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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 50 42
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,828 1,265 1,806
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 4.35% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 4.78% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 779 1,053
10th Percentile £345 £325 £311
25th Percentile £415 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £474 £500
% change year-on-year +5.54% -5.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 52 73
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £14.75
25th Percentile £22.63 £38.01 £29.91
Median hourly rate £30.21 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.06% +8.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £67.19 £62.19 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.73 £70.00 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.54 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -48.92% - +3.31%

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 41,613 26,489 36,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.70% 91.00% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 16,933 23,595
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,489 1,111 2,517
10th Percentile £14.67 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.96 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% -0.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.55 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -5 1,610 £500 - 539
UK excluding London -11 955 £500 +5.54% 404
London -2 710 £520 -5.45% 239
Work from Home -3 548 £525 +5.00% 213
North of England -14 294 £475 +5.56% 91
Midlands +1 210 £500 +4.17% 71
South East -4 206 £538 +9.69% 129
North West -6 169 £447 +2.17% 43
West Midlands -13 138 £509 +5.00% 43
Yorkshire -26 115 £489 +8.61% 37
South West -7 96 £525 +7.14% 44
East of England -8 82 £475 -5.00% 34
Scotland -9 76 £475 +11.76% 28
East Midlands +24 70 £430 +18.46% 28
Wales -12 10 £550 +46.67% 10
North East -15 10 £425 -24.44% 13
Northern Ireland -8 6 £475 -16.48% 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
1 109 (5.96%) Confluence
2 83 (4.54%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.93%) IIS
5 14 (0.77%) SAS
6 13 (0.71%) Appian
7 8 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.27%) CMS
10 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.22%) CICS
10 4 (0.22%) HCL Notes
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.16%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) Kentico
12 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.055%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 65 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
3 57 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (1.48%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 74 (4.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.44%) Primavera
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.33%) Finacle
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.27%) Maximo
10 3 (0.16%) OpenText MBPM
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
10 3 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 273 (14.93%) Azure
2 139 (7.60%) AWS
3 110 (6.02%) Power Platform
4 104 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (3.94%) Entra ID
6 69 (3.77%) SaaS
7 66 (3.61%) GCP
8 65 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (1.91%) Google Workspace
11 30 (1.64%) Power Automate
12 25 (1.37%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.20%) PaaS
14 21 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (1.15%) GitHub
14 21 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (1.09%) Google Sheets
15 20 (1.09%) OCI
16 18 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (0.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 106 (5.80%) Firewall
2 69 (3.77%) Network Security
3 60 (3.28%) DNS
4 56 (3.06%) WAN
5 47 (2.57%) LAN
6 45 (2.46%) VPN
7 32 (1.75%) BGP
8 31 (1.70%) SD-WAN
9 30 (1.64%) OSPF
10 29 (1.59%) SSL
11 28 (1.53%) TCP/IP
12 26 (1.42%) MPLS
13 25 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
14 22 (1.20%) DHCP
15 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 19 (1.04%) SAN
16 18 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
17 17 (0.93%) Wireless
18 15 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.92%) Power BI
2 64 (3.50%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.59%) Metadata
4 24 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.26%) Oracle Database
6 21 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
6 21 (1.15%) Tableau
7 19 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.04%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.55%) MySQL
10 8 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.44%) Oracle BI EE
10 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
11 6 (0.33%) DB2
12 5 (0.27%) Big Data
12 5 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.27%) Oracle Database 11g
12 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 230 (12.58%) JIRA
2 60 (3.28%) Git
3 51 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.60%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.55%) GitLab
6 9 (0.49%) MLflow
7 7 (0.38%) AdminStudio
7 7 (0.38%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.22%) Hudson
8 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.22%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 3 (0.16%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.16%) Snyk
9 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.11%) git-flow
10 2 (0.11%) Selenium
General
1 689 (37.69%) Social Skills
2 624 (34.14%) Finance
3 282 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 152 (8.32%) Banking
6 87 (4.76%) Legal
7 83 (4.54%) Retail
8 63 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
9 61 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (2.68%) Marketing
11 43 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
11 43 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (2.19%) Law
13 38 (2.08%) Manufacturing
14 33 (1.81%) Local Government
15 30 (1.64%) Telecoms
16 25 (1.37%) Investment Banking
17 23 (1.26%) Aviation
18 21 (1.15%) Financial Institution
19 17 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 212 (11.60%) Project Manager
2 182 (9.96%) Lead
3 179 (9.79%) Analyst
4 152 (8.32%) Change Manager
5 137 (7.49%) Senior
6 115 (6.29%) Business Analyst
6 115 (6.29%) Consultant
7 76 (4.16%) Administrator
8 66 (3.61%) Programme Manager
