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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 46 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,561 1,154 1,598
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.29% 4.49% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 4.96% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 695 1,020
10th Percentile £313 £327 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £693 £713 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 30 59
10th Percentile £20.79 £26.15 £15.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £32.57 £25.83
Median hourly rate £43.86 £55.37 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% +48.93% -20.98%
75th Percentile £56.69 £68.75 £60.38
90th Percentile £84.20 £73.25 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £42.05 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -25.89% +52.62% -19.17%

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 31,633 23,246 33,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.88% 90.44% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,235 14,775 22,032
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,951 810 2,137
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.49 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.81 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.66% +0.95% -7.14%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -18 647 £525 - 209
North of England -11 299 £470 -6.00% 115
Midlands +5 247 £500 - 88
South East +4 200 £500 - 197
North West +3 190 £418 -7.06% 65
West Midlands +1 170 £502 -0.10% 60
South West +8 114 £525 -1.41% 50
Yorkshire -23 105 £487 -6.07% 37
East Midlands +17 77 £425 +20.06% 28
East of England -27 52 £475 -4.95% 70
North East -22 4 £475 -17.39% 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
1 106 (6.79%) Confluence
2 74 (4.74%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.64%) SAS
5 9 (0.58%) Appian
6 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.32%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.32%) IIS
8 4 (0.26%) CMS
9 3 (0.19%) Mattermost
9 3 (0.19%) Moodle
10 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.064%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.064%) nginx
11 1 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.064%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.064%) Traefik
Applications
1 85 (5.45%) Microsoft Project
2 75 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 38 (2.43%) MS Visio
5 32 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.32%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.26%) Trello
7 4 (0.26%) Windchill
8 1 (0.064%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.064%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.064%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.064%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.064%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 60 (3.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.32%) Finacle
7 5 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.32%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.26%) Primavera
9 3 (0.19%) iTrent
9 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 245 (15.70%) Azure
2 145 (9.29%) AWS
3 106 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (6.28%) GCP
5 83 (5.32%) Power Platform
6 54 (3.46%) Entra ID
7 53 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (3.14%) SaaS
9 25 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (1.47%) Serverless
11 22 (1.41%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.35%) Google Workspace
12 21 (1.35%) PaaS
13 19 (1.22%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
13 19 (1.22%) OpenShift
14 18 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (1.09%) IaaS
16 16 (1.02%) AWS KMS
16 16 (1.02%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.83%) Firewall
2 61 (3.91%) Network Security
3 57 (3.65%) DNS
4 48 (3.07%) VPN
5 46 (2.95%) WAN
6 34 (2.18%) LAN
7 25 (1.60%) DHCP
8 23 (1.47%) SD-WAN
8 23 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (1.41%) TCP/IP
10 18 (1.15%) SSL
11 17 (1.09%) BGP
12 15 (0.96%) OSPF
13 13 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (0.83%) Kerberos
13 13 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
13 13 (0.83%) Wireless
14 12 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.77%) Internet
15 11 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.36%) Power BI
2 48 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.41%) Metadata
5 19 (1.22%) Tableau
6 17 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 14 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (0.83%) NoSQL
10 12 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (0.64%) MySQL
12 8 (0.51%) Pinecone
12 8 (0.51%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (0.38%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.38%) Metadata Repository
14 6 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (0.32%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 186 (11.92%) JIRA
2 49 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 33 (2.11%) Git
4 24 (1.54%) GitLab
5 22 (1.41%) Liquibase
6 12 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.51%) MLflow
8 4 (0.26%) JUnit
8 4 (0.26%) Maven
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.13%) git-flow
10 2 (0.13%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.13%) Mockito
10 2 (0.13%) MSI
10 2 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.064%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.064%) TestDirector
11 1 (0.064%) Toad
General
1 694 (44.46%) Social Skills
2 516 (33.06%) Finance
3 292 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 139 (8.90%) Banking
6 72 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
7 60 (3.84%) Legal
8 54 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
10 45 (2.88%) Retail
11 40 (2.56%) Manufacturing
12 36 (2.31%) Local Government
13 34 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (2.18%) Telecoms
14 33 (2.11%) Financial Institution
15 31 (1.99%) Marketing
16 29 (1.86%) Law
17 19 (1.22%) Investment Banking
18 16 (1.02%) Publishing
18 16 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 202 (12.94%) Analyst
