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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 35 46
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 44 11 31
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 5.24% 3.22% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.69% 3.51% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 4 26
10th Percentile £379 £454 £200
25th Percentile £429 £459 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £503 £446
Median % change year-on-year -7.96% +12.61% +13.33%
75th Percentile £626 £562 £569
90th Percentile £711 £618 £575
East of England median daily rate £475 £487 £413
% change year-on-year -2.51% +18.12% -17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £22.63 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.67% - -
75th Percentile £22.68 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £28.78 - -
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £60.00 £35.09
% change year-on-year -62.28% +71.01% -41.53%

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 658 313 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 78.33% 91.52% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 159 256
10th Percentile £200 £394 £233
25th Percentile £406 £450 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £659 £613 £600
90th Percentile £750 £675 £701
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 82 316
10th Percentile £16.32 £17.91 £38.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £41.25 £40.38
Median hourly rate £45.75 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.38% +26.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £68.75 £79.82 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.00
East of England median hourly rate £24.37 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year -38.55% -0.85% +81.82%

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 20 May 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
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 20 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
Stevenage +11 26 £525 -0.94% 2
Hatfield -10 9 £425 - 1
Watford -4 4 £463 - 1
Welwyn Garden City +5 3 £700 +55.56%
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £450 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (38.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.27%) PTC Creo
3 1 (2.27%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Maximo
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.09%) Azure
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (6.82%) AWS
2 3 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (4.55%) OCI
3 2 (4.55%) PaaS
3 2 (4.55%) SaaS
4 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.73%) Structured Cabling
2 9 (20.45%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (6.82%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (6.82%) QlikView
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.27%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Hudson
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 4 (9.09%) Aviation
3 4 (9.09%) Retail
4 3 (6.82%) Law
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Administrator
2 14 (31.82%) SAP Administrator
2 14 (31.82%) SAP Support
3 11 (25.00%) Project Manager
4 10 (22.73%) SAP Security Administrator
4 10 (22.73%) Security Administrator
5 9 (20.45%) Data Centre Manager
5 9 (20.45%) Data Centre Project Manager
6 5 (11.36%) Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Business Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Data Manager
7 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 3 (6.82%) Consultant
9 2 (4.55%) Cloud Consultant
9 2 (4.55%) Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Lead
9 2 (4.55%) Qlik Developer
10 1 (2.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 1 (2.27%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) eBPF
1 3 (6.82%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) PMI
4 1 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) SDLC
2 14 (31.82%) SAP Security
3 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 11 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (22.73%) PRINCE2
5 10 (22.73%) Project Management
5 10 (22.73%) Risk Management
6 8 (18.18%) Line Management
6 8 (18.18%) Project Planning
7 5 (11.36%) Business Analysis
7 5 (11.36%) Project Delivery
7 5 (11.36%) Project Governance
8 4 (9.09%) Asset Management
8 4 (9.09%) CAFM
8 4 (9.09%) Data Protection
8 4 (9.09%) DevOps
8 4 (9.09%) Facilities Management
8 4 (9.09%) Release Management
8 4 (9.09%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) SQL
2 3 (6.82%) Bash
2 3 (6.82%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (38.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (22.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 5 (11.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) Degree
5 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.27%) GDPR
1 1 (2.27%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Ansible
1 3 (6.82%) Grafana
1 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
1 3 (6.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) SAP
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle
3 4 (9.09%) IBM
3 4 (9.09%) Planon
4 3 (6.82%) Cribl.io
4 3 (6.82%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.82%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) Computacenter
5 1 (2.27%) EMC
5 1 (2.27%) IFS
5 1 (2.27%) PTC
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce