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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 49 45
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,619 1,057 1,536
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.26% 4.36% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 4.80% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,048 687 995
10th Percentile £325 £329 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
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 £694 £700 £723
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 27 54
10th Percentile £21.65 £23.60 £14.13
25th Percentile £22.63 £31.76 £25.35
Median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £35.86
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +58.26% -25.30%
75th Percentile £47.11 £70.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £37.18
% change year-on-year -27.21% +54.65% -22.54%

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 32,731 22,028 32,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.21% 90.81% 86.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,968 14,519 21,584
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 £614 £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 1,997 852 2,159
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -1.05% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.10 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -9.72%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -7 686 £515 -1.90% 182
North of England -13 299 £472 +4.89% 112
Midlands -1 232 £500 -0.10% 102
South East +6 215 £502 +0.30% 147
North West +2 199 £424 +1.28% 61
West Midlands -13 157 £508 +1.20% 58
South West +10 112 £504 -3.13% 39
Yorkshire -32 92 £488 -2.50% 35
East Midlands +15 73 £425 +34.07% 42
East of England -15 67 £475 -4.95% 52
North East -14 8 £440 -23.48% 16
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
1 114 (7.04%) Confluence
2 73 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.68%) SAS
5 9 (0.56%) Appian
6 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) CMS
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.12%) Moodle
11 1 (0.062%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.062%) JBoss
11 1 (0.062%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 86 (5.31%) Microsoft Project
2 73 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
7 4 (0.25%) Trello
7 4 (0.25%) Windchill
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.062%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 62 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.43%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.37%) Finacle
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.31%) Primavera
7 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.19%) iTrent
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 258 (15.94%) Azure
2 142 (8.77%) AWS
3 101 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (5.44%) Power Platform
5 82 (5.06%) GCP
6 66 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (3.52%) Entra ID
8 52 (3.21%) SaaS
9 28 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.54%) PaaS
10 25 (1.54%) Power Automate
11 21 (1.30%) Google Workspace
12 20 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (1.24%) Serverless
13 19 (1.17%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.17%) OpenShift
14 18 (1.11%) IaaS
14 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (1.11%) OCI
15 16 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 97 (5.99%) Firewall
2 66 (4.08%) Network Security
3 53 (3.27%) WAN
4 45 (2.78%) DNS
4 45 (2.78%) VPN
5 44 (2.72%) LAN
6 29 (1.79%) SD-WAN
7 26 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (1.30%) BGP
8 21 (1.30%) SSL
9 19 (1.17%) DHCP
9 19 (1.17%) OSPF
10 17 (1.05%) TCP/IP
11 15 (0.93%) SAN
12 14 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
12 14 (0.86%) Wireless
13 13 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (0.80%) Internet
14 12 (0.74%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.32%) Power BI
2 49 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.30%) Metadata
5 20 (1.24%) Tableau
6 19 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 15 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
9 12 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.56%) MySQL
11 9 (0.56%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
12 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
12 8 (0.49%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
13 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.31%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 209 (12.91%) JIRA
2 50 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.47%) Git
4 20 (1.24%) GitLab
5 18 (1.11%) Liquibase
6 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.49%) MLflow
8 5 (0.31%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.25%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.25%) JUnit
9 4 (0.25%) Maven
10 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.19%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.12%) git-flow
11 2 (0.12%) Snyk
General
1 690 (42.62%) Social Skills
2 538 (33.23%) Finance
3 307 (18.96%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 140 (8.65%) Banking
6 72 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
7 62 (3.83%) Legal
8 60 (3.71%) Retail
9 54 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 38 (2.35%) Marketing
13 37 (2.29%) Local Government
14 34 (2.10%) Telecoms
15 31 (1.91%) Law
16 29 (1.79%) Financial Institution
17 28 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
18 21 (1.30%) Investment Banking
19 17 (1.05%) Aviation
20 16 (0.99%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 197 (12.17%) Project Manager
2 180 (11.12%) Lead
3 177 (10.93%) Analyst
4 140 (8.65%) Change Manager
5 114 (7.04%) Senior
6 110 (6.79%) Business Analyst
7 103 (6.36%) Consultant
8 54 (3.34%) Administrator
