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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 47 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,448 1,213 1,712
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.62% 4.21% 4.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 4.75% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 688 1,080
10th Percentile £314 £334 £369
25th Percentile £405 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £696 £727 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 19 36
10th Percentile £20.79 £24.83 £20.16
25th Percentile £22.39 £29.38 £25.19
Median hourly rate £37.28 £54.00 £45.87
Median % change year-on-year -30.96% +17.74% +50.38%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.38 £55.32
90th Percentile £64.20 £83.00 £61.56
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £54.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -44.44% +24.62% +34.36%

All Process and 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 27,831 25,521 32,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.70% 88.62% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,689 15,759 22,371
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 840 1,378
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.88 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -11 599 £525 -4.55% 149
North of England -11 275 £455 -12.97% 102
Midlands +16 219 £475 -6.17% 81
South East +10 186 £484 -7.90% 146
North West +4 178 £438 -12.50% 55
West Midlands +5 153 £475 -7.32% 47
South West +20 118 £525 +0.96% 47
Yorkshire -20 95 £495 -10.00% 38
East Midlands +26 66 £431 - 34
East of England -20 45 £500 +5.26% 32
North East -20 2 £500 -13.04% 11
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
1 126 (8.70%) Confluence
2 84 (5.80%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.76%) nginx
5 9 (0.62%) HCL Notes
6 7 (0.48%) CMS
7 6 (0.41%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.41%) Mule
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.35%) IIS
8 5 (0.35%) JBoss
9 4 (0.28%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) Moodle
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.069%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.069%) Appian
12 1 (0.069%) FileNet
12 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.069%) Traefik
Applications
1 94 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (5.39%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (2.69%) MS Visio
5 32 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.48%) Trello
8 5 (0.35%) Windchill
9 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.14%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.069%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.069%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.069%) Notion
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 39 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.55%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.35%) Maximo
8 5 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.21%) ResourceLink
10 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 181 (12.50%) Azure
2 144 (9.94%) AWS
3 100 (6.91%) GCP
4 98 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
5 85 (5.87%) Power Platform
6 39 (2.69%) SaaS
7 37 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 31 (2.14%) Serverless
10 29 (2.00%) AWS KMS
11 26 (1.80%) Amazon S3
12 23 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
13 21 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (1.38%) GitHub
15 19 (1.31%) Amazon ELB
15 19 (1.31%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.17%) OpenShift
16 17 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (6.63%) Firewall
2 77 (5.32%) DNS
3 60 (4.14%) Network Security
4 43 (2.97%) VPN
5 37 (2.56%) WAN
6 31 (2.14%) SSH
7 24 (1.66%) HTTP
7 24 (1.66%) SSL
8 22 (1.52%) DHCP
9 21 (1.45%) LAN
9 21 (1.45%) SMTP
10 18 (1.24%) FTP
11 17 (1.17%) Wireless
12 16 (1.10%) TCP/IP
13 15 (1.04%) IPsec
13 15 (1.04%) SD-WAN
14 14 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.90%) BGP
16 12 (0.83%) OSPF
17 11 (0.76%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.90%) Power BI
2 35 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (2.07%) SQL Server
4 28 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (1.66%) NoSQL
5 24 (1.66%) Tableau
6 22 (1.52%) Metadata
7 19 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
8 15 (1.04%) Oracle Database
9 13 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (0.69%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.48%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.41%) MySQL
13 6 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.35%) Big Data
14 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.28%) Redis
16 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 188 (12.98%) JIRA
2 76 (5.25%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.56%) Git
4 29 (2.00%) GitLab
4 29 (2.00%) Liquibase
5 19 (1.31%) Vagrant
6 12 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.28%) ChangeMan
9 4 (0.28%) MSI
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.21%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.21%) JUnit
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.21%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.14%) AdminStudio
11 2 (0.14%) Mockito
General
1 639 (44.13%) Social Skills
2 456 (31.49%) Finance
3 255 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (10.29%) Banking
5 136 (9.39%) Public Sector
6 66 (4.56%) Influencing Skills
7 58 (4.01%) Manufacturing
8 44 (3.04%) Telecoms
9 42 (2.90%) Legal
9 42 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (2.62%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
11 37 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.21%) Marketing
12 32 (2.21%) Retail
13 27 (1.86%) Law
14 26 (1.80%) Local Government
15 17 (1.17%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
16 16 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 211 (14.57%) Analyst
2 178 (12.29%) Project Manager
3 149 (10.29%) Lead
4 121 (8.36%) Change Manager
