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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 43 40
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 +15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,538 1,586 2,181
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.44% 4.34% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 5.05% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 945 820 1,341
10th Percentile £325 £345 £363
25th Percentile £411 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £521
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.08% +4.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 33 45
10th Percentile £20.50 £26.28 £20.03
25th Percentile £22.16 £32.29 £23.43
Median hourly rate £30.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +35.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £60.60 £55.15
90th Percentile £70.16 £65.12 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -47.13% +41.86% +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 31,196 31,430 41,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.11% 86.05% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,528 18,901 27,760
10th Percentile £296 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,021 1,108 1,576
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +26.43%
75th Percentile £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -35.50% -20.90% +50.00%

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 November 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 November 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 November 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 -7 1,359 £500 -4.76% 1,326
UK excluding London +2 848 £475 -5.00% 1,034
London -6 587 £550 -4.35% 571
Work from Home -22 407 £500 -4.76% 587
North of England -15 244 £450 -13.88% 196
Midlands +14 195 £475 -5.00% 104
South East +2 167 £500 - 485
North West -5 161 £439 -16.03% 115
West Midlands +8 147 £475 -7.32% 58
South West +34 112 £533 +4.16% 87
Yorkshire -37 78 £500 -9.09% 60
Scotland +4 71 £450 +5.88% 40
East Midlands +18 48 £441 - 44
East of England -11 44 £525 +10.53% 92
Northern Ireland +2 17 £488 +186.76% 12
Wales -1 11 £413 +3.13% 20
North East -17 3 £475 -5.00% 23
Channel Islands - 1 - - 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
1 130 (8.45%) Confluence
2 75 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.78%) nginx
5 8 (0.52%) CMS
6 6 (0.39%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.39%) IIS
6 6 (0.39%) JBoss
6 6 (0.39%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.39%) Mule
6 6 (0.39%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.26%) CICS
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.13%) FileNet
8 2 (0.13%) Moodle
9 1 (0.065%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle UPK
9 1 (0.065%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.065%) Traefik
Applications
1 106 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (6.05%) Microsoft Office
3 84 (5.46%) Microsoft Project
4 46 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (2.67%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.46%) Trello
8 5 (0.33%) Windchill
9 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.065%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.065%) Notion
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.065%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 54 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 11 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.39%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.33%) Maximo
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.33%) SAP APO
7 5 (0.33%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 5 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.26%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.26%) SAP VC
8 4 (0.26%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.26%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 146 (9.49%) Azure
2 135 (8.78%) AWS
3 90 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (4.81%) GCP
5 72 (4.68%) Power Platform
6 45 (2.93%) SaaS
7 37 (2.41%) Serverless
8 35 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.21%) AWS KMS
10 33 (2.15%) Amazon S3
11 27 (1.76%) Entra ID
12 26 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (1.56%) Amazon ELB
15 19 (1.24%) GitHub
16 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
18 15 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
19 13 (0.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 99 (6.44%) Firewall
2 71 (4.62%) DNS
3 51 (3.32%) Network Security
4 38 (2.47%) WAN
5 34 (2.21%) SSH
6 31 (2.02%) VPN
7 29 (1.89%) HTTP
8 26 (1.69%) SMTP
9 23 (1.50%) FTP
9 23 (1.50%) LAN
10 22 (1.43%) Wireless
11 21 (1.37%) DHCP
12 16 (1.04%) SSL
13 14 (0.91%) IPsec
13 14 (0.91%) SD-WAN
13 14 (0.91%) TCP/IP
14 13 (0.85%) BGP
14 13 (0.85%) OSPF
15 12 (0.78%) IMAP
15 12 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (3.90%) Power BI
2 39 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (1.76%) NoSQL
5 25 (1.63%) Metadata
5 25 (1.63%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (1.11%) Tableau
8 15 (0.98%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.59%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.52%) MySQL
12 7 (0.46%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.39%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.33%) Big Data
14 5 (0.33%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 204 (13.26%) JIRA
2 85 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 44 (2.86%) Git
4 34 (2.21%) Liquibase
5 30 (1.95%) GitLab
6 24 (1.56%) Vagrant
7 14 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.65%) MSI
9 7 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.33%) JUnit
10 5 (0.33%) Mockito
11 4 (0.26%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (0.20%) CA Release Automation
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 651 (42.33%) Social Skills
2 531 (34.53%) Finance
3 244 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.47%) Banking
5 133 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 77 (5.01%) Manufacturing
7 67 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
8 53 (3.45%) Legal
9 52 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
10 49 (3.19%) Telecoms
11 46 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (2.54%) Financial Institution
13 37 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
14 35 (2.28%) Retail
15 34 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
