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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 51 44
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,627 1,073 1,508
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 4.40% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 4.83% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 700 967
10th Percentile £325 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.08% -4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 30 53
10th Percentile £22.63 £26.15 £14.09
25th Percentile £22.68 £31.83 £26.42
Median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.94% +54.65% -23.18%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.25 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £37.84
% change year-on-year -15.81% +42.71% -21.38%

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 33,504 22,203 32,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 91.02% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,453 14,593 21,161
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £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 2,080 880 2,196
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.83 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.07 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -3 709 £500 -6.93% 147
North of England -13 291 £475 +5.56% 110
Midlands +1 224 £500 -0.05% 81
South East +8 220 £505 +1.00% 127
North West -2 197 £441 +0.69% 54
West Midlands -16 152 £507 +1.15% 46
South West -7 100 £525 +5.00% 30
Yorkshire -40 86 £487 -2.60% 41
East Midlands +16 70 £450 +27.12% 34
East of England -10 69 £475 -2.51% 38
North East -22 8 £440 -23.48% 15
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
1 111 (6.82%) Confluence
2 70 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.80%) SAS
5 9 (0.55%) Appian
6 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) CMS
9 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.061%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.061%) Moodle
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 81 (4.98%) Microsoft Project
2 72 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 33 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.25%) Trello
9 3 (0.18%) Windchill
10 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.061%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 63 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.37%) Finacle
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.31%) Primavera
8 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.25%) iTrent
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 256 (15.73%) Azure
2 130 (7.99%) AWS
3 104 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (5.53%) Power Platform
5 67 (4.12%) GCP
6 65 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (3.81%) SaaS
8 56 (3.44%) Entra ID
9 33 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (1.72%) PaaS
11 27 (1.66%) Power Automate
12 23 (1.41%) Google Workspace
13 22 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.23%) OCI
14 20 (1.23%) OpenShift
15 19 (1.17%) Google Sheets
16 18 (1.11%) IaaS
17 17 (1.04%) GitHub
18 15 (0.92%) PowerApps
19 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 98 (6.02%) Firewall
2 65 (4.00%) Network Security
3 54 (3.32%) WAN
4 47 (2.89%) DNS
5 46 (2.83%) VPN
6 43 (2.64%) LAN
7 31 (1.91%) SD-WAN
8 29 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.41%) SSL
10 22 (1.35%) DHCP
11 21 (1.29%) BGP
12 19 (1.17%) OSPF
13 17 (1.04%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.92%) SAN
14 15 (0.92%) Wireless
15 13 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
15 13 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
16 12 (0.74%) Internet
16 12 (0.74%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.36%) Power BI
2 53 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.48%) Metadata
4 21 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.29%) Tableau
5 16 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.92%) Oracle Database
7 14 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
10 7 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
10 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
11 6 (0.37%) MySQL
11 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.25%) Pentaho
12 4 (0.25%) Redis
12 4 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 204 (12.54%) JIRA
2 37 (2.27%) Git
3 33 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.61%) GitLab
6 9 (0.55%) Liquibase
7 8 (0.49%) MLflow
8 5 (0.31%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.25%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.25%) Hudson
9 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.25%) JUnit
9 4 (0.25%) Maven
9 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.18%) Snyk
10 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 684 (42.04%) Social Skills
2 549 (33.74%) Finance
3 303 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 133 (8.17%) Banking
6 71 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
7 65 (4.00%) Legal
7 65 (4.00%) Retail
8 56 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (2.95%) Marketing
10 45 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.27%) Local Government
12 36 (2.21%) Manufacturing
13 31 (1.91%) Law
14 30 (1.84%) Telecoms
15 28 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.35%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.29%) Investment Banking
18 18 (1.11%) Aviation
19 16 (0.98%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 194 (11.92%) Project Manager
2 192 (11.80%) Lead
3 168 (10.33%) Analyst
4 147 (9.04%) Change Manager
5 114 (7.01%) Senior
6 106 (6.52%) Consultant
7 102 (6.27%) Business Analyst
8 57 (3.50%) Programme Manager
9 55 (3.38%) Administrator
10 53 (3.26%) Developer
11 49 (3.01%) Business Manager
12 48 (2.95%) Architect
13 42 (2.58%) Senior Manager
14 40 (2.46%) Business Change Manager
15 38 (2.34%) IT Manager
