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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 50 44
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,874 1,323 1,789
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.69% 4.42% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 4.85% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 807 1,042
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -1.48% -6.02%
75th Percentile £609 £613 £613
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 55 78
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £17.40
25th Percentile £22.63 £32.05 £29.91
Median hourly rate £34.94 £54.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +10.20% +0.62%
75th Percentile £71.56 £63.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.60 £70.10 £69.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.52 £50.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -48.96% +2.04% +1.52%

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 43,060 27,252 37,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.87% 91.01% 84.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,847 17,268 23,692
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -4.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,578 1,280 2,621
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.01 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.65%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -4 1,644 £518 +3.50% 408
UK excluding London -14 955 £500 +5.26% 359
London -1 754 £525 -4.55% 165
Work from Home -3 578 £525 +5.00% 171
North of England -19 292 £475 +5.56% 82
South East -2 223 £563 +15.27% 102
Midlands -11 185 £506 +6.53% 67
North West -12 165 £447 +0.45% 50
West Midlands -25 128 £515 +8.42% 41
Yorkshire -25 113 £500 +9.59% 23
South West -14 91 £504 +2.81% 34
Scotland +4 86 £496 +15.14% 17
East of England -3 81 £488 -2.50% 30
East Midlands +17 55 £453 +26.04% 26
North East -26 14 £425 -15.00% 11
Wales -11 11 £575 +62.85% 13
Northern Ireland -16 6 £475 -9.52% 24

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
1 110 (5.87%) Confluence
2 87 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.12%) IIS
5 14 (0.75%) Appian
5 14 (0.75%) SAS
6 10 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.32%) CMS
8 5 (0.27%) Camunda
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.16%) Kentico
10 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.053%) MS Project Server
12 1 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.053%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 63 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (3.04%) Microsoft Project
3 56 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.21%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.053%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
9 1 (0.053%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 79 (4.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 12 (0.64%) Primavera
4 10 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.37%) Maximo
7 6 (0.32%) Finacle
7 6 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.27%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.27%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.21%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 270 (14.41%) Azure
2 142 (7.58%) AWS
3 108 (5.76%) Power Platform
4 107 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 77 (4.11%) Entra ID
6 73 (3.90%) SaaS
7 67 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (3.26%) GCP
9 38 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (1.87%) Google Workspace
11 26 (1.39%) Power Automate
12 24 (1.28%) OCI
12 24 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
14 20 (1.07%) GitHub
15 19 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (1.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 19 (1.01%) PaaS
16 18 (0.96%) Serverless
17 17 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 110 (5.87%) Firewall
2 78 (4.16%) Network Security
3 61 (3.26%) WAN
4 53 (2.83%) DNS
5 48 (2.56%) LAN
6 42 (2.24%) VPN
7 32 (1.71%) BGP
7 32 (1.71%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.65%) MPLS
9 29 (1.55%) OSPF
10 28 (1.49%) TCP/IP
10 28 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.23%) SSL
11 23 (1.23%) Wireless
12 22 (1.17%) Cisco Nexus
13 16 (0.85%) DHCP
13 16 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 16 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 15 (0.80%) HTTP
15 14 (0.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (4.64%) Power BI
2 62 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.71%) Metadata
4 27 (1.44%) Oracle Database
5 24 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
6 22 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (0.96%) Tableau
9 13 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.53%) MySQL
11 8 (0.43%) Oracle BI EE
12 7 (0.37%) Db2
12 7 (0.37%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database 11g
14 5 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.27%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 234 (12.49%) JIRA
2 65 (3.47%) Git
3 54 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.53%) GitLab
4 10 (0.53%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.43%) MLflow
6 7 (0.37%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.37%) InstallShield
7 4 (0.21%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.21%) Hudson
7 4 (0.21%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.21%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.21%) Maven
8 3 (0.16%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (0.16%) Snyk
8 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.11%) git-flow
9 2 (0.11%) Selenium
General
1 701 (37.41%) Social Skills
2 665 (35.49%) Finance
3 291 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 157 (8.38%) Banking
6 95 (5.07%) Legal
7 87 (4.64%) Retail
8 68 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
9 61 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 50 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (2.51%) Marketing
13 41 (2.19%) Law
14 39 (2.08%) Local Government
15 35 (1.87%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.23%) Aviation
16 23 (1.23%) Investment Banking
17 22 (1.17%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 215 (11.47%) Project Manager
2 196 (10.46%) Lead
3 190 (10.14%) Analyst
4 143 (7.63%) Senior
5 142 (7.58%) Change Manager
6 127 (6.78%) Consultant
7 117 (6.24%) Business Analyst
8 72 (3.84%) Administrator
