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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 48 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,723 1,279 1,285
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.77% 4.64% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 5.11% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 794 763
10th Percentile £375 £331 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £735 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £495 £515
% change year-on-year +5.97% -3.80% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 57 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.92 £19.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £29.73
Median hourly rate £41.71 £30.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +39.03% -48.43% +20.19%
75th Percentile £61.81 £58.25 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £34.67 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.32% -36.97% +13.64%

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 38,779 25,035 28,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.92% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,017 15,949 18,476
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,455 1,574
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.92 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -6 824 £540 -1.82% 242
North of England -28 289 £500 +11.11% 138
South East +4 278 £563 +20.32% 166
North West -17 173 £484 +7.62% 94
Midlands -54 117 £500 +5.26% 70
Yorkshire -30 101 £500 +14.29% 34
South West -36 91 £525 +5.00% 72
West Midlands -59 85 £525 +10.53% 45
East of England +8 83 £475 -9.52% 39
East Midlands -18 30 £421 +16.53% 25
North East -24 15 £425 -15.00% 14
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 97 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 76 (4.41%) Confluence
3 29 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.99%) IIS
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.35%) Appian
7 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 4 (0.23%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.058%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.058%) MTS
12 1 (0.058%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 64 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 64 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Windchill
7 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) Houdini
8 2 (0.12%) InDesign
8 2 (0.12%) NUKE
8 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.058%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 56 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.46%) Maximo
7 8 (0.46%) Primavera
8 7 (0.41%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.35%) SAP PM
9 6 (0.35%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
11 3 (0.17%) iTrent
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 274 (15.90%) Azure
2 139 (8.07%) AWS
3 111 (6.44%) Power Platform
4 107 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (5.57%) Entra ID
6 70 (4.06%) SaaS
7 63 (3.66%) GCP
8 61 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 40 (2.32%) GitHub
11 27 (1.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 27 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
12 25 (1.45%) OCI
13 23 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (1.33%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.28%) Google Workspace
15 21 (1.22%) Serverless
16 19 (1.10%) PowerApps
17 18 (1.04%) OpenShift
18 17 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 113 (6.56%) Firewall
2 101 (5.86%) Network Security
3 61 (3.54%) DNS
4 54 (3.13%) VPN
5 52 (3.02%) WAN
6 34 (1.97%) LAN
7 33 (1.92%) DHCP
7 33 (1.92%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.63%) Wireless
9 27 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (1.22%) SD-WAN
11 20 (1.16%) SSL
12 19 (1.10%) BGP
13 17 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (0.99%) OSPF
14 16 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (0.75%) HTTP
15 13 (0.75%) MPLS
16 12 (0.70%) VLAN
17 11 (0.64%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.22%) Power BI
2 56 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.57%) Oracle Database
4 26 (1.51%) Metadata
5 16 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.64%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (0.64%) Tableau
9 7 (0.41%) Db2
9 7 (0.41%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.35%) GIS
10 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
11 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
11 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 184 (10.68%) JIRA
2 49 (2.84%) Git
3 43 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.41%) AdminStudio
5 7 (0.41%) GitLab
5 7 (0.41%) InstallShield
5 7 (0.41%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.35%) Selenium
7 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.29%) 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%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.17%) Maven
9 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
General
1 665 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 649 (37.67%) Finance
3 306 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (10.04%) Banking
5 148 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 83 (4.82%) Legal
6 83 (4.82%) Retail
7 82 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 62 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 48 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 48 (2.79%) Marketing
12 39 (2.26%) Law
13 37 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.80%) Local Government
15 24 (1.39%) Aviation
15 24 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (1.22%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.10%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 216 (12.54%) Lead
2 199 (11.55%) Project Manager
3 178 (10.33%) Analyst
4 127 (7.37%) Senior
5 126 (7.31%) Change Manager
6 115 (6.67%) Consultant
7 98 (5.69%) Business Analyst
8 58 (3.37%) Senior Manager
9 50 (2.90%) Administrator
9 50 (2.90%) Network Engineer
10 47 (2.73%) Developer
11 46 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 46 (2.67%) Programme Manager
