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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,836 1,276 1,864
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.94% 4.32% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.76% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 816 1,109
10th Percentile £325 £322 £330
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 £600 £625
90th Percentile £699 £700 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £474 £500
% change year-on-year +5.54% -5.25% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 50 60
10th Percentile £21.65 £28.60 £14.40
25th Percentile £22.68 £50.00 £29.11
Median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +20.00% -6.50%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.62 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.58% +41.18% -9.80%

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 39,506 26,799 37,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.79% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,946 17,322 24,335
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -0.36% -2.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,068 2,432
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £35.58
% change year-on-year +49.48% -21.29% -4.62%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 1,621 £500 - 442
UK excluding London -7 966 £500 +5.54% 385
London -2 707 £500 -7.41% 131
Work from Home -3 552 £525 +5.00% 210
North of England -12 300 £475 +5.56% 84
Midlands +3 224 £500 - 83
South East +4 214 £510 +5.70% 110
North West +3 195 £425 -2.96% 41
West Midlands -7 153 £510 +2.00% 38
South West -17 97 £500 - 38
Yorkshire -37 96 £487 +5.30% 33
Scotland +11 74 £471 +17.63% 17
East of England -20 71 £475 -2.51% 45
East Midlands +11 69 £425 +20.06% 43
Wales -8 10 £600 +60.00% 5
North East -19 9 £440 -23.48% 11
Northern Ireland -5 5 £450 -21.05% 10

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
1 113 (6.15%) Confluence
2 76 (4.14%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.76%) SAS
5 9 (0.49%) Appian
5 9 (0.49%) IIS
6 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.054%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.054%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.054%) Moodle
10 1 (0.054%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 85 (4.63%) Microsoft Project
2 74 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 33 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.27%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) Windchill
11 1 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.054%) InDesign
11 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.054%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 77 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) Finacle
6 6 (0.33%) Primavera
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.16%) iTrent
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 284 (15.47%) Azure
2 142 (7.73%) AWS
3 110 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
4 95 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 75 (4.08%) GCP
6 73 (3.98%) SaaS
7 72 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (3.43%) Entra ID
9 40 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (1.69%) Google Workspace
10 31 (1.69%) Power Automate
11 28 (1.53%) PaaS
12 22 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (1.20%) OpenShift
13 19 (1.03%) GitHub
13 19 (1.03%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.03%) OCI
14 17 (0.93%) IaaS
15 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (0.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.10%) Firewall
2 70 (3.81%) Network Security
3 63 (3.43%) WAN
4 60 (3.27%) DNS
5 53 (2.89%) VPN
6 51 (2.78%) LAN
7 38 (2.07%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.74%) BGP
9 31 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (1.63%) OSPF
11 29 (1.58%) SSL
12 26 (1.42%) TCP/IP
13 25 (1.36%) DHCP
14 24 (1.31%) MPLS
15 18 (0.98%) SAN
15 18 (0.98%) Wireless
16 17 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 17 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 15 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
17 15 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.25%) Power BI
2 60 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.42%) Metadata
4 25 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.14%) Tableau
6 20 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.03%) Oracle Database
7 19 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.54%) MySQL
11 9 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (0.27%) Big Data
14 5 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.22%) Oracle Database 11g
15 4 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 228 (12.42%) JIRA
2 52 (2.83%) Git
3 41 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.54%) GitLab
6 9 (0.49%) Liquibase
7 8 (0.44%) MLflow
8 5 (0.27%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.27%) JUnit
9 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.22%) Hudson
9 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.16%) Mockito
10 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.16%) Snyk
10 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 738 (40.20%) Social Skills
2 601 (32.73%) Finance
3 322 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 145 (7.90%) Banking
6 74 (4.03%) Legal
7 71 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
7 71 (3.87%) Retail
8 57 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.67%) Marketing
10 48 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
11 41 (2.23%) Manufacturing
12 38 (2.07%) Local Government
13 36 (1.96%) Law
14 33 (1.80%) Telecoms
15 32 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (1.25%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.09%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.03%) Aviation
19 18 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (12.04%) Project Manager
2 203 (11.06%) Lead
3 194 (10.57%) Analyst
4 154 (8.39%) Change Manager
