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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 42 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 +17
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,626 1,588 2,119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.46% 4.41% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.01% 5.05% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,030 853 1,292
10th Percentile £313 £340 £363
25th Percentile £404 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £696 £725 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 27 44
10th Percentile £20.79 £19.85 £21.67
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.71 £24.94
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £41.67
Median % change year-on-year -27.71% -0.40% +24.37%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.16 £55.85
90th Percentile £70.16 £85.70 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.67% -15.09% +16.79%

All Process and 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 32,432 31,463 40,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.97% 87.43% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,408 19,089 26,807
10th Percentile £300 £309 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,095 1,098 1,556
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.24 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 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 6 December 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 -4 1,455 £500 -4.76% 583
UK excluding London +4 900 £475 -5.00% 513
London -8 615 £525 -4.55% 194
Work from Home -20 424 £500 -4.76% 256
North of England -14 272 £451 -14.10% 144
Midlands +10 209 £475 -8.43% 101
South East +11 195 £492 -4.93% 166
North West -1 177 £440 -15.38% 76
West Midlands +4 152 £475 -9.52% 56
South West +19 113 £525 -4.55% 43
Yorkshire -21 92 £489 -7.83% 55
Scotland +4 62 £450 +13.21% 21
East Midlands +26 57 £400 - 44
East of England -12 44 £500 +4.17% 35
Wales -1 13 £413 +3.13% 10
Northern Ireland +2 10 £488 +186.76% 5
North East -16 3 £475 -17.39% 15
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 137 (8.43%) Confluence
2 84 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.68%) nginx
5 8 (0.49%) CMS
5 8 (0.49%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.37%) Mule
6 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
7 5 (0.31%) JBoss
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.18%) Moodle
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.062%) Traefik
Applications
1 108 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (5.90%) Microsoft Project
3 90 (5.54%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (2.64%) MS Visio
5 42 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.43%) Windchill
8 6 (0.37%) Trello
9 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.062%) InDesign
11 1 (0.062%) Notion
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 53 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.43%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Maximo
7 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.31%) SAP APO
7 5 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 185 (11.38%) Azure
2 157 (9.66%) AWS
3 103 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
4 97 (5.97%) GCP
5 86 (5.29%) Power Platform
6 56 (3.44%) SaaS
7 43 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.34%) Serverless
9 32 (1.97%) Entra ID
10 31 (1.91%) AWS KMS
11 28 (1.72%) Amazon S3
12 23 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 22 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (1.29%) Amazon ELB
14 21 (1.29%) GitHub
15 20 (1.23%) Power Automate
16 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 105 (6.46%) Firewall
2 82 (5.04%) DNS
3 61 (3.75%) Network Security
4 41 (2.52%) VPN
4 41 (2.52%) WAN
5 32 (1.97%) SSH
6 26 (1.60%) HTTP
7 24 (1.48%) LAN
8 23 (1.41%) SMTP
8 23 (1.41%) SSL
9 22 (1.35%) DHCP
10 20 (1.23%) FTP
11 19 (1.17%) Wireless
12 17 (1.05%) SD-WAN
13 15 (0.92%) TCP/IP
14 14 (0.86%) BGP
14 14 (0.86%) IPsec
15 13 (0.80%) OSPF
15 13 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
16 12 (0.74%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (4.43%) Power BI
2 39 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (1.91%) SQL Server
4 30 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (1.66%) NoSQL
6 25 (1.54%) Metadata
6 25 (1.54%) Tableau
7 19 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 17 (1.05%) Oracle Database
9 11 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.49%) MySQL
12 7 (0.43%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.31%) Big Data
14 5 (0.31%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 208 (12.79%) JIRA
2 86 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 41 (2.52%) Git
4 35 (2.15%) Liquibase
5 32 (1.97%) GitLab
6 21 (1.29%) Vagrant
7 12 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.37%) JUnit
9 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.31%) Mockito
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) MSI
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.18%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.18%) Selenium
12 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 701 (43.11%) Social Skills
2 534 (32.84%) Finance
3 288 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (10.02%) Banking
5 149 (9.16%) Public Sector
6 72 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (4.31%) Manufacturing
8 51 (3.14%) Legal
9 49 (3.01%) Telecoms
10 46 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.52%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
14 38 (2.34%) Retail
15 33 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
16 30 (1.85%) Law
16 30 (1.85%) Marketing
17 27 (1.66%) Local Government
18 19 (1.17%) Billing
19 18 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 258 (15.87%) Analyst
2 211 (12.98%) Project Manager
3 162 (9.96%) Lead
4 135 (8.30%) Business Analyst
5 123 (7.56%) Change Manager
