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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 47 42
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,627 1,319 1,983
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.17% 4.24% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 4.75% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,044 741 1,190
10th Percentile £313 £320 £350
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.28% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 28 59
10th Percentile £20.79 £28.12 £17.58
25th Percentile £24.82 £34.19 £25.83
Median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% +6.23%
75th Percentile £46.28 £72.50 £57.40
90th Percentile £61.35 £87.05 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £37.18
% change year-on-year -20.94% +54.65% -15.60%

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 33,986 27,793 39,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.08% 89.38% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,549 16,924 25,862
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -3.88% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,070 859 2,130
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.20% -9.97% +11.43%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -8 1,444 £500 -4.76% 588
UK excluding London +3 896 £475 -5.00% 467
London -19 593 £525 -2.78% 231
Work from Home -10 433 £500 -4.76% 263
North of England -8 279 £451 -11.47% 106
Midlands +8 226 £482 -3.60% 102
South East +9 192 £492 -10.55% 144
North West +7 175 £413 -17.45% 58
West Midlands -6 149 £491 -1.80% 68
South West +14 116 £525 -4.55% 36
Yorkshire -16 99 £485 -11.91% 36
East Midlands +22 77 £445 +13.81% 34
Scotland +8 61 £431 +15.00% 32
East of England -41 34 £488 +8.33% 42
Wales +11 13 £414 -31.08% 13
Northern Ireland 0 7 £400 -33.33% 4
North East -25 5 £475 -17.39% 14

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
1 114 (7.01%) Confluence
2 77 (4.73%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.49%) Appian
5 6 (0.37%) CMS
5 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
5 6 (0.37%) nginx
5 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.25%) IIS
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.18%) Moodle
8 3 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) CICS
9 2 (0.12%) FileNet
9 2 (0.12%) JBoss
9 2 (0.12%) Mule
10 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 97 (5.96%) Microsoft Project
2 75 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 38 (2.34%) MS Visio
5 36 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.31%) Trello
8 4 (0.25%) Windchill
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.061%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.061%) InDesign
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.061%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 65 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.25%) Finacle
8 4 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.25%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 239 (14.69%) Azure
2 147 (9.04%) AWS
3 107 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
4 100 (6.15%) GCP
5 85 (5.22%) Power Platform
6 50 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 38 (2.34%) SaaS
9 30 (1.84%) Serverless
10 26 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (1.48%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.29%) Google Workspace
13 19 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.17%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (1.11%) GitHub
14 18 (1.11%) PaaS
15 17 (1.04%) AWS KMS
15 17 (1.04%) OpenShift
16 16 (0.98%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (6.15%) Firewall
2 72 (4.43%) DNS
3 63 (3.87%) Network Security
4 45 (2.77%) WAN
5 43 (2.64%) VPN
6 34 (2.09%) LAN
7 26 (1.60%) DHCP
7 26 (1.60%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.35%) SD-WAN
9 21 (1.29%) SSL
10 20 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (1.17%) BGP
12 18 (1.11%) HTTP
13 17 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 17 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 17 (1.04%) OSPF
14 16 (0.98%) SAN
15 15 (0.92%) SSH
16 13 (0.80%) Kerberos
16 13 (0.80%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.36%) Power BI
2 47 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 34 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (1.60%) Metadata
5 20 (1.23%) Tableau
6 19 (1.17%) NoSQL
7 15 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (0.80%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.49%) Big Data
10 8 (0.49%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.43%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.43%) MySQL
11 7 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.43%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 186 (11.43%) JIRA
2 57 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 28 (1.72%) Git
3 28 (1.72%) Liquibase
4 26 (1.60%) GitLab
5 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.49%) Vagrant
7 7 (0.43%) MLflow
8 6 (0.37%) JUnit
9 5 (0.31%) Mockito
9 5 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.25%) MSI
11 3 (0.18%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) AdminStudio
12 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.12%) git-flow
13 1 (0.061%) ChangeMan
13 1 (0.061%) Oracle Forms
General
1 745 (45.79%) Social Skills
2 541 (33.25%) Finance
3 311 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 156 (9.59%) Banking
6 67 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
7 54 (3.32%) Manufacturing
8 49 (3.01%) Legal
9 47 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
9 47 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (2.58%) Telecoms
11 41 (2.52%) Retail
12 38 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (2.09%) Local Government
14 33 (2.03%) Financial Institution
15 32 (1.97%) Marketing
16 26 (1.60%) Law
17 22 (1.35%) Investment Banking
18 20 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 240 (14.75%) Analyst
2 203 (12.48%) Project Manager
3 180 (11.06%) Lead
4 134 (8.24%) Business Analyst
5 133 (8.17%) Change Manager
6 107 (6.58%) Senior