9 65 (3.47%) Programme Manager
10 61 (3.26%) Developer
11 57 (3.04%) Senior Manager
12 54 (2.88%) Network Engineer
13 53 (2.83%) Business Manager
14 47 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
15 46 (2.45%) IT Manager
16 44 (2.35%) Architect
16 44 (2.35%) Support Engineer
17 39 (2.08%) Business Change Manager
18 38 (2.03%) Service Manager
19 31 (1.65%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (3.20%) REST
2 34 (1.81%) .NET
3 30 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.23%) OAuth
5 22 (1.17%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.17%) CSS
6 21 (1.12%) Middleware
7 20 (1.07%) HTML
8 16 (0.85%) Web Services
9 14 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (0.75%) LDAP
10 12 (0.64%) RESTful
11 11 (0.59%) Ajax
11 11 (0.59%) React
11 11 (0.59%) Spring
12 10 (0.53%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.53%) SOAP
13 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (0.48%) OAuth2
13 9 (0.48%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.18%) Management Information System
2 86 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 75 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 74 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 53 (2.83%) Cloud Native
6 51 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (1.87%) PMI
8 33 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 32 (1.71%) CMDB
10 30 (1.60%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.49%) Operational Technology
12 26 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 24 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
14 22 (1.17%) PKI
15 19 (1.01%) Public Cloud
16 18 (0.96%) Low-Code
17 15 (0.80%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 198 (10.57%) Windows
2 105 (5.60%) Linux
3 65 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.40%) Unix
5 41 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.17%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.64%) Solaris
8 10 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.43%) AIX
9 8 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.43%) VMS
10 6 (0.32%) Android
10 6 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.32%) SUSE
10 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.27%) HPUX
12 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (32.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 468 (24.97%) Agile
3 443 (23.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 397 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 355 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
6 318 (16.97%) ITIL
7 305 (16.28%) Project Management
8 304 (16.22%) Migration
9 247 (13.18%) DevOps
10 240 (12.81%) Project Delivery
11 215 (11.47%) Decision-Making
12 210 (11.21%) Roadmaps
13 204 (10.89%) ERP
14 172 (9.18%) Risk Management
14 172 (9.18%) Validation
15 166 (8.86%) AI
16 165 (8.80%) CI/CD
17 161 (8.59%) ITSM
18 157 (8.38%) Service Management
19 150 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 178 (9.50%) SQL
2 131 (6.99%) Python
3 102 (5.44%) PowerShell
4 48 (2.56%) Bash
4 48 (2.56%) PL/SQL
5 47 (2.51%) C#
5 47 (2.51%) Java
6 37 (1.97%) JavaScript
7 26 (1.39%) T-SQL
8 10 (0.53%) Groovy
9 9 (0.48%) Korn
10 8 (0.43%) COBOL
10 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.37%) Go
11 7 (0.37%) JCL
12 6 (0.32%) ABAP
13 5 (0.27%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.27%) Perl
13 5 (0.27%) REXX
14 4 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 364 (19.42%) Security Cleared
2 262 (13.98%) SC Cleared
3 230 (12.27%) Degree
4 128 (6.83%) PMP
5 118 (6.30%) PMI Certification
6 60 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.09%) CISSP
8 52 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
9 42 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (2.03%) CCNP
11 36 (1.92%) CISM
12 33 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 26 (1.39%) Azure Certification
13 26 (1.39%) CIMA
13 26 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
14 25 (1.33%) ACCA
14 25 (1.33%) APMG
15 23 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
16 15 (0.80%) AWS Certification
16 15 (0.80%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (6.03%) QA
2 91 (4.86%) GDPR
3 90 (4.80%) PMO
4 86 (4.59%) Data Quality
5 79 (4.22%) SLA
6 71 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 47 (2.51%) NIST
8 30 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 22 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 21 (1.12%) GRC
10 21 (1.12%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.80%) IFRS
12 13 (0.69%) IFRS 17
13 9 (0.48%) ITGC
14 8 (0.43%) COBIT
15 6 (0.32%) Basel III
15 6 (0.32%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.32%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.27%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.27%) EMIR
System Software
1 125 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 64 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (2.93%) Docker
4 24 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.85%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.53%) vSphere
10 7 (0.37%) vCloud
11 6 (0.32%) KVM
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.21%) XenApp
12 4 (0.21%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.11%) ACF2
14 2 (0.11%) Ceph
14 2 (0.11%) Firmware
14 2 (0.11%) RACF
14 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 83 (4.43%) Terraform
2 75 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 73 (3.90%) Ansible
4 34 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (1.28%) Grafana
5 24 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 24 (1.28%) vCenter Server
6 21 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.01%) SCCM
8 17 (0.91%) SCOM
9 12 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 12 (0.64%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.53%) Cisco Prime
11 8 (0.43%) Avamar
11 8 (0.43%) Puppet
12 7 (0.37%) Data Guard
12 7 (0.37%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
12 7 (0.37%) PowerCLI
12 7 (0.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 290 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 186 (9.93%) Oracle
3 179 (9.55%) ServiceNow
4 172 (9.18%) SAP
5 82 (4.38%) VMware
6 74 (3.95%) Salesforce
7 71 (3.79%) Cisco
8 61 (3.26%) Google
9 33 (1.76%) Citrix
10 32 (1.71%) Splunk
11 29 (1.55%) F5
11 29 (1.55%) IBM
12 27 (1.44%) Workday
13 26 (1.39%) Red Hat
14 25 (1.33%) IFS
14 25 (1.33%) Palo Alto
15 22 (1.17%) CheckPoint
15 22 (1.17%) Juniper
16 21 (1.12%) Fortinet
17 20 (1.07%) Remedy