Change Manager Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Change Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Change Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 260 305
Rank change year-on-year -42 +45 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Change Manager 96 88 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.62% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.67% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 61 68
10th Percentile £348 £425 £413
25th Percentile £413 £493 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £620 £625 £679
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £573
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.68% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £26.06 - -
25th Percentile £35.41 £18.14 £30.03
Median hourly rate £64.75 £19.32 £30.05
Median % change year-on-year +235.23% -35.72% -
75th Percentile £71.00 £20.49 £30.08
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £64.75 £19.32 £42.53
% change year-on-year +235.23% -54.58% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 16,428 13,110 18,223
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.40% 92.35% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,123 7,751 11,803
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,640 737 1,313
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.30 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.16% -30.00% +73.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.14 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -26.97% +36.92%

Change Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Change Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Change Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Change Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Change Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Change Manager job vacancies 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 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Change Manager in the UK excluding London

Change Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Change Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Change Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Change Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 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
South East -1 28 £517 +1.32% 12
North of England -58 26 £510 -0.97% 10
North West -34 19 £481 -6.55% 8
Midlands -48 19 £492 -6.29% 3
West Midlands -52 13 £550 +4.76% 2
South West +1 11 £425 -22.73% 2
Yorkshire -40 7 £541 - 1
Scotland -2 6 £475 -5.00%
East Midlands -19 6 £463 -11.90% 1
East of England -9 5 £375 - 1
Wales -7 1 £400 -33.33%
North East -14 1 £533 -11.25% 1
Change Manager
UK

Change Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 January 2026, Change Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 56 (58.33%) Change Management
2 34 (35.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (30.21%) Impact Assessments
4 28 (29.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (23.96%) Security Cleared
6 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (13.54%) Agile
8 12 (12.50%) ITIL
8 12 (12.50%) JIRA
9 11 (11.46%) Azure
9 11 (11.46%) Business Strategy
9 11 (11.46%) Project Management
9 11 (11.46%) Risk Management
10 10 (10.42%) Change Control
10 10 (10.42%) Process Improvement
11 9 (9.38%) APMG
11 9 (9.38%) ERP
11 9 (9.38%) Project Delivery
11 9 (9.38%) SAP
11 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
12 8 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (8.33%) DV Cleared
12 8 (8.33%) Roadmaps
12 8 (8.33%) ServiceNow
13 7 (7.29%) Decision-Making
13 7 (7.29%) ITSM
13 7 (7.29%) Oracle
13 7 (7.29%) Release Management
13 7 (7.29%) Service Management
13 7 (7.29%) Strategic Thinking

Change Manager Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) SAP ERP
1 3 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.04%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.46%) Azure
2 6 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.13%) OCI
4 2 (2.08%) Canva
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.08%) SaaS
4 2 (2.08%) Viva Engage
5 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.04%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) Broadband
1 1 (1.04%) NGN
1 1 (1.04%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Electronic Patient Records
1 3 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.04%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 36 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.83%) Finance
3 18 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.46%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.29%) Banking
7 5 (5.21%) Local Government
8 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.17%) Retail
9 3 (3.13%) Back Office
9 3 (3.13%) Legal
10 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.08%) Law
10 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.04%) Front Office
11 1 (1.04%) Military
11 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.17%) NHS
3 3 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.04%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.04%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.04%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.04%) Life Science
5 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.04%) SCADA
5 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.08%) Windows
2 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (58.33%) Change Management
2 34 (35.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (30.21%) Impact Assessments
4 28 (29.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.54%) Agile
7 12 (12.50%) ITIL
8 11 (11.46%) Business Strategy
8 11 (11.46%) Project Management
8 11 (11.46%) Risk Management
9 10 (10.42%) Change Control
9 10 (10.42%) Process Improvement
10 9 (9.38%) ERP
10 9 (9.38%) Project Delivery
11 8 (8.33%) Roadmaps
12 7 (7.29%) Decision-Making
12 7 (7.29%) ITSM
12 7 (7.29%) Release Management
12 7 (7.29%) Service Management
12 7 (7.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (23.96%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.38%) APMG
2 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.21%) BC Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.13%) Degree
7 2 (2.08%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.08%) PMP
8 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.04%) Server+ Certification
8 1 (1.04%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) PMO
2 2 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.04%) NCSC
3 1 (1.04%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (9.38%) SAP
2 8 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.29%) Oracle
4 5 (5.21%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.21%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.08%) Adobe
6 1 (1.04%) Epicor
6 1 (1.04%) Workday