Change Management Contracts in England

Change Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 43 43
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,070 1,511 2,459
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.39% 4.06% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 4.69% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 966 1,538
10th Percentile £325 £331 £359
25th Percentile £406 £435 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £663
90th Percentile £725 £722 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 58 52
10th Percentile £26.15 £14.31 £21.25
25th Percentile £31.83 £29.91 £33.55
Median hourly rate £57.50 £48.75 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% +0.72% +116.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.60 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £67.91 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £48.00 £48.13
% change year-on-year +12.50% -0.27% +114.39%

All Process and 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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 -17 496 £548 -0.45% 811
North of England +8 214 £450 -12.45% 357
North West +20 117 £438 -13.92% 189
South East +5 107 £483 -0.21% 395
Midlands +5 88 £500 -1.23% 274
Yorkshire +2 87 £463 -10.02% 125
South West -2 79 £500 -9.09% 186
West Midlands +11 72 £500 -2.44% 169
East of England +16 50 £487 +21.81% 168
East Midlands -4 13 £354 -25.47% 90
North East -3 9 £575 -4.17% 45
Change Management
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Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (3.55%) Confluence
2 33 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.03%) CMS
5 10 (0.93%) IIS
6 9 (0.84%) Apache
7 7 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.65%) SAS
8 5 (0.47%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.28%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (0.28%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.093%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (2.15%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.84%) Trello
7 3 (0.28%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.19%) Open Workbench
8 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.093%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.093%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.093%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.093%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.093%) QuarkXPress
9 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 25 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 6 (0.56%) SAP PP
5 6 (0.56%) SAP SD
6 5 (0.47%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.47%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.37%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.37%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.19%) iTrent
9 2 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (8.32%) Azure
2 53 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (4.49%) Power Platform
4 31 (2.90%) AWS
5 30 (2.80%) Entra ID
6 22 (2.06%) SaaS
7 18 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.21%) Google Workspace
9 13 (1.21%) OneDrive
10 11 (1.03%) IaaS
11 10 (0.93%) OCI
12 9 (0.84%) GitHub
13 8 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (0.75%) GCP
13 8 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (0.65%) Power Automate
15 6 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (0.56%) PowerApps
15 6 (0.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 62 (5.79%) Firewall
2 40 (3.74%) Network Security
3 28 (2.62%) WAN
4 22 (2.06%) VPN
5 18 (1.68%) LAN
5 18 (1.68%) Wireless
6 17 (1.59%) DNS
7 16 (1.50%) BGP
8 15 (1.40%) OSPF
9 14 (1.31%) MPLS
10 13 (1.21%) Intrusion Detection
11 11 (1.03%) DHCP
11 11 (1.03%) SAN
12 10 (0.93%) EIGRP
12 10 (0.93%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.93%) TCP/IP
12 10 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.84%) Internet
13 9 (0.84%) SSL
14 7 (0.65%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (3.55%) Power BI
2 32 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.52%) Oracle Database
4 17 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (1.03%) SAP HANA
6 8 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.65%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.56%) Tableau
9 5 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.47%) Big Data
9 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.47%) InterSystems Cache
9 5 (0.47%) MySQL
10 4 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.28%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.28%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 70 (6.54%) JIRA
2 20 (1.87%) Git
3 17 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.84%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.37%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.37%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.28%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (0.28%) GitLab
6 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.28%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.19%) Maven
8 1 (0.093%) GoCD
8 1 (0.093%) MSI
8 1 (0.093%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.093%) Postman
8 1 (0.093%) Selenium
8 1 (0.093%) SoapUI
General
1 402 (37.57%) Finance
2 379 (35.42%) Social Skills
3 182 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (12.90%) Banking
5 90 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 50 (4.67%) Telecoms
7 47 (4.39%) Manufacturing
8 46 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
9 44 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (3.74%) Marketing
11 39 (3.64%) Legal
12 36 (3.36%) Law
13 24 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (2.15%) Retail
15 19 (1.78%) Local Government
16 15 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (1.21%) Financial Institution
18 12 (1.12%) French Language
18 12 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 176 (16.45%) Analyst
2 134 (12.52%) Project Manager
3 115 (10.75%) Lead
