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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 53 40
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 +1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,997 1,452 1,654
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.66% 4.41% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 4.87% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 876 850
10th Percentile £365 £325 £325
25th Percentile £434 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £602 £638
90th Percentile £725 £723 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 62 45
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.40 £23.26
25th Percentile £25.52 £22.28 £32.29
Median hourly rate £51.50 £27.68 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.05% -49.67% +26.93%
75th Percentile £76.75 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.16 £70.16 £68.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.50 £23.95 £56.75
% change year-on-year +110.90% -57.80% +30.96%

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 46,186 29,793 32,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.48% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,729 18,525 19,586
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,368 1,885 1,263
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.21 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.83%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -6 1,746 £531 +6.10% 1,442
UK excluding London -18 985 £501 +5.37% 754
London -13 818 £550 - 735
Work from Home -4 568 £525 +5.00% 617
North of England -9 322 £500 +11.11% 207
South East 0 278 £550 +12.24% 183
North West -13 179 £475 +5.56% 127
Yorkshire -3 129 £500 +8.11% 64
Midlands -70 107 £475 - 95
Scotland +3 98 £482 +7.00% 67
South West -36 91 £544 +4.82% 89
East of England +10 80 £510 -2.95% 77
West Midlands -73 77 £492 +3.58% 62
East Midlands -24 30 £445 +3.19% 33
North East -27 14 £413 -8.33% 17
Northern Ireland -9 7 £750 +42.86% 28
Wales -19 7 £425 +2.53% 14
Channel Islands -3 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
1 107 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 90 (4.51%) Confluence
3 29 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.00%) IIS
5 13 (0.65%) CICS
6 6 (0.30%) Appian
6 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.30%) CMS
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.25%) Camunda
8 4 (0.20%) NetWeaver
8 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Kentico
9 3 (0.15%) nginx
9 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.10%) Documentum
10 2 (0.10%) JBoss
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 73 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.40%) Windchill
7 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.20%) InDesign
8 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Houdini
10 2 (0.10%) NUKE
10 2 (0.10%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.050%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.050%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.050%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 75 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.55%) Maximo
5 11 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.50%) Primavera
7 9 (0.45%) Teamcenter
7 9 (0.45%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.40%) SAP PM
9 7 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.30%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.25%) ContrOCC
11 5 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.25%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 299 (14.97%) Azure
2 150 (7.51%) AWS
3 148 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 121 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (5.16%) Entra ID
6 79 (3.96%) GCP
7 55 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.65%) SaaS
9 49 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
10 48 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
11 47 (2.35%) GitHub
12 30 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
13 29 (1.45%) OCI
14 27 (1.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 26 (1.30%) Power Automate
15 26 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
16 25 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 24 (1.20%) Serverless
18 23 (1.15%) OneDrive
19 22 (1.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 130 (6.51%) Firewall
2 111 (5.56%) Network Security
3 87 (4.36%) DNS
4 66 (3.30%) VPN
5 59 (2.95%) WAN
6 51 (2.55%) TCP/IP
7 45 (2.25%) DHCP
8 37 (1.85%) Wireless
9 32 (1.60%) LAN
10 28 (1.40%) BGP
11 27 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (1.20%) OSPF
13 22 (1.10%) SAN
13 22 (1.10%) SSL
14 20 (1.00%) MPLS
15 19 (0.95%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.95%) VLAN
16 18 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
17 17 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
18 16 (0.80%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.76%) Power BI
2 63 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.65%) Metadata
3 33 (1.65%) Oracle Database
4 28 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 18 (0.90%) Db2
6 17 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (0.85%) Tableau
7 14 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.45%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (0.35%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.35%) Oracle BI EE
12 6 (0.30%) DataStage
12 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 180 (9.01%) JIRA
2 69 (3.46%) Git
3 52 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.65%) GitLab
5 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.30%) Selenium
6 6 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
7 5 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.25%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.15%) AdminStudio
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%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.10%) Liquibase
General
1 799 (40.01%) Social Skills
2 703 (35.20%) Finance
3 330 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (10.72%) Banking
5 177 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 112 (5.61%) Influencing Skills
7 100 (5.01%) Manufacturing
8 97 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
9 82 (4.11%) Legal
10 76 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
11 67 (3.36%) Retail
12 57 (2.85%) Telecoms
13 54 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.10%) Aerospace
15 40 (2.00%) Law
