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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 45 43
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,448 1,220 1,639
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.57% 4.31% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 4.86% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 940 702 1,021
10th Percentile £313 £338 £363
25th Percentile £404 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £731 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 19 37
10th Percentile £20.50 £24.83 £18.06
25th Percentile £22.16 £29.38 £28.30
Median hourly rate £41.86 £54.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +11.57% +66.90%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.38 £55.81
90th Percentile £60.00 £83.00 £62.93
UK median hourly rate £41.86 £54.00 £45.87
% change year-on-year -22.49% +17.74% +43.33%

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 28,039 25,113 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.57% 88.74% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,871 15,476 21,696
10th Percentile £304 £313 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,770 825 1,406
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56.99 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +25.71%

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 December 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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -11 591 £525 -4.55% 201
North of England -10 279 £451 -13.37% 87
Midlands +10 224 £475 -5.00% 72
South East +11 185 £475 -9.52% 140
North West +8 176 £434 -13.20% 50
West Midlands +4 153 £475 -5.00% 39
South West +21 121 £525 +2.94% 38
Yorkshire -19 101 £487 -11.45% 30
East Midlands +27 71 £425 +3.03% 33
East of England -20 46 £520 +15.56% 40
North East -23 2 £500 -13.04% 9
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
1 116 (8.01%) Confluence
2 84 (5.80%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.69%) nginx
5 9 (0.62%) HCL Notes
6 7 (0.48%) CMS
7 6 (0.41%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.41%) Mule
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.28%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) JBoss
10 3 (0.21%) Moodle
11 2 (0.14%) Appian
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.069%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.069%) FileNet
12 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.069%) Traefik
Applications
1 86 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (5.66%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.76%) MS Visio
4 35 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.48%) Trello
7 5 (0.35%) Windchill
8 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.21%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.14%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.069%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.069%) Notion
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 42 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.69%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.35%) Maximo
8 5 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.21%) Kondor
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.21%) ResourceLink
10 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 189 (13.05%) Azure
2 142 (9.81%) AWS
3 101 (6.98%) GCP
4 100 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
5 88 (6.08%) Power Platform
6 38 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (2.62%) SaaS
7 32 (2.21%) Entra ID
8 30 (2.07%) Serverless
9 26 (1.80%) AWS KMS
10 24 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (1.59%) Amazon S3
12 21 (1.45%) GitHub
13 20 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (1.17%) Amazon ELB
15 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
15 17 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (6.22%) Firewall
2 72 (4.97%) DNS
3 59 (4.07%) Network Security
4 41 (2.83%) VPN
5 36 (2.49%) WAN
6 30 (2.07%) SSH
7 24 (1.66%) SSL
8 23 (1.59%) HTTP
9 21 (1.45%) LAN
10 19 (1.31%) DHCP
10 19 (1.31%) SMTP
11 18 (1.24%) TCP/IP
12 17 (1.17%) FTP
13 15 (1.04%) IPsec
13 15 (1.04%) SD-WAN
13 15 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (1.04%) Wireless
14 11 (0.76%) DMVPN
14 11 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 11 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (5.11%) Power BI
2 34 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (2.28%) SQL Server
4 25 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (1.66%) NoSQL
5 24 (1.66%) Tableau
6 22 (1.52%) Metadata
7 18 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
8 15 (1.04%) Oracle Database
9 13 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.48%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.41%) MySQL
13 5 (0.35%) Big Data
13 5 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.28%) Redis
15 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.21%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 182 (12.57%) JIRA
2 72 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 32 (2.21%) Git
4 29 (2.00%) GitLab
4 29 (2.00%) Liquibase
5 17 (1.17%) Vagrant
6 9 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.28%) ChangeMan
9 4 (0.28%) MSI
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.21%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.21%) JUnit
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.14%) AdminStudio
11 2 (0.14%) MLflow
11 2 (0.14%) Mockito
11 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 641 (44.27%) Social Skills
2 454 (31.35%) Finance
3 268 (18.51%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.70%) Banking
5 141 (9.74%) Public Sector
6 65 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
7 56 (3.87%) Manufacturing
8 43 (2.97%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.76%) Legal
10 38 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
10 38 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.56%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.28%) Retail
13 32 (2.21%) Marketing
14 30 (2.07%) Local Government
15 23 (1.59%) Law
16 16 (1.10%) Investment Banking
17 15 (1.04%) Billing
17 15 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 209 (14.43%) Analyst
