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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 47 44
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,489 1,103 1,607
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.31% 4.27% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 4.75% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 641 1,015
10th Percentile £313 £338 £359
25th Percentile £406 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £638 £650
90th Percentile £691 £713 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 26 57
10th Percentile £20.79 £27.80 £17.16
25th Percentile £22.68 £32.57 £28.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -19.17%
75th Percentile £56.69 £69.69 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.51 £76.25 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -12.00%

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 30,243 23,214 32,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.45% 89.92% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,352 14,394 21,863
10th Percentile £311 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,888 728 2,002
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.32
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £61.04
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.33 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -21 612 £523 -0.48% 166
North of England -6 291 £451 -10.78% 88
Midlands +10 243 £500 - 76
South East +3 185 £475 -9.52% 135
North West +9 179 £402 -14.92% 51
West Midlands +4 164 £500 - 56
South West +11 115 £525 -4.55% 38
Yorkshire -10 107 £487 -11.45% 27
East Midlands +23 79 £435 +11.25% 20
East of England -38 39 £500 +0.10% 40
North East -23 5 £475 -17.39% 12
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
1 114 (7.66%) Confluence
2 75 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.60%) Appian
5 6 (0.40%) Mattermost
5 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.34%) HCL Notes
6 5 (0.34%) SAS
7 4 (0.27%) CMS
7 4 (0.27%) IIS
7 4 (0.27%) nginx
8 3 (0.20%) Moodle
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.13%) JBoss
9 2 (0.13%) Mule
10 1 (0.067%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) Traefik
Applications
1 84 (5.64%) Microsoft Project
2 72 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 40 (2.69%) MS Visio
5 28 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.34%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.34%) Trello
7 4 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.27%) Windchill
8 1 (0.067%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.067%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.067%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 57 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.34%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.27%) Finacle
8 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.20%) iTrent
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.13%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 221 (14.84%) Azure
2 140 (9.40%) AWS
3 104 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
4 96 (6.45%) GCP
5 82 (5.51%) Power Platform
6 46 (3.09%) Entra ID
7 44 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.55%) SaaS
9 25 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.68%) Serverless
10 24 (1.61%) Power Automate
11 21 (1.41%) AWS KMS
11 21 (1.41%) Google Workspace
12 19 (1.28%) Google Sheets
12 19 (1.28%) PaaS
13 18 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (1.21%) OpenShift
14 17 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (1.07%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.07%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 83 (5.57%) Firewall
2 60 (4.03%) DNS
3 57 (3.83%) Network Security
4 42 (2.82%) VPN
5 39 (2.62%) WAN
6 29 (1.95%) LAN
7 24 (1.61%) DHCP
8 22 (1.48%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (1.14%) SD-WAN
10 17 (1.14%) SSL
11 13 (0.87%) BGP
11 13 (0.87%) Kerberos
11 13 (0.87%) SSH
12 12 (0.81%) HTTP
12 12 (0.81%) SAN
13 11 (0.74%) OSPF
14 10 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (0.67%) Internet
14 10 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.43%) Power BI
2 46 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.48%) Metadata
5 21 (1.41%) Tableau
6 17 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.07%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (0.81%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.54%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.54%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.47%) MySQL
13 6 (0.40%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.40%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (0.34%) Big Data
15 3 (0.20%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 176 (11.82%) JIRA
2 54 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 31 (2.08%) Git
4 26 (1.75%) GitLab
5 25 (1.68%) Liquibase
6 12 (0.81%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.54%) MLflow
8 6 (0.40%) Vagrant
9 5 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.27%) MSI
11 3 (0.20%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.20%) JUnit
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.13%) AdminStudio
12 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.13%) git-flow
12 2 (0.13%) Mockito
13 1 (0.067%) Browser DevTools
13 1 (0.067%) GoCD
13 1 (0.067%) TestRail
General
1 701 (47.08%) Social Skills
2 502 (33.71%) Finance
3 286 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 146 (9.81%) Banking
6 65 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
7 54 (3.63%) Legal
8 52 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 50 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
10 46 (3.09%) Manufacturing
11 37 (2.48%) Telecoms
12 36 (2.42%) Local Government
12 36 (2.42%) Retail
13 34 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (2.15%) Financial Institution
14 32 (2.15%) Marketing
15 25 (1.68%) Law
16 21 (1.41%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.07%) Retail Banking
18 14 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 211 (14.17%) Analyst
2 182 (12.22%) Project Manager
3 168 (11.28%) Lead
4 120 (8.06%) Change Manager
