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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 52 49
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,739 1,277 1,318
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.75% 4.57% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 5.03% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 783 708
10th Percentile £375 £331 £315
25th Percentile £443 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 57 40
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.29 £26.42
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.63 £35.44
Median hourly rate £53.00 £30.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +76.67% -48.43% +20.19%
75th Percentile £76.08 £58.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £52.25 £34.67 £56.75
% change year-on-year +50.73% -38.91% +17.24%

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 39,218 25,382 28,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.59% 90.90% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 16,110 17,293
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
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 2,852 1,550 1,234
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.28 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% -40.82% -

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -2 832 £548 -0.45% 1,025
North of England -17 308 £500 +8.11% 293
South East +1 279 £550 +12.82% 327
North West -13 175 £475 +3.26% 170
Yorkshire -11 122 £500 +9.59% 93
Midlands -66 110 £492 +3.58% 174
South West -31 85 £550 +6.02% 150
West Midlands -65 82 £513 +7.89% 104
East of England +3 69 £509 -7.45% 126
East Midlands -24 28 £430 -3.37% 70
North East -28 11 £413 -8.33% 32
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 95 (5.46%) SharePoint
2 83 (4.77%) Confluence
3 30 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.92%) IIS
5 10 (0.58%) CICS
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.35%) Appian
8 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.17%) Kentico
12 2 (0.12%) nginx
12 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.058%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 65 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.46%) Windchill
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.23%) InDesign
7 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Houdini
9 2 (0.12%) NUKE
9 2 (0.12%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.058%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.058%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 58 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.52%) Maximo
6 9 (0.52%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.35%) SAP PM
9 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.29%) iTrent
10 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.23%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 262 (15.07%) Azure
2 142 (8.17%) AWS
3 116 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 106 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
5 92 (5.29%) Entra ID
6 72 (4.14%) GCP
7 57 (3.28%) SaaS
8 47 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (2.53%) GitHub
10 40 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
11 39 (2.24%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 25 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
14 24 (1.38%) OCI
14 24 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.38%) Serverless
15 22 (1.27%) Google Workspace
16 21 (1.21%) OpenShift
17 19 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 113 (6.50%) Firewall
2 100 (5.75%) Network Security
3 78 (4.49%) DNS
4 55 (3.16%) VPN
5 51 (2.93%) WAN
6 42 (2.42%) DHCP
7 41 (2.36%) TCP/IP
8 30 (1.73%) Wireless
9 28 (1.61%) LAN
10 24 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.27%) SSL
12 18 (1.04%) BGP
13 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (0.86%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.81%) OSPF
15 14 (0.81%) SNMP
16 13 (0.75%) SAN
17 12 (0.69%) SSH
17 12 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (5.00%) Power BI
2 55 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 38 (2.19%) Metadata
4 32 (1.84%) Oracle Database
5 15 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 14 (0.81%) Db2
7 13 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.63%) Tableau
10 10 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.40%) NoSQL
14 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.35%) DataStage
14 6 (0.35%) GIS
14 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 163 (9.37%) JIRA
2 56 (3.22%) Git
3 44 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.58%) GitLab
5 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.35%) Selenium
6 6 (0.35%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.17%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.17%) InstallShield
9 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.12%) Postman
10 2 (0.12%) Snyk
10 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 705 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 646 (37.15%) Finance
3 308 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.10%) Banking
5 137 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 94 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
7 82 (4.72%) Legal
7 82 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
8 69 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (3.91%) Manufacturing
9 68 (3.91%) Retail
10 55 (3.16%) Telecoms
11 46 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (2.30%) Marketing
13 38 (2.19%) Law
14 32 (1.84%) Aerospace
14 32 (1.84%) Local Government
15 27 (1.55%) Front Office
16 26 (1.50%) Aviation
17 25 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 205 (11.79%) Lead
2 199 (11.44%) Project Manager
3 191 (10.98%) Analyst
4 144 (8.28%) Senior
5 123 (7.07%) Change Manager
6 106 (6.10%) Consultant
7 105 (6.04%) Business Analyst
8 61 (3.51%) Senior Manager
9 52 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
10 51 (2.93%) IT Manager
11 48 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (2.76%) Programme Manager
12 47 (2.70%) Network Engineer
