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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,798 1,281 1,847
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.81% 4.37% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 4.81% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 809 1,088
10th Percentile £325 £321 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £625
90th Percentile £694 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +5.11% -6.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 51 63
10th Percentile £22.63 £28.60 £14.09
25th Percentile £22.68 £50.00 £28.32
Median hourly rate £41.86 £54.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +12.50% -0.83%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.80 £78.47 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.43 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -30.95% +26.32% -1.58%

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 39,853 26,632 37,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,078 17,168 24,015
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,383 1,080 2,442
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%
75th Percentile £67.13 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.57 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.59% -26.48% +7.14%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -5 1,581 £500 - 561
UK excluding London -10 935 £494 +5.11% 402
London -6 694 £500 -9.01% 223
Work from Home -3 536 £525 +5.00% 232
North of England -12 287 £475 +5.56% 89
Midlands -2 222 £500 - 70
South East 0 209 £510 +5.70% 130
North West -2 181 £436 -0.34% 44
West Midlands -9 149 £513 +2.50% 36
Yorkshire -31 98 £487 +5.30% 38
South West -19 88 £500 - 49
East Midlands +16 71 £425 +20.06% 33
East of England -13 71 £475 -2.51% 42
Scotland -2 70 £470 +17.50% 21
Wales -12 10 £600 +60.00% 6
North East -21 8 £433 -24.78% 9
Northern Ireland -6 6 £475 -16.67% 6

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
1 110 (6.12%) Confluence
2 74 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.78%) SAS
5 12 (0.67%) IIS
6 9 (0.50%) Appian
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.056%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.056%) Moodle
11 1 (0.056%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.056%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.056%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 80 (4.45%) Microsoft Project
2 68 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 31 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.61%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.28%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.17%) Windchill
11 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.056%) InDesign
11 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.056%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 76 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) Finacle
6 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.33%) Primavera
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 281 (15.63%) Azure
2 141 (7.84%) AWS
3 110 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
4 101 (5.62%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.06%) GCP
6 72 (4.00%) SaaS
7 66 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (3.67%) Entra ID
8 40 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.72%) Google Workspace
9 31 (1.72%) Power Automate
10 26 (1.45%) PaaS
11 22 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
11 22 (1.22%) OpenShift
12 20 (1.11%) GitHub
13 19 (1.06%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.06%) OCI
14 16 (0.89%) PowerApps
15 15 (0.83%) IaaS
15 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 109 (6.06%) Firewall
2 67 (3.73%) Network Security
3 61 (3.39%) DNS
4 60 (3.34%) WAN
5 52 (2.89%) VPN
6 49 (2.73%) LAN
7 36 (2.00%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.78%) BGP
9 30 (1.67%) OSPF
9 30 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (1.56%) SSL
10 28 (1.56%) TCP/IP
11 25 (1.39%) DHCP
12 24 (1.33%) MPLS
13 19 (1.06%) SAN
14 18 (1.00%) Wireless
15 17 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 17 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 15 (0.83%) HTTP
16 15 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (4.67%) Power BI
2 63 (3.50%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (1.39%) Metadata
4 24 (1.33%) Tableau
5 20 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
7 17 (0.95%) Oracle Database
8 15 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.56%) MySQL
10 10 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (0.28%) Big Data
14 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI EE
14 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.22%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 221 (12.29%) JIRA
2 56 (3.11%) Git
3 48 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.50%) GitLab
5 9 (0.50%) MLflow
6 5 (0.28%) InstallShield
6 5 (0.28%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
7 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.22%) Hudson
7 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.22%) Maven
7 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (0.17%) Snyk
8 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.11%) git-flow
9 2 (0.11%) JUnit
General
1 712 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 592 (32.93%) Finance
3 314 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 145 (8.06%) Banking
6 76 (4.23%) Legal
7 72 (4.00%) Retail
8 62 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (2.56%) Marketing
12 36 (2.00%) Law
12 36 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 35 (1.95%) Local Government
14 32 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (1.78%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.17%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.17%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.06%) Aviation
17 18 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 217 (12.07%) Project Manager
2 185 (10.29%) Lead
3 184 (10.23%) Analyst
4 144 (8.01%) Change Manager
5 129 (7.17%) Senior
