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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 52 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,709 1,190 1,444
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.81% 4.40% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.85% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 740 886
10th Percentile £363 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £625
90th Percentile £707 £729 £717
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £504
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 52 69
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.63 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £27.36 £30.41
Median hourly rate £36.36 £37.28 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -25.44% +2.05%
75th Percentile £74.26 £69.06 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.00 £70.16 £67.78
UK median hourly rate £37.43 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.15% - +2.67%

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 38,339 24,527 31,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.54% 90.74% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,173 15,771 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.48% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,262 2,268
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.21 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -2 784 £525 -4.55% 319
North of England -20 301 £475 +5.56% 122
South East +2 251 £575 +17.59% 159
Midlands -16 174 £514 +8.16% 60
North West -12 172 £453 +2.95% 79
West Midlands -33 126 £515 +8.42% 40
Yorkshire -21 112 £500 +8.11% 33
South West -11 94 £519 +5.87% 115
East of England -12 78 £475 -6.77% 31
East Midlands +15 46 £500 +39.66% 20
North East -22 17 £425 -15.00% 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 94 (5.50%) Confluence
2 85 (4.97%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.99%) IIS
5 14 (0.82%) SAS
6 11 (0.64%) Appian
7 10 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.47%) CMS
9 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.29%) Camunda
11 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.18%) Kentico
13 2 (0.12%) CICS
13 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
14 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.059%) Oracle Spatial
14 1 (0.059%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 61 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.35%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.059%) Houdini
9 1 (0.059%) InDesign
9 1 (0.059%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.059%) NUKE
9 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.059%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 67 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.47%) Maximo
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.41%) Primavera
6 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
7 6 (0.35%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.29%) ContrOCC
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 244 (14.28%) Azure
2 130 (7.61%) AWS
3 97 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (5.27%) Power Platform
5 81 (4.74%) Entra ID
6 73 (4.27%) SaaS
7 61 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (3.04%) GCP
9 32 (1.87%) Google Workspace
10 31 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (1.58%) GitHub
12 25 (1.46%) OCI
13 23 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
13 23 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 19 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (1.05%) PaaS
17 18 (1.05%) Serverless
18 17 (0.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.20%) Firewall
2 78 (4.56%) Network Security
3 50 (2.93%) WAN
4 47 (2.75%) DNS
5 43 (2.52%) VPN
6 36 (2.11%) LAN
7 25 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (1.46%) Wireless
8 24 (1.40%) BGP
8 24 (1.40%) SD-WAN
9 21 (1.23%) OSPF
10 19 (1.11%) TCP/IP
11 18 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
11 18 (1.05%) DHCP
12 17 (0.99%) SSL
13 15 (0.88%) MPLS
14 14 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (0.70%) Internet
17 11 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.10%) Power BI
2 51 (2.98%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.76%) Metadata
4 27 (1.58%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.53%) Tableau
11 6 (0.35%) Db2
12 5 (0.29%) Data Mart
12 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.29%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 210 (12.29%) JIRA
2 60 (3.51%) Git
3 51 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.64%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.59%) GitLab
6 7 (0.41%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.41%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.29%) MLflow
8 5 (0.29%) Selenium
9 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.23%) Hudson
9 4 (0.23%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.23%) Liquibase
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
10 3 (0.18%) Snyk
10 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 647 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 633 (37.04%) Finance
3 282 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 145 (8.48%) Banking
6 93 (5.44%) Legal
7 83 (4.86%) Retail
8 72 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
9 71 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (3.16%) Marketing
11 48 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (2.52%) Manufacturing
14 41 (2.40%) Law
15 40 (2.34%) Telecoms
16 37 (2.17%) Local Government
17 26 (1.52%) Aviation
18 24 (1.40%) Financial Institution
19 18 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 15 (0.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 195 (11.41%) Project Manager
2 181 (10.59%) Lead
3 165 (9.65%) Analyst
4 138 (8.07%) Change Manager
5 122 (7.14%) Senior
6 110 (6.44%) Consultant
7 97 (5.68%) Business Analyst
8 61 (3.57%) Programme Manager
9 56 (3.28%) Administrator
9 56 (3.28%) Senior Manager
10 48 (2.81%) Developer
11 46 (2.69%) Business Manager
