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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 49 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,711 1,304 1,971
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.18% 4.24% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 4.73% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 751 1,185
10th Percentile £313 £321 £352
25th Percentile £405 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £632 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 59
10th Percentile £21.13 £28.60 £17.58
25th Percentile £22.68 £37.25 £29.10
Median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -12.52%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.63 £59.25
90th Percentile £86.90 £86.35 £62.50
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 35,563 27,597 38,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.83% 89.79% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,526 17,059 25,424
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.54% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,133 855 2,176
10th Percentile £14.62 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £60.46 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £73.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.29 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.62% -10.60% -

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -7 1,518 £500 -4.76% 457
UK excluding London +4 949 £475 -5.00% 402
London -18 621 £520 -0.95% 167
Work from Home -8 476 £500 -4.08% 175
North of England -6 297 £464 -8.53% 82
Midlands +11 253 £492 -1.60% 71
South East +7 192 £496 -5.52% 142
North West +5 184 £409 -13.49% 51
West Midlands +3 173 £500 -0.40% 54
South West +9 111 £525 -4.55% 39
Yorkshire -20 109 £487 -11.45% 23
East Midlands +21 80 £435 +11.25% 17
Scotland +8 68 £438 +11.11% 30
East of England -32 42 £500 +2.62% 43
Wales +7 14 £414 -32.49% 6
Northern Ireland -5 5 £450 -25.00% 3
North East -31 4 £475 -17.39% 11

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
1 119 (6.95%) Confluence
2 75 (4.38%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.58%) SAS
5 9 (0.53%) Appian
6 5 (0.29%) CMS
6 5 (0.29%) HCL Notes
6 5 (0.29%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.23%) nginx
7 4 (0.23%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.18%) IIS
8 3 (0.18%) Moodle
9 2 (0.12%) FileNet
9 2 (0.12%) JBoss
9 2 (0.12%) Mule
10 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.058%) Traefik
Applications
1 97 (5.67%) Microsoft Project
2 78 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 39 (2.28%) MS Visio
5 34 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.29%) Trello
7 4 (0.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
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 75 (4.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 11 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
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%) Finacle
7 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.18%) iTrent
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 256 (14.96%) Azure
2 158 (9.23%) AWS
3 110 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
4 107 (6.25%) GCP
5 84 (4.91%) Power Platform
6 57 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (2.75%) Entra ID
8 44 (2.57%) SaaS
9 29 (1.69%) Serverless
10 26 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (1.46%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.23%) AWS KMS
12 21 (1.23%) Google Workspace
12 21 (1.23%) PaaS
13 20 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (1.11%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.11%) OpenShift
15 18 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (1.05%) GitHub
15 18 (1.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.20%) Firewall
2 73 (4.27%) DNS
3 64 (3.74%) Network Security
4 51 (2.98%) WAN
5 50 (2.92%) VPN
6 39 (2.28%) LAN
7 28 (1.64%) TCP/IP
8 27 (1.58%) DHCP
9 26 (1.52%) BGP
9 26 (1.52%) SD-WAN
10 23 (1.34%) OSPF
10 23 (1.34%) SSL
11 21 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 16 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 16 (0.94%) HTTP
12 16 (0.94%) MPLS
13 14 (0.82%) Wireless
14 13 (0.76%) IPsec
14 13 (0.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.97%) Power BI
2 48 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (1.64%) Metadata
5 17 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (0.99%) NoSQL
5 17 (0.99%) Tableau
6 16 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (0.82%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.58%) Big Data
9 10 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (0.53%) MySQL
11 8 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.47%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.23%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 196 (11.46%) JIRA
2 64 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.45%) Git
4 30 (1.75%) Liquibase
5 29 (1.69%) GitLab
6 12 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.47%) MLflow
8 7 (0.41%) JUnit
9 6 (0.35%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.29%) Mockito
10 5 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.12%) git-flow
12 2 (0.12%) Maven
12 2 (0.12%) MSI
12 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
12 2 (0.12%) Selenium
13 1 (0.058%) SonarQube
General
1 769 (44.94%) Social Skills
2 563 (32.90%) Finance
3 318 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 160 (9.35%) Banking
6 73 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
7 61 (3.57%) Legal
8 58 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
9 52 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
10 51 (2.98%) Manufacturing
11 44 (2.57%) Retail
12 41 (2.40%) Telecoms
13 39 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (2.16%) Local Government
15 34 (1.99%) Financial Institution
16 32 (1.87%) Marketing
17 30 (1.75%) Law
18 21 (1.23%) Investment Banking
19 17 (0.99%) Retail Banking
20 16 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 249 (14.55%) Analyst
2 212 (12.39%) Project Manager
3 183 (10.70%) Lead
4 142 (8.30%) Business Analyst
