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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 54 46
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,763 1,283 1,332
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.76% 4.56% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 5.01% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,050 798 713
10th Percentile £370 £334 £325
25th Percentile £444 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £612 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 56 40
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.40 £26.42
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.63 £35.44
Median hourly rate £50.50 £27.68 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +82.44% -51.22% +23.72%
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.25 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.81 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £25.15 £55.87
% change year-on-year +100.84% -55.00% +28.95%

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 39,799 25,590 27,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.90% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,011 16,250 16,937
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,071 1,598 1,107
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.53 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £44.78 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -13 824 £550 - 93
North of England -10 328 £500 +11.11% 63
South East -4 277 £550 +12.47% 66
North West -14 181 £475 +5.56% 39
Yorkshire -6 132 £500 +7.70% 19
Midlands -75 106 £480 +1.05% 44
South West -36 92 £550 +4.76% 44
East of England +9 82 £510 -2.86% 25
West Midlands -73 77 £496 +4.42% 29
East Midlands -26 29 £460 +8.24% 15
North East -23 15 £425 -5.56% 6
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 90 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 81 (4.59%) Confluence
3 27 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) IIS
5 10 (0.57%) CICS
6 6 (0.34%) Appian
6 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.34%) CMS
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.28%) Camunda
8 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.17%) Kentico
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.11%) Documentum
10 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 65 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.51%) Windchill
7 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.23%) InDesign
8 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.11%) Houdini
10 2 (0.11%) NUKE
10 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.057%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.057%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 59 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.57%) Teamcenter
6 9 (0.51%) Maximo
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.45%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
10 5 (0.28%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.28%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.28%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.23%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 270 (15.31%) Azure
2 135 (7.66%) AWS
3 120 (6.81%) Power Platform
4 107 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (5.39%) Entra ID
6 73 (4.14%) GCP
7 50 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (2.84%) SaaS
8 46 (2.61%) GitHub
9 43 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
10 41 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (1.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 25 (1.42%) OCI
14 24 (1.36%) Serverless
15 22 (1.25%) Power Automate
16 20 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (1.13%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.13%) OneDrive
16 20 (1.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 118 (6.69%) Firewall
2 104 (5.90%) Network Security
3 80 (4.54%) DNS
4 58 (3.29%) VPN
5 53 (3.01%) WAN
6 46 (2.61%) TCP/IP
7 41 (2.33%) DHCP
8 31 (1.76%) Wireless
9 28 (1.59%) LAN
10 24 (1.36%) BGP
11 23 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (1.25%) SAN
13 20 (1.13%) OSPF
13 20 (1.13%) SSL
14 18 (1.02%) VLAN
15 17 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
15 17 (0.96%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
17 15 (0.85%) MPLS
18 14 (0.79%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (4.99%) Power BI
2 57 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.04%) Metadata
4 30 (1.70%) Oracle Database
5 17 (0.96%) Relational Database
6 15 (0.85%) Db2
7 14 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.57%) Tableau
11 8 (0.45%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.40%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.34%) DataStage
13 6 (0.34%) GIS
13 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 156 (8.85%) JIRA
2 60 (3.40%) Git
3 45 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.62%) GitLab
5 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.34%) Selenium
8 5 (0.28%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
10 3 (0.17%) AdminStudio
10 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (0.17%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.11%) Postman
11 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 724 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 643 (36.47%) Finance
3 309 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (10.89%) Banking
5 143 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 99 (5.62%) Influencing Skills
7 88 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
8 82 (4.65%) Legal
9 80 (4.54%) Manufacturing
10 69 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
11 59 (3.35%) Retail
12 55 (3.12%) Telecoms
13 50 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (2.50%) Aerospace
15 41 (2.33%) Law
16 32 (1.82%) Local Government
17 28 (1.59%) Aviation
17 28 (1.59%) Front Office
17 28 (1.59%) Marketing
18 26 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 206 (11.68%) Lead
2 200 (11.34%) Project Manager
3 198 (11.23%) Analyst
4 142 (8.05%) Senior
5 130 (7.37%) Change Manager
6 111 (6.30%) Business Analyst
7 99 (5.62%) Consultant
8 55 (3.12%) Senior Manager
9 52 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
9 52 (2.95%) Network Engineer
10 48 (2.72%) IT Manager
10 48 (2.72%) Programme Manager
11 47 (2.67%) Business Manager
11 47 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 43 (2.44%) Developer
13 40 (2.27%) Administrator
14 39 (2.21%) Business Change Manager
15 37 (2.10%) Security Engineer
15 37 (2.10%) Service Manager
16 34 (1.93%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (6.01%) Terraform
2 49 (2.78%) REST
3 29 (1.64%) .NET
3 29 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 26 (1.47%) Kafka
4 26 (1.47%) Middleware
5 23 (1.30%) HTML
6 19 (1.08%) CSS
7 18 (1.02%) Ajax
8 16 (0.91%) SOAP
8 16 (0.91%) Web Services
9 14 (0.79%) 802.1X
9 14 (0.79%) JSON
9 14 (0.79%) OAuth
10 13 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
11 12 (0.68%) XML
12 9 (0.51%) .NET Framework
12 9 (0.51%) RESTful
13 8 (0.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.37%) Onboarding
2 97 (5.50%) Management Information System
3 86 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 77 (4.37%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.55%) Cloud Native
6 43 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 40 (2.27%) PKI
8 38 (2.16%) CMDB
9 36 (2.04%) Security Posture
10 35 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 35 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (1.87%) AI Agents
11 33 (1.87%) Operational Technology
12 24 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
14 20 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (1.13%) Mainframe
14 20 (1.13%) Public Cloud
15 18 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 216 (12.25%) Windows
2 111 (6.30%) Linux
3 98 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 51 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (2.16%) Unix
6 24 (1.36%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.85%) Solaris
8 11 (0.62%) VMS
9 10 (0.57%) zOS
10 9 (0.51%) AIX
10 9 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.45%) macOS
11 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.34%) SUSE
14 4 (0.23%) Android
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.17%) CentOS
15 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (43.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 468 (26.55%) Agile
3 426 (24.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 425 (24.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 348 (19.74%) ITIL
6 309 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
7 290 (16.45%) Project Delivery
8 283 (16.05%) Project Management
9 275 (15.60%) Roadmaps
10 251 (14.24%) Migration
11 222 (12.59%) Service Management
12 215 (12.20%) Decision-Making
13 209 (11.85%) AI
14 202 (11.46%) DevOps
15 194 (11.00%) PRINCE2
16 185 (10.49%) ITSM
17 164 (9.30%) Risk Management
18 163 (9.25%) Analytics
19 162 (9.19%) Process Improvement
20 157 (8.91%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 163 (9.25%) Python
2 147 (8.34%) PowerShell
3 128 (7.26%) SQL
4 73 (4.14%) Bash
5 43 (2.44%) Java
6 38 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 35 (1.99%) PL/SQL
8 28 (1.59%) C#
9 26 (1.47%) Bicep
10 23 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.74%) JCL
13 11 (0.62%) Go
13 11 (0.62%) Korn
14 9 (0.51%) Groovy
14 9 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
15 8 (0.45%) COBOL
16 6 (0.34%) VBScript
17 3 (0.17%) ABAP
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 386 (21.89%) Security Cleared
2 280 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 223 (12.65%) Degree
4 140 (7.94%) PMP
5 133 (7.54%) PMI Certification
6 87 (4.93%) DV Cleared
7 38 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (2.10%) CISSP
9 31 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (1.59%) APMG
11 27 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.47%) CCNP
12 26 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (1.30%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 18 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.91%) ACCA
17 15 (0.85%) CIMA
18 14 (0.79%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.73%) Data Quality
2 92 (5.22%) QA
3 71 (4.03%) SLA
4 70 (3.97%) PMO
5 37 (2.10%) GDPR
6 30 (1.70%) GRC
7 29 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.02%) NIST
9 16 (0.91%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.62%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.57%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.45%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.40%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.34%) GMP
16 6 (0.34%) ITGC
17 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.28%) IFRS
System Software
1 114 (6.47%) Active Directory
2 101 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (2.67%) Docker
4 26 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (1.42%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.02%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.79%) vCloud
9 13 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
10 10 (0.57%) vSphere
11 8 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (0.40%) Firmware
13 4 (0.23%) RACF
14 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.17%) Squid
14 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
15 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
15 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 79 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 66 (3.74%) Ansible
3 38 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (1.93%) vCenter Server
5 31 (1.76%) SCOM
6 29 (1.64%) Grafana
7 26 (1.47%) Prometheus
8 24 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 21 (1.19%) SCCM
10 16 (0.91%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.68%) Avamar
12 9 (0.51%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.45%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.34%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
15 6 (0.34%) vRealize
16 5 (0.28%) Control-M
16 5 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 359 (20.36%) Microsoft
2 177 (10.04%) ServiceNow
3 136 (7.71%) Oracle
4 124 (7.03%) SAP
5 123 (6.98%) VMware
6 78 (4.42%) Cisco
7 55 (3.12%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.67%) Splunk
9 44 (2.50%) Google
10 39 (2.21%) IBM
11 34 (1.93%) Red Hat
11 34 (1.93%) Zscaler
12 28 (1.59%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.47%) Citrix
13 26 (1.47%) F5
14 23 (1.30%) Juniper
15 21 (1.19%) Dell
15 21 (1.19%) Remedy
15 21 (1.19%) Workday
16 19 (1.08%) Thales