6 98 (6.03%) Senior
7 96 (5.90%) Consultant
8 57 (3.51%) Administrator
8 57 (3.51%) Developer
9 51 (3.14%) Programme Manager
10 49 (3.01%) Architect
11 48 (2.95%) IT Manager
12 42 (2.58%) Senior Manager
13 40 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
14 39 (2.40%) Service Manager
15 37 (2.28%) Business Manager
16 35 (2.15%) AWS Engineer
16 35 (2.15%) SAP Manager
17 33 (2.03%) Service Analyst
18 29 (1.78%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.26%) REST
2 43 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.85%) RESTful
4 24 (1.48%) .NET
4 24 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
5 17 (1.05%) LDAP
5 17 (1.05%) SAML
6 11 (0.68%) .NET Framework
6 11 (0.68%) 802.1X
6 11 (0.68%) OAuth
6 11 (0.68%) OpenID
7 10 (0.62%) HTML
8 8 (0.49%) ISPF
8 8 (0.49%) Kafka
8 8 (0.49%) SOAP
9 7 (0.43%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.43%) CSS
9 7 (0.43%) XML
10 6 (0.37%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 86 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 52 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 51 (3.14%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.89%) Cloud Native
5 47 (2.89%) Virtual Team
6 40 (2.46%) CMDB
7 39 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (2.40%) PKI
8 38 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (2.03%) Replication
10 28 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.72%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.60%) Life Science
12 25 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.17%) PMI
15 16 (0.98%) NHS
16 14 (0.86%) e-Learning
16 14 (0.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 157 (9.66%) Windows
2 102 (6.27%) Linux
3 37 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.21%) Unix
5 24 (1.48%) VMS
6 21 (1.29%) Amazon Linux
6 21 (1.29%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.74%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.25%) zOS
10 3 (0.18%) CentOS
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) Android
11 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.062%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.062%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (27.55%) Agile
2 435 (26.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 354 (21.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 352 (21.65%) Project Management
5 336 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
6 311 (19.13%) ITIL
7 239 (14.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 219 (13.47%) Migration
8 219 (13.47%) Project Delivery
9 217 (13.35%) DevOps
10 175 (10.76%) Service Management
11 158 (9.72%) PRINCE2
12 147 (9.04%) ITSM
13 141 (8.67%) Roadmaps
14 137 (8.43%) Decision-Making
15 132 (8.12%) CI/CD
16 127 (7.81%) Risk Management
17 123 (7.56%) ERP
18 121 (7.44%) Cybersecurity
19 111 (6.83%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 148 (9.10%) Python
2 123 (7.56%) SQL
3 93 (5.72%) PowerShell
4 51 (3.14%) Java
5 35 (2.15%) Go
6 33 (2.03%) C#
7 26 (1.60%) Groovy
8 24 (1.48%) Bash
9 21 (1.29%) JavaScript
10 19 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 16 (0.98%) Perl
12 12 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.62%) COBOL
13 10 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.49%) CLIST
14 8 (0.49%) JCL
14 8 (0.49%) Korn
14 8 (0.49%) REXX
15 5 (0.31%) ABAP
15 5 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 301 (18.51%) Degree
2 287 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 210 (12.92%) SC Cleared
4 105 (6.46%) PMI Certification
5 95 (5.84%) PMP
6 73 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (3.57%) Master's Degree
8 40 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (2.03%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.54%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 18 (1.11%) APMG
13 18 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.11%) CISSP
14 16 (0.98%) CCNP
14 16 (0.98%) CISM
15 15 (0.92%) Azure Certification
16 13 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.41%) QA
2 79 (4.86%) PMO
3 56 (3.44%) GDPR
4 43 (2.64%) Data Quality
5 42 (2.58%) SLA
6 30 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.05%) NIST
7 17 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.92%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.62%) NCSC
11 9 (0.55%) MiFID
12 7 (0.43%) IFRS
13 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.37%) EMIR
13 6 (0.37%) GRC
14 5 (0.31%) GxP
14 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.25%) GMP
System Software
1 98 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 67 (4.12%) Docker
3 21 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.23%) DFS Replication
5 11 (0.68%) Dovecot
5 11 (0.68%) Postfix
5 11 (0.68%) Squid
6 10 (0.62%) Firmware
7 9 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.49%) ACF2
8 8 (0.49%) RACF
8 8 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.18%) NFS
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.062%) Snort
Systems Management
1 86 (5.29%) Terraform
2 71 (4.37%) Kubernetes
3 57 (3.51%) Grafana
4 56 (3.44%) Ansible
4 56 (3.44%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.72%) SCCM
6 22 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.74%) CA Endevor
7 12 (0.74%) Nessus
8 11 (0.68%) Kibana
8 11 (0.68%) SCOM
9 10 (0.62%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.55%) Puppet
11 8 (0.49%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.43%) Tivoli
12 7 (0.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
13 6 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 321 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 158 (9.72%) SAP
3 146 (8.98%) ServiceNow
4 98 (6.03%) Oracle
5 61 (3.75%) Cisco
6 60 (3.69%) Google
7 54 (3.32%) Salesforce
8 49 (3.01%) Splunk
9 35 (2.15%) VMware
10 30 (1.85%) F5
11 27 (1.66%) Workday
12 26 (1.60%) Remedy
13 25 (1.54%) Atlassian
13 25 (1.54%) Juniper
14 22 (1.35%) CheckPoint
15 21 (1.29%) IBM
16 18 (1.11%) Fortinet
17 16 (0.98%) Red Hat
18 15 (0.92%) Citrix
19 14 (0.86%) Ariba