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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 49 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,990 1,455 1,731
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 4.44% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.91% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 868 1,007
10th Percentile £363 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -0.50% -8.64%
75th Percentile £625 £614 £606
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £466 £493
% change year-on-year +9.98% -5.48% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 78 64
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.96 £18.15
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £30.18
Median hourly rate £41.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% -7.50% +3.59%
75th Percentile £77.75 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £90.40 £70.00 £68.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.61 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.71% -40.00% +9.12%

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 45,064 29,610 35,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.35% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,992 18,619 23,013
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.54%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,660 1,563 2,287
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.40 £16.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -9.24%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.14 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £70.00 £73.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.92% -36.16% -6.05%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -2 1,747 £525 +5.00% 496
UK excluding London -14 1,004 £513 +9.98% 352
London +1 805 £536 -2.55% 216
Work from Home -1 621 £525 +5.00% 196
North of England -20 305 £495 +10.00% 97
South East +5 263 £575 +24.32% 121
North West -11 175 £474 +5.22% 58
Midlands -11 169 £515 +8.42% 46
West Midlands -32 123 £525 +10.53% 31
Yorkshire -24 113 £500 +9.59% 31
South West -23 92 £525 +7.14% 55
Scotland -3 89 £475 +5.56% 9
East of England +3 80 £475 -6.86% 22
East Midlands +14 44 £488 +35.79% 15
North East -21 17 £425 -15.00% 9
Wales -13 10 £600 +60.00% 5
Northern Ireland -9 8 £750 +42.86% 3

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
1 104 (5.23%) Confluence
2 99 (4.97%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.06%) IIS
5 13 (0.65%) SAS
6 10 (0.50%) Appian
6 10 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.40%) CMS
8 6 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.25%) Camunda
10 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) CICS
11 3 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.050%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 67 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.10%) Houdini
8 2 (0.10%) NUKE
9 1 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.050%) InDesign
9 1 (0.050%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.050%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 80 (4.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.65%) Primavera
4 12 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.50%) Maximo
5 10 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.35%) SAP PM
8 6 (0.30%) OpenText MBPM
8 6 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.25%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.25%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.25%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 299 (15.03%) Azure
2 150 (7.54%) AWS
3 127 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 113 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
5 97 (4.87%) Entra ID
6 77 (3.87%) SaaS
7 74 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (3.22%) GCP
9 42 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
10 33 (1.66%) GitHub
11 30 (1.51%) Google Workspace
11 30 (1.51%) OCI
12 29 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
13 25 (1.26%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 23 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 22 (1.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 21 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
18 20 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 133 (6.68%) Firewall
2 98 (4.92%) Network Security
3 61 (3.07%) DNS
4 57 (2.86%) WAN
5 53 (2.66%) VPN
6 42 (2.11%) LAN
7 37 (1.86%) BGP
8 34 (1.71%) OSPF
9 33 (1.66%) Wireless
10 32 (1.61%) TCP/IP
11 28 (1.41%) MPLS
12 26 (1.31%) SD-WAN
13 25 (1.26%) SSL
13 25 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
14 23 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
15 22 (1.11%) DHCP
16 20 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
17 18 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
17 18 (0.90%) HTTP
18 16 (0.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (5.18%) Power BI
2 61 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.76%) Metadata
4 30 (1.51%) Oracle Database
5 25 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
6 22 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 19 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (0.95%) Tableau
8 13 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.50%) MySQL
10 8 (0.40%) Oracle BI EE
11 7 (0.35%) Db2
12 6 (0.30%) GIS
12 6 (0.30%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database 11g
13 5 (0.25%) Big Data
13 5 (0.25%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 237 (11.91%) JIRA
2 75 (3.77%) Git
3 58 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.55%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.45%) GitLab
6 7 (0.35%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.35%) InstallShield
7 5 (0.25%) MLflow
7 5 (0.25%) Selenium
7 5 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.20%) Hudson
8 4 (0.20%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.20%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.20%) Maven
8 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.20%) Snyk
9 3 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
General
1 739 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 712 (35.78%) Finance
3 315 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 170 (8.54%) Banking
6 97 (4.87%) Legal
7 88 (4.42%) Retail
8 81 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
9 80 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
10 64 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
11 57 (2.86%) Manufacturing
12 54 (2.71%) Marketing
13 52 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (2.41%) Telecoms
15 40 (2.01%) Law
16 37 (1.86%) Local Government
17 30 (1.51%) Aviation
