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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,804 1,285 1,856
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.78% 4.39% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 4.82% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 810 1,091
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £625
90th Percentile £694 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £474 £500
% change year-on-year +5.54% -5.25% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 51 63
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £14.09
25th Percentile £22.66 £50.00 £28.32
Median hourly rate £36.36 £54.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.68% +12.50% -0.83%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £78.47 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.61 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.65% +26.32% -1.58%

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 40,275 26,638 37,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.44% 90.95% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,293 17,157 24,168
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,413 1,083 2,449
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.75 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.35% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £27.94 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.37% -25.49% +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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -5 1,586 £500 - 605
UK excluding London -11 951 £500 +5.54% 447
London -9 684 £500 -8.76% 214
Work from Home -3 534 £525 +5.00% 220
North of England -14 287 £474 +5.22% 111
Midlands -7 222 £502 +0.30% 76
South East +8 215 £510 +4.08% 129
North West +1 178 £436 -3.11% 51
West Midlands -11 149 £513 +2.50% 33
Yorkshire -30 101 £487 +5.30% 51
South West -17 94 £500 -3.85% 55
Scotland +3 73 £475 +18.75% 20
East of England -12 73 £475 - 43
East Midlands +16 71 £438 +20.52% 42
Wales -14 10 £600 +60.00% 12
North East -16 8 £433 -24.78% 10
Northern Ireland -7 5 £475 -19.15% 9

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 (5.93%) Confluence
2 73 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.78%) SAS
5 12 (0.67%) 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%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.055%) Moodle
11 1 (0.055%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.055%) MTS
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.055%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (4.32%) Microsoft Project
2 69 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 31 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 3 (0.17%) 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 75 (4.16%) 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%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.33%) Finacle
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Primavera
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) Maximo
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG-F
9 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.11%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 281 (15.58%) Azure
2 143 (7.93%) AWS
3 106 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 105 (5.82%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.05%) GCP
6 70 (3.88%) SaaS
7 67 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (3.66%) Entra ID
9 40 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (1.72%) Google Workspace
11 30 (1.66%) Power Automate
12 25 (1.39%) PaaS
13 24 (1.33%) OpenShift
14 22 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
15 20 (1.11%) GitHub
16 19 (1.05%) Google Sheets
16 19 (1.05%) OCI
17 15 (0.83%) IaaS
17 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
17 15 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 109 (6.04%) Firewall
2 67 (3.71%) Network Security
3 63 (3.49%) DNS
4 58 (3.22%) WAN
5 52 (2.88%) VPN
6 48 (2.66%) LAN
7 35 (1.94%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.77%) BGP
9 30 (1.66%) OSPF
10 28 (1.55%) SSL
10 28 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (1.50%) TCP/IP
12 25 (1.39%) DHCP
13 24 (1.33%) MPLS
14 20 (1.11%) SAN
15 18 (1.00%) Wireless
16 17 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 17 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 16 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (4.88%) Power BI
2 61 (3.38%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.44%) Metadata
3 26 (1.44%) Tableau
4 25 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
7 16 (0.89%) Oracle Database
7 16 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (0.55%) MySQL
10 9 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.33%) Oracle BI EE
13 5 (0.28%) Big Data
13 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 218 (12.08%) JIRA
2 58 (3.22%) Git
3 48 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.50%) GitLab
5 9 (0.50%) MLflow
6 7 (0.39%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.33%) AdminStudio
8 5 (0.28%) Liquibase
9 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.22%) Hudson
9 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.17%) Snyk
10 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.11%) git-flow
11 2 (0.11%) JUnit
General
1 706 (39.14%) Social Skills
2 594 (32.93%) Finance
3 312 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 146 (8.09%) Banking
6 78 (4.32%) Legal
7 73 (4.05%) Retail
8 59 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (2.49%) Marketing
12 37 (2.05%) Law
12 37 (2.05%) Manufacturing
13 35 (1.94%) Local Government
14 33 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (1.72%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.16%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.16%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.11%) Aviation
18 18 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 215 (11.92%) Project Manager
2 186 (10.31%) Analyst
2 186 (10.31%) Lead
3 144 (7.98%) Change Manager
4 134 (7.43%) Senior
5 118 (6.54%) Business Analyst
6 110 (6.10%) Consultant
7 75 (4.16%) Administrator
8 64 (3.55%) Developer
9 62 (3.44%) Programme Manager
10 52 (2.88%) Architect
10 52 (2.88%) Senior Manager
11 51 (2.83%) Network Engineer
12 48 (2.66%) Business Manager
13 46 (2.55%) IT Manager
14 39 (2.16%) Delivery Manager
15 38 (2.11%) Business Change Manager
16 33 (1.83%) SAP Manager
16 33 (1.83%) Support Engineer
17 30 (1.66%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.72%) REST
2 33 (1.83%) .NET
3 27 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.22%) OAuth
5 21 (1.16%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.16%) Middleware
6 17 (0.94%) CSS
6 17 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (0.78%) HTML
7 14 (0.78%) LDAP
7 14 (0.78%) Web Services
8 12 (0.67%) SAML
8 12 (0.67%) SOAP
9 10 (0.55%) Pandas
9 10 (0.55%) pytest
9 10 (0.55%) React
9 10 (0.55%) RESTful
10 9 (0.50%) NumPy
10 9 (0.50%) OpenID
10 9 (0.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 85 (4.71%) Management Information System
2 82 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 76 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 71 (3.94%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.44%) CMDB
6 43 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 41 (2.27%) PMI
9 39 (2.16%) Cloud Native
10 31 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.50%) PKI
13 19 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.00%) Mainframe
14 18 (1.00%) Operational Technology
14 18 (1.00%) Security Posture
14 18 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 174 (9.65%) Windows
2 86 (4.77%) Linux
3 64 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.49%) Unix
5 28 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.50%) Solaris
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.28%) AIX
11 5 (0.28%) SUSE
11 5 (0.28%) VMS
11 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.22%) HPUX
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.17%) CentOS
13 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (31.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 436 (24.17%) Agile
3 425 (23.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 368 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
5 356 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 328 (18.18%) ITIL
7 311 (17.24%) Project Management
8 296 (16.41%) Migration
9 229 (12.69%) DevOps
10 203 (11.25%) Project Delivery
11 192 (10.64%) ERP
12 185 (10.25%) Roadmaps
13 182 (10.09%) Decision-Making
14 174 (9.65%) ITSM
15 170 (9.42%) Validation
16 165 (9.15%) Risk Management
17 151 (8.37%) CI/CD
18 142 (7.87%) Service Management
19 138 (7.65%) Workshop Facilitation
20 135 (7.48%) AI
Programming Languages
1 164 (9.09%) SQL
2 113 (6.26%) Python
3 88 (4.88%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.55%) Bash
4 46 (2.55%) C#
5 39 (2.16%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.88%) Java
7 26 (1.44%) JavaScript
8 24 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 13 (0.72%) COBOL
10 12 (0.67%) JCL
11 11 (0.61%) REXX
12 10 (0.55%) Korn
13 9 (0.50%) CLIST
13 9 (0.50%) Groovy
13 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.28%) Go
14 5 (0.28%) Perl
15 4 (0.22%) ABAP
15 4 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 370 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 263 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 237 (13.14%) Degree
4 117 (6.49%) PMP
5 116 (6.43%) PMI Certification
6 54 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 51 (2.83%) CISSP
8 45 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (2.11%) CISM
11 37 (2.05%) Master's Degree
12 34 (1.88%) CCNP
13 28 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
14 25 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
15 24 (1.33%) APMG
16 20 (1.11%) CIMA
16 20 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 19 (1.05%) ACCA
17 19 (1.05%) Azure Certification
18 15 (0.83%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.21%) QA
2 94 (5.21%) GDPR
3 90 (4.99%) Data Quality
4 88 (4.88%) PMO
5 68 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (3.55%) SLA
7 44 (2.44%) NIST
8 27 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 19 (1.05%) PCI DSS
11 17 (0.94%) IFRS
12 15 (0.83%) IFRS 17
13 12 (0.67%) GRC
14 10 (0.55%) Basel III
15 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.44%) ITGC
16 7 (0.39%) COBIT
17 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
18 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
18 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 126 (6.98%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (2.83%) Docker
4 25 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.89%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.55%) vSphere
8 9 (0.50%) ACF2
8 9 (0.50%) RACF
8 9 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
9 8 (0.44%) Firmware
9 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.33%) KVM
11 5 (0.28%) XenApp
11 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.17%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.11%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 80 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 69 (3.82%) Ansible
3 67 (3.71%) Terraform
4 33 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.44%) Grafana
5 26 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.39%) SCCM
7 22 (1.22%) vCenter Server
8 18 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.78%) FortiGate
10 12 (0.67%) SCOM
11 11 (0.61%) CA Endevor
12 10 (0.55%) Puppet
13 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.44%) Kibana
15 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
16 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 279 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 182 (10.09%) ServiceNow
3 172 (9.53%) SAP
4 158 (8.76%) Oracle
5 76 (4.21%) VMware
6 71 (3.94%) Cisco
7 66 (3.66%) Google
7 66 (3.66%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.88%) Citrix
9 33 (1.83%) F5
10 32 (1.77%) Splunk
11 27 (1.50%) IFS
11 27 (1.50%) Workday
12 25 (1.39%) Juniper
13 24 (1.33%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.16%) CheckPoint
15 20 (1.11%) Fortinet
16 19 (1.05%) Dynatrace
16 19 (1.05%) Remedy
17 16 (0.89%) Okta