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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 46 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,767 1,282 1,265
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.81% 4.61% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 5.07% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,072 787 710
10th Percentile £371 £346 £313
25th Percentile £426 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £636 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 55 41
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.16 £26.42
25th Percentile £25.90 £22.63 £35.58
Median hourly rate £50.50 £30.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +68.33% -48.54% +20.45%
75th Percentile £72.63 £58.51 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £34.67 £56.75
% change year-on-year +45.68% -38.91% +17.57%

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 39,380 25,274 28,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.84% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,176 16,039 17,819
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,707 1,489 1,353
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.33 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -4 844 £539 -2.18% 786
North of England -22 308 £500 +11.11% 195
South East +13 287 £575 +17.83% 208
North West -14 182 £475 +5.56% 124
Midlands -67 113 £483 +1.58% 130
Yorkshire -22 112 £500 +9.59% 56
South West -37 90 £525 +3.70% 129
West Midlands -69 82 £500 +5.26% 72
East of England -5 76 £500 -4.76% 69
East Midlands -19 30 £421 -5.07% 58
North East -34 14 £425 -5.56% 20
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
1 102 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 82 (4.64%) Confluence
3 31 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.85%) IIS
5 10 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.34%) Appian
7 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.28%) Camunda
8 5 (0.28%) CICS
8 5 (0.28%) CMS
9 4 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.057%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 66 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 40 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.28%) Windchill
7 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) Houdini
8 2 (0.11%) InDesign
8 2 (0.11%) NUKE
8 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.057%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 57 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
4 14 (0.79%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 9 (0.51%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.45%) Maximo
8 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.34%) Primavera
9 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
9 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.28%) iTrent
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.28%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.28%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 273 (15.45%) Azure
2 142 (8.04%) AWS
3 113 (6.40%) Power Platform
4 109 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (5.43%) Entra ID
6 65 (3.68%) GCP
7 63 (3.57%) SaaS
8 56 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (2.43%) GitHub
10 42 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
11 31 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
12 28 (1.58%) OCI
13 26 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
13 26 (1.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 23 (1.30%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.30%) Serverless
15 22 (1.25%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.13%) OpenShift
16 20 (1.13%) PowerApps
17 19 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 123 (6.96%) Firewall
2 105 (5.94%) Network Security
3 71 (4.02%) DNS
4 57 (3.23%) VPN
5 53 (3.00%) WAN
6 37 (2.09%) DHCP
7 36 (2.04%) TCP/IP
8 33 (1.87%) Wireless
9 31 (1.75%) LAN
10 24 (1.36%) SSL
11 23 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (1.13%) SD-WAN
13 19 (1.08%) BGP
14 17 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
15 15 (0.85%) OSPF
16 14 (0.79%) SNMP
17 13 (0.74%) SAN
18 12 (0.68%) HTTP
18 12 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (4.92%) Power BI
2 57 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.92%) Metadata
4 30 (1.70%) Oracle Database
5 14 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.62%) Db2
7 11 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (0.62%) Tableau
8 10 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.34%) DataStage
10 6 (0.34%) GIS
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.28%) Data Mart
11 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 175 (9.90%) JIRA
2 58 (3.28%) Git
3 43 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.45%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.34%) Selenium
8 5 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.17%) Hudson
10 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 705 (39.90%) Social Skills
2 663 (37.52%) Finance
3 322 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (10.98%) Banking
5 150 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 84 (4.75%) Influencing Skills
6 84 (4.75%) Legal
7 76 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
8 75 (4.24%) Retail
9 66 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
10 60 (3.40%) Manufacturing
11 53 (3.00%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.49%) Marketing
13 42 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (2.21%) Law
15 29 (1.64%) Local Government
16 28 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 25 (1.41%) Aerospace
17 25 (1.41%) Front Office
18 21 (1.19%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 218 (12.34%) Lead
2 207 (11.71%) Project Manager
3 190 (10.75%) Analyst
4 135 (7.64%) Senior
5 129 (7.30%) Change Manager
6 106 (6.00%) Consultant
7 103 (5.83%) Business Analyst
8 64 (3.62%) Senior Manager
9 52 (2.94%) Network Engineer
10 51 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
10 51 (2.89%) IT Manager
11 49 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (2.60%) Developer
12 46 (2.60%) Programme Manager
13 44 (2.49%) Administrator
14 41 (2.32%) Business Manager
