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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 49 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,992 1,488 1,566
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.68% 4.55% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 5.03% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 880 855
10th Percentile £368 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £622
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 76 47
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.50 £20.45
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £29.96
Median hourly rate £49.67 £34.67 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -38.91% +17.57%
75th Percentile £74.25 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.75 £70.08 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.84 £28.79 £55.87
% change year-on-year +69.64% -48.47% +15.76%

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 45,746 29,585 32,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.53% 90.40% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,951 18,359 20,597
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,952 1,757 1,558
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.43
25th Percentile £17.62 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.94
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.43% +2.73%
75th Percentile £67.89 £45.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +87.80% -47.37% +11.25%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -12 1,755 £525 +5.00% 1,939
UK excluding London -17 979 £513 +8.05% 1,071
London -7 835 £539 -2.18% 1,096
Work from Home -2 592 £525 +5.00% 800
North of England -21 308 £500 +11.11% 262
South East +11 289 £575 +17.83% 262
North West -14 184 £475 +5.56% 162
Midlands -69 111 £489 +2.84% 131
Yorkshire -20 109 £500 +17.65% 80
Scotland 0 99 £493 +9.44% 96
South West -34 90 £525 +2.44% 177
West Midlands -67 79 £525 +10.53% 81
East of England +3 75 £505 -3.90% 111
East Midlands -21 30 £421 -5.07% 50
North East -26 15 £425 -5.56% 22
Northern Ireland -10 8 £750 +42.86% 27
Wales -17 7 £600 +81.18% 22

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
1 109 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 89 (4.47%) Confluence
3 34 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (0.95%) IIS
5 10 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.30%) Appian
7 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.30%) CICS
7 6 (0.30%) CMS
8 5 (0.25%) Camunda
9 4 (0.20%) SAS
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.10%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.050%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.050%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 74 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
4 42 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.20%) Windchill
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Houdini
9 2 (0.10%) InDesign
9 2 (0.10%) NUKE
9 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.10%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.050%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.050%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.050%) Revit
Business Applications
1 68 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.80%) NetSuite
5 14 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.50%) Maximo
6 10 (0.50%) Primavera
7 9 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
7 9 (0.45%) Teamcenter
8 8 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.40%) SAP PM
9 7 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.25%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.25%) iTrent
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.25%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.25%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.20%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 302 (15.16%) Azure
2 155 (7.78%) AWS
3 142 (7.13%) Power Platform
4 120 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
5 105 (5.27%) Entra ID
6 69 (3.46%) GCP
7 65 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (3.16%) SaaS
9 53 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
10 44 (2.21%) GitHub
11 33 (1.66%) OCI
12 30 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
12 30 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
13 27 (1.36%) Power Automate
14 26 (1.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 24 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 23 (1.15%) OneDrive
16 23 (1.15%) Serverless
17 22 (1.10%) Google Workspace
17 22 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 136 (6.83%) Firewall
2 112 (5.62%) Network Security
3 80 (4.02%) DNS
4 63 (3.16%) VPN
5 60 (3.01%) WAN
6 41 (2.06%) DHCP
7 40 (2.01%) TCP/IP
8 39 (1.96%) Wireless
9 37 (1.86%) LAN
10 28 (1.41%) SSL
11 26 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (1.20%) BGP
13 23 (1.15%) SD-WAN
14 21 (1.05%) OSPF
15 20 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
15 20 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
16 17 (0.85%) MPLS
17 16 (0.80%) HTTP
17 16 (0.80%) SNMP
18 14 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.77%) Power BI
2 68 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.71%) Metadata
4 33 (1.66%) Oracle Database
5 26 (1.31%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (0.90%) Tableau
8 16 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
10 13 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (0.65%) Db2
11 11 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.35%) MySQL
13 7 (0.35%) Oracle BI EE
13 7 (0.35%) Oracle Database 11g
14 6 (0.30%) DataStage
14 6 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 198 (9.94%) JIRA
2 64 (3.21%) Git
3 52 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.50%) GitLab
5 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.35%) AdminStudio
7 7 (0.35%) InstallShield
8 6 (0.30%) Selenium
9 5 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.25%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.20%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
10 4 (0.20%) Snyk
11 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.15%) Hudson
11 3 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.15%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 777 (39.01%) Social Skills
2 726 (36.45%) Finance
3 345 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (10.34%) Banking
5 184 (9.24%) Public Sector
6 91 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
7 85 (4.27%) Legal
8 84 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
9 79 (3.97%) Retail
10 73 (3.66%) Manufacturing
11 72 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
12 57 (2.86%) Telecoms
13 45 (2.26%) Marketing
14 43 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (1.96%) Law
