Change Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Change Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 46 45
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 624 796 1,126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.89% 3.83% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.41% 4.52% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 523 759
10th Percentile £312 £313 £287
25th Percentile £368 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £556 £579 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 57 40
10th Percentile £25.30 £14.26 £20.98
25th Percentile £32.05 £26.73 £31.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £47.50 £47.12
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +0.81% +135.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.60 £67.81
90th Percentile £78.77 £66.00 £87.97
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £48.00 £48.13
% change year-on-year +12.50% -0.27% +114.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK excluding London

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 Change Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +8 214 £450 -12.45% 176
North West +20 117 £438 -13.92% 113
South East +5 107 £483 -0.21% 196
Midlands +5 88 £500 -1.23% 109
Yorkshire +2 87 £463 -10.02% 47
South West -2 79 £500 -9.09% 83
West Midlands +11 72 £500 -2.44% 81
Scotland -9 68 £400 -15.79% 43
East of England +16 50 £487 +21.81% 41
Northern Ireland +1 13 £570 +31.03% 18
East Midlands -4 13 £354 -25.47% 23
North East -3 9 £575 -4.17% 17
Wales -9 9 £375 -29.25% 12
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (5.93%) Confluence
2 23 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (3.53%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.64%) IIS
5 3 (0.48%) Apache
5 3 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.48%) JBoss
6 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.16%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 52 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (6.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (0.48%) Trello
7 2 (0.32%) Open Workbench
8 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.16%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.16%) QuarkXPress
Business Applications
1 14 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (1.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 5 (0.80%) SAP PP
5 4 (0.64%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.64%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.32%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.16%) iTrent
8 1 (0.16%) Maximo
8 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.16%) SAP QM
8 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 44 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (6.89%) Azure
3 23 (3.69%) Power Platform
4 21 (3.37%) Entra ID
5 13 (2.08%) AWS
6 11 (1.76%) IaaS
6 11 (1.76%) Yammer
7 10 (1.60%) SaaS
8 7 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (0.96%) GCP
9 6 (0.96%) GitHub
9 6 (0.96%) Google Workspace
10 5 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.80%) OCI
10 5 (0.80%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.64%) Mimecast
11 4 (0.64%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.48%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.41%) Firewall
2 26 (4.17%) Network Security
3 19 (3.04%) WAN
4 13 (2.08%) DNS
4 13 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
5 12 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.76%) LAN
6 11 (1.76%) SAN
6 11 (1.76%) VPN
7 10 (1.60%) MPLS
8 9 (1.44%) Wireless
9 8 (1.28%) BGP
9 8 (1.28%) DHCP
9 8 (1.28%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.12%) OSPF
11 6 (0.96%) EIGRP
11 6 (0.96%) Internet
12 5 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.80%) SSL
12 5 (0.80%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.37%) Power BI
3 17 (2.72%) Oracle Database
4 16 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (1.76%) SAP HANA
6 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.64%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.48%) Power Query
9 3 (0.48%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.48%) Siebel EIM
9 3 (0.48%) Tableau
10 2 (0.32%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.32%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.32%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (0.32%) Metadata
10 2 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 49 (7.85%) JIRA
2 17 (2.72%) Git
3 12 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.28%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.48%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.48%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.48%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.32%) Selenium
8 1 (0.16%) GitLab
8 1 (0.16%) GoCD
8 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
General
1 238 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 191 (30.61%) Finance
3 129 (20.67%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 48 (7.69%) Banking
6 45 (7.21%) Telecoms
7 44 (7.05%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (5.29%) Manufacturing
9 30 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (3.37%) Legal
11 17 (2.72%) Marketing
12 15 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.08%) Law
14 11 (1.76%) Retail
15 9 (1.44%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.44%) Automotive
