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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 51 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,641 1,103 1,464
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.80% 4.42% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.84% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,023 700 910
10th Percentile £358 £330 £315
25th Percentile £418 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £618 £631 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +2.50% -1.48% -6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 33 73
10th Percentile £19.25 £29.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £31.76 £30.41
Median hourly rate £34.94 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.13% - -0.49%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.23 £72.03 £69.38
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £54.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -35.19% +10.20% +0.62%

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 36,870 22,791 32,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.27% 91.38% 85.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,302 14,736 20,792
10th Percentile £325 £300 £302
25th Percentile £415 £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 £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,305 1,085 2,404
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.38 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.52% -27.96% +7.04%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.25 £61.45
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.14%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 0 754 £525 -4.55% 166
North of England -19 292 £475 +5.56% 84
South East -6 221 £563 +15.27% 103
Midlands -11 184 £506 +6.53% 67
North West -12 165 £447 +0.45% 51
West Midlands -25 127 £515 +8.42% 42
Yorkshire -26 113 £500 +9.59% 24
South West -12 91 £504 +2.81% 35
East of England -3 81 £488 -2.50% 30
East Midlands +17 55 £453 +26.04% 25
North East -24 14 £425 -15.00% 11
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 97 (5.91%) Confluence
2 80 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.04%) IIS
5 14 (0.85%) Appian
5 14 (0.85%) SAS
6 10 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.37%) CMS
8 5 (0.30%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.18%) Kentico
10 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.061%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.061%) MTS
12 1 (0.061%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.061%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 61 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (3.11%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (1.46%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.24%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.061%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.061%) Trello
9 1 (0.061%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 67 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.43%) Maximo
8 6 (0.37%) Finacle
8 6 (0.37%) Primavera
8 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.30%) OpenText MBPM
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.30%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.24%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
11 3 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 238 (14.50%) Azure
2 129 (7.86%) AWS
3 99 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
4 83 (5.06%) Power Platform
5 72 (4.39%) SaaS
6 69 (4.20%) Entra ID
7 56 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (3.23%) GCP
9 35 (2.13%) Google Workspace
10 33 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (1.46%) Power Automate
12 23 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 22 (1.34%) OCI
14 19 (1.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (1.10%) GitHub
15 18 (1.10%) PaaS
15 18 (1.10%) Serverless
16 17 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.48%) Firewall
2 68 (4.14%) Network Security
3 52 (3.17%) WAN
4 42 (2.56%) DNS
5 39 (2.38%) LAN
6 37 (2.25%) VPN
7 28 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (1.52%) SD-WAN
9 20 (1.22%) BGP
10 18 (1.10%) TCP/IP
10 18 (1.10%) Wireless
11 17 (1.04%) OSPF
12 16 (0.98%) SSL
13 15 (0.91%) DHCP
13 15 (0.91%) MPLS
14 12 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (0.73%) SAN
15 11 (0.67%) Internet
15 11 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
16 10 (0.61%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (3.84%) Power BI
2 52 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.58%) Metadata
4 25 (1.52%) Oracle Database
5 20 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.61%) Tableau
9 9 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.43%) Pinecone
11 5 (0.30%) Db2
11 5 (0.30%) Neo4j
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.24%) MySQL
12 4 (0.24%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 208 (12.68%) JIRA
2 51 (3.11%) Git
3 46 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.61%) GitLab
4 10 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.49%) MLflow
6 7 (0.43%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.43%) InstallShield
7 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.24%) Hudson
7 4 (0.24%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.24%) Maven
8 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (0.18%) Snyk
8 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.12%) git-flow
9 2 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 628 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 601 (36.62%) Finance
3 262 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 141 (8.59%) Banking
6 87 (5.30%) Legal
7 82 (5.00%) Retail
8 63 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
10 47 (2.86%) Marketing
11 45 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (2.38%) Manufacturing
14 38 (2.32%) Law
15 35 (2.13%) Local Government
16 33 (2.01%) Telecoms
17 22 (1.34%) Aviation
17 22 (1.34%) Financial Institution
18 17 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 192 (11.70%) Project Manager
2 175 (10.66%) Lead
