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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 48 52
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,736 1,270 1,270
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.80% 4.60% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 5.07% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 790 748
10th Percentile £370 £331 £309
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 £731 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £498 £515
% change year-on-year +5.42% -3.30% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 56 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.61 £20.38
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £30.88
Median hourly rate £41.71 £30.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +39.03% -48.43% +20.19%
75th Percentile £62.88 £58.25 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.14% -41.73% +14.27%

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 38,772 25,064 28,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.82% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,937 15,945 18,292
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,483 1,510
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -2 834 £540 -1.82% 944
North of England -25 294 £500 +11.11% 242
South East +8 281 £563 +17.19% 268
North West -17 174 £475 +5.56% 153
Midlands -61 115 £492 +3.63% 123
Yorkshire -28 105 £500 +17.65% 75
South West -33 87 £525 +3.70% 160
East of England -2 82 £475 -9.52% 92
West Midlands -59 82 £525 +10.53% 81
East Midlands -15 31 £421 +16.53% 42
North East -29 15 £425 -15.00% 17
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 99 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 71 (4.09%) Confluence
3 32 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.92%) IIS
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.35%) Appian
7 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 4 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) CICS
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.058%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.058%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 66 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Houdini
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) NUKE
9 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.058%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.058%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.058%) Revit
Business Applications
1 57 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.69%) 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
7 7 (0.40%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.35%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.23%) iTrent
10 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 273 (15.73%) Azure
2 138 (7.95%) AWS
3 112 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (6.39%) Power Platform
5 94 (5.41%) Entra ID
6 64 (3.69%) SaaS
7 61 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (3.46%) GCP
9 43 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
10 39 (2.25%) GitHub
11 26 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
11 26 (1.50%) OCI
12 25 (1.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 24 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.27%) Google Workspace
15 20 (1.15%) Serverless
16 19 (1.09%) OneDrive
16 19 (1.09%) OpenShift
16 19 (1.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 121 (6.97%) Firewall
2 103 (5.93%) Network Security
3 65 (3.74%) DNS
4 57 (3.28%) VPN
5 56 (3.23%) WAN
6 37 (2.13%) LAN
7 34 (1.96%) DHCP
8 33 (1.90%) TCP/IP
9 30 (1.73%) Wireless
10 28 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.27%) SD-WAN
12 21 (1.21%) BGP
13 20 (1.15%) SSL
14 19 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
15 18 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
16 17 (0.98%) OSPF
17 13 (0.75%) HTTP
17 13 (0.75%) MPLS
18 12 (0.69%) Internet
18 12 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.18%) Power BI
2 55 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.61%) Oracle Database
4 27 (1.56%) Metadata
5 17 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (0.75%) Relational Database
7 12 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.58%) Db2
9 10 (0.58%) Tableau
10 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (0.35%) DataStage
11 6 (0.35%) GIS
11 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 174 (10.02%) JIRA
2 52 (3.00%) Git
3 43 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.46%) GitLab
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
6 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.35%) Selenium
8 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.23%) Hudson
9 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.17%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 679 (39.11%) Social Skills
2 657 (37.85%) Finance
3 309 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (10.31%) Banking
5 152 (8.76%) Public Sector
6 83 (4.78%) Legal
7 82 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
8 81 (4.67%) Retail
9 73 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
10 64 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
11 54 (3.11%) Telecoms
12 49 (2.82%) Manufacturing
13 45 (2.59%) Marketing
14 39 (2.25%) Law
15 37 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.73%) Local Government
17 25 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 23 (1.32%) Aviation
19 21 (1.21%) Financial Institution
19 21 (1.21%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 216 (12.44%) Lead
2 199 (11.46%) Project Manager
3 181 (10.43%) Analyst
4 129 (7.43%) Senior
5 125 (7.20%) Change Manager
6 112 (6.45%) Consultant
7 99 (5.70%) Business Analyst
8 61 (3.51%) Senior Manager
9 52 (3.00%) Network Engineer
10 49 (2.82%) Administrator
11 46 (2.65%) Programme Manager
12 45 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
12 45 (2.59%) Developer
13 43 (2.48%) Business Manager
13 43 (2.48%) IT Manager
14 42 (2.42%) Delivery Manager
