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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 47 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,745 1,285 1,286
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 4.65% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 5.13% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 797 777
10th Percentile £375 £328 £313
25th Percentile £426 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.95% -6.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £624
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 56 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.61 £19.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £29.73
Median hourly rate £41.71 £30.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +39.03% -48.43% +20.19%
75th Percentile £71.62 £52.06 £61.60
90th Percentile £86.13 £70.08 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £37.28 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.88% -32.22% +13.64%

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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -3 834 £540 -1.82% 222
North of England -31 288 £500 +11.11% 127
South East +4 280 £569 +19.42% 159
North West -21 171 £497 +10.44% 80
Midlands -50 127 £496 +4.47% 66
Yorkshire -33 102 £500 +11.11% 34
West Midlands -47 94 £513 +7.89% 43
South West -29 93 £528 +6.57% 66
East of England -1 83 £500 -4.76% 39
East Midlands -16 31 £445 +23.61% 23
North East -26 15 £425 -15.00% 17
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 95 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 76 (4.36%) Confluence
3 29 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.97%) IIS
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
5 9 (0.52%) SAS
6 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.34%) Appian
7 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.34%) CMS
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.057%) Mattermost
12 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 66 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
4 36 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) Houdini
9 2 (0.11%) NUKE
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.057%) InDesign
10 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 57 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.46%) Maximo
7 8 (0.46%) Primavera
7 8 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
9 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
10 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 5 (0.29%) Teamcenter
11 3 (0.17%) iTrent
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 275 (15.76%) Azure
2 140 (8.02%) AWS
3 112 (6.42%) Power Platform
4 107 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (5.44%) Entra ID
6 73 (4.18%) SaaS
7 65 (3.72%) GCP
8 61 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 39 (2.23%) GitHub
11 29 (1.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 28 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
13 27 (1.55%) OCI
14 23 (1.32%) Power Automate
15 22 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (1.26%) Google Workspace
16 21 (1.20%) Serverless
17 19 (1.09%) PowerApps
18 18 (1.03%) OpenShift
19 17 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 119 (6.82%) Firewall
2 103 (5.90%) Network Security
3 64 (3.67%) DNS
4 57 (3.27%) VPN
4 57 (3.27%) WAN
5 37 (2.12%) LAN
6 34 (1.95%) DHCP
7 33 (1.89%) TCP/IP
8 30 (1.72%) Wireless
9 27 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.38%) SD-WAN
11 22 (1.26%) BGP
11 22 (1.26%) SSL
12 20 (1.15%) OSPF
13 19 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (0.80%) MPLS
16 13 (0.74%) HTTP
17 12 (0.69%) Internet
17 12 (0.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (5.21%) Power BI
2 53 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.60%) Oracle Database
4 26 (1.49%) Metadata
5 18 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (0.63%) Tableau
8 9 (0.52%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.40%) Db2
10 6 (0.34%) GIS
10 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
11 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 188 (10.77%) JIRA
2 53 (3.04%) Git
3 47 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.46%) GitLab
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.34%) Selenium
7 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
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%) Hudson
9 4 (0.23%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.17%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
General
1 659 (37.77%) Social Skills
2 649 (37.19%) Finance
3 305 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (9.74%) Banking
5 151 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 85 (4.87%) Retail
7 82 (4.70%) Legal
8 81 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
9 64 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
10 53 (3.04%) Telecoms
11 49 (2.81%) Marketing
12 47 (2.69%) Manufacturing
13 38 (2.18%) Law
13 38 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (1.83%) Local Government
15 28 (1.60%) Aviation
16 24 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (1.32%) Financial Institution
18 19 (1.09%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 216 (12.38%) Lead
2 195 (11.17%) Project Manager
3 182 (10.43%) Analyst
4 133 (7.62%) Senior
5 132 (7.56%) Change Manager
6 115 (6.59%) Consultant
7 102 (5.85%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.44%) Senior Manager
9 54 (3.09%) Administrator
9 54 (3.09%) Network Engineer
10 48 (2.75%) Programme Manager
11 47 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
11 47 (2.69%) Developer
