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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,819 1,220 1,881
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.08% 4.20% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 4.64% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 783 1,133
10th Percentile £325 £318 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £699 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 30 56
10th Percentile £21.65 £26.15 £14.22
25th Percentile £22.64 £34.01 £26.06
Median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -27.21% +54.65% -22.54%
75th Percentile £47.93 £71.88 £61.25
90th Percentile £84.80 £87.05 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £35.12
% change year-on-year -27.21% +63.71% -26.83%

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 38,122 26,294 38,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.61% 90.44% 86.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,155 17,082 24,859
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 966 2,351
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.24 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.72 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £31.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 1,625 £500 -1.96% 586
UK excluding London -3 975 £490 +3.16% 483
London -4 692 £513 -2.38% 182
Work from Home -2 530 £525 +5.00% 230
North of England -14 297 £474 +5.22% 112
Midlands -1 231 £500 -0.10% 102
South East +12 218 £500 - 147
North West +2 197 £425 +3.03% 61
West Midlands -13 156 £513 +2.09% 58
South West +4 109 £508 -0.49% 39
Yorkshire -31 92 £487 -2.60% 35
East Midlands +17 73 £425 +34.07% 42
East of England -18 67 £475 -4.95% 52
Scotland +1 64 £450 +20.00% 21
Wales -3 13 £492 -18.08% 17
North East -16 8 £440 -23.48% 16
Northern Ireland -5 4 £383 -32.00% 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
1 123 (6.76%) Confluence
2 75 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.71%) SAS
5 9 (0.49%) Appian
6 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.27%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.22%) CMS
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.11%) Moodle
10 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.055%) CICS
10 1 (0.055%) JBoss
10 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 94 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
2 77 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (2.09%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.27%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.22%) Trello
8 3 (0.16%) Windchill
9 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.055%) InDesign
9 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 76 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.38%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.33%) Finacle
8 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.33%) Primavera
8 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.27%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.16%) iTrent
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 291 (16.00%) Azure
2 155 (8.52%) AWS
3 106 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
4 95 (5.22%) Power Platform
5 87 (4.78%) GCP
6 78 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (3.35%) Entra ID
8 55 (3.02%) SaaS
9 31 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.48%) PaaS
10 27 (1.48%) Power Automate
11 22 (1.21%) Serverless
12 21 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (1.15%) Google Workspace
13 19 (1.04%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.04%) IaaS
13 19 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
13 19 (1.04%) OCI
13 19 (1.04%) OpenShift
14 17 (0.93%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 116 (6.38%) Firewall
2 71 (3.90%) Network Security
3 62 (3.41%) WAN
4 58 (3.19%) DNS
5 54 (2.97%) LAN
6 50 (2.75%) VPN
7 36 (1.98%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.76%) BGP
9 30 (1.65%) OSPF
10 28 (1.54%) SSL
11 26 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (1.37%) TCP/IP
13 23 (1.26%) MPLS
14 22 (1.21%) DHCP
15 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 18 (0.99%) SAN
17 17 (0.93%) Wireless
18 16 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
19 15 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.23%) Power BI
2 52 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (1.54%) Metadata
5 21 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.15%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.15%) Tableau
6 18 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.60%) MySQL
9 9 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.44%) Big Data
10 8 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
10 8 (0.44%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
11 6 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
11 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 229 (12.59%) JIRA
2 49 (2.69%) Jenkins
3 48 (2.64%) Git
4 20 (1.10%) Liquibase
5 19 (1.04%) GitLab
6 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.44%) MLflow
8 7 (0.38%) JUnit
9 5 (0.27%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.27%) Mockito
10 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
11 3 (0.16%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.16%) Hudson
11 3 (0.16%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 756 (41.56%) Social Skills
2 594 (32.66%) Finance
3 343 (18.86%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.12%) Public Sector
5 151 (8.30%) Banking
6 75 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (3.74%) Legal
8 67 (3.68%) Retail
9 59 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 38 (2.09%) Local Government
12 38 (2.09%) Telecoms
13 37 (2.03%) Marketing
14 35 (1.92%) Law
15 33 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (1.54%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.21%) Investment Banking
18 18 (0.99%) Aviation
19 17 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (12.15%) Project Manager
2 210 (11.54%) Analyst
3 200 (11.00%) Lead
4 151 (8.30%) Change Manager
5 131 (7.20%) Business Analyst
6 123 (6.76%) Senior
7 111 (6.10%) Consultant
8 65 (3.57%) Programme Manager
9 62 (3.41%) Administrator
10 60 (3.30%) Business Manager
11 59 (3.24%) Developer
12 52 (2.86%) Architect
13 50 (2.75%) Network Engineer
14 45 (2.47%) Senior Manager
15 42 (2.31%) Business Change Manager
16 40 (2.20%) IT Manager
17 34 (1.87%) SAP Manager
17 34 (1.87%) Service Manager
18 33 (1.81%) Delivery Manager
19 31 (1.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.52%) REST
2 31 (1.70%) .NET
3 30 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
4 27 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (1.15%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.15%) OAuth
5 21 (1.15%) RESTful
6 19 (1.04%) Middleware
7 18 (0.99%) SAML
8 15 (0.82%) Web Services
9 14 (0.77%) OpenID
10 13 (0.71%) CSS
10 13 (0.71%) LDAP
10 13 (0.71%) SOAP
11 11 (0.60%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.55%) HTML
12 10 (0.55%) ISPF
12 10 (0.55%) OAuth2
12 10 (0.55%) pytest
13 9 (0.49%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.39%) Management Information System
2 86 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.86%) CMDB
6 51 (2.80%) Virtual Team
7 47 (2.58%) Cloud Native
8 41 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (2.03%) PMI
10 31 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.70%) PKI
11 30 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.99%) NHS
16 18 (0.99%) Operational Technology
17 16 (0.88%) Replication
17 16 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 174 (9.57%) Windows
2 77 (4.23%) Linux
3 62 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.09%) Unix
5 30 (1.65%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.22%) CentOS
10 4 (0.22%) VMS
10 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.16%) Android
11 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.055%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.055%) Debian
12 1 (0.055%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.055%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.055%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (32.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 473 (26.00%) Agile
3 438 (24.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 398 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 353 (19.41%) ITIL
6 346 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 333 (18.31%) Project Management
8 295 (16.22%) Migration
9 253 (13.91%) DevOps
10 214 (11.76%) Project Delivery
11 173 (9.51%) ITSM
11 173 (9.51%) Roadmaps
12 166 (9.13%) ERP
12 166 (9.13%) Risk Management
13 164 (9.02%) PRINCE2
14 163 (8.96%) Decision-Making
15 159 (8.74%) Service Management
16 151 (8.30%) Validation
17 146 (8.03%) CI/CD
17 146 (8.03%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 171 (9.40%) SQL
2 131 (7.20%) Python
3 103 (5.66%) PowerShell
4 45 (2.47%) C#
5 43 (2.36%) Bash
6 32 (1.76%) PL/SQL
7 30 (1.65%) Java
8 22 (1.21%) JavaScript
9 21 (1.15%) T-SQL
10 14 (0.77%) Go
11 13 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.66%) COBOL
13 11 (0.60%) JCL
14 10 (0.55%) CLIST
14 10 (0.55%) Groovy
14 10 (0.55%) REXX
15 9 (0.49%) Korn
16 5 (0.27%) ABAP
16 5 (0.27%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 361 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 280 (15.39%) Degree
3 253 (13.91%) SC Cleared
4 118 (6.49%) PMI Certification
5 111 (6.10%) PMP
6 55 (3.02%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.75%) CISSP
8 46 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 46 (2.53%) Master's Degree
9 41 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 41 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 40 (2.20%) CISM
11 30 (1.65%) CCNP
11 30 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
11 30 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 27 (1.48%) APMG
13 19 (1.04%) Azure Certification
14 18 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.82%) CIMA
15 15 (0.82%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.61%) QA
2 92 (5.06%) GDPR
3 89 (4.89%) PMO
4 84 (4.62%) Data Quality
5 64 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 60 (3.30%) SLA
7 40 (2.20%) NIST
8 25 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.93%) IFRS
9 17 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.88%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.82%) IFRS 17
12 10 (0.55%) Basel III
13 9 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.44%) GRC
14 8 (0.44%) MiFID
15 7 (0.38%) Accessibility
15 7 (0.38%) NCSC
16 6 (0.33%) COBIT
17 5 (0.27%) EMIR
System Software
1 116 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.57%) Docker
3 45 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.55%) ACF2
8 10 (0.55%) RACF
8 10 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
9 8 (0.44%) Firmware
9 8 (0.44%) vSphere
10 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.27%) KVM
11 5 (0.27%) XenApp
11 5 (0.27%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 87 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.57%) Terraform
3 60 (3.30%) Ansible
4 36 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.43%) Grafana
5 26 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.21%) SCCM
7 17 (0.93%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 12 (0.66%) Puppet
11 11 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 10 (0.55%) CA Endevor
12 10 (0.55%) Kibana
13 9 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.49%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.44%) SCOM
15 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
16 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 302 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 176 (9.68%) ServiceNow
3 169 (9.29%) SAP
4 141 (7.75%) Oracle
5 73 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 72 (3.96%) Cisco
7 67 (3.68%) VMware
8 62 (3.41%) Google
9 36 (1.98%) Workday
10 35 (1.92%) Citrix
11 32 (1.76%) F5
11 32 (1.76%) Splunk
12 25 (1.37%) Atlassian
13 22 (1.21%) Juniper
13 22 (1.21%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.15%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.04%) CheckPoint
15 19 (1.04%) Remedy
16 17 (0.93%) SolarWinds
17 16 (0.88%) Ariba