Change Management Contracts in England

Change Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 47 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,149 1,456 2,293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.40% 3.90% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 4.56% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 899 1,428
10th Percentile £330 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -6.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £663
90th Percentile £725 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 70 49
10th Percentile £22.63 £18.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £30.71 £29.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £50.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +3.31% +93.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.60 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.70 £68.94 £85.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £48.40
% change year-on-year +8.00% +3.31% +86.15%

All Process and 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 23,765 31,961 42,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.03% 85.51% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,278 20,746 29,768
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,187 2,306 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 -2 534 £550 - 1,862
North of England +4 221 £450 -12.45% 511
North West +11 135 £440 -13.21% 320
South East +4 126 £489 +7.00% 573
Midlands +19 108 £475 -6.17% 291
West Midlands +25 90 £475 -8.43% 197
Yorkshire -8 82 £450 -12.45% 151
South West -5 73 £508 -3.33% 222
East of England +11 51 £500 +25.00% 186
East Midlands -5 15 £358 -11.60% 91
North East -4 2 £500 -44.26% 42
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 64 (5.57%) Confluence
2 36 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.96%) CMS
4 11 (0.96%) IIS
5 8 (0.70%) Apache
5 8 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.61%) JBoss
7 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.26%) SAS
9 3 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.087%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.087%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.087%) Oracle UPK
11 1 (0.087%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 59 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (1.91%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.61%) Trello
7 3 (0.26%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.26%) Windchill
8 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.087%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 35 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.04%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 9 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.61%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.44%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.44%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.35%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.26%) OpenText MBPM
8 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.26%) SAP APO
8 3 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 84 (7.31%) Azure
2 55 (4.79%) AWS
3 52 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (3.92%) Power Platform
5 38 (3.31%) SaaS
6 21 (1.83%) Entra ID
7 20 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (1.39%) Amazon S3
8 16 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (1.31%) GCP
10 14 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (0.87%) GitHub
13 9 (0.78%) Amazon ELB
13 9 (0.78%) AWS KMS
13 9 (0.78%) Google Workspace
14 8 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (0.70%) Power Automate
14 8 (0.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (7.05%) Firewall
2 38 (3.31%) Network Security
2 38 (3.31%) WAN
3 30 (2.61%) DNS
4 26 (2.26%) LAN
5 23 (2.00%) BGP
6 22 (1.91%) OSPF
6 22 (1.91%) VPN
7 18 (1.57%) Wireless
8 16 (1.39%) DHCP
8 16 (1.39%) MPLS
8 16 (1.39%) SD-WAN
9 15 (1.31%) HTTP
10 13 (1.13%) Cisco IOS
11 12 (1.04%) EIGRP
12 11 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.78%) SMTP
13 9 (0.78%) SSL
14 8 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.13%) Power BI
2 26 (2.26%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.91%) Oracle Database
4 16 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
5 14 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (1.04%) SAP HANA
7 8 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (0.70%) RDBMS
7 8 (0.70%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.61%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.52%) Metadata
9 6 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.52%) Siebel EIM
9 6 (0.52%) Tableau
10 5 (0.44%) InterSystems Cache
10 5 (0.44%) MySQL
11 4 (0.35%) Big Data
12 2 (0.17%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.17%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 99 (8.62%) JIRA
2 33 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.35%) Git
4 11 (0.96%) Vagrant
5 10 (0.87%) SonarQube
5 10 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (0.70%) MSI
6 8 (0.70%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.52%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (0.52%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (0.44%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.35%) GitLab
10 2 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.17%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.17%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.17%) Selenium
11 1 (0.087%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.087%) SoapUI
General
1 428 (37.25%) Finance
2 411 (35.77%) Social Skills
3 191 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (10.44%) Banking
5 82 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 57 (4.96%) Manufacturing
7 50 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 48 (4.18%) Legal
9 47 (4.09%) Telecoms
10 46 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (3.74%) Marketing
12 42 (3.66%) Law
13 32 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
15 26 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (2.00%) Retail
17 16 (1.39%) Financial Institution
18 15 (1.31%) French Language
18 15 (1.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 201 (17.49%) Analyst
2 155 (13.49%) Project Manager
3 123 (10.70%) Business Analyst
4 107 (9.31%) Lead