5 117 (7.86%) Business Analyst
6 104 (6.98%) Senior
7 87 (5.84%) Consultant
8 52 (3.49%) Architect
9 49 (3.29%) Programme Manager
10 45 (3.02%) Business Manager
10 45 (3.02%) Developer
11 39 (2.62%) Administrator
12 38 (2.55%) Senior Manager
13 35 (2.35%) IT Manager
14 33 (2.22%) SAP Manager
15 32 (2.15%) Business Change Manager
15 32 (2.15%) Service Manager
16 27 (1.81%) Delivery Manager
17 26 (1.75%) Transformation Manager
18 25 (1.68%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.83%) REST
2 38 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (1.88%) .NET
3 28 (1.88%) RESTful
4 26 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 22 (1.48%) OAuth
6 19 (1.28%) .NET Framework
6 19 (1.28%) SAML
7 17 (1.14%) LDAP
8 15 (1.01%) Middleware
9 14 (0.94%) OpenID
10 12 (0.81%) Web Services
11 11 (0.74%) HTML
12 10 (0.67%) ISPF
13 9 (0.60%) CSS
13 9 (0.60%) Django
13 9 (0.60%) NumPy
13 9 (0.60%) Pandas
13 9 (0.60%) pytest
13 9 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.78%) Management Information System
2 81 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 70 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 42 (2.82%) Cloud Native
6 40 (2.69%) CMDB
7 36 (2.42%) Virtual Team
8 35 (2.35%) PKI
9 33 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.88%) PMI
11 27 (1.81%) Public Cloud
12 24 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.48%) Data Structures
15 20 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
17 15 (1.01%) e-Learning
17 15 (1.01%) Replication
18 13 (0.87%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 146 (9.81%) Windows
2 77 (5.17%) Linux
3 44 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.42%) Unix
5 34 (2.28%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.60%) VMS
6 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.27%) CentOS
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.13%) AIX
11 2 (0.13%) Android
12 1 (0.067%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.067%) Debian
12 1 (0.067%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.067%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (32.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 391 (26.26%) Agile
3 368 (24.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 328 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
5 293 (19.68%) ITIL
6 281 (18.87%) Project Management
7 260 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 240 (16.12%) Migration
9 196 (13.16%) DevOps
10 167 (11.22%) Project Delivery
11 146 (9.81%) Service Management
12 145 (9.74%) ITSM
13 138 (9.27%) ERP
14 134 (9.00%) PRINCE2
15 130 (8.73%) Decision-Making
16 127 (8.53%) Risk Management
17 121 (8.13%) Workshop Facilitation
18 119 (7.99%) CI/CD
18 119 (7.99%) Roadmaps
19 116 (7.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 147 (9.87%) SQL
2 143 (9.60%) Python
3 103 (6.92%) PowerShell
4 38 (2.55%) Bash
5 32 (2.15%) C#
6 25 (1.68%) Go
7 22 (1.48%) Java
8 20 (1.34%) PL/SQL
9 18 (1.21%) JavaScript
10 15 (1.01%) T-SQL
11 13 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.74%) Groovy
13 10 (0.67%) CLIST
13 10 (0.67%) COBOL
13 10 (0.67%) JCL
13 10 (0.67%) REXX
14 6 (0.40%) Perl
15 5 (0.34%) Korn
16 4 (0.27%) TypeScript
17 3 (0.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 293 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 274 (18.40%) Degree
3 207 (13.90%) SC Cleared
4 93 (6.25%) PMI Certification
5 83 (5.57%) PMP
6 61 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 46 (3.09%) DV Cleared
9 38 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.61%) CISSP
10 24 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 22 (1.48%) APMG
11 22 (1.48%) CISM
11 22 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
12 19 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.07%) Azure Certification
14 14 (0.94%) CCNP
15 13 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 13 (0.87%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.58%) QA
2 61 (4.10%) PMO
3 57 (3.83%) GDPR
4 56 (3.76%) Data Quality
5 40 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (2.55%) SLA
7 17 (1.14%) IFRS
8 15 (1.01%) IFRS 17
8 15 (1.01%) NIST
9 13 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.81%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.67%) Basel III
11 10 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.54%) MiFID
12 8 (0.54%) NCSC
13 6 (0.40%) GRC
14 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.34%) EMIR
14 5 (0.34%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 103 (6.92%) Active Directory
2 70 (4.70%) Docker
3 32 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.67%) ACF2
5 10 (0.67%) RACF
5 10 (0.67%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.54%) Firmware
8 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.40%) DFS Replication
9 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.34%) KVM
10 5 (0.34%) vSphere
10 5 (0.34%) XenApp
10 5 (0.34%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.27%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.27%) Postfix
11 4 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 82 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 69 (4.63%) Terraform
3 60 (4.03%) Ansible
4 38 (2.55%) Grafana
5 36 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 31 (2.08%) SCCM
7 29 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.14%) Puppet
9 14 (0.94%) Kibana
10 13 (0.87%) SCOM
10 13 (0.87%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.67%) CA Endevor
12 9 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.60%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (0.40%) HP SiteScope
13 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.34%) SCVMM
15 4 (0.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 273 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 133 (8.93%) ServiceNow
3 129 (8.66%) SAP
4 106 (7.12%) Oracle
5 69 (4.63%) Google
6 59 (3.96%) Salesforce
7 51 (3.43%) Cisco
8 50 (3.36%) VMware
9 46 (3.09%) Splunk
10 35 (2.35%) Citrix
11 26 (1.75%) Workday
12 21 (1.41%) F5
13 19 (1.28%) Atlassian
13 19 (1.28%) Remedy
14 17 (1.14%) Juniper
15 16 (1.07%) CheckPoint
16 15 (1.01%) Fortinet
17 14 (0.94%) Adobe
18 13 (0.87%) Palo Alto
18 13 (0.87%) Sage