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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,628 1,085 1,517
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.14% 4.44% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 4.88% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 705 976
10th Percentile £325 £331 £336
25th Percentile £414 £409 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £700 £706 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 30 53
10th Percentile £22.14 £26.15 £14.09
25th Percentile £22.68 £31.83 £26.42
Median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.94% +54.65% -23.18%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.25 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £37.84
% change year-on-year -15.81% +42.71% -21.38%

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 33,609 22,244 32,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 91.01% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,526 14,625 21,310
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,074 884 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.90 £31.70 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% -6.76% -9.33%
75th Percentile £67.19 £63.94 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
% change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -5 709 £500 -4.76% 184
North of England -15 296 £475 +5.56% 113
Midlands -4 225 £500 -0.05% 83
South East +7 219 £512 +3.43% 124
North West 0 198 £449 +2.57% 59
West Midlands -10 152 £508 +1.35% 44
South West -6 102 £525 +5.00% 34
Yorkshire -38 89 £487 +6.79% 40
East Midlands +14 71 £450 +27.12% 37
East of England -13 68 £475 -2.51% 34
North East -19 9 £440 -23.48% 15
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
1 112 (6.88%) Confluence
2 75 (4.61%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.80%) SAS
5 9 (0.55%) Appian
6 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.37%) IIS
7 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) CMS
9 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.061%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.061%) Moodle
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (4.79%) Microsoft Project
2 71 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 32 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.25%) Trello
9 3 (0.18%) Windchill
10 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.061%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 65 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.49%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.37%) Finacle
6 6 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.31%) Primavera
7 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) iTrent
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 256 (15.72%) Azure
2 129 (7.92%) AWS
3 107 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (5.34%) Power Platform
5 70 (4.30%) GCP
6 69 (4.24%) SaaS
7 66 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (3.62%) Entra ID
9 34 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.84%) Google Workspace
11 28 (1.72%) PaaS
11 28 (1.72%) Power Automate
12 22 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (1.23%) OCI
13 20 (1.23%) OpenShift
14 19 (1.17%) Google Sheets
15 18 (1.11%) IaaS
16 17 (1.04%) GitHub
17 16 (0.98%) PowerApps
18 14 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 97 (5.96%) Firewall
2 64 (3.93%) Network Security
3 55 (3.38%) WAN
4 50 (3.07%) DNS
5 46 (2.83%) VPN
6 43 (2.64%) LAN
7 31 (1.90%) SD-WAN
8 30 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.41%) SSL
10 22 (1.35%) DHCP
11 21 (1.29%) BGP
12 19 (1.17%) OSPF
13 17 (1.04%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.92%) SAN
14 15 (0.92%) Wireless
15 13 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
15 13 (0.80%) Internet
15 13 (0.80%) MPLS
15 13 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.12%) Power BI
2 52 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.47%) Metadata
4 21 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.29%) Tableau
5 15 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 15 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.49%) Pinecone
9 7 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
10 6 (0.37%) MySQL
10 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.31%) Redis
12 4 (0.25%) Pentaho
12 4 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 211 (12.96%) JIRA
2 39 (2.40%) Git
3 36 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.61%) GitLab
6 9 (0.55%) Liquibase
7 8 (0.49%) MLflow
8 5 (0.31%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.25%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.25%) Hudson
9 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.25%) JUnit
9 4 (0.25%) Maven
9 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.18%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.18%) Snyk
10 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 678 (41.65%) Social Skills
2 544 (33.42%) Finance
3 296 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 132 (8.11%) Banking
6 70 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
7 64 (3.93%) Legal
7 64 (3.93%) Retail
8 55 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (2.95%) Marketing
10 46 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (2.21%) Local Government
11 36 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.84%) Law
13 29 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 28 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (1.35%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.23%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.11%) Aviation
18 17 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 192 (11.79%) Lead
2 190 (11.67%) Project Manager
3 163 (10.01%) Analyst
4 148 (9.09%) Change Manager
5 115 (7.06%) Senior
6 105 (6.45%) Consultant
7 101 (6.20%) Business Analyst
8 61 (3.75%) Administrator
9 59 (3.62%) Programme Manager