5 79 (6.88%) Consultant
6 76 (6.61%) Change Manager
7 61 (5.31%) Senior
8 50 (4.35%) IT Manager
9 44 (3.83%) Programme Manager
10 43 (3.74%) Administrator
11 39 (3.39%) Developer
12 38 (3.31%) Architect
13 37 (3.22%) Service Manager
14 35 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
15 31 (2.70%) Business Manager
15 31 (2.70%) Network Engineer
16 26 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
17 24 (2.09%) Business Change Manager
17 24 (2.09%) IT Project Manager
18 22 (1.91%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.39%) .NET
1 16 (1.39%) Web Services
2 15 (1.31%) SOAP
3 12 (1.04%) CSS
3 12 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 12 (1.04%) REST
4 11 (0.96%) Middleware
5 10 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (0.87%) HTML
5 10 (0.87%) Spring Boot
6 7 (0.61%) .NET Framework
6 7 (0.61%) XML
7 6 (0.52%) JMS
7 6 (0.52%) React
8 5 (0.44%) Ajax
8 5 (0.44%) RESTful
8 5 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.35%) Gherkin
9 4 (0.35%) JSON
9 4 (0.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 44 (3.83%) Product Ownership
3 43 (3.74%) Data Centre
4 31 (2.70%) CMDB
5 29 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.09%) Life Science
8 20 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.31%) Operational Technology
10 15 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
10 15 (1.31%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.22%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.04%) PKI
13 11 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (0.96%) e-Learning
13 11 (0.96%) Replication
14 10 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (0.78%) Data Structures
15 9 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 87 (7.57%) Windows
2 52 (4.53%) Linux
3 30 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.04%) Unix
6 10 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
7 9 (0.78%) VMS
8 6 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.35%) CentOS
10 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.087%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.087%) SUSE
12 1 (0.087%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.087%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (24.63%) Agile
2 278 (24.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 252 (21.93%) Project Management
4 248 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
5 196 (17.06%) Migration
6 182 (15.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 167 (14.53%) ITIL
8 140 (12.18%) Project Delivery
9 134 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 127 (11.05%) Risk Management
11 112 (9.75%) Service Management
12 102 (8.88%) ERP
13 98 (8.53%) Decision-Making
14 92 (8.01%) Roadmaps
15 85 (7.40%) Data Migration
16 84 (7.31%) DevOps
17 82 (7.14%) PRINCE2
18 80 (6.96%) Process Improvement
19 79 (6.88%) Service Delivery
20 78 (6.79%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 80 (6.96%) SQL
2 57 (4.96%) Python
3 48 (4.18%) PowerShell
4 35 (3.05%) Java
5 24 (2.09%) C#
6 19 (1.65%) PL/SQL
7 18 (1.57%) JavaScript
8 17 (1.48%) Perl
9 9 (0.78%) Groovy
10 8 (0.70%) VB
11 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.35%) MUMPS
12 4 (0.35%) Ruby
12 4 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.26%) ABAP
13 3 (0.26%) REXX
13 3 (0.26%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.17%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.17%) Bash
14 2 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 147 (12.79%) Degree
2 142 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 89 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 53 (4.61%) PMP
5 52 (4.53%) PMI Certification
6 40 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
8 28 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.65%) CCNP
11 14 (1.22%) CBAP
12 13 (1.13%) CCNA
12 13 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.96%) APMG
14 10 (0.87%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (0.70%) CISSP
17 7 (0.61%) ISEB
18 6 (0.52%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.22%) QA
2 36 (3.13%) PMO
3 32 (2.79%) GDPR
4 28 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 26 (2.26%) SLA
6 16 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.39%) NIST
7 13 (1.13%) MiFID
8 12 (1.04%) EMIR
9 8 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.61%) NCSC
10 7 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.52%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.44%) ITGC
13 4 (0.35%) P3O
14 3 (0.26%) Basel III
14 3 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.26%) COBIT
14 3 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 55 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.00%) Docker
3 19 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.31%) vSphere
5 12 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.78%) Firmware
7 6 (0.52%) DFS Replication
8 5 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.26%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.17%) Postfix
11 2 (0.17%) Squid
11 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.087%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.087%) SRDF
12 1 (0.087%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.91%) Grafana
3 20 (1.74%) Ansible
4 19 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.39%) Terraform
6 13 (1.13%) Oracle RMAN
6 13 (1.13%) SCCM
7 9 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.61%) Kibana
9 5 (0.44%) NetBackup
9 5 (0.44%) Puppet
10 4 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
10 4 (0.35%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.26%) Nagios
11 3 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.26%) SCOM
11 3 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.17%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 193 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 128 (11.14%) SAP
3 81 (7.05%) Oracle
4 68 (5.92%) Cisco
4 68 (5.92%) ServiceNow
5 33 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 26 (2.26%) Splunk
6 26 (2.26%) VMware
7 24 (2.09%) Juniper
8 23 (2.00%) Remedy
9 21 (1.83%) Workday
10 19 (1.65%) Google
11 13 (1.13%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.13%) SolarWinds
12 12 (1.04%) Fortinet
13 11 (0.96%) Commvault
13 11 (0.96%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.87%) CheckPoint
14 10 (0.87%) HP
15 9 (0.78%) Citrix