5 127 (6.92%) Senior
6 124 (6.75%) Business Analyst
7 111 (6.05%) Consultant
8 77 (4.19%) Administrator
9 65 (3.54%) Developer
10 61 (3.32%) Programme Manager
11 54 (2.94%) Architect
12 52 (2.83%) Business Manager
13 50 (2.72%) Network Engineer
13 50 (2.72%) Senior Manager
14 46 (2.51%) IT Manager
15 41 (2.23%) Business Change Manager
16 36 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
17 34 (1.85%) SAP Manager
18 31 (1.69%) Service Manager
18 31 (1.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (2.89%) REST
2 34 (1.85%) .NET
3 27 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.25%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.20%) OAuth
6 21 (1.14%) Middleware
7 17 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (0.82%) CSS
9 14 (0.76%) SAML
9 14 (0.76%) Web Services
10 13 (0.71%) LDAP
10 13 (0.71%) RESTful
11 12 (0.65%) HTML
11 12 (0.65%) SOAP
12 11 (0.60%) OpenID
13 10 (0.54%) ISPF
13 10 (0.54%) pytest
13 10 (0.54%) React
14 9 (0.49%) NumPy
14 9 (0.49%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.12%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.36%) Onboarding
3 78 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.65%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.89%) Virtual Team
6 48 (2.61%) CMDB
7 45 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (2.40%) PMI
9 40 (2.18%) Cloud Native
10 31 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.53%) PKI
12 20 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.03%) Operational Technology
14 18 (0.98%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.98%) Security Posture
15 16 (0.87%) Low-Code
16 15 (0.82%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 170 (9.26%) Windows
2 81 (4.41%) Linux
3 61 (3.32%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.34%) Unix
5 28 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.38%) Solaris
11 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.27%) AIX
12 5 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.27%) VMS
13 4 (0.22%) HPUX
13 4 (0.22%) SUSE
13 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.16%) CentOS
14 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (31.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 452 (24.62%) Agile
3 440 (23.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 376 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
5 373 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 350 (19.06%) ITIL
7 339 (18.46%) Project Management
8 307 (16.72%) Migration
9 246 (13.40%) DevOps
10 222 (12.09%) Project Delivery
11 198 (10.78%) ERP
12 190 (10.35%) Roadmaps
13 182 (9.91%) Decision-Making
14 172 (9.37%) Risk Management
15 169 (9.20%) ITSM
16 162 (8.82%) Validation
17 151 (8.22%) Service Management
18 149 (8.12%) CI/CD
19 146 (7.95%) PRINCE2
20 142 (7.73%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 169 (9.20%) SQL
2 111 (6.05%) Python
3 90 (4.90%) PowerShell
4 49 (2.67%) C#
5 45 (2.45%) Bash
6 41 (2.23%) PL/SQL
7 32 (1.74%) Java
8 27 (1.47%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.25%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.65%) COBOL
10 12 (0.65%) Korn
11 11 (0.60%) JCL
11 11 (0.60%) REXX
11 11 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.54%) CLIST
13 9 (0.49%) Groovy
14 6 (0.33%) Go
14 6 (0.33%) Perl
15 5 (0.27%) ABAP
16 4 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 365 (19.88%) Security Cleared
2 264 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 261 (14.22%) Degree
4 121 (6.59%) PMI Certification
5 117 (6.37%) PMP
6 51 (2.78%) CISSP
7 47 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 43 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (2.23%) Master's Degree
11 38 (2.07%) CISM
12 32 (1.74%) CCNP
12 32 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
13 31 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 29 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
15 27 (1.47%) APMG
16 21 (1.14%) CIMA
17 20 (1.09%) ACCA
18 19 (1.03%) Azure Certification
19 16 (0.87%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.94%) QA
2 91 (4.96%) GDPR
3 88 (4.79%) PMO
4 87 (4.74%) Data Quality
5 66 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (3.59%) SLA
6 44 (2.40%) NIST
7 25 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (1.03%) SOC 2
9 18 (0.98%) IFRS
10 17 (0.93%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.82%) IFRS 17
12 10 (0.54%) Basel III
12 10 (0.54%) GRC
13 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.38%) COBIT
14 7 (0.38%) ITGC
15 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 125 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.94%) Docker
3 46 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.54%) ACF2
8 10 (0.54%) RACF
8 10 (0.54%) Time Sharing Option
8 10 (0.54%) vSphere
9 8 (0.44%) Firmware
9 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.27%) KVM
10 5 (0.27%) XenApp
10 5 (0.27%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 82 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.49%) Ansible
3 62 (3.38%) Terraform
4 34 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.36%) Grafana
5 25 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.25%) SCCM
7 18 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.76%) FortiGate
9 10 (0.54%) CA Endevor
9 10 (0.54%) Puppet
10 9 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
10 9 (0.49%) Tivoli
10 9 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 8 (0.44%) Kibana
11 8 (0.44%) SCOM
12 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 294 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 176 (9.59%) SAP
2 176 (9.59%) ServiceNow
3 158 (8.61%) Oracle
4 73 (3.98%) Cisco
4 73 (3.98%) Salesforce
5 67 (3.65%) Google
5 67 (3.65%) VMware
6 37 (2.02%) Citrix
7 33 (1.80%) Workday
8 32 (1.74%) F5
9 28 (1.53%) Splunk
10 26 (1.42%) IFS
11 25 (1.36%) Juniper
12 23 (1.25%) Palo Alto
13 21 (1.14%) CheckPoint
14 20 (1.09%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.09%) Red Hat
15 18 (0.98%) SolarWinds
16 17 (0.93%) Atlassian
499 Change Management jobs Nationwide