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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 48 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,756 1,245 1,372
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.89% 4.54% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 5.01% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 767 839
10th Percentile £374 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +5.05% -0.94% -8.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 58 57
10th Percentile £20.10 £22.16 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £31.60
Median hourly rate £41.00 £32.05 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.93% -44.26% +24.72%
75th Percentile £76.75 £67.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.33 £70.16 £69.70
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £48.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.90% -11.36% +13.95%

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 38,549 24,860 29,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 90.73% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,182 15,935 19,502
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
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 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,342 1,889
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.26 £13.67
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +1 821 £537 -2.36% 312
North of England -22 304 £500 +11.11% 108
South East +6 269 £575 +24.32% 148
North West -15 175 £475 +5.56% 66
Midlands -21 160 £514 +8.16% 55
West Midlands -30 122 £525 +10.53% 36
Yorkshire -24 113 £500 +8.11% 32
South West -19 90 £519 +5.87% 53
East of England 0 80 £475 -6.86% 26
East Midlands 0 36 £460 +28.49% 19
North East -28 16 £425 -15.00% 11
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 96 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 92 (5.24%) Confluence
3 30 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.97%) IIS
5 13 (0.74%) SAS
6 10 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.51%) Appian
8 7 (0.40%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.40%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.28%) Camunda
10 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
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 Spatial
Applications
1 67 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (2.96%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.14%) 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 66 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.74%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.46%) Maximo
7 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.40%) Primavera
8 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.34%) OpenText MBPM
9 6 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
9 6 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
10 5 (0.28%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.28%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.23%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 277 (15.77%) Azure
2 145 (8.26%) AWS
3 106 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
4 105 (5.98%) Power Platform
5 90 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 75 (4.27%) SaaS
7 64 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (3.42%) GCP
9 42 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (1.94%) GitHub
11 27 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
12 25 (1.42%) OCI
13 24 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 24 (1.37%) Google Workspace
13 24 (1.37%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 22 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (1.20%) Serverless
17 19 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
18 18 (1.03%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 117 (6.66%) Firewall
2 91 (5.18%) Network Security
3 53 (3.02%) DNS
4 52 (2.96%) WAN
5 50 (2.85%) VPN
6 37 (2.11%) LAN
7 28 (1.59%) TCP/IP
8 27 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (1.54%) Wireless
9 24 (1.37%) BGP
10 23 (1.31%) DHCP
11 21 (1.20%) OSPF
11 21 (1.20%) SD-WAN
12 20 (1.14%) SSL
13 19 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (0.80%) MPLS
16 12 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (0.68%) HTTP
17 11 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (4.67%) Power BI
2 51 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.65%) Metadata
4 26 (1.48%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.63%) Tableau
8 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.51%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.40%) GIS
11 6 (0.34%) Db2
11 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.28%) Data Mart
12 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.28%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 213 (12.13%) JIRA
2 61 (3.47%) Git
3 50 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.57%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.51%) GitLab
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 5 (0.28%) Selenium
7 5 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.28%) 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%) MLflow
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 654 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 643 (36.62%) Finance
3 289 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 152 (8.66%) Banking
6 88 (5.01%) Legal
7 82 (4.67%) Retail
8 73 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
9 69 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
10 57 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
11 53 (3.02%) Marketing
12 50 (2.85%) Telecoms
13 44 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.39%) Manufacturing
15 39 (2.22%) Law
16 35 (1.99%) Local Government
17 31 (1.77%) Aviation
18 25 (1.42%) Financial Institution
19 22 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 17 (0.97%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 202 (11.50%) Project Manager