16 32 (1.61%) Local Government
17 28 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (1.31%) Aerospace
19 25 (1.26%) Front Office
20 22 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 237 (11.90%) Lead
2 229 (11.50%) Project Manager
3 216 (10.84%) Analyst
4 156 (7.83%) Senior
5 149 (7.48%) Change Manager
6 120 (6.02%) Consultant
7 119 (5.97%) Business Analyst
8 70 (3.51%) Senior Manager
9 65 (3.26%) Network Engineer
10 62 (3.11%) Administrator
11 58 (2.91%) Developer
12 55 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
13 54 (2.71%) IT Manager
14 49 (2.46%) Cloud Engineer
15 48 (2.41%) Business Manager
16 47 (2.36%) Programme Manager
17 40 (2.01%) Service Manager
18 39 (1.96%) Business Change Manager
19 38 (1.91%) Security Engineer
19 38 (1.91%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.87%) Terraform
2 51 (2.56%) REST
3 41 (2.06%) .NET
4 32 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.26%) HTML
6 22 (1.10%) Middleware
7 21 (1.05%) CSS
7 21 (1.05%) Kafka
8 16 (0.80%) Ajax
8 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
8 16 (0.80%) OAuth
9 15 (0.75%) 802.1X
9 15 (0.75%) SOAP
10 13 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (0.60%) .NET Framework
12 11 (0.55%) XML
13 10 (0.50%) JSON
13 10 (0.50%) Web Services
14 9 (0.45%) OAuth2
14 9 (0.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 123 (6.17%) Onboarding
2 100 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 79 (3.97%) Product Ownership
4 71 (3.56%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.46%) Cloud Native
6 48 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 46 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (1.81%) PKI
8 36 (1.81%) Security Posture
9 35 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (1.76%) Virtual Team
10 33 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.46%) Operational Technology
12 28 (1.41%) CMDB
13 25 (1.26%) PMI
14 23 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (1.00%) AI Agents
16 20 (1.00%) Public Cloud
17 19 (0.95%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 224 (11.24%) Windows
2 125 (6.28%) Linux
3 98 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 52 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (2.46%) Unix
6 21 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.75%) Solaris
8 13 (0.65%) VMS
9 12 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.55%) AIX
11 8 (0.40%) zOS
12 7 (0.35%) Android
12 7 (0.35%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.30%) SUSE
14 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.25%) HPUX
14 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (37.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 512 (25.70%) Agile
3 490 (24.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 464 (23.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 388 (19.48%) ITIL
6 340 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 334 (16.77%) Project Management
8 321 (16.11%) Project Delivery
9 284 (14.26%) Migration
10 250 (12.55%) Roadmaps
11 247 (12.40%) Decision-Making
12 243 (12.20%) Service Management
13 236 (11.85%) DevOps
14 211 (10.59%) ITSM
15 209 (10.49%) AI
16 194 (9.74%) ERP
17 192 (9.64%) PRINCE2
18 185 (9.29%) Analytics
19 170 (8.53%) CI/CD
19 170 (8.53%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 171 (8.58%) Python
2 161 (8.08%) SQL
3 152 (7.63%) PowerShell
4 80 (4.02%) Bash
5 52 (2.61%) PL/SQL
6 48 (2.41%) Java
7 45 (2.26%) JavaScript
8 40 (2.01%) C#
9 27 (1.36%) T-SQL
10 26 (1.31%) Bicep
11 15 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.70%) Korn
13 12 (0.60%) Groovy
14 9 (0.45%) Go
14 9 (0.45%) JCL
15 7 (0.35%) COBOL
15 7 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.30%) VBScript
17 5 (0.25%) REXX
18 4 (0.20%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 413 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 300 (15.06%) SC Cleared
3 230 (11.55%) Degree
4 154 (7.73%) PMP
5 140 (7.03%) PMI Certification
6 81 (4.07%) DV Cleared
7 61 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
8 58 (2.91%) CISSP
9 44 (2.21%) CCNP
10 37 (1.86%) Azure Certification
11 30 (1.51%) CISM
12 28 (1.41%) APMG
12 28 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (1.20%) ACCA
14 24 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
14 24 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
15 23 (1.15%) CIMA
16 22 (1.10%) CCNA
16 22 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.32%) PMO
1 106 (5.32%) QA
2 91 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 86 (4.32%) SLA
4 62 (3.11%) GDPR
5 53 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.16%) NIST
7 30 (1.51%) GRC
8 21 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.00%) SOC 2
10 17 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.60%) ITGC
12 11 (0.55%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.40%) COBIT
13 8 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
13 8 (0.40%) GMP
14 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.35%) EMIR
14 7 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 135 (6.78%) Active Directory
2 100 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.21%) Docker
4 28 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (1.10%) VMware NSX
6 20 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.70%) vCloud
10 13 (0.65%) vSphere
11 9 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.20%) Firmware
13 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.15%) Squid
14 2 (0.10%) Ceph
14 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.10%) Dovecot
14 2 (0.10%) NFS
14 2 (0.10%) Postfix
14 2 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 72 (3.61%) Ansible
1 72 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 41 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (1.81%) vCenter Server
4 30 (1.51%) SCOM
5 28 (1.41%) Grafana
6 27 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 25 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.10%) SCCM
9 15 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.55%) Avamar
10 11 (0.55%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.40%) Kustomize
11 8 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
11 8 (0.40%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (0.35%) vRealize
13 6 (0.30%) Argo
13 6 (0.30%) CASB
13 6 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 369 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 204 (10.24%) ServiceNow
3 193 (9.69%) Oracle
4 147 (7.38%) SAP
5 124 (6.22%) VMware
6 96 (4.82%) Cisco
7 80 (4.02%) Salesforce
8 48 (2.41%) Google
9 43 (2.16%) Splunk
10 41 (2.06%) IBM
11 38 (1.91%) Red Hat
12 33 (1.66%) Palo Alto
13 32 (1.61%) Zscaler
14 31 (1.56%) F5
15 30 (1.51%) CheckPoint
16 28 (1.41%) Citrix
17 25 (1.26%) Remedy
17 25 (1.26%) Workday
18 23 (1.15%) Juniper
19 21 (1.05%) IFS