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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,775 1,261 1,816
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 4.35% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.78% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,090 787 1,070
10th Percentile £333 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.82% -5.42%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 50 65
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £14.18
25th Percentile £22.63 £50.00 £29.91
Median hourly rate £34.87 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.43% +8.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £60.75 £69.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £73.10 £69.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.09 £58.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -52.19% +22.40% -0.55%

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 39,805 26,361 36,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.96% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,996 16,941 23,723
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.71% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,368 1,073 2,431
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.41 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.90 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.78 £38.00
% change year-on-year +74.59% -32.17% +8.57%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 1,552 £500 - 567
UK excluding London -11 930 £500 +5.26% 395
London -5 673 £501 -8.58% 219
Work from Home -4 528 £525 +5.00% 223
North of England -13 280 £475 +5.56% 101
Midlands -4 213 £506 +1.20% 64
South East 0 204 £525 +7.58% 123
North West 0 167 £451 +0.11% 50
West Midlands -14 141 £515 +2.90% 34
Yorkshire -30 105 £487 +5.35% 44
South West -13 94 £500 -3.85% 41
Scotland +10 74 £475 +16.56% 17
East of England -12 73 £475 -2.51% 40
East Midlands +20 70 £463 +27.41% 29
Wales -11 10 £575 +53.33% 11
North East -16 8 £433 -24.78% 7
Northern Ireland -5 7 £475 -13.64% 7

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
1 106 (5.97%) Confluence
2 76 (4.28%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.79%) SAS
5 12 (0.68%) IIS
6 9 (0.51%) Appian
7 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.23%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.17%) CMS
11 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.056%) JBoss
12 1 (0.056%) Moodle
12 1 (0.056%) MS Project Server
12 1 (0.056%) MTS
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 75 (4.23%) Microsoft Project
2 68 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (1.46%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.23%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.23%) Trello
9 2 (0.11%) Windchill
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.056%) InDesign
10 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.056%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 75 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.34%) Finacle
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.34%) Primavera
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.23%) Maximo
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 272 (15.32%) Azure
2 137 (7.72%) AWS
3 106 (5.97%) Power Platform
4 105 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (3.83%) GCP
6 66 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (3.72%) SaaS
7 64 (3.61%) Entra ID
8 38 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
9 33 (1.86%) Google Workspace
10 31 (1.75%) Power Automate
11 24 (1.35%) OpenShift
12 23 (1.30%) PaaS
13 22 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.13%) GitHub
14 20 (1.13%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.07%) OCI
16 16 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (0.90%) PowerApps
17 15 (0.85%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 103 (5.80%) Firewall
2 63 (3.55%) DNS
3 62 (3.49%) Network Security
4 55 (3.10%) WAN
5 52 (2.93%) VPN
6 45 (2.54%) LAN
7 33 (1.86%) SD-WAN
8 30 (1.69%) BGP
9 28 (1.58%) OSPF
9 28 (1.58%) SSL
10 27 (1.52%) TCP/IP
11 26 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (1.41%) DHCP
13 24 (1.35%) MPLS
14 20 (1.13%) SAN
15 18 (1.01%) Wireless
16 17 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
16 17 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 17 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 15 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (4.96%) Power BI
2 60 (3.38%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.46%) Metadata
4 25 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (1.41%) Tableau
5 20 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
5 20 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.90%) Relational Database
7 15 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.56%) MySQL
11 9 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.45%) Pinecone
13 7 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
14 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
15 5 (0.28%) Big Data
15 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 5 (0.28%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 220 (12.39%) JIRA
2 58 (3.27%) Git
3 47 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.62%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.56%) GitLab
6 9 (0.51%) MLflow
7 7 (0.39%) InstallShield
8 6 (0.34%) AdminStudio
9 5 (0.28%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.23%) Hudson
10 4 (0.23%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.23%) Maven
10 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.17%) Snyk
11 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.11%) git-flow
13 1 (0.056%) Postman
General
1 689 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 593 (33.41%) Finance
3 295 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 142 (8.00%) Banking
6 80 (4.51%) Legal
7 71 (4.00%) Retail
8 60 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (2.54%) Marketing
12 37 (2.08%) Manufacturing
13 35 (1.97%) Law
13 35 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.75%) Local Government
14 31 (1.75%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.30%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.18%) Aviation