2 197 (11.22%) Lead
3 174 (9.91%) Analyst
4 132 (7.52%) Change Manager
4 132 (7.52%) Senior
5 112 (6.38%) Consultant
6 99 (5.64%) Business Analyst
7 58 (3.30%) Administrator
8 57 (3.25%) Senior Manager
9 56 (3.19%) Programme Manager
10 50 (2.85%) Network Engineer
11 47 (2.68%) Developer
12 46 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (2.51%) Business Manager
14 43 (2.45%) IT Manager
15 41 (2.33%) Service Manager
15 41 (2.33%) Support Engineer
16 39 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
17 37 (2.11%) Architect
18 35 (1.99%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.30%) REST
2 36 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
3 35 (1.99%) .NET
4 24 (1.37%) CSS
4 24 (1.37%) HTML
5 16 (0.91%) Middleware
5 16 (0.91%) OAuth
5 16 (0.91%) Web Services
6 15 (0.85%) .NET Framework
6 15 (0.85%) Ajax
7 14 (0.80%) SOAP
8 13 (0.74%) LDAP
8 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (0.68%) RESTful
10 11 (0.63%) 802.1X
10 11 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (0.57%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.51%) JSON
13 8 (0.46%) Jakarta EE
13 8 (0.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 87 (4.95%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 79 (4.50%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 51 (2.90%) Cloud Native
6 46 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.82%) PMI
9 29 (1.65%) Operational Technology
10 28 (1.59%) CMDB
10 28 (1.59%) Security Posture
11 26 (1.48%) PKI
12 25 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 24 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
15 22 (1.25%) Public Cloud
16 21 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
17 19 (1.08%) AI Agents
17 19 (1.08%) Data Structures
18 16 (0.91%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 183 (10.42%) Windows
2 92 (5.24%) Linux
3 66 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (1.94%) Unix
6 18 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) Solaris
7 10 (0.57%) VMS
8 8 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.40%) 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 (0.28%) HPUX
11 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.17%) Android
14 2 (0.11%) MVS
14 2 (0.11%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (34.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 456 (25.97%) Agile
3 413 (23.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 388 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 332 (18.91%) ITIL
6 330 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
7 310 (17.65%) Project Management
8 281 (16.00%) Migration
9 259 (14.75%) Project Delivery
10 234 (13.33%) DevOps
11 211 (12.02%) Roadmaps
12 199 (11.33%) Decision-Making
13 193 (10.99%) ERP
14 189 (10.76%) AI
15 182 (10.36%) Service Management
16 171 (9.74%) ITSM
17 159 (9.05%) Risk Management
18 153 (8.71%) PRINCE2
19 143 (8.14%) CI/CD
20 134 (7.63%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 142 (8.09%) SQL
2 133 (7.57%) Python
3 115 (6.55%) PowerShell
4 52 (2.96%) Bash
5 46 (2.62%) C#
6 44 (2.51%) PL/SQL
7 43 (2.45%) Java
8 42 (2.39%) JavaScript
9 22 (1.25%) T-SQL
10 16 (0.91%) Bicep
11 12 (0.68%) Korn
12 10 (0.57%) Groovy
13 8 (0.46%) Go
13 8 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.28%) COBOL
14 5 (0.28%) Perl
15 4 (0.23%) ABAP
15 4 (0.23%) JCL
15 4 (0.23%) VBA
16 3 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 368 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 268 (15.26%) SC Cleared
3 200 (11.39%) Degree
4 145 (8.26%) PMP
5 134 (7.63%) PMI Certification
6 67 (3.82%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.30%) CISSP
8 53 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.11%) CCNP
10 35 (1.99%) CISM
11 32 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
13 24 (1.37%) APMG
13 24 (1.37%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.20%) Master's Degree
15 20 (1.14%) CCNA
16 19 (1.08%) ACCA
16 19 (1.08%) CIMA
16 19 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (5.24%) QA
2 86 (4.90%) PMO
3 83 (4.73%) SLA
4 77 (4.38%) GDPR
5 71 (4.04%) Data Quality
6 66 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (2.51%) NIST
8 26 (1.48%) GRC
8 26 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.31%) SOC 2
10 20 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.57%) ITGC
13 7 (0.40%) COBIT
14 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.34%) IFRS
15 5 (0.28%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.28%) GMP
16 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 122 (6.95%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.56%) Docker
4 24 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.85%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.80%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.51%) vCloud
9 9 (0.51%) vSphere
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.23%) KVM
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
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 97 (5.52%) Terraform
2 67 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 61 (3.47%) Ansible
4 31 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (1.77%) vCenter Server
5 22 (1.25%) Grafana
5 22 (1.25%) SCOM
6 20 (1.14%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.80%) SCCM
10 11 (0.63%) Avamar
11 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.40%) PowerCLI
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
12 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.34%) Argo
13 6 (0.34%) CASB
13 6 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 314 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 203 (11.56%) ServiceNow
3 160 (9.11%) Oracle
4 151 (8.60%) SAP
5 85 (4.84%) VMware
6 73 (4.16%) Cisco
7 65 (3.70%) Salesforce
8 49 (2.79%) Google
9 32 (1.82%) Splunk
10 31 (1.77%) IBM
11 30 (1.71%) Citrix
12 29 (1.65%) Red Hat
13 25 (1.42%) IFS
14 24 (1.37%) CheckPoint
15 23 (1.31%) Juniper
15 23 (1.31%) Zscaler
16 21 (1.20%) F5
17 19 (1.08%) Remedy
18 18 (1.03%) Palo Alto
18 18 (1.03%) Workday