9 63 (3.45%) Developer
10 54 (2.95%) Senior Manager
11 49 (2.68%) Network Engineer
12 47 (2.57%) Business Manager
13 45 (2.46%) Architect
14 42 (2.30%) Delivery Manager
15 41 (2.24%) IT Manager
16 39 (2.13%) Business Change Manager
16 39 (2.13%) Support Engineer
17 34 (1.86%) Service Manager
18 30 (1.64%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.95%) REST
2 33 (1.81%) .NET
3 28 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.37%) Middleware
5 24 (1.31%) OAuth
6 22 (1.20%) CSS
7 21 (1.15%) .NET Framework
8 19 (1.04%) HTML
9 17 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (0.82%) Web Services
11 13 (0.71%) LDAP
12 12 (0.66%) RESTful
13 11 (0.60%) React
14 10 (0.55%) AngularJS
14 10 (0.55%) Pandas
14 10 (0.55%) Spring
15 9 (0.49%) Django
15 9 (0.49%) NumPy
15 9 (0.49%) OpenID
15 9 (0.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 90 (4.92%) Management Information System
2 84 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 73 (3.99%) Data Centre
4 69 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 53 (2.90%) Cloud Native
6 50 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.08%) PMI
8 34 (1.86%) CMDB
9 33 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 30 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 30 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (1.59%) PKI
12 26 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.26%) Operational Technology
15 21 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
16 19 (1.04%) Low-Code
17 17 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
18 16 (0.88%) Public Cloud
19 14 (0.77%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 197 (10.78%) Windows
2 100 (5.47%) Linux
3 74 (4.05%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.63%) Unix
5 37 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.37%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.60%) Solaris
8 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.38%) AIX
12 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.33%) VMS
12 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.27%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.27%) SUSE
14 4 (0.22%) HPUX
15 3 (0.16%) Android
15 3 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (31.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 438 (23.96%) Agile
3 421 (23.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 366 (20.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 350 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
6 314 (17.18%) ITIL
7 306 (16.74%) Migration
8 303 (16.58%) Project Management
9 241 (13.18%) DevOps
10 216 (11.82%) Project Delivery
11 201 (11.00%) ERP
12 195 (10.67%) Roadmaps
13 189 (10.34%) Decision-Making
14 169 (9.25%) Risk Management
15 167 (9.14%) CI/CD
15 167 (9.14%) Validation
16 157 (8.59%) ITSM
17 152 (8.32%) AI
18 140 (7.66%) Workshop Facilitation
19 134 (7.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 179 (9.79%) SQL
2 129 (7.06%) Python
3 100 (5.47%) PowerShell
4 55 (3.01%) Bash
5 47 (2.57%) C#
6 45 (2.46%) PL/SQL
7 42 (2.30%) Java
8 35 (1.91%) JavaScript
9 25 (1.37%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.60%) Korn
11 10 (0.55%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.49%) Groovy
13 8 (0.44%) COBOL
14 7 (0.38%) JCL
15 5 (0.27%) ABAP
15 5 (0.27%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.27%) Bicep
15 5 (0.27%) Go
15 5 (0.27%) REXX
16 4 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 358 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 247 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 235 (12.86%) Degree
4 120 (6.56%) PMP
5 112 (6.13%) PMI Certification
6 62 (3.39%) CISSP
7 56 (3.06%) DV Cleared
8 47 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
9 42 (2.30%) CISM
10 39 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.86%) CCNP
11 34 (1.86%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.48%) Azure Certification
12 27 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.42%) APMG
13 26 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
14 24 (1.31%) CIMA
15 23 (1.26%) ACCA
16 16 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 14 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.13%) QA
2 92 (5.03%) GDPR
3 90 (4.92%) Data Quality
4 87 (4.76%) PMO
5 66 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (3.61%) SLA
6 45 (2.46%) NIST
7 27 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.15%) SOC 2
9 15 (0.82%) GRC
9 15 (0.82%) IFRS
10 13 (0.71%) IFRS 17
11 9 (0.49%) Basel III
12 8 (0.44%) ITGC
13 7 (0.38%) COBIT
14 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.33%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.27%) RMADS
16 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 126 (6.89%) Active Directory
2 68 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (3.39%) Docker
4 26 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 24 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.60%) vSphere
9 10 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.38%) Firmware
10 7 (0.38%) vCloud
11 6 (0.33%) KVM
12 4 (0.22%) XenApp
12 4 (0.22%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.16%) NFS
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.11%) ACF2
14 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.11%) Ceph
14 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 92 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 85 (4.65%) Terraform
3 76 (4.16%) Ansible
4 32 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (1.53%) Grafana
5 28 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.42%) vCenter Server
7 23 (1.26%) SCCM
8 22 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.98%) SCOM
10 13 (0.71%) FortiGate
11 11 (0.60%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.55%) Puppet
13 9 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
14 8 (0.44%) Avamar
15 7 (0.38%) Kibana
15 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
16 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.33%) CASB
16 6 (0.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 288 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 173 (9.46%) ServiceNow
3 172 (9.41%) Oracle
4 164 (8.97%) SAP
5 91 (4.98%) VMware
6 75 (4.10%) Salesforce
7 66 (3.61%) Cisco
8 62 (3.39%) Google
9 36 (1.97%) Splunk
10 33 (1.81%) Citrix
11 32 (1.75%) F5
12 28 (1.53%) Workday
13 27 (1.48%) IFS
14 25 (1.37%) Red Hat
15 24 (1.31%) IBM
16 23 (1.26%) CheckPoint
16 23 (1.26%) Palo Alto
17 21 (1.15%) Dynatrace
17 21 (1.15%) Juniper
17 21 (1.15%) Remedy