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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 46 43
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,630 1,361 1,945
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.24% 4.32% 4.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 4.85% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 767 1,155
10th Percentile £313 £315 £355
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 26 52
10th Percentile £20.79 £22.46 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.32 £28.60 £27.54
Median hourly rate £45.46 £42.79 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +6.24% +15.09% +6.23%
75th Percentile - £59.69 £56.60
90th Percentile £59.25 £79.23 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -15.60%

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 33,625 28,045 38,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.37% 89.09% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,290 17,011 25,209
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 £640
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.86% -0.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,022 880 1,958
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +10.65%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.18
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.10% +39.38%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -8 1,443 £500 -4.76% 530
UK excluding London +2 913 £475 -5.00% 492
London -21 584 £525 -4.55% 163
Work from Home -12 425 £506 -3.57% 227
North of England -8 275 £452 -11.38% 99
Midlands +8 237 £475 -5.00% 105
South East +1 188 £496 -7.72% 165
North West +7 176 £414 -15.51% 49
West Midlands +3 153 £482 -3.60% 60
South West +18 117 £525 -4.55% 42
Yorkshire -22 95 £487 -11.45% 39
East Midlands +26 84 £475 +21.48% 44
Scotland +6 67 £425 +13.33% 30
East of England -28 37 £525 +16.67% 41
Wales +4 12 £413 -18.52% 17
Northern Ireland -1 8 £450 -26.53% 4
North East -26 4 £475 -17.39% 13

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 (7.36%) Confluence
2 81 (4.97%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.49%) CMS
4 8 (0.49%) nginx
5 7 (0.43%) Appian
6 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) CICS
7 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.25%) IIS
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.18%) Moodle
9 3 (0.18%) Mule
10 2 (0.12%) FileNet
10 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.061%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.061%) Traefik
Applications
1 94 (5.77%) Microsoft Project
2 78 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 42 (2.58%) MS Visio
5 37 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.49%) 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%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.061%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.061%) InDesign
11 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.061%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 61 (3.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.25%) Finacle
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.25%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 231 (14.17%) Azure
2 146 (8.96%) AWS
3 106 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
4 97 (5.95%) GCP
5 87 (5.34%) Power Platform
6 50 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (2.64%) Entra ID
8 40 (2.45%) SaaS
9 29 (1.78%) Serverless
10 27 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (1.41%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.29%) AWS KMS
13 20 (1.23%) Google Workspace
13 20 (1.23%) PaaS
14 19 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (1.17%) GitHub
14 19 (1.17%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (1.10%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (6.20%) Firewall
2 78 (4.79%) DNS
3 59 (3.62%) Network Security
4 47 (2.88%) WAN
5 46 (2.82%) VPN
6 31 (1.90%) LAN
7 25 (1.53%) SSL
8 24 (1.47%) DHCP
9 23 (1.41%) SD-WAN
9 23 (1.41%) TCP/IP
10 22 (1.35%) SSH
11 21 (1.29%) HTTP
12 18 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (0.98%) BGP
13 16 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 16 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 16 (0.98%) SAN
14 15 (0.92%) OSPF
14 15 (0.92%) SMTP
14 15 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.54%) Power BI
2 45 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 35 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.41%) Metadata
5 20 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.23%) Tableau
6 19 (1.17%) NoSQL
7 16 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
8 15 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.49%) Big Data
11 8 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.43%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.43%) MySQL
12 7 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.37%) Pinecone
14 4 (0.25%) Redis
15 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 190 (11.66%) JIRA
2 62 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.90%) Git
4 28 (1.72%) Liquibase
5 26 (1.60%) GitLab
6 12 (0.74%) Vagrant
6 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.37%) JUnit
7 6 (0.37%) MLflow
7 6 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.31%) Mockito
9 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
9 4 (0.25%) MSI
10 3 (0.18%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.12%) AdminStudio
11 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 758 (46.50%) Social Skills
2 535 (32.82%) Finance
3 314 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 161 (9.88%) Banking
6 69 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
7 60 (3.68%) Manufacturing
8 49 (3.01%) Legal
9 48 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 47 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
11 46 (2.82%) Telecoms
12 40 (2.45%) Retail
13 35 (2.15%) Local Government
14 34 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (1.90%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.84%) Marketing
17 29 (1.78%) Law
18 24 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
19 22 (1.35%) Investment Banking
20 15 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 244 (14.97%) Analyst
2 210 (12.88%) Project Manager
3 181 (11.10%) Lead