12 45 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
12 45 (2.63%) IT Manager
13 42 (2.46%) Network Engineer
13 42 (2.46%) Support Engineer
14 39 (2.28%) Service Manager
15 37 (2.17%) Architect
15 37 (2.17%) Business Change Manager
16 32 (1.87%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.34%) REST
2 36 (2.11%) .NET
3 35 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.29%) CSS
4 22 (1.29%) HTML
5 20 (1.17%) OAuth
6 19 (1.11%) .NET Framework
7 17 (0.99%) Middleware
8 14 (0.82%) LDAP
8 14 (0.82%) Web Services
9 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
9 13 (0.76%) RESTful
10 12 (0.70%) Ajax
10 12 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (0.64%) React
11 11 (0.64%) SOAP
12 10 (0.59%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.53%) JSON
13 9 (0.53%) OAuth2
13 9 (0.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.74%) Management Information System
2 75 (4.39%) Data Centre
3 67 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 63 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 48 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 47 (2.75%) Cloud Native
7 32 (1.87%) PMI
8 30 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.70%) CMDB
10 28 (1.64%) Operational Technology
11 26 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.23%) PKI
14 21 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 20 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (1.11%) Public Cloud
17 15 (0.88%) AI Agents
17 15 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 172 (10.06%) Windows
2 87 (5.09%) Linux
3 62 (3.63%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (2.11%) Unix
6 18 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.59%) Solaris
7 10 (0.59%) VMS
8 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.35%) AIX
9 6 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.35%) SUSE
9 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.29%) HPUX
10 5 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.18%) Android
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (34.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 436 (25.51%) Agile
3 407 (23.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 371 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 334 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
6 313 (18.31%) ITIL
7 298 (17.44%) Project Management
8 268 (15.68%) Migration
9 229 (13.40%) DevOps
10 228 (13.34%) Project Delivery
11 199 (11.64%) Roadmaps
12 195 (11.41%) Decision-Making
13 187 (10.94%) ERP
14 167 (9.77%) AI
14 167 (9.77%) Risk Management
15 157 (9.19%) ITSM
16 156 (9.13%) Service Management
17 146 (8.54%) CI/CD
18 141 (8.25%) PRINCE2
19 137 (8.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 156 (9.13%) SQL
2 123 (7.20%) Python
3 110 (6.44%) PowerShell
4 47 (2.75%) C#
5 45 (2.63%) PL/SQL
6 43 (2.52%) Bash
7 40 (2.34%) Java
8 38 (2.22%) JavaScript
9 23 (1.35%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.64%) Korn
11 10 (0.59%) Groovy
11 10 (0.59%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.47%) Go
13 7 (0.41%) Bicep
13 7 (0.41%) COBOL
14 6 (0.35%) JCL
15 5 (0.29%) Perl
16 4 (0.23%) ABAP
16 4 (0.23%) REXX
17 3 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 342 (20.01%) Security Cleared
2 247 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 196 (11.47%) Degree
4 134 (7.84%) PMP
5 122 (7.14%) PMI Certification
6 57 (3.34%) DV Cleared
7 54 (3.16%) CISSP
8 49 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.93%) CCNP
10 33 (1.93%) CISM
11 28 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (1.40%) APMG
12 24 (1.40%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.29%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.23%) ACCA
14 21 (1.23%) CIMA
15 20 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
16 19 (1.11%) CCNA
17 15 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (5.38%) QA
2 82 (4.80%) PMO
2 82 (4.80%) SLA
3 81 (4.74%) GDPR
4 71 (4.15%) Data Quality
5 67 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.52%) NIST
7 25 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 24 (1.40%) GRC
9 23 (1.35%) SOC 2
10 21 (1.23%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.59%) IFRS
11 10 (0.59%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.53%) ITGC
13 8 (0.47%) IFRS 17
14 7 (0.41%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.41%) COBIT
15 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.29%) GMP
System Software
1 116 (6.79%) Active Directory
2 60 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (2.69%) Docker
4 21 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.53%) vSphere
8 8 (0.47%) vCloud
9 6 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.23%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.12%) ACF2
12 2 (0.12%) RACF
12 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.059%) Firmware
13 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.059%) NFS
13 1 (0.059%) Squid
Systems Management
1 84 (4.92%) Terraform
2 66 (3.86%) Kubernetes
3 59 (3.45%) Ansible
4 27 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.46%) vCenter Server
6 22 (1.29%) Grafana
7 21 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.17%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.17%) SCOM
9 15 (0.88%) SCCM
10 12 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.53%) Avamar
12 8 (0.47%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.41%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.41%) PowerCLI
13 7 (0.41%) vRealize
14 6 (0.35%) Argo
14 6 (0.35%) CASB
14 6 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 282 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 190 (11.12%) ServiceNow
3 164 (9.60%) Oracle
4 150 (8.78%) SAP
5 77 (4.51%) VMware
6 66 (3.86%) Salesforce
7 62 (3.63%) Cisco
8 54 (3.16%) Google
9 32 (1.87%) Citrix
10 31 (1.81%) Splunk
11 27 (1.58%) IBM
12 25 (1.46%) IFS
12 25 (1.46%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.35%) CheckPoint
14 19 (1.11%) F5
14 19 (1.11%) Juniper
14 19 (1.11%) Workday
15 18 (1.05%) Remedy
16 17 (0.99%) Fortinet
16 17 (0.99%) Palo Alto