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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 49 49
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,749 1,280 1,304
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 4.62% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 5.09% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 798 787
10th Percentile £375 £329 £317
25th Percentile £431 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £620
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 56 49
10th Percentile £19.36 £20.61 £19.70
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £30.41
Median hourly rate £41.71 £30.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +39.03% -48.32% +19.93%
75th Percentile £74.69 £58.25 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.92 £70.08 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £37.28 £56.25
% change year-on-year +11.88% -33.72% +16.22%

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 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -2 843 £538 -2.27% 977
North of England -25 284 £500 +11.11% 264
South East +5 273 £575 +20.73% 253
North West -17 169 £484 +7.62% 169
Midlands -39 136 £506 +6.53% 123
West Midlands -42 104 £520 +9.47% 82
Yorkshire -30 100 £500 +11.11% 75
South West -20 95 £525 +4.74% 124
East of England 0 80 £488 -7.14% 85
East Midlands -5 30 £445 +23.61% 41
North East -29 15 £425 -15.00% 26
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 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 86 (4.92%) Confluence
3 30 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.97%) IIS
5 11 (0.63%) SAS
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.34%) Appian
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.29%) 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%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 66 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.40%) 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 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.80%) 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 (0.29%) 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 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
12 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 278 (15.89%) Azure
2 143 (8.18%) AWS
3 112 (6.40%) Power Platform
4 109 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
5 97 (5.55%) Entra ID
6 73 (4.17%) SaaS
7 64 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (3.60%) GCP
9 43 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (2.17%) GitHub
11 29 (1.66%) OCI
12 28 (1.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 28 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
13 23 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (1.32%) Power Automate
13 23 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (1.26%) Google Workspace
15 20 (1.14%) Serverless
16 19 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 115 (6.58%) Firewall
2 97 (5.55%) Network Security
3 62 (3.54%) DNS
4 56 (3.20%) VPN
5 55 (3.14%) WAN
6 36 (2.06%) LAN
7 32 (1.83%) DHCP
7 32 (1.83%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.60%) Wireless
9 27 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.37%) SD-WAN
11 23 (1.32%) BGP
12 21 (1.20%) OSPF
12 21 (1.20%) SSL
13 19 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (0.80%) MPLS
16 13 (0.74%) HTTP
17 12 (0.69%) Internet
17 12 (0.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (5.09%) Power BI
2 52 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.60%) Oracle Database
4 27 (1.54%) Metadata
5 19 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (0.63%) Tableau
10 10 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.51%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.40%) Db2
13 6 (0.34%) GIS
13 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
14 5 (0.29%) MySQL
14 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 201 (11.49%) JIRA
2 61 (3.49%) Git
3 49 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.46%) GitLab
6 7 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.40%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.34%) Selenium
7 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.23%) Hudson
9 4 (0.23%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
General
1 659 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 643 (36.76%) Finance
3 299 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (9.61%) Banking
5 160 (9.15%) Public Sector
6 87 (4.97%) Legal
7 84 (4.80%) Retail
8 78 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
9 67 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
10 60 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
11 52 (2.97%) Telecoms
12 49 (2.80%) Marketing
13 46 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (2.52%) Manufacturing
15 40 (2.29%) Law
16 35 (2.00%) Local Government
17 30 (1.72%) Aviation
18 23 (1.32%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 19 (1.09%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 206 (11.78%) Lead
2 199 (11.38%) Project Manager
3 177 (10.12%) Analyst
4 136 (7.78%) Senior
5 132 (7.55%) Change Manager
6 115 (6.58%) Consultant
7 102 (5.83%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.43%) Senior Manager
9 56 (3.20%) Administrator
10 54 (3.09%) Network Engineer
11 51 (2.92%) Programme Manager
12 47 (2.69%) Developer
13 44 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
14 43 (2.46%) Cloud Engineer
14 43 (2.46%) IT Manager
15 41 (2.34%) Business Manager
16 40 (2.29%) Support Engineer
17 38 (2.17%) Service Manager
18 34 (1.94%) Business Change Manager