2 196 (12.56%) Project Manager
3 169 (10.83%) Lead
4 132 (8.46%) Change Manager
5 114 (7.30%) Business Analyst
6 110 (7.05%) Senior
7 97 (6.21%) Consultant
8 50 (3.20%) Business Manager
8 50 (3.20%) Programme Manager
9 49 (3.14%) Developer
10 48 (3.07%) Architect
11 46 (2.95%) Administrator
12 39 (2.50%) Senior Manager
13 36 (2.31%) Business Change Manager
14 35 (2.24%) Service Manager
15 33 (2.11%) SAP Manager
16 32 (2.05%) IT Manager
17 30 (1.92%) Delivery Manager
18 28 (1.79%) Network Engineer
19 26 (1.67%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.78%) REST
2 34 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (1.86%) .NET
4 26 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.60%) RESTful
6 22 (1.41%) OAuth
7 21 (1.35%) .NET Framework
8 19 (1.22%) SAML
9 15 (0.96%) Middleware
9 15 (0.96%) Web Services
10 14 (0.90%) LDAP
10 14 (0.90%) OpenID
11 12 (0.77%) CSS
12 11 (0.70%) HTML
13 10 (0.64%) ISPF
13 10 (0.64%) pytest
13 10 (0.64%) SOAP
14 9 (0.58%) Django
14 9 (0.58%) NumPy
14 9 (0.58%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 90 (5.77%) Management Information System
2 82 (5.25%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.75%) Cloud Native
5 43 (2.75%) CMDB
6 36 (2.31%) Virtual Team
7 32 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.99%) PKI
9 28 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.79%) PMI
10 25 (1.60%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.54%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (0.96%) e-Learning
16 15 (0.96%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 157 (10.06%) Windows
2 69 (4.42%) Linux
3 51 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.37%) Unix
5 33 (2.11%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.26%) CentOS
9 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.26%) VMS
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.13%) Android
10 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.064%) AIX
11 1 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.064%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.064%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (31.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 391 (25.05%) Agile
3 376 (24.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 340 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
5 307 (19.67%) ITIL
6 289 (18.51%) Project Management
7 283 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 254 (16.27%) Migration
9 216 (13.84%) DevOps
10 176 (11.27%) Project Delivery
11 155 (9.93%) ITSM
12 145 (9.29%) Service Management
13 142 (9.10%) ERP
13 142 (9.10%) Roadmaps
14 139 (8.90%) Risk Management
15 138 (8.84%) PRINCE2
16 134 (8.58%) Decision-Making
17 129 (8.26%) Validation
18 128 (8.20%) CI/CD
19 126 (8.07%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 156 (9.99%) SQL
2 134 (8.58%) Python
3 98 (6.28%) PowerShell
4 41 (2.63%) C#
5 40 (2.56%) Bash
6 26 (1.67%) Java
7 22 (1.41%) Go
7 22 (1.41%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.35%) JavaScript
9 17 (1.09%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.77%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.64%) CLIST
11 10 (0.64%) COBOL
11 10 (0.64%) JCL
11 10 (0.64%) REXX
12 6 (0.38%) Groovy
13 5 (0.32%) Korn
14 4 (0.26%) Perl
14 4 (0.26%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 314 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 264 (16.91%) Degree
3 221 (14.16%) SC Cleared
4 97 (6.21%) PMI Certification
5 90 (5.77%) PMP
6 52 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 50 (3.20%) Master's Degree
8 45 (2.88%) DV Cleared
9 42 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (1.99%) CISSP
11 28 (1.79%) CISM
11 28 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
12 27 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 23 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (1.28%) APMG
14 20 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (1.02%) Azure Certification
16 15 (0.96%) CCNP
17 14 (0.90%) MBA
18 11 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (6.21%) QA
2 72 (4.61%) GDPR
3 69 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 62 (3.97%) PMO
5 52 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (3.07%) SLA
7 22 (1.41%) NIST
8 17 (1.09%) IFRS
9 16 (1.02%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.96%) IFRS 17
11 12 (0.77%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.64%) Basel III
12 10 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.51%) MiFID
13 8 (0.51%) NCSC
14 7 (0.45%) GRC
15 5 (0.32%) EMIR
16 4 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
16 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 107 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 70 (4.48%) Docker
3 35 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.64%) ACF2
5 10 (0.64%) RACF
5 10 (0.64%) Time Sharing Option
6 9 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.51%) Firmware
7 8 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.32%) KVM
9 5 (0.32%) vSphere
9 5 (0.32%) XenApp
9 5 (0.32%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.13%) NFS
10 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.064%) Squid
Systems Management
1 89 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 64 (4.10%) Terraform
3 58 (3.72%) Ansible
4 35 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (1.99%) Grafana
6 29 (1.86%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.86%) SCCM
7 16 (1.02%) Puppet
8 14 (0.90%) vCenter Server
9 13 (0.83%) Kibana
10 10 (0.64%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.64%) SCOM
11 9 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.58%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.32%) PowerCLI
14 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.32%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 280 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 147 (9.42%) ServiceNow
3 144 (9.22%) SAP
4 112 (7.17%) Oracle
5 71 (4.55%) Google
6 56 (3.59%) Cisco
7 55 (3.52%) Salesforce
7 55 (3.52%) VMware
8 40 (2.56%) Splunk
9 36 (2.31%) Citrix
10 29 (1.86%) Workday
11 25 (1.60%) F5
12 21 (1.35%) Atlassian
13 19 (1.22%) Juniper
14 17 (1.09%) CheckPoint
14 17 (1.09%) Remedy
15 15 (0.96%) Adobe
15 15 (0.96%) Sage
16 14 (0.90%) Fortinet
16 14 (0.90%) SolarWinds