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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,816 1,225 1,874
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.05% 4.21% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 4.65% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 784 1,118
10th Percentile £325 £317 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £626
90th Percentile £694 £699 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +5.59% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 33 56
10th Percentile £21.65 £27.32 £14.22
25th Percentile £22.64 £40.75 £26.06
Median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +52.62% -19.36%
75th Percentile £47.93 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £84.80 £85.64 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £35.12
% change year-on-year -27.21% +63.71% -25.35%

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 38,381 26,317 38,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.55% 90.50% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,335 17,078 24,751
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 968 2,345
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.12 £15.89
Median hourly rate £35.77 £31.76 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -2.28% -10.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.62 £31.50
% change year-on-year +14.32% -2.81% -12.50%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -3 1,627 £500 - 586
UK excluding London -4 967 £496 +5.59% 483
London -9 695 £513 -2.38% 182
Work from Home -2 534 £525 +5.00% 230
North of England -10 295 £475 +5.56% 112
Midlands 0 236 £500 - 102
South East +9 215 £500 - 147
North West 0 194 £425 +3.03% 61
West Midlands -11 160 £513 +2.45% 58
South West +2 107 £525 +0.96% 39
Yorkshire -34 93 £487 -2.55% 35
East Midlands +17 74 £425 +20.06% 42
East of England -20 66 £475 -2.51% 52
Scotland +1 60 £450 +20.00% 21
Wales -6 10 £550 +8.64% 17
North East -17 8 £440 -23.48% 16
Northern Ireland -6 5 £450 -20.00% 9

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
1 120 (6.61%) Confluence
2 73 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.72%) SAS
5 9 (0.50%) Appian
6 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.28%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.22%) CMS
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.11%) Moodle
10 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.055%) CICS
10 1 (0.055%) JBoss
10 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 90 (4.96%) Microsoft Project
2 77 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.87%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.28%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 3 (0.17%) Windchill
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.055%) InDesign
10 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 74 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.33%) Finacle
8 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.33%) Primavera
8 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.28%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.17%) iTrent
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 291 (16.02%) Azure
2 150 (8.26%) AWS
3 109 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
4 95 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 86 (4.74%) GCP
6 74 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (3.47%) Entra ID
8 61 (3.36%) SaaS
9 31 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.49%) PaaS
10 27 (1.49%) Power Automate
11 23 (1.27%) Google Workspace
12 21 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (1.16%) Serverless
13 20 (1.10%) OpenShift
14 19 (1.05%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.05%) IaaS
14 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (1.05%) OCI
15 17 (0.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 118 (6.50%) Firewall
2 71 (3.91%) Network Security
3 61 (3.36%) DNS
3 61 (3.36%) WAN
4 52 (2.86%) LAN
4 52 (2.86%) VPN
5 36 (1.98%) SD-WAN
6 32 (1.76%) BGP
7 30 (1.65%) OSPF
8 29 (1.60%) SSL
9 26 (1.43%) TCP/IP
9 26 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (1.38%) DHCP
11 23 (1.27%) MPLS
12 19 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 19 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 18 (0.99%) SAN
14 17 (0.94%) Wireless
15 16 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.24%) Power BI
2 52 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (1.54%) Metadata
5 22 (1.21%) Tableau
6 21 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (1.10%) Oracle Database
8 18 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
9 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (0.61%) MySQL
11 10 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
13 8 (0.44%) Big Data
13 8 (0.44%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
13 8 (0.44%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
14 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 225 (12.39%) JIRA
2 47 (2.59%) Jenkins
3 45 (2.48%) Git
4 20 (1.10%) Liquibase
5 19 (1.05%) GitLab
6 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.44%) MLflow
8 7 (0.39%) JUnit
9 5 (0.28%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.28%) Mockito
10 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.22%) Hudson
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
11 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 750 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 596 (32.82%) Finance
3 339 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 153 (8.43%) Banking
6 75 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (3.74%) Retail
8 67 (3.69%) Legal
9 57 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 42 (2.31%) Marketing
13 38 (2.09%) Local Government
14 37 (2.04%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.93%) Law
16 32 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.54%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.32%) Investment Banking
19 19 (1.05%) Aviation
20 17 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 224 (12.33%) Project Manager
2 203 (11.18%) Analyst
3 197 (10.85%) Lead
4 151 (8.31%) Change Manager
