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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 43 39
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,605 1,591 2,177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.48% 4.36% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 5.05% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 828 1,345
10th Percentile £313 £340 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 28 41
10th Percentile £20.70 £25.59 £20.82
25th Percentile £22.16 £33.52 £23.43
Median hourly rate £30.00 £49.04 £38.04
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% +28.92% +8.69%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.95 £55.00
90th Percentile £66.20 £62.92 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £56.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -47.13% +62.13% -

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 32,116 31,513 40,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.73% 86.36% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,100 18,975 27,383
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,121 1,108 1,576
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.17 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.17 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.36% +25.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.30% -25.84% +50.29%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -3 1,427 £500 -4.76% 987
UK excluding London +5 888 £475 -5.00% 637
London -13 612 £538 -2.27% 430
Work from Home -20 415 £500 -4.76% 429
North of England -14 256 £450 -14.29% 164
Midlands +18 208 £475 -6.17% 98
South East +7 184 £500 - 202
North West -2 174 £437 -16.71% 101
West Midlands +8 154 £475 -8.43% 48
South West +27 114 £533 +7.04% 63
Yorkshire -39 78 £500 -7.41% 52
Scotland +9 69 £450 +12.50% 36
East Midlands +21 54 £431 - 49
East of England -19 44 £525 +40.75% 60
Northern Ireland 0 16 £488 +186.76% 11
Wales +2 12 £413 +3.13% 14
North East -20 3 £475 -5.00% 12
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
1 133 (8.29%) Confluence
2 81 (5.05%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.75%) nginx
5 9 (0.56%) CMS
6 7 (0.44%) IIS
7 6 (0.37%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.37%) JBoss
7 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.37%) Mule
7 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.12%) FileNet
9 2 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.062%) Traefik
10 1 (0.062%) WebLogic
Applications
1 109 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
3 85 (5.30%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.62%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 8 (0.50%) Trello
8 7 (0.44%) Windchill
9 5 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.062%) InDesign
11 1 (0.062%) Notion
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.062%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 56 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.44%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Maximo
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 MDG
7 5 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.31%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.25%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 164 (10.22%) Azure
2 148 (9.22%) AWS
3 102 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (5.61%) GCP
5 76 (4.74%) Power Platform
6 50 (3.12%) SaaS
7 38 (2.37%) Serverless
8 37 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.12%) AWS KMS
10 31 (1.93%) Amazon S3
11 26 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (1.62%) Entra ID
11 26 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 25 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (1.50%) Amazon ELB
14 21 (1.31%) GitHub
15 18 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
16 17 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
17 13 (0.81%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 104 (6.48%) Firewall
2 76 (4.74%) DNS
3 55 (3.43%) Network Security
4 42 (2.62%) WAN
5 34 (2.12%) SSH
6 32 (1.99%) VPN
7 29 (1.81%) HTTP
8 28 (1.74%) LAN
9 26 (1.62%) SMTP
10 23 (1.43%) FTP
11 22 (1.37%) DHCP
12 21 (1.31%) Wireless
13 18 (1.12%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (0.93%) SSL
15 14 (0.87%) TCP/IP
16 13 (0.81%) BGP
16 13 (0.81%) IPsec
16 13 (0.81%) OSPF
17 12 (0.75%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (3.93%) Power BI
2 40 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (1.87%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.68%) NoSQL
6 24 (1.50%) Metadata
7 20 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 17 (1.06%) Oracle Database
8 17 (1.06%) Tableau
9 10 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.50%) MySQL
11 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
11 7 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.37%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.31%) Big Data
13 5 (0.31%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 203 (12.65%) JIRA
2 88 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 46 (2.87%) Git
4 35 (2.18%) Liquibase
5 30 (1.87%) GitLab
6 24 (1.50%) Vagrant
7 14 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.62%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.37%) JUnit
10 6 (0.37%) MSI
11 5 (0.31%) Mockito
12 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 693 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 539 (33.58%) Finance
3 280 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (10.22%) Banking
5 136 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 76 (4.74%) Manufacturing
7 70 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
8 52 (3.24%) Legal
8 52 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (3.24%) Telecoms
9 44 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
10 40 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 38 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 38 (2.37%) Retail
13 33 (2.06%) Law
13 33 (2.06%) Marketing
14 29 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (1.68%) Local Government
16 19 (1.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 271 (16.88%) Analyst
2 205 (12.77%) Project Manager
