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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 48 49
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,753 1,283 1,316
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.85% 4.64% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 5.12% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 800 797
10th Percentile £375 £330 £314
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.48% -6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 58 53
10th Percentile £20.31 £21.23 £18.80
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £30.41
Median hourly rate £41.71 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.03% -47.83% +18.80%
75th Percentile £74.26 £58.63 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.16 £69.90
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £43.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.00% -18.10% +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 38,782 25,081 28,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 90.77% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,156 16,055 18,761
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 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,506 1,391 1,691
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.87 £18.21
Median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +2 839 £538 -2.27% 461
North of England -28 289 £500 +11.11% 152
South East +4 268 £575 +22.99% 186
North West -18 170 £475 +5.56% 82
Midlands -38 145 £513 +7.89% 92
West Midlands -39 111 £525 +10.53% 59
Yorkshire -29 104 £500 +11.11% 52
South West -24 96 £525 +7.14% 61
East of England -2 81 £475 -9.09% 47
East Midlands -4 32 £430 +19.44% 33
North East -27 15 £425 -15.00% 20
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 98 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 89 (5.08%) Confluence
3 30 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.97%) IIS
5 11 (0.63%) SAS
6 9 (0.51%) 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%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.057%) Mattermost
13 1 (0.057%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 67 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 67 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.11%) Houdini
7 2 (0.11%) NUKE
8 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.057%) InDesign
8 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.057%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 60 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.46%) Maximo
7 8 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.40%) Primavera
9 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
10 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.23%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
12 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
12 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 275 (15.69%) Azure
2 143 (8.16%) AWS
3 114 (6.50%) Power Platform
4 108 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 75 (4.28%) SaaS
7 64 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (3.37%) GCP
9 42 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 37 (2.11%) GitHub
11 29 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.54%) OCI
13 24 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 24 (1.37%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (1.14%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.14%) Serverless
17 19 (1.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 114 (6.50%) Firewall
2 94 (5.36%) Network Security
3 59 (3.37%) DNS
4 53 (3.02%) VPN
5 52 (2.97%) WAN
6 36 (2.05%) LAN
7 31 (1.77%) TCP/IP
8 29 (1.65%) DHCP
9 27 (1.54%) Wireless
10 26 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (1.43%) BGP
12 22 (1.25%) OSPF
12 22 (1.25%) SD-WAN
12 22 (1.25%) SSL
13 19 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (0.74%) HTTP
15 13 (0.74%) MPLS
15 13 (0.74%) VLAN
16 12 (0.68%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (5.19%) Power BI
2 54 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.60%) Oracle Database
4 26 (1.48%) Metadata
5 19 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.68%) Tableau
9 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.51%) Relational Database
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%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 203 (11.58%) JIRA
2 62 (3.54%) Git
3 49 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) GitLab
4 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
5 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
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
1 650 (37.08%) Social Skills
2 641 (36.57%) Finance
3 293 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (9.53%) Banking
5 163 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 89 (5.08%) Legal
7 80 (4.56%) Retail
8 75 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
9 67 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
10 61 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (2.91%) Marketing
11 51 (2.91%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (2.45%) Manufacturing
14 38 (2.17%) Law
15 34 (1.94%) Local Government
16 30 (1.71%) Aviation
17 23 (1.31%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (1.08%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 207 (11.81%) Lead
2 204 (11.64%) Project Manager
3 178 (10.15%) Analyst
4 136 (7.76%) Senior
5 133 (7.59%) Change Manager
