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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 48 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,758 1,291 1,307
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 4.64% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 5.11% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 806 791
10th Percentile £375 £331 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.43% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 56 50
10th Percentile £20.31 £20.61 £19.85
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £30.71
Median hourly rate £41.36 £30.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +37.85% -48.43% +20.19%
75th Percentile £74.69 £58.25 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.58 £70.08 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +3.39% -30.43% +18.80%

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 39,011 25,247 28,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.77% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,277 16,138 18,662
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,657
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £18.32
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +72.96% -38.57% -3.67%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -6 845 £538 -2.27% 486
North of England -30 284 £500 +11.11% 150
South East +5 270 £575 +22.99% 178
North West -20 165 £475 +5.56% 81
Midlands -40 144 £509 +7.21% 91
West Midlands -35 109 £525 +10.53% 59
Yorkshire -26 104 £500 +11.11% 52
South West -20 96 £525 +4.74% 58
East of England +2 83 £488 -6.70% 54
East Midlands -7 33 £430 +19.44% 32
North East -30 15 £425 -15.00% 19
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 (5.57%) SharePoint
2 87 (4.95%) Confluence
3 30 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.97%) IIS
5 11 (0.63%) SAS
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.40%) Appian
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.28%) Camunda
10 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.17%) Kentico
12 2 (0.11%) CICS
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.057%) Mattermost
13 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 68 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) Houdini
8 2 (0.11%) NUKE
8 2 (0.11%) Windchill
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.057%) InDesign
9 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 59 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.46%) Maximo
7 8 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.40%) Primavera
9 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
10 5 (0.28%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.28%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.28%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
12 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
12 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 274 (15.59%) Azure
2 142 (8.08%) AWS
3 112 (6.37%) Power Platform
4 110 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
5 93 (5.29%) Entra ID
6 74 (4.21%) SaaS
7 64 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (3.36%) GCP
9 42 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
10 37 (2.10%) GitHub
11 29 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
12 28 (1.59%) OCI
13 24 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 24 (1.37%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 22 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (1.25%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.14%) Serverless
17 19 (1.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 115 (6.54%) Firewall
2 95 (5.40%) Network Security
3 61 (3.47%) DNS
4 57 (3.24%) VPN
5 54 (3.07%) WAN
6 36 (2.05%) LAN
7 33 (1.88%) TCP/IP
8 31 (1.76%) DHCP
9 28 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
9 28 (1.59%) Wireless
10 24 (1.37%) BGP
10 24 (1.37%) SD-WAN
11 22 (1.25%) OSPF
11 22 (1.25%) SSL
12 19 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (0.74%) HTTP
14 13 (0.74%) MPLS
15 12 (0.68%) SNMP
15 12 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (5.06%) Power BI
2 54 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.59%) Oracle Database
4 26 (1.48%) Metadata
5 19 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.68%) Tableau
9 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.51%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.40%) Db2
12 6 (0.34%) GIS
12 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.28%) Data Mart
13 5 (0.28%) MySQL
13 5 (0.28%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 202 (11.49%) JIRA
2 62 (3.53%) Git
3 49 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) GitLab
4 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
5 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.28%) 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%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
General
1 656 (37.32%) Social Skills
2 639 (36.35%) Finance
3 295 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (9.56%) Banking
5 161 (9.16%) Public Sector
6 87 (4.95%) Legal
7 84 (4.78%) Retail
8 77 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
9 67 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
10 60 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (2.90%) Telecoms
12 50 (2.84%) Marketing
13 46 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (2.50%) Manufacturing
15 39 (2.22%) Law
16 34 (1.93%) Local Government
17 30 (1.71%) Aviation
18 23 (1.31%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 19 (1.08%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 209 (11.89%) Lead
2 201 (11.43%) Project Manager
3 179 (10.18%) Analyst
4 137 (7.79%) Senior
5 133 (7.57%) Change Manager
6 116 (6.60%) Consultant
7 103 (5.86%) Business Analyst
8 59 (3.36%) Administrator
8 59 (3.36%) Senior Manager
9 54 (3.07%) Network Engineer
10 53 (3.01%) Programme Manager
11 46 (2.62%) Developer
