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

6 months to
30 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 1,826 1,266 1,863
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.87% 4.33% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 4.77% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,119 810 1,106
10th Percentile £325 £319 £333
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £696 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +5.74% -6.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 50 61
10th Percentile £22.63 £28.60 £14.44
25th Percentile £22.68 £50.00 £29.91
Median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +12.50% -0.27%
75th Percentile £59.84 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.05 £78.62 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -29.58% +26.32% +0.81%

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 39,921 26,554 37,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.86% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,152 17,143 24,256
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +1.04% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,393 1,068 2,439
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.81 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.95% -16.94% -6.17%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.24 £59.95
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.71 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.52% -23.29% +1.39%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 1,607 £500 - 451
UK excluding London -10 955 £497 +5.74% 373
London -3 702 £500 -8.68% 163
Work from Home -2 549 £525 +5.00% 176
North of England -15 297 £474 +5.22% 87
Midlands +1 223 £500 - 66
South East +8 211 £510 +5.70% 116
North West +1 191 £425 -2.86% 41
West Midlands -12 152 £508 +1.60% 33
Yorkshire -36 97 £487 +5.30% 38
South West -14 94 £500 - 40
Scotland +1 71 £475 +18.75% 18
East of England -16 71 £475 -2.51% 42
East Midlands +16 69 £425 +20.06% 31
Wales -10 10 £600 +60.00% 6
North East -18 9 £440 -23.48% 10
Northern Ireland -4 6 £475 -16.67% 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
1 109 (5.97%) Confluence
2 74 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.77%) SAS
5 11 (0.60%) IIS
6 9 (0.49%) Appian
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.27%) 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 (0.055%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.055%) Moodle
11 1 (0.055%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (4.49%) Microsoft Project
2 71 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 31 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.70%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.27%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) Windchill
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.055%) InDesign
10 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 76 (4.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.66%) 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%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 285 (15.61%) Azure
2 141 (7.72%) AWS
3 110 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
4 99 (5.42%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.00%) GCP
5 73 (4.00%) SaaS
6 71 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (3.67%) Entra ID
8 39 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.70%) Google Workspace
9 31 (1.70%) Power Automate
10 26 (1.42%) PaaS
11 22 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
11 22 (1.20%) OpenShift
12 20 (1.10%) GitHub
13 19 (1.04%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.04%) OCI
14 16 (0.88%) Azure AKS
14 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
14 16 (0.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.02%) Firewall
2 70 (3.83%) Network Security
3 62 (3.40%) WAN
4 60 (3.29%) DNS
5 53 (2.90%) VPN
6 50 (2.74%) LAN
7 38 (2.08%) SD-WAN
8 33 (1.81%) BGP
9 31 (1.70%) OSPF
9 31 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
10 29 (1.59%) SSL
11 27 (1.48%) TCP/IP
12 25 (1.37%) DHCP
13 24 (1.31%) MPLS
14 19 (1.04%) SAN
15 18 (0.99%) 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 82 (4.49%) Power BI
2 62 (3.40%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.42%) Metadata
4 25 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (1.31%) Tableau
6 22 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 20 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
8 15 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.66%) MySQL
10 11 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
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
1 220 (12.05%) JIRA
2 55 (3.01%) Git
3 45 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.49%) GitLab
5 9 (0.49%) MLflow
6 8 (0.44%) Liquibase
7 5 (0.27%) InstallShield
7 5 (0.27%) JUnit
8 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
8 4 (0.22%) Hudson
8 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.22%) Maven
8 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.16%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.16%) Mockito
9 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.16%) Snyk
9 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 731 (40.03%) Social Skills
2 595 (32.58%) Finance
3 322 (17.63%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 144 (7.89%) Banking
6 76 (4.16%) Legal
7 72 (3.94%) Retail
8 68 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
9 56 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (2.52%) Marketing
12 39 (2.14%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.97%) Law
13 36 (1.97%) Local Government
14 33 (1.81%) Telecoms
15 32 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 22 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.04%) Aviation
18 18 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 218 (11.94%) Project Manager
2 197 (10.79%) Lead
3 189 (10.35%) Analyst
4 150 (8.21%) Change Manager
5 130 (7.12%) Senior
6 119 (6.52%) Business Analyst
7 109 (5.97%) Consultant
8 75 (4.11%) Administrator
9 69 (3.78%) Developer