5 110 (7.60%) Business Analyst
6 87 (6.01%) Senior
7 75 (5.18%) Consultant
8 56 (3.87%) Administrator
9 49 (3.38%) Developer
10 45 (3.11%) Architect
11 40 (2.76%) IT Manager
12 38 (2.62%) Business Manager
12 38 (2.62%) DevOps Engineer
12 38 (2.62%) Programme Manager
12 38 (2.62%) Senior Manager
13 35 (2.42%) AWS Engineer
13 35 (2.42%) Service Manager
14 29 (2.00%) Service Analyst
15 28 (1.93%) Business Change Manager
15 28 (1.93%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.38%) REST
2 42 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (1.86%) RESTful
4 22 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (1.45%) .NET
6 17 (1.17%) LDAP
6 17 (1.17%) SAML
7 12 (0.83%) OAuth
8 11 (0.76%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.76%) HTML
8 11 (0.76%) OpenID
9 10 (0.69%) Middleware
10 9 (0.62%) .NET Framework
11 8 (0.55%) ISPF
11 8 (0.55%) Kafka
11 8 (0.55%) SOAP
12 7 (0.48%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.48%) CSS
12 7 (0.48%) XML
13 5 (0.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.66%) Onboarding
2 73 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 50 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.18%) Data Centre
5 44 (3.04%) Cloud Native
6 43 (2.97%) Virtual Team
7 38 (2.62%) PKI
8 35 (2.42%) CMDB
9 31 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (2.00%) Replication
11 28 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.86%) Public Cloud
13 25 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (1.52%) Life Science
16 18 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
17 16 (1.10%) PMI
18 15 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
19 13 (0.90%) e-Learning
19 13 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.36%) Windows
2 87 (6.01%) Linux
3 41 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.49%) Unix
5 23 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.52%) VMS
7 19 (1.31%) Amazon Linux
8 12 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.28%) zOS
11 3 (0.21%) CentOS
11 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.14%) AIX
12 2 (0.14%) Android
13 1 (0.069%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.069%) Solaris
13 1 (0.069%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (27.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 383 (26.45%) Agile
3 317 (21.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 303 (20.93%) Project Management
5 300 (20.72%) ITIL
6 288 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
7 216 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 202 (13.95%) DevOps
9 198 (13.67%) Migration
10 190 (13.12%) Project Delivery
11 160 (11.05%) Service Management
12 134 (9.25%) ITSM
13 131 (9.05%) PRINCE2
14 123 (8.49%) Roadmaps
15 122 (8.43%) Decision-Making
16 119 (8.22%) CI/CD
17 110 (7.60%) ERP
18 107 (7.39%) Service Delivery
19 105 (7.25%) Risk Management
20 103 (7.11%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 148 (10.22%) Python
2 123 (8.49%) SQL
3 96 (6.63%) PowerShell
4 38 (2.62%) Java
5 31 (2.14%) Go
6 29 (2.00%) Bash
6 29 (2.00%) C#
7 24 (1.66%) Groovy
8 20 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 16 (1.10%) PL/SQL
10 14 (0.97%) Perl
11 10 (0.69%) COBOL
11 10 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.55%) CLIST
12 8 (0.55%) JCL
12 8 (0.55%) REXX
13 7 (0.48%) Korn
14 4 (0.28%) C++
14 4 (0.28%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 292 (20.17%) Security Cleared
2 264 (18.23%) Degree
3 204 (14.09%) SC Cleared
4 84 (5.80%) PMI Certification
5 76 (5.25%) PMP
6 65 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (3.04%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 37 (2.56%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 22 (1.52%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (1.31%) APMG
14 15 (1.04%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.04%) CISM
14 15 (1.04%) CISSP
15 14 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.90%) CCNP
17 11 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.46%) QA
2 72 (4.97%) PMO
3 48 (3.31%) GDPR
4 39 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.69%) SLA
5 27 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.97%) NIST
6 14 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.62%) NCSC
7 9 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.55%) MiFID
9 5 (0.35%) Basel III
9 5 (0.35%) EMIR
9 5 (0.35%) IFRS
9 5 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.28%) GMP
11 3 (0.21%) ITGC
System Software
1 96 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 69 (4.77%) Docker
3 22 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.24%) DFS Replication
5 13 (0.90%) Firmware
6 11 (0.76%) Dovecot
6 11 (0.76%) Postfix
6 11 (0.76%) Squid
7 10 (0.69%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.55%) ACF2
9 8 (0.55%) RACF
9 8 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
10 7 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.14%) NFS
13 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.069%) Snort
14 1 (0.069%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 83 (5.73%) Terraform
2 71 (4.90%) Kubernetes
3 55 (3.80%) Ansible
4 53 (3.66%) Grafana
5 52 (3.59%) Prometheus
6 31 (2.14%) SCCM
7 24 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.90%) Kibana
9 12 (0.83%) CA Endevor
9 12 (0.83%) Nessus
9 12 (0.83%) Puppet
9 12 (0.83%) SCOM
10 10 (0.69%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.62%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.48%) Tivoli
12 7 (0.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (0.41%) HP SiteScope
14 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 287 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 132 (9.12%) ServiceNow
3 130 (8.98%) SAP
4 95 (6.56%) Oracle
5 63 (4.35%) Google
6 54 (3.73%) Cisco
7 51 (3.52%) Salesforce
8 49 (3.38%) Splunk
9 37 (2.56%) VMware
10 30 (2.07%) F5
11 26 (1.80%) Juniper
12 25 (1.73%) Workday
13 23 (1.59%) Atlassian
14 22 (1.52%) CheckPoint
14 22 (1.52%) Remedy
15 18 (1.24%) IBM
16 17 (1.17%) Fortinet
17 14 (0.97%) Citrix
18 13 (0.90%) Blue Coat
19 12 (0.83%) CyberArk