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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 48 45
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,607 1,061 1,541
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.27% 4.38% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 4.82% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 692 999
10th Percentile £325 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 27 55
10th Percentile £21.65 £23.60 £14.18
25th Percentile £22.63 £31.76 £25.71
Median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +52.62% -22.54%
75th Percentile £47.11 £70.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.50 £63.50
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 32,472 22,014 32,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.22% 90.86% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,793 14,527 21,615
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 1,988 846 2,159
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £76.55 £76.72 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -7 680 £523 -0.48% 182
North of England -12 299 £472 +4.89% 112
Midlands +2 232 £500 -0.10% 102
South East +11 211 £500 - 147
North West +4 199 £424 -0.21% 61
West Midlands -11 157 £507 +1.00% 58
South West +10 112 £516 -1.20% 39
Yorkshire -29 92 £488 -2.50% 35
East Midlands +16 73 £425 +34.07% 42
East of England -14 67 £475 -4.95% 52
North East -16 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 (6.91%) Confluence
2 73 (4.54%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.62%) 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 2 (0.12%) Moodle
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.062%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.062%) JBoss
10 1 (0.062%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 86 (5.35%) Microsoft Project
2 73 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.24%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.50%) 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 61 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.37%) Finacle
6 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
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 3 (0.19%) iTrent
8 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 254 (15.81%) Azure
2 137 (8.53%) AWS
3 102 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 79 (4.92%) GCP
6 66 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (3.36%) Entra ID
8 52 (3.24%) SaaS
9 28 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.56%) Power Automate
11 24 (1.49%) PaaS
12 21 (1.31%) Google Workspace
13 20 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (1.24%) Serverless
14 19 (1.18%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.18%) OpenShift
15 18 (1.12%) IaaS
15 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (1.12%) OCI
16 16 (1.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 97 (6.04%) Firewall
2 66 (4.11%) Network Security
3 53 (3.30%) WAN
4 46 (2.86%) DNS
4 46 (2.86%) VPN
5 44 (2.74%) LAN
6 29 (1.80%) SD-WAN
7 26 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (1.31%) BGP
9 20 (1.24%) DHCP
10 19 (1.18%) OSPF
11 18 (1.12%) SSL
11 18 (1.12%) TCP/IP
12 15 (0.93%) SAN
13 14 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
13 14 (0.87%) Wireless
14 13 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
14 13 (0.81%) Internet
15 12 (0.75%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.29%) Power BI
2 49 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.24%) Tableau
5 19 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.12%) Metadata
7 15 (0.93%) Oracle Database
7 15 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.56%) MySQL
10 9 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
11 8 (0.50%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.50%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.31%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 206 (12.82%) JIRA
2 50 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.49%) Git
4 20 (1.24%) GitLab
5 18 (1.12%) Liquibase
6 12 (0.75%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.50%) 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
1 687 (42.75%) Social Skills
2 532 (33.11%) Finance
3 306 (19.04%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 140 (8.71%) Banking
6 71 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
7 62 (3.86%) Legal
8 57 (3.55%) Retail
9 53 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (2.43%) Manufacturing
12 38 (2.36%) Marketing
13 37 (2.30%) Local Government
14 34 (2.12%) Telecoms
15 31 (1.93%) Law
16 29 (1.80%) Financial Institution
17 28 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
18 21 (1.31%) Investment Banking
19 17 (1.06%) Aviation
20 16 (1.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 197 (12.26%) Project Manager
2 177 (11.01%) Analyst
3 176 (10.95%) Lead
4 139 (8.65%) Change Manager
5 114 (7.09%) Senior
6 110 (6.85%) Business Analyst
7 100 (6.22%) Consultant
8 54 (3.36%) Administrator
8 54 (3.36%) Programme Manager
9 52 (3.24%) Developer
10 51 (3.17%) Business Manager
11 48 (2.99%) Architect
12 41 (2.55%) Senior Manager
13 38 (2.36%) Business Change Manager
14 35 (2.18%) IT Manager
15 32 (1.99%) Network Engineer
16 30 (1.87%) Delivery Manager
16 30 (1.87%) Support Engineer
17 29 (1.80%) SAP Manager
17 29 (1.80%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.67%) REST
2 31 (1.93%) .NET
