Change Manager Contracts in England

Change Manager
UK > England

The median Change Manager daily rate in England is £536, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 350 351
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Change Manager 124 195 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.54% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.58% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 145 219
10th Percentile £419 £425 £418
25th Percentile £475 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £602 £675 £638
90th Percentile £688 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £56.21 £53.18
25th Percentile - £58.03 -
Median hourly rate - £61.06 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.07% +74.42%
75th Percentile - £65.28 £62.81
90th Percentile - £67.81 £77.25
UK median hourly rate - £61.06 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +13.07% +35.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,160 33,731 45,413
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,728 22,389 32,257
10th Percentile £293 £282 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 2,440 1,336
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -18.13% +94.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

Change Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Change Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Change Manager in England

Change Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Change Manager in England

Change Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Manager in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Manager in England

Change Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Manager in England

Change Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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 +10 65 £581 -7.00% 31
North of England +35 31 £500 -6.98% 5
North West +34 30 £500 +3.85% 3
Midlands -1 14 £575 +4.55% 6
West Midlands -1 9 £575 -8.00% 5
South West +26 7 £463 -18.86% 2
South East +25 6 £500 -9.09% 16
East Midlands +4 4 £525 +34.44%
East of England +20 1 £550 +7.00% 1
Yorkshire +4 1 - - 2
Change Manager
UK

Change Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Change Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Change Manager in the job title.

1 77 (62.10%) Change Management
2 50 (40.32%) Social Skills
3 44 (35.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (26.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (21.77%) Impact Assessments
6 25 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (20.16%) Project Management
6 25 (20.16%) Security Cleared
7 24 (19.35%) Agile
8 23 (18.55%) ITIL
8 23 (18.55%) Finance
9 22 (17.74%) SC Cleared
10 21 (16.94%) Public Sector
11 19 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
12 16 (12.90%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (11.29%) Microsoft
14 13 (10.48%) Release Management
15 12 (9.68%) Impact Analysis
16 11 (8.87%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (8.87%) Project Delivery
16 11 (8.87%) Decision-Making
16 11 (8.87%) SAP
17 10 (8.06%) Service Management
17 10 (8.06%) Business Change Management
17 10 (8.06%) Business Transformation
18 9 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 9 (7.26%) Matrix Organization
18 9 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 9 (7.26%) ERP
18 9 (7.26%) Degree

Change Manager Skill Set
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 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.81%) CMS
2 1 (0.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.03%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.23%) Azure
3 3 (2.42%) Smartsheet
4 2 (1.61%) AWS
4 2 (1.61%) OCI
5 1 (0.81%) Asana
5 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.81%) BigCommerce
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.81%) Miro
5 1 (0.81%) SaaS
5 1 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.23%) Power BI
2 1 (0.81%) Data Hub
2 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (5.65%) JIRA
2 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.55%) Finance
3 21 (16.94%) Public Sector
4 19 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (12.90%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (8.87%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.65%) Retail
9 6 (4.84%) Banking
9 6 (4.84%) Manufacturing
9 6 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (4.03%) Military
11 4 (3.23%) Law
11 4 (3.23%) Legal
11 4 (3.23%) Marketing
12 3 (2.42%) Local Government
12 3 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.61%) Publishing
14 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.81%) Flash
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.81%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.23%) FMCG
1 4 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.42%) e-Learning
2 3 (2.42%) Life Science
2 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.61%) Educational Technology
3 2 (1.61%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (1.61%) Reinsurance
3 2 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (1.61%) Social Media
4 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.42%) Mac OS
1 3 (2.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (62.10%) Change Management
2 44 (35.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (26.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (21.77%) Impact Assessments
5 25 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (20.16%) Project Management
6 24 (19.35%) Agile
7 23 (18.55%) ITIL
8 13 (10.48%) Release Management
9 12 (9.68%) Impact Analysis
10 11 (8.87%) Decision-Making
10 11 (8.87%) Project Delivery
11 10 (8.06%) Business Change Management
11 10 (8.06%) Business Transformation
11 10 (8.06%) Service Management
12 9 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (7.26%) ERP
12 9 (7.26%) Matrix Organization
13 8 (6.45%) Migration
13 8 (6.45%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.61%) Java
2 1 (0.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.26%) Degree
4 3 (2.42%) APMG
5 2 (1.61%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.61%) PMP
6 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.81%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (2.42%) Grafana
1 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.42%) SCCM
1 3 (2.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.87%) SAP
3 8 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.42%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.42%) Splunk
5 2 (1.61%) Cisco
5 2 (1.61%) Oracle
5 2 (1.61%) Planview
5 2 (1.61%) Workday
6 1 (0.81%) Adobe
6 1 (0.81%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.81%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.81%) Sitecore