4 94 (8.79%) Business Analyst
5 80 (7.48%) Change Manager
6 63 (5.89%) Consultant
7 61 (5.70%) Senior
8 45 (4.21%) Architect
9 39 (3.64%) Developer
10 36 (3.36%) Business Manager
10 36 (3.36%) IT Manager
11 35 (3.27%) Network Engineer
12 34 (3.18%) Programme Manager
13 31 (2.90%) Business Change Manager
14 30 (2.80%) Administrator
14 30 (2.80%) Service Manager
15 26 (2.43%) Delivery Manager
16 23 (2.15%) Senior Manager
17 19 (1.78%) Change Analyst
17 19 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (1.40%) Web Services
3 14 (1.31%) CSS
4 12 (1.12%) .NET
5 11 (1.03%) SOAP
6 10 (0.93%) HTML
6 10 (0.93%) REST
7 8 (0.75%) Middleware
8 7 (0.65%) Ajax
8 7 (0.65%) LDAP
9 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (0.56%) React
9 6 (0.56%) XML
10 5 (0.47%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.47%) Node.js
10 5 (0.47%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.37%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.37%) Bootstrap
11 4 (0.37%) Gherkin
11 4 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 63 (5.89%) Management Information System
2 40 (3.74%) Data Centre
3 36 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.27%) CMDB
5 29 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.40%) Life Science
8 15 (1.40%) Operational Technology
8 15 (1.40%) PMI
9 12 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (0.93%) e-Learning
11 9 (0.84%) Security Posture
12 8 (0.75%) PKI
13 6 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (0.56%) Driving Licence
13 6 (0.56%) NHS
13 6 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.66%) Windows
2 40 (3.74%) Linux
3 26 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.12%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.93%) Unix
6 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.19%) MVS
10 1 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.093%) Android
10 1 (0.093%) CentOS
10 1 (0.093%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.093%) VMS
10 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (24.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 252 (23.55%) Agile
3 250 (23.36%) Project Management
4 243 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
5 160 (14.95%) ITIL
6 152 (14.21%) Migration
7 148 (13.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 119 (11.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 112 (10.47%) Risk Management
10 108 (10.09%) Project Delivery
11 101 (9.44%) Service Management
12 97 (9.07%) Decision-Making
13 91 (8.50%) PRINCE2
14 90 (8.41%) Waterfall
15 82 (7.66%) ERP
16 80 (7.48%) Roadmaps
17 78 (7.29%) DevOps
18 74 (6.92%) Process Improvement
19 73 (6.82%) Problem Management
20 69 (6.45%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (7.10%) SQL
2 51 (4.77%) Python
3 43 (4.02%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.96%) Java
5 16 (1.50%) PL/SQL
6 14 (1.31%) C#
7 13 (1.21%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.56%) Perl
8 6 (0.56%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.56%) VB
9 4 (0.37%) Delphi
9 4 (0.37%) MUMPS
9 4 (0.37%) Ruby
10 3 (0.28%) Bash
10 3 (0.28%) R
10 3 (0.28%) REXX
10 3 (0.28%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.28%) VBA
11 2 (0.19%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.093%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 127 (11.87%) Degree
2 117 (10.93%) Security Cleared
3 68 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 58 (5.42%) PMI Certification
5 50 (4.67%) PMP
6 38 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
8 26 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (1.40%) CCNP
10 14 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.03%) APMG
14 9 (0.84%) CCNA
14 9 (0.84%) CISSP
14 9 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 7 (0.65%) CBAP
16 6 (0.56%) IIBA
16 6 (0.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.58%) PMO
2 29 (2.71%) QA
3 25 (2.34%) GDPR
3 25 (2.34%) SLA
4 23 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.03%) NIST
7 6 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.37%) ITGC
9 4 (0.37%) MiFID
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) Basel III
10 3 (0.28%) COBIT
10 3 (0.28%) EMIR
10 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.28%) P3O
10 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.19%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 50 (4.67%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.50%) vSphere
3 15 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.93%) Docker
5 9 (0.84%) Firmware
6 7 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.28%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.19%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.093%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.093%) KVM
9 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.093%) SRDF
9 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.093%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 23 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.31%) Ansible
4 12 (1.12%) Oracle RMAN
5 10 (0.93%) SCCM
6 7 (0.65%) Terraform
7 6 (0.56%) Grafana
7 6 (0.56%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.56%) Puppet
8 5 (0.47%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.47%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.37%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.28%) HP Data Protector
10 3 (0.28%) Kibana
10 3 (0.28%) WSUS
11 2 (0.19%) Nagios
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 156 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 117 (10.93%) SAP
3 102 (9.53%) Oracle
4 76 (7.10%) ServiceNow
5 51 (4.77%) Cisco
6 27 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 22 (2.06%) Workday
8 20 (1.87%) Google
9 19 (1.78%) Remedy
10 18 (1.68%) VMware
11 15 (1.40%) Juniper
12 14 (1.31%) HP
13 13 (1.21%) Splunk
14 12 (1.12%) CheckPoint
14 12 (1.12%) Fortinet
14 12 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 11 (1.03%) Commvault
16 10 (0.93%) SolarWinds
17 9 (0.84%) Adobe
17 9 (0.84%) Red Hat