15 38 (2.15%) Service Manager
16 35 (1.98%) Business Change Manager
16 35 (1.98%) Security Engineer
17 32 (1.81%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (6.11%) Terraform
2 51 (2.89%) REST
3 35 (1.98%) .NET
4 29 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.41%) HTML
6 22 (1.25%) Kafka
7 21 (1.19%) CSS
8 18 (1.02%) Middleware
9 16 (0.91%) Ajax
9 16 (0.91%) OAuth
10 15 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
11 14 (0.79%) 802.1X
11 14 (0.79%) SOAP
12 12 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (0.57%) .NET Framework
14 9 (0.51%) OAuth2
14 9 (0.51%) React
14 9 (0.51%) Web Services
15 8 (0.45%) LDAP
15 8 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.51%) Onboarding
2 89 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 73 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.60%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.04%) PKI
7 36 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (1.98%) Security Posture
9 34 (1.92%) Virtual Team
10 32 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.47%) Operational Technology
13 25 (1.41%) CMDB
13 25 (1.41%) PMI
14 21 (1.19%) AI Agents
14 21 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
15 20 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (1.08%) Public Cloud
17 17 (0.96%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 198 (11.21%) Windows
2 104 (5.89%) Linux
3 87 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (2.09%) Unix
6 21 (1.19%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.68%) VMS
8 11 (0.62%) Solaris
8 11 (0.62%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.40%) AIX
9 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.34%) SUSE
11 5 (0.28%) HPUX
11 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.28%) zOS
12 4 (0.23%) Android
13 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.17%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (39.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 477 (26.99%) Agile
3 427 (24.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 421 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 352 (19.92%) ITIL
6 323 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
7 302 (17.09%) Project Management
8 283 (16.02%) Project Delivery
9 248 (14.04%) Migration
10 244 (13.81%) Roadmaps
11 219 (12.39%) Decision-Making
12 217 (12.28%) Service Management
13 211 (11.94%) DevOps
14 194 (10.98%) AI
15 185 (10.47%) PRINCE2
16 184 (10.41%) ITSM
17 171 (9.68%) ERP
18 159 (9.00%) Analytics
19 156 (8.83%) Process Improvement
20 155 (8.77%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (8.83%) Python
2 142 (8.04%) SQL
3 140 (7.92%) PowerShell
4 69 (3.90%) Bash
5 49 (2.77%) PL/SQL
6 42 (2.38%) Java
6 42 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 34 (1.92%) C#
8 26 (1.47%) T-SQL
9 25 (1.41%) Bicep
10 15 (0.85%) Korn
10 15 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.68%) Groovy
12 8 (0.45%) Go
12 8 (0.45%) JCL
13 7 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
14 6 (0.34%) COBOL
14 6 (0.34%) VBScript
15 4 (0.23%) Perl
16 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 375 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 272 (15.39%) SC Cleared
3 214 (12.11%) Degree
4 149 (8.43%) PMP
5 136 (7.70%) PMI Certification
6 80 (4.53%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.28%) CISSP
8 53 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (2.04%) CCNP
10 34 (1.92%) Azure Certification
11 29 (1.64%) CISM
12 28 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.47%) APMG
14 24 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
16 22 (1.25%) ACCA
16 22 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
16 22 (1.25%) CCNA
17 21 (1.19%) AWS Certification
17 21 (1.19%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.32%) PMO
2 87 (4.92%) QA
3 80 (4.53%) Data Quality
4 73 (4.13%) SLA
5 56 (3.17%) GDPR
6 46 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (2.04%) NIST
8 29 (1.64%) GRC
9 19 (1.08%) SOC 2
10 18 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.91%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.68%) ITGC
13 11 (0.62%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.45%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.45%) COBIT
14 8 (0.45%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.40%) GMP
16 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.28%) IFRS
18 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 121 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 87 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.49%) Docker
4 25 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.19%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.79%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.79%) vCloud
9 9 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (0.51%) vSphere
10 4 (0.23%) Firmware
11 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.17%) Squid
12 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) Postfix
12 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 70 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 61 (3.45%) Ansible
3 37 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (1.98%) vCenter Server
5 28 (1.58%) SCOM
6 26 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.41%) Grafana
8 24 (1.36%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.13%) SCCM
10 15 (0.85%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.62%) Avamar
12 10 (0.57%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.45%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
14 7 (0.40%) vRealize
14 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.34%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) CASB
15 6 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 337 (19.07%) Microsoft
2 185 (10.47%) ServiceNow
3 159 (9.00%) Oracle
4 120 (6.79%) SAP
5 108 (6.11%) VMware
6 77 (4.36%) Cisco
7 68 (3.85%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.66%) Google
9 40 (2.26%) Splunk
10 35 (1.98%) IBM
11 33 (1.87%) Red Hat
12 31 (1.75%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.36%) CheckPoint
13 24 (1.36%) Citrix
14 23 (1.30%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.30%) Remedy
15 22 (1.25%) F5
15 22 (1.25%) Juniper
16 21 (1.19%) Workday
17 20 (1.13%) IFS