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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 44 40
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,609 1,511 2,059
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.37% 4.39% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 4.99% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 821 1,253
10th Percentile £313 £331 £363
25th Percentile £404 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £690 £723 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 26 43
10th Percentile £20.79 £21.08 £20.96
25th Percentile £22.63 £27.63 £25.13
Median hourly rate £33.64 £42.79 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% -1.25% +29.34%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.65 £55.90
90th Percentile £66.20 £87.13 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.17 £41.67
% change year-on-year -17.05% -13.20% +21.65%

All Process and 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 32,541 30,291 38,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.45% 88.04% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,482 18,505 25,899
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 1,000 1,504
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.61 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.78 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.28 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.75% -27.46% +39.06%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 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 17 December 2025. 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 -3 1,446 £500 -4.76% 674
UK excluding London +4 903 £475 -5.00% 622
London -8 599 £525 -4.55% 179
Work from Home -24 409 £500 -4.76% 290
North of England -11 277 £458 -12.86% 143
Midlands +11 215 £475 -7.32% 128
South East +12 190 £496 -5.52% 187
North West +3 178 £447 -12.48% 83
West Midlands +1 152 £475 -8.43% 62
South West +20 115 £525 -4.55% 59
Yorkshire -23 96 £495 -6.60% 51
East Midlands +20 63 £431 - 62
Scotland +3 60 £438 +11.11% 30
East of England -13 44 £500 +4.17% 68
Wales +1 13 £413 +3.13% 18
Northern Ireland -5 8 £413 -32.65% 5
North East -21 3 £475 -17.39% 11
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 136 (8.45%) Confluence
2 87 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.68%) nginx
5 9 (0.56%) HCL Notes
6 7 (0.44%) CMS
7 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.37%) Mule
7 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.31%) IIS
8 5 (0.31%) JBoss
9 4 (0.25%) CICS
10 3 (0.19%) Moodle
11 2 (0.12%) FileNet
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.062%) Traefik
Applications
1 106 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (5.66%) Microsoft Project
3 86 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (2.49%) MS Visio
5 38 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.44%) Trello
8 5 (0.31%) Windchill
9 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.062%) InDesign
11 1 (0.062%) Notion
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 50 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.31%) Maximo
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
8 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 198 (12.31%) Azure
2 160 (9.94%) AWS
3 104 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
4 103 (6.40%) GCP
5 87 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 44 (2.73%) SaaS
7 43 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.36%) Serverless
9 33 (2.05%) Entra ID
10 30 (1.86%) AWS KMS
11 27 (1.68%) Amazon S3
12 24 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (1.37%) GitHub
13 22 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (1.24%) Amazon ELB
16 19 (1.18%) PaaS
16 19 (1.18%) Power Automate
17 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 103 (6.40%) Firewall
2 83 (5.16%) DNS
3 61 (3.79%) Network Security
4 44 (2.73%) VPN
5 38 (2.36%) WAN
6 32 (1.99%) SSH
7 25 (1.55%) HTTP
8 24 (1.49%) SSL
9 23 (1.43%) DHCP
10 22 (1.37%) LAN
10 22 (1.37%) SMTP
11 19 (1.18%) FTP
12 17 (1.06%) Wireless
13 16 (0.99%) SD-WAN
13 16 (0.99%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.93%) IPsec
15 14 (0.87%) BGP
15 14 (0.87%) SAN
15 14 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
16 13 (0.81%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (4.47%) Power BI
2 38 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (1.99%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (1.68%) NoSQL
6 24 (1.49%) Metadata
7 23 (1.43%) Tableau
8 19 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (1.06%) Oracle Database
10 13 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.62%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.44%) MySQL
12 7 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.31%) Big Data
13 5 (0.31%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 206 (12.80%) JIRA
2 86 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.49%) Git
4 35 (2.18%) Liquibase
5 32 (1.99%) GitLab
6 20 (1.24%) Vagrant
7 12 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.37%) JUnit
9 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.31%) Mockito
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) MSI
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 706 (43.88%) Social Skills
2 503 (31.26%) Finance
3 283 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.01%) Banking
5 152 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
7 63 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 45 (2.80%) Legal
8 45 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
9 41 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (2.42%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
11 37 (2.30%) Retail
12 29 (1.80%) Law
12 29 (1.80%) Marketing
13 27 (1.68%) Local Government
13 27 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 18 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 242 (15.04%) Analyst
2 203 (12.62%) Project Manager
3 163 (10.13%) Lead
4 129 (8.02%) Change Manager
5 126 (7.83%) Business Analyst
6 98 (6.09%) Senior
7 92 (5.72%) Consultant