15 37 (2.13%) Service Manager
16 36 (2.07%) Business Change Manager
17 34 (1.96%) Support Engineer
18 32 (1.84%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (5.99%) Terraform
2 51 (2.94%) REST
3 36 (2.07%) .NET
4 30 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.44%) HTML
6 23 (1.32%) CSS
7 17 (0.98%) Kafka
7 17 (0.98%) Middleware
8 16 (0.92%) Ajax
9 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
9 14 (0.81%) OAuth
9 14 (0.81%) SOAP
10 12 (0.69%) .NET Framework
10 12 (0.69%) 802.1X
10 12 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (0.63%) Web Services
12 9 (0.52%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.52%) React
13 8 (0.46%) LDAP
13 8 (0.46%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 104 (5.99%) Onboarding
2 82 (4.72%) Management Information System
3 72 (4.15%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.74%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.59%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.90%) PKI
8 33 (1.90%) Security Posture
9 31 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.56%) Operational Technology
11 27 (1.56%) PMI
11 27 (1.56%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.44%) CMDB
13 20 (1.15%) AI Agents
13 20 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 19 (1.09%) Public Cloud
15 18 (1.04%) FMCG
16 17 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 204 (11.75%) Windows
2 101 (5.82%) Linux
3 86 (4.95%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (2.02%) Unix
6 21 (1.21%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.63%) VMS
9 10 (0.58%) Solaris
10 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.35%) AIX
11 6 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.35%) SUSE
12 5 (0.29%) HPUX
12 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.23%) Android
14 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.17%) MVS
14 3 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (38.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 448 (25.81%) Agile
3 416 (23.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 400 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 337 (19.41%) ITIL
6 320 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
7 302 (17.40%) Project Management
8 280 (16.13%) Project Delivery
9 255 (14.69%) Migration
10 224 (12.90%) Roadmaps
11 210 (12.10%) DevOps
12 205 (11.81%) Decision-Making
13 202 (11.64%) Service Management
14 191 (11.00%) AI
15 182 (10.48%) ERP
16 180 (10.37%) ITSM
17 166 (9.56%) PRINCE2
18 156 (8.99%) Risk Management
19 153 (8.81%) Analytics
20 145 (8.35%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 142 (8.18%) Python
1 142 (8.18%) SQL
2 133 (7.66%) PowerShell
3 65 (3.74%) Bash
4 48 (2.76%) PL/SQL
5 42 (2.42%) JavaScript
6 40 (2.30%) Java
7 39 (2.25%) C#
8 24 (1.38%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.32%) Bicep
10 13 (0.75%) Korn
10 13 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.63%) Groovy
12 8 (0.46%) Go
13 6 (0.35%) JCL
13 6 (0.35%) VBScript
14 5 (0.29%) COBOL
15 4 (0.23%) Perl
16 3 (0.17%) ABAP
16 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 358 (20.62%) Security Cleared
2 254 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 206 (11.87%) Degree
4 147 (8.47%) PMP
5 134 (7.72%) PMI Certification
6 73 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.34%) CISSP
8 54 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.13%) CCNP
10 32 (1.84%) CISM
11 30 (1.73%) Azure Certification
12 28 (1.61%) APMG
13 26 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
14 23 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 23 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
15 22 (1.27%) CCNA
16 21 (1.21%) ACCA
16 21 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
16 21 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 20 (1.15%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (5.13%) PMO
1 89 (5.13%) QA
2 81 (4.67%) SLA
3 73 (4.21%) Data Quality
4 63 (3.63%) GDPR
5 54 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.36%) NIST
7 30 (1.73%) GRC
8 21 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.15%) SOC 2
10 18 (1.04%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.63%) ITGC
12 7 (0.40%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.40%) COBIT
12 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.35%) GMP
14 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 124 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 82 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (2.25%) Docker
4 25 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.15%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.81%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.75%) vCloud
10 9 (0.52%) vSphere
11 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.17%) Squid
13 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.12%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.12%) Firmware
13 2 (0.12%) Postfix
14 1 (0.058%) NFS
14 1 (0.058%) RACF
14 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 61 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.34%) Ansible
3 41 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (2.02%) vCenter Server
5 27 (1.56%) SCOM
6 24 (1.38%) Grafana
7 23 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 23 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.15%) SCCM
9 14 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.69%) Avamar
11 9 (0.52%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.35%) Argo
14 6 (0.35%) CASB
14 6 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 330 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 191 (11.00%) ServiceNow
3 158 (9.10%) Oracle
4 131 (7.55%) SAP
5 103 (5.93%) VMware
6 77 (4.44%) Cisco
7 65 (3.74%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.65%) Google
9 35 (2.02%) Splunk
10 34 (1.96%) IBM
11 30 (1.73%) Red Hat
12 28 (1.61%) Zscaler
13 25 (1.44%) Citrix
14 23 (1.32%) CheckPoint
14 23 (1.32%) IFS
15 22 (1.27%) Remedy
16 21 (1.21%) F5
16 21 (1.21%) Palo Alto
17 20 (1.15%) Juniper
17 20 (1.15%) Workday