Change Management Contract Job Trends

Change Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Change Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 46 43
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,608 1,389 1,929
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.25% 4.38% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 4.93% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,031 780 1,136
10th Percentile £313 £321 £358
25th Percentile £403 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.01% +2.05%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 26 53
10th Percentile £20.79 £22.46 £16.61
25th Percentile £23.08 £28.60 £28.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £49.04 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +22.60% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £69.38 £56.06
90th Percentile £60.45 £87.13 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £41.67
% change year-on-year -19.89% +36.19% +19.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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 33,128 28,199 37,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.64% 88.95% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,004 17,123 24,892
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £720 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,016 901 1,818
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% -23.05% +53.85%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Change Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Change Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Change Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Change Management

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Change Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Change Management

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 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
England -6 1,439 £500 -4.76% 542
UK excluding London +1 904 £475 -5.00% 505
London -18 584 £525 -4.55% 150
Work from Home -16 415 £500 -4.76% 225
North of England -8 271 £450 -13.88% 101
Midlands +9 239 £475 -5.00% 107
South East +5 186 £475 -13.64% 162
North West +5 171 £413 -17.50% 51
West Midlands +5 157 £475 -5.00% 62
South West +13 118 £525 -4.55% 50
Yorkshire -20 97 £487 -11.45% 33
East Midlands +27 82 £414 +0.24% 45
Scotland +1 61 £450 +20.00% 28
East of England -34 37 £525 +16.67% 48
Wales +3 12 £413 -18.52% 17
Northern Ireland -3 8 £450 -26.53% 5
North East -25 3 £500 -13.04% 19

