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

 6 months to
9 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,632 1,059 1,517
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.17% 4.35% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 4.78% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 687 975
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 £700 £700 £723
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 30 54
10th Percentile £22.04 £26.15 £14.13
25th Percentile £22.68 £31.83 £25.35
Median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £35.86
Median % change year-on-year -20.94% +60.37% -25.92%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £85.15 £73.25 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £43.86 £54.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year -18.79% +45.24% -22.75%

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 33,539 22,147 32,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.75% 90.94% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,506 14,596 21,405
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 2,075 867 2,189
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.91 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%
75th Percentile £65.74 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.80 £76.25 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -4 705 £509 -3.10% 182
North of England -11 293 £475 +5.56% 112
Midlands 0 229 £500 -0.05% 102
South East +12 218 £500 - 147
North West +4 198 £434 +2.12% 61
West Midlands -11 155 £508 +1.35% 58
South West +1 105 £525 +5.00% 39
Yorkshire -40 87 £487 -2.60% 35
East Midlands +14 72 £419 +18.29% 42
East of England -18 67 £475 -4.90% 52
North East -19 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
1 111 (6.80%) Confluence
2 67 (4.11%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.47%) 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 2 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.061%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (5.02%) Microsoft Project
2 74 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 34 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.02%) 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 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.37%) Finacle
7 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.31%) Primavera
8 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.25%) iTrent
9 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
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
1 258 (15.81%) Azure
2 133 (8.15%) AWS
3 102 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 70 (4.29%) GCP
6 64 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (3.62%) SaaS
8 57 (3.49%) Entra ID
9 33 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (1.72%) PaaS
11 26 (1.59%) 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 (1.16%) Google Sheets
16 18 (1.10%) IaaS
17 16 (0.98%) GitHub
18 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
19 14 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 100 (6.13%) Firewall
2 67 (4.11%) Network Security
3 54 (3.31%) WAN
4 49 (3.00%) DNS
5 47 (2.88%) VPN
6 44 (2.70%) LAN
7 30 (1.84%) SD-WAN
8 27 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.41%) DHCP
9 23 (1.41%) SSL
10 21 (1.29%) BGP
11 19 (1.16%) OSPF
12 18 (1.10%) TCP/IP
13 15 (0.92%) SAN
13 15 (0.92%) Wireless
14 14 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
15 13 (0.80%) Internet
16 12 (0.74%) MPLS
16 12 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.29%) Power BI
2 52 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.41%) Metadata
4 21 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.29%) Tableau
5 16 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.92%) Oracle Database
6 15 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
9 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
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 5 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.31%) Redis
13 4 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.25%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 206 (12.62%) JIRA
2 37 (2.27%) Git
3 35 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.67%) GitLab
6 10 (0.61%) 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%) JUnit
9 4 (0.25%) Maven
9 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
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
1 687 (42.10%) Social Skills
2 548 (33.58%) Finance
3 306 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (9.99%) Public Sector
5 132 (8.09%) Banking
6 70 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
7 65 (3.98%) Legal
8 64 (3.92%) Retail
9 55 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
10 46 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (2.76%) Marketing
12 38 (2.33%) Local Government
13 37 (2.27%) Manufacturing
14 32 (1.96%) Telecoms
15 31 (1.90%) Law
16 28 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
17 23 (1.41%) Financial Institution
18 22 (1.35%) Investment Banking
19 18 (1.10%) Aviation
20 16 (0.98%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 198 (12.13%) Project Manager
2 190 (11.64%) Lead
3 172 (10.54%) Analyst
4 144 (8.82%) Change Manager
5 112 (6.86%) Senior
6 108 (6.62%) Business Analyst
7 104 (6.37%) Consultant
8 56 (3.43%) Administrator
9 55 (3.37%) Programme Manager
10 54 (3.31%) Developer
11 51 (3.13%) Business Manager
12 48 (2.94%) Architect
13 41 (2.51%) Business Change Manager
