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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 43 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +17
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,601 1,594 2,158
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.44% 4.37% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 5.02% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 843 1,324
10th Percentile £313 £342 £363
25th Percentile £404 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% +3.62%
75th Percentile £599 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 28 43
10th Percentile £20.79 £20.08 £21.61
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.85 £24.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.71% +3.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £58.95 £55.48
90th Percentile £69.59 £84.28 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.17 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% -3.56% +7.14%

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 32,184 31,740 40,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.29% 87.07% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,215 19,128 27,258
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,084 1,140 1,567
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.22 £14.32
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.04 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -23.87% -24.65% +25.26%
75th Percentile £45.53 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +39.06%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -5 1,436 £500 -4.76% 590
UK excluding London 0 882 £475 -5.00% 546
London -7 616 £525 -4.55% 194
Work from Home -19 429 £500 -4.76% 215
North of England -14 261 £450 -14.08% 141
Midlands +14 208 £475 -9.52% 94
South East +11 188 £500 -4.31% 193
North West -1 178 £438 -15.66% 68
West Midlands +10 154 £475 -9.52% 48
South West +25 115 £525 +0.96% 43
Yorkshire -26 80 £500 -4.76% 60
Scotland +4 61 £444 +10.94% 25
East Midlands +24 54 £425 - 43
East of England -16 41 £523 +8.85% 42
Wales 0 13 £413 +3.13% 11
Northern Ireland 0 11 £475 +187.88% 8
North East -19 3 £475 -17.39% 14
Channel Islands - 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
1 134 (8.37%) Confluence
2 81 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.75%) nginx
5 8 (0.50%) CMS
6 6 (0.37%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.37%) Mule
6 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
7 5 (0.31%) JBoss
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) FileNet
10 2 (0.12%) Moodle
11 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.062%) Traefik
Applications
1 108 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (5.62%) Microsoft Project
4 42 (2.62%) MS Visio
5 41 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.44%) Windchill
8 5 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.31%) Trello
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.062%) InDesign
10 1 (0.062%) Notion
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 54 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.31%) Maximo
7 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.31%) SAP APO
7 5 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 176 (10.99%) Azure
2 154 (9.62%) AWS
3 103 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
4 95 (5.93%) GCP
5 83 (5.18%) Power Platform
6 55 (3.44%) SaaS
7 41 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.37%) Serverless
9 33 (2.06%) AWS KMS
10 31 (1.94%) Entra ID
11 30 (1.87%) Amazon S3
12 25 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (1.44%) Amazon ELB
15 22 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
16 21 (1.31%) GitHub
17 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
17 18 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
18 16 (1.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 104 (6.50%) Firewall
2 79 (4.93%) DNS
3 60 (3.75%) Network Security
4 42 (2.62%) WAN
5 39 (2.44%) VPN
6 33 (2.06%) SSH
7 27 (1.69%) HTTP
8 25 (1.56%) LAN
8 25 (1.56%) SMTP
9 21 (1.31%) FTP
10 20 (1.25%) DHCP
10 20 (1.25%) Wireless
11 17 (1.06%) SSL
12 16 (1.00%) SD-WAN
13 15 (0.94%) TCP/IP
14 14 (0.87%) IPsec
15 12 (0.75%) BGP
15 12 (0.75%) Cisco IPT
15 12 (0.75%) IMAP
15 12 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.25%) Power BI
2 40 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 25 (1.56%) Metadata
7 23 (1.44%) Tableau
8 20 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (1.06%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.56%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
12 8 (0.50%) MySQL
13 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.31%) Big Data
14 5 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.31%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 199 (12.43%) JIRA
2 86 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 43 (2.69%) Git
4 35 (2.19%) Liquibase
5 30 (1.87%) GitLab
6 23 (1.44%) Vagrant
7 12 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.37%) JUnit
10 5 (0.31%) Mockito
10 5 (0.31%) MSI
10 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.19%) Selenium
12 3 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 692 (43.22%) Social Skills
2 538 (33.60%) Finance
3 286 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.06%) Banking
5 146 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.43%) Manufacturing
7 67 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
8 53 (3.31%) Legal
9 50 (3.12%) Telecoms
10 47 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.56%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
14 37 (2.31%) Retail
15 36 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
16 32 (2.00%) Law
16 32 (2.00%) Marketing
17 26 (1.62%) Local Government
18 22 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 19 (1.19%) Billing
Job Titles
1 263 (16.43%) Analyst
2 204 (12.74%) Project Manager
3 159 (9.93%) Lead
4 138 (8.62%) Business Analyst
5 114 (7.12%) Change Manager
6 103 (6.43%) Consultant
7 94 (5.87%) Senior
