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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 48 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,451 1,209 1,640
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.58% 4.30% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 4.85% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 942 697 1,022
10th Percentile £313 £336 £363
25th Percentile £404 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.27%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £734 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 19 37
10th Percentile £20.50 £24.83 £18.06
25th Percentile £22.16 £29.38 £28.30
Median hourly rate £41.86 £54.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +11.57% +66.90%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.38 £55.81
90th Percentile £60.00 £83.00 £62.93
UK median hourly rate £41.86 £54.00 £45.87
% change year-on-year -22.49% +17.74% +43.33%

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 28,064 24,952 32,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.52% 88.77% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,908 15,353 21,703
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,766 818 1,417
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.39
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -15 594 £525 -4.55% 209
North of England -13 278 £450 -13.88% 103
Midlands +10 227 £475 -5.00% 94
South East +11 186 £473 -10.00% 174
North West +6 173 £425 -15.00% 59
West Midlands +2 155 £475 -5.00% 57
South West +18 119 £525 +2.94% 34
Yorkshire -20 103 £487 -11.45% 36
East Midlands +26 72 £414 +0.24% 37
East of England -17 46 £520 +15.56% 44
North East -22 2 £500 -13.04% 9
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
1 117 (8.06%) Confluence
2 85 (5.86%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.69%) nginx
5 9 (0.62%) HCL Notes
6 7 (0.48%) CMS
7 6 (0.41%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.41%) Mule
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.34%) IIS
9 4 (0.28%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) JBoss
10 3 (0.21%) Moodle
11 2 (0.14%) Appian
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.069%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.069%) FileNet
12 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.069%) Traefik
Applications
1 86 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (5.65%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (5.65%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.76%) MS Visio
4 35 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.48%) Trello
7 5 (0.34%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.34%) Windchill
8 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.14%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.069%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.069%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.069%) Notion
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 42 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.69%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.34%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.21%) Maximo
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 193 (13.30%) Azure
2 143 (9.86%) AWS
3 104 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
4 102 (7.03%) GCP
5 90 (6.20%) Power Platform
6 40 (2.76%) SaaS
7 38 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 29 (2.00%) Serverless
10 26 (1.79%) AWS KMS
11 24 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.59%) Amazon S3
13 21 (1.45%) GitHub
14 20 (1.38%) Power Automate
15 18 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (1.17%) Amazon ELB
16 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (6.13%) Firewall
2 72 (4.96%) DNS
3 58 (4.00%) Network Security
4 41 (2.83%) VPN
5 38 (2.62%) WAN
6 30 (2.07%) SSH
7 24 (1.65%) SSL
8 23 (1.59%) HTTP
8 23 (1.59%) LAN
9 20 (1.38%) TCP/IP
10 19 (1.31%) DHCP
10 19 (1.31%) SMTP
11 17 (1.17%) FTP
11 17 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (1.03%) IPsec
12 15 (1.03%) SD-WAN
12 15 (1.03%) Wireless
13 11 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 11 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 11 (0.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.24%) Power BI
2 34 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (2.21%) SQL Server
4 25 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (1.65%) Tableau
6 23 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 22 (1.52%) Metadata
8 18 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 15 (1.03%) Oracle Database
10 13 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.48%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.41%) MySQL
14 5 (0.34%) Big Data
14 5 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.28%) Redis
16 3 (0.21%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 183 (12.61%) JIRA
2 71 (4.89%) Jenkins
3 32 (2.21%) Git
4 28 (1.93%) GitLab
4 28 (1.93%) Liquibase
5 17 (1.17%) Vagrant
6 9 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.28%) ChangeMan
9 4 (0.28%) MSI
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.21%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.21%) JUnit
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.14%) AdminStudio
11 2 (0.14%) MLflow
11 2 (0.14%) Mockito
11 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 646 (44.52%) Social Skills
2 453 (31.22%) Finance
3 272 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.68%) Banking
5 141 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 65 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
7 56 (3.86%) Manufacturing
8 43 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.83%) Legal
10 38 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
10 38 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.48%) Financial Institution
13 34 (2.34%) Retail
14 31 (2.14%) Marketing
15 30 (2.07%) Local Government
16 24 (1.65%) Law
17 16 (1.10%) Investment Banking
18 15 (1.03%) Billing
18 15 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 209 (14.40%) Analyst
2 182 (12.54%) Project Manager
3 157 (10.82%) Lead
4 125 (8.61%) Change Manager
5 112 (7.72%) Business Analyst
