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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 49 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,795 1,241 1,890
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.10% 4.26% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 4.71% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 794 1,144
10th Percentile £321 £318 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £699 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £474 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -5.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 31 58
10th Percentile £21.65 £27.00 £14.31
25th Percentile £22.66 £33.38 £21.87
Median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £33.80
Median % change year-on-year -27.21% +70.13% -28.17%
75th Percentile £52.72 £71.25 £60.81
90th Percentile £84.65 £87.05 £62.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -27.21% +73.90% -31.11%

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 37,633 26,370 38,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.88% 90.52% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,862 17,096 24,871
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 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,214 936 2,338
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £57.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.35 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.61 £31.76 £31.25
% change year-on-year -6.77% +1.63% -13.19%

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 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 24 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 24 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 1,603 £500 -3.38% 584
UK excluding London -5 976 £487 +2.80% 478
London -13 672 £525 - 188
Work from Home -4 520 £525 +5.00% 224
North of England -15 294 £472 +4.89% 111
Midlands +3 230 £500 -0.25% 95
South East +10 222 £500 - 151
North West +1 196 £424 -1.74% 63
West Midlands -9 154 £508 -1.07% 57
South West +10 116 £525 +0.48% 38
Yorkshire -34 92 £488 -2.50% 34
East Midlands +16 74 £425 +34.07% 37
East of England -15 64 £475 +2.70% 55
Scotland -5 61 £450 +20.00% 22
Wales -1 13 £433 -27.83% 15
North East -24 6 £438 -23.91% 14
Northern Ireland -8 4 £383 -36.25% 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
1 121 (6.74%) Confluence
2 77 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.56%) SAS
5 9 (0.50%) Appian
6 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.28%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.11%) Moodle
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.056%) CICS
10 1 (0.056%) JBoss
10 1 (0.056%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (5.29%) Microsoft Project
2 76 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 38 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (2.06%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.28%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
8 4 (0.22%) Windchill
9 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.056%) InDesign
9 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.056%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 76 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Finacle
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.28%) Primavera
8 5 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.17%) iTrent
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 291 (16.21%) Azure
2 155 (8.64%) AWS
3 109 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
4 93 (5.18%) GCP
4 93 (5.18%) Power Platform
5 75 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 53 (2.95%) SaaS
8 32 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (1.45%) Power Automate
10 25 (1.39%) PaaS
11 23 (1.28%) Serverless
12 21 (1.17%) Google Workspace
13 20 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (1.06%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.06%) IaaS
14 19 (1.06%) OpenShift
15 18 (1.00%) GitHub
16 17 (0.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 113 (6.30%) Firewall
2 72 (4.01%) Network Security
3 62 (3.45%) WAN
4 61 (3.40%) DNS
5 52 (2.90%) LAN
5 52 (2.90%) VPN
6 36 (2.01%) SD-WAN
7 32 (1.78%) BGP
8 30 (1.67%) OSPF
9 26 (1.45%) TCP/IP
9 26 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.34%) SSL
11 23 (1.28%) DHCP
11 23 (1.28%) MPLS
12 19 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 19 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 16 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (0.89%) SAN
14 15 (0.84%) HTTP
14 15 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (4.23%) Power BI
2 50 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.39%) Metadata
5 20 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.11%) Tableau
6 17 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
7 16 (0.89%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (0.56%) MySQL
11 9 (0.50%) Big Data
11 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.45%) Pinecone
12 8 (0.45%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
14 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 220 (12.26%) JIRA
2 52 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 47 (2.62%) Git
4 20 (1.11%) GitLab
4 20 (1.11%) Liquibase
5 12 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.45%) MLflow
7 7 (0.39%) JUnit
8 5 (0.28%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.28%) Mockito
9 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.11%) git-flow
11 2 (0.11%) Hudson
12 1 (0.056%) Cucumber
General
1 760 (42.34%) Social Skills
2 580 (32.31%) Finance
3 336 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 151 (8.41%) Banking
6 77 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
7 67 (3.73%) Legal
8 63 (3.51%) Retail
9 56 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.62%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.17%) Local Government
12 39 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 35 (1.95%) Law
14 34 (1.89%) Marketing
15 33 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (1.62%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.23%) Investment Banking
18 18 (1.00%) Aviation
19 17 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 228 (12.70%) Project Manager
2 214 (11.92%) Analyst
3 191 (10.64%) Lead
