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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 48 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,726 1,290 1,931
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.06% 4.38% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 4.84% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,087 789 1,168
10th Percentile £313 £318 £350
25th Percentile £412 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £635
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.25% -0.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 32 61
10th Percentile £21.05 £27.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £34.19 £25.25
Median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +52.62% -19.27%
75th Percentile £47.93 £70.63 £59.50
90th Percentile £83.53 £86.35 £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.97 £57.12 £37.18
% change year-on-year -38.78% +53.64% -20.98%

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 36,632 26,629 38,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.08% 90.34% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,216 16,983 25,185
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.84% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 898 2,347
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.57 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.68 £76.53 £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.55 £32.00 £31.80
% change year-on-year -17.02% +0.63% -9.14%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 1,539 £500 -4.76% 610
UK excluding London 0 950 £484 -3.25% 487
London -20 634 £525 - 225
Work from Home -8 489 £525 +4.06% 310
North of England -11 293 £465 -2.11% 99
Midlands +4 237 £500 - 86
South East +5 204 £500 - 178
North West +4 192 £414 -8.00% 53
West Midlands -4 162 £506 -1.46% 61
South West +14 113 £525 - 39
Yorkshire -30 96 £487 -2.60% 35
East Midlands +16 74 £425 +34.07% 24
Scotland +4 61 £450 +17.65% 30
East of England -21 55 £475 -2.51% 55
Wales +2 13 £433 -27.83% 6
Northern Ireland -5 5 £450 -25.00% 5
North East -20 5 £450 -21.74% 12

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
1 113 (6.55%) Confluence
2 73 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.58%) SAS
5 9 (0.52%) Appian
6 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.29%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.29%) IIS
8 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.23%) CMS
9 3 (0.17%) Moodle
10 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.058%) CICS
10 1 (0.058%) FileNet
10 1 (0.058%) JBoss
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (5.50%) Microsoft Project
2 78 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 37 (2.14%) MS Visio
5 35 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.23%) Trello
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.058%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.058%) InDesign
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.058%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 75 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 11 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.41%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.29%) Finacle
7 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.29%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.23%) Primavera
9 3 (0.17%) iTrent
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 276 (15.99%) Azure
2 154 (8.92%) AWS
3 107 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
4 102 (5.91%) GCP
5 88 (5.10%) Power Platform
6 67 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (3.24%) Entra ID
8 49 (2.84%) SaaS
9 26 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (1.39%) Power Automate
10 24 (1.39%) Serverless
11 22 (1.27%) PaaS
12 21 (1.22%) Google Workspace
12 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
13 19 (1.10%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.10%) OpenShift
14 18 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (1.04%) GitHub
14 18 (1.04%) IaaS
15 15 (0.87%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (6.03%) Firewall
2 66 (3.82%) Network Security
3 62 (3.59%) DNS
4 57 (3.30%) WAN
5 50 (2.90%) VPN
6 45 (2.61%) LAN
7 30 (1.74%) SD-WAN
8 29 (1.68%) BGP
9 26 (1.51%) OSPF
9 26 (1.51%) TCP/IP
9 26 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (1.33%) DHCP
11 22 (1.27%) SSL
12 19 (1.10%) MPLS
13 17 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 17 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 15 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (0.87%) HTTP
14 15 (0.87%) Wireless
15 14 (0.81%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.23%) Power BI
2 49 (2.84%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.56%) Metadata
4 25 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.10%) Tableau
6 16 (0.93%) Oracle Database
7 15 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.58%) Big Data
10 10 (0.58%) MySQL
10 10 (0.58%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.46%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.46%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 205 (11.88%) JIRA
2 51 (2.95%) Jenkins
3 41 (2.38%) Git
4 22 (1.27%) GitLab
4 22 (1.27%) Liquibase
5 12 (0.70%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.46%) MLflow
7 7 (0.41%) JUnit
8 5 (0.29%) Mockito
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.12%) git-flow
11 2 (0.12%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.12%) MSI
11 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.058%) InstallShield
12 1 (0.058%) TestDirector
12 1 (0.058%) Toad
General
1 742 (42.99%) Social Skills
2 549 (31.81%) Finance
3 317 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 147 (8.52%) Banking
6 74 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
7 66 (3.82%) Legal
8 54 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 54 (3.13%) Retail
9 53 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (2.78%) Manufacturing
11 39 (2.26%) Local Government
12 38 (2.20%) Telecoms
13 36 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (1.91%) Law
15 31 (1.80%) Marketing
16 28 (1.62%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.22%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.98%) Aviation
18 17 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (12.80%) Project Manager
2 216 (12.51%) Analyst
3 178 (10.31%) Lead
4 143 (8.29%) Change Manager
5 126 (7.30%) Business Analyst
6 122 (7.07%) Senior
7 109 (6.32%) Consultant
8 60 (3.48%) Programme Manager
9 59 (3.42%) Business Manager
10 56 (3.24%) Developer
11 53 (3.07%) Administrator
12 51 (2.95%) Architect
13 46 (2.67%) Senior Manager
14 42 (2.43%) Network Engineer
15 41 (2.38%) Business Change Manager
16 38 (2.20%) SAP Manager
17 37 (2.14%) IT Manager
18 35 (2.03%) Service Manager
19 32 (1.85%) Delivery Manager
20 28 (1.62%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.59%) REST
2 32 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (1.68%) .NET
4 27 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (1.33%) RESTful
6 21 (1.22%) .NET Framework
7 20 (1.16%) OAuth
8 17 (0.98%) SAML
9 16 (0.93%) Middleware
10 15 (0.87%) Web Services
11 12 (0.70%) CSS
11 12 (0.70%) OpenID
12 11 (0.64%) HTML
12 11 (0.64%) LDAP
12 11 (0.64%) SOAP
13 10 (0.58%) ISPF
13 10 (0.58%) pytest
14 9 (0.52%) Django
14 9 (0.52%) NumPy
14 9 (0.52%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.74%) Management Information System
2 90 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.59%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.95%) CMDB
6 49 (2.84%) Cloud Native
7 46 (2.67%) Virtual Team
8 39 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (1.91%) PMI
10 31 (1.80%) PKI
11 28 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.62%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.33%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.98%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
16 16 (0.93%) NHS
16 16 (0.93%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 166 (9.62%) Windows
2 69 (4.00%) Linux
3 56 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 39 (2.26%) Unix
5 30 (1.74%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.23%) CentOS
9 4 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.17%) Android
11 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 1 (0.058%) Debian
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.058%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.058%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (32.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 443 (25.67%) Agile
3 416 (24.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 374 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 330 (19.12%) ITIL
6 324 (18.77%) Project Management
7 319 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 275 (15.93%) Migration
9 238 (13.79%) DevOps
10 196 (11.36%) Project Delivery
11 167 (9.68%) ITSM
12 161 (9.33%) PRINCE2
13 155 (8.98%) Risk Management
13 155 (8.98%) Roadmaps
14 153 (8.86%) ERP
15 151 (8.75%) Service Management
16 149 (8.63%) Decision-Making
17 141 (8.17%) Validation
18 140 (8.11%) CI/CD
19 136 (7.88%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 160 (9.27%) SQL
2 134 (7.76%) Python
3 96 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 44 (2.55%) Bash
5 42 (2.43%) C#
6 30 (1.74%) Java
7 22 (1.27%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 18 (1.04%) Go
9 18 (1.04%) T-SQL
10 14 (0.81%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.70%) COBOL
12 11 (0.64%) JCL
13 10 (0.58%) CLIST
13 10 (0.58%) REXX
14 7 (0.41%) Korn
15 6 (0.35%) Groovy
16 5 (0.29%) ABAP
17 4 (0.23%) Bicep
17 4 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 339 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 281 (16.28%) Degree
3 236 (13.67%) SC Cleared
4 111 (6.43%) PMI Certification
5 101 (5.85%) PMP
6 50 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 49 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.72%) DV Cleared
9 45 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 35 (2.03%) CISSP
11 29 (1.68%) CISM
11 29 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
11 29 (1.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 25 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.22%) APMG
13 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (1.16%) CCNP
15 17 (0.98%) Azure Certification
16 15 (0.87%) MBA
17 11 (0.64%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (6.03%) QA
2 83 (4.81%) GDPR
3 82 (4.75%) Data Quality
4 69 (4.00%) PMO
5 56 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (3.24%) SLA
6 27 (1.56%) NIST
7 22 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (1.04%) IFRS
9 17 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.87%) IFRS 17
11 13 (0.75%) Accessibility
12 11 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.58%) Basel III
14 8 (0.46%) GRC
14 8 (0.46%) MiFID
14 8 (0.46%) NCSC
15 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.29%) EMIR
16 5 (0.29%) RMADS
System Software
1 110 (6.37%) Active Directory
2 69 (4.00%) Docker
3 37 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.58%) ACF2
5 10 (0.58%) RACF
5 10 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.52%) Firmware
7 8 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.29%) KVM
9 5 (0.29%) vSphere
9 5 (0.29%) XenApp
9 5 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.17%) NFS
11 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 90 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.71%) Terraform
3 60 (3.48%) Ansible
4 34 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.68%) Grafana
5 29 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.33%) SCCM
7 15 (0.87%) Puppet
8 14 (0.81%) vCenter Server
9 13 (0.75%) FortiGate
10 12 (0.70%) Kibana
11 10 (0.58%) CA Endevor
12 9 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.52%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 8 (0.46%) SCOM
14 6 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
15 5 (0.29%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 296 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 173 (10.02%) SAP
3 161 (9.33%) ServiceNow
4 117 (6.78%) Oracle
5 72 (4.17%) Google
6 67 (3.88%) Cisco
7 60 (3.48%) Salesforce
8 58 (3.36%) VMware
9 34 (1.97%) Citrix
9 34 (1.97%) Splunk
10 33 (1.91%) F5
11 32 (1.85%) Workday
12 25 (1.45%) Juniper
13 21 (1.22%) Atlassian
14 20 (1.16%) Palo Alto
15 19 (1.10%) CheckPoint
15 19 (1.10%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.04%) Remedy
17 17 (0.98%) Ariba
17 17 (0.98%) SolarWinds