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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 52 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,641 1,123 1,445
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 4.44% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.86% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 705 895
10th Percentile £362 £331 £314
25th Percentile £421 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £619 £634 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £708
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +2.65% -1.48% -6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 44 70
10th Percentile £19.25 £25.12 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £29.00 £30.71
Median hourly rate £34.94 £46.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.46% -7.50% -0.49%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.18 £71.10 £68.94
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.19% +8.00% +2.67%

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 37,112 23,092 31,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,409 14,893 20,664
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,320 1,127 2,324
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +2 757 £525 -4.55% 223
North of England -19 290 £475 +5.56% 93
South East -3 226 £563 +15.27% 127
Midlands -12 179 £513 +7.89% 75
North West -16 163 £449 +2.05% 61
West Midlands -28 126 £520 +9.47% 45
Yorkshire -20 112 £500 +8.11% 21
South West -22 88 £508 -0.98% 51
East of England -6 79 £475 -5.00% 31
East Midlands +18 51 £488 +36.17% 30
North East -23 15 £425 -15.00% 13
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 92 (5.61%) Confluence
2 80 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.04%) IIS
5 14 (0.85%) SAS
6 13 (0.79%) Appian
7 10 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.43%) CMS
9 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.30%) Camunda
11 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 2 (0.12%) CICS
13 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.061%) HCL Notes
14 1 (0.061%) MTS
14 1 (0.061%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.061%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 59 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.061%) InDesign
9 1 (0.061%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.061%) Trello
9 1 (0.061%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 65 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.43%) Maximo
7 6 (0.37%) Primavera
7 6 (0.37%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.30%) Finacle
8 5 (0.30%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.30%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 234 (14.26%) Azure
2 129 (7.86%) AWS
3 97 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
4 82 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 72 (4.39%) SaaS
6 71 (4.33%) Entra ID
7 56 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (3.17%) GCP
9 34 (2.07%) Google Workspace
10 30 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (1.40%) Power Automate
11 23 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (1.34%) OCI
13 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (1.16%) GitHub
14 19 (1.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 18 (1.10%) PaaS
15 18 (1.10%) Serverless
16 17 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (0.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 93 (5.67%) Firewall
2 69 (4.20%) Network Security
3 52 (3.17%) WAN
4 41 (2.50%) DNS
5 39 (2.38%) LAN
6 37 (2.25%) VPN
7 27 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (1.52%) SD-WAN
9 20 (1.22%) BGP
9 20 (1.22%) Wireless
10 19 (1.16%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.04%) OSPF
12 16 (0.98%) DHCP
12 16 (0.98%) SSL
13 15 (0.91%) MPLS
14 12 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (0.73%) Internet
15 11 (0.67%) SAN
15 11 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
16 9 (0.55%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (3.78%) Power BI
2 51 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.71%) Metadata
4 26 (1.58%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.55%) Tableau
11 6 (0.37%) Pinecone
12 5 (0.30%) Data Mart
12 5 (0.30%) Db2
12 5 (0.30%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.30%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.30%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 206 (12.55%) JIRA
2 55 (3.35%) Git
3 49 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.61%) GitLab
6 7 (0.43%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.43%) InstallShield
6 7 (0.43%) MLflow
7 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.24%) Hudson
7 4 (0.24%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.24%) Maven
8 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (0.18%) Snyk
8 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.12%) MSBuild
General
1 621 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 604 (36.81%) Finance
3 262 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (9.08%) Public Sector
5 143 (8.71%) Banking
6 89 (5.42%) Legal
7 82 (5.00%) Retail
8 62 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
9 58 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
10 49 (2.99%) Marketing
11 47 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
13 41 (2.50%) Manufacturing
14 39 (2.38%) Law
15 38 (2.32%) Telecoms
16 36 (2.19%) Local Government
17 23 (1.40%) Aviation
17 23 (1.40%) Financial Institution
18 18 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 14 (0.85%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 188 (11.46%) Project Manager
2 176 (10.73%) Lead
3 154 (9.38%) Analyst
4 129 (7.86%) Change Manager
5 122 (7.43%) Senior
6 113 (6.89%) Consultant
7 91 (5.55%) Business Analyst
8 62 (3.78%) Programme Manager
9 55 (3.35%) Administrator
10 51 (3.11%) Senior Manager
11 49 (2.99%) Developer
12 46 (2.80%) Delivery Manager
13 45 (2.74%) Business Manager