3 153 (9.32%) Analyst
4 130 (7.92%) Change Manager
5 123 (7.50%) Senior
6 113 (6.89%) Consultant
7 94 (5.73%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.66%) Programme Manager
9 57 (3.47%) Administrator
10 52 (3.17%) Developer
10 52 (3.17%) Senior Manager
11 45 (2.74%) Business Manager
12 44 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
13 42 (2.56%) Architect
14 41 (2.50%) Support Engineer
15 40 (2.44%) IT Manager
16 36 (2.19%) Service Manager
17 35 (2.13%) Business Change Manager
18 31 (1.89%) Network Engineer
19 30 (1.83%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.41%) REST
2 34 (2.07%) .NET
3 30 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.40%) OAuth
5 22 (1.34%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.34%) CSS
6 20 (1.22%) HTML
7 18 (1.10%) Middleware
8 16 (0.98%) Web Services
9 14 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (0.85%) LDAP
10 12 (0.73%) RESTful
11 11 (0.67%) Ajax
11 11 (0.67%) React
12 10 (0.61%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.55%) OAuth2
13 9 (0.55%) OpenID
14 8 (0.49%) Pandas
14 8 (0.49%) pytest
14 8 (0.49%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.24%) Management Information System
2 75 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 71 (4.33%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 49 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.68%) Cloud Native
7 34 (2.07%) PMI
8 30 (1.83%) CMDB
9 25 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 24 (1.46%) Operational Technology
11 23 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.34%) PKI
12 22 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 20 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 18 (1.10%) Low-Code
14 18 (1.10%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 180 (10.97%) Windows
2 88 (5.36%) Linux
3 56 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (2.07%) Unix
6 22 (1.34%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.61%) Solaris
7 10 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.49%) VMS
9 6 (0.37%) AIX
9 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.37%) SUSE
9 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.30%) HPUX
11 3 (0.18%) Android
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (33.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 412 (25.11%) Agile
3 388 (23.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 349 (21.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 327 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
6 289 (17.61%) ITIL
7 274 (16.70%) Project Management
8 266 (16.21%) Migration
9 222 (13.53%) DevOps
10 201 (12.25%) Project Delivery
11 190 (11.58%) Roadmaps
12 185 (11.27%) ERP
13 177 (10.79%) Decision-Making
14 158 (9.63%) Risk Management
15 146 (8.90%) Validation
16 141 (8.59%) AI
17 140 (8.53%) CI/CD
18 138 (8.41%) User Acceptance Testing
19 137 (8.35%) ITSM
20 132 (8.04%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (9.81%) SQL
2 112 (6.83%) Python
3 98 (5.97%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.80%) C#
4 46 (2.80%) PL/SQL
5 43 (2.62%) Bash
6 38 (2.32%) Java
7 37 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 25 (1.52%) T-SQL
9 10 (0.61%) Groovy
10 9 (0.55%) Korn
11 8 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.43%) Go
13 6 (0.37%) COBOL
13 6 (0.37%) JCL
14 5 (0.30%) Perl
15 4 (0.24%) ABAP
15 4 (0.24%) REXX
16 3 (0.18%) VBA
16 3 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 325 (19.80%) Security Cleared
2 233 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 203 (12.37%) Degree
4 124 (7.56%) PMP
5 113 (6.89%) PMI Certification
6 58 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 56 (3.41%) CISSP
8 44 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 35 (2.13%) CISM
11 31 (1.89%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.83%) CCNP
13 25 (1.52%) APMG
13 25 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
14 23 (1.40%) Azure Certification
15 22 (1.34%) ACCA
15 22 (1.34%) CIMA
15 22 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
16 15 (0.91%) CCNA
17 14 (0.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.79%) QA
2 81 (4.94%) GDPR
3 78 (4.75%) PMO
4 75 (4.57%) Data Quality
5 69 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 69 (4.20%) SLA
6 45 (2.74%) NIST
7 25 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 22 (1.34%) SOC 2
9 21 (1.28%) GRC
10 20 (1.22%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.91%) IFRS
12 13 (0.79%) IFRS 17
13 9 (0.55%) ITGC
14 8 (0.49%) COBIT
15 6 (0.37%) Basel III
15 6 (0.37%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.37%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.30%) Accessibility
17 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 111 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 54 (3.29%) Docker
2 54 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.85%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.43%) vCloud
8 7 (0.43%) vSphere
9 6 (0.37%) KVM
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.24%) XenApp
10 4 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.12%) ACF2
12 2 (0.12%) RACF
12 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.061%) Firmware
13 1 (0.061%) NFS
Systems Management
1 76 (4.63%) Terraform
2 70 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 59 (3.60%) Ansible
4 30 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.40%) vCenter Server
6 22 (1.34%) Grafana
7 21 (1.28%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.16%) SCCM
9 17 (1.04%) SCOM
10 12 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.49%) Puppet
12 7 (0.43%) Avamar
12 7 (0.43%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.43%) PowerCLI
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
2 171 (10.42%) ServiceNow
3 159 (9.69%) Oracle
4 150 (9.14%) SAP
5 72 (4.39%) VMware
6 63 (3.84%) Salesforce
7 59 (3.60%) Google
8 49 (2.99%) Cisco
9 33 (2.01%) Citrix
10 30 (1.83%) Splunk
11 26 (1.58%) Red Hat
12 25 (1.52%) IFS
13 24 (1.46%) IBM
14 21 (1.28%) Workday
15 19 (1.16%) Remedy
16 18 (1.10%) CheckPoint
17 16 (0.98%) Juniper
18 15 (0.91%) Dynatrace
18 15 (0.91%) F5
18 15 (0.91%) Sage