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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 49 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,712 1,284 1,937
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.18% 4.25% 4.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 4.73% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 738 1,168
10th Percentile £313 £324 £354
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.98%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.58% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 57
10th Percentile £21.13 £28.60 £17.16
25th Percentile £22.68 £37.25 £28.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -12.52%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.63 £59.50
90th Percentile £86.90 £86.35 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £37.18
% change year-on-year -20.94% +54.65% -16.08%

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 35,552 27,150 38,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.77% 89.86% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,564 16,816 25,267
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 854 2,192
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £60.90 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.43 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -6 1,519 £500 -4.76% 459
UK excluding London +5 948 £475 -5.00% 394
London -16 623 £525 - 162
Work from Home -10 477 £500 -3.29% 173
North of England -7 296 £465 -8.55% 88
Midlands +13 253 £500 -0.40% 74
South East +2 191 £496 -5.52% 136
North West +6 184 £413 -12.59% 57
West Midlands +3 173 £500 -4.76% 57
South West +10 112 £525 -3.67% 37
Yorkshire -15 108 £487 -11.45% 23
East Midlands +20 80 £435 +11.25% 17
Scotland +11 68 £450 +14.29% 24
East of England -31 42 £500 +2.62% 42
Wales +6 14 £414 -32.49% 5
Northern Ireland -3 5 £450 -25.00% 3
North East -25 4 £475 -17.39% 10

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
1 119 (6.95%) Confluence
2 76 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.58%) SAS
5 9 (0.53%) Appian
6 5 (0.29%) CMS
6 5 (0.29%) HCL Notes
6 5 (0.29%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.23%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.18%) IIS
8 3 (0.18%) Moodle
8 3 (0.18%) nginx
9 2 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.058%) JBoss
10 1 (0.058%) Mule
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 98 (5.72%) Microsoft Project
2 79 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 39 (2.28%) MS Visio
5 34 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.29%) Trello
7 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.058%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.058%) InDesign
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.058%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 75 (4.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 11 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.29%) Finacle
6 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.18%) iTrent
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 257 (15.01%) Azure
2 159 (9.29%) AWS
3 109 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
4 106 (6.19%) GCP
5 83 (4.85%) Power Platform
6 57 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (2.75%) Entra ID
8 45 (2.63%) SaaS
9 29 (1.69%) Serverless
10 25 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (1.40%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.23%) Google Workspace
12 21 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.23%) PaaS
13 19 (1.11%) AWS KMS
13 19 (1.11%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.11%) OpenShift
14 18 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (1.05%) IaaS
15 17 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 104 (6.07%) Firewall
2 71 (4.15%) DNS
3 67 (3.91%) Network Security
4 51 (2.98%) WAN
5 50 (2.92%) VPN
6 39 (2.28%) LAN
7 28 (1.64%) TCP/IP
8 27 (1.58%) DHCP
9 26 (1.52%) BGP
9 26 (1.52%) SD-WAN
10 23 (1.34%) OSPF
10 23 (1.34%) SSL
11 21 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (0.99%) HTTP
13 16 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 16 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 16 (0.93%) MPLS
14 14 (0.82%) Wireless
15 13 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
15 13 (0.76%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.97%) Power BI
2 48 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (1.64%) Metadata
5 17 (0.99%) NoSQL
5 17 (0.99%) Tableau
6 16 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (0.82%) Oracle Database
9 12 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (0.58%) Big Data
12 9 (0.53%) MySQL
13 8 (0.47%) Pinecone
13 8 (0.47%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
15 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
16 4 (0.23%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 195 (11.39%) JIRA
2 60 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.34%) Git
4 30 (1.75%) Liquibase
5 29 (1.69%) GitLab
6 12 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.47%) MLflow
8 7 (0.41%) JUnit
9 5 (0.29%) Mockito
10 4 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.23%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.12%) git-flow
12 2 (0.12%) Maven
12 2 (0.12%) MSI
12 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
12 2 (0.12%) Selenium
13 1 (0.058%) InstallShield
General
1 771 (45.04%) Social Skills
2 561 (32.77%) Finance
3 322 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (9.81%) Public Sector
5 160 (9.35%) Banking
6 74 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
7 62 (3.62%) Legal
8 59 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
10 51 (2.98%) Manufacturing
11 45 (2.63%) Retail
12 40 (2.34%) Telecoms
13 39 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (2.22%) Local Government
15 34 (1.99%) Financial Institution
16 31 (1.81%) Law
16 31 (1.81%) Marketing
17 21 (1.23%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.99%) Retail Banking
19 15 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 248 (14.49%) Analyst
2 213 (12.44%) Project Manager
3 180 (10.51%) Lead
4 142 (8.29%) Business Analyst
5 140 (8.18%) Change Manager
6 122 (7.13%) Senior
7 99 (5.78%) Consultant
8 61 (3.56%) Programme Manager
