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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 51 41
Rank change year-on-year -12 -10 0
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,977 1,477 1,654
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.63% 4.50% 4.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 4.97% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 874 850
10th Percentile £375 £323 £315
25th Percentile £435 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £627
90th Percentile £725 £725 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 78 45
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.17 £23.26
25th Percentile £26.01 £22.63 £32.29
Median hourly rate £52.25 £34.67 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +50.73% -38.91% +17.24%
75th Percentile £76.94 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.05 £70.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £28.79 £57.40
% change year-on-year +77.14% -49.84% +18.58%

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 45,850 29,737 32,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.30% 90.62% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,722 18,491 19,844
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,198 1,854 1,372
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.00 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 28 September 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 28 September 2026.

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 28 September 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 -9 1,725 £525 +5.00% 1,897
UK excluding London -20 956 £510 +7.26% 1,075
London -7 826 £548 -0.45% 927
Work from Home -4 558 £525 +5.00% 773
North of England -17 308 £500 +8.11% 270
South East +1 275 £550 +12.82% 263
North West -16 175 £475 +3.26% 159
Yorkshire -11 122 £500 +9.59% 79
Midlands -69 109 £492 +3.58% 162
Scotland -1 99 £490 +8.94% 103
South West -37 84 £563 +7.14% 127
West Midlands -68 81 £513 +7.89% 95
East of England +1 69 £509 -7.45% 107
East Midlands -24 28 £430 -3.37% 67
North East -29 11 £413 -8.33% 33
Wales -15 9 £475 +43.43% 23
Northern Ireland -10 8 £750 +42.86% 35
Channel Islands -2 2 £600 - 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
1 109 (5.51%) SharePoint
2 92 (4.65%) Confluence
3 32 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.01%) IIS
5 12 (0.61%) CICS
6 8 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.30%) Appian
8 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.30%) CMS
9 5 (0.25%) Camunda
10 4 (0.20%) SAS
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.10%) JBoss
12 2 (0.10%) nginx
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 72 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.40%) Windchill
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.20%) InDesign
7 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Houdini
9 2 (0.10%) NUKE
9 2 (0.10%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.051%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.051%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.051%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 73 (3.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
6 11 (0.56%) Maximo
7 10 (0.51%) Primavera
8 9 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.46%) Teamcenter
9 8 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.40%) SAP PM
10 7 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
10 7 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
10 7 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.35%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.30%) SAP SD
12 5 (0.25%) ContrOCC
12 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.25%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.25%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 289 (14.62%) Azure
2 152 (7.69%) AWS
3 144 (7.28%) Power Platform
4 119 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
5 98 (4.96%) Entra ID
6 75 (3.79%) GCP
7 59 (2.98%) SaaS
8 53 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
10 45 (2.28%) GitHub
11 44 (2.23%) Microsoft Copilot
12 30 (1.52%) OCI
13 28 (1.42%) Power Automate
14 27 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
14 27 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 25 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (1.21%) Serverless
16 24 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
17 23 (1.16%) OpenShift
18 22 (1.11%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 125 (6.32%) Firewall
2 107 (5.41%) Network Security
3 86 (4.35%) DNS
4 63 (3.19%) VPN
5 57 (2.88%) WAN
6 47 (2.38%) DHCP
7 46 (2.33%) TCP/IP
8 36 (1.82%) Wireless
9 32 (1.62%) LAN
10 26 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.16%) BGP
12 22 (1.11%) SSL
13 19 (0.96%) OSPF
14 18 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
15 17 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
15 17 (0.86%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.81%) SNMP
17 14 (0.71%) MPLS
17 14 (0.71%) VLAN
18 13 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (5.72%) Power BI
2 64 (3.24%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.77%) Metadata
4 33 (1.67%) Oracle Database
5 27 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 19 (0.96%) Tableau
7 17 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (0.81%) Db2
8 16 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.35%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.35%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.35%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.35%) Oracle BI EE
13 6 (0.30%) GIS
13 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 186 (9.41%) JIRA
2 66 (3.34%) Git
3 53 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.66%) GitLab
5 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.30%) Selenium
6 6 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
7 5 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.25%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.15%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.15%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.15%) InstallShield
9 3 (0.15%) Postman
9 3 (0.15%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.10%) Snyk
General
1 785 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 714 (36.12%) Finance
3 331 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (10.77%) Banking
5 171 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 104 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
7 95 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
8 90 (4.55%) Manufacturing
9 85 (4.30%) Legal
10 75 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
11 71 (3.59%) Retail
12 57 (2.88%) Telecoms
13 51 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (2.07%) Marketing