12 44 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
13 42 (2.39%) Cloud Engineer
13 42 (2.39%) IT Manager
14 41 (2.33%) Business Manager
14 41 (2.33%) Support Engineer
15 38 (2.16%) Service Manager
16 34 (1.93%) Business Change Manager
16 34 (1.93%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.30%) REST
2 36 (2.05%) .NET
3 35 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.37%) CSS
4 24 (1.37%) HTML
5 16 (0.91%) Ajax
5 16 (0.91%) Middleware
6 15 (0.85%) SOAP
7 14 (0.80%) Web Services
8 13 (0.74%) .NET Framework
8 13 (0.74%) OAuth
9 12 (0.68%) 802.1X
9 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
10 11 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (0.57%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.51%) Spring
13 8 (0.46%) Jakarta EE
13 8 (0.46%) Kafka
13 8 (0.46%) React
13 8 (0.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.40%) Onboarding
2 86 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 80 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.84%) Cloud Native
6 46 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.76%) PMI
9 29 (1.65%) PKI
9 29 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 28 (1.59%) CMDB
10 28 (1.59%) Operational Technology
11 27 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 24 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (1.19%) Public Cloud
15 19 (1.08%) AI Agents
16 17 (0.97%) Data Structures
16 17 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 202 (11.49%) Windows
2 93 (5.29%) Linux
3 78 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 44 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.82%) Unix
6 21 (1.19%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) Solaris
8 9 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.51%) VMS
9 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.34%) AIX
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.34%) SUSE
11 5 (0.28%) HPUX
11 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.11%) Android
13 2 (0.11%) OpenVMS
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (34.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 455 (25.88%) Agile
3 415 (23.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 394 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 334 (19.00%) ITIL
6 318 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
7 297 (16.89%) Project Management
8 271 (15.42%) Migration
9 261 (14.85%) Project Delivery
10 227 (12.91%) DevOps
11 217 (12.34%) Roadmaps
12 207 (11.77%) Decision-Making
13 194 (11.04%) Service Management
14 190 (10.81%) AI
15 183 (10.41%) ERP
15 183 (10.41%) ITSM
16 156 (8.87%) PRINCE2
17 154 (8.76%) Analytics
18 151 (8.59%) Risk Management
19 141 (8.02%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 147 (8.36%) SQL
2 136 (7.74%) Python
3 121 (6.88%) PowerShell
4 56 (3.19%) Bash
5 44 (2.50%) C#
5 44 (2.50%) PL/SQL
6 43 (2.45%) Java
6 43 (2.45%) JavaScript
7 23 (1.31%) T-SQL
8 18 (1.02%) Bicep
9 13 (0.74%) Korn
10 9 (0.51%) Groovy
11 7 (0.40%) Go
11 7 (0.40%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.28%) COBOL
12 5 (0.28%) VBScript
13 4 (0.23%) JCL
13 4 (0.23%) Perl
14 3 (0.17%) ABAP
14 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 376 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 272 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 204 (11.60%) Degree
4 145 (8.25%) PMP
5 134 (7.62%) PMI Certification
6 74 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 61 (3.47%) CISSP
8 54 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (2.16%) CISM
10 35 (1.99%) CCNP
11 28 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.54%) APMG
12 27 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
13 25 (1.42%) Azure Certification
14 24 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
15 22 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 21 (1.19%) CCNA
17 20 (1.14%) Master's Degree
18 18 (1.02%) ACCA
18 18 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (4.84%) SLA
2 84 (4.78%) PMO
3 83 (4.72%) QA
4 77 (4.38%) Data Quality
5 76 (4.32%) GDPR
6 64 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (2.56%) NIST
8 27 (1.54%) GRC
9 26 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (1.31%) SOC 2
11 20 (1.14%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.57%) ITGC
14 7 (0.40%) COBIT
14 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.34%) GMP
15 6 (0.34%) IFRS
16 5 (0.28%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
17 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 125 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.50%) Docker
4 24 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.97%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.85%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.63%) vCloud
9 8 (0.46%) vSphere
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
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
1 101 (5.75%) Terraform
2 63 (3.58%) Kubernetes
3 60 (3.41%) Ansible
4 38 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.82%) vCenter Server
6 26 (1.48%) SCOM
7 23 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.25%) Grafana
9 21 (1.19%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.91%) SCCM
11 15 (0.85%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.68%) Avamar
13 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
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
15 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 326 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 207 (11.77%) ServiceNow
3 158 (8.99%) Oracle
4 146 (8.30%) SAP
5 95 (5.40%) VMware
6 76 (4.32%) Cisco
7 66 (3.75%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.62%) Google
9 33 (1.88%) Splunk
10 31 (1.76%) IBM
11 28 (1.59%) Red Hat
12 27 (1.54%) Citrix
12 27 (1.54%) Zscaler
13 25 (1.42%) IFS
14 24 (1.37%) Remedy
15 23 (1.31%) CheckPoint
15 23 (1.31%) Juniper
16 20 (1.14%) F5
16 20 (1.14%) Workday
17 19 (1.08%) Palo Alto
965 Change Management jobs in England