7 96 (5.90%) Consultant
8 55 (3.38%) Developer
9 54 (3.32%) Programme Manager
10 52 (3.20%) Architect
11 46 (2.83%) Business Manager
12 43 (2.64%) Senior Manager
13 40 (2.46%) IT Manager
14 39 (2.40%) Service Manager
15 37 (2.27%) Administrator
16 33 (2.03%) SAP Manager
17 32 (1.97%) Business Change Manager
18 30 (1.84%) Network Engineer
19 29 (1.78%) Transformation Manager
20 25 (1.54%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (3.75%) REST
2 39 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
3 31 (1.91%) RESTful
4 29 (1.78%) .NET
5 24 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
6 21 (1.29%) OAuth
7 19 (1.17%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.17%) LDAP
7 19 (1.17%) SAML
8 14 (0.86%) Middleware
8 14 (0.86%) OpenID
9 12 (0.74%) HTML
10 10 (0.61%) ISPF
10 10 (0.61%) SOAP
10 10 (0.61%) Web Services
11 9 (0.55%) CSS
11 9 (0.55%) XML
12 8 (0.49%) Kafka
12 8 (0.49%) NumPy
12 8 (0.49%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 89 (5.47%) Management Information System
2 88 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.07%) CMDB
5 47 (2.89%) Cloud Native
6 42 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.58%) Virtual Team
7 38 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (2.21%) PKI
9 30 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.78%) PMI
11 26 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
11 26 (1.60%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.23%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.17%) Replication
15 18 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (1.04%) Life Science
17 16 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 151 (9.28%) Windows
2 89 (5.47%) Linux
3 47 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.46%) Unix
5 31 (1.91%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.68%) VMS
8 9 (0.55%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.25%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.18%) Android
13 2 (0.12%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.061%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.061%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (31.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 436 (26.80%) Agile
3 395 (24.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 363 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
5 322 (19.79%) ITIL
6 320 (19.67%) Project Management
7 273 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 249 (15.30%) Migration
9 208 (12.78%) DevOps
10 183 (11.25%) Project Delivery
11 161 (9.90%) PRINCE2
12 160 (9.83%) Service Management
13 158 (9.71%) ITSM
14 142 (8.73%) ERP
15 138 (8.48%) Decision-Making
15 138 (8.48%) Risk Management
16 134 (8.24%) Roadmaps
17 130 (7.99%) CI/CD
18 128 (7.87%) Workshop Facilitation
19 115 (7.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 154 (9.47%) SQL
2 151 (9.28%) Python
3 103 (6.33%) PowerShell
4 41 (2.52%) Bash
5 33 (2.03%) C#
6 27 (1.66%) Go
7 24 (1.48%) Java
8 20 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 18 (1.11%) JavaScript
10 15 (0.92%) Shell Script
10 15 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.86%) Groovy
12 12 (0.74%) COBOL
13 11 (0.68%) JCL
14 10 (0.61%) CLIST
14 10 (0.61%) REXX
15 8 (0.49%) Korn
16 6 (0.37%) Perl
17 5 (0.31%) TypeScript
18 4 (0.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 296 (18.19%) Security Cleared
2 294 (18.07%) Degree
3 205 (12.60%) SC Cleared
4 106 (6.52%) PMI Certification
5 96 (5.90%) PMP
6 62 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (3.75%) Master's Degree
8 44 (2.70%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 23 (1.41%) APMG
13 20 (1.23%) CISSP
14 18 (1.11%) CISM
15 17 (1.04%) Azure Certification
15 17 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (0.98%) CCNP
17 15 (0.92%) AWS Certification
18 14 (0.86%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (6.39%) QA
2 74 (4.55%) PMO
3 65 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 61 (3.75%) GDPR
5 44 (2.70%) SLA
6 36 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.98%) IFRS
8 14 (0.86%) NIST
8 14 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.80%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.80%) IFRS 17
10 12 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.61%) Basel III
11 10 (0.61%) GRC
12 8 (0.49%) MiFID
12 8 (0.49%) NCSC
13 5 (0.31%) EMIR
13 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.31%) RMADS
System Software
1 107 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.43%) Docker
3 34 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.61%) ACF2
5 10 (0.61%) RACF
5 10 (0.61%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.55%) Firmware
6 9 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.49%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.37%) Dovecot
8 6 (0.37%) Postfix
8 6 (0.37%) Squid
8 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.25%) KVM
9 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.25%) vSphere
9 4 (0.25%) XenApp
9 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 84 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 71 (4.36%) Terraform
3 62 (3.81%) Ansible
4 43 (2.64%) Grafana
5 41 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.91%) SCCM
7 28 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.04%) Puppet
9 14 (0.86%) Kibana
9 14 (0.86%) SCOM
10 12 (0.74%) vCenter Server
11 11 (0.68%) CA Endevor
12 10 (0.61%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.55%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 7 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
15 6 (0.37%) Nessus
15 6 (0.37%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 292 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 142 (8.73%) SAP
3 137 (8.42%) ServiceNow
4 110 (6.76%) Oracle
5 70 (4.30%) Google
6 62 (3.81%) Cisco
7 60 (3.69%) Salesforce
8 53 (3.26%) VMware
9 47 (2.89%) Splunk
10 31 (1.91%) F5
11 30 (1.84%) Citrix
12 24 (1.48%) Workday
13 21 (1.29%) Juniper
14 18 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 18 (1.11%) Remedy
15 17 (1.04%) CheckPoint
15 17 (1.04%) Fortinet
16 16 (0.98%) Adobe
16 16 (0.98%) IBM
17 15 (0.92%) Red Hat