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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 43 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +17
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,599 1,612 2,137
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.43% 4.39% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 5.05% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 852 1,312
10th Percentile £313 £341 £363
25th Percentile £404 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.12% +4.30%
75th Percentile £600 £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 85 30 42
10th Percentile £20.79 £20.53 £21.56
25th Percentile £22.63 £27.63 £24.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £42.79 £41.67
Median % change year-on-year -29.89% +2.70% +24.37%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.36 £55.64
90th Percentile £67.90 £81.43 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.71% +3.75% +19.40%

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 32,304 31,906 40,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.43% 86.97% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,227 19,221 26,955
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
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 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 1,156 1,551
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.22 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.52 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +25.71%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +41.14%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -6 1,429 £500 -4.76% 657
UK excluding London +3 885 £475 -5.00% 561
London -12 611 £525 -4.55% 218
Work from Home -21 426 £500 -4.76% 266
North of England -19 262 £450 -14.08% 152
Midlands +12 206 £475 -9.52% 86
South East +9 185 £500 -4.76% 194
North West -4 177 £438 -15.66% 76
West Midlands +3 152 £475 -9.52% 44
South West +27 114 £525 -1.87% 43
Yorkshire -36 81 £500 -4.76% 62
Scotland 0 64 £450 +12.50% 31
East Midlands +24 54 £425 - 40
East of England -13 42 £523 +10.00% 47
Northern Ireland +1 14 £475 +179.41% 9
Wales -1 13 £413 +3.13% 10
North East -20 3 £475 -17.39% 15
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
1 133 (8.32%) Confluence
2 82 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.75%) nginx
5 9 (0.56%) CMS
6 6 (0.38%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.38%) IIS
6 6 (0.38%) JBoss
6 6 (0.38%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.38%) Mule
6 6 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.25%) CICS
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.13%) FileNet
8 2 (0.13%) Moodle
9 1 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.063%) Traefik
9 1 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 108 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (5.38%) Microsoft Project
4 42 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.63%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.44%) Trello
7 6 (0.38%) Windchill
8 5 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
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
10 1 (0.063%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 56 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Maximo
7 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
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%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 167 (10.44%) Azure
2 147 (9.19%) AWS
3 103 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (5.69%) GCP
5 80 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 55 (3.44%) SaaS
7 38 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (2.38%) Serverless
8 33 (2.06%) AWS KMS
9 30 (1.88%) Amazon S3
9 30 (1.88%) Entra ID
10 25 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (1.44%) Amazon ELB
13 22 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
14 20 (1.25%) GitHub
15 18 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
16 16 (1.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.63%) Firewall
2 77 (4.82%) DNS
3 58 (3.63%) Network Security
4 43 (2.69%) WAN
5 37 (2.31%) VPN
6 33 (2.06%) SSH
7 28 (1.75%) HTTP
8 27 (1.69%) LAN
9 25 (1.56%) SMTP
10 21 (1.31%) DHCP
10 21 (1.31%) FTP
10 21 (1.31%) Wireless
11 16 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.94%) SSL
12 15 (0.94%) TCP/IP
13 13 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (0.81%) IPsec
14 12 (0.75%) IMAP
14 12 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
15 11 (0.69%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.13%) Power BI
2 40 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (1.88%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 26 (1.63%) Metadata
7 20 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (1.19%) Tableau
9 17 (1.06%) Oracle Database
10 11 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.63%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
12 8 (0.50%) MySQL
12 8 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.38%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.31%) Big Data
15 5 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 202 (12.63%) JIRA
2 85 (5.32%) Jenkins
3 43 (2.69%) Git
4 35 (2.19%) Liquibase
5 30 (1.88%) GitLab
6 23 (1.44%) Vagrant
7 12 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.38%) JUnit
9 6 (0.38%) MSI
10 5 (0.31%) Mockito
10 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (0.19%) CA Release Automation
12 3 (0.19%) REST Assured
General
1 691 (43.21%) Social Skills
2 537 (33.58%) Finance
3 285 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.07%) Banking
5 142 (8.88%) Public Sector
6 76 (4.75%) Manufacturing
7 69 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
8 53 (3.31%) Legal
9 52 (3.25%) Telecoms
10 47 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (2.50%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
14 38 (2.38%) Retail
15 36 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
16 32 (2.00%) Law
16 32 (2.00%) Marketing
17 26 (1.63%) Local Government
18 23 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 19 (1.19%) Billing
