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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 50 48
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,741 1,227 1,391
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.88% 4.49% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 4.96% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,065 751 850
10th Percentile £373 £325 £315
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £625 £632 £625
90th Percentile £725 £738 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £504
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.79% -8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 56 58
10th Percentile £19.88 £22.16 £18.35
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £31.60
Median hourly rate £41.00 £32.05 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.93% -38.95% +13.87%
75th Percentile £76.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.08 £69.07
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £48.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.17% -2.50% +3.59%

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 38,278 24,745 30,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.65% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,038 15,865 19,799
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,361 1,324 1,984
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.95 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -2 805 £537 -2.32% 312
North of England -19 306 £500 +11.11% 114
South East +6 266 £575 +22.02% 136
North West -13 176 £475 +5.56% 69
Midlands -16 161 £525 +10.53% 60
West Midlands -30 120 £525 +10.53% 39
Yorkshire -22 113 £500 +8.11% 35
South West -20 92 £525 +7.14% 55
East of England -1 80 £475 -6.86% 28
East Midlands +11 39 £500 +39.28% 21
North East -21 17 £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 94 (5.40%) SharePoint
2 92 (5.28%) Confluence
3 31 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.98%) IIS
5 13 (0.75%) SAS
6 10 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.52%) Appian
8 8 (0.46%) CMS
9 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.29%) Camunda
11 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.17%) Kentico
13 2 (0.11%) CICS
13 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
14 1 (0.057%) MTS
14 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.057%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 67 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (2.87%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) Houdini
8 2 (0.11%) NUKE
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.057%) InDesign
9 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.057%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
5 9 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.40%) Primavera
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) OpenText MBPM
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.23%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 275 (15.80%) Azure
2 142 (8.16%) AWS
3 106 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
4 100 (5.74%) Power Platform
5 92 (5.28%) Entra ID
6 76 (4.37%) SaaS
7 65 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (3.39%) GCP
9 34 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
10 32 (1.84%) GitHub
11 29 (1.67%) Google Workspace
12 28 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
13 25 (1.44%) OCI
14 24 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 23 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 22 (1.26%) Power Automate
17 21 (1.21%) Serverless
18 19 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
19 18 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 119 (6.84%) Firewall
2 90 (5.17%) Network Security
3 55 (3.16%) DNS
4 52 (2.99%) WAN
5 50 (2.87%) VPN
6 37 (2.13%) LAN
7 28 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (1.55%) Wireless
9 25 (1.44%) DHCP
10 24 (1.38%) BGP
11 21 (1.21%) OSPF
11 21 (1.21%) SD-WAN
12 20 (1.15%) SSL
13 19 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (0.80%) MPLS
16 12 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (0.69%) HTTP
16 12 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.48%) Power BI
2 49 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.67%) Metadata
4 26 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.57%) Tableau
9 9 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.34%) Db2
11 6 (0.34%) GIS
12 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
12 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 214 (12.29%) JIRA
2 62 (3.56%) Git
3 50 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.57%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.52%) GitLab
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 5 (0.29%) Selenium
7 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) Hudson
8 4 (0.23%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.23%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.23%) Maven
8 4 (0.23%) MLflow
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 650 (37.33%) Social Skills
2 636 (36.53%) Finance
3 287 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 148 (8.50%) Banking
6 88 (5.05%) Legal
7 82 (4.71%) Retail
8 71 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
8 71 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
10 53 (3.04%) Marketing
11 48 (2.76%) Telecoms
12 43 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 39 (2.24%) Law
15 35 (2.01%) Local Government
16 29 (1.67%) Aviation
17 26 (1.49%) Financial Institution
18 22 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (0.92%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 203 (11.66%) Project Manager
2 194 (11.14%) Lead
3 167 (9.59%) Analyst
4 130 (7.47%) Senior
5 129 (7.41%) Change Manager
6 109 (6.26%) Consultant
7 93 (5.34%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.45%) Programme Manager
9 57 (3.27%) Senior Manager
10 56 (3.22%) Administrator