4 151 (8.41%) Change Manager
5 129 (7.19%) Business Analyst
6 124 (6.91%) Senior
7 113 (6.30%) Consultant
8 65 (3.62%) Programme Manager
9 60 (3.34%) Business Manager
10 59 (3.29%) Developer
11 56 (3.12%) Administrator
12 52 (2.90%) Architect
13 47 (2.62%) Network Engineer
14 46 (2.56%) Senior Manager
15 41 (2.28%) Business Change Manager
16 38 (2.12%) IT Manager
17 34 (1.89%) SAP Manager
18 32 (1.78%) Delivery Manager
19 31 (1.73%) Service Manager
20 30 (1.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.45%) REST
2 31 (1.73%) .NET
2 31 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
3 30 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (1.23%) RESTful
5 21 (1.17%) .NET Framework
6 19 (1.06%) Middleware
7 18 (1.00%) OAuth
8 15 (0.84%) SAML
8 15 (0.84%) Web Services
9 13 (0.72%) SOAP
10 12 (0.67%) CSS
11 11 (0.61%) HTML
12 10 (0.56%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.56%) ISPF
12 10 (0.56%) OpenID
12 10 (0.56%) pytest
13 9 (0.50%) Django
13 9 (0.50%) NumPy
13 9 (0.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.63%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.90%) CMDB
6 48 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 47 (2.62%) Cloud Native
8 39 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (2.01%) PMI
10 31 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.67%) PKI
12 24 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.28%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.06%) Operational Technology
16 18 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (0.95%) NHS
17 17 (0.95%) Security Posture
18 15 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 173 (9.64%) Windows
2 70 (3.90%) Linux
3 58 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.06%) Unix
5 31 (1.73%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.22%) CentOS
9 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.17%) Android
10 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.11%) VMS
12 1 (0.056%) Debian
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.056%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.056%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (32.20%) Stakeholder Management
2 466 (25.96%) Agile
3 435 (24.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 397 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
5 350 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 344 (19.16%) ITIL
7 328 (18.27%) Project Management
8 284 (15.82%) Migration
9 241 (13.43%) DevOps
10 209 (11.64%) Project Delivery
11 170 (9.47%) Roadmaps
12 168 (9.36%) ITSM
13 164 (9.14%) ERP
14 163 (9.08%) Risk Management
15 162 (9.03%) PRINCE2
16 157 (8.75%) Service Management
17 156 (8.69%) Decision-Making
18 147 (8.19%) Validation
19 144 (8.02%) Workshop Facilitation
20 142 (7.91%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 166 (9.25%) SQL
2 130 (7.24%) Python
3 103 (5.74%) PowerShell
4 45 (2.51%) C#
5 42 (2.34%) Bash
6 28 (1.56%) Java
6 28 (1.56%) PL/SQL
7 21 (1.17%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.11%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.84%) Go
10 14 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.67%) COBOL
12 11 (0.61%) JCL
13 10 (0.56%) CLIST
13 10 (0.56%) REXX
14 8 (0.45%) Korn
15 7 (0.39%) Groovy
16 5 (0.28%) ABAP
16 5 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 360 (20.06%) Security Cleared
2 279 (15.54%) Degree
3 251 (13.98%) SC Cleared
4 117 (6.52%) PMI Certification
5 108 (6.02%) PMP
6 53 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.67%) CISSP
7 48 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 45 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (2.17%) CISM
10 38 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (1.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 28 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (1.50%) CCNP
14 25 (1.39%) APMG
15 21 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
16 19 (1.06%) Azure Certification
17 15 (0.84%) MBA
18 13 (0.72%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.68%) QA
2 88 (4.90%) GDPR
3 85 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 85 (4.74%) PMO
4 63 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 58 (3.23%) SLA
6 36 (2.01%) NIST
7 25 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.95%) IFRS
10 15 (0.84%) IFRS 17
11 12 (0.67%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.56%) Basel III
13 9 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.45%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.45%) GRC
14 8 (0.45%) MiFID
15 7 (0.39%) NCSC
16 5 (0.28%) COBIT
16 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 114 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.62%) Docker
3 42 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.56%) ACF2
6 10 (0.56%) RACF
6 10 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
6 10 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.50%) Firmware
7 9 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) KVM
9 5 (0.28%) vSphere
9 5 (0.28%) XenApp
9 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.17%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 87 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.73%) Terraform
3 58 (3.23%) Ansible
4 37 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.62%) Grafana
5 29 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.28%) SCCM
7 14 (0.78%) FortiGate
7 14 (0.78%) vCenter Server
8 12 (0.67%) Puppet
9 10 (0.56%) CA Endevor
9 10 (0.56%) Kibana
9 10 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
10 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 8 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.45%) SCOM
12 6 (0.33%) CASB
12 6 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
13 5 (0.28%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 304 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 169 (9.42%) SAP
3 165 (9.19%) ServiceNow
4 128 (7.13%) Oracle
5 70 (3.90%) Google
6 69 (3.84%) Cisco
7 68 (3.79%) Salesforce
8 63 (3.51%) VMware
9 35 (1.95%) Citrix
9 35 (1.95%) Workday
10 33 (1.84%) F5
11 31 (1.73%) Splunk
12 23 (1.28%) Juniper
12 23 (1.28%) Palo Alto
13 22 (1.23%) Atlassian
14 21 (1.17%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.06%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.00%) Remedy
17 17 (0.95%) SolarWinds
18 16 (0.89%) Ariba