8 54 (3.34%) Programme Manager
9 52 (3.21%) Business Manager
9 52 (3.21%) Developer
10 48 (2.96%) Architect
11 41 (2.53%) Senior Manager
12 39 (2.41%) Business Change Manager
13 35 (2.16%) IT Manager
14 32 (1.98%) Network Engineer
15 30 (1.85%) Delivery Manager
15 30 (1.85%) Support Engineer
16 29 (1.79%) SAP Manager
16 29 (1.79%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.64%) REST
2 31 (1.91%) .NET
3 30 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
4 29 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (1.30%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.30%) RESTful
6 20 (1.24%) OAuth
7 19 (1.17%) Middleware
8 17 (1.05%) SAML
9 15 (0.93%) Web Services
10 13 (0.80%) CSS
10 13 (0.80%) OpenID
11 12 (0.74%) LDAP
12 11 (0.68%) AngularJS
12 11 (0.68%) HTML
12 11 (0.68%) SOAP
13 10 (0.62%) ISPF
13 10 (0.62%) pytest
14 9 (0.56%) OAuth2
14 9 (0.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 89 (5.50%) Management Information System
2 76 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.58%) Data Centre
5 42 (2.59%) CMDB
6 40 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 38 (2.35%) Cloud Native
8 34 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.98%) PMI
10 30 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (1.85%) PKI
11 26 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.36%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
16 17 (1.05%) Operational Technology
17 16 (0.99%) Replication
18 15 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
18 15 (0.93%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 162 (10.01%) Windows
2 66 (4.08%) Linux
3 55 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 32 (1.98%) Unix
5 30 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.56%) 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 (0.19%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.12%) Android
13 1 (0.062%) AIX
13 1 (0.062%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.062%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (32.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 413 (25.51%) Agile
3 394 (24.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 351 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
5 317 (19.58%) ITIL
6 307 (18.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 289 (17.85%) Project Management
8 261 (16.12%) Migration
9 228 (14.08%) DevOps
10 181 (11.18%) Project Delivery
11 156 (9.64%) ITSM
12 155 (9.57%) ERP
13 150 (9.26%) Roadmaps
14 147 (9.08%) Service Management
15 140 (8.65%) Risk Management
16 139 (8.59%) Decision-Making
17 138 (8.52%) PRINCE2
17 138 (8.52%) Validation
18 134 (8.28%) Workshop Facilitation
19 130 (8.03%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 161 (9.94%) SQL
2 126 (7.78%) Python
3 102 (6.30%) PowerShell
4 44 (2.72%) C#
5 40 (2.47%) Bash
6 32 (1.98%) PL/SQL
7 25 (1.54%) Java
8 24 (1.48%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.24%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.93%) Go
11 12 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.62%) CLIST
12 10 (0.62%) COBOL
12 10 (0.62%) Groovy
12 10 (0.62%) JCL
12 10 (0.62%) REXX
13 7 (0.43%) Korn
14 5 (0.31%) Perl
15 3 (0.19%) ABAP
15 3 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 337 (20.82%) Security Cleared
2 253 (15.63%) Degree
3 237 (14.64%) SC Cleared
4 104 (6.42%) PMI Certification
5 99 (6.11%) PMP
6 52 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 47 (2.90%) CISSP
8 45 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 42 (2.59%) Master's Degree
10 41 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 39 (2.41%) CISM
12 36 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 27 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
15 25 (1.54%) APMG
15 25 (1.54%) CCNP
16 17 (1.05%) Azure Certification
16 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.80%) ACCA
17 13 (0.80%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.87%) QA
2 79 (4.88%) GDPR
3 76 (4.69%) PMO
4 69 (4.26%) Data Quality
5 60 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (3.21%) SLA
7 35 (2.16%) NIST
8 20 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (0.99%) IFRS
9 16 (0.99%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.93%) IFRS 17
11 13 (0.80%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.62%) Basel III
13 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.49%) MiFID
15 7 (0.43%) NCSC
16 6 (0.37%) Accessibility
16 6 (0.37%) COBIT
16 6 (0.37%) GRC
17 5 (0.31%) EMIR
System Software
1 105 (6.49%) Active Directory
2 61 (3.77%) Docker
3 40 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.62%) ACF2
7 10 (0.62%) RACF
7 10 (0.62%) 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 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.062%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 82 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 65 (4.01%) Terraform
3 56 (3.46%) Ansible
4 35 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (1.73%) Grafana
6 27 (1.67%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.36%) SCCM
8 17 (1.05%) vCenter Server
9 12 (0.74%) Puppet
9 12 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.62%) CA Endevor
11 10 (0.62%) Kibana
12 9 (0.56%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 8 (0.49%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.49%) SCOM
14 7 (0.43%) PowerCLI
15 6 (0.37%) CASB
15 6 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 276 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 159 (9.82%) ServiceNow
3 147 (9.08%) SAP
4 129 (7.97%) Oracle
5 67 (4.14%) Salesforce
6 61 (3.77%) VMware
7 60 (3.71%) Google
8 57 (3.52%) Cisco
9 35 (2.16%) Citrix
10 33 (2.04%) Splunk
10 33 (2.04%) Workday
11 25 (1.54%) Atlassian
12 21 (1.30%) F5
13 17 (1.05%) Remedy
14 16 (0.99%) CheckPoint
14 16 (0.99%) Juniper
14 16 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 15 (0.93%) Fortinet
16 14 (0.86%) Adobe
16 14 (0.86%) SolarWinds