14 42 (2.56%) Support Engineer
15 41 (2.50%) IT Manager
16 40 (2.44%) Architect
17 38 (2.32%) Service Manager
18 35 (2.13%) Business Change Manager
19 33 (2.01%) Network Engineer
20 29 (1.77%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.41%) REST
2 35 (2.13%) .NET
3 30 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.34%) CSS
4 22 (1.34%) OAuth
5 21 (1.28%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.28%) HTML
6 17 (1.04%) Middleware
7 15 (0.91%) Web Services
8 14 (0.85%) LDAP
9 13 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (0.73%) Ajax
10 12 (0.73%) RESTful
11 11 (0.67%) React
12 10 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (0.55%) OAuth2
13 9 (0.55%) OpenID
13 9 (0.55%) Spring
14 8 (0.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 83 (5.06%) Management Information System
2 74 (4.51%) Data Centre
3 68 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.84%) Onboarding
5 51 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.68%) Cloud Native
7 33 (2.01%) PMI
8 29 (1.77%) CMDB
9 28 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 25 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.40%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.40%) Virtual Team
12 22 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.22%) PKI
13 20 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 18 (1.10%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 14 (0.85%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 174 (10.60%) Windows
2 87 (5.30%) Linux
3 57 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (2.19%) Unix
6 21 (1.28%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.61%) Solaris
8 9 (0.55%) VMS
8 9 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.37%) AIX
10 6 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.37%) SUSE
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.30%) HPUX
11 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.18%) Android
13 2 (0.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (33.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 418 (25.47%) Agile
3 388 (23.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 350 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 322 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
6 293 (17.85%) ITIL
7 278 (16.94%) Project Management
8 265 (16.15%) Migration
9 224 (13.65%) DevOps
10 207 (12.61%) Project Delivery
11 188 (11.46%) Roadmaps
12 180 (10.97%) Decision-Making
13 179 (10.91%) ERP
14 160 (9.75%) Risk Management
15 151 (9.20%) AI
16 142 (8.65%) CI/CD
17 138 (8.41%) ITSM
17 138 (8.41%) Service Management
17 138 (8.41%) Validation
18 134 (8.17%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 159 (9.69%) SQL
2 113 (6.89%) Python
3 99 (6.03%) PowerShell
4 45 (2.74%) C#
4 45 (2.74%) PL/SQL
5 41 (2.50%) Bash
6 39 (2.38%) Java
7 38 (2.32%) JavaScript
8 24 (1.46%) T-SQL
9 10 (0.61%) Groovy
10 9 (0.55%) Korn
11 8 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.43%) COBOL
12 7 (0.43%) Go
13 6 (0.37%) JCL
14 5 (0.30%) Perl
15 4 (0.24%) ABAP
15 4 (0.24%) Bicep
15 4 (0.24%) REXX
16 3 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 320 (19.50%) Security Cleared
2 231 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 198 (12.07%) Degree
4 125 (7.62%) PMP
5 115 (7.01%) PMI Certification
6 55 (3.35%) CISSP
6 55 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 46 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.07%) CISM
10 31 (1.89%) CCNP
11 27 (1.65%) Master's Degree
12 26 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
13 25 (1.52%) APMG
14 22 (1.34%) Azure Certification
15 21 (1.28%) ACCA
15 21 (1.28%) CIMA
15 21 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (1.04%) CCNA
17 14 (0.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.55%) QA
2 81 (4.94%) GDPR
3 80 (4.88%) PMO
4 73 (4.45%) Data Quality
5 72 (4.39%) SLA
6 68 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (2.68%) NIST
8 25 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.40%) SOC 2
10 21 (1.28%) GRC
10 21 (1.28%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.79%) IFRS
12 11 (0.67%) IFRS 17
13 9 (0.55%) ITGC
14 8 (0.49%) COBIT
15 6 (0.37%) Accessibility
15 6 (0.37%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.37%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 111 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 54 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (3.11%) Docker
4 21 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.79%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.43%) vCloud
9 7 (0.43%) vSphere
10 5 (0.30%) KVM
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.18%) XenApp
12 3 (0.18%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.12%) ACF2
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.061%) Squid
Systems Management
1 78 (4.75%) Terraform
2 67 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 59 (3.60%) Ansible
4 29 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.34%) vCenter Server
6 21 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.22%) Grafana
8 19 (1.16%) Prometheus
9 18 (1.10%) SCCM
10 16 (0.98%) SCOM
11 12 (0.73%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.43%) Avamar
12 7 (0.43%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.43%) PowerCLI
12 7 (0.43%) Puppet
12 7 (0.43%) vRealize
13 6 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.37%) CASB
13 6 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
13 6 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 268 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 178 (10.85%) ServiceNow
3 157 (9.57%) Oracle
4 149 (9.08%) SAP
5 70 (4.27%) VMware
6 60 (3.66%) Salesforce
7 57 (3.47%) Google
8 52 (3.17%) Cisco
9 31 (1.89%) Citrix
9 31 (1.89%) Splunk
10 26 (1.58%) IBM
11 25 (1.52%) IFS
11 25 (1.52%) Red Hat
12 20 (1.22%) Workday
13 19 (1.16%) Remedy
14 18 (1.10%) CheckPoint
15 16 (0.98%) Juniper
16 15 (0.91%) Zscaler
17 14 (0.85%) Dynatrace
17 14 (0.85%) Palo Alto