11 50 (2.87%) Network Engineer
12 46 (2.64%) Developer
13 45 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
14 43 (2.47%) Business Manager
14 43 (2.47%) IT Manager
15 42 (2.41%) Service Manager
16 41 (2.35%) Support Engineer
17 37 (2.13%) Architect
17 37 (2.13%) Cloud Engineer
18 35 (2.01%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.33%) REST
2 34 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
3 33 (1.90%) .NET
4 24 (1.38%) CSS
4 24 (1.38%) HTML
5 16 (0.92%) Middleware
5 16 (0.92%) OAuth
5 16 (0.92%) Web Services
6 15 (0.86%) .NET Framework
6 15 (0.86%) Ajax
7 14 (0.80%) LDAP
7 14 (0.80%) SOAP
8 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (0.69%) RESTful
10 11 (0.63%) 802.1X
10 11 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (0.57%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.52%) JSON
13 8 (0.46%) Jakarta EE
13 8 (0.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.77%) Management Information System
2 82 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 78 (4.48%) Data Centre
4 63 (3.62%) Product Ownership
5 51 (2.93%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.84%) PMI
7 32 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (1.67%) Operational Technology
9 28 (1.61%) CMDB
10 26 (1.49%) PKI
10 26 (1.49%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 24 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.03%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.03%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.92%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 182 (10.45%) Windows
2 93 (5.34%) Linux
3 66 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (1.95%) Unix
6 18 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) Solaris
7 10 (0.57%) VMS
8 8 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.34%) AIX
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.34%) SUSE
11 5 (0.29%) HPUX
11 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.17%) Android
14 2 (0.11%) MVS
14 2 (0.11%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (34.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 455 (26.13%) Agile
3 409 (23.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 386 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 335 (19.24%) ITIL
6 329 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
7 307 (17.63%) Project Management
8 281 (16.14%) Migration
9 255 (14.65%) Project Delivery
10 235 (13.50%) DevOps
11 208 (11.95%) Roadmaps
12 199 (11.43%) Decision-Making
13 184 (10.57%) AI
13 184 (10.57%) ERP
14 181 (10.40%) Service Management
15 171 (9.82%) ITSM
16 164 (9.42%) Risk Management
17 150 (8.62%) PRINCE2
18 143 (8.21%) CI/CD
19 131 (7.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.27%) SQL
2 130 (7.47%) Python
3 114 (6.55%) PowerShell
4 52 (2.99%) Bash
5 44 (2.53%) C#
5 44 (2.53%) PL/SQL
6 43 (2.47%) Java
7 41 (2.35%) JavaScript
8 22 (1.26%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.86%) Bicep
10 12 (0.69%) Korn
11 10 (0.57%) Groovy
12 8 (0.46%) Go
12 8 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.29%) COBOL
13 5 (0.29%) Perl
14 4 (0.23%) ABAP
14 4 (0.23%) JCL
15 3 (0.17%) VBA
15 3 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 361 (20.74%) Security Cleared
2 260 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 201 (11.55%) Degree
4 143 (8.21%) PMP
5 132 (7.58%) PMI Certification
6 66 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.33%) CISSP
8 53 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.13%) CCNP
10 35 (2.01%) CISM
11 32 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (1.49%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.21%) APMG
14 21 (1.21%) Master's Degree
15 20 (1.15%) CCNA
15 20 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
16 19 (1.09%) ACCA
16 19 (1.09%) CIMA
16 19 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.34%) QA
2 87 (5.00%) PMO
3 84 (4.82%) SLA
4 78 (4.48%) GDPR
5 70 (4.02%) Data Quality
6 66 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (2.47%) NIST
8 25 (1.44%) GRC
8 25 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.32%) SOC 2
10 20 (1.15%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.69%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.52%) ITGC
13 7 (0.40%) COBIT
13 7 (0.40%) IFRS
14 6 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.29%) GMP
16 4 (0.23%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 125 (7.18%) Active Directory
2 63 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.58%) Docker
4 24 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.86%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.80%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.52%) vCloud
9 9 (0.52%) vSphere
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.23%) KVM
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.057%) Ceph
13 1 (0.057%) Firmware
13 1 (0.057%) NFS
13 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.057%) Squid
13 1 (0.057%) XenApp
13 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 96 (5.51%) Terraform
2 67 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 62 (3.56%) Ansible
4 32 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (1.78%) vCenter Server
6 22 (1.26%) Grafana
6 22 (1.26%) SCOM
7 20 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.80%) SCCM
10 11 (0.63%) Avamar
11 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.40%) PowerCLI
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 6 (0.34%) Argo
13 6 (0.34%) CASB
13 6 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 308 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 204 (11.72%) ServiceNow
3 157 (9.02%) Oracle
4 149 (8.56%) SAP
5 83 (4.77%) VMware
6 73 (4.19%) Cisco
7 64 (3.68%) Salesforce
8 53 (3.04%) Google
9 31 (1.78%) IBM
9 31 (1.78%) Splunk
10 30 (1.72%) Citrix
11 29 (1.67%) Red Hat
12 25 (1.44%) IFS
13 24 (1.38%) CheckPoint
14 23 (1.32%) Juniper
14 23 (1.32%) Zscaler
15 21 (1.21%) F5
16 18 (1.03%) Palo Alto
16 18 (1.03%) Remedy
17 17 (0.98%) Workday