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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 41 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 789 759 980
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.11% 4.17% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.72% 5.02% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 464 601
10th Percentile £323 £300 £320
25th Percentile £375 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £560 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £646 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 46 34
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.07 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.28 £26.29 £25.94
Median hourly rate £29.40 £45.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% -7.02% +120.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.60 £56.05
90th Percentile £70.05 £68.75 £62.31
UK median hourly rate £37.28 £55.00 £48.70
% change year-on-year -32.22% +12.94% +92.56%

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 13,799 15,124 19,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.31% 83.07% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,279 9,091 12,946
10th Percentile £240 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,370 1,541 1,187
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.65 £17.36
Median hourly rate £22.92 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.07% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.95 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.04
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -1.35% +56.60%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 16 August 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 0 265 £450 -12.45% 200
North West +4 160 £450 -11.07% 117
Midlands +19 150 £475 -0.58% 109
South East +5 136 £480 +0.63% 229
West Midlands +13 118 £475 -5.00% 71
Yorkshire -11 101 £450 -12.45% 60
South West +11 80 £495 -10.00% 59
Scotland -10 77 £441 -11.90% 66
East of England +10 54 £525 +31.25% 57
East Midlands +16 29 £360 +1.41% 36
Northern Ireland -1 21 £525 +208.82% 17
Wales 0 10 £375 -6.25% 14
North East -6 2 £500 -44.26% 27
Channel Islands - 1 - - 1
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 74 (9.38%) Confluence
2 21 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.01%) nginx
4 7 (0.89%) JBoss
4 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.76%) CMS
6 5 (0.63%) IIS
7 4 (0.51%) Mule
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 64 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.53%) MS Visio
6 8 (1.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.76%) Trello
8 4 (0.51%) Windchill
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 7 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.51%) SAP PP
4 4 (0.51%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.25%) Maximo
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.25%) PRMS
6 2 (0.25%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.25%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.13%) Kondor
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.13%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 58 (7.35%) AWS
2 49 (6.21%) Azure
3 40 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (3.55%) Power Platform
5 25 (3.17%) GCP
6 21 (2.66%) Amazon S3
7 20 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (2.41%) Amazon ELB
8 19 (2.41%) AWS KMS
8 19 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (1.90%) SaaS
10 14 (1.77%) GitHub
11 11 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (1.39%) Entra ID
12 10 (1.27%) Amazon Glacier
12 10 (1.27%) Route 53
12 10 (1.27%) Serverless
13 9 (1.14%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.01%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (8.62%) Firewall
2 39 (4.94%) DNS
3 31 (3.93%) Network Security
4 27 (3.42%) WAN
5 21 (2.66%) HTTP
5 21 (2.66%) SSH
6 18 (2.28%) SMTP
6 18 (2.28%) Wireless
7 17 (2.15%) FTP
8 14 (1.77%) LAN
9 13 (1.65%) VPN
10 12 (1.52%) DHCP
11 11 (1.39%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.27%) BGP
12 10 (1.27%) SSL
13 9 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
13 9 (1.14%) IPsec
13 9 (1.14%) MPLS
13 9 (1.14%) OSPF
14 8 (1.01%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.42%) Power BI
2 21 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (2.15%) Oracle Database
4 14 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (1.77%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.39%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.89%) RDBMS
9 7 (0.89%) SAP HANA
10 6 (0.76%) Metadata
10 6 (0.76%) Siebel EIM
11 4 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.51%) Power Query
12 3 (0.38%) Tableau
13 2 (0.25%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 110 (13.94%) JIRA
2 45 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 34 (4.31%) Git
4 21 (2.66%) Vagrant
5 13 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (1.14%) GitLab
6 9 (1.14%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.01%) Liquibase
8 7 (0.89%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.89%) MSI
8 7 (0.89%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.76%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (0.76%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.25%) Subversion
11 2 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.25%) webpack
12 1 (0.13%) ChangeMan
General
1 301 (38.15%) Social Skills
2 248 (31.43%) Finance
3 139 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.39%) Banking
5 73 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 54 (6.84%) Manufacturing
7 43 (5.45%) Telecoms
8 42 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
8 42 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (3.93%) Legal
11 17 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (2.15%) Retail
12 16 (2.03%) Aerospace
12 16 (2.03%) Law
12 16 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (1.90%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.52%) Marketing
15 11 (1.39%) Automotive
16 10 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 130 (16.48%) Analyst
