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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 50 44
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,567 1,068 1,465
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.86% 4.39% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 4.82% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 688 934
10th Percentile £331 £329 £325
25th Percentile £413 £405 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.82% -5.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 31 61
10th Percentile £22.63 £27.00 £14.44
25th Percentile £22.66 £31.91 £29.91
Median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +15.00% +2.67%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.20 £72.50 £69.50
UK median hourly rate £34.87 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.43% +8.00% +3.31%

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 34,368 22,176 31,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,897 14,509 20,833
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 935 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.45 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.40 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -6 680 £500 -9.05% 209
North of England -16 287 £475 +5.56% 97
Midlands 0 215 £503 +0.60% 62
South East +1 204 £525 +7.58% 117
North West 0 175 £436 -3.11% 48
West Midlands -13 142 £515 +2.90% 32
Yorkshire -30 104 £488 +5.41% 41
South West -18 92 £500 -3.85% 36
East of England -7 74 £475 - 37
East Midlands +18 71 £438 +20.52% 29
North East -16 8 £433 -24.78% 8
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 98 (6.25%) Confluence
2 73 (4.66%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.89%) SAS
5 9 (0.57%) Appian
5 9 (0.57%) IIS
6 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.26%) CMS
8 4 (0.26%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.064%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.064%) Moodle
9 1 (0.064%) MTS
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.064%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
Applications
1 71 (4.53%) Microsoft Project
2 67 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (1.66%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.26%) Acrobat
7 4 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Windchill
10 1 (0.064%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 66 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.51%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.38%) Finacle
6 6 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.32%) Primavera
8 4 (0.26%) Maximo
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.13%) Global One
10 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 237 (15.12%) Azure
2 125 (7.98%) AWS
3 98 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (5.62%) Power Platform
5 65 (4.15%) SaaS
6 61 (3.89%) GCP
7 57 (3.64%) Entra ID
8 54 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
9 32 (2.04%) Google Workspace
10 28 (1.79%) Power Automate
11 24 (1.53%) OpenShift
11 24 (1.53%) PaaS
12 22 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (1.28%) Google Sheets
14 18 (1.15%) GitHub
14 18 (1.15%) OCI
15 15 (0.96%) PowerApps
16 14 (0.89%) Asana
16 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 85 (5.42%) Firewall
2 57 (3.64%) Network Security
3 48 (3.06%) DNS
3 48 (3.06%) WAN
4 46 (2.94%) VPN
5 38 (2.43%) LAN
6 28 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
7 27 (1.72%) SD-WAN
8 22 (1.40%) DHCP
8 22 (1.40%) SSL
9 19 (1.21%) BGP
10 18 (1.15%) SAN
10 18 (1.15%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.08%) OSPF
12 15 (0.96%) Wireless
13 13 (0.83%) Internet
13 13 (0.83%) MPLS
14 12 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.77%) Structured Cabling
15 11 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.53%) Power BI
2 51 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (1.28%) Metadata
5 18 (1.15%) Tableau
6 17 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
7 15 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.57%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.51%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.38%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.26%) Pentaho
14 4 (0.26%) Redis
14 4 (0.26%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 198 (12.64%) JIRA
2 44 (2.81%) Git
3 39 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.64%) GitLab
6 9 (0.57%) MLflow
7 7 (0.45%) InstallShield
8 6 (0.38%) AdminStudio
9 5 (0.32%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.26%) Hudson
10 4 (0.26%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.26%) Maven
10 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.19%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.19%) Snyk
11 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.13%) git-flow
12 2 (0.13%) JUnit
General
1 627 (40.01%) Social Skills
2 531 (33.89%) Finance
3 265 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (10.21%) Public Sector
5 126 (8.04%) Banking
6 71 (4.53%) Legal
7 66 (4.21%) Retail
8 57 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 45 (2.87%) Marketing
11 44 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (2.04%) Law
13 31 (1.98%) Local Government
14 29 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (1.79%) Manufacturing
16 27 (1.72%) Telecoms
17 21 (1.34%) Financial Institution
18 20 (1.28%) Aviation
19 17 (1.08%) Retail Banking
20 16 (1.02%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 183 (11.68%) Project Manager
2 169 (10.78%) Lead
3 146 (9.32%) Analyst
4 131 (8.36%) Change Manager
5 117 (7.47%) Senior
6 97 (6.19%) Consultant
7 92 (5.87%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.83%) Programme Manager
9 58 (3.70%) Administrator
10 54 (3.45%) Developer
11 47 (3.00%) Architect
12 46 (2.94%) Senior Manager
13 41 (2.62%) Business Manager
14 38 (2.43%) IT Manager
15 35 (2.23%) Business Change Manager
15 35 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
