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

 6 months to
30 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 50 49
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,749 1,271 1,308
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.76% 4.58% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 5.03% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 782 701
10th Percentile £371 £330 £316
25th Percentile £435 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £737 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 57 40
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.29 £26.42
25th Percentile £26.25 £22.63 £35.44
Median hourly rate £54.00 £30.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -48.43% +20.19%
75th Percentile £76.75 £58.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £34.67 £56.75
% change year-on-year +52.89% -38.91% +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 39,415 25,251 27,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.00% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,982 16,042 16,911
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £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 2,873 1,537 1,195
10th Percentile £13.88 £14.39 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £47.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -5 839 £550 - 918
North of England -13 314 £500 +8.11% 255
South East +2 277 £550 +12.76% 265
North West -12 175 £475 +3.26% 148
Yorkshire -10 128 £500 +9.59% 81
Midlands -68 109 £492 +3.58% 156
South West -35 86 £563 +7.14% 126
West Midlands -70 81 £513 +7.89% 91
East of England -1 70 £509 -7.45% 104
East Midlands -26 28 £430 -3.91% 65
North East -30 11 £413 -8.33% 27
Change Management
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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 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 80 (4.57%) Confluence
3 30 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) IIS
5 10 (0.57%) CICS
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.34%) Appian
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.23%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
Applications
1 66 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.46%) Windchill
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.23%) InDesign
7 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) Houdini
9 2 (0.11%) NUKE
9 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.057%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 57 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.51%) Maximo
6 9 (0.51%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
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%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.23%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 261 (14.92%) Azure
2 140 (8.00%) AWS
3 115 (6.58%) Power Platform
4 107 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (5.15%) Entra ID
6 71 (4.06%) GCP
7 58 (3.32%) SaaS
8 47 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (2.52%) GitHub
10 40 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 25 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (1.43%) OCI
13 24 (1.37%) Power Automate
13 24 (1.37%) Serverless
14 22 (1.26%) Google Workspace
15 21 (1.20%) OpenShift
16 19 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (1.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 113 (6.46%) Firewall
2 99 (5.66%) Network Security
3 78 (4.46%) DNS
4 55 (3.14%) VPN
5 51 (2.92%) WAN
6 42 (2.40%) DHCP
7 41 (2.34%) TCP/IP
8 30 (1.72%) Wireless
9 28 (1.60%) LAN
10 24 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (1.09%) SSL
12 18 (1.03%) BGP
13 16 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (0.86%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.80%) OSPF
15 14 (0.80%) SNMP
16 13 (0.74%) SAN
17 12 (0.69%) SSH
17 12 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.92%) Power BI
2 55 (3.14%) SQL Server
3 35 (2.00%) Metadata
4 30 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 15 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 14 (0.80%) Db2
7 13 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.63%) Tableau
10 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.40%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.40%) NoSQL
14 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.34%) DataStage
14 6 (0.34%) GIS
14 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 160 (9.15%) JIRA
2 56 (3.20%) Git
3 44 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.57%) GitLab
5 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.17%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.17%) InstallShield
9 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.11%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.11%) Postman
10 2 (0.11%) Snyk
General
1 710 (40.59%) Social Skills
2 649 (37.11%) Finance
3 307 (17.55%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (11.15%) Banking
5 138 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 94 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
7 84 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
8 82 (4.69%) Legal
9 70 (4.00%) Manufacturing
10 68 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
11 65 (3.72%) Retail
12 56 (3.20%) Telecoms
13 47 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (2.29%) Marketing
15 38 (2.17%) Law
16 34 (1.94%) Aerospace
17 32 (1.83%) Local Government
18 28 (1.60%) Aviation
19 27 (1.54%) Front Office
20 25 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 206 (11.78%) Lead
2 202 (11.55%) Project Manager
3 193 (11.03%) Analyst
4 146 (8.35%) Senior
5 128 (7.32%) Change Manager
6 106 (6.06%) Consultant
7 105 (6.00%) Business Analyst
8 61 (3.49%) Senior Manager
9 52 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
10 51 (2.92%) IT Manager
11 48 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (2.74%) Programme Manager
12 47 (2.69%) Network Engineer
13 44 (2.52%) Developer
14 42 (2.40%) Business Manager
15 40 (2.29%) Administrator
16 37 (2.12%) Security Engineer