14 40 (2.45%) Senior Manager
15 35 (2.14%) IT Manager
16 34 (2.08%) Network Engineer
17 32 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
18 31 (1.90%) SAP Manager
18 31 (1.90%) Support Engineer
19 29 (1.78%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.06%) REST
2 33 (2.02%) .NET
3 29 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.35%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.29%) OAuth
6 20 (1.23%) Middleware
7 19 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (1.10%) SAML
9 15 (0.92%) Web Services
10 14 (0.86%) OpenID
10 14 (0.86%) RESTful
11 13 (0.80%) LDAP
12 10 (0.61%) 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 88 (5.39%) Management Information System
2 74 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.68%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.63%) Virtual Team
6 38 (2.33%) CMDB
6 38 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (2.33%) PMI
7 31 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 30 (1.84%) Cloud Native
9 29 (1.78%) PKI
10 27 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.98%) Operational Technology
14 16 (0.98%) Replication
15 15 (0.92%) Low-Code
15 15 (0.92%) NHS
15 15 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 165 (10.11%) Windows
2 62 (3.80%) Linux
3 57 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.90%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.78%) 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
1 525 (32.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 402 (24.63%) Agile
3 399 (24.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 353 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
5 320 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 319 (19.55%) ITIL
7 298 (18.26%) Project Management
8 271 (16.61%) Migration
9 220 (13.48%) DevOps
10 188 (11.52%) Project Delivery
11 173 (10.60%) ERP
12 156 (9.56%) Roadmaps
13 155 (9.50%) ITSM
14 150 (9.19%) Decision-Making
15 146 (8.95%) Service Management
16 143 (8.76%) Risk Management
17 141 (8.64%) Validation
18 138 (8.46%) PRINCE2
19 132 (8.09%) Workshop Facilitation
20 124 (7.60%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 163 (9.99%) SQL
2 107 (6.56%) Python
3 97 (5.94%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.82%) C#
5 38 (2.33%) Bash
6 34 (2.08%) PL/SQL
7 25 (1.53%) Java
8 22 (1.35%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.16%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.61%) CLIST
10 10 (0.61%) COBOL
10 10 (0.61%) Groovy
10 10 (0.61%) JCL
10 10 (0.61%) REXX
11 7 (0.43%) Korn
11 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.37%) Go
12 6 (0.37%) Perl
13 3 (0.18%) SOQL
13 3 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 336 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 241 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 237 (14.52%) Degree
4 111 (6.80%) PMI Certification
5 108 (6.62%) PMP
6 50 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 47 (2.88%) CISSP
8 44 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 37 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.27%) CISM
10 35 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 31 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
13 28 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 27 (1.65%) APMG
15 26 (1.59%) CCNP
16 17 (1.04%) Azure Certification
16 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (0.92%) ACCA
17 15 (0.92%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.88%) QA
2 82 (5.02%) GDPR
3 76 (4.66%) PMO
4 70 (4.29%) Data Quality
5 62 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (3.25%) SLA
7 41 (2.51%) NIST
8 19 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (1.04%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.98%) 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 6 (0.37%) Accessibility
15 6 (0.37%) COBIT
16 5 (0.31%) MiFID
16 5 (0.31%) NCSC
17 4 (0.25%) ITGC
System Software
1 111 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 53 (3.25%) Docker
3 41 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.61%) ACF2
8 10 (0.61%) RACF
8 10 (0.61%) Time Sharing Option
9 8 (0.49%) Firmware
9 8 (0.49%) vSphere
10 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.31%) KVM
11 5 (0.31%) XenApp
11 5 (0.31%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.12%) NFS
12 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.061%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 76 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.43%) Terraform
3 48 (2.94%) Ansible
4 36 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.35%) SCCM
6 20 (1.23%) Grafana
7 19 (1.16%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.04%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.67%) Puppet
11 10 (0.61%) CA Endevor
12 9 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.55%) Kibana
12 9 (0.55%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.55%) 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 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 164 (10.05%) ServiceNow
3 153 (9.38%) SAP
4 143 (8.76%) Oracle
5 67 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 62 (3.80%) VMware
7 59 (3.62%) Google
8 57 (3.49%) Cisco
9 36 (2.21%) Citrix
10 34 (2.08%) Workday
11 25 (1.53%) Splunk
12 23 (1.41%) Atlassian
12 23 (1.41%) F5
13 20 (1.23%) IFS
14 18 (1.10%) CheckPoint
14 18 (1.10%) Juniper
14 18 (1.10%) Remedy
15 17 (1.04%) Palo Alto
16 15 (0.92%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.92%) SolarWinds
586 Change Management jobs in England