10 63 (3.45%) Programme Manager
11 53 (2.90%) Architect
12 51 (2.79%) Business Manager
12 51 (2.79%) Network Engineer
12 51 (2.79%) Senior Manager
13 46 (2.52%) IT Manager
14 41 (2.25%) Business Change Manager
15 37 (2.03%) Delivery Manager
16 33 (1.81%) SAP Manager
17 31 (1.70%) Support Engineer
18 29 (1.59%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.79%) REST
2 34 (1.86%) .NET
3 28 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.26%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.20%) OAuth
6 21 (1.15%) Middleware
7 16 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (0.82%) CSS
9 14 (0.77%) Web Services
10 13 (0.71%) LDAP
10 13 (0.71%) SAML
11 12 (0.66%) HTML
11 12 (0.66%) RESTful
11 12 (0.66%) SOAP
12 10 (0.55%) OpenID
12 10 (0.55%) Pandas
12 10 (0.55%) pytest
12 10 (0.55%) React
13 9 (0.49%) NumPy
13 9 (0.49%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.04%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.38%) Product Ownership
3 78 (4.27%) Onboarding
4 68 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.85%) Virtual Team
6 45 (2.46%) CMDB
7 44 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (2.35%) Cloud Native
9 41 (2.25%) PMI
10 31 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.70%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.48%) PKI
13 19 (1.04%) Operational Technology
14 18 (0.99%) Security Posture
14 18 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.93%) Mainframe
15 17 (0.93%) Public Cloud
16 16 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
16 16 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 172 (9.42%) Windows
2 82 (4.49%) Linux
3 61 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.46%) Unix
5 29 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.44%) Solaris
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.27%) AIX
11 5 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.27%) VMS
11 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.22%) HPUX
12 4 (0.22%) SUSE
13 3 (0.16%) CentOS
13 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (31.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 448 (24.53%) Agile
3 433 (23.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 379 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
5 371 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 339 (18.57%) ITIL
7 329 (18.02%) Project Management
8 302 (16.54%) Migration
9 246 (13.47%) DevOps
10 216 (11.83%) Project Delivery
11 193 (10.57%) ERP
12 187 (10.24%) Roadmaps
13 182 (9.97%) Decision-Making
14 171 (9.36%) Risk Management
15 170 (9.31%) ITSM
16 165 (9.04%) Validation
17 152 (8.32%) CI/CD
18 145 (7.94%) Service Management
19 140 (7.67%) PRINCE2
20 139 (7.61%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 166 (9.09%) SQL
2 112 (6.13%) Python
3 85 (4.65%) PowerShell
4 49 (2.68%) C#
5 45 (2.46%) Bash
6 41 (2.25%) PL/SQL
7 36 (1.97%) Java
8 27 (1.48%) T-SQL
9 24 (1.31%) JavaScript
10 13 (0.71%) COBOL
11 12 (0.66%) JCL
11 12 (0.66%) Korn
12 11 (0.60%) REXX
12 11 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.49%) CLIST
13 9 (0.49%) Groovy
14 5 (0.27%) ABAP
14 5 (0.27%) Go
14 5 (0.27%) Perl
15 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 364 (19.93%) Security Cleared
2 263 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 252 (13.80%) Degree
4 118 (6.46%) PMI Certification
5 117 (6.41%) PMP
6 51 (2.79%) CISSP
7 48 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 45 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (2.08%) CISM
10 38 (2.08%) Master's Degree
11 34 (1.86%) CCNP
12 30 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
13 29 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 27 (1.48%) APMG
14 27 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
15 21 (1.15%) CIMA
16 20 (1.10%) ACCA
17 19 (1.04%) Azure Certification
18 15 (0.82%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (6.19%) QA
2 93 (5.09%) GDPR
3 87 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.76%) PMO
4 68 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (3.61%) SLA
6 44 (2.41%) NIST
7 28 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.15%) SOC 2
9 19 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.99%) IFRS
11 15 (0.82%) IFRS 17
12 12 (0.66%) GRC
13 10 (0.55%) Basel III
14 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.44%) ITGC
15 7 (0.38%) COBIT
16 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
17 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 125 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.90%) Docker
3 46 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.55%) vSphere
9 9 (0.49%) ACF2
9 9 (0.49%) RACF
9 9 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
10 8 (0.44%) Firmware
10 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.27%) KVM
11 5 (0.27%) XenApp
11 5 (0.27%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 82 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 66 (3.61%) Ansible
3 64 (3.50%) Terraform
4 34 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.37%) Grafana
5 25 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.26%) SCCM
7 18 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.99%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.82%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.60%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.55%) Puppet
11 9 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (0.49%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.44%) Kibana
12 8 (0.44%) SCOM
13 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 288 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 174 (9.53%) SAP
2 174 (9.53%) ServiceNow
3 162 (8.87%) Oracle
4 75 (4.11%) Cisco
5 69 (3.78%) Salesforce
5 69 (3.78%) VMware
6 66 (3.61%) Google
7 37 (2.03%) Citrix
8 34 (1.86%) F5
9 33 (1.81%) Workday
10 28 (1.53%) Splunk
11 26 (1.42%) IFS
12 25 (1.37%) Juniper
13 23 (1.26%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.15%) CheckPoint
14 21 (1.15%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.04%) Red Hat
16 17 (0.93%) Remedy
16 17 (0.93%) SolarWinds