3 30 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
4 29 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (1.31%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.31%) RESTful
6 19 (1.18%) Middleware
7 17 (1.06%) OAuth
8 15 (0.93%) Web Services
9 14 (0.87%) SAML
10 13 (0.81%) CSS
11 11 (0.68%) AngularJS
11 11 (0.68%) HTML
11 11 (0.68%) SOAP
12 10 (0.62%) ISPF
12 10 (0.62%) OpenID
12 10 (0.62%) pytest
13 9 (0.56%) Django
13 9 (0.56%) NumPy
13 9 (0.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.48%) Management Information System
2 76 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.61%) Data Centre
5 42 (2.61%) CMDB
6 40 (2.49%) Virtual Team
7 38 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 34 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.99%) PMI
10 30 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (1.87%) PKI
11 26 (1.62%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.37%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
16 17 (1.06%) Operational Technology
17 16 (1.00%) Replication
18 15 (0.93%) Low-Code
19 14 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 164 (10.21%) Windows
2 64 (3.98%) Linux
3 55 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.93%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.87%) Unix
6 10 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.50%) 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
1 521 (32.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 412 (25.64%) Agile
3 388 (24.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 349 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
5 312 (19.42%) ITIL
6 307 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 289 (17.98%) Project Management
8 256 (15.93%) Migration
9 224 (13.94%) DevOps
10 181 (11.26%) Project Delivery
11 156 (9.71%) ITSM
12 152 (9.46%) ERP
13 150 (9.33%) Roadmaps
14 145 (9.02%) Service Management
15 139 (8.65%) Risk Management
16 138 (8.59%) Decision-Making
17 137 (8.53%) PRINCE2
18 136 (8.46%) Validation
19 133 (8.28%) Workshop Facilitation
20 129 (8.03%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 159 (9.89%) SQL
2 125 (7.78%) Python
3 102 (6.35%) PowerShell
4 44 (2.74%) C#
5 40 (2.49%) Bash
6 30 (1.87%) PL/SQL
7 24 (1.49%) JavaScript
8 22 (1.37%) Java
9 20 (1.24%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.93%) Go
11 12 (0.75%) 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 (0.44%) Korn
14 5 (0.31%) Perl
15 3 (0.19%) ABAP
15 3 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 335 (20.85%) Security Cleared
2 251 (15.62%) Degree
3 234 (14.56%) SC Cleared
4 104 (6.47%) PMI Certification
5 98 (6.10%) PMP
6 52 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 45 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 43 (2.68%) CISSP
9 42 (2.61%) Master's Degree
10 41 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 36 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (2.24%) CISM
12 28 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 27 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
14 25 (1.56%) APMG
14 25 (1.56%) CCNP
15 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
16 17 (1.06%) Azure Certification
17 13 (0.81%) MBA
18 12 (0.75%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.91%) QA
2 76 (4.73%) PMO
3 74 (4.60%) GDPR
4 69 (4.29%) Data Quality
5 58 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (3.24%) SLA
7 33 (2.05%) NIST
8 18 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.00%) IFRS
10 15 (0.93%) IFRS 17
10 15 (0.93%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.81%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.62%) Basel III
13 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.50%) MiFID
15 7 (0.44%) NCSC
16 6 (0.37%) Accessibility
16 6 (0.37%) GRC
17 5 (0.31%) COBIT
17 5 (0.31%) EMIR
System Software
1 103 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 61 (3.80%) Docker
3 40 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.62%) ACF2
7 10 (0.62%) RACF
7 10 (0.62%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.50%) Firmware
8 8 (0.50%) vSphere
9 7 (0.44%) 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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.062%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 82 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 65 (4.04%) Terraform
3 56 (3.48%) Ansible
4 35 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (1.74%) Grafana
6 27 (1.68%) Prometheus
7 23 (1.43%) SCCM
8 17 (1.06%) vCenter Server
9 12 (0.75%) Puppet
10 10 (0.62%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.62%) Kibana
11 9 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.56%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.50%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.50%) SCOM
13 7 (0.44%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.37%) CASB
14 6 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 275 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 156 (9.71%) ServiceNow
3 146 (9.09%) SAP
4 125 (7.78%) Oracle
5 67 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 61 (3.80%) VMware
7 60 (3.73%) Google
8 57 (3.55%) Cisco
9 35 (2.18%) Citrix
10 33 (2.05%) Splunk
10 33 (2.05%) Workday
11 25 (1.56%) Atlassian
12 21 (1.31%) F5
13 17 (1.06%) Remedy
14 16 (1.00%) CheckPoint
14 16 (1.00%) Juniper
14 16 (1.00%) Palo Alto
15 15 (0.93%) Fortinet
16 14 (0.87%) Adobe
16 14 (0.87%) SolarWinds