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 116 (7.21%) Confluence
2 81 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.56%) nginx
5 7 (0.44%) CMS
6 6 (0.37%) Appian
6 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.37%) Mule
6 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) CICS
7 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
8 3 (0.19%) Moodle
9 2 (0.12%) FileNet
9 2 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.062%) SAS
10 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.062%) Traefik
Applications
1 89 (5.53%) Microsoft Project
2 85 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 81 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (2.74%) MS Visio
5 40 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.37%) Trello
8 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.25%) Windchill
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.062%) InDesign
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.062%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 57 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) Finacle
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.19%) Kondor
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.19%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 219 (13.62%) Azure
2 148 (9.20%) AWS
3 105 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
4 100 (6.22%) GCP
5 84 (5.22%) Power Platform
6 45 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (2.49%) SaaS
8 34 (2.11%) Entra ID
9 29 (1.80%) Serverless
10 25 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (1.43%) AWS KMS
12 22 (1.37%) GitHub
13 21 (1.31%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 19 (1.18%) PaaS
16 17 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (1.00%) IaaS
18 15 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
18 15 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 97 (6.03%) Firewall
2 78 (4.85%) DNS
3 59 (3.67%) Network Security
4 46 (2.86%) VPN
4 46 (2.86%) WAN
5 30 (1.87%) LAN
6 26 (1.62%) SSL
7 24 (1.49%) SSH
8 23 (1.43%) HTTP
8 23 (1.43%) TCP/IP
9 22 (1.37%) DHCP
9 22 (1.37%) SD-WAN
10 17 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 16 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 16 (1.00%) SAN
11 16 (1.00%) SMTP
11 16 (1.00%) Wireless
12 14 (0.87%) FTP
12 14 (0.87%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.54%) Power BI
2 44 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (1.37%) Metadata
5 21 (1.31%) Tableau
6 19 (1.18%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
8 15 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (0.87%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.44%) MySQL
13 6 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.31%) Big Data
14 5 (0.31%) Pinecone
15 4 (0.25%) Redis
16 3 (0.19%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 185 (11.50%) JIRA
2 67 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.80%) Git
4 28 (1.74%) Liquibase
5 26 (1.62%) GitLab
6 14 (0.87%) Vagrant
7 11 (0.68%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.37%) JUnit
10 5 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.31%) MLflow
10 5 (0.31%) Mockito
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) MSI
12 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.12%) AdminStudio
13 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.12%) Subversion
13 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 737 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 519 (32.28%) Finance
3 314 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (10.32%) Banking
5 163 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 73 (4.54%) Influencing Skills
7 58 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 46 (2.86%) Legal
8 46 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 44 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (2.24%) Retail
12 34 (2.11%) Local Government
12 34 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (1.87%) Financial Institution
13 30 (1.87%) Marketing
14 28 (1.74%) Law
15 23 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.31%) Investment Banking
17 15 (0.93%) Billing
Job Titles
1 247 (15.36%) Analyst
2 204 (12.69%) Project Manager
3 176 (10.95%) Lead
4 139 (8.64%) Business Analyst
4 139 (8.64%) Change Manager
5 105 (6.53%) Senior
6 91 (5.66%) Consultant
7 54 (3.36%) Developer
8 50 (3.11%) Programme Manager
9 48 (2.99%) Senior Manager
10 46 (2.86%) IT Manager
11 44 (2.74%) Architect
11 44 (2.74%) Business Manager
12 40 (2.49%) Administrator
13 37 (2.30%) Service Manager
14 32 (1.99%) Business Change Manager
15 31 (1.93%) SAP Manager
16 30 (1.87%) AWS Engineer
17 29 (1.80%) Transformation Manager
18 27 (1.68%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.42%) REST
2 39 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (1.74%) RESTful
4 27 (1.68%) .NET
5 25 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
6 18 (1.12%) OAuth
6 18 (1.12%) SAML
7 17 (1.06%) .NET Framework
8 15 (0.93%) LDAP
9 14 (0.87%) Middleware
9 14 (0.87%) OpenID
10 11 (0.68%) 802.1X
10 11 (0.68%) HTML
11 10 (0.62%) ISPF
12 9 (0.56%) SOAP
13 8 (0.50%) CSS
13 8 (0.50%) Kafka
13 8 (0.50%) OAuth2
13 8 (0.50%) XML
14 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.35%) Management Information System
2 84 (5.22%) Onboarding
3 66 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.80%) CMDB
5 43 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 38 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 35 (2.18%) PKI
9 28 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.74%) PMI
10 27 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
10 27 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.62%) Replication
12 22 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.24%) Life Science
15 18 (1.12%) Data Structures
16 16 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 166 (10.32%) Windows
2 95 (5.91%) Linux
3 47 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 44 (2.74%) Unix
5 31 (1.93%) Windows 10
6 17 (1.06%) VMS
7 14 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
8 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.25%) CentOS
12 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.25%) zOS
13 3 (0.19%) Android
14 2 (0.12%) AIX
14 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.062%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.062%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (30.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 425 (26.43%) Agile
3 387 (24.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 343 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
5 334 (20.77%) Project Management
6 325 (20.21%) ITIL
7 268 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 222 (13.81%) Migration
9 216 (13.43%) DevOps
10 200 (12.44%) Project Delivery
11 162 (10.07%) PRINCE2
12 160 (9.95%) Service Management
13 153 (9.51%) ITSM
14 140 (8.71%) Decision-Making
15 138 (8.58%) ERP
16 137 (8.52%) Roadmaps
17 129 (8.02%) CI/CD
18 120 (7.46%) Workshop Facilitation
19 117 (7.28%) Risk Management
20 116 (7.21%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 149 (9.27%) Python
2 144 (8.96%) SQL
3 99 (6.16%) PowerShell
4 38 (2.36%) Bash
5 30 (1.87%) C#
5 30 (1.87%) Java
6 27 (1.68%) Go
7 20 (1.24%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.18%) Groovy
9 16 (1.00%) JavaScript
10 15 (0.93%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.81%) COBOL
13 11 (0.68%) JCL
14 10 (0.62%) CLIST
14 10 (0.62%) REXX
15 9 (0.56%) Korn
16 8 (0.50%) Perl
17 7 (0.44%) C++
18 5 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 310 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 290 (18.03%) Degree
3 212 (13.18%) SC Cleared
4 105 (6.53%) PMI Certification
5 94 (5.85%) PMP
6 62 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (3.73%) Master's Degree
8 43 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 41 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.49%) APMG
11 24 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 21 (1.31%) CISSP
13 19 (1.18%) Azure Certification
14 18 (1.12%) CISM
15 17 (1.06%) AWS Certification
16 15 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
17 14 (0.87%) CCNP
18 13 (0.81%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (5.72%) QA
2 81 (5.04%) PMO
3 57 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 56 (3.48%) GDPR
5 43 (2.67%) SLA
6 35 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.93%) NIST
8 14 (0.87%) IFRS
9 12 (0.75%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.68%) IFRS 17
11 10 (0.62%) GRC
12 8 (0.50%) Basel III
12 8 (0.50%) MiFID
12 8 (0.50%) NCSC
13 5 (0.31%) EMIR
13 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.31%) RMADS
System Software
1 100 (6.22%) Active Directory
2 75 (4.66%) Docker
3 28 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.87%) DFS Replication
6 11 (0.68%) Firmware
7 10 (0.62%) ACF2
7 10 (0.62%) RACF
7 10 (0.62%) Time Sharing Option
8 9 (0.56%) Dovecot
8 9 (0.56%) Postfix
8 9 (0.56%) Squid
9 8 (0.50%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.25%) XenApp
11 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.19%) NFS
13 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 84 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 76 (4.73%) Terraform
3 55 (3.42%) Ansible
4 49 (3.05%) Grafana
5 48 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.11%) SCCM
7 28 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.06%) Puppet
9 14 (0.87%) CA Endevor
9 14 (0.87%) Kibana
9 14 (0.87%) SCOM
10 10 (0.62%) Nessus
11 9 (0.56%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.56%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.56%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 9 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
13 6 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 287 (17.85%) Microsoft
2 143 (8.89%) SAP
3 134 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 111 (6.90%) Oracle
5 65 (4.04%) Google
6 64 (3.98%) Cisco
7 57 (3.54%) Salesforce
8 49 (3.05%) Splunk
9 46 (2.86%) VMware
10 34 (2.11%) F5
11 27 (1.68%) Workday
12 25 (1.55%) Citrix
13 23 (1.43%) CheckPoint
14 22 (1.37%) Juniper
15 20 (1.24%) Atlassian
16 19 (1.18%) Fortinet
17 18 (1.12%) IBM
17 18 (1.12%) Remedy
18 15 (0.93%) Adobe
19 14 (0.87%) Red Hat