15 34 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 33 (2.15%) Law
17 32 (2.08%) Marketing
18 22 (1.43%) Local Government
19 17 (1.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 269 (17.49%) Analyst
2 196 (12.74%) Project Manager
3 144 (9.36%) Lead
4 143 (9.30%) Business Analyst
5 105 (6.83%) Change Manager
6 99 (6.44%) Consultant
7 85 (5.53%) Senior
8 57 (3.71%) Administrator
9 54 (3.51%) Programme Manager
10 52 (3.38%) Developer
11 50 (3.25%) IT Manager
12 44 (2.86%) Service Manager
13 43 (2.80%) Architect
14 41 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (2.34%) AWS Engineer
16 34 (2.21%) Delivery Manager
16 34 (2.21%) SAP Manager
17 32 (2.08%) Senior Manager
18 31 (2.02%) Business Manager
18 31 (2.02%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.19%) REST
2 41 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (2.15%) RESTful
4 26 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (1.30%) .NET
6 17 (1.11%) LDAP
7 12 (0.78%) HTML
8 11 (0.72%) SAML
9 10 (0.65%) 802.1X
10 9 (0.59%) .NET Framework
10 9 (0.59%) CSS
10 9 (0.59%) OAuth
10 9 (0.59%) OpenID
11 8 (0.52%) Kafka
11 8 (0.52%) SOAP
12 7 (0.46%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.39%) Spring Boot
14 5 (0.33%) FHIR
14 5 (0.33%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (0.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.94%) Management Information System
2 68 (4.42%) Onboarding
3 46 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.93%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.80%) Cloud Native
6 42 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 38 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
8 33 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (2.08%) Replication
10 31 (2.02%) Life Science
11 28 (1.82%) CMDB
11 28 (1.82%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.69%) PKI
13 23 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (0.98%) NHS
16 14 (0.91%) Operational Technology
16 14 (0.91%) PMI
17 13 (0.85%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 150 (9.75%) Windows
2 107 (6.96%) Linux
3 38 (2.47%) Unix
4 31 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.69%) VMS
6 24 (1.56%) Amazon Linux
7 22 (1.43%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.91%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.33%) CentOS
11 4 (0.26%) zOS
12 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.13%) Android
13 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.065%) AIX
14 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.065%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.065%) Solaris
14 1 (0.065%) SUSE
14 1 (0.065%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (27.37%) Agile
2 392 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 343 (22.30%) Project Management
4 317 (20.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 303 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
6 269 (17.49%) ITIL
7 212 (13.78%) Project Delivery
8 203 (13.20%) DevOps
9 201 (13.07%) Migration
10 192 (12.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 157 (10.21%) Service Management
12 137 (8.91%) PRINCE2
13 136 (8.84%) Risk Management
14 123 (8.00%) ERP
15 121 (7.87%) Decision-Making
16 120 (7.80%) Roadmaps
17 119 (7.74%) CI/CD
18 117 (7.61%) Cybersecurity
19 115 (7.48%) ITSM
20 103 (6.70%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 143 (9.30%) Python
2 123 (8.00%) SQL
3 89 (5.79%) PowerShell
4 55 (3.58%) Java
5 34 (2.21%) C#
5 34 (2.21%) Go
6 27 (1.76%) Groovy
7 25 (1.63%) JavaScript
8 18 (1.17%) Perl
9 16 (1.04%) Bash
9 16 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.59%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.46%) VB
12 6 (0.39%) ABAP
12 6 (0.39%) Korn
12 6 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.33%) PromQL
13 5 (0.33%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.33%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 281 (18.27%) Degree
2 249 (16.19%) Security Cleared
3 183 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 84 (5.46%) PMI Certification
5 81 (5.27%) PMP
6 73 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 50 (3.25%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (2.02%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
11 25 (1.63%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.24%) APMG
14 17 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.85%) Azure Certification
17 12 (0.78%) CCNP
18 11 (0.72%) CBAP
18 11 (0.72%) CCNA
18 11 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.88%) QA
2 68 (4.42%) PMO
3 50 (3.25%) GDPR
4 37 (2.41%) SLA
5 35 (2.28%) Data Quality
6 28 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.30%) NIST
8 15 (0.98%) MiFID
9 14 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.78%) EMIR
10 12 (0.78%) NCSC
11 7 (0.46%) GRC
12 6 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.39%) IFRS
13 5 (0.33%) GxP
13 5 (0.33%) HL7
13 5 (0.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 88 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 67 (4.36%) Docker
3 23 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.43%) DFS Replication
5 12 (0.78%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.78%) Postfix
5 12 (0.78%) Squid
6 10 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.52%) Firmware
8 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.20%) vSphere
11 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.065%) ACF2
12 1 (0.065%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.065%) Snort
12 1 (0.065%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.81%) Terraform
2 64 (4.16%) Grafana
3 61 (3.97%) Prometheus
4 55 (3.58%) Kubernetes
5 44 (2.86%) Ansible
6 30 (1.95%) SCCM
7 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.85%) Nessus
9 10 (0.65%) Kibana
9 10 (0.65%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.59%) SCOM
11 7 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.46%) Puppet
12 6 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.39%) HP SiteScope
13 5 (0.33%) CA Endevor
13 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 315 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 154 (10.01%) SAP
3 121 (7.87%) ServiceNow
4 91 (5.92%) Oracle
5 62 (4.03%) Cisco
6 55 (3.58%) Splunk
7 54 (3.51%) Salesforce
8 45 (2.93%) Google
9 38 (2.47%) VMware
10 27 (1.76%) Remedy
11 26 (1.69%) Workday
12 25 (1.63%) Atlassian
12 25 (1.63%) Juniper
13 23 (1.50%) F5
14 22 (1.43%) IBM
15 19 (1.24%) CheckPoint
16 16 (1.04%) Ariba
16 16 (1.04%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.98%) Fortinet
18 14 (0.91%) Citrix