17 20 (1.13%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 208 (11.72%) Project Manager
2 185 (10.42%) Lead
3 179 (10.08%) Analyst
4 141 (7.94%) Change Manager
5 134 (7.55%) Senior
6 116 (6.54%) Business Analyst
7 109 (6.14%) Consultant
8 70 (3.94%) Administrator
9 67 (3.77%) Programme Manager
10 60 (3.38%) Developer
11 52 (2.93%) Senior Manager
12 49 (2.76%) Architect
12 49 (2.76%) Business Manager
13 48 (2.70%) Network Engineer
14 44 (2.48%) IT Manager
15 40 (2.25%) Delivery Manager
16 39 (2.20%) Business Change Manager
17 33 (1.86%) Support Engineer
18 32 (1.80%) SAP Manager
19 31 (1.75%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.82%) REST
2 31 (1.75%) .NET
3 27 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.24%) Middleware
4 22 (1.24%) OAuth
5 19 (1.07%) .NET Framework
5 19 (1.07%) CSS
6 17 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (0.90%) HTML
8 15 (0.85%) Web Services
9 14 (0.79%) LDAP
10 11 (0.62%) React
10 11 (0.62%) SOAP
11 10 (0.56%) Pandas
11 10 (0.56%) pytest
11 10 (0.56%) RESTful
12 9 (0.51%) Django
12 9 (0.51%) NumPy
12 9 (0.51%) SAML
12 9 (0.51%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 88 (4.96%) Management Information System
2 82 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 73 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 67 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.37%) CMDB
7 40 (2.25%) PMI
8 39 (2.20%) Cloud Native
9 38 (2.14%) Virtual Team
10 31 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.35%) PKI
13 19 (1.07%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.01%) Operational Technology
14 18 (1.01%) Security Posture
15 17 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
16 16 (0.90%) Low-Code
17 14 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 170 (9.58%) Windows
2 84 (4.73%) Linux
3 63 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.65%) Unix
5 25 (1.41%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.51%) Solaris
7 9 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.28%) SUSE
9 5 (0.28%) VMS
10 4 (0.23%) AIX
10 4 (0.23%) HPUX
10 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (31.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 419 (23.61%) Agile
3 418 (23.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 352 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
5 349 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 322 (18.14%) ITIL
7 313 (17.63%) Project Management
8 297 (16.73%) Migration
9 223 (12.56%) DevOps
10 203 (11.44%) Project Delivery
11 193 (10.87%) ERP
12 191 (10.76%) Roadmaps
13 184 (10.37%) Decision-Making
14 169 (9.52%) Validation
15 165 (9.30%) ITSM
16 163 (9.18%) Risk Management
17 149 (8.39%) CI/CD
18 138 (7.77%) Workshop Facilitation
19 137 (7.72%) Service Management
20 136 (7.66%) AI
Programming Languages
1 163 (9.18%) SQL
2 115 (6.48%) Python
3 87 (4.90%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.59%) Bash
5 44 (2.48%) C#
6 39 (2.20%) PL/SQL
7 32 (1.80%) Java
8 28 (1.58%) JavaScript
9 23 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.51%) Groovy
10 9 (0.51%) Korn
10 9 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 8 (0.45%) COBOL
12 7 (0.39%) JCL
13 6 (0.34%) REXX
14 5 (0.28%) Go
15 4 (0.23%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.23%) Bicep
15 4 (0.23%) C++
15 4 (0.23%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 364 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 261 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 232 (13.07%) Degree
4 115 (6.48%) PMP
5 112 (6.31%) PMI Certification
6 51 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.82%) CISSP
8 45 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (2.14%) CISM
10 38 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 34 (1.92%) CCNP
12 28 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
14 24 (1.35%) APMG
15 21 (1.18%) CIMA
16 20 (1.13%) ACCA
17 19 (1.07%) Azure Certification
18 17 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 14 (0.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (6.03%) QA
2 93 (5.24%) GDPR
3 88 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 88 (4.96%) PMO
4 68 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 64 (3.61%) SLA
6 44 (2.48%) NIST
7 28 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 19 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.96%) IFRS
11 15 (0.85%) IFRS 17
12 12 (0.68%) GRC
13 9 (0.51%) Basel III
14 8 (0.45%) ITGC
15 7 (0.39%) COBIT
15 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.34%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 124 (6.99%) Active Directory
2 57 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (2.87%) Docker
4 24 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.85%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.56%) vSphere
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.34%) Firmware
10 6 (0.34%) KVM
11 4 (0.23%) ACF2
11 4 (0.23%) RACF
11 4 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
11 4 (0.23%) XenApp
11 4 (0.23%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.17%) NFS
12 3 (0.17%) vCloud
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 81 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 70 (3.94%) Ansible
3 69 (3.89%) Terraform
4 33 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.46%) Grafana
5 26 (1.46%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.30%) SCCM
7 20 (1.13%) vCenter Server
8 19 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 12 (0.68%) SCOM
10 10 (0.56%) Puppet
11 9 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
12 8 (0.45%) Kibana
13 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.34%) CA Endevor
14 6 (0.34%) CASB
15 5 (0.28%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 274 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 178 (10.03%) ServiceNow
3 172 (9.69%) SAP
4 161 (9.07%) Oracle
5 78 (4.39%) VMware
6 69 (3.89%) Salesforce
7 68 (3.83%) Cisco
8 63 (3.55%) Google
9 32 (1.80%) Splunk
10 31 (1.75%) Citrix
10 31 (1.75%) F5
11 28 (1.58%) IFS
12 27 (1.52%) Workday
13 25 (1.41%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.30%) Juniper
15 22 (1.24%) CheckPoint
16 19 (1.07%) Dynatrace
16 19 (1.07%) Fortinet
17 18 (1.01%) IBM
17 18 (1.01%) Remedy