8 58 (3.62%) Administrator
9 56 (3.50%) Developer
10 52 (3.25%) IT Manager
11 51 (3.19%) Programme Manager
12 46 (2.87%) Architect
13 41 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
13 41 (2.56%) Service Manager
14 40 (2.50%) Senior Manager
15 37 (2.31%) Business Manager
16 36 (2.25%) AWS Engineer
17 35 (2.19%) SAP Manager
18 32 (2.00%) Service Analyst
19 30 (1.87%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.31%) REST
2 42 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.87%) RESTful
4 24 (1.50%) .NET
4 24 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (1.12%) LDAP
6 16 (1.00%) SAML
7 11 (0.69%) .NET Framework
7 11 (0.69%) 802.1X
8 10 (0.62%) HTML
8 10 (0.62%) OAuth
8 10 (0.62%) OpenID
8 10 (0.62%) SOAP
9 8 (0.50%) ISPF
9 8 (0.50%) Kafka
10 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.44%) CSS
10 7 (0.44%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.44%) XML
11 5 (0.31%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.50%) Management Information System
2 85 (5.31%) Onboarding
3 52 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 47 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 47 (2.94%) Virtual Team
5 44 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 39 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (2.37%) CMDB
7 38 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.00%) Replication
9 31 (1.94%) PKI
10 30 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.62%) Life Science
13 25 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.12%) PMI
16 17 (1.06%) NHS
17 14 (0.87%) Mainframe
18 13 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 154 (9.62%) Windows
2 105 (6.56%) Linux
3 34 (2.12%) Unix
4 33 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.56%) VMS
6 23 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
7 22 (1.37%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.25%) zOS
11 3 (0.19%) CentOS
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) Android
12 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.062%) Debian
13 1 (0.062%) Solaris
13 1 (0.062%) SUSE
13 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (27.86%) Agile
2 423 (26.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 352 (21.99%) Project Management
3 352 (21.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 329 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
5 306 (19.11%) ITIL
6 230 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 226 (14.12%) Project Delivery
8 208 (12.99%) Migration
9 207 (12.93%) DevOps
10 175 (10.93%) Service Management
11 155 (9.68%) PRINCE2
12 144 (8.99%) ITSM
13 139 (8.68%) Roadmaps
14 136 (8.49%) Decision-Making
15 133 (8.31%) Risk Management
16 126 (7.87%) CI/CD
17 125 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
17 125 (7.81%) ERP
18 111 (6.93%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.99%) Python
2 125 (7.81%) SQL
3 92 (5.75%) PowerShell
4 52 (3.25%) Java
5 35 (2.19%) Go
6 32 (2.00%) C#
7 27 (1.69%) Groovy
8 21 (1.31%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.25%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.19%) Bash
11 17 (1.06%) Perl
12 11 (0.69%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.62%) COBOL
14 9 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.50%) CLIST
15 8 (0.50%) JCL
15 8 (0.50%) REXX
16 7 (0.44%) Korn
17 6 (0.37%) ABAP
18 5 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 298 (18.61%) Degree
2 287 (17.93%) Security Cleared
3 213 (13.30%) SC Cleared
4 100 (6.25%) PMI Certification
5 91 (5.68%) PMP
6 74 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (3.50%) Master's Degree
8 41 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.12%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
12 25 (1.56%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 18 (1.12%) APMG
15 17 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (0.94%) CCNP
17 14 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 13 (0.81%) Azure Certification
19 11 (0.69%) CISSP
19 11 (0.69%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (5.43%) QA
2 77 (4.81%) PMO
3 54 (3.37%) GDPR
4 43 (2.69%) SLA
5 42 (2.62%) Data Quality
6 30 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.12%) NIST
8 14 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.69%) MiFID
10 11 (0.69%) NCSC
11 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.50%) EMIR
13 7 (0.44%) IFRS
14 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.37%) GRC
15 5 (0.31%) GxP
15 5 (0.31%) HL7
15 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 95 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 68 (4.25%) Docker
3 21 (1.31%) DFS Replication
4 18 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.75%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.75%) Postfix
5 12 (0.75%) Squid
6 10 (0.62%) Firmware
7 8 (0.50%) ACF2
7 8 (0.50%) RACF
7 8 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.37%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.062%) NFS
12 1 (0.062%) Snort
Systems Management
1 77 (4.81%) Terraform
2 57 (3.56%) Grafana
2 57 (3.56%) Kubernetes
3 56 (3.50%) Prometheus
4 46 (2.87%) Ansible
5 28 (1.75%) SCCM
6 20 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.81%) Nessus
8 12 (0.75%) CA Endevor
9 11 (0.69%) SCOM
10 10 (0.62%) Kibana
10 10 (0.62%) Proxmox
11 8 (0.50%) Puppet
12 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
12 7 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 7 (0.44%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
14 5 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
14 5 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 319 (19.93%) Microsoft
2 162 (10.12%) SAP
3 144 (8.99%) ServiceNow
4 98 (6.12%) Oracle
5 62 (3.87%) Cisco
6 60 (3.75%) Google
7 54 (3.37%) Salesforce
8 48 (3.00%) Splunk
9 30 (1.87%) VMware
10 28 (1.75%) Workday
11 27 (1.69%) F5
12 26 (1.62%) Remedy
13 25 (1.56%) Atlassian
14 24 (1.50%) Juniper
15 21 (1.31%) CheckPoint
16 20 (1.25%) IBM
17 19 (1.19%) Fortinet
18 15 (0.94%) Ariba
18 15 (0.94%) Red Hat
19 14 (0.87%) Citrix