8 59 (3.67%) Administrator
9 55 (3.42%) Developer
10 48 (2.98%) Architect
10 48 (2.98%) Programme Manager
11 47 (2.92%) IT Manager
12 42 (2.61%) Senior Manager
13 41 (2.55%) Business Manager
14 40 (2.49%) Service Manager
15 39 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
16 36 (2.24%) AWS Engineer
17 32 (1.99%) SAP Manager
18 30 (1.86%) Service Analyst
19 29 (1.80%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.36%) REST
2 45 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.86%) RESTful
4 24 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (1.43%) .NET
6 17 (1.06%) LDAP
6 17 (1.06%) SAML
7 11 (0.68%) 802.1X
7 11 (0.68%) OAuth
7 11 (0.68%) OpenID
8 10 (0.62%) .NET Framework
8 10 (0.62%) HTML
9 8 (0.50%) ISPF
9 8 (0.50%) Kafka
9 8 (0.50%) Middleware
9 8 (0.50%) SOAP
10 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.44%) CSS
10 7 (0.44%) XML
11 5 (0.31%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.41%) Onboarding
2 85 (5.28%) Management Information System
3 53 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.11%) Cloud Native
5 49 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 43 (2.67%) CMDB
8 39 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.42%) PKI
9 37 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (1.99%) Replication
11 31 (1.93%) Public Cloud
12 27 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.55%) Life Science
13 25 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.24%) PMI
15 16 (0.99%) NHS
16 15 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.87%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 161 (10.01%) Windows
2 102 (6.34%) Linux
3 42 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.49%) Unix
5 23 (1.43%) VMS
6 22 (1.37%) Windows 10
7 20 (1.24%) Amazon Linux
8 16 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.25%) zOS
11 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.19%) CentOS
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) Android
12 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.062%) Solaris
13 1 (0.062%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (27.72%) Agile
2 441 (27.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 352 (21.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 346 (21.50%) Project Management
5 328 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
6 326 (20.26%) ITIL
7 243 (15.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 222 (13.80%) DevOps
9 216 (13.42%) Migration
10 212 (13.18%) Project Delivery
11 172 (10.69%) Service Management
12 159 (9.88%) PRINCE2
13 150 (9.32%) ITSM
14 140 (8.70%) Roadmaps
15 136 (8.45%) CI/CD
16 133 (8.27%) Decision-Making
17 119 (7.40%) Risk Management
18 118 (7.33%) ERP
19 115 (7.15%) Cybersecurity
20 114 (7.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 153 (9.51%) Python
2 126 (7.83%) SQL
3 99 (6.15%) PowerShell
4 48 (2.98%) Java
5 35 (2.18%) Go
6 32 (1.99%) C#
7 30 (1.86%) Bash
8 25 (1.55%) Groovy
9 21 (1.31%) JavaScript
10 17 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 15 (0.93%) Perl
12 12 (0.75%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.68%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.62%) COBOL
15 9 (0.56%) Korn
16 8 (0.50%) CLIST
16 8 (0.50%) JCL
16 8 (0.50%) REXX
17 6 (0.37%) C++
18 5 (0.31%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 307 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 290 (18.02%) Degree
3 216 (13.42%) SC Cleared
4 101 (6.28%) PMI Certification
5 91 (5.66%) PMP
6 71 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (3.54%) Master's Degree
8 41 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 39 (2.42%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.55%) AWS Certification
11 25 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 24 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
13 20 (1.24%) APMG
14 18 (1.12%) CISSP
15 17 (1.06%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.99%) CISM
17 15 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
18 14 (0.87%) CCNP
19 13 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.59%) QA
2 78 (4.85%) PMO
3 51 (3.17%) GDPR
4 43 (2.67%) SLA
5 41 (2.55%) Data Quality
6 29 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.99%) NIST
7 16 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.56%) NCSC
11 8 (0.50%) MiFID
12 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 7 (0.44%) IFRS
13 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.31%) EMIR
13 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.25%) Basel III
14 4 (0.25%) GxP
System Software
1 99 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.47%) Docker
3 23 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.18%) DFS Replication
5 14 (0.87%) Firmware
6 11 (0.68%) Dovecot
6 11 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.68%) Postfix
6 11 (0.68%) Squid
7 9 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.50%) ACF2
8 8 (0.50%) RACF
8 8 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.19%) NFS
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.062%) Snort
Systems Management
1 88 (5.47%) Terraform
2 77 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 59 (3.67%) Grafana
4 58 (3.60%) Ansible
4 58 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.86%) SCCM
6 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.81%) Kibana
8 12 (0.75%) CA Endevor
8 12 (0.75%) Nessus
8 12 (0.75%) Puppet
8 12 (0.75%) SCOM
9 10 (0.62%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.56%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
11 7 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
12 6 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 313 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 155 (9.63%) SAP
3 142 (8.83%) ServiceNow
4 99 (6.15%) Oracle
5 65 (4.04%) Google
6 57 (3.54%) Cisco
7 54 (3.36%) Splunk
8 52 (3.23%) Salesforce
9 41 (2.55%) VMware
10 30 (1.86%) F5
11 26 (1.62%) Workday
12 25 (1.55%) Atlassian
12 25 (1.55%) Juniper
13 24 (1.49%) Remedy
14 22 (1.37%) CheckPoint
15 21 (1.31%) IBM
16 18 (1.12%) Fortinet
17 17 (1.06%) Red Hat
18 15 (0.93%) Citrix
19 13 (0.81%) EMC