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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 47 43
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,491 1,110 1,598
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.29% 4.28% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 4.76% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 964 648 1,009
10th Percentile £313 £336 £359
25th Percentile £408 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £713 £707
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 26 57
10th Percentile £20.79 £27.80 £17.16
25th Percentile £22.68 £32.57 £28.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -19.17%
75th Percentile £56.69 £69.69 £59.50
90th Percentile £84.05 £76.25 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -12.00%

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 30,349 23,302 32,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.42% 89.94% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,395 14,514 21,728
10th Percentile £311 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,903 732 1,999
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.39
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.49% - -
75th Percentile £61.18 £64.79 £60.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.23 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.54% -7.14% -

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -23 612 £520 -0.95% 244
North of England -8 293 £451 -10.95% 104
Midlands +8 244 £500 - 75
South East +3 187 £475 -9.52% 145
North West +8 181 £402 -14.92% 66
West Midlands +1 164 £500 - 58
South West +9 112 £525 -4.55% 44
Yorkshire -16 108 £487 -11.45% 29
East Midlands +22 80 £435 +11.25% 17
East of England -36 40 £500 +0.10% 46
North East -26 4 £475 -17.39% 12
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
1 114 (7.65%) Confluence
2 75 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.60%) Appian
5 6 (0.40%) Mattermost
5 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.34%) HCL Notes
6 5 (0.34%) SAS
7 4 (0.27%) CMS
7 4 (0.27%) nginx
8 3 (0.20%) IIS
8 3 (0.20%) Moodle
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.13%) JBoss
9 2 (0.13%) Mule
10 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 84 (5.63%) Microsoft Project
2 72 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 39 (2.62%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.34%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.34%) Trello
7 4 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.27%) Windchill
8 1 (0.067%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.067%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.067%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 59 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.34%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.27%) Finacle
8 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.20%) iTrent
9 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 221 (14.82%) Azure
2 140 (9.39%) AWS
3 104 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
4 96 (6.44%) GCP
5 82 (5.50%) Power Platform
6 46 (3.09%) Entra ID
7 44 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.55%) SaaS
9 25 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.68%) Serverless
10 24 (1.61%) Power Automate
11 21 (1.41%) AWS KMS
11 21 (1.41%) Google Workspace
12 19 (1.27%) Google Sheets
12 19 (1.27%) PaaS
13 18 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (1.21%) OpenShift
14 17 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (1.07%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.07%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (5.63%) Firewall
2 60 (4.02%) DNS
3 56 (3.76%) Network Security
4 43 (2.88%) VPN
5 40 (2.68%) WAN
6 30 (2.01%) LAN
7 24 (1.61%) DHCP
8 22 (1.48%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (1.21%) SD-WAN
11 17 (1.14%) SSL
12 13 (0.87%) BGP
12 13 (0.87%) Kerberos
12 13 (0.87%) SSH
13 12 (0.80%) HTTP
14 11 (0.74%) OSPF
14 11 (0.74%) SAN
15 10 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (0.67%) Internet
15 10 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.43%) Power BI
2 46 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.48%) Metadata
5 20 (1.34%) Tableau
6 17 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.07%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (0.80%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.54%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.54%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.47%) MySQL
13 6 (0.40%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.40%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (0.34%) Big Data
15 3 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 176 (11.80%) JIRA
2 54 (3.62%) Jenkins
3 31 (2.08%) Git
4 26 (1.74%) GitLab
5 25 (1.68%) Liquibase
6 12 (0.80%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.54%) MLflow
8 6 (0.40%) Vagrant
9 5 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.27%) MSI
11 3 (0.20%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.20%) JUnit
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.13%) AdminStudio
12 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.13%) git-flow
12 2 (0.13%) Mockito
13 1 (0.067%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.067%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.067%) SonarQube
General
1 703 (47.15%) Social Skills
2 502 (33.67%) Finance
3 287 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (9.99%) Public Sector
5 143 (9.59%) Banking
6 65 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
7 55 (3.69%) Legal
8 52 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 50 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
10 45 (3.02%) Manufacturing
11 37 (2.48%) Local Government
11 37 (2.48%) Telecoms
12 36 (2.41%) Retail
13 33 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (2.15%) Marketing
15 31 (2.08%) Financial Institution
16 26 (1.74%) Law
17 21 (1.41%) Investment Banking
18 15 (1.01%) Retail Banking
19 14 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 210 (14.08%) Analyst
2 180 (12.07%) Project Manager
3 168 (11.27%) Lead
4 122 (8.18%) Change Manager