16 33 (2.03%) Delivery Manager
17 32 (1.97%) Network Engineer
18 31 (1.91%) SAP Manager
18 31 (1.91%) Support Engineer
19 29 (1.78%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.07%) REST
2 33 (2.03%) .NET
3 28 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.35%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.29%) OAuth
6 20 (1.23%) Middleware
7 17 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (1.04%) SAML
8 15 (0.92%) Web Services
9 14 (0.86%) OpenID
9 14 (0.86%) RESTful
10 13 (0.80%) LDAP
11 11 (0.68%) CSS
12 10 (0.61%) ISPF
12 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
12 10 (0.61%) pytest
13 9 (0.55%) Django
13 9 (0.55%) NumPy
13 9 (0.55%) Pandas
13 9 (0.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 83 (5.10%) Management Information System
2 71 (4.36%) Onboarding
3 70 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.64%) Virtual Team
6 39 (2.40%) PMI
7 38 (2.34%) CMDB
8 37 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 30 (1.84%) Cloud Native
10 28 (1.72%) PKI
11 27 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (0.98%) Operational Technology
16 15 (0.92%) Low-Code
16 15 (0.92%) Public Cloud
16 15 (0.92%) Replication
17 14 (0.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 162 (9.96%) Windows
2 62 (3.81%) Linux
3 57 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.84%) Windows 10
5 28 (1.72%) Unix
6 12 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.25%) CentOS
10 4 (0.25%) VMS
10 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
11 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.12%) Android
12 2 (0.12%) HPUX
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
12 2 (0.12%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (32.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 397 (24.40%) Agile
2 397 (24.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 349 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
4 324 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 318 (19.55%) ITIL
6 297 (18.25%) Project Management
7 267 (16.41%) Migration
8 220 (13.52%) DevOps
9 188 (11.56%) Project Delivery
10 173 (10.63%) ERP
11 159 (9.77%) Roadmaps
12 154 (9.47%) ITSM
13 150 (9.22%) Decision-Making
14 146 (8.97%) Service Management
15 145 (8.91%) Risk Management
16 140 (8.60%) Validation
17 135 (8.30%) PRINCE2
18 129 (7.93%) Workshop Facilitation
19 126 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 162 (9.96%) SQL
2 101 (6.21%) Python
3 96 (5.90%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.83%) C#
5 35 (2.15%) Bash
5 35 (2.15%) PL/SQL
6 25 (1.54%) Java
7 23 (1.41%) T-SQL
8 20 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 10 (0.61%) CLIST
9 10 (0.61%) COBOL
9 10 (0.61%) JCL
9 10 (0.61%) REXX
10 9 (0.55%) Groovy
10 9 (0.55%) Korn
11 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.37%) Perl
13 5 (0.31%) Go
14 3 (0.18%) SOQL
14 3 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 341 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 247 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 236 (14.51%) Degree
4 112 (6.88%) PMI Certification
5 109 (6.70%) PMP
6 49 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.95%) CISSP
8 43 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (2.34%) CISM
10 37 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (2.15%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.78%) APMG
13 29 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
13 29 (1.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 26 (1.60%) CCNP
15 17 (1.04%) Azure Certification
15 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (0.98%) ACCA
16 16 (0.98%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.96%) QA
2 80 (4.92%) GDPR
3 78 (4.79%) PMO
4 71 (4.36%) Data Quality
5 64 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (3.38%) SLA
7 42 (2.58%) NIST
8 21 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.11%) SOC 2
10 17 (1.04%) IFRS
11 15 (0.92%) IFRS 17
11 15 (0.92%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.61%) Basel III
13 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.49%) GRC
15 7 (0.43%) COBIT
15 7 (0.43%) ITGC
16 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.31%) NCSC
17 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 110 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 51 (3.13%) Docker
3 41 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) ACF2
7 10 (0.61%) RACF
7 10 (0.61%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.49%) Firmware
8 8 (0.49%) vSphere
9 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.31%) KVM
10 5 (0.31%) XenApp
10 5 (0.31%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.12%) NFS
11 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.061%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 74 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 54 (3.32%) Terraform
3 47 (2.89%) Ansible
4 34 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.41%) SCCM
6 19 (1.17%) Grafana
7 18 (1.11%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.04%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.61%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.61%) Puppet
11 9 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.55%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.49%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.49%) Kibana
12 8 (0.49%) SCOM
13 7 (0.43%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.37%) CASB
14 6 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 276 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 166 (10.20%) ServiceNow
3 156 (9.59%) SAP
4 144 (8.85%) Oracle
5 68 (4.18%) Salesforce
6 61 (3.75%) VMware
7 59 (3.63%) Google
8 57 (3.50%) Cisco
9 36 (2.21%) Citrix
10 33 (2.03%) Workday
11 24 (1.48%) Splunk
12 23 (1.41%) Atlassian
13 22 (1.35%) F5
14 21 (1.29%) IFS
15 19 (1.17%) Juniper
16 18 (1.11%) CheckPoint
17 17 (1.04%) Palo Alto
18 16 (0.98%) Remedy
19 15 (0.92%) SolarWinds
20 14 (0.86%) Fortinet