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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 49 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +11
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,674 1,305 1,975
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.17% 4.21% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 4.71% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 737 1,183
10th Percentile £313 £321 £351
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.05% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 30 60
10th Percentile £20.79 £28.44 £17.79
25th Percentile £22.76 £35.75 £26.12
Median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% +3.28%
75th Percentile £56.69 £71.88 £59.00
90th Percentile £75.01 £87.05 £62.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £37.18
% change year-on-year -20.94% +54.65% -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 34,907 27,716 39,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.98% 89.51% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,112 17,001 25,591
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 852 2,127
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.32
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.85% -12.53% +7.69%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -3 1,487 £500 -4.76% 486
UK excluding London +5 924 £475 -5.00% 419
London -17 613 £523 -3.24% 167
Work from Home -9 451 £500 -4.53% 219
North of England -4 291 £450 -11.24% 98
Midlands +12 240 £490 -2.00% 83
South East +4 188 £475 -13.64% 146
North West +5 181 £404 -14.60% 54
West Midlands +1 160 £500 -0.40% 60
South West +14 113 £525 -4.55% 29
Yorkshire -16 105 £487 -11.45% 34
East Midlands +23 80 £435 +11.25% 23
Scotland +5 64 £431 +10.58% 27
East of England -35 40 £500 +5.26% 37
Wales +7 14 £414 -31.08% 11
Northern Ireland -3 7 £400 -33.33% 2
North East -24 5 £475 -17.39% 12

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
1 126 (7.53%) Confluence
2 78 (4.66%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.54%) Appian
5 6 (0.36%) Mattermost
5 6 (0.36%) nginx
5 6 (0.36%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.30%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.24%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) IIS
8 3 (0.18%) Moodle
8 3 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.12%) FileNet
9 2 (0.12%) JBoss
9 2 (0.12%) Mule
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.060%) Traefik
Applications
1 96 (5.73%) Microsoft Project
2 74 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 41 (2.45%) MS Visio
5 33 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.30%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.30%) Trello
8 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.24%) Windchill
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.060%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.060%) InDesign
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.060%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 71 (4.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.48%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.42%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.36%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.24%) Finacle
9 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.18%) iTrent
10 3 (0.18%) Kondor
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 250 (14.93%) Azure
2 158 (9.44%) AWS
3 110 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
4 104 (6.21%) GCP
5 85 (5.08%) Power Platform
6 56 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (2.81%) Entra ID
8 40 (2.39%) SaaS
9 30 (1.79%) Serverless
10 26 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (1.55%) Power Automate
11 22 (1.31%) AWS KMS
12 21 (1.25%) GitHub
12 21 (1.25%) Google Workspace
13 20 (1.19%) Amazon S3
13 20 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (1.14%) Google Sheets
15 18 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (1.08%) PaaS
16 17 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 99 (5.91%) Firewall
2 73 (4.36%) DNS
3 62 (3.70%) Network Security
4 46 (2.75%) VPN
5 45 (2.69%) WAN
6 34 (2.03%) LAN
7 28 (1.67%) TCP/IP
8 26 (1.55%) DHCP
9 22 (1.31%) BGP
9 22 (1.31%) SD-WAN
9 22 (1.31%) SSL
10 21 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (1.14%) OSPF
12 18 (1.08%) HTTP
13 16 (0.96%) SAN
14 15 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 15 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 15 (0.90%) SSH
15 13 (0.78%) Kerberos
15 13 (0.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.18%) Power BI
2 48 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 35 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.49%) Metadata
5 21 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (1.25%) Tableau
6 19 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 16 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (0.78%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.54%) Big Data
11 8 (0.48%) MySQL
11 8 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (0.48%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.42%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.30%) Metadata Repository
15 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 196 (11.71%) JIRA
2 59 (3.52%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.21%) Git
4 29 (1.73%) Liquibase
5 27 (1.61%) GitLab
6 12 (0.72%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.48%) MLflow
7 8 (0.48%) Vagrant
8 6 (0.36%) JUnit
9 5 (0.30%) Mockito
9 5 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.24%) MSI
11 3 (0.18%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) AdminStudio
12 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.12%) git-flow
13 1 (0.060%) Browser DevTools
13 1 (0.060%) SonarQube
General
1 769 (45.94%) Social Skills
2 557 (33.27%) Finance
3 317 (18.94%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 162 (9.68%) Banking
6 67 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 56 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 54 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 52 (3.11%) Legal
10 51 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
11 42 (2.51%) Retail
11 42 (2.51%) Telecoms
12 39 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (2.15%) Local Government
14 33 (1.97%) Financial Institution
15 32 (1.91%) Marketing
16 25 (1.49%) Law