15 9 (1.44%) Military
16 8 (1.28%) Electronics
16 8 (1.28%) French Language
Job Titles
1 111 (17.79%) Analyst
2 78 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 60 (9.62%) Lead
4 48 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 37 (5.93%) Change Manager
6 30 (4.81%) Senior
7 23 (3.69%) Administrator
7 23 (3.69%) Change Analyst
7 23 (3.69%) IT Manager
8 21 (3.37%) Consultant
8 21 (3.37%) Developer
8 21 (3.37%) Network Engineer
9 19 (3.04%) Service Manager
10 16 (2.56%) Programme Manager
11 14 (2.24%) Architect
12 13 (2.08%) Backup Engineer
12 13 (2.08%) IT Project Manager
12 13 (2.08%) Senior Manager
13 12 (1.92%) Systems Administrator
14 11 (1.76%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (1.60%) CSS
3 9 (1.44%) Web Services
4 8 (1.28%) HTML
4 8 (1.28%) SOAP
5 6 (0.96%) .NET
5 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (0.96%) Middleware
6 5 (0.80%) LDAP
6 5 (0.80%) REST
7 4 (0.64%) Ajax
7 4 (0.64%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.64%) React
7 4 (0.64%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.64%) XML
8 3 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.48%) JMS
9 2 (0.32%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.32%) EDI
9 2 (0.32%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.53%) Management Information System
2 30 (4.81%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.01%) CMDB
4 21 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.56%) Operational Technology
5 16 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.24%) PMI
7 12 (1.92%) Life Science
8 10 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.12%) PKI
10 6 (0.96%) e-Learning
10 6 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.96%) NHS
11 5 (0.80%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (0.80%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.80%) SCADA
12 4 (0.64%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 54 (8.65%) Windows
2 23 (3.69%) Linux
3 21 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.12%) Unix
5 6 (0.96%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.64%) zOS
7 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (26.60%) Agile
2 151 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
3 149 (23.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 145 (23.24%) Project Management
5 112 (17.95%) ITIL
6 84 (13.46%) Migration
7 75 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 72 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 71 (11.38%) Project Delivery
10 64 (10.26%) Service Management
11 59 (9.46%) PRINCE2
11 59 (9.46%) Problem Management
11 59 (9.46%) Risk Management
11 59 (9.46%) Waterfall
12 52 (8.33%) Decision-Making
13 50 (8.01%) Incident Management
14 49 (7.85%) Process Improvement
15 43 (6.89%) Business Case
16 42 (6.73%) DevOps
17 41 (6.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.25%) SQL
2 30 (4.81%) PowerShell
3 26 (4.17%) Python
4 10 (1.60%) Java
5 8 (1.28%) C#
5 8 (1.28%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.96%) VB
7 5 (0.80%) Kotlin
7 5 (0.80%) VBA
8 4 (0.64%) Delphi
8 4 (0.64%) JCL
8 4 (0.64%) Perl
9 3 (0.48%) Ruby
10 2 (0.32%) MUMPS
10 2 (0.32%) REXX
10 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.16%) Bash
11 1 (0.16%) Groovy
11 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 81 (12.98%) Security Cleared
2 68 (10.90%) Degree
3 40 (6.41%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.97%) DV Cleared
4 31 (4.97%) PMI Certification
5 23 (3.69%) PMP
6 19 (3.04%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.44%) APMG
9 8 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.12%) ISEB
11 6 (0.96%) CCNP
11 6 (0.96%) CISSP
12 5 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.64%) CRISC
13 4 (0.64%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.77%) PMO
2 17 (2.72%) QA
3 14 (2.24%) GDPR
4 12 (1.92%) SLA
5 10 (1.60%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.48%) P3O
9 2 (0.32%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.32%) ITGC
9 2 (0.32%) MiFID
10 1 (0.16%) COBIT
10 1 (0.16%) GMP
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (6.09%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.76%) vSphere
4 10 (1.60%) Docker
5 7 (1.12%) Firmware
6 6 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.48%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.24%) Oracle RMAN
3 12 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.60%) Ansible
5 6 (0.96%) Grafana
5 6 (0.96%) Terraform
6 5 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
7 4 (0.64%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.64%) NetBackup
7 4 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.64%) Puppet
7 4 (0.64%) SCCM
7 4 (0.64%) Tivoli NetView
8 3 (0.48%) HP Data Protector
8 3 (0.48%) Kibana
9 2 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.32%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.32%) SCOM
9 2 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 90 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 71 (11.38%) SAP
3 63 (10.10%) Oracle
4 38 (6.09%) Cisco
5 34 (5.45%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.72%) Remedy
6 17 (2.72%) VMware
7 13 (2.08%) Commvault
7 13 (2.08%) HP
8 11 (1.76%) Google
9 10 (1.60%) Juniper
9 10 (1.60%) Splunk
10 9 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.28%) BMC
11 8 (1.28%) Workday
12 6 (0.96%) CheckPoint
12 6 (0.96%) IBM
12 6 (0.96%) SolarWinds
13 5 (0.80%) EMC
13 5 (0.80%) Veritas