6 117 (6.51%) Business Analyst
7 108 (6.01%) Consultant
8 75 (4.17%) Administrator
9 68 (3.78%) Developer
10 62 (3.45%) Programme Manager
11 52 (2.89%) Architect
12 50 (2.78%) Network Engineer
12 50 (2.78%) Senior Manager
13 47 (2.61%) Business Manager
13 47 (2.61%) IT Manager
14 38 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
15 37 (2.06%) Business Change Manager
16 33 (1.84%) SAP Manager
17 32 (1.78%) Support Engineer
18 30 (1.67%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.73%) REST
2 36 (2.00%) .NET
3 27 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.28%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.22%) OAuth
6 21 (1.17%) Middleware
7 16 (0.89%) CSS
7 16 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (0.78%) Web Services
9 13 (0.72%) HTML
9 13 (0.72%) LDAP
9 13 (0.72%) SAML
10 12 (0.67%) SOAP
11 10 (0.56%) OpenID
11 10 (0.56%) Pandas
11 10 (0.56%) pytest
11 10 (0.56%) React
11 10 (0.56%) RESTful
12 9 (0.50%) NumPy
12 9 (0.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 88 (4.89%) Management Information System
2 79 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 77 (4.28%) Onboarding
4 69 (3.84%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.50%) CMDB
5 45 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 43 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 40 (2.22%) PMI
8 39 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 31 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 31 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.50%) PKI
12 18 (1.00%) Operational Technology
12 18 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.00%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (0.95%) Mainframe
14 16 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 174 (9.68%) Windows
2 81 (4.51%) Linux
3 63 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.39%) Unix
5 29 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.44%) Solaris
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.28%) AIX
11 5 (0.28%) VMS
12 4 (0.22%) HPUX
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.22%) SUSE
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) Android
14 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (31.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 438 (24.36%) Agile
3 427 (23.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 370 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
5 361 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 325 (18.08%) ITIL
7 318 (17.69%) Project Management
8 295 (16.41%) Migration
9 234 (13.01%) DevOps
10 206 (11.46%) Project Delivery
11 193 (10.73%) ERP
12 186 (10.34%) Roadmaps
13 182 (10.12%) Decision-Making
14 170 (9.45%) ITSM
15 166 (9.23%) Validation
16 165 (9.18%) Risk Management
17 152 (8.45%) CI/CD
18 141 (7.84%) Service Management
19 138 (7.68%) Workshop Facilitation
20 135 (7.51%) AI
Programming Languages
1 164 (9.12%) SQL
2 109 (6.06%) Python
3 85 (4.73%) PowerShell
4 49 (2.73%) C#
5 45 (2.50%) Bash
6 41 (2.28%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.89%) Java
8 27 (1.50%) T-SQL
9 25 (1.39%) JavaScript
10 13 (0.72%) COBOL
11 12 (0.67%) JCL
12 11 (0.61%) Korn
12 11 (0.61%) REXX
13 9 (0.50%) CLIST
13 9 (0.50%) Groovy
13 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.28%) ABAP
14 5 (0.28%) Go
14 5 (0.28%) Perl
15 4 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 366 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 261 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 243 (13.52%) Degree
4 116 (6.45%) PMP
5 115 (6.40%) PMI Certification
6 51 (2.84%) CISSP
6 51 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 45 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (2.11%) CISM
9 38 (2.11%) Master's Degree
10 34 (1.89%) CCNP
11 29 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
12 27 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (1.28%) APMG
14 21 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 20 (1.11%) CIMA
16 19 (1.06%) ACCA
17 18 (1.00%) Azure Certification
18 15 (0.83%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.12%) QA
2 93 (5.17%) GDPR
3 87 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.84%) PMO
4 68 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 64 (3.56%) SLA
6 44 (2.45%) NIST
7 27 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.17%) SOC 2
9 19 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.95%) IFRS
11 15 (0.83%) IFRS 17
12 12 (0.67%) GRC
13 10 (0.56%) Basel III
14 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.44%) ITGC
15 7 (0.39%) COBIT
16 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 123 (6.84%) Active Directory
2 50 (2.78%) Docker
3 48 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.56%) vSphere
9 9 (0.50%) ACF2
9 9 (0.50%) RACF
9 9 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
10 8 (0.44%) Firmware
10 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.28%) KVM
11 5 (0.28%) XenApp
11 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.056%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 79 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.73%) Ansible
3 65 (3.62%) Terraform
4 34 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.39%) Grafana
5 25 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.33%) SCCM
7 20 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 18 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.78%) FortiGate
10 11 (0.61%) CA Endevor
11 10 (0.56%) Puppet
11 10 (0.56%) SCOM
12 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
12 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 8 (0.44%) Kibana
14 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
15 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 282 (15.68%) Microsoft
2 179 (9.96%) ServiceNow
3 172 (9.57%) SAP
4 158 (8.79%) Oracle
5 73 (4.06%) Cisco
6 71 (3.95%) VMware
7 67 (3.73%) Salesforce
8 66 (3.67%) Google
9 37 (2.06%) Citrix
10 33 (1.84%) F5
11 29 (1.61%) Splunk
12 28 (1.56%) Workday
13 26 (1.45%) IFS
14 25 (1.39%) Juniper
15 23 (1.28%) Palo Alto
16 21 (1.17%) CheckPoint
17 20 (1.11%) Fortinet
18 17 (0.95%) Dynatrace
18 17 (0.95%) Red Hat
18 17 (0.95%) Remedy