18 26 (1.31%) Financial Institution
19 20 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 20 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 235 (11.81%) Project Manager
2 215 (10.80%) Lead
3 206 (10.35%) Analyst
4 148 (7.44%) Senior
5 147 (7.39%) Change Manager
6 126 (6.33%) Consultant
7 117 (5.88%) Business Analyst
8 70 (3.52%) Administrator
9 69 (3.47%) Network Engineer
10 65 (3.27%) Programme Manager
11 61 (3.07%) Senior Manager
12 60 (3.02%) Developer
13 51 (2.56%) IT Manager
14 50 (2.51%) Business Manager
15 48 (2.41%) Delivery Manager
16 45 (2.26%) Service Manager
17 44 (2.21%) Support Engineer
18 41 (2.06%) Architect
19 39 (1.96%) Business Change Manager
20 37 (1.86%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.22%) REST
2 37 (1.86%) .NET
3 36 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.21%) CSS
4 24 (1.21%) HTML
5 21 (1.06%) Middleware
6 18 (0.90%) .NET Framework
6 18 (0.90%) OAuth
7 17 (0.85%) Web Services
8 15 (0.75%) Ajax
8 15 (0.75%) SOAP
9 14 (0.70%) LDAP
9 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
10 13 (0.65%) RESTful
11 12 (0.60%) Spring
12 11 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (0.55%) JSON
13 10 (0.50%) 802.1X
13 10 (0.50%) AngularJS
13 10 (0.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 95 (4.77%) Management Information System
2 92 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 76 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 57 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 50 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 35 (1.76%) PMI
9 34 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (1.66%) Operational Technology
11 32 (1.61%) CMDB
12 28 (1.41%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
14 26 (1.31%) Security Posture
15 24 (1.21%) PKI
16 23 (1.16%) AI Agents
16 23 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
17 22 (1.11%) Public Cloud
18 18 (0.90%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 198 (9.95%) Windows
2 109 (5.48%) Linux
3 74 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.26%) Unix
5 44 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.60%) Solaris
8 10 (0.50%) VMS
9 8 (0.40%) AIX
9 8 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.35%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.30%) SUSE
11 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.25%) Android
12 5 (0.25%) HPUX
13 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 673 (33.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 507 (25.48%) Agile
3 473 (23.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 435 (21.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 363 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
6 360 (18.09%) ITIL
7 342 (17.19%) Project Management
8 312 (15.68%) Migration
9 292 (14.67%) Project Delivery
10 257 (12.91%) DevOps
11 237 (11.91%) Decision-Making
12 228 (11.46%) Roadmaps
13 211 (10.60%) ERP
14 209 (10.50%) AI
15 204 (10.25%) Service Management
16 198 (9.95%) ITSM
17 180 (9.05%) Risk Management
18 170 (8.54%) CI/CD
19 163 (8.19%) PRINCE2
20 158 (7.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 165 (8.29%) SQL
2 150 (7.54%) Python
3 119 (5.98%) PowerShell
4 56 (2.81%) Bash
5 51 (2.56%) Java
6 49 (2.46%) C#
7 47 (2.36%) PL/SQL
8 43 (2.16%) JavaScript
9 24 (1.21%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.60%) Bicep
11 11 (0.55%) Korn
12 10 (0.50%) Groovy
13 9 (0.45%) Go
14 8 (0.40%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.30%) ABAP
15 6 (0.30%) COBOL
16 5 (0.25%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.25%) Perl
17 4 (0.20%) JCL
17 4 (0.20%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 394 (19.80%) Security Cleared
2 289 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 227 (11.41%) Degree
4 149 (7.49%) PMP
5 139 (6.98%) PMI Certification
6 66 (3.32%) DV Cleared
7 59 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
7 59 (2.96%) CISSP
8 43 (2.16%) CCNP
9 37 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (1.81%) CISM
11 31 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (1.41%) Azure Certification
13 25 (1.26%) Master's Degree
14 24 (1.21%) CIMA
15 23 (1.16%) ACCA
16 21 (1.06%) APMG
17 20 (1.01%) CCNA
17 20 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
17 20 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (5.53%) QA
2 98 (4.92%) PMO
3 92 (4.62%) SLA
4 89 (4.47%) GDPR
5 86 (4.32%) Data Quality
6 69 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (2.31%) NIST
8 28 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 25 (1.26%) GRC
10 23 (1.16%) SOC 2
11 21 (1.06%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.55%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.45%) ITGC
14 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.35%) COBIT
14 7 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
14 7 (0.35%) EMIR
15 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.30%) IFRS
System Software
1 135 (6.78%) Active Directory
2 76 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (2.31%) Docker
4 26 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.90%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.65%) vSphere
9 9 (0.45%) vCloud
10 7 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.20%) KVM
12 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.10%) Ceph
13 2 (0.10%) Firmware
14 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.050%) NFS
14 1 (0.050%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.050%) Squid
14 1 (0.050%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 100 (5.03%) Terraform
2 76 (3.82%) Ansible
3 71 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 33 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (1.56%) vCenter Server
6 24 (1.21%) Grafana
7 23 (1.16%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.11%) SCOM
9 20 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.75%) SCCM
11 14 (0.70%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.55%) Avamar
13 10 (0.50%) Data Guard
13 10 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.40%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.35%) Argo
15 7 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
15 7 (0.35%) PowerCLI
15 7 (0.35%) vRealize
15 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 332 (16.68%) Microsoft
2 214 (10.75%) ServiceNow
3 195 (9.80%) Oracle
4 172 (8.64%) SAP
5 96 (4.82%) VMware
6 87 (4.37%) Cisco
7 75 (3.77%) Salesforce
8 55 (2.76%) Google
9 36 (1.81%) IBM
10 34 (1.71%) Citrix
10 34 (1.71%) F5
10 34 (1.71%) Splunk
11 30 (1.51%) CheckPoint
12 29 (1.46%) Red Hat
13 28 (1.41%) Juniper
13 28 (1.41%) Palo Alto
14 25 (1.26%) IFS
15 23 (1.16%) Workday
16 22 (1.11%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.11%) Zscaler