9 54 (3.15%) Architect
10 53 (3.10%) Business Manager
11 51 (2.98%) Developer
12 47 (2.75%) Senior Manager
13 45 (2.63%) Administrator
14 41 (2.39%) IT Manager
15 39 (2.28%) Network Engineer
16 38 (2.22%) SAP Manager
17 37 (2.16%) Service Manager
18 36 (2.10%) Business Change Manager
19 30 (1.75%) Delivery Manager
20 29 (1.69%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (3.86%) REST
2 39 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.75%) RESTful
4 29 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
5 28 (1.64%) .NET
6 22 (1.29%) OAuth
7 19 (1.11%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.11%) SAML
8 16 (0.93%) LDAP
9 15 (0.88%) Middleware
10 14 (0.82%) OpenID
11 13 (0.76%) Web Services
12 12 (0.70%) HTML
13 11 (0.64%) CSS
13 11 (0.64%) SOAP
14 10 (0.58%) ISPF
14 10 (0.58%) pytest
15 9 (0.53%) Django
15 9 (0.53%) NumPy
15 9 (0.53%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.72%) Management Information System
2 89 (5.20%) Onboarding
3 78 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.21%) Cloud Native
5 53 (3.10%) CMDB
6 50 (2.92%) Data Centre
7 46 (2.69%) Virtual Team
8 41 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (1.99%) PKI
10 32 (1.87%) PMI
11 30 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 27 (1.58%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
16 20 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
17 17 (0.99%) NHS
18 16 (0.93%) e-Learning
18 16 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 156 (9.11%) Windows
2 83 (4.85%) Linux
3 49 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.39%) Unix
5 33 (1.93%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.41%) VMS
10 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.23%) CentOS
11 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.18%) Android
13 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.058%) Debian
14 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.058%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (32.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 461 (26.93%) Agile
3 410 (23.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 379 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
5 328 (19.16%) ITIL
6 317 (18.52%) Project Management
7 311 (18.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 270 (15.77%) Migration
9 229 (13.38%) DevOps
10 197 (11.51%) Project Delivery
11 166 (9.70%) ITSM
12 162 (9.46%) Service Management
13 159 (9.29%) PRINCE2
14 149 (8.70%) ERP
15 148 (8.64%) Risk Management
16 147 (8.59%) Decision-Making
17 145 (8.47%) Roadmaps
18 143 (8.35%) CI/CD
19 137 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
20 126 (7.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 158 (9.23%) SQL
2 153 (8.94%) Python
3 103 (6.02%) PowerShell
4 43 (2.51%) Bash
5 34 (1.99%) C#
6 28 (1.64%) Java
7 27 (1.58%) Go
8 21 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.17%) PL/SQL
10 15 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.82%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.70%) COBOL
13 11 (0.64%) JCL
14 10 (0.58%) CLIST
14 10 (0.58%) REXX
15 9 (0.53%) Groovy
16 7 (0.41%) Korn
17 5 (0.29%) ABAP
17 5 (0.29%) Perl
18 4 (0.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 322 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 300 (17.52%) Degree
3 226 (13.20%) SC Cleared
4 109 (6.37%) PMI Certification
5 97 (5.67%) PMP
6 63 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (3.68%) Master's Degree
7 48 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 39 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.81%) CISSP
10 28 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
11 26 (1.52%) CISM
11 26 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 24 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (1.29%) APMG
14 18 (1.05%) Azure Certification
14 18 (1.05%) CCNP
15 15 (0.88%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.88%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.90%) QA
2 77 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 74 (4.32%) GDPR
4 71 (4.15%) PMO
5 49 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (2.86%) SLA
6 20 (1.17%) NIST
6 20 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (1.11%) IFRS
8 18 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.88%) IFRS 17
10 13 (0.76%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.58%) Basel III
12 10 (0.58%) GRC
13 8 (0.47%) MiFID
13 8 (0.47%) NCSC
14 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.29%) EMIR
14 5 (0.29%) RMADS
System Software
1 107 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 80 (4.67%) Docker
3 35 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.58%) ACF2
5 10 (0.58%) RACF
5 10 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.53%) Firmware
6 9 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.29%) KVM
8 5 (0.29%) vSphere
8 5 (0.29%) XenApp
8 5 (0.29%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.23%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.18%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.18%) Postfix
10 3 (0.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 94 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 74 (4.32%) Terraform
3 66 (3.86%) Ansible
4 40 (2.34%) Grafana
5 39 (2.28%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (1.69%) SCCM
8 17 (0.99%) Puppet
9 14 (0.82%) Kibana
10 13 (0.76%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.70%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.70%) SCOM
12 10 (0.58%) CA Endevor
13 9 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.53%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
16 5 (0.29%) Functional Safety
16 5 (0.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 300 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 162 (9.46%) SAP
3 152 (8.88%) ServiceNow
4 112 (6.54%) Oracle
5 74 (4.32%) Google
6 68 (3.97%) Cisco
7 62 (3.62%) Salesforce
8 55 (3.21%) VMware
9 49 (2.86%) Splunk
10 35 (2.04%) Citrix
11 33 (1.93%) F5
12 28 (1.64%) Workday
13 25 (1.46%) Juniper
14 19 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 19 (1.11%) CheckPoint
14 19 (1.11%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.11%) Remedy
15 18 (1.05%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.99%) Adobe
16 17 (0.99%) SolarWinds