Change Management Contract Job Trends in Kent

Change Management
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Change Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 +31
Contract jobs citing Change Management 5 11 26
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 3.50% 7.80% 13.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 8.94% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 23
10th Percentile £458 £425 £203
25th Percentile £525 £506 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £585 £520
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% +12.50% +2.46%
75th Percentile £638 £604 £525
90th Percentile - £623 -
South East median daily rate £484 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.90% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.10
25th Percentile - - £17.38
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £23.13
90th Percentile - - £24.70
South East median hourly rate £37.28 £56.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year -34.30% +15.81% +20.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 118 123 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 82.52% 87.23% 82.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 57 126
10th Percentile £179 £185 £205
25th Percentile £320 £310 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.39% +2.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £565
90th Percentile £638 £688 £647
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 12
10th Percentile £16.36 £19.40 £20.08
25th Percentile £18.41 £44.49 £33.50
Median hourly rate £20.40 £54.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -62.22% -0.46% +46.11%
75th Percentile £28.61 £57.54 £58.44
90th Percentile £39.00 £69.64 £66.44
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £47.51 £54.39
% change year-on-year -53.14% -12.64% +45.03%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Change Management job vacancy trend in Kent

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in Kent over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in Kent

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
West Malling -2 3 £625 +1.63% 2
Chatham - 1 £425 -
Change Management
South East

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Broadband
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Change and Release Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Change Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Release Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CRM
2 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (60.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Release Management
2 3 (60.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Test Management
2 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) BCP
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) VMware