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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 50 51
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,746 1,262 1,297
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.79% 4.58% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 5.04% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 768 707
10th Percentile £375 £342 £313
25th Percentile £439 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £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 40
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.86 £26.42
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.63 £36.46
Median hourly rate £54.00 £30.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -48.54% +20.45%
75th Percentile £75.74 £58.26 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £32.05 £56.75
% change year-on-year +65.37% -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 38,989 25,060 28,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.56% 90.87% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,802 15,892 17,554
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 £627 £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 2,803 1,513 1,284
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.71 £66.61
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% +0.58%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -2 840 £548 -0.45% 1,131
North of England -17 313 £500 +8.70% 275
South East +4 275 £564 +15.15% 310
North West -14 181 £475 +3.26% 176
Yorkshire -14 119 £500 +11.11% 78
Midlands -71 109 £480 +1.05% 159
South West -31 85 £550 +7.32% 179
West Midlands -69 82 £500 +5.26% 90
East of England -8 69 £505 -4.81% 120
East Midlands -23 27 £416 -4.91% 69
North East -29 13 £433 -3.89% 27
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 96 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 84 (4.81%) Confluence
3 30 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.86%) IIS
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.40%) CICS
8 6 (0.34%) Appian
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.17%) Kentico
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 65 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.46%) Windchill
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) Houdini
9 2 (0.11%) InDesign
9 2 (0.11%) NUKE
9 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.057%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 59 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.80%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.52%) Maximo
5 9 (0.52%) Teamcenter
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
8 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.29%) iTrent
9 5 (0.29%) Primavera
9 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 268 (15.35%) Azure
2 138 (7.90%) AWS
3 113 (6.47%) Power Platform
4 107 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
5 94 (5.38%) Entra ID
6 71 (4.07%) GCP
7 58 (3.32%) SaaS
8 52 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (2.52%) GitHub
10 38 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
11 36 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 26 (1.49%) OCI
14 25 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (1.32%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.32%) Serverless
16 22 (1.26%) Google Workspace
17 21 (1.20%) OpenShift
18 19 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 116 (6.64%) Firewall
2 104 (5.96%) Network Security
3 76 (4.35%) DNS
4 55 (3.15%) VPN
5 50 (2.86%) WAN
6 40 (2.29%) DHCP
7 39 (2.23%) TCP/IP
8 32 (1.83%) Wireless
9 27 (1.55%) LAN
10 23 (1.32%) SSL
10 23 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (1.03%) BGP
12 16 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
13 15 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
13 15 (0.86%) SD-WAN
14 14 (0.80%) OSPF
14 14 (0.80%) SNMP
15 13 (0.74%) SAN
16 12 (0.69%) SSH
17 11 (0.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.93%) Power BI
2 56 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 37 (2.12%) Metadata
4 31 (1.78%) Oracle Database
5 15 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.63%) Db2
9 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.57%) Tableau
10 9 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.34%) DataStage
13 6 (0.34%) GIS
13 6 (0.34%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 173 (9.91%) JIRA
2 59 (3.38%) Git
3 46 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.52%) GitLab
4 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
7 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.17%) InstallShield
9 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 698 (39.98%) Social Skills
2 648 (37.11%) Finance
3 314 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (11.11%) Banking
5 139 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 91 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
7 82 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
8 80 (4.58%) Legal
9 69 (3.95%) Retail
10 67 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
11 65 (3.72%) Manufacturing
12 53 (3.04%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.41%) Marketing
13 42 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (2.23%) Law
15 31 (1.78%) Local Government
16 30 (1.72%) Aerospace
17 27 (1.55%) Front Office
17 27 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 210 (12.03%) Lead
2 199 (11.40%) Project Manager
3 190 (10.88%) Analyst
4 144 (8.25%) Senior
5 125 (7.16%) Change Manager
6 106 (6.07%) Consultant
7 104 (5.96%) Business Analyst
8 63 (3.61%) Senior Manager
9 52 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
10 50 (2.86%) IT Manager
11 48 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (2.75%) Programme Manager
12 47 (2.69%) Network Engineer
13 45 (2.58%) Developer
14 42 (2.41%) Administrator
14 42 (2.41%) Business Manager
15 38 (2.18%) Service Manager
16 36 (2.06%) Business Change Manager
