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

 6 months to
31 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 51 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,610 1,050 1,454
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 4.34% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 4.75% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,001 669 915
10th Percentile £350 £345 £313
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.09%
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% - -4.09%
75th Percentile £63.94 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £86.63 £70.50 £69.65
UK median hourly rate £30.21 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -44.06% +8.00% -2.91%

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 35,715 22,116 31,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.31% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,658 14,376 20,600
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -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 2,231 961 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% -0.73%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -2 710 £520 -5.45% 134
North of England -14 294 £475 +5.56% 74
Midlands +1 210 £500 +4.17% 65
South East -4 206 £538 +9.69% 113
North West -6 169 £447 +2.17% 33
West Midlands -13 138 £509 +5.00% 41
Yorkshire -26 115 £489 +8.61% 31
South West -7 96 £525 +7.14% 33
East of England -8 82 £475 -5.00% 29
East Midlands +24 70 £430 +18.46% 24
North East -15 10 £425 -24.44% 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 98 (6.09%) Confluence
2 81 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.87%) SAS
5 13 (0.81%) Appian
5 13 (0.81%) IIS
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.31%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.19%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 2 (0.12%) Kentico
11 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.062%) Moodle
12 1 (0.062%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.062%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.062%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 63 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 28 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 64 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.37%) Finacle
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.37%) Primavera
7 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.37%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.31%) Maximo
9 3 (0.19%) OpenText MBPM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
9 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 241 (14.97%) Azure
2 126 (7.83%) AWS
3 100 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (5.47%) Power Platform
5 68 (4.22%) SaaS
6 65 (4.04%) Entra ID
7 58 (3.60%) GCP
8 54 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
9 35 (2.17%) Google Workspace
10 28 (1.74%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.55%) OpenShift
12 21 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (1.30%) PaaS
13 20 (1.24%) Google Sheets
13 20 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 19 (1.18%) GitHub
14 19 (1.18%) OCI
15 18 (1.12%) PowerApps
16 16 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 85 (5.28%) Firewall
2 60 (3.73%) Network Security
3 47 (2.92%) DNS
4 46 (2.86%) WAN
5 39 (2.42%) VPN
6 37 (2.30%) LAN
7 25 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (1.43%) SD-WAN
9 22 (1.37%) SSL
10 19 (1.18%) BGP
10 19 (1.18%) DHCP
11 18 (1.12%) TCP/IP
12 17 (1.06%) OSPF
12 17 (1.06%) SAN
13 14 (0.87%) Wireless
14 13 (0.81%) MPLS
15 12 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
16 11 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
17 10 (0.62%) Internet
17 10 (0.62%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.22%) Power BI
2 53 (3.29%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.43%) Metadata
4 22 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.30%) Oracle Database
6 17 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.81%) Tableau
8 11 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.50%) Pinecone
12 7 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.25%) DB2
14 4 (0.25%) MySQL
14 4 (0.25%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.25%) Oracle BI EE
14 4 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 207 (12.86%) JIRA
2 46 (2.86%) Git
3 43 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.62%) GitLab
6 9 (0.56%) MLflow
7 7 (0.43%) AdminStudio
7 7 (0.43%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.25%) Hudson
8 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.25%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.25%) Maven
9 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.19%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.19%) Snyk
9 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.12%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.12%) git-flow
10 2 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 624 (38.76%) Social Skills
2 558 (34.66%) Finance
3 253 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (9.50%) Public Sector
5 133 (8.26%) Banking
6 79 (4.91%) Legal
7 78 (4.84%) Retail
8 59 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
9 57 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (3.04%) Marketing
11 39 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (2.30%) Law
12 37 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (1.93%) Local Government
13 31 (1.93%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.74%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.37%) Aviation
16 21 (1.30%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.99%) Investment Banking
17 16 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (11.86%) Project Manager
2 166 (10.31%) Lead
3 147 (9.13%) Analyst
4 140 (8.70%) Change Manager
5 119 (7.39%) Senior
6 103 (6.40%) Consultant
7 93 (5.78%) Business Analyst
8 61 (3.79%) Programme Manager
9 59 (3.66%) Administrator
10 54 (3.35%) Developer