13 44 (2.53%) Developer
14 41 (2.36%) Administrator
14 41 (2.36%) Business Manager
15 37 (2.13%) Security Engineer
16 36 (2.07%) Service Manager
17 35 (2.01%) Architect
17 35 (2.01%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (5.92%) Terraform
2 46 (2.65%) REST
3 32 (1.84%) .NET
4 26 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.44%) Kafka
6 24 (1.38%) HTML
7 20 (1.15%) CSS
7 20 (1.15%) Middleware
8 17 (0.98%) Ajax
8 17 (0.98%) SOAP
9 16 (0.92%) OAuth
10 14 (0.81%) 802.1X
10 14 (0.81%) Web Services
11 13 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (0.63%) XML
14 10 (0.58%) .NET Framework
14 10 (0.58%) JSON
14 10 (0.58%) LDAP
15 9 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 127 (7.30%) Onboarding
2 91 (5.23%) Management Information System
3 79 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.65%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.24%) PKI
8 36 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (2.07%) Security Posture
9 35 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.67%) Operational Technology
12 26 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.44%) CMDB
14 24 (1.38%) AI Agents
14 24 (1.38%) PMI
15 21 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
15 21 (1.21%) Mainframe
16 20 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 212 (12.19%) Windows
2 114 (6.56%) Linux
3 94 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 53 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (2.30%) Unix
6 23 (1.32%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.98%) Solaris
8 11 (0.63%) AIX
8 11 (0.63%) VMS
9 10 (0.58%) zOS
10 9 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.40%) SUSE
12 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.29%) HPUX
15 4 (0.23%) Android
15 4 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (41.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 459 (26.39%) Agile
3 415 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 410 (23.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 343 (19.72%) ITIL
6 320 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
7 293 (16.85%) Project Management
8 284 (16.33%) Project Delivery
9 267 (15.35%) Roadmaps
10 251 (14.43%) Migration
11 220 (12.65%) Decision-Making
12 215 (12.36%) Service Management
13 204 (11.73%) DevOps
14 199 (11.44%) AI
15 189 (10.87%) PRINCE2
16 179 (10.29%) ITSM
17 167 (9.60%) ERP
18 166 (9.55%) Analytics
19 164 (9.43%) Process Improvement
20 159 (9.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 157 (9.03%) Python
2 135 (7.76%) PowerShell
2 135 (7.76%) SQL
3 70 (4.03%) Bash
4 46 (2.65%) Java
5 41 (2.36%) PL/SQL
6 38 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 30 (1.73%) C#
8 25 (1.44%) Bicep
9 23 (1.32%) T-SQL
10 17 (0.98%) Shell Script
11 13 (0.75%) JCL
11 13 (0.75%) Korn
12 11 (0.63%) Go
13 9 (0.52%) Groovy
13 9 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
14 8 (0.46%) COBOL
15 6 (0.35%) VBScript
16 3 (0.17%) Perl
16 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 369 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 267 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 225 (12.94%) Degree
4 147 (8.45%) PMP
5 137 (7.88%) PMI Certification
6 84 (4.83%) DV Cleared
7 45 (2.59%) CISSP
8 38 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.13%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (1.55%) CCNP
12 25 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (1.38%) APMG
14 23 (1.32%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 21 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (1.15%) ACCA
16 20 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
17 19 (1.09%) CIMA
18 18 (1.04%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (5.12%) Data Quality
2 87 (5.00%) QA
3 74 (4.26%) PMO
4 71 (4.08%) SLA
5 51 (2.93%) GDPR
6 40 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.84%) GRC
8 26 (1.50%) NIST
9 17 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.92%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.69%) ISO 9001
11 12 (0.69%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.63%) ITGC
13 8 (0.46%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.46%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.40%) GMP
15 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.35%) IFRS
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 118 (6.79%) Active Directory
2 98 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.59%) Docker
4 23 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.21%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.09%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.81%) vCloud
7 14 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.58%) vSphere
9 9 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
10 5 (0.29%) Firmware
11 4 (0.23%) RACF
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.17%) Squid
12 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.12%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 76 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 61 (3.51%) Ansible
3 36 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (1.96%) vCenter Server
5 31 (1.78%) SCOM
6 27 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.50%) Grafana
8 25 (1.44%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.21%) SCCM
10 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.69%) Avamar
12 10 (0.58%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
14 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.35%) Argo
15 6 (0.35%) Control-M
16 5 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
16 5 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 338 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 179 (10.29%) ServiceNow
3 149 (8.57%) Oracle
4 120 (6.90%) SAP
5 118 (6.79%) VMware
6 74 (4.26%) Cisco
7 56 (3.22%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.70%) Google
9 42 (2.42%) Splunk
10 38 (2.19%) IBM
11 35 (2.01%) Red Hat
11 35 (2.01%) Zscaler
12 25 (1.44%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.38%) Citrix
14 23 (1.32%) F5
15 22 (1.27%) Juniper
15 22 (1.27%) Remedy
16 21 (1.21%) CheckPoint
17 20 (1.15%) Dell
18 19 (1.09%) Thales