5 138 (8.07%) Change Manager
6 121 (7.07%) Senior
7 98 (5.73%) Consultant
8 61 (3.57%) Programme Manager
9 54 (3.16%) Architect
10 53 (3.10%) Business Manager
11 51 (2.98%) Developer
12 47 (2.75%) Senior Manager
13 45 (2.63%) Administrator
14 41 (2.40%) IT Manager
15 39 (2.28%) Network Engineer
16 37 (2.16%) SAP Manager
16 37 (2.16%) Service Manager
17 36 (2.10%) Business Change Manager
18 30 (1.75%) Delivery Manager
18 30 (1.75%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (3.86%) REST
2 40 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.75%) RESTful
4 28 (1.64%) .NET
4 28 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 22 (1.29%) OAuth
6 19 (1.11%) .NET Framework
6 19 (1.11%) SAML
7 17 (0.99%) LDAP
8 15 (0.88%) Middleware
9 14 (0.82%) OpenID
10 13 (0.76%) Web Services
11 12 (0.70%) HTML
12 11 (0.64%) CSS
12 11 (0.64%) SOAP
13 10 (0.58%) ISPF
13 10 (0.58%) pytest
14 9 (0.53%) Django
14 9 (0.53%) NumPy
14 9 (0.53%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 93 (5.44%) Management Information System
2 90 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 78 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.21%) Cloud Native
5 52 (3.04%) CMDB
6 50 (2.92%) Data Centre
7 46 (2.69%) Virtual Team
8 40 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (1.99%) PKI
10 32 (1.87%) PMI
11 30 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 25 (1.46%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
15 21 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (0.99%) NHS
17 16 (0.94%) e-Learning
17 16 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 158 (9.23%) Windows
2 86 (5.03%) Linux
3 48 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.40%) Unix
5 33 (1.93%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.53%) VMS
7 9 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.23%) CentOS
11 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.18%) Android
13 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.058%) Debian
14 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.058%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 457 (26.71%) Agile
3 410 (23.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 378 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
5 328 (19.17%) ITIL
6 320 (18.70%) Project Management
7 311 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 268 (15.66%) Migration
9 230 (13.44%) DevOps
10 194 (11.34%) Project Delivery
11 167 (9.76%) ITSM
12 163 (9.53%) Service Management
13 159 (9.29%) PRINCE2
14 149 (8.71%) ERP
15 147 (8.59%) Decision-Making
16 145 (8.47%) Risk Management
17 144 (8.42%) CI/CD
17 144 (8.42%) Roadmaps
18 134 (7.83%) Workshop Facilitation
19 126 (7.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 158 (9.23%) SQL
2 155 (9.06%) Python
3 104 (6.08%) PowerShell
4 43 (2.51%) Bash
5 34 (1.99%) C#
6 30 (1.75%) Java
7 27 (1.58%) Go
8 21 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.17%) PL/SQL
10 15 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 15 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.70%) COBOL
12 11 (0.64%) Groovy
12 11 (0.64%) JCL
13 10 (0.58%) CLIST
13 10 (0.58%) REXX
14 7 (0.41%) Korn
15 6 (0.35%) Perl
16 5 (0.29%) ABAP
17 4 (0.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 324 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 299 (17.48%) Degree
3 227 (13.27%) SC Cleared
4 110 (6.43%) PMI Certification
5 98 (5.73%) PMP
6 63 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (3.68%) Master's Degree
7 48 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 40 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.64%) CISSP
9 28 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
10 26 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 24 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.34%) CISM
13 22 (1.29%) APMG
14 19 (1.11%) Azure Certification
15 18 (1.05%) CCNP
16 16 (0.94%) AWS Certification
17 15 (0.88%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.96%) QA
2 76 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 71 (4.15%) GDPR
3 71 (4.15%) PMO
4 48 (2.81%) SLA
5 46 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.11%) IFRS
7 17 (0.99%) NIST
7 17 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 15 (0.88%) IFRS 17
8 15 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.76%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.58%) Basel III
11 10 (0.58%) GRC
12 8 (0.47%) MiFID
12 8 (0.47%) NCSC
13 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.29%) EMIR
13 5 (0.29%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 108 (6.31%) Active Directory
2 82 (4.79%) Docker
3 35 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.58%) ACF2
5 10 (0.58%) RACF
5 10 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.53%) Firmware
7 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.35%) DFS Replication
9 5 (0.29%) KVM
9 5 (0.29%) vSphere
9 5 (0.29%) XenApp
9 5 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.23%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.23%) Postfix
10 4 (0.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 95 (5.55%) Kubernetes
2 75 (4.38%) Terraform
3 67 (3.92%) Ansible
4 42 (2.45%) Grafana
5 41 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (1.69%) SCCM
8 17 (0.99%) Puppet
9 14 (0.82%) Kibana
10 13 (0.76%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.70%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.70%) SCOM
12 10 (0.58%) CA Endevor
13 9 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.53%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
16 5 (0.29%) Functional Safety
16 5 (0.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 297 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 162 (9.47%) SAP
3 151 (8.83%) ServiceNow
4 113 (6.60%) Oracle
5 75 (4.38%) Google
6 68 (3.97%) Cisco
7 62 (3.62%) Salesforce
8 55 (3.21%) VMware
9 49 (2.86%) Splunk
10 35 (2.05%) Citrix
11 33 (1.93%) F5
12 28 (1.64%) Workday
13 25 (1.46%) Juniper
14 20 (1.17%) Remedy
15 19 (1.11%) Atlassian
15 19 (1.11%) CheckPoint
15 19 (1.11%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.05%) Palo Alto
17 17 (0.99%) Adobe
17 17 (0.99%) SolarWinds