17 36 (2.06%) Business Change Manager
17 36 (2.06%) Service Manager
18 35 (2.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (5.89%) Terraform
2 46 (2.63%) REST
3 32 (1.83%) .NET
4 27 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.43%) Kafka
6 24 (1.37%) HTML
7 23 (1.32%) Middleware
8 20 (1.14%) CSS
9 17 (0.97%) Ajax
9 17 (0.97%) SOAP
10 14 (0.80%) 802.1X
10 14 (0.80%) OAuth
10 14 (0.80%) Web Services
11 13 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (0.63%) XML
14 10 (0.57%) .NET Framework
14 10 (0.57%) JSON
15 9 (0.51%) RESTful
16 7 (0.40%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 127 (7.26%) Onboarding
2 90 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 79 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.23%) PKI
8 38 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (2.06%) Security Posture
10 34 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
11 31 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.66%) Operational Technology
13 26 (1.49%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.43%) AI Agents
14 25 (1.43%) CMDB
15 24 (1.37%) PMI
16 21 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
16 21 (1.20%) Mainframe
17 20 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
17 20 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 212 (12.12%) Windows
2 113 (6.46%) Linux
3 94 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 53 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (2.23%) Unix
6 23 (1.32%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.97%) Solaris
8 11 (0.63%) AIX
8 11 (0.63%) VMS
9 10 (0.57%) zOS
10 9 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.40%) SUSE
12 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.29%) HPUX
15 4 (0.23%) Android
15 4 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 735 (42.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 461 (26.36%) Agile
3 422 (24.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 410 (23.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 338 (19.33%) ITIL
6 317 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
7 298 (17.04%) Project Management
8 291 (16.64%) Project Delivery
9 270 (15.44%) Roadmaps
10 251 (14.35%) Migration
11 220 (12.58%) Decision-Making
12 214 (12.24%) Service Management
13 201 (11.49%) AI
14 200 (11.44%) DevOps
15 190 (10.86%) PRINCE2
16 179 (10.23%) ITSM
17 170 (9.72%) ERP
18 165 (9.43%) Analytics
19 163 (9.32%) Process Improvement
20 160 (9.15%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 157 (8.98%) Python
2 136 (7.78%) PowerShell
3 133 (7.60%) SQL
4 70 (4.00%) Bash
5 43 (2.46%) Java
6 39 (2.23%) PL/SQL
7 38 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 30 (1.72%) C#
9 25 (1.43%) Bicep
10 23 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 17 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.74%) JCL
12 13 (0.74%) Korn
13 11 (0.63%) Go
14 9 (0.51%) Groovy
14 9 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
15 8 (0.46%) COBOL
16 6 (0.34%) VBScript
17 3 (0.17%) Perl
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 370 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 266 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 224 (12.81%) Degree
4 148 (8.46%) PMP
5 139 (7.95%) PMI Certification
6 83 (4.75%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.34%) CISSP
8 38 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.12%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (1.54%) CCNP
12 26 (1.49%) APMG
12 26 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (1.32%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 21 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
16 19 (1.09%) ACCA
17 18 (1.03%) CIMA
18 15 (0.86%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.15%) Data Quality
2 89 (5.09%) QA
3 76 (4.35%) PMO
4 71 (4.06%) SLA
5 46 (2.63%) GDPR
6 38 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.83%) GRC
8 24 (1.37%) NIST
9 15 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.69%) ISO 9001
10 12 (0.69%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.57%) ITGC
12 8 (0.46%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.46%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.40%) GMP
14 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.34%) IFRS
15 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 116 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 98 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.57%) Docker
4 23 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.09%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.80%) vCloud
7 14 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.57%) vSphere
9 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
10 5 (0.29%) 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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 76 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 61 (3.49%) Ansible
3 36 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (1.94%) vCenter Server
5 31 (1.77%) SCOM
6 26 (1.49%) Grafana
7 25 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 25 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.20%) SCCM
9 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.69%) Avamar
11 9 (0.51%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.46%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.34%) Argo
14 6 (0.34%) Control-M
14 6 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
15 5 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 343 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 177 (10.12%) ServiceNow
3 151 (8.63%) Oracle
4 123 (7.03%) SAP
5 118 (6.75%) VMware
6 74 (4.23%) Cisco
7 56 (3.20%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.69%) Google
9 42 (2.40%) Splunk
10 38 (2.17%) IBM
11 35 (2.00%) Red Hat
11 35 (2.00%) Zscaler
12 25 (1.43%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.37%) Citrix
14 23 (1.32%) F5
15 22 (1.26%) Juniper
15 22 (1.26%) Remedy
16 21 (1.20%) CheckPoint
17 20 (1.14%) Dell
17 20 (1.14%) Workday
1,862 Change Management jobs in England