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

 6 months to
3 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 47 49
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,742 1,292 1,317
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 4.65% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 5.13% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 802 802
10th Percentile £375 £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 £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 60 53
10th Percentile £20.31 £21.85 £18.80
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £30.41
Median hourly rate £41.36 £31.03 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.30% -46.04% +18.80%
75th Percentile £74.88 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.58 £70.16 £69.90
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £46.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.58% -11.90% +8.47%

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 38,664 25,206 28,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.74% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,131 16,135 18,803
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,396 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -1 829 £535 -2.73% 454
North of England -22 290 £500 +11.11% 155
South East +4 269 £575 +24.32% 160
North West -17 168 £475 +5.56% 94
Midlands -34 150 £509 +7.21% 79
West Midlands -38 115 £525 +10.53% 56
Yorkshire -28 107 £500 +11.11% 45
South West -23 92 £525 +7.14% 70
East of England +1 80 £475 -8.65% 45
East Midlands -11 33 £430 +19.44% 23
North East -25 15 £425 -15.00% 18
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 (5.57%) SharePoint
2 91 (5.22%) Confluence
3 30 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.98%) IIS
5 11 (0.63%) SAS
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.40%) Appian
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.17%) Kentico
12 2 (0.11%) CICS
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.057%) MTS
13 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 69 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (2.87%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (1.89%) 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 62 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
7 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
7 7 (0.40%) Primavera
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
11 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 276 (15.84%) Azure
2 146 (8.38%) AWS
3 110 (6.31%) Power Platform
4 108 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
5 88 (5.05%) Entra ID
6 75 (4.31%) SaaS
7 65 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (3.44%) GCP
9 42 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
10 36 (2.07%) GitHub
11 27 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
12 25 (1.44%) OCI
13 24 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 23 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (1.15%) Google Workspace
15 20 (1.15%) Serverless
16 19 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 113 (6.49%) Firewall
2 92 (5.28%) Network Security
3 56 (3.21%) DNS
4 53 (3.04%) WAN
5 51 (2.93%) VPN
6 37 (2.12%) LAN
7 30 (1.72%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.61%) Wireless
9 27 (1.55%) DHCP
9 27 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (1.44%) BGP
11 23 (1.32%) SD-WAN
12 22 (1.26%) OSPF
12 22 (1.26%) SSL
13 19 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (0.75%) HTTP
15 13 (0.75%) MPLS
15 13 (0.75%) VLAN
16 12 (0.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (5.05%) Power BI
2 53 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.61%) Oracle Database
4 26 (1.49%) Metadata
5 19 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (0.69%) Tableau
9 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.40%) Db2
12 6 (0.34%) GIS
12 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
13 5 (0.29%) MySQL
13 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 208 (11.94%) JIRA
2 62 (3.56%) Git
3 49 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.52%) GitLab
4 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
5 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
6 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
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%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.23%) Maven
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
General
1 641 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 635 (36.45%) Finance
3 287 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (9.24%) Banking
4 161 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 88 (5.05%) Legal
6 79 (4.54%) Retail
7 75 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
8 66 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
9 60 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
10 53 (3.04%) Marketing
11 50 (2.87%) Telecoms
12 45 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (2.41%) Manufacturing
14 38 (2.18%) Law
15 33 (1.89%) Local Government
16 30 (1.72%) Aviation
17 24 (1.38%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 17 (0.98%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 200 (11.48%) Project Manager
2 198 (11.37%) Lead
3 178 (10.22%) Analyst
4 134 (7.69%) Change Manager
4 134 (7.69%) Senior
5 114 (6.54%) Consultant
6 104 (5.97%) Business Analyst
7 58 (3.33%) Administrator
8 57 (3.27%) Senior Manager
9 54 (3.10%) Network Engineer
9 54 (3.10%) Programme Manager
10 46 (2.64%) Delivery Manager