12 41 (2.38%) Business Manager
12 41 (2.38%) IT Manager
13 39 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
14 37 (2.15%) Service Manager
14 37 (2.15%) Support Engineer
15 35 (2.03%) Business Change Manager
16 31 (1.80%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (5.98%) Terraform
2 51 (2.96%) REST
3 36 (2.09%) .NET
4 30 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.45%) HTML
6 23 (1.33%) CSS
7 17 (0.99%) Middleware
8 16 (0.93%) Ajax
9 15 (0.87%) Kafka
10 14 (0.81%) OAuth
10 14 (0.81%) SOAP
11 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.70%) .NET Framework
12 12 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (0.64%) 802.1X
13 11 (0.64%) Web Services
14 9 (0.52%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.52%) React
15 8 (0.46%) SPFx
15 8 (0.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.80%) Onboarding
2 89 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 72 (4.18%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 48 (2.79%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.97%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.92%) PKI
10 29 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.63%) PMI
12 27 (1.57%) Operational Technology
12 27 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.45%) CMDB
13 25 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
15 20 (1.16%) AI Agents
16 18 (1.04%) FMCG
16 18 (1.04%) Public Cloud
17 16 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 198 (11.49%) Windows
2 95 (5.51%) Linux
3 83 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.86%) Unix
6 19 (1.10%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.58%) Solaris
7 10 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.58%) VMS
8 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.35%) AIX
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.35%) SUSE
11 5 (0.29%) HPUX
11 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.17%) Android
12 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.12%) CentOS
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (37.20%) Stakeholder Management
2 443 (25.71%) Agile
3 408 (23.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 392 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 334 (19.38%) ITIL
6 317 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
7 300 (17.41%) Project Management
8 274 (15.90%) Project Delivery
9 255 (14.80%) Migration
10 217 (12.59%) Roadmaps
11 214 (12.42%) DevOps
12 201 (11.67%) Decision-Making
13 197 (11.43%) Service Management
14 188 (10.91%) AI
15 184 (10.68%) ERP
16 179 (10.39%) ITSM
17 161 (9.34%) PRINCE2
18 151 (8.76%) Risk Management
19 149 (8.65%) Analytics
20 145 (8.42%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 141 (8.18%) SQL
2 140 (8.13%) Python
3 129 (7.49%) PowerShell
4 64 (3.71%) Bash
5 45 (2.61%) PL/SQL
6 44 (2.55%) Java
7 42 (2.44%) C#
7 42 (2.44%) JavaScript
8 24 (1.39%) T-SQL
9 22 (1.28%) Bicep
10 14 (0.81%) Korn
11 11 (0.64%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.52%) Groovy
13 8 (0.46%) Go
14 6 (0.35%) VBScript
15 5 (0.29%) COBOL
16 4 (0.23%) JCL
16 4 (0.23%) Perl
17 3 (0.17%) ABAP
17 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 348 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 248 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 205 (11.90%) Degree
4 145 (8.42%) PMP
5 131 (7.60%) PMI Certification
6 70 (4.06%) DV Cleared
7 61 (3.54%) CISSP
8 52 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.15%) CCNP
10 35 (2.03%) CISM
11 28 (1.63%) APMG
12 26 (1.51%) Azure Certification
13 24 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
14 23 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 23 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
15 21 (1.22%) CCNA
15 21 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 19 (1.10%) ACCA
16 19 (1.10%) CIMA
16 19 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (5.05%) QA
2 84 (4.88%) PMO
3 81 (4.70%) SLA
4 72 (4.18%) Data Quality
5 67 (3.89%) GDPR
6 57 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (2.55%) NIST
8 28 (1.63%) GRC
9 23 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 21 (1.22%) SOC 2
11 19 (1.10%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.64%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.58%) ITGC
14 7 (0.41%) COBIT
14 7 (0.41%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.35%) Accessibility
15 6 (0.35%) GMP
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
17 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.23%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 124 (7.20%) Active Directory
2 78 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (2.15%) Docker
4 23 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.10%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.81%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.70%) vCloud
10 9 (0.52%) vSphere
11 7 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.058%) Ceph
13 1 (0.058%) Firmware
13 1 (0.058%) KVM
13 1 (0.058%) NFS
13 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.058%) Squid
Systems Management
1 62 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.42%) Ansible
3 38 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (1.92%) vCenter Server
5 26 (1.51%) SCOM
6 23 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.28%) Grafana
8 21 (1.22%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.93%) SCCM
10 12 (0.70%) Avamar
11 8 (0.46%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (0.41%) vRealize
12 7 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.35%) Argo
13 6 (0.35%) CASB
13 6 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
14 5 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 330 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 191 (11.09%) ServiceNow
3 156 (9.05%) Oracle
4 130 (7.54%) SAP
5 98 (5.69%) VMware
6 72 (4.18%) Cisco
7 65 (3.77%) Salesforce
8 49 (2.84%) Google
9 33 (1.92%) Splunk
10 31 (1.80%) IBM
11 30 (1.74%) Red Hat
12 27 (1.57%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.39%) IFS
14 23 (1.33%) CheckPoint
15 22 (1.28%) Citrix
15 22 (1.28%) Remedy
16 20 (1.16%) Juniper
17 19 (1.10%) Palo Alto
18 18 (1.04%) Thales
18 18 (1.04%) Workday