Change Management Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Change Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Change Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 47 41
Rank change year-on-year +20 -6 +20
Contract jobs citing Change Management 178 97 128
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 6.55% 3.62% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.38% 4.33% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 59 81
10th Percentile £321 £211 £363
25th Percentile £365 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -10.60% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £618
90th Percentile £646 £690 £730
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile - £34.61 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £35.64 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.72 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.46% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £40.17 -
90th Percentile £44.63 £41.42 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £58.17 £48.40
% change year-on-year -48.43% +20.19% +66.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,411 2,240 2,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.77% 83.55% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,551 1,406 1,725
10th Percentile £250 £253 £250
25th Percentile £363 £365 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +2.04% -1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £699 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 68 105
10th Percentile £13.96 £14.53 £13.82
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.44 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.35 £23.05 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% -16.18% +56.61%
75th Percentile £26.51 £40.32 £51.50
90th Percentile £42.41 £53.25 £68.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Change Management job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Change Management

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the Midlands

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Change Management

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the Midlands

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 October 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 Midlands +16 139 £475 -5.00% 39
East Midlands +16 39 £445 +42.40% 26
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 30 (16.85%) Confluence
2 12 (6.74%) nginx
3 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.12%) IIS
5 1 (0.56%) CICS
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Mule
Applications
1 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (7.30%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (6.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.12%) Trello
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.12%) PRMS
1 2 (1.12%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.56%) Maximo
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 41 (23.03%) AWS
2 25 (14.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 25 (14.04%) Amazon EC2
2 25 (14.04%) Amazon S3
2 25 (14.04%) AWS KMS
2 25 (14.04%) Azure
2 25 (14.04%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (14.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 24 (13.48%) Amazon ELB
4 13 (7.30%) GCP
4 13 (7.30%) Route 53
5 12 (6.74%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (6.74%) Amazon Glacier
6 5 (2.81%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.25%) Serverless
8 3 (1.69%) Intacct
9 2 (1.12%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.12%) Smartsheet
9 2 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 45 (25.28%) DNS
2 41 (23.03%) Firewall
3 24 (13.48%) HTTP
3 24 (13.48%) SMTP
4 22 (12.36%) FTP
4 22 (12.36%) SSH
5 16 (8.99%) VPN
5 16 (8.99%) WAN
5 16 (8.99%) Wireless
6 14 (7.87%) DHCP
7 12 (6.74%) IMAP
7 12 (6.74%) OpenLDAP
8 11 (6.18%) IPsec
8 11 (6.18%) SSL
9 9 (5.06%) Cisco IPT
9 9 (5.06%) DMVPN
10 8 (4.49%) Network Security
11 7 (3.93%) LAN
12 6 (3.37%) TCP/IP
13 5 (2.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.04%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.81%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.81%) Power BI
6 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.12%) Metadata
7 2 (1.12%) Tableau
8 1 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 37 (20.79%) JIRA
2 28 (15.73%) Jenkins
3 24 (13.48%) Git
3 24 (13.48%) Vagrant
4 4 (2.25%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.69%) GitLab
5 3 (1.69%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.56%) ChangeMan
6 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (38.76%) Social Skills
2 51 (28.65%) Finance
3 34 (19.10%) Public Sector
4 27 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.99%) Manufacturing
6 15 (8.43%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (7.87%) Banking
8 13 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (6.18%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (5.62%) Legal
11 7 (3.93%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (2.25%) Law
14 3 (1.69%) Automotive
14 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
15 2 (1.12%) General Ledger
15 2 (1.12%) Marketing
15 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (18.54%) Analyst
2 25 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (14.04%) Project Manager
3 20 (11.24%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (10.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 19 (10.67%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (10.11%) AWS DevOps
5 18 (10.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 17 (9.55%) Support Analyst
7 13 (7.30%) Lead
8 12 (6.74%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 12 (6.74%) Senior
9 11 (6.18%) Business Analyst
9 11 (6.18%) Change Manager
9 11 (6.18%) IT Analyst
9 11 (6.18%) IT Support
10 10 (5.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) IT Support Analyst
11 9 (5.06%) SAP Manager
12 8 (4.49%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.74%) LDAP
2 9 (5.06%) 802.1X
3 8 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.81%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (2.25%) REST
6 3 (1.69%) RESTful
7 2 (1.12%) .NET
7 2 (1.12%) HTML
7 2 (1.12%) Middleware
7 2 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.92%) Replication
2 19 (10.67%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.18%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.18%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.49%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.49%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.37%) SCADA
6 5 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 5 (2.81%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 41 (23.03%) Windows
2 35 (19.66%) Linux
3 24 (13.48%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (13.48%) VMS
4 11 (6.18%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.81%) Unix
5 5 (2.81%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.56%) AIX
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Solaris
6 1 (0.56%) SUSE
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.40%) DevOps
2 44 (24.72%) Project Management
3 35 (19.66%) Agile
3 35 (19.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (19.10%) Migration
4 34 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (17.42%) ITIL
6 28 (15.73%) Cloud Security
7 27 (15.17%) CI/CD
7 27 (15.17%) Project Delivery
8 24 (13.48%) Configuration Management
8 24 (13.48%) Patch Management
8 24 (13.48%) Platform Engineering
8 24 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (10.11%) Process Improvement
11 16 (8.99%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (8.43%) Decision-Making
12 15 (8.43%) Project Governance
12 15 (8.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (20.22%) Python
2 33 (18.54%) PowerShell
3 24 (13.48%) Groovy
4 20 (11.24%) SQL
5 15 (8.43%) Java
6 12 (6.74%) Perl
7 5 (2.81%) Bash
8 4 (2.25%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.69%) Go
10 2 (1.12%) C#
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 48 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 45 (25.28%) Degree
3 42 (23.60%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (6.74%) AWS Certification
6 10 (5.62%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.93%) PMP
8 6 (3.37%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.81%) A+ Certification
9 5 (2.81%) CCNA
9 5 (2.81%) CCNP
9 5 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.81%) MCDST
9 5 (2.81%) MCP
9 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.69%) BC Cleared
12 2 (1.12%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.06%) QA
2 7 (3.93%) PMO
3 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.12%) GDPR
3 2 (1.12%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.12%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.56%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.56%) P3O
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (19.10%) Docker
2 26 (14.61%) Active Directory
3 22 (12.36%) DFS Replication
4 12 (6.74%) Dovecot
4 12 (6.74%) Postfix
4 12 (6.74%) Squid
5 5 (2.81%) Firmware
6 1 (0.56%) Snort
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (16.29%) Grafana
1 29 (16.29%) Terraform
2 27 (15.17%) Prometheus
3 13 (7.30%) Kubernetes
4 12 (6.74%) Nessus
5 10 (5.62%) Proxmox
6 9 (5.06%) SCCM
7 8 (4.49%) Ansible
8 5 (2.81%) Kibana
8 5 (2.81%) Puppet
9 2 (1.12%) Nagios
10 1 (0.56%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.56%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 32 (17.98%) ServiceNow
3 19 (10.67%) Cisco
4 15 (8.43%) SAP
5 12 (6.74%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (6.18%) Juniper
7 10 (5.62%) CheckPoint
8 9 (5.06%) Blue Coat
8 9 (5.06%) F5
9 8 (4.49%) Splunk
10 7 (3.93%) Oracle
11 5 (2.81%) Google
11 5 (2.81%) iManage
11 5 (2.81%) Mitel
11 5 (2.81%) Peregrine
11 5 (2.81%) Remedy
11 5 (2.81%) Salesforce
12 4 (2.25%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.69%) Sage
13 3 (1.69%) Workday