5 118 (7.91%) Business Analyst
6 107 (7.18%) Senior
7 87 (5.84%) Consultant
8 51 (3.42%) Architect
9 48 (3.22%) Programme Manager
10 45 (3.02%) Business Manager
10 45 (3.02%) Developer
11 39 (2.62%) Administrator
11 39 (2.62%) Senior Manager
12 35 (2.35%) IT Manager
13 33 (2.21%) SAP Manager
14 32 (2.15%) Business Change Manager
14 32 (2.15%) Service Manager
15 27 (1.81%) Delivery Manager
16 25 (1.68%) Support Analyst
16 25 (1.68%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.82%) REST
2 38 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (1.88%) .NET
3 28 (1.88%) RESTful
4 26 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
5 22 (1.48%) OAuth
6 19 (1.27%) .NET Framework
6 19 (1.27%) SAML
7 17 (1.14%) LDAP
8 15 (1.01%) Middleware
9 14 (0.94%) OpenID
10 12 (0.80%) Web Services
11 11 (0.74%) HTML
12 10 (0.67%) ISPF
13 9 (0.60%) CSS
13 9 (0.60%) Django
13 9 (0.60%) NumPy
13 9 (0.60%) Pandas
13 9 (0.60%) pytest
13 9 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.77%) Management Information System
2 82 (5.50%) Onboarding
3 72 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 42 (2.82%) Cloud Native
6 40 (2.68%) CMDB
7 36 (2.41%) Virtual Team
8 34 (2.28%) PKI
9 33 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.88%) PMI
11 27 (1.81%) Public Cloud
12 24 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.54%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
14 20 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
16 15 (1.01%) e-Learning
16 15 (1.01%) Replication
17 13 (0.87%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 145 (9.73%) Windows
2 76 (5.10%) Linux
3 44 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.41%) Unix
5 34 (2.28%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.60%) VMS
6 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.27%) CentOS
11 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.13%) Android
13 1 (0.067%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.067%) Debian
13 1 (0.067%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.067%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (32.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 389 (26.09%) Agile
3 370 (24.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 331 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
5 295 (19.79%) ITIL
6 281 (18.85%) Project Management
7 263 (17.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 242 (16.23%) Migration
9 197 (13.21%) DevOps
10 165 (11.07%) Project Delivery
11 147 (9.86%) ITSM
12 146 (9.79%) Service Management
13 139 (9.32%) ERP
14 131 (8.79%) PRINCE2
15 128 (8.58%) Decision-Making
16 126 (8.45%) Risk Management
17 124 (8.32%) Workshop Facilitation
18 122 (8.18%) Roadmaps
19 119 (7.98%) CI/CD
20 117 (7.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 147 (9.86%) SQL
2 143 (9.59%) Python
3 103 (6.91%) PowerShell
4 38 (2.55%) Bash
5 32 (2.15%) C#
6 25 (1.68%) Go
7 22 (1.48%) Java
8 20 (1.34%) PL/SQL
9 18 (1.21%) JavaScript
10 15 (1.01%) T-SQL
11 13 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.74%) Groovy
13 10 (0.67%) CLIST
13 10 (0.67%) COBOL
13 10 (0.67%) JCL
13 10 (0.67%) REXX
14 6 (0.40%) Perl
15 5 (0.34%) Korn
16 4 (0.27%) TypeScript
17 3 (0.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 294 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 272 (18.24%) Degree
3 208 (13.95%) SC Cleared
4 93 (6.24%) PMI Certification
5 83 (5.57%) PMP
6 61 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 46 (3.09%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.61%) CISSP
10 24 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 23 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
12 22 (1.48%) APMG
12 22 (1.48%) CISM
13 19 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (1.07%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.94%) CCNP
16 13 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 13 (0.87%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.57%) QA
2 61 (4.09%) PMO
3 58 (3.89%) GDPR
4 57 (3.82%) Data Quality
5 40 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.48%) SLA
7 17 (1.14%) IFRS
8 15 (1.01%) IFRS 17
8 15 (1.01%) NIST
9 13 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.80%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.67%) Basel III
11 10 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.54%) MiFID
12 8 (0.54%) NCSC
13 6 (0.40%) GRC
14 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.34%) EMIR
14 5 (0.34%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 103 (6.91%) Active Directory
2 70 (4.69%) Docker
3 32 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.67%) ACF2
5 10 (0.67%) RACF
5 10 (0.67%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.54%) Firmware
8 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.40%) DFS Replication
9 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.34%) KVM
10 5 (0.34%) vSphere
10 5 (0.34%) XenApp
10 5 (0.34%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.27%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.27%) Postfix
11 4 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 82 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 69 (4.63%) Terraform
3 60 (4.02%) Ansible
4 38 (2.55%) Grafana
5 36 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 31 (2.08%) SCCM
7 29 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.14%) Puppet
9 14 (0.94%) Kibana
10 13 (0.87%) SCOM
10 13 (0.87%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.67%) CA Endevor
12 9 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.60%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (0.40%) HP SiteScope
13 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.34%) SCVMM
15 4 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 273 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 135 (9.05%) ServiceNow
3 132 (8.85%) SAP
4 105 (7.04%) Oracle
5 69 (4.63%) Google
6 60 (4.02%) Salesforce
7 51 (3.42%) Cisco
8 49 (3.29%) VMware
9 46 (3.09%) Splunk
10 35 (2.35%) Citrix
11 25 (1.68%) Workday
12 21 (1.41%) F5
13 19 (1.27%) Atlassian
13 19 (1.27%) Remedy
14 17 (1.14%) Juniper
15 16 (1.07%) CheckPoint
16 15 (1.01%) Fortinet
17 14 (0.94%) Adobe
17 14 (0.94%) Palo Alto
17 14 (0.94%) Sage