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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 51 45
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,589 1,045 1,442
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.81% 4.37% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 4.78% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 665 908
10th Percentile £350 £334 £312
25th Percentile £415 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £634 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 29 68
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.92 £15.53
25th Percentile £22.63 £32.05 £31.30
Median hourly rate £34.87 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.26% - -4.43%
75th Percentile £63.94 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £86.63 £70.50 £69.65
UK median hourly rate £34.87 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.43% +8.00% -3.50%

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 35,462 21,869 31,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.04% 91.35% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,467 14,201 20,640
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,230 965 2,327
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.91 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.85 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.27% -23.70% +1.39%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -3 707 £525 -4.55% 316
North of England -17 284 £475 +5.56% 107
South East -3 204 £550 +12.24% 150
Midlands +5 203 £505 +5.10% 86
North West -4 168 £447 +2.17% 52
West Midlands -16 133 £514 +5.93% 56
Yorkshire -32 106 £500 +11.11% 44
South West -7 97 £525 +7.14% 53
East of England -7 81 £488 -2.50% 40
East Midlands +21 68 £475 +30.85% 30
North East -21 10 £425 -22.73% 13
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 (5.85%) Confluence
2 80 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.94%) IIS
5 14 (0.88%) SAS
6 13 (0.82%) Appian
7 8 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.19%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) CICS
11 2 (0.13%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.13%) Kentico
11 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.063%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.063%) MTS
12 1 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.063%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 63 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (3.34%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 27 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (1.51%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 65 (4.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.69%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.38%) Finacle
9 6 (0.38%) Primavera
9 6 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.38%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.31%) Maximo
11 3 (0.19%) OpenText MBPM
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
11 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
12 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
12 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 242 (15.23%) Azure
2 126 (7.93%) AWS
3 99 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 68 (4.28%) Entra ID
5 68 (4.28%) SaaS
6 58 (3.65%) GCP
7 54 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (2.20%) Google Workspace
9 34 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.70%) Power Automate
11 21 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (1.26%) Google Sheets
12 20 (1.26%) OCI
12 20 (1.26%) PaaS
12 20 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (1.20%) GitHub
14 17 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (1.07%) PowerApps
15 16 (1.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 82 (5.16%) Firewall
2 59 (3.71%) Network Security
3 45 (2.83%) DNS
3 45 (2.83%) WAN
4 37 (2.33%) VPN
5 36 (2.27%) LAN
6 24 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (1.38%) SD-WAN
8 18 (1.13%) BGP
8 18 (1.13%) DHCP
8 18 (1.13%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.07%) SAN
9 17 (1.07%) SSL
10 16 (1.01%) OSPF
11 14 (0.88%) Wireless
12 13 (0.82%) MPLS
13 11 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.63%) Internet
14 10 (0.63%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (4.09%) Power BI
2 53 (3.34%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (1.38%) Metadata
4 21 (1.32%) Oracle Database
5 18 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
6 13 (0.82%) Tableau
7 11 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.50%) Pinecone
11 6 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.25%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.25%) Oracle BI EE
13 4 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.25%) Pentaho
13 4 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 202 (12.71%) JIRA
2 46 (2.89%) Git
3 42 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.57%) GitLab
5 9 (0.57%) MLflow
6 7 (0.44%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.44%) InstallShield
7 4 (0.25%) Hudson
7 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.25%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.25%) Maven
8 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.19%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (0.19%) Snyk
8 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.13%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.13%) git-flow
9 2 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 616 (38.77%) Social Skills
2 557 (35.05%) Finance
3 250 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 128 (8.06%) Banking
6 81 (5.10%) Legal
7 77 (4.85%) Retail
8 58 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
9 57 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
10 48 (3.02%) Marketing
11 39 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (2.33%) Law
12 37 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (2.14%) Manufacturing
14 31 (1.95%) Local Government
15 27 (1.70%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.38%) Aviation
17 20 (1.26%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 15 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 186 (11.71%) Project Manager
