Change Management Contracts in England

Change Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 48 42
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,282 1,307 2,189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.64% 3.92% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 4.56% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 788 1,365
10th Percentile £328 £315 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £663
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £544
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.70% +3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 49 41
10th Percentile £20.61 £19.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £30.41 £31.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £58.05 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.32% +19.93% +120.00%
75th Percentile £52.06 £61.60 £56.50
90th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.28 £56.25 £48.40
% change year-on-year -33.72% +16.22% +112.75%

All Process and 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 25,105 28,635 40,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.79% 85.87% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,020 18,623 28,063
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,427 1,655 1,386
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -1.19% +58.49%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in England

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

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 13 August 2025. 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 +3 578 £550 - 438
North of England -1 262 £450 -12.45% 147
North West +3 157 £450 -10.89% 84
Midlands +17 147 £475 -0.58% 92
South East -3 135 £480 +1.05% 198
West Midlands +11 116 £475 -5.00% 62
Yorkshire -5 101 £450 -12.45% 42
South West +9 80 £490 -10.91% 41
East of England +10 53 £525 +27.27% 47
East Midlands +11 28 £360 +1.41% 28
North East -2 2 £500 -44.26% 25
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 91 (7.10%) Confluence
2 52 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.25%) CMS
4 13 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.78%) IIS
6 7 (0.55%) JBoss
7 6 (0.47%) nginx
7 6 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.39%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.31%) CICS
9 4 (0.31%) Mule
10 3 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
11 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.078%) Apache
12 1 (0.078%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.078%) Oracle UPK
12 1 (0.078%) SAS
12 1 (0.078%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 78 (6.08%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
4 34 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (2.18%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.70%) Trello
7 6 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.31%) Windchill
9 3 (0.23%) InfoPath
10 2 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.078%) Notion
11 1 (0.078%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.078%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 38 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (0.86%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 7 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.55%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.47%) SAP PP
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.39%) SAP APO
6 4 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.31%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.31%) VisionPLUS
7 3 (0.23%) Endur
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 94 (7.33%) Azure
2 63 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (4.84%) AWS
4 57 (4.45%) Power Platform
5 42 (3.28%) SaaS
6 25 (1.95%) GCP
7 24 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (1.48%) Entra ID
10 18 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (1.40%) Amazon S3
10 18 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (1.33%) Amazon ELB
11 17 (1.33%) AWS KMS
12 15 (1.17%) GitHub
13 13 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.86%) OCI
14 11 (0.86%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 101 (7.88%) Firewall
2 46 (3.59%) Network Security
3 42 (3.28%) DNS
4 40 (3.12%) WAN
5 29 (2.26%) VPN
6 25 (1.95%) BGP
7 24 (1.87%) LAN
7 24 (1.87%) OSPF
8 22 (1.72%) Wireless
9 21 (1.64%) HTTP
10 20 (1.56%) SD-WAN
10 20 (1.56%) SSH
11 16 (1.25%) MPLS
11 16 (1.25%) SMTP
12 15 (1.17%) FTP
12 15 (1.17%) SSL
13 13 (1.01%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (1.01%) IPsec
14 12 (0.94%) DHCP
15 11 (0.86%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.59%) Power BI
2 26 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.72%) Oracle Database
4 19 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (0.94%) Metadata
7 11 (0.86%) NoSQL
8 10 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.78%) Tableau
9 9 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.70%) RDBMS
10 8 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.62%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.47%) Siebel EIM
13 4 (0.31%) MySQL
14 3 (0.23%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 2 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 134 (10.45%) JIRA
2 45 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 34 (2.65%) Git
4 19 (1.48%) Vagrant
5 14 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (0.78%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.62%) MSI
7 8 (0.62%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (0.47%) CA Release Automation
8 6 (0.47%) GitLab
8 6 (0.47%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.31%) ChangeMan
10 4 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.16%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.16%) Selenium
General
1 461 (35.96%) Finance
2 450 (35.10%) Social Skills
3 198 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (11.15%) Banking
5 101 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 63 (4.91%) Manufacturing
7 56 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
8 53 (4.13%) Telecoms
9 52 (4.06%) Legal
9 52 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (3.20%) Law
10 41 (3.20%) Marketing
11 35 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 28 (2.18%) Retail
13 25 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (1.87%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.25%) French Language
16 14 (1.09%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 200 (15.60%) Analyst
2 165 (12.87%) Project Manager
3 119 (9.28%) Business Analyst
4 102 (7.96%) Lead
5 89 (6.94%) Change Manager
6 82 (6.40%) Consultant
7 63 (4.91%) Senior
8 62 (4.84%) Administrator
9 54 (4.21%) IT Manager
10 49 (3.82%) Architect
11 47 (3.67%) Developer
12 44 (3.43%) Service Manager
13 43 (3.35%) Programme Manager
14 36 (2.81%) Delivery Manager
15 33 (2.57%) Network Engineer
16 27 (2.11%) Business Manager
16 27 (2.11%) DevOps Engineer
16 27 (2.11%) Senior Manager
17 24 (1.87%) IT Project Manager
17 24 (1.87%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.40%) .NET
2 15 (1.17%) REST
2 15 (1.17%) Web Services
3 14 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (1.09%) SOAP
4 13 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (0.86%) HTML
6 9 (0.70%) CSS
7 8 (0.62%) 802.1X
7 8 (0.62%) Middleware
7 8 (0.62%) RESTful
7 8 (0.62%) Spring Boot
8 7 (0.55%) .NET Framework
8 7 (0.55%) LDAP
9 6 (0.47%) JMS
9 6 (0.47%) React
9 6 (0.47%) XML
10 5 (0.39%) ADO
11 4 (0.31%) Ajax
11 4 (0.31%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 58 (4.52%) Management Information System
2 53 (4.13%) Data Centre
3 44 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 42 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.89%) CMDB
6 28 (2.18%) Life Science
7 23 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 18 (1.40%) Replication
11 17 (1.33%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
12 16 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.17%) PKI
13 15 (1.17%) Security Posture
14 14 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (0.94%) Cloud Native
15 12 (0.94%) e-Learning
16 9 (0.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 114 (8.89%) Windows
2 58 (4.52%) Linux
3 29 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.48%) Unix
5 18 (1.40%) VMS
6 17 (1.33%) Amazon Linux
7 15 (1.17%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.62%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.39%) zOS
11 3 (0.23%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.16%) MVS
12 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.078%) Android
13 1 (0.078%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.078%) SUSE
13 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (25.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 298 (23.24%) Agile
3 266 (20.75%) Project Management
4 244 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
5 217 (16.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 197 (15.37%) ITIL
7 190 (14.82%) Migration
8 170 (13.26%) Project Delivery
9 148 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 141 (11.00%) Risk Management
11 122 (9.52%) Service Management
12 112 (8.74%) Roadmaps
13 109 (8.50%) ERP
14 108 (8.42%) Decision-Making
15 107 (8.35%) DevOps
16 93 (7.25%) Process Improvement
17 87 (6.79%) PRINCE2
18 86 (6.71%) Service Delivery
19 81 (6.32%) Data Migration
20 78 (6.08%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 89 (6.94%) SQL
2 69 (5.38%) Python
3 60 (4.68%) PowerShell
4 39 (3.04%) Java
5 30 (2.34%) C#
6 23 (1.79%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.64%) Perl
7 21 (1.64%) PL/SQL
8 17 (1.33%) Groovy
9 6 (0.47%) Go
9 6 (0.47%) VB
10 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.39%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.23%) ABAP
11 3 (0.23%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.23%) Formula Language
11 3 (0.23%) LotusScript
11 3 (0.23%) REXX
11 3 (0.23%) Ruby
11 3 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 195 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 172 (13.42%) Degree
3 121 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 60 (4.68%) PMI Certification
4 60 (4.68%) PMP
5 41 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
6 40 (3.12%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.64%) CCNP
10 15 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.01%) CCNA
12 12 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 12 (0.94%) CBAP
12 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.78%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.70%) APMG
15 8 (0.62%) BC Cleared
16 7 (0.55%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.90%) QA
2 44 (3.43%) PMO
3 35 (2.73%) SLA
4 32 (2.50%) GDPR
5 29 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 17 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.33%) NIST
7 12 (0.94%) MiFID
8 11 (0.86%) EMIR
9 10 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.55%) NCSC
11 7 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.47%) ITGC
13 4 (0.31%) P3O
14 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.23%) IFRS
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 60 (4.68%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.34%) Docker
3 16 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.09%) DFS Replication
4 14 (1.09%) Firmware
4 14 (1.09%) vSphere
5 12 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.47%) Dovecot
6 6 (0.47%) Postfix
6 6 (0.47%) Squid
7 5 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.078%) KVM
10 1 (0.078%) Snort
10 1 (0.078%) SRDF
10 1 (0.078%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.078%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (2.65%) Grafana
2 30 (2.34%) Prometheus
3 27 (2.11%) Terraform
4 26 (2.03%) Kubernetes
5 24 (1.87%) Ansible
6 19 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (1.48%) SCCM
7 14 (1.09%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (0.55%) Kibana
8 7 (0.55%) Nessus
8 7 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.31%) CA Endevor
9 4 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
9 4 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (0.31%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.31%) SCOM
10 3 (0.23%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.23%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.23%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 236 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 137 (10.69%) SAP
3 92 (7.18%) ServiceNow
4 84 (6.55%) Oracle
5 71 (5.54%) Cisco
6 41 (3.20%) Salesforce
7 32 (2.50%) Juniper
7 32 (2.50%) Splunk
8 28 (2.18%) Remedy
9 25 (1.95%) Google
9 25 (1.95%) VMware
10 19 (1.48%) Workday
11 17 (1.33%) CheckPoint
11 17 (1.33%) F5
12 14 (1.09%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.01%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.86%) Commvault
14 11 (0.86%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.86%) SolarWinds
15 10 (0.78%) IBM