16 34 (1.70%) Local Government
17 33 (1.65%) Marketing
18 29 (1.45%) Front Office
19 28 (1.40%) Aviation
20 26 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 242 (12.12%) Lead
2 223 (11.17%) Project Manager
3 221 (11.07%) Analyst
4 163 (8.16%) Senior
5 151 (7.56%) Change Manager
6 125 (6.26%) Business Analyst
7 113 (5.66%) Consultant
8 64 (3.20%) Network Engineer
9 59 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
10 58 (2.90%) Senior Manager
11 56 (2.80%) Developer
11 56 (2.80%) IT Manager
12 50 (2.50%) Programme Manager
13 48 (2.40%) Cloud Engineer
14 45 (2.25%) Business Manager
15 44 (2.20%) Administrator
16 40 (2.00%) Security Engineer
17 39 (1.95%) Service Manager
18 38 (1.90%) Architect
18 38 (1.90%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (5.66%) Terraform
2 51 (2.55%) REST
3 36 (1.80%) .NET
4 32 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 28 (1.40%) Middleware
6 26 (1.30%) Kafka
7 22 (1.10%) HTML
8 18 (0.90%) CSS
9 17 (0.85%) Ajax
10 16 (0.80%) JSON
10 16 (0.80%) OAuth
10 16 (0.80%) SOAP
11 15 (0.75%) 802.1X
11 15 (0.75%) Web Services
11 15 (0.75%) XML
12 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
13 13 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (0.60%) .NET Framework
15 9 (0.45%) RESTful
15 9 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (6.86%) Onboarding
2 107 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 93 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 82 (4.11%) Data Centre
5 60 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 44 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (2.05%) PKI
9 38 (1.90%) CMDB
9 38 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 38 (1.90%) Operational Technology
9 38 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 29 (1.45%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.20%) Mainframe
12 24 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 22 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
14 21 (1.05%) Public Cloud
15 18 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 236 (11.82%) Windows
2 125 (6.26%) Linux
3 108 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (2.30%) Unix
6 24 (1.20%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.85%) Solaris
8 15 (0.75%) zOS
9 14 (0.70%) VMS
10 13 (0.65%) AIX
11 9 (0.45%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.40%) macOS
12 8 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.35%) Android
13 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (0.30%) SUSE
15 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
15 4 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (42.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 511 (25.59%) Agile
3 495 (24.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 474 (23.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 381 (19.08%) ITIL
6 339 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
7 329 (16.47%) Project Delivery
8 316 (15.82%) Project Management
9 290 (14.52%) Roadmaps
10 285 (14.27%) Migration
11 244 (12.22%) Service Management
12 243 (12.17%) Decision-Making
13 227 (11.37%) AI
14 224 (11.22%) DevOps
15 210 (10.52%) ITSM
16 204 (10.22%) PRINCE2
17 187 (9.36%) Process Improvement
18 183 (9.16%) Analytics
19 182 (9.11%) Workshop Facilitation
20 179 (8.96%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 180 (9.01%) Python
2 159 (7.96%) PowerShell
3 144 (7.21%) SQL
4 84 (4.21%) Bash
5 49 (2.45%) Java
6 42 (2.10%) JavaScript
7 37 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 35 (1.75%) C#
9 27 (1.35%) Bicep
10 22 (1.10%) T-SQL
11 18 (0.90%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.75%) JCL
13 12 (0.60%) Go
13 12 (0.60%) Korn
14 10 (0.50%) COBOL
15 9 (0.45%) Groovy
15 9 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.30%) VBScript
17 5 (0.25%) ABAP
17 5 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 419 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 307 (15.37%) SC Cleared
3 234 (11.72%) Degree
4 143 (7.16%) PMP
5 136 (6.81%) PMI Certification
6 87 (4.36%) DV Cleared
7 46 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 37 (1.85%) CISSP
10 35 (1.75%) CCNP
11 31 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.45%) APMG
13 28 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 23 (1.15%) AWS Certification
16 20 (1.00%) ACCA
17 19 (0.95%) CIMA
17 19 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
18 15 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 108 (5.41%) QA
3 91 (4.56%) PMO
4 79 (3.96%) SLA
5 43 (2.15%) GDPR
6 32 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.50%) GRC
8 22 (1.10%) NIST
9 16 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.55%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.50%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.40%) EMIR
13 8 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.40%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
14 7 (0.35%) GMP
14 7 (0.35%) ITGC
15 6 (0.30%) IFRS
System Software
1 130 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 114 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (2.30%) Docker
4 29 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 28 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.95%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.70%) vCloud
8 14 (0.70%) vSphere
9 8 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (0.35%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) RACF
12 4 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.15%) Squid
14 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.10%) NFS
14 2 (0.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 83 (4.16%) Kubernetes
2 75 (3.76%) Ansible
3 42 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (1.75%) vCenter Server
5 33 (1.65%) SCOM
6 30 (1.50%) Grafana
7 28 (1.40%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (1.20%) SCCM
10 16 (0.80%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.60%) Avamar
12 10 (0.50%) 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%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 395 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 196 (9.81%) ServiceNow
3 164 (8.21%) Oracle
4 158 (7.91%) SAP
5 137 (6.86%) VMware
6 97 (4.86%) Cisco
7 63 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 51 (2.55%) Splunk
9 46 (2.30%) IBM
10 45 (2.25%) Google
11 39 (1.95%) Palo Alto
11 39 (1.95%) Red Hat
12 37 (1.85%) Zscaler
13 33 (1.65%) F5
14 30 (1.50%) Citrix
15 28 (1.40%) Workday
16 26 (1.30%) Juniper
17 25 (1.25%) CheckPoint
18 22 (1.10%) Dell
18 22 (1.10%) Fortinet