3 161 (10.03%) Lead
4 143 (8.91%) Business Analyst
5 107 (6.67%) Change Manager
6 101 (6.29%) Consultant
7 88 (5.48%) Senior
8 61 (3.80%) Administrator
9 56 (3.49%) Developer
10 53 (3.30%) Programme Manager
11 51 (3.18%) IT Manager
12 44 (2.74%) Architect
13 43 (2.68%) Service Manager
14 42 (2.62%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (2.31%) AWS Engineer
16 35 (2.18%) Senior Manager
17 34 (2.12%) SAP Manager
18 32 (1.99%) Business Manager
18 32 (1.99%) Delivery Manager
19 31 (1.93%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.18%) REST
2 42 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (2.06%) RESTful
4 25 (1.56%) .NET
5 23 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (1.06%) LDAP
7 14 (0.87%) SAML
8 12 (0.75%) .NET Framework
8 12 (0.75%) HTML
9 10 (0.62%) 802.1X
9 10 (0.62%) OAuth
9 10 (0.62%) OpenID
10 9 (0.56%) CSS
10 9 (0.56%) SOAP
11 8 (0.50%) ISPF
11 8 (0.50%) Kafka
12 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.44%) XML
13 6 (0.37%) Spring Boot
14 5 (0.31%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.23%) Management Information System
2 78 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 48 (2.99%) Virtual Team
4 46 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.74%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (2.06%) Replication
10 31 (1.93%) PKI
11 30 (1.87%) Life Science
11 30 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (1.74%) CMDB
13 23 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.00%) NHS
15 16 (1.00%) PMI
16 14 (0.87%) Mainframe
16 14 (0.87%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 162 (10.09%) Windows
2 112 (6.98%) Linux
3 39 (2.43%) Unix
4 34 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.62%) VMS
6 24 (1.50%) Amazon Linux
7 23 (1.43%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.93%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.37%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.25%) zOS
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) Android
12 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.062%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.062%) Debian
13 1 (0.062%) Solaris
13 1 (0.062%) SUSE
13 1 (0.062%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (27.66%) Agile
2 410 (25.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 356 (22.18%) Project Management
4 347 (21.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 331 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
6 296 (18.44%) ITIL
7 224 (13.96%) Project Delivery
8 215 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 207 (12.90%) DevOps
10 204 (12.71%) Migration
11 171 (10.65%) Service Management
12 151 (9.41%) PRINCE2
13 139 (8.66%) Risk Management
14 136 (8.47%) ITSM
15 128 (7.98%) Roadmaps
16 127 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
17 126 (7.85%) Decision-Making
18 124 (7.73%) CI/CD
18 124 (7.73%) ERP
19 113 (7.04%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.97%) Python
2 130 (8.10%) SQL
3 92 (5.73%) PowerShell
4 56 (3.49%) Java
5 35 (2.18%) Go
6 34 (2.12%) C#
7 28 (1.74%) Groovy
8 24 (1.50%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.25%) Perl
9 20 (1.25%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.12%) Bash
11 10 (0.62%) COBOL
11 10 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.50%) CLIST
13 8 (0.50%) JCL
13 8 (0.50%) REXX
14 7 (0.44%) ABAP
14 7 (0.44%) Korn
15 5 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 298 (18.57%) Degree
2 279 (17.38%) Security Cleared
3 206 (12.83%) SC Cleared
4 96 (5.98%) PMI Certification
5 92 (5.73%) PMP
6 75 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (3.30%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (2.18%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
11 26 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.56%) AWS Certification
13 20 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 18 (1.12%) APMG
14 18 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
15 14 (0.87%) CCNP
15 14 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 13 (0.81%) Azure Certification
17 11 (0.69%) CCNA
17 11 (0.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.17%) QA
2 72 (4.49%) PMO
3 52 (3.24%) GDPR
4 39 (2.43%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.43%) SLA
5 29 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.18%) NIST
7 15 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.87%) MiFID
9 13 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.69%) EMIR
10 11 (0.69%) NCSC
11 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.44%) GRC
13 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.31%) GxP
14 5 (0.31%) HL7
14 5 (0.31%) IFRS
14 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 97 (6.04%) Active Directory
2 69 (4.30%) Docker
3 22 (1.37%) DFS Replication
4 19 (1.18%) 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 Desktop
8 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.37%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.19%) vSphere
11 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 77 (4.80%) Terraform
2 63 (3.93%) Grafana
3 60 (3.74%) Prometheus
4 56 (3.49%) Kubernetes
5 44 (2.74%) Ansible
6 29 (1.81%) SCCM
7 19 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.81%) Nessus
9 12 (0.75%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.62%) Kibana
10 10 (0.62%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.62%) SCOM
11 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.44%) Puppet
11 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
11 7 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
12 6 (0.37%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.37%) WSUS
13 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 324 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 161 (10.03%) SAP
3 128 (7.98%) ServiceNow
4 99 (6.17%) Oracle
5 63 (3.93%) Cisco
6 58 (3.61%) Google
7 54 (3.36%) Salesforce
8 53 (3.30%) Splunk
9 35 (2.18%) VMware
10 28 (1.74%) Remedy
10 28 (1.74%) Workday
11 25 (1.56%) Atlassian
11 25 (1.56%) F5
12 24 (1.50%) Juniper
13 20 (1.25%) IBM
14 19 (1.18%) CheckPoint
15 17 (1.06%) Fortinet
16 16 (1.00%) Ariba
16 16 (1.00%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.93%) Citrix