5 128 (7.05%) Business Analyst
6 127 (6.99%) Senior
7 112 (6.17%) Consultant
8 64 (3.52%) Administrator
9 62 (3.41%) Developer
9 62 (3.41%) Programme Manager
10 58 (3.19%) Business Manager
11 51 (2.81%) Network Engineer
12 50 (2.75%) Architect
13 48 (2.64%) Senior Manager
14 43 (2.37%) Business Change Manager
15 39 (2.15%) IT Manager
16 34 (1.87%) Delivery Manager
16 34 (1.87%) SAP Manager
16 34 (1.87%) Service Manager
17 31 (1.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (3.36%) REST
2 33 (1.82%) .NET
3 30 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
4 26 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (1.21%) .NET Framework
6 21 (1.16%) Middleware
6 21 (1.16%) OAuth
6 21 (1.16%) RESTful
7 18 (0.99%) SAML
8 15 (0.83%) Web Services
9 14 (0.77%) OpenID
10 13 (0.72%) LDAP
11 10 (0.55%) ISPF
11 10 (0.55%) OAuth2
11 10 (0.55%) pytest
12 9 (0.50%) CSS
12 9 (0.50%) Django
12 9 (0.50%) NumPy
12 9 (0.50%) Pandas
12 9 (0.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.23%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 81 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.81%) Virtual Team
6 48 (2.64%) CMDB
7 47 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 40 (2.20%) PMI
9 39 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
10 30 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 30 (1.65%) PKI
11 24 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (0.99%) Operational Technology
15 17 (0.94%) NHS
15 17 (0.94%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 175 (9.64%) Windows
2 76 (4.19%) Linux
3 64 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.93%) Unix
5 31 (1.71%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.22%) CentOS
10 4 (0.22%) VMS
10 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.17%) Android
11 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.055%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.055%) Debian
12 1 (0.055%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.055%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.055%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (32.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 464 (25.55%) Agile
3 436 (24.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 394 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
5 351 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 351 (19.33%) ITIL
6 332 (18.28%) Project Management
7 296 (16.30%) Migration
8 251 (13.82%) DevOps
9 216 (11.89%) Project Delivery
10 174 (9.58%) Roadmaps
11 173 (9.53%) ERP
12 170 (9.36%) ITSM
13 165 (9.09%) Decision-Making
13 165 (9.09%) Risk Management
14 160 (8.81%) Service Management
15 158 (8.70%) PRINCE2
16 148 (8.15%) Validation
17 145 (7.98%) CI/CD
18 143 (7.87%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 174 (9.58%) SQL
2 127 (6.99%) Python
3 100 (5.51%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.53%) C#
5 42 (2.31%) Bash
6 34 (1.87%) PL/SQL
7 32 (1.76%) Java
8 22 (1.21%) T-SQL
9 18 (0.99%) JavaScript
10 14 (0.77%) Go
11 13 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.66%) COBOL
13 11 (0.61%) JCL
14 10 (0.55%) CLIST
14 10 (0.55%) Groovy
14 10 (0.55%) REXX
15 9 (0.50%) Korn
16 6 (0.33%) Perl
17 5 (0.28%) ABAP
17 5 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 359 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 270 (14.87%) Degree
3 253 (13.93%) SC Cleared
4 120 (6.61%) PMI Certification
5 114 (6.28%) PMP
6 54 (2.97%) DV Cleared
7 49 (2.70%) CISSP
8 46 (2.53%) Master's Degree
9 45 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 41 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (2.15%) CISM
11 39 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (1.65%) CCNP
14 29 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 27 (1.49%) APMG
16 19 (1.05%) Azure Certification
17 18 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.94%) CIMA
19 16 (0.88%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.73%) QA
2 91 (5.01%) GDPR
3 88 (4.85%) PMO
4 83 (4.57%) Data Quality
5 65 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (3.41%) SLA
7 41 (2.26%) NIST
8 23 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.94%) IFRS
9 17 (0.94%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.88%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.83%) IFRS 17
12 10 (0.55%) Basel III
13 9 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.39%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.39%) GRC
14 7 (0.39%) NCSC
15 6 (0.33%) COBIT
15 6 (0.33%) MiFID
16 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 120 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 64 (3.52%) Docker
3 45 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.55%) ACF2
7 10 (0.55%) RACF
7 10 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.44%) Firmware
8 8 (0.44%) vSphere
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.28%) KVM
10 5 (0.28%) XenApp
10 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 88 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.69%) Terraform
3 62 (3.41%) Ansible
4 37 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.43%) Grafana
5 26 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.21%) SCCM
7 17 (0.94%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 11 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.61%) Puppet
11 10 (0.55%) CA Endevor
12 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
12 9 (0.50%) Kibana
12 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 8 (0.44%) SCOM
14 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
15 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 295 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 174 (9.58%) ServiceNow
3 167 (9.20%) SAP
4 142 (7.82%) Oracle
5 73 (4.02%) Salesforce
6 71 (3.91%) Cisco
7 67 (3.69%) VMware
8 63 (3.47%) Google
9 36 (1.98%) Citrix
9 36 (1.98%) Workday
10 33 (1.82%) F5
11 31 (1.71%) Splunk
12 23 (1.27%) Atlassian
12 23 (1.27%) Juniper
12 23 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 21 (1.16%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.10%) CheckPoint
15 19 (1.05%) Remedy
16 17 (0.94%) IFS
16 17 (0.94%) SolarWinds
675 Change Management jobs Nationwide