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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 49 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,630 1,087 1,497
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.12% 4.43% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 4.87% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 711 960
10th Percentile £325 £331 £336
25th Percentile £413 £408 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £617 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 30 56
10th Percentile £22.24 £26.15 £14.22
25th Percentile £22.68 £31.83 £29.11
Median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.94% +35.29% -12.19%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.34
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.25 £66.25
UK median hourly rate £43.86 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.79% +27.06% -11.70%

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 33,718 22,322 32,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 91.07% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,550 14,669 21,082
10th Percentile £315 £310 £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 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 894 2,218
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.51 £15.86
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 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 21 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 21 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 -3 709 £500 -6.98% 182
North of England -12 298 £475 +5.56% 89
Midlands +1 227 £500 -0.05% 74
South East +8 220 £512 +4.49% 114
North West +4 196 £451 +2.97% 50
West Midlands -11 154 £508 +1.35% 40
South West -10 99 £516 +3.25% 33
Yorkshire -44 93 £487 +8.22% 30
East Midlands +13 71 £450 +27.12% 32
East of England -12 67 £475 -2.51% 35
North East -15 9 £440 -23.48% 10
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
1 107 (6.56%) Confluence
2 74 (4.54%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.86%) SAS
5 9 (0.55%) Appian
6 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.37%) IIS
7 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) CMS
9 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.061%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.061%) Moodle
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (4.79%) Microsoft Project
2 73 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 32 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (1.90%) 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 65 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.49%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.37%) Finacle
6 6 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.31%) Primavera
7 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) iTrent
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 254 (15.58%) Azure
2 130 (7.98%) AWS
3 107 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (5.34%) Power Platform
5 70 (4.29%) GCP
6 69 (4.23%) SaaS
7 63 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (3.62%) Entra ID
9 34 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.84%) Google Workspace
11 28 (1.72%) Power Automate
12 27 (1.66%) PaaS
13 22 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (1.35%) OpenShift
14 19 (1.17%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.17%) OCI
15 17 (1.04%) GitHub
15 17 (1.04%) IaaS
16 15 (0.92%) PowerApps
17 14 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 96 (5.89%) Firewall
2 63 (3.87%) Network Security
3 55 (3.37%) WAN
4 49 (3.01%) DNS
5 45 (2.76%) VPN
6 43 (2.64%) LAN
7 31 (1.90%) SD-WAN
8 30 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.41%) SSL
10 21 (1.29%) BGP
10 21 (1.29%) DHCP
11 19 (1.17%) OSPF
12 17 (1.04%) TCP/IP
13 15 (0.92%) SAN
13 15 (0.92%) Wireless
14 13 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
14 13 (0.80%) Internet
14 13 (0.80%) MPLS
14 13 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.17%) Power BI
2 52 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.35%) Metadata
4 21 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.29%) Tableau
5 15 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 15 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
9 7 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
10 6 (0.37%) MySQL
10 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.31%) Redis
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.25%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 206 (12.64%) JIRA
2 40 (2.45%) Git
3 37 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.61%) GitLab
6 9 (0.55%) 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%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.25%) JUnit
9 4 (0.25%) Maven
9 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.18%) Snyk
10 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.12%) Mockito
General
1 678 (41.60%) Social Skills
2 547 (33.56%) Finance
3 295 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 132 (8.10%) Banking
6 67 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
7 66 (4.05%) Legal
8 64 (3.93%) Retail
9 55 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (3.01%) Marketing
11 46 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.21%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.15%) Local Government
14 30 (1.84%) Law
15 29 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (1.78%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.35%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.23%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.17%) Aviation
19 17 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 193 (11.84%) Lead
2 189 (11.60%) Project Manager
3 164 (10.06%) Analyst
4 146 (8.96%) Change Manager
5 115 (7.06%) Senior
6 103 (6.32%) Consultant