2 91 (11.53%) Project Manager
3 63 (7.98%) Business Analyst
4 53 (6.72%) Administrator
5 48 (6.08%) Change Manager
6 45 (5.70%) Lead
7 35 (4.44%) Consultant
8 31 (3.93%) IT Manager
8 31 (3.93%) Senior
9 29 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 29 (3.68%) Programme Manager
10 24 (3.04%) Service Manager
11 22 (2.79%) Network Engineer
11 22 (2.79%) SAP Administrator
11 22 (2.79%) SAP Support
12 21 (2.66%) Delivery Manager
13 19 (2.41%) Architect
13 19 (2.41%) Developer
14 17 (2.15%) AWS DevOps
14 17 (2.15%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (1.65%) REST
2 13 (1.65%) Web Services
3 12 (1.52%) RESTful
4 11 (1.39%) SOAP
5 9 (1.14%) .NET
5 9 (1.14%) HTML
5 9 (1.14%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.01%) LDAP
7 7 (0.89%) 802.1X
7 7 (0.89%) CSS
7 7 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (0.76%) JMS
9 4 (0.51%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.51%) Gherkin
9 4 (0.51%) Middleware
9 4 (0.51%) XML
10 3 (0.38%) Ajax
10 3 (0.38%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.38%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.70%) Management Information System
2 43 (5.45%) Data Centre
3 31 (3.93%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.68%) CMDB
5 26 (3.30%) Life Science
6 20 (2.53%) Operational Technology
6 20 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.28%) Replication
8 17 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
10 15 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.77%) PKI
12 13 (1.65%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.39%) Cloud Native
14 11 (1.39%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (1.14%) Driving Licence
17 6 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 91 (11.53%) Windows
2 57 (7.22%) Linux
3 20 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 19 (2.41%) Amazon Linux
5 18 (2.28%) VMS
6 14 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.39%) Unix
8 9 (1.14%) Windows 10
9 8 (1.01%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.38%) zOS
11 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.13%) Android
12 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.13%) CentOS
12 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (24.71%) Agile
2 189 (23.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 169 (21.42%) Problem-Solving
4 153 (19.39%) Project Management
5 143 (18.12%) ITIL
6 118 (14.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 111 (14.07%) Migration
7 111 (14.07%) Project Delivery
8 94 (11.91%) DevOps
9 85 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 83 (10.52%) Service Management
11 75 (9.51%) Risk Management
12 70 (8.87%) Roadmaps
13 69 (8.75%) Process Improvement
14 60 (7.60%) Decision-Making
15 58 (7.35%) Problem Management
16 57 (7.22%) ITSM
17 56 (7.10%) CI/CD
17 56 (7.10%) Service Delivery
18 55 (6.97%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 53 (6.72%) Python
2 49 (6.21%) PowerShell
3 39 (4.94%) SQL
4 36 (4.56%) Java
5 19 (2.41%) Groovy
5 19 (2.41%) Perl
6 15 (1.90%) C#
7 11 (1.39%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.14%) Go
8 9 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.76%) VB
10 4 (0.51%) VBA
11 3 (0.38%) Ruby
11 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.38%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.25%) C++
12 2 (0.25%) JCL
12 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.25%) PromQL
12 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 148 (18.76%) Security Cleared
2 111 (14.07%) Degree
3 86 (10.90%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 29 (3.68%) PMP
6 28 (3.55%) PMI Certification
7 26 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
8 24 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.28%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.52%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.52%) CCNP
12 10 (1.27%) ISEB
13 8 (1.01%) CCNA
13 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.89%) BC Cleared
15 5 (0.63%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.80%) PMO
1 30 (3.80%) QA
2 17 (2.15%) GDPR
3 16 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.03%) SLA
4 7 (0.89%) NIST
5 6 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (0.76%) NCSC
5 6 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.51%) P3O
8 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.38%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.25%) GxP
9 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.13%) Basel III
10 1 (0.13%) PMBOK
System Software
1 40 (5.07%) Active Directory
2 32 (4.06%) Docker
3 16 (2.03%) DFS Replication
4 13 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.39%) Firmware
6 8 (1.01%) Dovecot
6 8 (1.01%) Postfix
6 8 (1.01%) Squid
7 7 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.89%) vSphere
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.38%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.13%) Snort
11 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (4.82%) Grafana
2 34 (4.31%) Prometheus
3 29 (3.68%) Kubernetes
4 28 (3.55%) Terraform
5 16 (2.03%) Oracle RMAN
5 16 (2.03%) SCCM
6 14 (1.77%) Ansible
7 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.01%) Nessus
8 7 (0.89%) Kibana
8 7 (0.89%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.76%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.38%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.38%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.38%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.38%) Puppet
13 2 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 145 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.77%) SAP
3 70 (8.87%) ServiceNow
4 55 (6.97%) Cisco
5 43 (5.45%) Oracle
6 30 (3.80%) Splunk
7 24 (3.04%) Juniper
8 22 (2.79%) Remedy
9 21 (2.66%) VMware
10 19 (2.41%) Salesforce
11 17 (2.15%) Google
12 14 (1.77%) F5
13 13 (1.65%) Commvault
14 12 (1.52%) CheckPoint
15 11 (1.39%) IBM
15 11 (1.39%) Red Hat
16 8 (1.01%) Atlassian
16 8 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
16 8 (1.01%) Twitter
16 8 (1.01%) Workday