10 57 (3.50%) Developer
11 49 (3.01%) Architect
12 48 (2.95%) Business Manager
13 43 (2.64%) Senior Manager
14 40 (2.46%) Business Change Manager
15 38 (2.33%) IT Manager
16 32 (1.97%) Delivery Manager
16 32 (1.97%) Network Engineer
16 32 (1.97%) Support Engineer
17 31 (1.90%) SAP Manager
18 28 (1.72%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.19%) REST
2 35 (2.15%) .NET
3 29 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.54%) OAuth
5 23 (1.41%) .NET Framework
6 20 (1.23%) Middleware
7 18 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (1.04%) SAML
9 15 (0.92%) Web Services
10 14 (0.86%) OpenID
10 14 (0.86%) RESTful
11 13 (0.80%) CSS
11 13 (0.80%) LDAP
12 10 (0.61%) HTML
12 10 (0.61%) ISPF
12 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
12 10 (0.61%) pytest
13 9 (0.55%) Pandas
13 9 (0.55%) React
13 9 (0.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.34%) Management Information System
2 71 (4.36%) Onboarding
2 71 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 62 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 43 (2.64%) Virtual Team
5 40 (2.46%) PMI
6 39 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.33%) CMDB
8 30 (1.84%) Cloud Native
9 29 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.66%) PKI
11 24 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.98%) Operational Technology
14 16 (0.98%) Public Cloud
14 16 (0.98%) Replication
15 15 (0.92%) Low-Code
16 14 (0.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 161 (9.89%) Windows
2 62 (3.81%) Linux
3 56 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.78%) Unix
5 27 (1.66%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.25%) AIX
10 4 (0.25%) VMS
11 3 (0.18%) CentOS
11 3 (0.18%) HPUX
11 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Solaris
11 3 (0.18%) SUSE
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 404 (24.82%) Agile
3 395 (24.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 345 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
5 331 (20.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 318 (19.53%) ITIL
7 303 (18.61%) Project Management
8 273 (16.77%) Migration
9 226 (13.88%) DevOps
10 192 (11.79%) Project Delivery
11 178 (10.93%) ERP
12 162 (9.95%) Roadmaps
13 152 (9.34%) Decision-Making
13 152 (9.34%) ITSM
14 146 (8.97%) Risk Management
15 141 (8.66%) Service Management
16 140 (8.60%) Validation
17 132 (8.11%) PRINCE2
18 130 (7.99%) Cybersecurity
19 128 (7.86%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 160 (9.83%) SQL
2 101 (6.20%) Python
3 95 (5.84%) PowerShell
4 49 (3.01%) C#
5 37 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 36 (2.21%) Bash
7 27 (1.66%) Java
8 25 (1.54%) T-SQL
9 22 (1.35%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.61%) CLIST
10 10 (0.61%) COBOL
10 10 (0.61%) Groovy
10 10 (0.61%) JCL
10 10 (0.61%) REXX
11 9 (0.55%) Korn
12 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.37%) Perl
14 5 (0.31%) Go
15 3 (0.18%) SOQL
15 3 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 344 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 248 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 234 (14.37%) Degree
4 113 (6.94%) PMI Certification
5 108 (6.63%) PMP
6 49 (3.01%) CISSP
7 47 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (2.33%) CISM
10 37 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (2.21%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (1.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 29 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
14 28 (1.72%) APMG
15 26 (1.60%) CCNP
16 17 (1.04%) Azure Certification
17 16 (0.98%) ACCA
17 16 (0.98%) CIMA
17 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.96%) QA
2 79 (4.85%) GDPR
3 77 (4.73%) PMO
4 71 (4.36%) Data Quality
5 64 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (3.44%) SLA
7 42 (2.58%) NIST
8 21 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.11%) SOC 2
10 17 (1.04%) IFRS
11 15 (0.92%) IFRS 17
11 15 (0.92%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.61%) Basel III
13 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.55%) GRC
14 7 (0.43%) COBIT
14 7 (0.43%) ITGC
15 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.31%) NCSC
16 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 116 (7.13%) Active Directory
2 52 (3.19%) Docker
3 40 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) ACF2
7 10 (0.61%) RACF
7 10 (0.61%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.49%) Firmware
8 8 (0.49%) vSphere
9 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.31%) KVM
10 5 (0.31%) XenApp
10 5 (0.31%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.12%) NFS
11 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 76 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.38%) Terraform
3 48 (2.95%) Ansible
4 33 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.41%) SCCM
6 20 (1.23%) Grafana
6 20 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.17%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.04%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.61%) CA Endevor
9 10 (0.61%) Puppet
10 9 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.55%) Tivoli
10 9 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 8 (0.49%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.49%) Kibana
11 8 (0.49%) SCOM
12 7 (0.43%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.37%) CASB
13 6 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 279 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 166 (10.20%) ServiceNow
3 158 (9.71%) SAP
4 144 (8.85%) Oracle
5 65 (3.99%) Google
5 65 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 60 (3.69%) VMware
7 58 (3.56%) Cisco
8 37 (2.27%) Citrix
9 33 (2.03%) Workday
10 24 (1.47%) Splunk
11 23 (1.41%) Atlassian
12 22 (1.35%) IFS
13 21 (1.29%) F5
14 19 (1.17%) Juniper
15 18 (1.11%) CheckPoint
16 17 (1.04%) Palo Alto
17 15 (0.92%) Remedy
17 15 (0.92%) SolarWinds
18 14 (0.86%) Sage