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

 6 months to
4 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,828 1,240 1,872
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.05% 4.24% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 4.69% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 792 1,114
10th Percentile £325 £317 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -3.24%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £695 £699 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +5.59% -6.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 38 56
10th Percentile £21.65 £28.12 £14.22
25th Percentile £22.66 £47.19 £26.06
Median hourly rate £41.86 £57.12 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.73% +53.64% -22.54%
75th Percentile £52.72 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £84.65 £82.12 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £60.00 £35.12
% change year-on-year -30.24% +70.83% -26.83%

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 38,631 26,466 38,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.54% 90.55% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,504 17,183 24,720
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 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,266 983 2,350
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.96 £31.52 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -4.48% -11.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £70.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.55 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.50% -7.69% -12.87%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -1 1,637 £500 - 586
UK excluding London -2 968 £496 +5.59% 483
London -5 705 £513 -2.38% 182
Work from Home -3 536 £525 +5.00% 230
North of England -13 295 £474 +5.22% 112
Midlands -3 236 £500 - 102
South East +13 215 £500 - 147
North West +2 195 £425 +1.49% 61
West Midlands -10 160 £513 +2.45% 58
South West +3 107 £525 +2.94% 39
Yorkshire -35 92 £487 -2.60% 35
East Midlands +16 74 £425 +20.06% 42
East of England -17 66 £475 -2.51% 52
Scotland -1 61 £458 +22.00% 21
Wales -9 11 £550 +8.64% 17
North East -17 8 £440 -23.48% 16
Northern Ireland -7 5 £450 -20.00% 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
1 120 (6.56%) Confluence
2 74 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.71%) SAS
5 9 (0.49%) Appian
6 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.27%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.22%) CMS
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.11%) Moodle
10 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.055%) CICS
10 1 (0.055%) JBoss
10 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 90 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
2 77 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.86%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.27%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) Windchill
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.055%) InDesign
10 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 74 (4.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.38%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.33%) Finacle
8 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.33%) Primavera
8 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.27%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.16%) iTrent
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 291 (15.92%) Azure
2 149 (8.15%) AWS
3 110 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
4 96 (5.25%) Power Platform
5 85 (4.65%) GCP
6 74 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (3.45%) Entra ID
8 61 (3.34%) SaaS
9 36 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (1.59%) PaaS
11 28 (1.53%) Power Automate
12 23 (1.26%) Google Workspace
12 23 (1.26%) Serverless
13 21 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (1.15%) OCI
14 20 (1.09%) OpenShift
15 19 (1.04%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.04%) IaaS
15 19 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.93%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 118 (6.46%) Firewall
2 71 (3.88%) Network Security
3 61 (3.34%) DNS
3 61 (3.34%) WAN
4 52 (2.84%) LAN
4 52 (2.84%) VPN
5 36 (1.97%) SD-WAN
6 32 (1.75%) BGP
7 30 (1.64%) OSPF
8 29 (1.59%) SSL
9 26 (1.42%) TCP/IP
9 26 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (1.37%) DHCP
11 23 (1.26%) MPLS
12 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 18 (0.98%) SAN
14 17 (0.93%) Wireless
15 16 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.21%) Power BI
2 53 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.59%) Metadata
3 29 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.20%) Tableau
5 21 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.09%) Oracle Database
7 18 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.60%) MySQL
10 10 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
12 8 (0.44%) Big Data
12 8 (0.44%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
12 8 (0.44%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
13 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 225 (12.31%) JIRA
2 46 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 45 (2.46%) Git
4 19 (1.04%) Liquibase
5 18 (0.98%) GitLab
6 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.44%) MLflow
8 7 (0.38%) JUnit
9 5 (0.27%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.27%) Mockito
10 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.22%) Hudson
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
11 3 (0.16%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.16%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 756 (41.36%) Social Skills
2 600 (32.82%) Finance
3 341 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 153 (8.37%) Banking
6 75 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (3.83%) Legal
8 68 (3.72%) Retail
9 58 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 42 (2.30%) Marketing
13 39 (2.13%) Local Government
14 37 (2.02%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.91%) Law
16 32 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.53%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.31%) Investment Banking
19 19 (1.04%) Aviation
20 17 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 224 (12.25%) Project Manager
2 208 (11.38%) Analyst