11 49 (3.04%) Senior Manager
12 43 (2.67%) Architect
13 40 (2.48%) Business Manager
14 38 (2.36%) Delivery Manager
14 38 (2.36%) Support Engineer
15 36 (2.24%) Business Change Manager
16 35 (2.17%) IT Manager
17 32 (1.99%) Service Manager
18 29 (1.80%) Security Manager
19 26 (1.61%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.11%) REST
2 33 (2.05%) .NET
3 28 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.49%) Middleware
4 24 (1.49%) OAuth
5 22 (1.37%) CSS
6 21 (1.30%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.18%) HTML
8 17 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (0.93%) Web Services
10 13 (0.81%) LDAP
11 12 (0.75%) RESTful
12 11 (0.68%) React
13 10 (0.62%) AngularJS
13 10 (0.62%) Pandas
14 9 (0.56%) Django
14 9 (0.56%) NumPy
14 9 (0.56%) OpenID
14 9 (0.56%) pytest
14 9 (0.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 75 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 69 (4.29%) Data Centre
4 60 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 47 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.73%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.24%) PMI
8 30 (1.86%) CMDB
9 29 (1.80%) PKI
10 25 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 25 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.24%) Operational Technology
12 20 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.18%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.93%) Public Cloud
15 12 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 179 (11.12%) Windows
2 81 (5.03%) Linux
3 63 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.17%) Unix
5 34 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.56%) Solaris
9 8 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.37%) VMS
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.31%) AIX
11 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.31%) SUSE
12 4 (0.25%) HPUX
13 2 (0.12%) CentOS
13 2 (0.12%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (32.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 384 (23.85%) Agile
3 372 (23.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 322 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 320 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
6 283 (17.58%) ITIL
7 277 (17.20%) Project Management
8 271 (16.83%) Migration
9 214 (13.29%) DevOps
10 184 (11.43%) Project Delivery
11 183 (11.37%) ERP
12 177 (10.99%) Roadmaps
13 155 (9.63%) Decision-Making
14 154 (9.57%) Risk Management
15 142 (8.82%) CI/CD
16 141 (8.76%) Validation
17 136 (8.45%) ITSM
18 127 (7.89%) AI
19 122 (7.58%) PRINCE2
20 121 (7.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 165 (10.25%) SQL
2 110 (6.83%) Python
3 94 (5.84%) PowerShell
4 48 (2.98%) Bash
5 46 (2.86%) C#
6 43 (2.67%) PL/SQL
7 35 (2.17%) Java
7 35 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 24 (1.49%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.56%) Groovy
9 9 (0.56%) Korn
10 8 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.37%) COBOL
11 6 (0.37%) JCL
12 5 (0.31%) Go
13 4 (0.25%) Bicep
13 4 (0.25%) Perl
13 4 (0.25%) REXX
14 3 (0.19%) ABAP
14 3 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 323 (20.06%) Security Cleared
2 221 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 208 (12.92%) Degree
4 117 (7.27%) PMP
5 107 (6.65%) PMI Certification
6 60 (3.73%) CISSP
7 55 (3.42%) DV Cleared
8 41 (2.55%) CISM
9 38 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.99%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.61%) APMG
11 26 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.55%) CCNP
12 25 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
13 24 (1.49%) Azure Certification
14 20 (1.24%) ACCA
14 20 (1.24%) CIMA
15 14 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 13 (0.81%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.90%) QA
2 82 (5.09%) GDPR
3 77 (4.78%) Data Quality
4 75 (4.66%) PMO
5 64 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (3.66%) SLA
7 43 (2.67%) NIST
8 22 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.30%) SOC 2
10 20 (1.24%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.93%) GRC
11 15 (0.93%) IFRS
12 13 (0.81%) IFRS 17
13 9 (0.56%) Basel III
14 8 (0.50%) ITGC
15 7 (0.43%) COBIT
16 6 (0.37%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
18 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
18 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 113 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 61 (3.79%) Docker
3 57 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.37%) Hyper-V
4 22 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.50%) vSphere
8 7 (0.43%) vCloud
9 6 (0.37%) Firmware
9 6 (0.37%) KVM
10 4 (0.25%) XenApp
10 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.19%) NFS
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.12%) ACF2
12 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.12%) RACF
12 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 87 (5.40%) Kubernetes
2 77 (4.78%) Terraform
3 62 (3.85%) Ansible
4 31 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.61%) Grafana
6 25 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.55%) vCenter Server
7 23 (1.43%) SCCM
8 22 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.12%) SCOM
10 11 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.62%) Puppet
12 7 (0.43%) Avamar
12 7 (0.43%) Kibana
12 7 (0.43%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.37%) CASB
13 6 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
13 6 (0.37%) vRealize
14 5 (0.31%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 268 (16.65%) Microsoft
2 165 (10.25%) ServiceNow
3 151 (9.38%) Oracle
4 147 (9.13%) SAP
5 80 (4.97%) VMware
6 64 (3.98%) Salesforce
7 60 (3.73%) Google
8 47 (2.92%) Cisco
9 34 (2.11%) Splunk
10 33 (2.05%) Citrix
11 26 (1.61%) IFS
12 23 (1.43%) Red Hat
13 22 (1.37%) Workday
14 21 (1.30%) IBM
15 20 (1.24%) Remedy
16 19 (1.18%) CheckPoint
17 18 (1.12%) Dynatrace
18 17 (1.06%) F5
19 15 (0.93%) Juniper
19 15 (0.93%) Palo Alto
370 Change Management jobs in England