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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 49 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +11
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,734 1,313 1,928
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.17% 4.29% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 4.77% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 757 1,161
10th Percentile £313 £325 £355
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -4.90% -2.58% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 32 58
10th Percentile £20.79 £28.60 £15.97
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% -19.17%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.63 £59.38
90th Percentile £86.63 £86.35 £62.75
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 36,013 27,550 38,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.71% 89.93% 86.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,879 17,122 25,100
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £411 £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 £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.58% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 871 2,197
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.03 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.71% -5.53%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £72.96 £75.00 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.51% -9.60% -

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 1,535 £500 -4.76% 356
UK excluding London +3 954 £476 -4.90% 306
London -16 634 £525 - 104
Work from Home -6 490 £503 -1.85% 138
North of England -8 297 £475 -6.59% 81
Midlands +15 252 £500 -0.20% 58
South East +6 194 £500 -2.44% 86
North West +6 185 £414 -12.38% 51
West Midlands +5 173 £500 -2.63% 44
South West +10 114 £525 -1.41% 28
Yorkshire -20 108 £487 -11.45% 22
East Midlands +24 79 £435 +11.25% 14
Scotland +10 68 £450 +12.85% 21
East of England -38 43 £488 +0.05% 39
Wales +6 14 £424 -30.82% 4
Northern Ireland -7 5 £450 -25.00% 2
North East -26 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
1 123 (7.09%) Confluence
2 76 (4.38%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.58%) SAS
5 9 (0.52%) Appian
6 5 (0.29%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 4 (0.23%) IIS
7 4 (0.23%) Mattermost
8 3 (0.17%) Moodle
8 3 (0.17%) nginx
8 3 (0.17%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.058%) Traefik
Applications
1 97 (5.59%) Microsoft Project
2 79 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 40 (2.31%) MS Visio
5 35 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.29%) Trello
7 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) 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 76 (4.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 11 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
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 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 (0.17%) iTrent
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 267 (15.40%) Azure
2 162 (9.34%) AWS
3 111 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
4 109 (6.29%) GCP
5 85 (4.90%) Power Platform
6 59 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (3.11%) Entra ID
8 50 (2.88%) SaaS
9 30 (1.73%) Serverless
10 25 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (1.38%) Power Automate
12 22 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.21%) Google Workspace
13 21 (1.21%) PaaS
14 19 (1.10%) AWS KMS
14 19 (1.10%) GitHub
14 19 (1.10%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.10%) OpenShift
15 18 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (1.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.11%) Firewall
2 72 (4.15%) DNS
3 65 (3.75%) Network Security
4 50 (2.88%) VPN
4 50 (2.88%) WAN
5 38 (2.19%) LAN
6 28 (1.61%) DHCP
6 28 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 26 (1.50%) SD-WAN
8 25 (1.44%) BGP
9 23 (1.33%) SSL
10 22 (1.27%) OSPF
11 21 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (0.98%) HTTP
13 16 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 16 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 16 (0.92%) MPLS
14 15 (0.87%) Wireless
15 13 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
15 13 (0.75%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.04%) Power BI
2 48 (2.77%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (1.61%) Metadata
5 18 (1.04%) Tableau
6 17 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 16 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (0.81%) Oracle Database
10 13 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (0.58%) Big Data
12 9 (0.52%) MySQL
13 8 (0.46%) Pinecone
13 8 (0.46%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
15 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
16 4 (0.23%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 205 (11.82%) JIRA
2 63 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 43 (2.48%) Git
4 30 (1.73%) Liquibase
5 29 (1.67%) GitLab
6 12 (0.69%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.46%) MLflow
8 7 (0.40%) JUnit
9 5 (0.29%) Mockito
10 4 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.23%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.12%) git-flow
12 2 (0.12%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.12%) Maven
12 2 (0.12%) MSI
12 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
12 2 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 772 (44.52%) Social Skills
2 563 (32.47%) Finance
3 320 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 160 (9.23%) Banking
6 75 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
7 64 (3.69%) Legal
8 59 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
9 54 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (2.83%) Manufacturing
11 48 (2.77%) Retail
12 40 (2.31%) Telecoms
13 39 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (2.19%) Local Government
15 34 (1.96%) Financial Institution
16 33 (1.90%) Marketing
17 32 (1.85%) Law
18 21 (1.21%) Investment Banking
19 17 (0.98%) Retail Banking
20 16 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 243 (14.01%) Analyst