4 136 (8.34%) Change Manager
5 135 (8.28%) Business Analyst
6 106 (6.50%) Senior
7 91 (5.58%) Consultant
8 55 (3.37%) Developer
8 55 (3.37%) Programme Manager
9 47 (2.88%) Architect
9 47 (2.88%) Senior Manager
10 45 (2.76%) Business Manager
11 44 (2.70%) IT Manager
12 38 (2.33%) Administrator
13 35 (2.15%) Service Manager
14 32 (1.96%) Business Change Manager
15 31 (1.90%) SAP Manager
16 30 (1.84%) Network Engineer
16 30 (1.84%) Transformation Manager
17 29 (1.78%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.56%) REST
2 39 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (1.78%) .NET
3 29 (1.78%) RESTful
4 26 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (1.23%) LDAP
6 19 (1.17%) OAuth
7 18 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 18 (1.10%) SAML
8 14 (0.86%) Middleware
8 14 (0.86%) OpenID
9 12 (0.74%) HTML
10 11 (0.67%) 802.1X
11 10 (0.61%) ISPF
12 9 (0.55%) CSS
12 9 (0.55%) SOAP
13 8 (0.49%) Kafka
13 8 (0.49%) OAuth2
13 8 (0.49%) Web Services
13 8 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (5.52%) Management Information System
2 85 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 46 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 46 (2.82%) CMDB
5 42 (2.58%) Data Centre
5 42 (2.58%) Virtual Team
6 40 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.21%) PKI
8 29 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.72%) PMI
10 27 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.47%) Replication
13 22 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.29%) Life Science
14 21 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.17%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
16 16 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 163 (10.00%) Windows
2 94 (5.77%) Linux
3 47 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.76%) Unix
5 31 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.86%) VMS
7 12 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
8 11 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.67%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.25%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.25%) zOS
12 3 (0.18%) Android
13 2 (0.12%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.061%) Debian
14 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (31.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 441 (27.06%) Agile
3 399 (24.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 356 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
5 335 (20.55%) Project Management
6 326 (20.00%) ITIL
7 268 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 241 (14.79%) Migration
9 215 (13.19%) DevOps
10 195 (11.96%) Project Delivery
11 163 (10.00%) PRINCE2
12 157 (9.63%) Service Management
13 151 (9.26%) ITSM
14 145 (8.90%) Decision-Making
15 142 (8.71%) ERP
16 137 (8.40%) Roadmaps
17 133 (8.16%) Risk Management
18 129 (7.91%) CI/CD
19 122 (7.48%) Workshop Facilitation
20 113 (6.93%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 154 (9.45%) SQL
2 147 (9.02%) Python
3 104 (6.38%) PowerShell
4 39 (2.39%) Bash
5 30 (1.84%) C#
6 29 (1.78%) Java
7 27 (1.66%) Go
8 22 (1.35%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.04%) Groovy
10 16 (0.98%) JavaScript
10 16 (0.98%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.86%) COBOL
11 14 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.67%) JCL
13 10 (0.61%) CLIST
13 10 (0.61%) REXX
14 8 (0.49%) Korn
15 7 (0.43%) Perl
16 6 (0.37%) C++
17 5 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 306 (18.77%) Degree
2 294 (18.04%) Security Cleared
3 204 (12.52%) SC Cleared
4 106 (6.50%) PMI Certification
5 96 (5.89%) PMP
6 63 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (3.80%) Master's Degree
8 44 (2.70%) DV Cleared
9 35 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.47%) APMG
11 24 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 22 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
13 21 (1.29%) CISSP
14 20 (1.23%) Azure Certification
15 18 (1.10%) CISM
16 17 (1.04%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
18 13 (0.80%) CCNP
18 13 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.83%) QA
2 77 (4.72%) PMO
3 63 (3.87%) Data Quality
4 59 (3.62%) GDPR
5 43 (2.64%) SLA
6 34 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.98%) IFRS
8 15 (0.92%) NIST
9 13 (0.80%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.80%) IFRS 17
10 12 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.61%) GRC
13 8 (0.49%) Basel III
13 8 (0.49%) MiFID
13 8 (0.49%) NCSC
14 5 (0.31%) EMIR
14 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.31%) RMADS
System Software
1 107 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 75 (4.60%) Docker
3 29 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.74%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.61%) ACF2
6 10 (0.61%) Firmware
6 10 (0.61%) RACF
6 10 (0.61%) Time Sharing Option
7 9 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.49%) Dovecot
8 8 (0.49%) Postfix
8 8 (0.49%) Squid
9 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.25%) XenApp
10 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.18%) NFS
12 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 84 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 74 (4.54%) Terraform
3 57 (3.50%) Ansible
4 47 (2.88%) Grafana
5 46 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.02%) SCCM
7 28 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.04%) Puppet
9 14 (0.86%) CA Endevor
9 14 (0.86%) Kibana
9 14 (0.86%) SCOM
10 9 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.55%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.55%) Tivoli
10 9 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 9 (0.55%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.49%) Nessus
11 8 (0.49%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 291 (17.85%) Microsoft
2 143 (8.77%) SAP
3 130 (7.98%) ServiceNow
4 112 (6.87%) Oracle
5 69 (4.23%) Google
6 63 (3.87%) Cisco
7 56 (3.44%) Salesforce
8 48 (2.94%) Splunk
9 47 (2.88%) VMware
10 34 (2.09%) F5
11 27 (1.66%) Citrix
12 26 (1.60%) Workday
13 23 (1.41%) Juniper
14 22 (1.35%) CheckPoint
15 19 (1.17%) Atlassian
15 19 (1.17%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.17%) IBM
16 17 (1.04%) Remedy
17 16 (0.98%) Adobe
18 14 (0.86%) Red Hat