16 36 (2.06%) Security Engineer
17 34 (1.95%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (6.07%) Terraform
2 49 (2.81%) REST
3 32 (1.83%) .NET
4 25 (1.43%) HTML
4 25 (1.43%) Kafka
4 25 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (1.20%) CSS
6 19 (1.09%) Middleware
7 17 (0.97%) Ajax
8 16 (0.92%) OAuth
8 16 (0.92%) SOAP
9 14 (0.80%) 802.1X
10 13 (0.74%) Web Services
11 12 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (0.63%) JSON
12 11 (0.63%) XML
13 10 (0.57%) .NET Framework
14 9 (0.52%) LDAP
14 9 (0.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 127 (7.27%) Onboarding
2 88 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 76 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.78%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.23%) PKI
8 36 (2.06%) Security Posture
8 36 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.78%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.60%) Operational Technology
13 25 (1.43%) CMDB
14 23 (1.32%) AI Agents
14 23 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
14 23 (1.32%) PMI
15 20 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
16 19 (1.09%) Public Cloud
17 18 (1.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 206 (11.80%) Windows
2 110 (6.30%) Linux
3 94 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 52 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (2.29%) Unix
6 22 (1.26%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.86%) Solaris
8 13 (0.74%) VMS
9 11 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.57%) AIX
11 7 (0.40%) SUSE
11 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.40%) zOS
12 6 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.29%) HPUX
14 4 (0.23%) Android
15 3 (0.17%) MVS
15 3 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 464 (26.58%) Agile
3 415 (23.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 406 (23.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 347 (19.87%) ITIL
6 319 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
7 297 (17.01%) Project Management
8 278 (15.92%) Project Delivery
9 257 (14.72%) Roadmaps
10 251 (14.38%) Migration
11 226 (12.94%) Decision-Making
12 216 (12.37%) Service Management
13 209 (11.97%) DevOps
14 192 (11.00%) AI
15 185 (10.60%) ITSM
15 185 (10.60%) PRINCE2
16 167 (9.56%) ERP
17 164 (9.39%) Analytics
18 163 (9.34%) Process Improvement
19 152 (8.71%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (9.22%) Python
2 140 (8.02%) SQL
3 137 (7.85%) PowerShell
4 72 (4.12%) Bash
5 46 (2.63%) Java
6 43 (2.46%) PL/SQL
7 42 (2.41%) JavaScript
8 31 (1.78%) C#
9 25 (1.43%) Bicep
10 24 (1.37%) T-SQL
11 17 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.80%) Korn
13 12 (0.69%) Groovy
14 10 (0.57%) Go
14 10 (0.57%) JCL
15 9 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
16 8 (0.46%) COBOL
17 6 (0.34%) VBScript
18 3 (0.17%) Perl
18 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 371 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 271 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 221 (12.66%) Degree
4 148 (8.48%) PMP
5 136 (7.79%) PMI Certification
6 84 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 46 (2.63%) CISSP
8 41 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.12%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.72%) CCNP
11 29 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 26 (1.49%) APMG
13 25 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 23 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 22 (1.26%) AWS Certification
16 21 (1.20%) ACCA
16 21 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (1.15%) CIMA
18 19 (1.09%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (4.98%) Data Quality
1 87 (4.98%) QA
2 79 (4.52%) PMO
3 71 (4.07%) SLA
4 51 (2.92%) GDPR
5 41 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.72%) GRC
7 28 (1.60%) NIST
8 16 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.86%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
10 11 (0.63%) ITGC
11 8 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.46%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.40%) GMP
13 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.34%) IFRS
14 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 119 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 94 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.52%) Docker
4 26 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.20%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.92%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.80%) vCloud
8 14 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.69%) vSphere
10 9 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.23%) Firmware
11 4 (0.23%) RACF
12 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.17%) Squid
12 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.11%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 75 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.72%) Ansible
3 37 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (2.12%) vCenter Server
4 31 (1.78%) SCOM
5 27 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.43%) Grafana
7 24 (1.37%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.15%) SCCM
9 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.69%) Avamar
11 10 (0.57%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.34%) Argo
15 5 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
15 5 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 329 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 180 (10.31%) ServiceNow
3 152 (8.71%) Oracle
4 120 (6.87%) SAP
5 115 (6.59%) VMware
6 76 (4.35%) Cisco
7 59 (3.38%) Salesforce
8 49 (2.81%) Google
9 44 (2.52%) Splunk
10 38 (2.18%) IBM
11 35 (2.00%) Red Hat
11 35 (2.00%) Zscaler
12 24 (1.37%) Citrix
12 24 (1.37%) Palo Alto
13 23 (1.32%) F5
13 23 (1.32%) Remedy
14 22 (1.26%) Juniper
15 21 (1.20%) CheckPoint
16 20 (1.15%) Dell
17 19 (1.09%) Workday