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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,817 1,270 1,802
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.78% 4.32% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 4.75% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 793 1,060
10th Percentile £340 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £621
90th Percentile £700 £700 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 50 69
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £14.35
25th Percentile £22.63 £50.00 £29.91
Median hourly rate £34.87 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.43% +8.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £61.81 £69.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.23 £73.10 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.48 £58.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -46.42% +22.40% -0.55%

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 40,590 26,723 36,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.97% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,485 17,182 23,610
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,403 1,090 2,438
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.21 £15.96
Median hourly rate £42.30 £28.30 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +49.50% -21.50% +1.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year +76.96% -32.19% +7.14%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -6 1,587 £500 - 549
UK excluding London -9 949 £500 +5.26% 372
London -6 692 £500 -9.05% 235
Work from Home -5 540 £525 +5.00% 215
North of England -14 285 £475 +5.56% 97
Midlands -3 215 £505 +0.90% 57
South East -1 209 £529 +8.24% 119
North West 0 169 £450 - 46
West Midlands -11 143 £514 +2.80% 34
Yorkshire -32 108 £487 +5.30% 42
South West -11 96 £500 -1.96% 36
East of England -7 77 £475 -2.51% 36
Scotland +3 75 £475 +16.56% 16
East Midlands +19 70 £450 +23.97% 23
Wales -11 11 £550 +46.67% 14
North East -16 8 £433 -24.78% 10
Northern Ireland -7 7 £475 -13.64% 7

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
1 108 (5.94%) Confluence
2 78 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.77%) SAS
5 13 (0.72%) IIS
6 9 (0.50%) Appian
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.17%) CMS
11 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.055%) JBoss
12 1 (0.055%) MTS
12 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.055%) WebSphere
Applications
1 75 (4.13%) Microsoft Project
2 69 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 2 (0.11%) 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 78 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Finacle
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Primavera
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.22%) Maximo
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.11%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 277 (15.24%) Azure
2 138 (7.59%) AWS
3 110 (6.05%) Power Platform
4 106 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (3.74%) GCP
5 68 (3.74%) SaaS
6 67 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (3.69%) Entra ID
7 40 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (1.87%) Google Workspace
9 33 (1.82%) Power Automate
10 24 (1.32%) OpenShift
11 23 (1.27%) PaaS
12 22 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (1.10%) GitHub
13 20 (1.10%) Google Sheets
13 20 (1.10%) OCI
14 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (0.94%) PowerApps
15 16 (0.88%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 103 (5.67%) Firewall
2 67 (3.69%) DNS
3 62 (3.41%) Network Security
4 56 (3.08%) WAN
5 52 (2.86%) VPN
6 46 (2.53%) LAN
7 34 (1.87%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.71%) BGP
9 29 (1.60%) OSPF
9 29 (1.60%) SSL
10 28 (1.54%) TCP/IP
11 26 (1.43%) DHCP
11 26 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (1.32%) MPLS
13 20 (1.10%) SAN
14 19 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 19 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 18 (0.99%) Wireless
16 17 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
17 15 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.95%) Power BI
2 60 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.54%) Metadata
4 26 (1.43%) Tableau
5 25 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
6 20 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (0.99%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.83%) Oracle Database
9 12 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.55%) MySQL
12 9 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
14 7 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
15 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
15 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
16 5 (0.28%) Big Data
16 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 5 (0.28%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 223 (12.27%) JIRA
2 60 (3.30%) Git
3 50 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.55%) GitLab
6 9 (0.50%) MLflow
7 7 (0.39%) InstallShield
8 6 (0.33%) AdminStudio
9 5 (0.28%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.22%) Hudson
10 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.17%) Snyk
11 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.11%) git-flow
13 1 (0.055%) Postman
General
1 701 (38.58%) Social Skills
2 609 (33.52%) Finance
3 302 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 148 (8.15%) Banking
6 84 (4.62%) Legal
7 74 (4.07%) Retail
8 60 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.59%) Marketing
12 37 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.98%) Law
13 36 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (1.76%) Local Government
15 31 (1.71%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.32%) Investment Banking
17 22 (1.21%) Aviation
18 21 (1.16%) Financial Institution
19 17 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 214 (11.78%) Project Manager
2 185 (10.18%) Analyst
2 185 (10.18%) Lead
3 146 (8.04%) Change Manager
4 138 (7.59%) Senior
5 118 (6.49%) Business Analyst
6 112 (6.16%) Consultant
7 72 (3.96%) Administrator
8 68 (3.74%) Programme Manager
9 61 (3.36%) Developer
10 54 (2.97%) Senior Manager
