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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 50 53
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,764 1,285 1,274
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.80% 4.63% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 5.09% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 788 702
10th Percentile £375 £344 £316
25th Percentile £431 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 55 39
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.16 £26.42
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.63 £36.17
Median hourly rate £54.00 £30.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -48.54% +20.45%
75th Percentile £75.74 £58.51 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £34.67 £57.40
% change year-on-year +55.78% -39.60% +18.58%

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 39,349 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.76% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,108 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
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 2,747 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -6 843 £543 -1.81% 1,161
North of England -18 312 £500 +11.11% 309
South East +8 282 £575 +17.59% 330
North West -11 181 £475 +5.56% 199
Yorkshire -23 117 £500 +11.11% 79
Midlands -71 111 £478 +0.53% 167
South West -30 89 £528 +2.93% 173
West Midlands -69 83 £493 +3.68% 94
East of England -10 73 £505 -4.36% 130
East Midlands -15 27 £416 -6.25% 73
North East -29 14 £425 -5.56% 36
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 99 (5.61%) SharePoint
2 86 (4.88%) Confluence
3 30 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.85%) IIS
5 10 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.34%) Appian
7 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.34%) CICS
8 5 (0.28%) Camunda
8 5 (0.28%) CMS
8 5 (0.28%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.057%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 67 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.45%) Windchill
7 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.11%) Houdini
10 2 (0.11%) InDesign
10 2 (0.11%) NUKE
10 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
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 58 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.79%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.51%) Maximo
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 9 (0.51%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
6 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.28%) ContrOCC
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.28%) Primavera
8 5 (0.28%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.28%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 274 (15.53%) Azure
2 141 (7.99%) AWS
3 116 (6.58%) Power Platform
4 113 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (5.44%) Entra ID
6 68 (3.85%) GCP
7 60 (3.40%) SaaS
8 54 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (2.44%) GitHub
10 41 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
11 35 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
12 28 (1.59%) OCI
13 26 (1.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 26 (1.47%) Power Automate
14 25 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (1.30%) Serverless
16 22 (1.25%) Google Workspace
17 21 (1.19%) OpenShift
18 20 (1.13%) PowerApps
19 19 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 120 (6.80%) Firewall
2 103 (5.84%) Network Security
3 73 (4.14%) DNS
4 57 (3.23%) VPN
5 52 (2.95%) WAN
6 38 (2.15%) TCP/IP
7 37 (2.10%) DHCP
8 32 (1.81%) Wireless
9 29 (1.64%) LAN
10 25 (1.42%) SSL
11 23 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (1.13%) BGP
13 17 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
13 17 (0.96%) SD-WAN
14 16 (0.91%) OSPF
15 14 (0.79%) SNMP
16 12 (0.68%) SSH
16 12 (0.68%) VLAN
17 11 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (4.99%) Power BI
2 57 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.04%) Metadata
4 31 (1.76%) Oracle Database
5 15 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.62%) Db2
9 11 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (0.62%) Tableau
10 9 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.34%) DataStage
12 6 (0.34%) GIS
12 6 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.28%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 178 (10.09%) JIRA
2 60 (3.40%) Git
3 45 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) GitLab
4 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.34%) Selenium
8 5 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.11%) Hudson
11 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 702 (39.80%) Social Skills
2 664 (37.64%) Finance
3 318 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (11.11%) Banking
5 142 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 89 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
7 82 (4.65%) Legal
7 82 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
8 70 (3.97%) Retail
9 67 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
10 63 (3.57%) Manufacturing
11 52 (2.95%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.49%) Marketing
13 42 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (2.21%) Law
15 31 (1.76%) Local Government
16 30 (1.70%) Aerospace
17 27 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (1.47%) Front Office
19 22 (1.25%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 214 (12.13%) Lead
2 198 (11.22%) Project Manager
3 193 (10.94%) Analyst
4 142 (8.05%) Senior
5 126 (7.14%) Change Manager
6 106 (6.01%) Business Analyst
6 106 (6.01%) Consultant
7 64 (3.63%) Senior Manager
8 52 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
9 51 (2.89%) Network Engineer
10 48 (2.72%) IT Manager
11 47 (2.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 47 (2.66%) Developer
12 46 (2.61%) Programme Manager
13 44 (2.49%) Administrator
14 41 (2.32%) Business Manager
15 37 (2.10%) Service Manager
16 36 (2.04%) Business Change Manager
16 36 (2.04%) Security Engineer
17 32 (1.81%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (6.01%) Terraform
2 50 (2.83%) REST
3 35 (1.98%) .NET