2 217 (12.51%) Project Manager
3 183 (10.55%) Lead
4 141 (8.13%) Change Manager
5 139 (8.02%) Business Analyst
6 126 (7.27%) Senior
7 104 (6.00%) Consultant
8 63 (3.63%) Programme Manager
9 56 (3.23%) Developer
10 54 (3.11%) Business Manager
11 53 (3.06%) Architect
12 47 (2.71%) Senior Manager
13 46 (2.65%) Administrator
14 40 (2.31%) IT Manager
14 40 (2.31%) Network Engineer
15 37 (2.13%) Business Change Manager
15 37 (2.13%) SAP Manager
15 37 (2.13%) Service Manager
16 30 (1.73%) Delivery Manager
17 29 (1.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (3.86%) REST
2 39 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.73%) RESTful
4 29 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 27 (1.56%) .NET
6 22 (1.27%) OAuth
7 19 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.10%) SAML
8 16 (0.92%) LDAP
9 15 (0.87%) Middleware
10 14 (0.81%) OpenID
11 13 (0.75%) Web Services
12 12 (0.69%) HTML
12 12 (0.69%) SOAP
13 11 (0.63%) CSS
14 10 (0.58%) ISPF
14 10 (0.58%) pytest
15 9 (0.52%) Django
15 9 (0.52%) NumPy
15 9 (0.52%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.59%) Management Information System
2 90 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 78 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.29%) Cloud Native
5 53 (3.06%) CMDB
6 52 (3.00%) Data Centre
7 46 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 41 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (1.90%) PKI
9 33 (1.90%) PMI
10 31 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 27 (1.56%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
15 21 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (0.98%) Security Posture
17 16 (0.92%) e-Learning
17 16 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 160 (9.23%) Windows
2 83 (4.79%) Linux
3 51 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.36%) Unix
5 33 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.40%) 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 (0.17%) Android
13 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.058%) Debian
14 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.058%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 559 (32.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 465 (26.82%) Agile
3 409 (23.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 379 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
5 326 (18.80%) ITIL
6 322 (18.57%) Project Management
7 318 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 278 (16.03%) Migration
9 241 (13.90%) DevOps
10 200 (11.53%) Project Delivery
11 165 (9.52%) ITSM
12 158 (9.11%) PRINCE2
12 158 (9.11%) Service Management
13 152 (8.77%) CI/CD
14 151 (8.71%) ERP
15 148 (8.54%) Risk Management
16 146 (8.42%) Decision-Making
16 146 (8.42%) Roadmaps
17 139 (8.02%) Workshop Facilitation
18 132 (7.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 161 (9.28%) SQL
2 153 (8.82%) Python
3 104 (6.00%) PowerShell
4 44 (2.54%) Bash
5 36 (2.08%) C#
6 32 (1.85%) Java
7 27 (1.56%) Go
8 20 (1.15%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.15%) PL/SQL
9 15 (0.87%) T-SQL
10 14 (0.81%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.69%) COBOL
12 11 (0.63%) JCL
13 10 (0.58%) CLIST
13 10 (0.58%) REXX
14 9 (0.52%) Groovy
15 8 (0.46%) Korn
16 5 (0.29%) ABAP
16 5 (0.29%) Perl
17 4 (0.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 325 (18.74%) Security Cleared
2 296 (17.07%) Degree
3 230 (13.26%) SC Cleared
4 111 (6.40%) PMI Certification
5 100 (5.77%) PMP
6 62 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (3.58%) Master's Degree
7 47 (2.71%) DV Cleared
8 40 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (1.85%) CISSP
10 28 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
10 28 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 27 (1.56%) CISM
12 24 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (1.27%) APMG
14 19 (1.10%) Azure Certification
14 19 (1.10%) CCNP
15 16 (0.92%) AWS Certification
16 15 (0.87%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.88%) QA
2 80 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 75 (4.33%) GDPR
4 71 (4.09%) PMO
5 50 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.77%) SLA
7 21 (1.21%) NIST
8 19 (1.10%) IFRS
8 19 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.87%) IFRS 17
11 13 (0.75%) Accessibility
12 11 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.58%) Basel III
13 10 (0.58%) GRC
14 8 (0.46%) MiFID
14 8 (0.46%) NCSC
15 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.29%) EMIR
15 5 (0.29%) RMADS
System Software
1 110 (6.34%) Active Directory
2 82 (4.73%) Docker
3 37 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.27%) 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 (0.52%) Firmware
6 9 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.40%) 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 (0.17%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.17%) Postfix
10 3 (0.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 100 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 76 (4.38%) Terraform
3 69 (3.98%) Ansible
4 40 (2.31%) Grafana
5 39 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (1.67%) SCCM
8 17 (0.98%) Puppet
9 14 (0.81%) Kibana
10 13 (0.75%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.69%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.63%) SCOM
13 10 (0.58%) CA Endevor
14 9 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.52%) Tivoli
14 9 (0.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 8 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
17 5 (0.29%) Functional Safety
17 5 (0.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 301 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 165 (9.52%) SAP
3 155 (8.94%) ServiceNow
4 116 (6.69%) Oracle
5 77 (4.44%) Google
6 67 (3.86%) Cisco
7 63 (3.63%) Salesforce
8 57 (3.29%) VMware
9 48 (2.77%) Splunk
10 35 (2.02%) Citrix
11 33 (1.90%) F5
12 28 (1.61%) Workday
13 25 (1.44%) Juniper
14 21 (1.21%) Atlassian
15 19 (1.10%) CheckPoint
15 19 (1.10%) Remedy
16 18 (1.04%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.04%) Palo Alto
17 17 (0.98%) Adobe
17 17 (0.98%) SolarWinds