2 181 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 157 (10.84%) Lead
4 123 (8.49%) Change Manager
5 112 (7.73%) Business Analyst
6 87 (6.01%) Senior
7 79 (5.46%) Consultant
8 51 (3.52%) Developer
9 49 (3.38%) Administrator
10 44 (3.04%) Architect
11 39 (2.69%) Senior Manager
12 38 (2.62%) IT Manager
13 37 (2.56%) Business Manager
14 35 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
14 35 (2.42%) Programme Manager
15 34 (2.35%) AWS Engineer
16 31 (2.14%) Service Manager
17 29 (2.00%) SAP Manager
18 28 (1.93%) Business Change Manager
19 27 (1.86%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.52%) REST
2 42 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (1.93%) RESTful
4 23 (1.59%) .NET
5 22 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (1.17%) SAML
7 16 (1.10%) LDAP
8 12 (0.83%) Middleware
8 12 (0.83%) OAuth
9 11 (0.76%) .NET Framework
9 11 (0.76%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.76%) HTML
9 11 (0.76%) OpenID
10 8 (0.55%) ISPF
10 8 (0.55%) Kafka
10 8 (0.55%) SOAP
11 7 (0.48%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.48%) CSS
12 6 (0.41%) XML
13 5 (0.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 85 (5.87%) Onboarding
2 76 (5.25%) Management Information System
3 60 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.18%) Cloud Native
5 43 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.69%) Virtual Team
7 38 (2.62%) CMDB
7 38 (2.62%) PKI
8 28 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (1.86%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.86%) Replication
10 26 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.38%) Life Science
14 19 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.31%) PMI
15 18 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (0.97%) e-Learning
16 14 (0.97%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 158 (10.91%) Windows
2 86 (5.94%) Linux
3 42 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.62%) Unix
5 27 (1.86%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.38%) VMS
7 17 (1.17%) Amazon Linux
8 12 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.28%) zOS
13 3 (0.21%) CentOS
13 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.14%) AIX
14 2 (0.14%) Android
15 1 (0.069%) Debian
15 1 (0.069%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.069%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (28.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 379 (26.17%) Agile
3 329 (22.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 300 (20.72%) ITIL
5 296 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
6 295 (20.37%) Project Management
7 215 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 202 (13.95%) DevOps
9 191 (13.19%) Migration
10 182 (12.57%) Project Delivery
11 154 (10.64%) Service Management
12 140 (9.67%) ITSM
13 133 (9.19%) PRINCE2
14 124 (8.56%) Roadmaps
15 121 (8.36%) Decision-Making
16 117 (8.08%) ERP
17 113 (7.80%) CI/CD
18 105 (7.25%) Risk Management
19 104 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
19 104 (7.18%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 146 (10.08%) Python
2 125 (8.63%) SQL
3 96 (6.63%) PowerShell
4 33 (2.28%) Bash
5 31 (2.14%) Go
5 31 (2.14%) Java
6 30 (2.07%) C#
7 22 (1.52%) Groovy
8 19 (1.31%) JavaScript
9 18 (1.24%) PL/SQL
10 12 (0.83%) T-SQL
11 11 (0.76%) Perl
12 10 (0.69%) COBOL
12 10 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.55%) CLIST
13 8 (0.55%) JCL
13 8 (0.55%) REXX
14 7 (0.48%) Korn
15 5 (0.35%) C++
16 4 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 296 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 271 (18.72%) Degree
3 206 (14.23%) SC Cleared
4 88 (6.08%) PMI Certification
5 79 (5.46%) PMP
6 65 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 50 (3.45%) Master's Degree
8 40 (2.76%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 22 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
13 21 (1.45%) AWS Certification
14 19 (1.31%) APMG
15 17 (1.17%) CISM
15 17 (1.17%) CISSP
16 16 (1.10%) Azure Certification
17 11 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 10 (0.69%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.52%) QA
2 72 (4.97%) PMO
3 49 (3.38%) GDPR
4 43 (2.97%) Data Quality
5 38 (2.62%) SLA
6 29 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.10%) NIST
8 14 (0.97%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.55%) MiFID
10 8 (0.55%) NCSC
10 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.48%) IFRS
12 6 (0.41%) Basel III
13 5 (0.35%) EMIR
13 5 (0.35%) IFRS 17
13 5 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.28%) GMP
System Software
1 92 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 70 (4.83%) Docker
3 23 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.17%) DFS Replication
5 13 (0.90%) Firmware
5 13 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.69%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.69%) Postfix
6 10 (0.69%) Squid
7 8 (0.55%) ACF2
7 8 (0.55%) RACF
7 8 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
7 8 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.21%) XenApp
10 3 (0.21%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.14%) NFS
11 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 81 (5.59%) Terraform
2 74 (5.11%) Kubernetes
3 56 (3.87%) Ansible
4 53 (3.66%) Grafana
5 52 (3.59%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.42%) SCCM
7 26 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.97%) Puppet
9 13 (0.90%) Kibana
9 13 (0.90%) SCOM
10 12 (0.83%) CA Endevor
11 11 (0.76%) Nessus
12 10 (0.69%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.62%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.48%) Tivoli
14 7 (0.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 6 (0.41%) HP SiteScope
16 5 (0.35%) WSUS
17 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 280 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 133 (9.19%) ServiceNow
3 124 (8.56%) SAP
4 99 (6.84%) Oracle
5 63 (4.35%) Google
6 56 (3.87%) Salesforce
7 51 (3.52%) Cisco
8 50 (3.45%) Splunk
9 38 (2.62%) VMware
10 28 (1.93%) F5
11 25 (1.73%) Workday
12 24 (1.66%) Juniper
13 22 (1.52%) CheckPoint
14 21 (1.45%) Atlassian
15 20 (1.38%) Remedy
16 19 (1.31%) Citrix
17 18 (1.24%) IBM
18 16 (1.10%) Fortinet
19 13 (0.90%) Blue Coat
20 12 (0.83%) Dynatrace