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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 52 48
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -6
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,746 1,277 1,326
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.75% 4.56% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 5.01% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 790 711
10th Percentile £373 £331 £320
25th Percentile £440 £404 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £728 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 57 40
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.29 £26.42
25th Percentile £28.11 £22.63 £35.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -48.43% +19.45%
75th Percentile £75.30 £58.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £32.05 £56.75
% change year-on-year +71.61% -43.52% +17.24%

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 39,417 25,490 28,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.96% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,890 16,169 17,141
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -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 2,936 1,564 1,197
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.44 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.59 £17.87 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.27
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.49% -0.55%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -6 833 £550 - 1,201
North of England -11 316 £500 +10.19% 304
South East +1 274 £550 +12.24% 383
North West -15 178 £475 +5.56% 170
Yorkshire -8 126 £500 +9.59% 100
Midlands -73 106 £480 +1.05% 190
South West -32 89 £544 +4.82% 182
West Midlands -66 79 £500 +5.26% 112
East of England +6 77 £505 -6.14% 137
East Midlands -28 27 £416 -6.52% 78
North East -35 12 £413 -8.33% 35
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 93 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 78 (4.47%) Confluence
3 28 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.92%) IIS
5 10 (0.57%) CICS
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.34%) Appian
7 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
10 3 (0.17%) nginx
10 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 65 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.46%) Windchill
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.23%) InDesign
7 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) Houdini
9 2 (0.11%) NUKE
9 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.057%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 58 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.52%) Maximo
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.52%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
7 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
8 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.29%) iTrent
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 262 (15.01%) Azure
2 136 (7.79%) AWS
3 120 (6.87%) Power Platform
4 105 (6.01%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (5.15%) Entra ID
6 71 (4.07%) GCP
7 54 (3.09%) SaaS
8 48 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (2.69%) GitHub
10 44 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
11 42 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 26 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
14 25 (1.43%) OCI
14 25 (1.43%) Serverless
15 24 (1.37%) Power Automate
16 20 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (1.15%) Google Workspace
16 20 (1.15%) OpenShift
17 19 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.41%) Firewall
2 100 (5.73%) Network Security
3 79 (4.52%) DNS
4 53 (3.04%) VPN
5 49 (2.81%) WAN
6 43 (2.46%) TCP/IP
7 41 (2.35%) DHCP
8 30 (1.72%) Wireless
9 27 (1.55%) LAN
10 25 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (1.09%) SAN
12 18 (1.03%) BGP
12 18 (1.03%) SSL
13 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (0.86%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.80%) OSPF
15 14 (0.80%) SNMP
16 12 (0.69%) SSH
16 12 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.15%) Power BI
2 57 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 35 (2.00%) Metadata
4 29 (1.66%) Oracle Database
5 15 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.86%) Db2
5 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.57%) Tableau
9 9 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.46%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.40%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.34%) DataStage
12 6 (0.34%) GIS
12 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 154 (8.82%) JIRA
2 57 (3.26%) Git
3 44 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.57%) GitLab
5 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.17%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.17%) InstallShield
9 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.11%) Postman
10 2 (0.11%) Snyk
10 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 712 (40.78%) Social Skills
2 641 (36.71%) Finance
3 303 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (11.00%) Banking
5 139 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 95 (5.44%) Influencing Skills
7 85 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
8 82 (4.70%) Legal
9 70 (4.01%) Manufacturing
10 68 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
11 62 (3.55%) Retail
12 54 (3.09%) Telecoms
13 47 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (2.18%) Law
15 37 (2.12%) Aerospace
15 37 (2.12%) Marketing
16 32 (1.83%) Local Government
17 28 (1.60%) Aviation
18 26 (1.49%) Front Office
18 26 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 205 (11.74%) Lead
2 199 (11.40%) Project Manager
3 194 (11.11%) Analyst
4 145 (8.30%) Senior
5 131 (7.50%) Change Manager
6 105 (6.01%) Business Analyst
7 104 (5.96%) Consultant
8 61 (3.49%) Senior Manager
9 53 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
10 51 (2.92%) IT Manager
11 48 (2.75%) Programme Manager