Job Titles
1 270 (16.89%) Analyst
2 204 (12.76%) Project Manager
3 159 (9.94%) Lead
4 142 (8.88%) Business Analyst
5 110 (6.88%) Change Manager
6 102 (6.38%) Consultant
7 92 (5.75%) Senior
8 60 (3.75%) Administrator
9 58 (3.63%) Developer
10 52 (3.25%) IT Manager
11 51 (3.19%) Programme Manager
12 44 (2.75%) Architect
13 41 (2.56%) Service Manager
14 39 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
14 39 (2.44%) Senior Manager
15 36 (2.25%) AWS Engineer
16 35 (2.19%) SAP Manager
17 34 (2.13%) Business Manager
18 31 (1.94%) Service Analyst
19 30 (1.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.19%) REST
2 43 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
3 31 (1.94%) RESTful
4 25 (1.56%) .NET
5 24 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (1.06%) LDAP
7 16 (1.00%) SAML
8 12 (0.75%) .NET Framework
9 10 (0.63%) 802.1X
9 10 (0.63%) HTML
9 10 (0.63%) OAuth
9 10 (0.63%) OpenID
10 9 (0.56%) SOAP
11 8 (0.50%) ISPF
11 8 (0.50%) Kafka
12 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.44%) CSS
12 7 (0.44%) SailPoint
12 7 (0.44%) XML
13 5 (0.31%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.50%) Management Information System
2 80 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 48 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 47 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 47 (2.94%) Virtual Team
5 44 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 39 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.00%) Replication
9 31 (1.94%) PKI
10 29 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.81%) CMDB
11 27 (1.69%) Life Science
11 27 (1.69%) Public Cloud
12 24 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.06%) NHS
14 17 (1.06%) PMI
15 14 (0.88%) Mainframe
16 13 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 158 (9.88%) Windows
2 109 (6.82%) Linux
3 38 (2.38%) Unix
4 33 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.56%) VMS
6 23 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
6 23 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.94%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.38%) CentOS
10 4 (0.25%) zOS
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.13%) Android
12 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.063%) Data ONTAP
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 (27.89%) Agile
2 422 (26.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 354 (22.14%) Project Management
4 349 (21.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 330 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
6 295 (18.45%) ITIL
7 228 (14.26%) Project Delivery
8 220 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 206 (12.88%) Migration
10 202 (12.63%) DevOps
11 169 (10.57%) Service Management
12 157 (9.82%) PRINCE2
13 137 (8.57%) Roadmaps
14 136 (8.51%) ITSM
15 135 (8.44%) Risk Management
16 134 (8.38%) Decision-Making
17 127 (7.94%) ERP
18 122 (7.63%) CI/CD
19 121 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
20 111 (6.94%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 143 (8.94%) Python
2 128 (8.01%) SQL
3 91 (5.69%) PowerShell
4 53 (3.31%) Java
5 35 (2.19%) Go
6 34 (2.13%) C#
7 27 (1.69%) Groovy
8 22 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 21 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.19%) Bash
10 19 (1.19%) Perl
11 11 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.63%) COBOL
13 9 (0.56%) 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
1 301 (18.82%) Degree
2 281 (17.57%) Security Cleared
3 208 (13.01%) SC Cleared
4 99 (6.19%) PMI Certification
5 93 (5.82%) PMP
6 75 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (3.50%) Master's Degree
8 40 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.13%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
10 27 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.56%) AWS Certification
12 21 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 19 (1.19%) APMG
14 18 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (1.00%) CCNP
16 14 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 13 (0.81%) Azure Certification
18 11 (0.69%) CISSP
18 11 (0.69%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.19%) QA
2 76 (4.75%) PMO
3 52 (3.25%) GDPR
4 40 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.50%) SLA
5 28 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.13%) NIST
7 14 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.81%) MiFID
8 13 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.63%) EMIR
9 10 (0.63%) NCSC
10 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.44%) IFRS
12 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.38%) GRC
13 5 (0.31%) GxP
13 5 (0.31%) HL7
13 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 94 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 69 (4.32%) Docker
3 21 (1.31%) DFS Replication
4 17 (1.06%) 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
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.19%) vSphere
11 1 (0.063%) NFS
11 1 (0.063%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 76 (4.75%) Terraform
2 57 (3.56%) Grafana
2 57 (3.56%) Kubernetes
3 56 (3.50%) Prometheus
4 45 (2.81%) Ansible
5 27 (1.69%) SCCM
6 19 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.81%) Nessus
8 12 (0.75%) CA Endevor
9 11 (0.69%) Kibana
10 10 (0.63%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.63%) SCOM
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
13 6 (0.38%) HP SiteScope
13 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.31%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 323 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 161 (10.07%) SAP
3 131 (8.19%) ServiceNow
4 102 (6.38%) Oracle
5 63 (3.94%) Cisco
6 58 (3.63%) Google
7 51 (3.19%) Salesforce
8 49 (3.06%) Splunk
9 32 (2.00%) VMware
10 28 (1.75%) Remedy
10 28 (1.75%) Workday
11 25 (1.56%) Atlassian
11 25 (1.56%) F5
12 24 (1.50%) Juniper
13 20 (1.25%) CheckPoint
13 20 (1.25%) IBM
14 19 (1.19%) Fortinet
15 16 (1.00%) Ariba
15 16 (1.00%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.94%) Citrix