6 87 (6.00%) Senior
7 77 (5.31%) Consultant
8 51 (3.51%) Developer
9 48 (3.31%) Administrator
10 45 (3.10%) Architect
11 39 (2.69%) Senior Manager
12 38 (2.62%) Business Manager
13 37 (2.55%) IT Manager
14 35 (2.41%) Programme Manager
15 34 (2.34%) AWS Engineer
15 34 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
16 31 (2.14%) Service Manager
17 29 (2.00%) Business Change Manager
17 29 (2.00%) SAP Manager
18 27 (1.86%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.45%) REST
2 41 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (1.86%) RESTful
4 23 (1.59%) .NET
5 22 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (1.17%) SAML
7 16 (1.10%) LDAP
8 13 (0.90%) Middleware
9 12 (0.83%) OAuth
10 11 (0.76%) .NET Framework
10 11 (0.76%) 802.1X
10 11 (0.76%) HTML
10 11 (0.76%) OpenID
11 8 (0.55%) ISPF
11 8 (0.55%) Kafka
11 8 (0.55%) SOAP
12 7 (0.48%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.48%) CSS
13 6 (0.41%) XML
14 5 (0.34%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 87 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 77 (5.31%) Management Information System
3 60 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 43 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 40 (2.76%) CMDB
7 39 (2.69%) Virtual Team
8 36 (2.48%) PKI
9 27 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (1.86%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.86%) Replication
10 26 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (1.38%) Life Science
14 20 (1.38%) PMI
15 18 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (0.96%) e-Learning
16 14 (0.96%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 159 (10.96%) Windows
2 85 (5.86%) Linux
3 41 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.62%) Unix
5 28 (1.93%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.38%) VMS
7 17 (1.17%) Amazon Linux
8 12 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.28%) zOS
13 3 (0.21%) CentOS
13 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.14%) AIX
14 2 (0.14%) Android
15 1 (0.069%) Debian
15 1 (0.069%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.069%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (28.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 381 (26.26%) Agile
3 331 (22.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 303 (20.88%) ITIL
5 298 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
6 296 (20.40%) Project Management
7 220 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 203 (13.99%) DevOps
9 190 (13.09%) Migration
10 184 (12.68%) Project Delivery
11 152 (10.48%) Service Management
12 142 (9.79%) ITSM
13 133 (9.17%) PRINCE2
14 124 (8.55%) Roadmaps
15 121 (8.34%) Decision-Making
16 117 (8.06%) ERP
17 113 (7.79%) CI/CD
18 106 (7.31%) Service Delivery
19 105 (7.24%) Cybersecurity
19 105 (7.24%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 145 (9.99%) Python
2 125 (8.61%) SQL
3 97 (6.69%) PowerShell
4 34 (2.34%) Bash
5 30 (2.07%) Go
5 30 (2.07%) Java
6 29 (2.00%) C#
7 22 (1.52%) Groovy
8 19 (1.31%) JavaScript
9 18 (1.24%) PL/SQL
10 12 (0.83%) T-SQL
11 11 (0.76%) Perl
12 10 (0.69%) COBOL
12 10 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.55%) CLIST
13 8 (0.55%) JCL
13 8 (0.55%) REXX
14 7 (0.48%) Korn
15 5 (0.34%) C++
16 4 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 294 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 270 (18.61%) Degree
3 206 (14.20%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.20%) PMI Certification
5 81 (5.58%) PMP
6 63 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (3.51%) Master's Degree
8 38 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 21 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
13 20 (1.38%) AWS Certification
14 19 (1.31%) APMG
15 18 (1.24%) CISM
15 18 (1.24%) CISSP
16 16 (1.10%) Azure Certification
17 12 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 11 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
19 10 (0.69%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.58%) QA
2 71 (4.89%) PMO
3 50 (3.45%) GDPR
4 43 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 38 (2.62%) SLA
6 29 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.17%) NIST
8 14 (0.96%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.55%) MiFID
10 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.48%) Basel III
11 7 (0.48%) IFRS
11 7 (0.48%) NCSC
12 5 (0.34%) EMIR
12 5 (0.34%) IFRS 17
12 5 (0.34%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.28%) GMP
System Software
1 92 (6.34%) Active Directory
2 70 (4.82%) Docker
3 23 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.17%) DFS Replication
5 13 (0.90%) Firmware
5 13 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.69%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.69%) Postfix
6 10 (0.69%) Squid
7 8 (0.55%) ACF2
7 8 (0.55%) RACF
7 8 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
7 8 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.21%) XenApp
9 3 (0.21%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.14%) NFS
10 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 80 (5.51%) Terraform
2 74 (5.10%) Kubernetes
3 55 (3.79%) Ansible
4 53 (3.65%) Grafana
5 52 (3.58%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.41%) SCCM
7 28 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.96%) Puppet
9 13 (0.90%) Kibana
9 13 (0.90%) SCOM
10 12 (0.83%) CA Endevor
11 11 (0.76%) Nessus
12 10 (0.69%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.62%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.48%) Tivoli
14 7 (0.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 6 (0.41%) HP SiteScope
16 5 (0.34%) WSUS
17 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 284 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 132 (9.10%) ServiceNow
3 125 (8.61%) SAP
4 99 (6.82%) Oracle
5 63 (4.34%) Google
6 58 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 52 (3.58%) Cisco
8 49 (3.38%) Splunk
9 38 (2.62%) VMware
10 28 (1.93%) F5
11 26 (1.79%) Workday
12 23 (1.59%) Juniper
13 22 (1.52%) CheckPoint
14 21 (1.45%) Atlassian
15 20 (1.38%) Citrix
15 20 (1.38%) Remedy
16 16 (1.10%) IBM
17 15 (1.03%) Fortinet
18 13 (0.90%) Adobe
18 13 (0.90%) Blue Coat