KVM
13 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.057%) Ceph
14 1 (0.057%) Firmware
14 1 (0.057%) NFS
14 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.057%) Squid
14 1 (0.057%) XenApp
14 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 98 (5.63%) Terraform
2 65 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 61 (3.51%) Ansible
4 33 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.84%) vCenter Server
6 24 (1.38%) SCOM
7 22 (1.26%) Grafana
8 20 (1.15%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.80%) SCCM
12 11 (0.63%) Avamar
13 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.40%) PowerCLI
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
Vendors
1 316 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 203 (11.67%) ServiceNow
3 157 (9.02%) Oracle
4 150 (8.62%) SAP
5 87 (5.00%) VMware
6 74 (4.25%) Cisco
7 64 (3.68%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.64%) Google
9 32 (1.84%) Splunk
10 31 (1.78%) IBM
11 29 (1.67%) Citrix
11 29 (1.67%) Red Hat
12 25 (1.44%) IFS
12 25 (1.44%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.38%) CheckPoint
14 23 (1.32%) Juniper
15 21 (1.21%) F5
16 20 (1.15%) Remedy
17 18 (1.03%) Palo Alto
17 18 (1.03%) Workday