15 38 (1.92%) Law
16 34 (1.72%) Local Government
17 33 (1.67%) Aerospace
18 30 (1.52%) Front Office
19 26 (1.32%) Aviation
20 25 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 234 (11.84%) Lead
2 227 (11.48%) Project Manager
3 218 (11.03%) Analyst
4 168 (8.50%) Senior
5 144 (7.28%) Change Manager
6 124 (6.27%) Business Analyst
7 117 (5.92%) Consultant
8 65 (3.29%) Senior Manager
9 59 (2.98%) IT Manager
9 59 (2.98%) Network Engineer
10 58 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
10 58 (2.93%) Developer
11 50 (2.53%) Administrator
12 49 (2.48%) Cloud Engineer
12 49 (2.48%) Programme Manager
13 43 (2.18%) Business Manager
14 40 (2.02%) Security Engineer
15 39 (1.97%) Architect
15 39 (1.97%) Service Manager
16 37 (1.87%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (5.67%) Terraform
2 49 (2.48%) REST
3 38 (1.92%) .NET
4 29 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.26%) Kafka
6 24 (1.21%) HTML
6 24 (1.21%) Middleware
7 20 (1.01%) CSS
8 18 (0.91%) SOAP
9 17 (0.86%) Ajax
10 15 (0.76%) 802.1X
10 15 (0.76%) Web Services
10 15 (0.76%) XML
11 14 (0.71%) OAuth
12 13 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (0.66%) JSON
12 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
13 12 (0.61%) .NET Framework
14 9 (0.46%) RESTful
15 8 (0.40%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 136 (6.88%) Onboarding
2 101 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 90 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 76 (3.84%) Data Centre
5 54 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.48%) Cloud Native
7 45 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (1.97%) PKI
9 37 (1.87%) Security Posture
9 37 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 35 (1.77%) Operational Technology
11 28 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 27 (1.37%) CMDB
13 25 (1.26%) AI Agents
14 24 (1.21%) Mainframe
14 24 (1.21%) PMI
15 23 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
16 21 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
16 21 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 232 (11.73%) Windows
2 129 (6.53%) Linux
3 104 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (2.48%) Unix
6 23 (1.16%) Windows 10
7 20 (1.01%) Solaris
8 15 (0.76%) AIX
9 14 (0.71%) VMS
9 14 (0.71%) zOS
10 9 (0.46%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.35%) Android
12 7 (0.35%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.35%) SUSE
12 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.25%) HPUX
15 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
15 4 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (40.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 510 (25.80%) Agile
3 475 (24.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 469 (23.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 377 (19.07%) ITIL
6 343 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
7 328 (16.59%) Project Management
8 327 (16.54%) Project Delivery
9 282 (14.26%) Roadmaps
10 279 (14.11%) Migration
11 250 (12.65%) Decision-Making
12 239 (12.09%) Service Management
13 226 (11.43%) AI
14 225 (11.38%) DevOps
15 207 (10.47%) ITSM
16 200 (10.12%) PRINCE2
17 189 (9.56%) Process Improvement
18 188 (9.51%) ERP
19 186 (9.41%) Analytics
20 173 (8.75%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 174 (8.80%) Python
2 151 (7.64%) SQL
3 148 (7.49%) PowerShell
4 81 (4.10%) Bash
5 50 (2.53%) Java
6 43 (2.18%) JavaScript
7 42 (2.12%) PL/SQL
8 36 (1.82%) C#
9 26 (1.32%) Bicep
10 23 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 17 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.71%) JCL
13 13 (0.66%) Korn
14 12 (0.61%) Go
15 10 (0.51%) COBOL
16 9 (0.46%) Groovy
16 9 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.30%) VBScript
18 5 (0.25%) REXX
19 4 (0.20%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 406 (20.54%) Security Cleared
2 295 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 238 (12.04%) Degree
4 153 (7.74%) PMP
5 143 (7.23%) PMI Certification
6 85 (4.30%) DV Cleared
7 46 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (2.07%) CISSP
9 40 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 35 (1.77%) CCNP
11 30 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (1.32%) APMG
13 26 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 24 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 23 (1.16%) AWS Certification
16 22 (1.11%) ACCA
17 21 (1.06%) CIMA
17 21 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
18 18 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.41%) QA
2 104 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 89 (4.50%) PMO
4 80 (4.05%) SLA
5 52 (2.63%) GDPR
6 41 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.67%) GRC
8 29 (1.47%) NIST
9 17 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.76%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.61%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.51%) ITGC
14 8 (0.40%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
14 8 (0.40%) GMP
14 8 (0.40%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.35%) EMIR
16 6 (0.30%) IFRS
System Software
1 130 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 110 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.28%) Docker
4 25 (1.26%) Hyper-V
4 25 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.71%) vCloud
7 14 (0.71%) vSphere
8 8 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.30%) Firmware
10 5 (0.25%) RACF
11 4 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
12 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.15%) Squid
13 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.10%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 82 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 73 (3.69%) Ansible
3 40 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (1.77%) vCenter Server
5 33 (1.67%) SCOM
6 28 (1.42%) Grafana
7 27 (1.37%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.16%) SCCM
10 15 (0.76%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.61%) Avamar
12 10 (0.51%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.35%) Control-M
14 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.35%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
15 6 (0.30%) Argo
16 5 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 374 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 196 (9.91%) ServiceNow
3 177 (8.95%) Oracle
4 151 (7.64%) SAP
5 133 (6.73%) VMware
6 93 (4.70%) Cisco
7 69 (3.49%) Salesforce
8 48 (2.43%) Google
9 46 (2.33%) Splunk
10 45 (2.28%) IBM
11 40 (2.02%) Red Hat
12 37 (1.87%) Zscaler
13 35 (1.77%) Palo Alto
14 31 (1.57%) F5
15 28 (1.42%) Citrix
16 26 (1.32%) CheckPoint
17 25 (1.26%) Juniper
17 25 (1.26%) Workday
18 22 (1.11%) Remedy
19 21 (1.06%) Dell