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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 50 45
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,592 1,047 1,446
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.85% 4.37% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.78% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 996 666 916
10th Percentile £350 £328 £313
25th Percentile £415 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £701 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 29 66
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £15.22
25th Percentile £22.63 £32.05 £30.10
Median hourly rate £34.87 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.26% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.15 £70.50 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £25.54 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.70% +8.00% +2.05%

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 35,064 21,889 31,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 91.30% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,297 14,308 20,582
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 926 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.35 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.39 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.28 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
% change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -5 692 £515 -6.36% 281
North of England -13 289 £475 +5.56% 103
Midlands +7 214 £505 +6.21% 68
South East -2 205 £538 +10.14% 124
North West -5 166 £450 -0.11% 52
West Midlands -11 142 £515 +7.19% 39
Yorkshire -34 113 £493 +9.44% 43
South West -4 98 £504 +0.75% 54
East of England -8 81 £500 - 33
East Midlands +24 70 £430 +18.46% 29
North East -17 10 £425 -24.44% 9
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 95 (5.97%) Confluence
2 76 (4.77%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.88%) SAS
5 12 (0.75%) IIS
6 11 (0.69%) Appian
7 7 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.25%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.063%) Kentico
11 1 (0.063%) Moodle
11 1 (0.063%) MTS
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.063%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 64 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
2 62 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 27 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Trello
9 1 (0.063%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.063%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (4.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.38%) Finacle
6 6 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Maximo
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.31%) Primavera
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.13%) Global One
9 2 (0.13%) OpenText MBPM
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 235 (14.76%) Azure
2 119 (7.47%) AWS
3 96 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (5.65%) Power Platform
5 66 (4.15%) SaaS
6 64 (4.02%) Entra ID
7 58 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (3.52%) GCP
9 34 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
10 33 (2.07%) Google Workspace
11 31 (1.95%) Power Automate
12 25 (1.57%) OpenShift
13 21 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (1.32%) PaaS
14 20 (1.26%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.19%) OCI
16 18 (1.13%) GitHub
17 17 (1.07%) PowerApps
18 16 (1.01%) Asana
18 16 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.77%) Firewall
2 60 (3.77%) Network Security
3 49 (3.08%) DNS
4 42 (2.64%) WAN
5 41 (2.58%) VPN
6 35 (2.20%) LAN
7 23 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (1.38%) SD-WAN
8 22 (1.38%) SSL
9 20 (1.26%) DHCP
10 18 (1.13%) BGP
10 18 (1.13%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.07%) SAN
12 16 (1.01%) OSPF
13 14 (0.88%) Wireless
14 12 (0.75%) MPLS
14 12 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
15 10 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (0.63%) Kerberos
16 9 (0.57%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.40%) Power BI
2 52 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.51%) Metadata
4 23 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.13%) Tableau
6 17 (1.07%) Oracle Database
6 17 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.50%) Pinecone
11 6 (0.38%) Metadata Repository
12 5 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.25%) MySQL
13 4 (0.25%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.25%) Pentaho
13 4 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 202 (12.69%) JIRA
2 46 (2.89%) Git
3 42 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.63%) GitLab
6 9 (0.57%) MLflow
7 7 (0.44%) AdminStudio
7 7 (0.44%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.25%) Hudson
8 4 (0.25%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.25%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.25%) Maven
8 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.19%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.19%) Snyk
10 2 (0.13%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.13%) git-flow
10 2 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 627 (39.38%) Social Skills
2 553 (34.74%) Finance
3 263 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 132 (8.29%) Banking
6 79 (4.96%) Legal
7 75 (4.71%) Retail
8 57 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.95%) Marketing
11 42 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (2.20%) Law
13 32 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (1.88%) Manufacturing
15 29 (1.82%) Local Government
16 27 (1.70%) Telecoms
17 22 (1.38%) Aviation
17 22 (1.38%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.01%) Investment Banking
18 16 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 185 (11.62%) Project Manager
2 165 (10.36%) Lead
3 148 (9.30%) Analyst
4 141 (8.86%) Change Manager
5 122 (7.66%) Senior
6 101 (6.34%) Consultant
7 93 (5.84%) Business Analyst
8 60 (3.77%) Programme Manager
9 58 (3.64%) Administrator
10 53 (3.33%) Developer
11 52 (3.27%) Senior Manager
12 46 (2.89%) Architect
13 42 (2.64%) Business Manager
14 38 (2.39%) Business Change Manager