3 198 (10.83%) Lead
4 153 (8.37%) Change Manager
5 130 (7.11%) Business Analyst
6 128 (7.00%) Senior
7 113 (6.18%) Consultant
8 65 (3.56%) Administrator
9 62 (3.39%) Programme Manager
10 61 (3.34%) Developer
11 58 (3.17%) Business Manager
12 52 (2.84%) Architect
13 51 (2.79%) Network Engineer
14 49 (2.68%) Senior Manager
15 43 (2.35%) Business Change Manager
16 39 (2.13%) IT Manager
17 34 (1.86%) Delivery Manager
17 34 (1.86%) SAP Manager
17 34 (1.86%) Service Manager
18 31 (1.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (3.45%) REST
2 33 (1.81%) .NET
3 30 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 26 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (1.20%) .NET Framework
6 21 (1.15%) Middleware
6 21 (1.15%) OAuth
6 21 (1.15%) RESTful
7 18 (0.98%) SAML
8 15 (0.82%) Web Services
9 14 (0.77%) OpenID
10 13 (0.71%) LDAP
11 11 (0.60%) SOAP
12 10 (0.55%) CSS
12 10 (0.55%) ISPF
12 10 (0.55%) OAuth2
12 10 (0.55%) pytest
13 9 (0.49%) Django
13 9 (0.49%) NumPy
13 9 (0.49%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.20%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.79%) Virtual Team
6 48 (2.63%) CMDB
7 46 (2.52%) Cloud Native
8 40 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.19%) PMI
9 30 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 30 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 30 (1.64%) PKI
10 24 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 19 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (0.98%) Operational Technology
14 17 (0.93%) NHS
14 17 (0.93%) Security Posture
15 16 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 175 (9.57%) Windows
2 76 (4.16%) Linux
3 64 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.91%) Unix
5 31 (1.70%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.22%) CentOS
10 4 (0.22%) VMS
10 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.16%) Android
11 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.055%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.055%) Debian
12 1 (0.055%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.055%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.055%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (31.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 467 (25.55%) Agile
3 444 (24.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 394 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
5 353 (19.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 351 (19.20%) ITIL
7 332 (18.16%) Project Management
8 297 (16.25%) Migration
9 252 (13.79%) DevOps
10 216 (11.82%) Project Delivery
11 181 (9.90%) ERP
12 176 (9.63%) Roadmaps
13 170 (9.30%) ITSM
14 168 (9.19%) Decision-Making
15 165 (9.03%) Risk Management
16 160 (8.75%) Service Management
17 158 (8.64%) PRINCE2
18 150 (8.21%) Validation
19 146 (7.99%) CI/CD
19 146 (7.99%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 175 (9.57%) SQL
2 126 (6.89%) Python
3 100 (5.47%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.52%) C#
5 42 (2.30%) Bash
6 35 (1.91%) PL/SQL
7 32 (1.75%) Java
8 23 (1.26%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.04%) JavaScript
10 13 (0.71%) Go
10 13 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.66%) COBOL
12 11 (0.60%) JCL
13 10 (0.55%) CLIST
13 10 (0.55%) Groovy
13 10 (0.55%) REXX
14 9 (0.49%) Korn
15 6 (0.33%) Perl
16 5 (0.27%) ABAP
16 5 (0.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 360 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 270 (14.77%) Degree
3 254 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 120 (6.56%) PMI Certification
5 114 (6.24%) PMP
6 54 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 49 (2.68%) CISSP
8 46 (2.52%) Master's Degree
9 45 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 41 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (2.13%) CISM
11 39 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (1.64%) CCNP
14 29 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 27 (1.48%) APMG
16 19 (1.04%) Azure Certification
17 18 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.93%) CIMA
19 16 (0.88%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.69%) QA
2 93 (5.09%) GDPR
3 88 (4.81%) PMO
4 84 (4.60%) Data Quality
5 65 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (3.39%) SLA
7 41 (2.24%) NIST
8 24 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.93%) IFRS
9 17 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.88%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.82%) IFRS 17
12 10 (0.55%) Basel III
13 9 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.38%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.38%) GRC
14 7 (0.38%) NCSC
15 6 (0.33%) COBIT
15 6 (0.33%) MiFID
16 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 120 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 64 (3.50%) Docker
3 45 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.55%) ACF2
7 10 (0.55%) RACF
7 10 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.44%) Firmware
8 8 (0.44%) vSphere
9 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.27%) KVM
10 5 (0.27%) XenApp
10 5 (0.27%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 88 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 66 (3.61%) Terraform
3 62 (3.39%) Ansible
4 37 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.42%) Grafana
5 26 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.20%) SCCM
7 17 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.93%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.77%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (0.60%) Puppet
10 10 (0.55%) CA Endevor
11 9 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (0.49%) Kibana
11 9 (0.49%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.44%) SCOM
13 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 301 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 174 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 168 (9.19%) SAP
4 146 (7.99%) Oracle
5 74 (4.05%) Salesforce
6 71 (3.88%) Cisco
7 67 (3.67%) VMware
8 63 (3.45%) Google
9 36 (1.97%) Citrix
9 36 (1.97%) Workday
10 33 (1.81%) F5
11 31 (1.70%) Splunk
12 23 (1.26%) Atlassian
12 23 (1.26%) Juniper
12 23 (1.26%) Palo Alto
13 21 (1.15%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.09%) CheckPoint
15 19 (1.04%) Remedy
16 17 (0.93%) IFS
16 17 (0.93%) SolarWinds
675 Change Management jobs Nationwide