Business Change Management Contracts

Business Change Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Business Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 536 606
Rank change year-on-year +10 +70 +167
Contract jobs citing Business Change Management 30 26 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.067% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.078% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 42
10th Percentile £443 £373 £426
25th Percentile £505 £457 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £556
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -2.25% -0.40%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £598
90th Percentile £693 £678 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £47.75 - -
25th Percentile - £66.50 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% - -
75th Percentile - £69.50 -
90th Percentile £54.96 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,981 33,385 47,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,763 21,485 32,677
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,667 1,871 1,564
10th Percentile £14.17 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +84.42%

Business Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Change Management in the UK

Business Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Change Management.

Daily rate trend for Business Change Management in the UK

Business Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Change Management over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Change Management in the UK

Business Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Change Management.

Hourly rate trend for Business Change Management in the UK

Business Change Management
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England +30 30 £525 -2.33% 23
London +16 15 £550 -8.33% 9
UK excluding London +2 15 £525 +6.33% 15
Work from Home +26 13 £525 +5.00% 16
North West +8 8 £358 -33.40% 4
North of England -3 8 £358 -33.40% 4
Midlands -7 6 £525 +50.00% 2
West Midlands -3 5 £525 +50.00% 1
East of England +5 1 £700 +208.98% 2
East Midlands -4 1 £525 - 1

Business Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) Asana
1 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
1 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 4 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Billing
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Change Manager
2 8 (26.67%) Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Business Change Manager
2 8 (26.67%) Business Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Change Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Business Change Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Communications Manager
5 2 (6.67%) SAP Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Service Transition Leader
5 2 (6.67%) Transformation Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Programme Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (10.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Change Management
2 8 (26.67%) Project Delivery
2 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
4 6 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (13.33%) Active Listening
5 4 (13.33%) Business Analysis
5 4 (13.33%) Coaching
5 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (13.33%) Cyber Resilience
5 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Product Management
5 4 (13.33%) Programme Governance
5 4 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Apex Code
1 3 (10.00%) SOQL
1 3 (10.00%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (3.33%) PMP
1 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Salesforce
2 4 (13.33%) SAP
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Workday