Change Management Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Change Management
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Change Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 34 40
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Change Management 52 18 29
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 6.21% 4.26% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.74% 4.70% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 22
10th Percentile £406 £417 £213
25th Percentile £450 £459 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% +11.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £575
90th Percentile £750 £750 -
East of England median daily rate £475 £510 £400
% change year-on-year -6.86% +27.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.63 -
75th Percentile £22.68 £22.88 -
90th Percentile £39.06 £23.33 -
East of England median hourly rate £22.68 £22.63 £35.09
% change year-on-year +0.22% -35.50% -40.28%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 672 383 680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 80.19% 90.54% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 179 234
10th Percentile £198 £249 £213
25th Percentile £406 £425 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +37.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £658 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £675 £700
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 107 299
10th Percentile £15.99 £16.94 £34.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.10 £38.12
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £68.75 £67.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.91 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Change Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Change Management job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Change Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Change Management

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in Hertfordshire

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Change Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Change Management

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in Hertfordshire

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Stevenage +14 30 £525 -0.94% 1
Hatfield +1 8 £438 +28.30%
Watford -2 7 £450 - 3
Welwyn Garden City +1 4 £750 +25.00%
St Albans - 1 £650 - 1
Change Management
East of England

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 15 (28.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Maximo
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) AWS
1 5 (9.62%) Azure
2 4 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (5.77%) SaaS
4 2 (3.85%) OCI
4 2 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.92%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.92%) Google Gemini
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.92%) Serverless
5 1 (1.92%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) Structured Cabling
2 8 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (7.69%) SNMP
4 1 (1.92%) Firewall
4 1 (1.92%) LAN
4 1 (1.92%) Network Security
4 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.77%) QlikView
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.92%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) Hudson
General
1 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 4 (7.69%) Aviation
3 4 (7.69%) Retail
4 3 (5.77%) Law
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Administrator
1 14 (26.92%) SAP Administrator
1 14 (26.92%) SAP Support
2 12 (23.08%) Project Manager
3 10 (19.23%) SAP Security Administrator
3 10 (19.23%) Security Administrator
4 8 (15.38%) Data Centre Manager
4 8 (15.38%) Data Centre Project Manager
5 7 (13.46%) Data Manager
6 5 (9.62%) Analyst
6 5 (9.62%) Business Analyst
6 5 (9.62%) Consultant
7 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Product Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Security Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Security Project Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) eBPF
1 4 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.92%) REST
3 1 (1.92%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.92%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Android
2 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (28.85%) SDLC
3 14 (26.92%) SAP Security
4 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (23.08%) Risk Management
5 12 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (17.31%) PRINCE2
6 9 (17.31%) Project Management
7 8 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 7 (13.46%) Project Planning
9 6 (11.54%) Line Management
9 6 (11.54%) Project Delivery
9 6 (11.54%) Project Governance
9 6 (11.54%) User Experience
10 5 (9.62%) Asset Management
10 5 (9.62%) Business Analysis
10 5 (9.62%) CAFM
10 5 (9.62%) DevOps
10 5 (9.62%) Use Case
10 5 (9.62%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.69%) Bash
1 4 (7.69%) Python
1 4 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (44.23%) Security Cleared
2 15 (28.85%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 5 (9.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.92%) CCSP
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.92%) CISSP
6 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Ansible
1 4 (7.69%) Grafana
1 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
1 4 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) SAP
2 5 (9.62%) IBM
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
2 5 (9.62%) Planon
3 4 (7.69%) Cribl.io
3 4 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 4 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (1.92%) Apple
4 1 (1.92%) Computacenter
4 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) IFS
4 1 (1.92%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow