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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 43 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,591 1,586 2,150
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.44% 4.37% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 5.02% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 845 1,316
10th Percentile £313 £339 £363
25th Percentile £404 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.31% +3.43%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 28 44
10th Percentile £20.79 £20.08 £21.67
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.85 £24.94
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £41.67
Median % change year-on-year -27.71% -0.40% +19.04%
75th Percentile £45.46 £58.95 £55.85
90th Percentile £70.16 £84.28 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.17 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% -9.59% +14.29%

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 31,961 31,602 40,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.17% 87.15% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,061 19,103 27,192
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,078 1,129 1,558
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £14.33
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -24.36% +24.64%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.74 £32.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year -30.05% -26.55% +38.28%

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 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 30 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 30 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 -5 1,426 £500 -4.76% 567
UK excluding London +4 875 £475 -5.00% 518
London -6 613 £525 -4.55% 195
Work from Home -18 427 £500 -4.76% 218
North of England -17 259 £450 -14.29% 134
Midlands +18 204 £475 -9.52% 89
South East +10 188 £500 -3.38% 183
North West -2 176 £438 -16.27% 63
West Midlands +9 150 £475 -9.52% 46
South West +23 115 £525 +0.96% 39
Yorkshire -27 80 £500 -4.76% 59
Scotland +7 60 £450 +12.50% 27
East Midlands +21 54 £425 - 41
East of England -14 40 £523 +8.85% 41
Wales -1 13 £413 +3.13% 10
Northern Ireland +3 11 £475 +179.41% 5
North East -20 3 £475 -17.39% 13
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
1 134 (8.42%) Confluence
2 81 (5.09%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.75%) nginx
5 8 (0.50%) CMS
6 6 (0.38%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.38%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.38%) Mule
6 6 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
7 5 (0.31%) JBoss
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.13%) FileNet
10 2 (0.13%) Moodle
11 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.063%) Traefik
Applications
1 107 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
3 91 (5.72%) Microsoft Project
4 41 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (2.58%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.44%) Windchill
7 6 (0.38%) Trello
8 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.063%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.063%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.063%) InDesign
10 1 (0.063%) Notion
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 54 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.31%) Maximo
7 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
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 MM
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 175 (11.00%) Azure
2 154 (9.68%) AWS
3 102 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
4 95 (5.97%) GCP
5 82 (5.15%) Power Platform
6 55 (3.46%) SaaS
7 41 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.39%) Serverless
9 33 (2.07%) AWS KMS
10 30 (1.89%) Amazon S3
10 30 (1.89%) Entra ID
11 25 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (1.45%) Amazon ELB
14 22 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (1.32%) GitHub
16 18 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
17 16 (1.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 102 (6.41%) Firewall
2 78 (4.90%) DNS
3 60 (3.77%) Network Security
4 40 (2.51%) WAN
5 38 (2.39%) VPN
6 33 (2.07%) SSH
7 27 (1.70%) HTTP
8 25 (1.57%) SMTP
9 23 (1.45%) LAN
10 21 (1.32%) FTP
11 19 (1.19%) DHCP
11 19 (1.19%) Wireless
12 17 (1.07%) SSL
13 15 (0.94%) SD-WAN
13 15 (0.94%) TCP/IP
14 14 (0.88%) IPsec
15 12 (0.75%) BGP
15 12 (0.75%) Cisco IPT
15 12 (0.75%) IMAP
15 12 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.21%) Power BI
2 40 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (1.82%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.70%) NoSQL
6 25 (1.57%) Metadata
7 23 (1.45%) Tableau
8 20 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (1.07%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.57%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.50%) MySQL
13 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
13 7 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.31%) Big Data
15 5 (0.31%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 199 (12.51%) JIRA
2 86 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 43 (2.70%) Git
4 35 (2.20%) Liquibase
5 30 (1.89%) GitLab
6 23 (1.45%) Vagrant
7 12 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.38%) JUnit
10 5 (0.31%) Mockito
10 5 (0.31%) MSI
10 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 690 (43.37%) Social Skills
2 533 (33.50%) Finance
3 285 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (10.06%) Banking
5 145 (9.11%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.40%) Manufacturing
7 67 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
8 50 (3.14%) Legal
8 50 (3.14%) Telecoms
9 47 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 46 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 41 (2.58%) Financial Institution
12 39 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
13 37 (2.33%) Retail
14 36 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
15 32 (2.01%) Marketing
16 31 (1.95%) Law
17 26 (1.63%) Local Government
18 21 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 19 (1.19%) Billing
Job Titles
1 260 (16.34%) Analyst
2 202 (12.70%) Project Manager
3 159 (9.99%) Lead
4 137 (8.61%) Business Analyst
5 113 (7.10%) Change Manager
6 103 (6.47%) Consultant
7 94 (5.91%) Senior
8 58 (3.65%) Administrator
9 55 (3.46%) Developer
10 52 (3.27%) IT Manager
11 51 (3.21%) Programme Manager
12 46 (2.89%) Architect
13 41 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
13 41 (2.58%) Service Manager
14 40 (2.51%) Senior Manager
15 36 (2.26%) AWS Engineer
15 36 (2.26%) Business Manager
16 34 (2.14%) SAP Manager
17 32 (2.01%) Service Analyst
18 29 (1.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.33%) REST
2 42 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.89%) RESTful
4 24 (1.51%) .NET
4 24 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (1.13%) LDAP
6 16 (1.01%) SAML
7 11 (0.69%) .NET Framework
7 11 (0.69%) 802.1X
8 10 (0.63%) HTML
8 10 (0.63%) OAuth
8 10 (0.63%) OpenID
9 9 (0.57%) SOAP
10 8 (0.50%) ISPF
10 8 (0.50%) Kafka
11 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.44%) CSS
11 7 (0.44%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.44%) XML
12 5 (0.31%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.53%) Management Information System
2 85 (5.34%) Onboarding
3 52 (3.27%) Product Ownership
4 47 (2.95%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.89%) Virtual Team
6 44 (2.77%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
8 38 (2.39%) CMDB
9 37 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (2.01%) Replication
11 31 (1.95%) PKI
12 30 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
13 28 (1.76%) Public Cloud
14 26 (1.63%) Life Science
15 25 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
16 21 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
17 18 (1.13%) PMI
18 16 (1.01%) NHS
19 14 (0.88%) Mainframe
20 13 (0.82%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 154 (9.68%) Windows
2 104 (6.54%) Linux
3 34 (2.14%) Unix
4 33 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.57%) VMS
6 23 (1.45%) Amazon Linux
7 22 (1.38%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.25%) zOS
11 3 (0.19%) CentOS
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.13%) Android
12 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.063%) Debian
13 1 (0.063%) Solaris
13 1 (0.063%) SUSE
13 1 (0.063%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (28.03%) Agile
2 422 (26.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 351 (22.06%) Project Management
4 350 (22.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 329 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
6 305 (19.17%) ITIL
7 229 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 225 (14.14%) Project Delivery
9 207 (13.01%) DevOps
10 206 (12.95%) Migration
11 175 (11.00%) Service Management
12 152 (9.55%) PRINCE2
13 144 (9.05%) ITSM
14 139 (8.74%) Roadmaps
15 136 (8.55%) Decision-Making
16 131 (8.23%) Risk Management
17 126 (7.92%) CI/CD
18 125 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
18 125 (7.86%) ERP
19 111 (6.98%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 144 (9.05%) Python
2 125 (7.86%) SQL
3 92 (5.78%) PowerShell
4 52 (3.27%) Java
5 35 (2.20%) Go
6 32 (2.01%) C#
7 27 (1.70%) Groovy
8 21 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 19 (1.19%) Bash
9 19 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.07%) Perl
11 11 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.63%) COBOL
13 9 (0.57%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.50%) CLIST
14 8 (0.50%) JCL
14 8 (0.50%) REXX
15 7 (0.44%) Korn
16 6 (0.38%) ABAP
17 5 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 297 (18.67%) Degree
2 286 (17.98%) Security Cleared
3 212 (13.32%) SC Cleared
4 100 (6.29%) PMI Certification
5 91 (5.72%) PMP
6 73 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (3.52%) Master's Degree
8 41 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.14%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
12 25 (1.57%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 18 (1.13%) APMG
15 16 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.88%) CCNP
16 14 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 13 (0.82%) Azure Certification
18 11 (0.69%) CISSP
18 11 (0.69%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (5.41%) QA
2 75 (4.71%) PMO
3 52 (3.27%) GDPR
4 43 (2.70%) SLA
5 42 (2.64%) Data Quality
6 29 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.07%) NIST
8 14 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.69%) MiFID
10 11 (0.69%) NCSC
11 10 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.50%) EMIR
13 7 (0.44%) IFRS
14 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.38%) GRC
15 5 (0.31%) GxP
15 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
16 4 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 94 (5.91%) Active Directory
2 68 (4.27%) Docker
3 21 (1.32%) DFS Replication
4 18 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.75%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.75%) Postfix
5 12 (0.75%) Squid
6 10 (0.63%) Firmware
7 8 (0.50%) ACF2
7 8 (0.50%) RACF
7 8 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.38%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.063%) XenApp
12 1 (0.063%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 77 (4.84%) Terraform
2 57 (3.58%) Grafana
2 57 (3.58%) Kubernetes
3 56 (3.52%) Prometheus
4 46 (2.89%) Ansible
5 28 (1.76%) SCCM
6 20 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.82%) Nessus
8 12 (0.75%) CA Endevor
9 11 (0.69%) SCOM
10 10 (0.63%) Kibana
10 10 (0.63%) Proxmox
11 8 (0.50%) Puppet
12 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
12 7 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 7 (0.44%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.38%) HP SiteScope
14 5 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
14 5 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 317 (19.92%) Microsoft
2 161 (10.12%) SAP
3 144 (9.05%) ServiceNow
4 97 (6.10%) Oracle
5 60 (3.77%) Cisco
5 60 (3.77%) Google
6 54 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 48 (3.02%) Splunk
8 30 (1.89%) VMware
9 28 (1.76%) Workday
10 27 (1.70%) F5
11 25 (1.57%) Atlassian
11 25 (1.57%) Remedy
12 24 (1.51%) Juniper
13 21 (1.32%) CheckPoint
14 20 (1.26%) IBM
15 18 (1.13%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.94%) Ariba
16 15 (0.94%) Red Hat
17 14 (0.88%) Citrix