2 167 (10.51%) Lead
3 145 (9.13%) Analyst
4 140 (8.81%) Change Manager
5 118 (7.43%) Senior
6 105 (6.61%) Consultant
7 92 (5.79%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.78%) Programme Manager
9 58 (3.65%) Administrator
10 51 (3.21%) Developer
11 48 (3.02%) Senior Manager
12 44 (2.77%) Architect
13 42 (2.64%) Business Manager
14 38 (2.39%) Support Engineer
15 37 (2.33%) Delivery Manager
16 36 (2.27%) Business Change Manager
17 35 (2.20%) IT Manager
18 31 (1.95%) Service Manager
19 29 (1.83%) Security Manager
20 26 (1.64%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.27%) REST
2 33 (2.08%) .NET
3 29 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.45%) OAuth
5 22 (1.38%) CSS
5 22 (1.38%) Middleware
6 21 (1.32%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.20%) HTML
8 16 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (1.01%) Web Services
9 13 (0.82%) LDAP
10 12 (0.76%) RESTful
11 11 (0.69%) React
12 10 (0.63%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.63%) Pandas
13 9 (0.57%) Django
13 9 (0.57%) NumPy
13 9 (0.57%) pytest
13 9 (0.57%) scikit-learn
14 8 (0.50%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 79 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 75 (4.72%) Product Ownership
3 68 (4.28%) Data Centre
4 61 (3.84%) Onboarding
5 48 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.64%) Cloud Native
7 35 (2.20%) PMI
8 30 (1.89%) CMDB
9 25 (1.57%) Data Structures
9 25 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.38%) PKI
11 22 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.26%) Operational Technology
12 20 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.13%) Low-Code
14 17 (1.07%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (0.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 179 (11.26%) Windows
2 80 (5.03%) Linux
3 63 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 34 (2.14%) Unix
5 25 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.57%) Solaris
8 8 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.31%) AIX
10 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.31%) SUSE
10 5 (0.31%) VMS
11 4 (0.25%) HPUX
12 2 (0.13%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.13%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (32.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 381 (23.98%) Agile
3 371 (23.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 321 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 312 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
6 280 (17.62%) ITIL
7 273 (17.18%) Project Management
8 259 (16.30%) Migration
9 206 (12.96%) DevOps
10 186 (11.71%) Project Delivery
11 185 (11.64%) ERP
12 178 (11.20%) Roadmaps
13 157 (9.88%) Decision-Making
14 154 (9.69%) Risk Management
15 138 (8.68%) Validation
16 135 (8.50%) CI/CD
16 135 (8.50%) ITSM
17 130 (8.18%) AI
18 120 (7.55%) User Acceptance Testing
18 120 (7.55%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 165 (10.38%) SQL
2 106 (6.67%) Python
3 96 (6.04%) PowerShell
4 45 (2.83%) C#
5 44 (2.77%) Bash
6 43 (2.71%) PL/SQL
7 35 (2.20%) Java
8 34 (2.14%) JavaScript
9 24 (1.51%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.63%) Groovy
11 9 (0.57%) Korn
12 8 (0.50%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.38%) COBOL
13 6 (0.38%) JCL
14 5 (0.31%) Go
15 4 (0.25%) Perl
15 4 (0.25%) REXX
16 3 (0.19%) ABAP
16 3 (0.19%) C++
16 3 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 324 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 224 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 203 (12.78%) Degree
4 113 (7.11%) PMP
5 102 (6.42%) PMI Certification
6 56 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 53 (3.34%) CISSP
8 38 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 37 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (2.14%) CISM
11 31 (1.95%) Master's Degree
12 26 (1.64%) APMG
13 25 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
14 24 (1.51%) CCNP
15 23 (1.45%) Azure Certification
16 21 (1.32%) ACCA
16 21 (1.32%) CIMA
17 13 (0.82%) AWS Certification
17 13 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.92%) QA
2 79 (4.97%) GDPR
3 75 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 75 (4.72%) PMO
4 65 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (3.84%) SLA
6 43 (2.71%) NIST
7 23 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.32%) SOC 2
9 18 (1.13%) PCI DSS
10 17 (1.07%) GRC
11 15 (0.94%) IFRS
12 13 (0.82%) IFRS 17
13 8 (0.50%) Basel III
13 8 (0.50%) ITGC
14 7 (0.44%) COBIT
15 6 (0.38%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 114 (7.17%) Active Directory
2 60 (3.78%) Docker
3 56 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.88%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.50%) vSphere
10 7 (0.44%) vCloud
11 6 (0.38%) KVM
12 5 (0.31%) Firmware
13 4 (0.25%) XenApp
13 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.13%) ACF2
15 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.13%) NFS
15 2 (0.13%) RACF
15 2 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 74 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 70 (4.41%) Terraform
3 53 (3.34%) Ansible
4 32 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (1.51%) Grafana
5 24 (1.51%) SCCM
5 24 (1.51%) vCenter Server
6 23 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.13%) SCOM
9 11 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.57%) Puppet
11 7 (0.44%) Avamar
11 7 (0.44%) PowerCLI
12 6 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.38%) CASB
12 6 (0.38%) Cisco Prime
12 6 (0.38%) Kibana
12 6 (0.38%) vRealize
13 5 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 263 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 166 (10.45%) ServiceNow
3 152 (9.57%) Oracle
4 148 (9.31%) SAP
5 78 (4.91%) VMware
6 64 (4.03%) Salesforce
7 60 (3.78%) Google
8 45 (2.83%) Cisco
9 33 (2.08%) Citrix
9 33 (2.08%) Splunk
10 26 (1.64%) IFS
11 22 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 22 (1.38%) Workday
12 20 (1.26%) IBM
13 19 (1.20%) Remedy
14 18 (1.13%) CheckPoint
14 18 (1.13%) Dynatrace
15 15 (0.94%) F5
15 15 (0.94%) Palo Alto
16 14 (0.88%) OpenAI