16 32 (2.04%) Support Engineer
17 30 (1.91%) SAP Manager
18 28 (1.79%) Service Manager
19 27 (1.72%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.94%) REST
2 32 (2.04%) .NET
3 27 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (1.34%) Middleware
4 21 (1.34%) OAuth
5 20 (1.28%) .NET Framework
6 18 (1.15%) CSS
7 17 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (0.96%) HTML
9 14 (0.89%) LDAP
9 14 (0.89%) Web Services
10 10 (0.64%) Pandas
10 10 (0.64%) pytest
10 10 (0.64%) React
10 10 (0.64%) RESTful
10 10 (0.64%) SAML
10 10 (0.64%) SOAP
11 9 (0.57%) NumPy
11 9 (0.57%) OpenID
11 9 (0.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 79 (5.04%) Management Information System
2 73 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 67 (4.28%) Data Centre
4 60 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 43 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (2.36%) PMI
7 35 (2.23%) CMDB
8 30 (1.91%) Cloud Native
9 28 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 27 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.60%) PKI
13 18 (1.15%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.02%) Low-Code
14 16 (1.02%) Mainframe
14 16 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (0.96%) Operational Technology
16 14 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
17 13 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 155 (9.89%) Windows
2 67 (4.28%) Linux
3 53 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.23%) Unix
5 26 (1.66%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.45%) Solaris
9 7 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.32%) AIX
10 5 (0.32%) SUSE
10 5 (0.32%) VMS
11 4 (0.26%) HPUX
11 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.13%) CentOS
12 2 (0.13%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (31.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 374 (23.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 365 (23.29%) Agile
4 324 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
5 306 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 288 (18.38%) ITIL
7 281 (17.93%) Project Management
8 262 (16.72%) Migration
9 193 (12.32%) DevOps
10 177 (11.30%) ERP
11 174 (11.10%) Project Delivery
12 171 (10.91%) Roadmaps
13 155 (9.89%) Decision-Making
14 144 (9.19%) ITSM
15 143 (9.13%) Validation
16 141 (9.00%) Risk Management
17 126 (8.04%) CI/CD
18 122 (7.79%) Service Management
19 121 (7.72%) Workshop Facilitation
20 114 (7.28%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 154 (9.83%) SQL
2 97 (6.19%) Python
3 82 (5.23%) PowerShell
4 44 (2.81%) C#
5 39 (2.49%) Bash
6 38 (2.43%) PL/SQL
7 27 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 26 (1.66%) Java
9 22 (1.40%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.70%) COBOL
10 11 (0.70%) JCL
11 10 (0.64%) REXX
12 9 (0.57%) CLIST
12 9 (0.57%) Groovy
13 8 (0.51%) Korn
14 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.32%) Go
15 5 (0.32%) Perl
16 4 (0.26%) C++
17 3 (0.19%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 329 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 235 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 205 (13.08%) Degree
4 110 (7.02%) PMP
5 106 (6.76%) PMI Certification
6 48 (3.06%) CISSP
6 48 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 43 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (2.36%) CISM
9 34 (2.17%) Master's Degree
10 27 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
11 26 (1.66%) CCNP
12 25 (1.60%) APMG
12 25 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (1.02%) ACCA
13 16 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 16 (1.02%) CIMA
14 15 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 13 (0.83%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.00%) QA
2 83 (5.30%) GDPR
3 74 (4.72%) PMO
4 73 (4.66%) Data Quality
5 66 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (3.51%) SLA
7 42 (2.68%) NIST
8 22 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.34%) SOC 2
10 18 (1.15%) PCI DSS
11 17 (1.08%) IFRS
12 15 (0.96%) IFRS 17
13 12 (0.77%) GRC
14 10 (0.64%) Basel III
15 8 (0.51%) ITGC
16 7 (0.45%) COBIT
16 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.32%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.32%) ISO 9001
18 4 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 111 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 50 (3.19%) Docker
3 47 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.83%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.57%) ACF2
8 9 (0.57%) RACF
8 9 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
9 8 (0.51%) vSphere
10 6 (0.38%) Firmware
10 6 (0.38%) KVM
10 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.32%) XenApp
11 5 (0.32%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.19%) NFS
12 3 (0.19%) vCloud
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 76 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 61 (3.89%) Terraform
3 56 (3.57%) Ansible
4 32 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (1.53%) Grafana
5 24 (1.53%) SCCM
6 23 (1.47%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.28%) vCenter Server
8 18 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.77%) SCOM
10 11 (0.70%) CA Endevor
11 10 (0.64%) Puppet
12 9 (0.57%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 8 (0.51%) Kibana
14 7 (0.45%) PowerCLI
15 6 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.38%) CASB
15 6 (0.38%) Cisco Prime
15 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 251 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 167 (10.66%) ServiceNow
3 152 (9.70%) SAP
4 143 (9.13%) Oracle
5 68 (4.34%) VMware
6 60 (3.83%) Google
7 59 (3.77%) Salesforce
8 52 (3.32%) Cisco
9 33 (2.11%) Citrix
10 30 (1.91%) Splunk
11 27 (1.72%) IFS
12 22 (1.40%) Workday
13 19 (1.21%) F5
14 18 (1.15%) CheckPoint
14 18 (1.15%) Palo Alto
15 17 (1.08%) Juniper
15 17 (1.08%) Remedy
16 16 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 16 (1.02%) IBM
17 14 (0.89%) Sage