18 34 (1.94%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.20%) REST
2 35 (2.00%) .NET
2 35 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 24 (1.37%) CSS
3 24 (1.37%) HTML
4 16 (0.91%) Ajax
4 16 (0.91%) Middleware
5 15 (0.86%) SOAP
6 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
6 13 (0.74%) OAuth
6 13 (0.74%) Web Services
7 12 (0.69%) .NET Framework
7 12 (0.69%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (0.57%) AngularJS
9 10 (0.57%) Kafka
10 9 (0.51%) Spring
11 8 (0.46%) Jakarta EE
11 8 (0.46%) React
11 8 (0.46%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.55%) Onboarding
2 86 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 75 (4.29%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 49 (2.80%) Cloud Native
6 47 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.83%) PKI
8 32 (1.83%) Security Posture
9 30 (1.72%) PMI
10 28 (1.60%) CMDB
11 27 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.49%) Operational Technology
12 26 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 22 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
15 20 (1.14%) Public Cloud
16 19 (1.09%) AI Agents
17 17 (0.97%) Data Structures
17 17 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 204 (11.66%) Windows
2 95 (5.43%) Linux
3 79 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.89%) Unix
6 20 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) Solaris
7 10 (0.57%) VMS
8 9 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.34%) AIX
11 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.34%) SUSE
12 5 (0.29%) HPUX
12 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.11%) Android
14 2 (0.11%) OpenVMS
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 614 (35.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 455 (26.01%) Agile
3 410 (23.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 400 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 338 (19.33%) ITIL
6 316 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
7 299 (17.10%) Project Management
8 267 (15.27%) Migration
9 261 (14.92%) Project Delivery
10 230 (13.15%) DevOps
11 220 (12.58%) Roadmaps
12 206 (11.78%) Decision-Making
13 195 (11.15%) Service Management
14 185 (10.58%) AI
14 185 (10.58%) ERP
15 182 (10.41%) ITSM
16 156 (8.92%) PRINCE2
17 155 (8.86%) Analytics
18 150 (8.58%) Risk Management
19 142 (8.12%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 141 (8.06%) SQL
2 139 (7.95%) Python
3 123 (7.03%) PowerShell
4 60 (3.43%) Bash
5 44 (2.52%) PL/SQL
6 43 (2.46%) C#
6 43 (2.46%) JavaScript
7 41 (2.34%) Java
8 23 (1.32%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.09%) Bicep
10 13 (0.74%) Korn
11 9 (0.51%) Go
11 9 (0.51%) Groovy
12 7 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.29%) COBOL
13 5 (0.29%) VBScript
14 4 (0.23%) JCL
14 4 (0.23%) Perl
15 3 (0.17%) ABAP
15 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 373 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 268 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 199 (11.38%) Degree
4 145 (8.29%) PMP
5 133 (7.60%) PMI Certification
6 72 (4.12%) DV Cleared
7 61 (3.49%) CISSP
8 52 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (2.17%) CISM
10 34 (1.94%) CCNP
11 28 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.54%) APMG
12 27 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 27 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
13 24 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.20%) CCNA
14 21 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 19 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (1.03%) ACCA
16 18 (1.03%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (4.86%) SLA
2 84 (4.80%) PMO
3 83 (4.75%) QA
4 76 (4.35%) Data Quality
5 74 (4.23%) GDPR
6 62 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (2.52%) NIST
8 27 (1.54%) GRC
9 26 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (1.32%) SOC 2
11 19 (1.09%) 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
16 5 (0.29%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
17 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
17 4 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 127 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 73 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (2.46%) Docker
4 24 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.03%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.80%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.63%) vCloud
10 8 (0.46%) vSphere
11 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.11%) KVM
14 1 (0.057%) Ceph
14 1 (0.057%) Firmware
14 1 (0.057%) NFS
14 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.057%) Squid
Systems Management
1 105 (6.00%) Terraform
2 66 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 58 (3.32%) Ansible
4 39 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.83%) vCenter Server
6 26 (1.49%) SCOM
7 24 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.26%) Grafana
9 21 (1.20%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.91%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.86%) SCCM
12 12 (0.69%) 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
1 333 (19.04%) Microsoft
2 208 (11.89%) ServiceNow
3 160 (9.15%) Oracle
4 142 (8.12%) SAP
5 96 (5.49%) VMware
6 78 (4.46%) Cisco
7 67 (3.83%) Salesforce
8 49 (2.80%) Google
9 33 (1.89%) Splunk
10 31 (1.77%) IBM
11 30 (1.72%) Red Hat
12 27 (1.54%) Zscaler
13 26 (1.49%) Citrix
14 25 (1.43%) IFS
15 24 (1.37%) Remedy
16 23 (1.32%) CheckPoint
16 23 (1.32%) Juniper
17 21 (1.20%) F5
18 19 (1.09%) Workday
19 18 (1.03%) Palo Alto