12 47 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
13 45 (2.58%) Network Engineer
14 43 (2.46%) Business Manager
15 42 (2.41%) Developer
16 40 (2.29%) Administrator
17 37 (2.12%) Security Engineer
18 36 (2.06%) Business Change Manager
19 35 (2.00%) Architect
19 35 (2.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (5.96%) Terraform
2 45 (2.58%) REST
3 30 (1.72%) .NET
3 30 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 26 (1.49%) Kafka
5 24 (1.37%) HTML
6 21 (1.20%) Middleware
7 20 (1.15%) CSS
8 17 (0.97%) Ajax
8 17 (0.97%) SOAP
9 14 (0.80%) 802.1X
9 14 (0.80%) Web Services
10 13 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (0.74%) OAuth
11 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (0.63%) XML
13 10 (0.57%) JSON
14 9 (0.52%) .NET Framework
14 9 (0.52%) RESTful
15 7 (0.40%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 128 (7.33%) Onboarding
2 93 (5.33%) Management Information System
3 81 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 75 (4.30%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.58%) Cloud Native
5 45 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (2.18%) PKI
8 35 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 35 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.72%) CMDB
10 30 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 25 (1.43%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.43%) Virtual Team
12 22 (1.26%) PMI
13 20 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
13 20 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.15%) Mainframe
13 20 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 215 (12.31%) Windows
2 113 (6.47%) Linux
3 97 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 53 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (2.29%) Unix
6 23 (1.32%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.97%) Solaris
8 11 (0.63%) AIX
8 11 (0.63%) VMS
9 10 (0.57%) zOS
10 9 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.46%) SUSE
11 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.29%) HPUX
15 4 (0.23%) Android
15 4 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (42.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 460 (26.35%) Agile
3 422 (24.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 421 (24.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 337 (19.30%) ITIL
6 312 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
7 286 (16.38%) Project Management
8 284 (16.27%) Project Delivery
9 270 (15.46%) Roadmaps
10 247 (14.15%) Migration
11 221 (12.66%) Decision-Making
12 213 (12.20%) Service Management
13 202 (11.57%) AI
14 199 (11.40%) DevOps
15 190 (10.88%) PRINCE2
16 177 (10.14%) ITSM
17 167 (9.56%) ERP
18 164 (9.39%) Analytics
19 158 (9.05%) Process Improvement
19 158 (9.05%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (8.93%) Python
2 140 (8.02%) PowerShell
3 131 (7.50%) SQL
4 72 (4.12%) Bash
5 42 (2.41%) Java
6 38 (2.18%) JavaScript
7 37 (2.12%) PL/SQL
8 30 (1.72%) C#
9 25 (1.43%) Bicep
10 23 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.74%) JCL
12 13 (0.74%) Korn
13 11 (0.63%) Go
14 9 (0.52%) Groovy
14 9 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
15 8 (0.46%) COBOL
16 6 (0.34%) VBScript
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
18 2 (0.11%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 377 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 272 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 227 (13.00%) Degree
4 146 (8.36%) PMP
5 138 (7.90%) PMI Certification
6 84 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.35%) CISSP
8 38 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.12%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (1.55%) APMG
11 27 (1.55%) CCNP
12 26 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (1.32%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (1.09%) ACCA
14 19 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (1.03%) CIMA
16 15 (0.86%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 87 (4.98%) QA
3 74 (4.24%) PMO
4 69 (3.95%) SLA
5 40 (2.29%) GDPR
6 34 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.78%) GRC
8 21 (1.20%) NIST
9 16 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.69%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.57%) ITGC
13 9 (0.52%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.46%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.40%) GMP
16 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.34%) IFRS
17 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 116 (6.64%) Active Directory
2 101 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.52%) Docker
4 26 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (1.43%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.03%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.80%) vCloud
9 13 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
10 10 (0.57%) vSphere
11 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.29%) 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%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 76 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 61 (3.49%) Ansible
3 36 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (1.95%) vCenter Server
5 31 (1.78%) SCOM
6 27 (1.55%) Grafana
7 26 (1.49%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 21 (1.20%) SCCM
10 16 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.69%) Avamar
12 9 (0.52%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.34%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.29%) Control-M
16 5 (0.29%) NetBackup
16 5 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 353 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 170 (9.74%) ServiceNow
3 149 (8.53%) Oracle
4 126 (7.22%) SAP
5 121 (6.93%) VMware
6 72 (4.12%) Cisco
7 56 (3.21%) Salesforce
8 45 (2.58%) Google
9 43 (2.46%) Splunk
10 38 (2.18%) IBM
11 36 (2.06%) Red Hat
12 35 (2.00%) Zscaler
13 26 (1.49%) Citrix
14 24 (1.37%) Palo Alto
15 22 (1.26%) F5
16 21 (1.20%) Juniper
16 21 (1.20%) Remedy
17 20 (1.15%) Dell
17 20 (1.15%) Workday
18 19 (1.09%) Thales