15 37 (2.32%) Delivery Manager
16 36 (2.26%) IT Manager
17 35 (2.20%) Support Engineer
18 32 (2.01%) Service Manager
19 29 (1.82%) Security Manager
20 28 (1.76%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.02%) REST
2 33 (2.07%) .NET
3 27 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.51%) OAuth
5 22 (1.38%) Middleware
6 21 (1.32%) .NET Framework
6 21 (1.32%) CSS
7 18 (1.13%) HTML
8 17 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (0.94%) Web Services
10 14 (0.88%) LDAP
11 12 (0.75%) RESTful
12 11 (0.69%) React
13 10 (0.63%) AngularJS
13 10 (0.63%) Pandas
13 10 (0.63%) pytest
13 10 (0.63%) SAML
14 9 (0.57%) Django
14 9 (0.57%) NumPy
14 9 (0.57%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.90%) Product Ownership
2 74 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 67 (4.21%) Data Centre
4 63 (3.96%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (2.39%) CMDB
7 36 (2.26%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.26%) PMI
8 26 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 26 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 25 (1.57%) PKI
10 24 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.51%) Virtual Team
11 20 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.13%) Low-Code
13 17 (1.07%) Operational Technology
14 15 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.94%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.82%) Security Posture
16 12 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 164 (10.30%) Windows
2 69 (4.33%) Linux
3 61 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.14%) Unix
5 24 (1.51%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.50%) Solaris
8 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.38%) VMS
10 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.31%) SUSE
10 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.25%) AIX
11 4 (0.25%) HPUX
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.13%) CentOS
12 2 (0.13%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (32.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 377 (23.68%) Agile
3 370 (23.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 326 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 326 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
5 287 (18.03%) ITIL
6 277 (17.40%) Project Management
7 266 (16.71%) Migration
8 208 (13.07%) DevOps
9 177 (11.12%) ERP
10 176 (11.06%) Project Delivery
11 172 (10.80%) Roadmaps
12 158 (9.92%) Decision-Making
13 149 (9.36%) Risk Management
14 144 (9.05%) Validation
15 136 (8.54%) ITSM
16 134 (8.42%) CI/CD
17 122 (7.66%) AI
17 122 (7.66%) Workshop Facilitation
18 117 (7.35%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (10.11%) SQL
2 99 (6.22%) Python
3 85 (5.34%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.89%) C#
5 42 (2.64%) PL/SQL
6 39 (2.45%) Bash
7 34 (2.14%) JavaScript
8 27 (1.70%) Java
9 24 (1.51%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.57%) Korn
11 8 (0.50%) Groovy
12 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.31%) COBOL
13 5 (0.31%) Go
13 5 (0.31%) JCL
14 4 (0.25%) Bicep
15 3 (0.19%) C++
15 3 (0.19%) Perl
15 3 (0.19%) SOQL
15 3 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 332 (20.85%) Security Cleared
2 230 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 201 (12.63%) Degree
4 109 (6.85%) PMP
5 102 (6.41%) PMI Certification
6 53 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 50 (3.14%) CISSP
8 39 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (2.45%) CISM
9 36 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (2.07%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.63%) APMG
11 26 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
12 25 (1.57%) CCNP
13 18 (1.13%) ACCA
13 18 (1.13%) CIMA
14 16 (1.01%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 12 (0.75%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.90%) QA
2 83 (5.21%) GDPR
3 80 (5.03%) Data Quality
4 71 (4.46%) PMO
5 66 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (3.71%) SLA
7 42 (2.64%) NIST
8 23 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.32%) SOC 2
10 19 (1.19%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.94%) IFRS
12 14 (0.88%) GRC
13 13 (0.82%) IFRS 17
14 9 (0.57%) Basel III
15 8 (0.50%) ITGC
16 7 (0.44%) COBIT
17 6 (0.38%) ISO 9001
18 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
18 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
19 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 115 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 54 (3.39%) Docker
3 53 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 20 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.94%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.50%) vSphere
9 7 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.38%) KVM
10 6 (0.38%) vCloud
11 5 (0.31%) Firmware
12 4 (0.25%) XenApp
12 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.19%) NFS
14 2 (0.13%) ACF2
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.13%) RACF
14 2 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
15 1 (0.063%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 80 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 69 (4.33%) Terraform
3 61 (3.83%) Ansible
4 31 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.57%) Grafana
6 24 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.51%) SCCM
7 23 (1.44%) vCenter Server
8 22 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.01%) SCOM
10 10 (0.63%) Puppet
11 8 (0.50%) Kibana
12 7 (0.44%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.38%) CASB
13 6 (0.38%) Cisco Prime
13 6 (0.38%) vRealize
14 5 (0.31%) Avamar
14 5 (0.31%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.31%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 257 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 176 (11.06%) ServiceNow
3 150 (9.42%) SAP
4 145 (9.11%) Oracle
5 75 (4.71%) VMware
6 65 (4.08%) Salesforce
7 52 (3.27%) Google
8 47 (2.95%) Cisco
9 33 (2.07%) Citrix
9 33 (2.07%) Splunk
10 26 (1.63%) IFS
11 22 (1.38%) Workday
12 19 (1.19%) CheckPoint
12 19 (1.19%) F5
12 19 (1.19%) IBM
13 18 (1.13%) Remedy
14 17 (1.07%) Dynatrace
15 16 (1.01%) Juniper
16 15 (0.94%) Palo Alto
17 14 (0.88%) Red Hat