7 101 (6.20%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.68%) Administrator
9 58 (3.56%) Programme Manager
10 57 (3.50%) Developer
11 48 (2.94%) Architect
12 46 (2.82%) Business Manager
13 43 (2.64%) Senior Manager
14 39 (2.39%) Business Change Manager
14 39 (2.39%) IT Manager
15 33 (2.02%) Delivery Manager
16 32 (1.96%) Network Engineer
16 32 (1.96%) Support Engineer
17 31 (1.90%) SAP Manager
18 29 (1.78%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.94%) REST
2 35 (2.15%) .NET
3 29 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.53%) OAuth
5 23 (1.41%) .NET Framework
6 20 (1.23%) Middleware
7 18 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (1.04%) SAML
9 14 (0.86%) OpenID
9 14 (0.86%) Web Services
10 13 (0.80%) CSS
10 13 (0.80%) LDAP
10 13 (0.80%) RESTful
11 10 (0.61%) HTML
11 10 (0.61%) ISPF
11 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
11 10 (0.61%) pytest
12 9 (0.55%) Django
12 9 (0.55%) Pandas
12 9 (0.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.34%) Management Information System
2 70 (4.29%) Onboarding
2 70 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 63 (3.87%) Data Centre
4 43 (2.64%) Virtual Team
5 41 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (2.52%) PMI
6 38 (2.33%) CMDB
7 29 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 29 (1.78%) Cloud Native
8 27 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.60%) PKI
10 24 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.98%) Low-Code
13 16 (0.98%) Operational Technology
13 16 (0.98%) Public Cloud
13 16 (0.98%) Replication
14 14 (0.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 160 (9.82%) Windows
2 65 (3.99%) Linux
3 55 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.84%) Unix
5 27 (1.66%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.31%) AIX
10 5 (0.31%) VMS
11 4 (0.25%) HPUX
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.25%) Solaris
11 4 (0.25%) SUSE
12 3 (0.18%) CentOS
12 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (31.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 399 (24.48%) Agile
3 393 (24.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 345 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
5 330 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 317 (19.45%) ITIL
7 303 (18.59%) Project Management
8 276 (16.93%) Migration
9 220 (13.50%) DevOps
10 190 (11.66%) Project Delivery
11 182 (11.17%) ERP
12 163 (10.00%) Roadmaps
13 155 (9.51%) Decision-Making
14 148 (9.08%) ITSM
15 147 (9.02%) Risk Management
16 142 (8.71%) Validation
17 138 (8.47%) Service Management
18 130 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
18 130 (7.98%) PRINCE2
19 128 (7.85%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 160 (9.82%) SQL
2 99 (6.07%) Python
3 90 (5.52%) PowerShell
4 49 (3.01%) C#
5 37 (2.27%) Bash
6 36 (2.21%) PL/SQL
7 28 (1.72%) Java
8 25 (1.53%) T-SQL
9 21 (1.29%) 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%) Korn
10 10 (0.61%) REXX
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
1 338 (20.74%) Security Cleared
2 245 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 237 (14.54%) Degree
4 113 (6.93%) PMI Certification
5 108 (6.63%) PMP
6 49 (3.01%) CISSP
7 45 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 37 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.27%) CISM
10 36 (2.21%) Master's Degree
11 31 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (1.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 27 (1.66%) APMG
14 26 (1.60%) CCNP
15 17 (1.04%) Azure Certification
15 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (0.98%) ACCA
16 16 (0.98%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.95%) QA
2 79 (4.85%) GDPR
3 77 (4.72%) PMO
4 72 (4.42%) Data Quality
5 65 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (3.50%) SLA
7 41 (2.52%) NIST
8 20 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 17 (1.04%) IFRS
11 16 (0.98%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.92%) IFRS 17
13 10 (0.61%) Basel III
13 10 (0.61%) GRC
14 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.43%) COBIT
15 7 (0.43%) ITGC
16 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.31%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 117 (7.18%) Active Directory
2 53 (3.25%) Docker
3 41 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) ACF2
7 10 (0.61%) RACF
7 10 (0.61%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.49%) Firmware
8 8 (0.49%) vSphere
9 7 (0.43%) 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 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.061%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 78 (4.79%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.44%) Terraform
3 50 (3.07%) Ansible
4 33 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.41%) SCCM
6 22 (1.35%) Grafana
7 21 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.10%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.61%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.61%) Puppet
11 9 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.55%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.49%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.49%) Kibana
12 8 (0.49%) SCOM
13 7 (0.43%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.37%) CASB
14 6 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 280 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 166 (10.18%) ServiceNow
3 159 (9.75%) SAP
4 144 (8.83%) Oracle
5 65 (3.99%) Google
5 65 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 61 (3.74%) VMware
7 58 (3.56%) Cisco
8 37 (2.27%) Citrix
9 33 (2.02%) Workday
10 24 (1.47%) IFS
10 24 (1.47%) Splunk
11 21 (1.29%) F5
12 19 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 19 (1.17%) Juniper
13 18 (1.10%) CheckPoint
14 17 (1.04%) Palo Alto
15 16 (0.98%) Red Hat
15 16 (0.98%) Remedy
16 15 (0.92%) SolarWinds