11 50 (2.75%) Business Manager
12 49 (2.70%) Architect
13 48 (2.64%) Network Engineer
14 45 (2.48%) IT Manager
15 40 (2.20%) Business Change Manager
15 40 (2.20%) Delivery Manager
16 35 (1.93%) Support Engineer
17 33 (1.82%) SAP Manager
18 32 (1.76%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (2.92%) REST
2 32 (1.76%) .NET
3 28 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.32%) OAuth
5 23 (1.27%) Middleware
6 20 (1.10%) CSS
7 19 (1.05%) .NET Framework
8 17 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (0.94%) HTML
9 15 (0.83%) Web Services
10 14 (0.77%) LDAP
11 11 (0.61%) React
11 11 (0.61%) RESTful
11 11 (0.61%) SOAP
12 10 (0.55%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.55%) Pandas
12 10 (0.55%) pytest
12 10 (0.55%) SAML
13 9 (0.50%) Django
13 9 (0.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 90 (4.95%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 72 (3.96%) Data Centre
4 69 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 48 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.42%) CMDB
7 40 (2.20%) Cloud Native
7 40 (2.20%) PMI
8 39 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 31 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.32%) PKI
13 19 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.99%) Operational Technology
14 18 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 17 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (0.94%) Low-Code
15 17 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 177 (9.74%) Windows
2 85 (4.68%) Linux
3 67 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.59%) Unix
5 25 (1.38%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.50%) Solaris
7 9 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.33%) AIX
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.28%) SUSE
10 5 (0.28%) VMS
11 4 (0.22%) HPUX
11 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (31.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 429 (23.61%) Agile
3 427 (23.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 362 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 359 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
6 327 (18.00%) ITIL
7 317 (17.45%) Project Management
8 304 (16.73%) Migration
9 227 (12.49%) DevOps
10 209 (11.50%) Project Delivery
11 199 (10.95%) Roadmaps
12 197 (10.84%) ERP
13 191 (10.51%) Decision-Making
14 174 (9.58%) Validation
15 168 (9.25%) ITSM
15 168 (9.25%) Risk Management
16 154 (8.48%) CI/CD
17 142 (7.82%) Workshop Facilitation
18 139 (7.65%) AI
18 139 (7.65%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 169 (9.30%) SQL
2 117 (6.44%) Python
3 89 (4.90%) PowerShell
4 45 (2.48%) Bash
5 44 (2.42%) C#
6 41 (2.26%) PL/SQL
7 33 (1.82%) Java
8 31 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 23 (1.27%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.61%) Korn
11 9 (0.50%) Groovy
11 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.39%) COBOL
13 6 (0.33%) ABAP
13 6 (0.33%) JCL
14 5 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.28%) Bicep
14 5 (0.28%) Go
14 5 (0.28%) REXX
15 4 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 371 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 264 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 236 (12.99%) Degree
4 120 (6.60%) PMP
5 117 (6.44%) PMI Certification
6 52 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.75%) CISSP
8 46 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (2.15%) Master's Degree
11 38 (2.09%) CISM
12 35 (1.93%) CCNP
13 28 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
14 26 (1.43%) APMG
14 26 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
15 21 (1.16%) CIMA
16 20 (1.10%) ACCA
17 19 (1.05%) Azure Certification
18 17 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 14 (0.77%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.00%) QA
2 95 (5.23%) GDPR
3 93 (5.12%) Data Quality
4 91 (5.01%) PMO
5 69 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 66 (3.63%) SLA
7 44 (2.42%) NIST
8 29 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 20 (1.10%) PCI DSS
11 17 (0.94%) IFRS
12 15 (0.83%) IFRS 17
13 14 (0.77%) GRC
14 9 (0.50%) Basel III
15 8 (0.44%) ITGC
16 7 (0.39%) COBIT
16 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
18 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
18 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 128 (7.04%) Active Directory
2 62 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (2.86%) Docker
4 25 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 21 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.88%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.61%) vSphere
9 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.33%) Firmware
10 6 (0.33%) KVM
11 5 (0.28%) vCloud
12 4 (0.22%) XenApp
12 4 (0.22%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.17%) ACF2
13 3 (0.17%) NFS
13 3 (0.17%) RACF
13 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.11%) Ceph
14 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 81 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 72 (3.96%) Terraform
3 71 (3.91%) Ansible
4 33 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.43%) Grafana
5 26 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.21%) SCCM
6 22 (1.21%) vCenter Server
7 21 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.77%) SCOM
9 13 (0.72%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.55%) Puppet
11 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
12 8 (0.44%) Kibana
13 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.33%) CASB
15 5 (0.28%) Avamar
15 5 (0.28%) Functional Safety
15 5 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 281 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 184 (10.13%) ServiceNow
3 176 (9.69%) SAP
4 165 (9.08%) Oracle
5 83 (4.57%) VMware
6 73 (4.02%) Salesforce
7 68 (3.74%) Cisco
8 62 (3.41%) Google
9 33 (1.82%) F5
9 33 (1.82%) Splunk
10 31 (1.71%) Citrix
11 28 (1.54%) IFS
12 27 (1.49%) Workday
13 25 (1.38%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.21%) CheckPoint
14 22 (1.21%) Juniper
15 20 (1.10%) Dynatrace
16 19 (1.05%) Fortinet
16 19 (1.05%) IBM
17 18 (0.99%) Remedy
626 Change Management jobs Nationwide