Business Change Management Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Business Change Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Business Change Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 319 389
Rank change year-on-year -64 +70 +77
Contract jobs citing Business Change Management 11 20 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.060% 0.14% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.16% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 11
10th Percentile £493 - £413
25th Percentile £515 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £619
90th Percentile £785 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £633 £538 £556
% change year-on-year +17.67% -3.37% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.43 - -
25th Percentile £21.07 - -
Median hourly rate £22.13 - -
75th Percentile £23.20 - -
90th Percentile £23.83 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.13 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 12,154 16,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.23% 88.03% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,576 7,108 10,751
10th Percentile £223 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,689 687 1,278
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.00 £16.94
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.83
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% -30.52% +51.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.02 £73.85 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

Business Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Business Change Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Business Change Management
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Change Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Change Management

Business Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Change Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Change Management in the UK excluding London

Business Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Change Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Change Management

Business Change Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Change Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Midlands -41 4 £550 +4.76% 2
South East -22 3 £542 -16.65% 3
West Midlands -35 3 £675 +28.62% 1
South West -19 2 £750 +29.03%
North West -27 2 £525 -7.69% 1
North of England -58 2 £525 -7.69% 1
East Midlands -23 1 £475 -9.52% 1
Business Change Management
UK

Business Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (9.09%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) OCI
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Change Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Business Change Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Business Manager
2 3 (27.27%) IT Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Change Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) CRM Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Head of Business Change
4 1 (9.09%) Head of CRM
4 1 (9.09%) Head of IT
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) IT Change Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Security Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Change Management
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (9.09%) Contract Negotiation
4 1 (9.09%) CRM
4 1 (9.09%) Data Management
4 1 (9.09%) Document Management
4 1 (9.09%) Emotional Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) ERP
4 1 (9.09%) Logistics
4 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Project Management
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) APMG
2 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce