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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 50 46
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,969 1,447 1,754
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 4.43% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 4.90% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 868 1,015
10th Percentile £359 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% -0.50% -8.64%
75th Percentile £615 £620 £612
90th Percentile £714 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £470 £493
% change year-on-year +7.02% -4.67% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 76 72
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.16 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £27.36 £29.81
Median hourly rate £38.50 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% - +2.67%
75th Percentile £76.75 £56.57 £61.60
90th Percentile £92.00 £70.08 £67.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.87 £31.91 £50.00
% change year-on-year +9.29% -36.19% +6.12%

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 45,103 29,546 36,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 90.46% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,058 18,631 23,390
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,507 2,455
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.63 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -2.91%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -2 1,725 £525 +5.00% 759
UK excluding London -14 1,000 £503 +7.02% 515
London 0 793 £525 -4.55% 355
Work from Home -2 610 £525 +5.00% 297
North of England -19 306 £482 +7.11% 114
South East -3 253 £575 +17.59% 160
North West -12 175 £458 +4.03% 73
Midlands -15 173 £513 +7.89% 72
West Midlands -33 125 £515 +8.42% 48
Yorkshire -23 114 £500 +11.11% 32
South West -15 94 £519 +5.87% 114
Scotland -4 90 £484 +7.50% 20
East of England -6 79 £475 -5.00% 25
East Midlands +14 46 £500 +39.28% 24
North East -20 17 £425 -15.00% 11
Wales -14 11 £575 +53.33% 6
Northern Ireland -7 8 £750 +42.86% 14

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
1 107 (5.43%) Confluence
2 93 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.07%) IIS
5 14 (0.71%) SAS
6 11 (0.56%) Appian
7 10 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.41%) CMS
9 6 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.25%) Camunda
11 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.20%) CICS
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.15%) Kentico
12 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
14 1 (0.051%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 64 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (2.69%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.051%) Houdini
9 1 (0.051%) InDesign
9 1 (0.051%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.051%) NUKE
9 1 (0.051%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 79 (4.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.66%) Primavera
4 12 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.51%) Maximo
5 10 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.30%) OpenText MBPM
8 6 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.30%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.25%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.25%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.20%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 276 (14.02%) Azure
2 144 (7.31%) AWS
3 117 (5.94%) Power Platform
4 107 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (4.57%) Entra ID
6 75 (3.81%) SaaS
7 72 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (3.10%) GCP
9 37 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
10 32 (1.63%) Google Workspace
11 30 (1.52%) OCI
12 29 (1.47%) GitHub
13 26 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
14 24 (1.22%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (1.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 20 (1.02%) PaaS
17 19 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
18 18 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 130 (6.60%) Firewall
2 91 (4.62%) Network Security
3 58 (2.95%) DNS
3 58 (2.95%) WAN
4 51 (2.59%) VPN
5 44 (2.23%) LAN
6 38 (1.93%) BGP
7 35 (1.78%) OSPF
8 31 (1.57%) Wireless
9 30 (1.52%) MPLS
9 30 (1.52%) SD-WAN
10 28 (1.42%) TCP/IP
11 25 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
13 22 (1.12%) SSL
14 20 (1.02%) DHCP
15 18 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
16 15 (0.76%) HTTP
17 14 (0.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.88%) Power BI
2 62 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 37 (1.88%) Metadata
4 30 (1.52%) Oracle Database
5 25 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
6 24 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (0.96%) Tableau
9 13 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.51%) MySQL
11 8 (0.41%) Db2
11 8 (0.41%) Oracle BI EE
12 6 (0.30%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database 11g
13 5 (0.25%) Big Data
13 5 (0.25%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.25%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 235 (11.93%) JIRA
2 74 (3.76%) Git
3 59 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.51%) GitLab
6 7 (0.36%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.36%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.25%) MLflow
8 5 (0.25%) Selenium
9 4 (0.20%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.20%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.20%) Hudson
9 4 (0.20%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.20%) Liquibase
9 4 (0.20%) Maven
9 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
10 3 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 729 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 711 (36.11%) Finance
3 313 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 170 (8.63%) Banking
6 99 (5.03%) Legal
7 88 (4.47%) Retail
8 79 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
9 78 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
11 56 (2.84%) Manufacturing
12 55 (2.79%) Marketing
13 51 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (2.18%) Telecoms
15 42 (2.13%) Law
16 39 (1.98%) Local Government
17 27 (1.37%) Aviation
18 26 (1.32%) Financial Institution
19 23 (1.17%) Investment Banking
20 18 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 224 (11.38%) Project Manager
2 207 (10.51%) Analyst
3 203 (10.31%) Lead
4 153 (7.77%) Change Manager
5 145 (7.36%) Senior
6 125 (6.35%) Consultant
7 123 (6.25%) Business Analyst
8 71 (3.61%) Administrator
9 67 (3.40%) Network Engineer
10 66 (3.35%) Programme Manager
11 62 (3.15%) Senior Manager
12 58 (2.95%) Developer
13 54 (2.74%) Business Manager
14 51 (2.59%) IT Manager
15 47 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
16 44 (2.23%) Support Engineer
17 42 (2.13%) Service Manager
18 41 (2.08%) Business Change Manager
19 39 (1.98%) Architect
20 34 (1.73%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (3.20%) REST
2 37 (1.88%) .NET
3 35 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.17%) CSS
4 23 (1.17%) HTML
5 20 (1.02%) .NET Framework
5 20 (1.02%) Middleware
5 20 (1.02%) OAuth
6 15 (0.76%) Web Services
7 14 (0.71%) LDAP
7 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
7 14 (0.71%) SOAP
8 13 (0.66%) Ajax
8 13 (0.66%) RESTful
9 12 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (0.61%) Spring
10 11 (0.56%) JSON
10 11 (0.56%) React
11 10 (0.51%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.46%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 93 (4.72%) Management Information System
2 83 (4.22%) Onboarding
3 79 (4.01%) Data Centre
4 75 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 56 (2.84%) Cloud Native
6 51 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 33 (1.68%) PMI
9 32 (1.63%) Operational Technology
10 31 (1.57%) CMDB
10 31 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 28 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
13 25 (1.27%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (1.12%) PKI
16 20 (1.02%) AI Agents
16 20 (1.02%) Public Cloud
17 15 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 195 (9.90%) Windows
2 106 (5.38%) Linux
3 74 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.39%) Unix
5 42 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.61%) Solaris
8 10 (0.51%) VMS
9 8 (0.41%) AIX
9 8 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.36%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.30%) SUSE
11 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.25%) Android
12 5 (0.25%) HPUX
12 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (32.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 497 (25.24%) Agile
3 469 (23.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 423 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 366 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
6 349 (17.72%) ITIL
7 331 (16.81%) Project Management
8 305 (15.49%) Migration
9 275 (13.97%) Project Delivery
10 256 (13.00%) DevOps
11 235 (11.93%) Decision-Making
12 220 (11.17%) Roadmaps
13 209 (10.61%) ERP
14 195 (9.90%) AI
15 186 (9.45%) ITSM
16 183 (9.29%) Risk Management
16 183 (9.29%) Service Management
17 173 (8.79%) CI/CD
18 166 (8.43%) Validation
19 153 (7.77%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 175 (8.89%) SQL
2 145 (7.36%) Python
3 116 (5.89%) PowerShell
4 51 (2.59%) Bash
5 49 (2.49%) C#
5 49 (2.49%) Java
6 48 (2.44%) PL/SQL
7 38 (1.93%) JavaScript
8 25 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.56%) Korn
10 10 (0.51%) Groovy
10 10 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.46%) COBOL
11 9 (0.46%) Go
12 8 (0.41%) Bicep
13 7 (0.36%) JCL
14 6 (0.30%) ABAP
15 5 (0.25%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.25%) Perl
15 5 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 384 (19.50%) Security Cleared
2 281 (14.27%) SC Cleared
3 223 (11.33%) Degree
4 139 (7.06%) PMP
5 128 (6.50%) PMI Certification
6 61 (3.10%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
8 56 (2.84%) CISSP
9 43 (2.18%) CCNP
10 37 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.73%) CISM
12 29 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (1.37%) Master's Degree
14 26 (1.32%) Azure Certification
15 25 (1.27%) CIMA
16 24 (1.22%) ACCA
16 24 (1.22%) APMG
17 21 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
18 20 (1.02%) CCNA
19 17 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (5.64%) QA
2 95 (4.82%) PMO
3 92 (4.67%) GDPR
3 92 (4.67%) SLA
4 85 (4.32%) Data Quality
5 69 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (2.29%) NIST
7 30 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 24 (1.22%) GRC
9 23 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 22 (1.12%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.56%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.51%) IFRS
13 9 (0.46%) ITGC
14 8 (0.41%) IFRS 17
15 7 (0.36%) Accessibility
15 7 (0.36%) COBIT
15 7 (0.36%) EMIR
16 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
16 6 (0.30%) GMP
System Software
1 132 (6.70%) Active Directory
2 76 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (2.39%) Docker
4 23 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.86%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.66%) vSphere
9 11 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.41%) vCloud
11 6 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.20%) KVM
13 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.10%) ACF2
14 2 (0.10%) Ceph
14 2 (0.10%) Firmware
14 2 (0.10%) RACF
14 2 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
15 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.051%) Squid
Systems Management
1 94 (4.77%) Terraform
2 75 (3.81%) Ansible
3 72 (3.66%) Kubernetes
4 31 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (1.42%) vCenter Server
6 24 (1.22%) Grafana
7 23 (1.17%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.12%) SCOM
9 21 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.81%) SCCM
11 12 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.56%) Avamar
13 10 (0.51%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.46%) Data Guard
15 8 (0.41%) Cisco Prime
15 8 (0.41%) Kustomize
16 7 (0.36%) Argo
16 7 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
16 7 (0.36%) PowerCLI
16 7 (0.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 313 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 201 (10.21%) ServiceNow
3 196 (9.95%) Oracle
4 172 (8.74%) SAP
5 95 (4.82%) VMware
6 86 (4.37%) Cisco
7 78 (3.96%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.84%) Google
9 36 (1.83%) Citrix
10 34 (1.73%) Splunk
11 33 (1.68%) F5
11 33 (1.68%) IBM
12 29 (1.47%) CheckPoint
12 29 (1.47%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.37%) Red Hat
14 25 (1.27%) IFS
14 25 (1.27%) Juniper
14 25 (1.27%) Workday
15 24 (1.22%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.02%) Remedy