6 115 (6.56%) Consultant
7 103 (5.88%) Business Analyst
8 59 (3.37%) Administrator
8 59 (3.37%) Senior Manager
9 54 (3.08%) Network Engineer
10 53 (3.02%) Programme Manager
11 45 (2.57%) Developer
12 44 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
13 42 (2.40%) Business Manager
13 42 (2.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 42 (2.40%) IT Manager
14 41 (2.34%) Support Engineer
15 38 (2.17%) Service Manager
16 35 (2.00%) Business Change Manager
16 35 (2.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.19%) REST
2 36 (2.05%) .NET
3 35 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.37%) CSS
4 24 (1.37%) HTML
5 16 (0.91%) Ajax
5 16 (0.91%) Middleware
6 14 (0.80%) SOAP
6 14 (0.80%) Web Services
7 13 (0.74%) .NET Framework
7 13 (0.74%) OAuth
8 12 (0.68%) 802.1X
8 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (0.57%) AngularJS
11 9 (0.51%) Spring
12 8 (0.46%) Jakarta EE
12 8 (0.46%) Kafka
12 8 (0.46%) React
12 8 (0.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.42%) Onboarding
2 84 (4.79%) Management Information System
3 81 (4.62%) Data Centre
4 66 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.85%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.83%) PMI
9 29 (1.65%) Operational Technology
9 29 (1.65%) PKI
9 29 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 27 (1.54%) CMDB
10 27 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.08%) AI Agents
15 18 (1.03%) Data Structures
16 15 (0.86%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 199 (11.35%) Windows
2 93 (5.31%) Linux
3 78 (4.45%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.83%) Unix
6 20 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) Solaris
8 9 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.51%) VMS
9 8 (0.46%) 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%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.11%) MVS
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (34.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 459 (26.18%) Agile
3 413 (23.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 389 (22.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 330 (18.82%) ITIL
6 320 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
7 300 (17.11%) Project Management
8 272 (15.52%) Migration
9 260 (14.83%) Project Delivery
10 228 (13.01%) DevOps
11 218 (12.44%) Roadmaps
12 202 (11.52%) Decision-Making
13 193 (11.01%) AI
14 189 (10.78%) Service Management
15 185 (10.55%) ERP
16 180 (10.27%) ITSM
17 157 (8.96%) PRINCE2
18 154 (8.78%) Analytics
19 152 (8.67%) Risk Management
20 139 (7.93%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 146 (8.33%) SQL
2 134 (7.64%) Python
3 118 (6.73%) PowerShell
4 54 (3.08%) Bash
5 44 (2.51%) C#
5 44 (2.51%) PL/SQL
6 43 (2.45%) Java
7 42 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 23 (1.31%) T-SQL
9 18 (1.03%) Bicep
10 13 (0.74%) Korn
11 9 (0.51%) 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
1 376 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 272 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 200 (11.41%) Degree
4 145 (8.27%) PMP
5 134 (7.64%) PMI Certification
6 74 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.42%) CISSP
8 55 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.11%) CISM
10 36 (2.05%) CCNP
11 28 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (1.48%) APMG
14 24 (1.37%) Azure Certification
15 22 (1.25%) CCNA
15 22 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
15 22 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 21 (1.20%) Master's Degree
17 18 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.97%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (4.96%) QA
2 85 (4.85%) PMO
2 85 (4.85%) SLA
3 76 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 76 (4.34%) GDPR
4 65 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.51%) NIST
6 27 (1.54%) GRC
7 26 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 23 (1.31%) SOC 2
9 20 (1.14%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.57%) ITGC
12 7 (0.40%) COBIT
12 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.34%) GMP
14 5 (0.29%) Accessibility
14 5 (0.29%) IFRS
15 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 124 (7.07%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (2.45%) Docker
4 24 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.97%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.63%) vCloud
9 8 (0.46%) vSphere
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.11%) 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
1 100 (5.70%) Terraform
2 62 (3.54%) Kubernetes
3 59 (3.37%) Ansible
4 35 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.83%) vCenter Server
6 26 (1.48%) SCOM
7 21 (1.20%) Grafana
8 20 (1.14%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.86%) SCCM
10 12 (0.68%) Avamar
11 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
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
13 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 321 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 206 (11.75%) ServiceNow
3 158 (9.01%) Oracle
4 148 (8.44%) SAP
5 94 (5.36%) VMware
6 77 (4.39%) Cisco
7 65 (3.71%) Salesforce
8 44 (2.51%) Google
9 33 (1.88%) Splunk
10 31 (1.77%) IBM
11 29 (1.65%) Red Hat
12 28 (1.60%) Citrix
13 27 (1.54%) Zscaler
14 25 (1.43%) IFS
15 24 (1.37%) Remedy
16 23 (1.31%) CheckPoint
16 23 (1.31%) Juniper
17 20 (1.14%) F5
17 20 (1.14%) Workday
18 19 (1.08%) Palo Alto