17 23 (1.37%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 249 (14.87%) Analyst
2 208 (12.43%) Project Manager
3 183 (10.93%) Lead
4 140 (8.36%) Business Analyst
5 130 (7.77%) Change Manager
6 113 (6.75%) Senior
7 100 (5.97%) Consultant
8 59 (3.52%) Programme Manager
9 53 (3.17%) Developer
10 52 (3.11%) Architect
11 48 (2.87%) Business Manager
12 43 (2.57%) Administrator
12 43 (2.57%) Senior Manager
13 39 (2.33%) IT Manager
14 36 (2.15%) SAP Manager
14 36 (2.15%) Service Manager
15 33 (1.97%) Business Change Manager
16 32 (1.91%) Network Engineer
17 29 (1.73%) Transformation Manager
18 27 (1.61%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.82%) REST
2 40 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
3 32 (1.91%) RESTful
4 30 (1.79%) .NET
5 25 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 22 (1.31%) OAuth
7 20 (1.19%) .NET Framework
8 19 (1.14%) LDAP
8 19 (1.14%) SAML
9 15 (0.90%) Middleware
10 14 (0.84%) OpenID
11 12 (0.72%) HTML
11 12 (0.72%) Web Services
12 10 (0.60%) CSS
12 10 (0.60%) ISPF
12 10 (0.60%) SOAP
13 9 (0.54%) Django
13 9 (0.54%) NumPy
13 9 (0.54%) Pandas
13 9 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.50%) Management Information System
2 89 (5.32%) Onboarding
3 75 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 51 (3.05%) Cloud Native
5 49 (2.93%) CMDB
6 47 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 43 (2.57%) Virtual Team
8 41 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (2.09%) PKI
10 32 (1.91%) PMI
11 30 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.73%) Public Cloud
13 26 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.25%) Data Structures
15 20 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
16 19 (1.14%) Replication
17 16 (0.96%) e-Learning
17 16 (0.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 154 (9.20%) Windows
2 90 (5.38%) Linux
3 46 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.45%) Unix
5 34 (2.03%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.66%) VMS
8 9 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.24%) CentOS
11 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.18%) Android
13 2 (0.12%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.060%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.060%) Solaris
14 1 (0.060%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (31.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 451 (26.94%) Agile
3 405 (24.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 375 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
5 322 (19.24%) Project Management
6 321 (19.18%) ITIL
7 290 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 263 (15.71%) Migration
9 217 (12.96%) DevOps
10 191 (11.41%) Project Delivery
11 160 (9.56%) PRINCE2
12 159 (9.50%) Service Management
13 158 (9.44%) ITSM
14 146 (8.72%) ERP
15 143 (8.54%) Decision-Making
15 143 (8.54%) Risk Management
16 137 (8.18%) CI/CD
17 136 (8.12%) Roadmaps
18 134 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
19 125 (7.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 160 (9.56%) SQL
2 157 (9.38%) Python
3 105 (6.27%) PowerShell
4 42 (2.51%) Bash
5 34 (2.03%) C#
6 28 (1.67%) Go
7 27 (1.61%) Java
8 20 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 19 (1.14%) JavaScript
10 15 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 15 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.84%) Groovy
12 12 (0.72%) COBOL
13 11 (0.66%) JCL
14 10 (0.60%) CLIST
14 10 (0.60%) REXX
15 7 (0.42%) Korn
16 6 (0.36%) Perl
17 5 (0.30%) TypeScript
18 4 (0.24%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 311 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 301 (17.98%) Degree
3 219 (13.08%) SC Cleared
4 109 (6.51%) PMI Certification
5 96 (5.73%) PMP
6 63 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (3.76%) Master's Degree
7 46 (2.75%) DV Cleared
8 41 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.55%) CISSP
10 25 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 24 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.37%) APMG
12 23 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
13 22 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.31%) CISM
14 17 (1.02%) Azure Certification
14 17 (1.02%) CCNP
15 16 (0.96%) AWS Certification
16 15 (0.90%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (6.33%) QA
2 73 (4.36%) PMO
3 65 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 64 (3.82%) GDPR
5 43 (2.57%) SLA
6 41 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.14%) IFRS
8 15 (0.90%) IFRS 17
8 15 (0.90%) NIST
8 15 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.60%) Basel III
11 10 (0.60%) GRC
12 8 (0.48%) MiFID
12 8 (0.48%) NCSC
13 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.30%) EMIR
13 5 (0.30%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 109 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 76 (4.54%) Docker
3 33 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.60%) ACF2
5 10 (0.60%) RACF
5 10 (0.60%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.54%) Firmware
7 8 (0.48%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.36%) Dovecot
8 6 (0.36%) Postfix
8 6 (0.36%) Squid
8 6 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.30%) XenApp
9 5 (0.30%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.24%) KVM
10 4 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 76 (4.54%) Terraform
3 65 (3.88%) Ansible
4 44 (2.63%) Grafana
5 43 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.85%) SCCM
7 29 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.02%) Puppet
9 14 (0.84%) Kibana
10 13 (0.78%) SCOM
11 12 (0.72%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.60%) CA Endevor
12 10 (0.60%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.54%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 7 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.36%) HP SiteScope
15 6 (0.36%) Nessus
15 6 (0.36%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 293 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 155 (9.26%) SAP
3 144 (8.60%) ServiceNow
4 109 (6.51%) Oracle
5 72 (4.30%) Google
6 63 (3.76%) Cisco
7 62 (3.70%) Salesforce
8 54 (3.23%) VMware
9 49 (2.93%) Splunk
10 33 (1.97%) Citrix
11 29 (1.73%) F5
12 26 (1.55%) Workday
13 22 (1.31%) Juniper
14 19 (1.14%) Atlassian
15 18 (1.08%) Remedy
16 17 (1.02%) CheckPoint
16 17 (1.02%) Fortinet
17 16 (0.96%) Adobe
17 16 (0.96%) IBM
18 15 (0.90%) Red Hat