4 28 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
5 26 (1.47%) HTML
6 24 (1.36%) Kafka
7 22 (1.25%) CSS
8 20 (1.13%) Middleware
9 17 (0.96%) Ajax
10 16 (0.91%) OAuth
10 16 (0.91%) SOAP
11 14 (0.79%) 802.1X
11 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (0.74%) Web Services
13 12 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (0.62%) JSON
14 11 (0.62%) XML
15 10 (0.57%) .NET Framework
16 9 (0.51%) LDAP
16 9 (0.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 120 (6.80%) Onboarding
2 88 (4.99%) Management Information System
3 79 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 68 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.61%) Cloud Native
5 46 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (2.10%) PKI
6 37 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 36 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 35 (1.98%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.87%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.47%) Operational Technology
12 25 (1.42%) CMDB
13 24 (1.36%) PMI
14 23 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
15 22 (1.25%) AI Agents
16 19 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
16 19 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
16 19 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 205 (11.62%) Windows
2 106 (6.01%) Linux
3 92 (5.22%) Windows Server
4 49 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (2.15%) Unix
6 24 (1.36%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.74%) Solaris
7 13 (0.74%) VMS
8 11 (0.62%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.45%) AIX
10 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.34%) SUSE
11 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.34%) zOS
12 5 (0.28%) HPUX
13 4 (0.23%) Android
14 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.17%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 712 (40.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 478 (27.10%) Agile
3 419 (23.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 415 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 348 (19.73%) ITIL
6 316 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
7 297 (16.84%) Project Management
8 282 (15.99%) Project Delivery
9 256 (14.51%) Roadmaps
10 249 (14.12%) Migration
11 225 (12.76%) Decision-Making
12 214 (12.13%) Service Management
13 210 (11.90%) DevOps
14 195 (11.05%) AI
15 185 (10.49%) PRINCE2
16 184 (10.43%) ITSM
17 170 (9.64%) ERP
18 166 (9.41%) Analytics
19 161 (9.13%) Process Improvement
20 149 (8.45%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 160 (9.07%) Python
2 146 (8.28%) SQL
3 139 (7.88%) PowerShell
4 69 (3.91%) Bash
5 48 (2.72%) PL/SQL
6 46 (2.61%) Java
7 43 (2.44%) JavaScript
8 34 (1.93%) C#
9 26 (1.47%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.42%) Bicep
11 15 (0.85%) Korn
11 15 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.68%) Groovy
13 9 (0.51%) JCL
14 8 (0.45%) Go
15 7 (0.40%) COBOL
15 7 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.34%) VBScript
17 4 (0.23%) Perl
18 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 378 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 277 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 221 (12.53%) Degree
4 150 (8.50%) PMP
5 137 (7.77%) PMI Certification
6 84 (4.76%) DV Cleared
7 53 (3.00%) CISSP
8 49 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.10%) Azure Certification
10 33 (1.87%) CCNP
11 28 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.42%) CISM
13 24 (1.36%) APMG
13 24 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (1.30%) AWS Certification
15 22 (1.25%) ACCA
15 22 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 21 (1.19%) CIMA
16 21 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (4.88%) Data Quality
1 86 (4.88%) PMO
2 85 (4.82%) QA
3 73 (4.14%) SLA
4 52 (2.95%) GDPR
5 44 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.76%) NIST
7 30 (1.70%) GRC
8 17 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 16 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.68%) ITGC
12 11 (0.62%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.45%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.45%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.40%) GMP
15 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.34%) COBIT
15 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.34%) IFRS
System Software
1 122 (6.92%) Active Directory
2 95 (5.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.49%) Docker
4 27 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (1.25%) VMware NSX
6 18 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.79%) vCloud
8 14 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.68%) vSphere
10 9 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.23%) Firmware
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.17%) RACF
12 3 (0.17%) Squid
13 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.11%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) Postfix
13 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 72 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.68%) Ansible
3 39 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (2.10%) vCenter Server
5 30 (1.70%) SCOM
6 27 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.42%) Grafana
8 24 (1.36%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.25%) SCCM
10 15 (0.85%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.68%) Avamar
12 10 (0.57%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.45%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
14 7 (0.40%) vRealize
14 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.34%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
16 5 (0.28%) CASB
Vendors
1 342 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 182 (10.32%) ServiceNow
3 161 (9.13%) Oracle
4 121 (6.86%) SAP
5 116 (6.58%) VMware
6 79 (4.48%) Cisco
7 66 (3.74%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.66%) Google
9 41 (2.32%) Splunk
10 37 (2.10%) IBM
11 34 (1.93%) Red Hat
11 34 (1.93%) Zscaler
12 26 (1.47%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.36%) CheckPoint
13 24 (1.36%) Citrix
13 24 (1.36%) F5
14 23 (1.30%) Remedy
15 22 (1.25%) Juniper
16 20 (1.13%) Workday
17 19 (1.08%) Thales