12 42 (2.41%) Business Manager
12 42 (2.41%) IT Manager
13 38 (2.18%) Delivery Manager
13 38 (2.18%) Service Manager
13 38 (2.18%) Support Engineer
14 35 (2.01%) Business Change Manager
15 34 (1.95%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.09%) REST
2 35 (2.01%) .NET
3 31 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.38%) HTML
5 23 (1.32%) CSS
6 16 (0.92%) Ajax
6 16 (0.92%) Middleware
7 15 (0.86%) SOAP
8 13 (0.74%) 802.1X
8 13 (0.74%) Kafka
8 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
8 13 (0.74%) OAuth
9 12 (0.69%) .NET Framework
9 12 (0.69%) Web Services
10 11 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (0.52%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.46%) React
12 8 (0.46%) SPFx
12 8 (0.46%) Spring
13 7 (0.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.90%) Onboarding
2 89 (5.10%) Management Information System
3 74 (4.24%) Data Centre
4 66 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 46 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.01%) Security Posture
8 33 (1.89%) PKI
8 33 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (1.60%) PMI
10 27 (1.55%) CMDB
10 27 (1.55%) Operational Technology
10 27 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.15%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.09%) Public Cloud
15 17 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
16 16 (0.92%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 205 (11.75%) Windows
2 97 (5.56%) Linux
3 83 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.83%) Unix
6 19 (1.09%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) Solaris
7 10 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.57%) VMS
8 8 (0.46%) 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 3 (0.17%) Android
12 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.11%) CentOS
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (36.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 452 (25.90%) Agile
3 414 (23.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 396 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 339 (19.43%) ITIL
6 322 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
7 303 (17.36%) Project Management
8 262 (15.01%) Migration
8 262 (15.01%) Project Delivery
9 224 (12.84%) DevOps
10 222 (12.72%) Roadmaps
11 204 (11.69%) Decision-Making
12 200 (11.46%) Service Management
13 187 (10.72%) AI
13 187 (10.72%) ERP
14 185 (10.60%) ITSM
15 162 (9.28%) PRINCE2
16 154 (8.83%) Analytics
17 148 (8.48%) Risk Management
18 145 (8.31%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 141 (8.08%) Python
2 140 (8.02%) SQL
3 127 (7.28%) PowerShell
4 64 (3.67%) Bash
5 44 (2.52%) Java
5 44 (2.52%) PL/SQL
6 42 (2.41%) C#
6 42 (2.41%) JavaScript
7 23 (1.32%) T-SQL
8 21 (1.20%) Bicep
9 14 (0.80%) Korn
10 9 (0.52%) Go
10 9 (0.52%) Groovy
10 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.34%) VBScript
12 5 (0.29%) COBOL
13 4 (0.23%) ABAP
13 4 (0.23%) JCL
13 4 (0.23%) Perl
14 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 363 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 258 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 207 (11.86%) Degree
4 148 (8.48%) PMP
5 134 (7.68%) PMI Certification
6 71 (4.07%) DV Cleared
7 62 (3.55%) CISSP
8 52 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (2.06%) CCNP
9 36 (2.06%) CISM
10 28 (1.60%) APMG
11 27 (1.55%) Azure Certification
12 26 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
13 25 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
14 24 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
15 22 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 21 (1.20%) CCNA
17 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
18 19 (1.09%) AWS Certification
19 18 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (4.93%) QA
2 84 (4.81%) PMO
2 84 (4.81%) SLA
3 77 (4.41%) Data Quality
4 72 (4.13%) GDPR
5 61 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (2.64%) NIST
7 27 (1.55%) GRC
8 24 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.32%) SOC 2
10 20 (1.15%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.57%) ITGC
13 7 (0.40%) COBIT
13 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.34%) GMP
15 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 126 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 77 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.35%) Docker
4 24 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.09%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.80%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.69%) vCloud
10 8 (0.46%) vSphere
11 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.057%) Ceph
13 1 (0.057%) Firmware
13 1 (0.057%) KVM
13 1 (0.057%) NFS
13 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.057%) Squid
Systems Management
1 105 (6.02%) Terraform
2 67 (3.84%) Kubernetes
3 58 (3.32%) Ansible
4 37 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (1.89%) vCenter Server
6 27 (1.55%) SCOM
7 24 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.26%) Grafana
9 21 (1.20%) Prometheus
10 17 (0.97%) Progress Chef
11 16 (0.92%) SCCM
12 12 (0.69%) Avamar
13 8 (0.46%) 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
Vendors
1 331 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 196 (11.23%) ServiceNow
3 159 (9.11%) Oracle
4 139 (7.97%) SAP
5 99 (5.67%) VMware
6 78 (4.47%) Cisco
7 66 (3.78%) Salesforce
8 51 (2.92%) Google
9 34 (1.95%) Splunk
10 31 (1.78%) IBM
10 31 (1.78%) Red Hat
11 28 (1.60%) Zscaler
12 25 (1.43%) CheckPoint
12 25 (1.43%) IFS
13 23 (1.32%) Juniper
13 23 (1.32%) Remedy
14 22 (1.26%) Citrix
14 22 (1.26%) F5
15 20 (1.15%) Palo Alto
16 19 (1.09%) Workday