11 44 (2.53%) Developer
12 43 (2.47%) Business Manager
13 42 (2.41%) IT Manager
13 42 (2.41%) Support Engineer
14 41 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
14 41 (2.35%) Service Manager
15 36 (2.07%) Security Engineer
16 34 (1.95%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.21%) REST
2 35 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
3 34 (1.95%) .NET
4 24 (1.38%) CSS
4 24 (1.38%) HTML
5 16 (0.92%) Ajax
5 16 (0.92%) Middleware
6 14 (0.80%) SOAP
6 14 (0.80%) Web Services
7 13 (0.75%) .NET Framework
7 13 (0.75%) OAuth
8 12 (0.69%) 802.1X
8 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (0.57%) AngularJS
11 9 (0.52%) Spring
12 8 (0.46%) Jakarta EE
12 8 (0.46%) Kafka
12 8 (0.46%) React
12 8 (0.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 93 (5.34%) Onboarding
2 84 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 82 (4.71%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.84%) PMI
9 29 (1.66%) CMDB
9 29 (1.66%) PKI
10 28 (1.61%) Operational Technology
10 28 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 26 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
14 22 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.21%) Public Cloud
16 19 (1.09%) AI Agents
17 17 (0.98%) Data Structures
18 15 (0.86%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 194 (11.14%) Windows
2 91 (5.22%) Linux
3 74 (4.25%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.84%) Unix
6 20 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) Solaris
8 9 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.52%) VMS
9 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.34%) AIX
10 6 (0.34%) Mac OS
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%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.11%) Android
13 2 (0.11%) OpenVMS
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 603 (34.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 456 (26.18%) Agile
3 414 (23.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 384 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 330 (18.94%) ITIL
6 318 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
7 299 (17.16%) Project Management
8 273 (15.67%) Migration
9 256 (14.70%) Project Delivery
10 232 (13.32%) DevOps
11 213 (12.23%) Roadmaps
12 201 (11.54%) Decision-Making
13 192 (11.02%) AI
14 186 (10.68%) Service Management
15 182 (10.45%) ERP
16 177 (10.16%) ITSM
17 155 (8.90%) PRINCE2
18 154 (8.84%) Risk Management
19 147 (8.44%) Analytics
20 142 (8.15%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.27%) SQL
2 133 (7.63%) Python
3 115 (6.60%) PowerShell
4 53 (3.04%) Bash
5 44 (2.53%) C#
5 44 (2.53%) PL/SQL
6 43 (2.47%) Java
7 41 (2.35%) JavaScript
8 22 (1.26%) T-SQL
9 17 (0.98%) Bicep
10 13 (0.75%) Korn
11 9 (0.52%) Groovy
12 7 (0.40%) Go
12 7 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.29%) COBOL
13 5 (0.29%) Perl
14 4 (0.23%) JCL
14 4 (0.23%) VBScript
15 3 (0.17%) ABAP
15 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 370 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 270 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 200 (11.48%) Degree
4 146 (8.38%) PMP
5 136 (7.81%) PMI Certification
6 71 (4.08%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.39%) CISSP
8 56 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.12%) CCNP
10 36 (2.07%) CISM
11 30 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (1.49%) APMG
14 24 (1.38%) Azure Certification
14 24 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
15 23 (1.32%) CCNA
16 21 (1.21%) Master's Degree
16 21 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 17 (0.98%) ACCA
17 17 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.22%) QA
2 86 (4.94%) SLA
3 84 (4.82%) PMO
4 77 (4.42%) GDPR
5 75 (4.31%) Data Quality
6 66 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (2.53%) NIST
8 27 (1.55%) GRC
9 26 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (1.32%) SOC 2
11 20 (1.15%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.57%) ITGC
14 7 (0.40%) COBIT
14 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.29%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.29%) GMP
15 5 (0.29%) IFRS
16 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 123 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 69 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.41%) Docker
4 24 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.86%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.75%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.57%) vCloud
10 8 (0.46%) vSphere
11 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.17%) KVM
13 1 (0.057%) Ceph
13 1 (0.057%) Firmware
13 1 (0.057%) NFS
13 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.057%) Squid
13 1 (0.057%) XenApp
13 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 99 (5.68%) Terraform
2 62 (3.56%) Kubernetes
3 59 (3.39%) Ansible
4 34 (1.95%) 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 (0.34%) Argo
14 6 (0.34%) CASB
14 6 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.34%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 319 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 207 (11.88%) ServiceNow
3 155 (8.90%) Oracle
4 149 (8.55%) SAP
5 91 (5.22%) VMware
6 78 (4.48%) Cisco
7 65 (3.73%) Salesforce
8 44 (2.53%) Google
9 33 (1.89%) Splunk
10 31 (1.78%) IBM
11 29 (1.66%) Citrix
11 29 (1.66%) Red Hat
12 26 (1.49%) Zscaler
13 25 (1.44%) IFS
14 24 (1.38%) Juniper
15 23 (1.32%) CheckPoint
16 21 (1.21%) Remedy
17 19 (1.09%) F5
17 19 (1.09%) Palo Alto
17 19 (1.09%) Workday
907 Change Management jobs in England