Change Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Change Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Change Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 280 293
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Change Manager 65 120 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.58% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.62% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 95 122
10th Percentile £419 £413 £456
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £613
90th Percentile £623 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +1.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Change Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Change Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Change Manager in the UK excluding London

Change Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Change Manager in the UK excluding London

Change Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Manager in the UK excluding London

Change Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Change Manager in the UK excluding London

Change Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +35 30 £500 - 10
North West +31 28 £500 +3.85% 5
Midlands +13 16 £575 +11.65% 8
West Midlands +11 12 £575 -8.00% 7
South West +27 7 £463 -18.86% 2
South East +25 5 £500 -13.04% 10
Scotland -6 5 £450 -5.26% 2
East Midlands +12 3 £525 +34.44% 1
Wales +6 3 £600 -25.00%
East of England +23 2 £550 +15.06% 1
Yorkshire +1 1 - - 3
North East - 1 £500 - 2
Change Manager
UK

Change Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Change Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Change Manager in the job title.

1 37 (56.92%) Change Management
2 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
3 20 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (30.77%) Impact Assessments
4 15 (23.08%) ITIL
5 14 (21.54%) Agile
5 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
6 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (18.46%) Finance
7 11 (16.92%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (13.85%) Project Management
8 9 (13.85%) SC Cleared
8 9 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
9 8 (12.31%) Business Strategy
10 7 (10.77%) Release Management
10 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Office
10 7 (10.77%) ERP
11 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
11 6 (9.23%) Matrix Organization
11 6 (9.23%) PMO
11 6 (9.23%) Business Change Management
11 6 (9.23%) DevOps
11 6 (9.23%) Decision-Making
12 5 (7.69%) Impact Analysis
12 5 (7.69%) Spreadsheet
12 5 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
12 5 (7.69%) Microsoft

Change Manager Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.69%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.62%) OCI
2 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.54%) Data Hub
1 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Finance
3 11 (16.92%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (6.15%) Law
7 4 (6.15%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.08%) Legal
10 1 (1.54%) Back Office
10 1 (1.54%) Banking
10 1 (1.54%) Military
10 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.54%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.08%) Educational Technology
1 2 (3.08%) e-Learning
1 2 (3.08%) FMCG
2 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
2 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.54%) Life Science
2 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.54%) NHS
2 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.92%) Change Management
2 20 (30.77%) Impact Assessments
2 20 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (23.08%) ITIL
4 14 (21.54%) Agile
4 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (13.85%) Project Management
7 8 (12.31%) Business Strategy
8 7 (10.77%) ERP
8 7 (10.77%) Release Management
9 6 (9.23%) Business Change Management
9 6 (9.23%) Decision-Making
9 6 (9.23%) DevOps
9 6 (9.23%) Matrix Organization
9 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
10 5 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
10 5 (7.69%) Impact Analysis
10 5 (7.69%) Matrix Management
10 5 (7.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) Degree
4 3 (4.62%) APMG
5 1 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Grafana
1 3 (4.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle
2 4 (6.15%) SAP
3 3 (4.62%) Splunk
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow