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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 44 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,564 1,389 1,958
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.32% 4.41% 4.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 4.97% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 779 1,158
10th Percentile £313 £331 £363
25th Percentile £403 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 22 45
10th Percentile £20.79 £19.29 £20.03
25th Percentile £22.51 £28.19 £28.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £49.04 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +22.60% +24.03%
75th Percentile £46.28 £59.69 £56.00
90th Percentile £62.25 £92.83 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £49.12 £41.67
% change year-on-year -7.46% +17.90% +26.26%

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 31,821 27,941 37,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.79% 88.66% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,057 16,962 24,992
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £744 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,969 885 1,593
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.62 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.48 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.49 £74.82 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £43.90
% change year-on-year -20.86% -31.42% +59.64%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -6 1,404 £500 -4.76% 511
UK excluding London +2 879 £475 -5.00% 471
London -16 568 £525 -4.55% 129
Work from Home -21 398 £500 -4.76% 189
North of England -8 270 £450 -13.04% 94
Midlands +10 226 £475 -5.00% 86
South East +9 183 £474 -13.86% 150
North West +7 168 £423 -15.50% 47
West Midlands +3 151 £479 -4.30% 45
South West +7 115 £525 -4.55% 49
Yorkshire -8 99 £487 -11.45% 36
East Midlands +27 75 £402 -2.55% 40
Scotland -1 57 £438 +12.54% 25
East of England -28 38 £523 +16.11% 55
Wales +4 11 £406 - 19
Northern Ireland -3 7 £413 -32.65% 5
North East -21 3 £500 -13.04% 13

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
1 118 (7.54%) Confluence
2 85 (5.43%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.58%) nginx
5 7 (0.45%) 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 (0.32%) IIS
8 4 (0.26%) Appian
8 4 (0.26%) CICS
9 3 (0.19%) Moodle
10 2 (0.13%) FileNet
10 2 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.064%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.064%) Traefik
Applications
1 89 (5.69%) Microsoft Project
2 87 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 82 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (2.81%) MS Visio
5 40 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.45%) Trello
8 5 (0.32%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.26%) Windchill
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.064%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.064%) InDesign
11 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.064%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.064%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 52 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.51%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.32%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.26%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.26%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.19%) Kondor
10 3 (0.19%) ResourceLink
10 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 214 (13.68%) Azure
2 151 (9.65%) AWS
3 104 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
4 102 (6.52%) GCP
5 84 (5.37%) Power Platform
6 44 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (2.56%) SaaS
8 34 (2.17%) Entra ID
9 32 (2.05%) Serverless
10 25 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (1.53%) AWS KMS
11 24 (1.53%) GitHub
12 21 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 19 (1.21%) PaaS
13 19 (1.21%) Power Automate
14 16 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (1.02%) IaaS
14 16 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
14 16 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (0.96%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 95 (6.07%) Firewall
2 75 (4.80%) DNS
3 59 (3.77%) Network Security
4 43 (2.75%) VPN
5 41 (2.62%) WAN
6 27 (1.73%) SSH
7 26 (1.66%) LAN
8 25 (1.60%) SSL
9 23 (1.47%) HTTP
10 22 (1.41%) TCP/IP
11 21 (1.34%) DHCP
12 18 (1.15%) SD-WAN
13 17 (1.09%) SMTP
13 17 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (1.02%) SAN
14 16 (1.02%) Wireless
15 15 (0.96%) FTP
16 14 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 14 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 14 (0.90%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.67%) Power BI
2 38 (2.43%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (1.47%) Metadata
4 23 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 22 (1.41%) Tableau
6 17 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (0.90%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.45%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.45%) MySQL
9 7 (0.45%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.32%) Big Data
11 5 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.26%) Pinecone
12 4 (0.26%) Redis
13 3 (0.19%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 189 (12.08%) JIRA
2 71 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.98%) Liquibase
4 30 (1.92%) Git
5 28 (1.79%) GitLab
6 15 (0.96%) Vagrant
7 9 (0.58%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.45%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.38%) JUnit
11 5 (0.32%) Mockito
12 4 (0.26%) ChangeMan
12 4 (0.26%) MLflow
12 4 (0.26%) MSI
13 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
14 2 (0.13%) AdminStudio
14 2 (0.13%) Subversion
14 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 705 (45.08%) Social Skills
2 491 (31.39%) Finance
3 304 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (10.23%) Banking
5 159 (10.17%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.54%) Influencing Skills
7 56 (3.58%) Manufacturing
8 44 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.62%) Legal
10 39 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (2.30%) Retail
12 33 (2.11%) Financial Institution
13 32 (2.05%) Local Government
14 31 (1.98%) Marketing
15 26 (1.66%) Law
16 24 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (1.09%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.96%) Billing
Job Titles
1 232 (14.83%) Analyst
2 192 (12.28%) Project Manager
3 171 (10.93%) Lead
4 130 (8.31%) Change Manager
5 127 (8.12%) Business Analyst
6 98 (6.27%) Senior
7 97 (6.20%) Consultant
8 49 (3.13%) Developer
9 46 (2.94%) Architect
9 46 (2.94%) Programme Manager
10 45 (2.88%) Administrator
11 44 (2.81%) Senior Manager
12 42 (2.69%) IT Manager
13 41 (2.62%) Business Manager
14 35 (2.24%) Service Manager
15 32 (2.05%) AWS Engineer
16 30 (1.92%) Business Change Manager
16 30 (1.92%) SAP Manager
17 28 (1.79%) DevOps Engineer
18 25 (1.60%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.45%) REST
2 41 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.92%) RESTful
4 24 (1.53%) .NET
4 24 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
5 17 (1.09%) SAML
6 15 (0.96%) LDAP
7 14 (0.90%) OAuth
8 13 (0.83%) Middleware
9 12 (0.77%) .NET Framework
9 12 (0.77%) HTML
10 11 (0.70%) 802.1X
10 11 (0.70%) OpenID
11 8 (0.51%) CSS
11 8 (0.51%) ISPF
11 8 (0.51%) Kafka
11 8 (0.51%) SOAP
12 7 (0.45%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.45%) XML
13 5 (0.32%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 84 (5.37%) Onboarding
3 63 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.20%) CMDB
5 48 (3.07%) Cloud Native
6 42 (2.69%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.49%) Virtual Team
8 36 (2.30%) PKI
9 35 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (1.85%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.66%) PMI
11 26 (1.66%) Replication
12 23 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.28%) Life Science
15 16 (1.02%) NHS
16 15 (0.96%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 168 (10.74%) Windows
2 95 (6.07%) Linux
3 42 (2.69%) Unix
4 41 (2.62%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.92%) Windows 10
6 18 (1.15%) VMS
7 15 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
8 12 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.45%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.26%) zOS
13 3 (0.19%) Android
13 3 (0.19%) CentOS
13 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.13%) AIX
14 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.064%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.064%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (29.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 417 (26.66%) Agile
3 364 (23.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 328 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
5 327 (20.91%) ITIL
6 325 (20.78%) Project Management
7 251 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 217 (13.87%) DevOps
9 210 (13.43%) Migration
10 195 (12.47%) Project Delivery
11 163 (10.42%) Service Management
12 156 (9.97%) ITSM
13 155 (9.91%) PRINCE2
14 134 (8.57%) Roadmaps
15 130 (8.31%) Decision-Making
16 125 (7.99%) CI/CD
17 123 (7.86%) ERP
18 115 (7.35%) Service Delivery
19 111 (7.10%) Risk Management
20 107 (6.84%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 146 (9.34%) Python
2 133 (8.50%) SQL
3 99 (6.33%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.37%) Bash
5 34 (2.17%) Java
6 30 (1.92%) Go
7 27 (1.73%) C#
8 20 (1.28%) Groovy
9 18 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.09%) JavaScript
11 13 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 12 (0.77%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.64%) COBOL
14 9 (0.58%) Korn
14 9 (0.58%) Perl
15 8 (0.51%) CLIST
15 8 (0.51%) JCL
15 8 (0.51%) REXX
16 7 (0.45%) C++
17 4 (0.26%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 311 (19.88%) Security Cleared
2 290 (18.54%) Degree
3 217 (13.87%) SC Cleared
4 104 (6.65%) PMI Certification
5 92 (5.88%) PMP
6 64 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (3.84%) Master's Degree
8 41 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 21 (1.34%) APMG
13 20 (1.28%) CISSP
14 19 (1.21%) AWS Certification
15 18 (1.15%) Azure Certification
15 18 (1.15%) CISM
16 14 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 13 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.83%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.37%) QA
2 78 (4.99%) PMO
3 54 (3.45%) GDPR
4 52 (3.32%) Data Quality
5 40 (2.56%) SLA
6 32 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.96%) NIST
8 12 (0.77%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.64%) IFRS
9 10 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.51%) Basel III
10 8 (0.51%) MiFID
11 7 (0.45%) GRC
11 7 (0.45%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.38%) NCSC
13 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.32%) EMIR
13 5 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 96 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 71 (4.54%) Docker
3 25 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.96%) DFS Replication
6 14 (0.90%) Firmware
7 9 (0.58%) Dovecot
7 9 (0.58%) Postfix
7 9 (0.58%) Squid
8 8 (0.51%) ACF2
8 8 (0.51%) RACF
8 8 (0.51%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.45%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.26%) XenApp
11 4 (0.26%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.19%) NFS
13 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 81 (5.18%) Kubernetes
1 81 (5.18%) Terraform
2 57 (3.64%) Ansible
3 53 (3.39%) Grafana
4 52 (3.32%) Prometheus
5 37 (2.37%) SCCM
6 29 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (0.96%) Puppet
8 13 (0.83%) Kibana
8 13 (0.83%) SCOM
9 12 (0.77%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.64%) Nessus
11 9 (0.58%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.58%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.45%) Tivoli
12 7 (0.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.38%) HP SiteScope
14 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 291 (18.61%) Microsoft
2 141 (9.02%) ServiceNow
3 140 (8.95%) SAP
4 102 (6.52%) Oracle
5 65 (4.16%) Google
6 59 (3.77%) Cisco
7 56 (3.58%) Salesforce
8 51 (3.26%) Splunk
9 42 (2.69%) VMware
10 31 (1.98%) F5
11 26 (1.66%) Workday
12 23 (1.47%) Atlassian
12 23 (1.47%) CheckPoint
12 23 (1.47%) Remedy
13 22 (1.41%) Citrix
13 22 (1.41%) Juniper
14 18 (1.15%) IBM
15 16 (1.02%) Adobe
15 16 (1.02%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.96%) Red Hat