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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 49 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,849 1,317 1,803
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.69% 4.45% 4.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 4.89% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 808 1,051
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £609 £607 £619
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 53 74
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £16.60
25th Percentile £22.63 £32.05 £30.03
Median hourly rate £34.87 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.43% +8.00% +2.67%
75th Percentile £73.88 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £69.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.00% - +3.59%

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 42,464 26,928 37,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.77% 91.04% 85.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,499 17,092 23,693
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,543 1,207 2,592
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.00 £37.09
Median % change year-on-year +62.81% -27.20% +5.97%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -5 1,625 £520 +4.00% 531
UK excluding London -14 944 £500 +5.82% 404
London -6 741 £525 -4.55% 214
Work from Home -1 563 £525 +5.00% 219
North of England -17 282 £472 +4.89% 99
South East -1 213 £563 +17.19% 118
Midlands -5 195 £505 +6.21% 72
North West -10 161 £439 -0.34% 51
West Midlands -16 133 £514 +8.16% 47
Yorkshire -21 108 £500 +9.59% 38
South West -4 97 £510 +4.08% 47
Scotland -10 82 £475 +7.83% 22
East of England -10 80 £500 - 33
East Midlands +15 60 £475 +32.31% 25
North East -21 13 £425 -22.73% 12
Wales -14 10 £550 +46.67% 10
Northern Ireland -12 6 £475 -9.52% 15

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 (5.73%) Confluence
2 86 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.03%) IIS
5 14 (0.76%) SAS
6 13 (0.70%) Appian
7 8 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.32%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) CICS
10 3 (0.16%) Camunda
10 3 (0.16%) Kentico
10 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.054%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.054%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 65 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (2.97%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.054%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 79 (4.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.59%) Primavera
6 10 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.32%) Finacle
8 6 (0.32%) Maximo
8 6 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.16%) OpenText MBPM
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.16%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.16%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.16%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 277 (14.98%) Azure
2 141 (7.63%) AWS
3 110 (5.95%) Power Platform
4 108 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
5 77 (4.16%) Entra ID
6 71 (3.84%) SaaS
7 65 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (3.46%) GCP
9 40 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
10 37 (2.00%) Google Workspace
11 26 (1.41%) Power Automate
12 22 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 20 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (1.08%) GitHub
13 20 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (1.08%) OCI
13 20 (1.08%) PaaS
14 18 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 18 (0.97%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.84%) Firewall
2 73 (3.95%) Network Security
3 59 (3.19%) WAN
4 53 (2.87%) DNS
5 48 (2.60%) LAN
6 41 (2.22%) VPN
7 32 (1.73%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.68%) BGP
9 28 (1.51%) OSPF
10 27 (1.46%) MPLS
10 27 (1.46%) TCP/IP
11 26 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (1.19%) SSL
12 22 (1.19%) Wireless
13 19 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
14 18 (0.97%) DHCP
15 16 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 16 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 15 (0.81%) HTTP
17 14 (0.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (4.76%) Power BI
2 62 (3.35%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.73%) Metadata
4 25 (1.35%) Oracle Database
5 24 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
6 20 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.03%) Tableau
8 13 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.54%) MySQL
10 8 (0.43%) Oracle BI EE
10 8 (0.43%) Pinecone
11 7 (0.38%) Db2
12 6 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database 11g
13 5 (0.27%) Big Data
13 5 (0.27%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 222 (12.01%) JIRA
2 62 (3.35%) Git
3 51 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.54%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.49%) MLflow
6 8 (0.43%) GitLab
7 7 (0.38%) AdminStudio
7 7 (0.38%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.22%) Hudson
8 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.22%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 3 (0.16%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.16%) Snyk
9 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.11%) git-flow
10 2 (0.11%) Selenium
General
1 705 (38.13%) Social Skills
2 653 (35.32%) Finance
3 292 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 152 (8.22%) Banking
6 94 (5.08%) Legal
7 87 (4.71%) Retail
8 68 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
9 59 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (2.70%) Marketing
10 50 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.60%) Manufacturing
12 44 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (2.33%) Law
14 35 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.84%) Local Government
16 23 (1.24%) Aviation
16 23 (1.24%) Investment Banking
17 22 (1.19%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 213 (11.52%) Project Manager
2 191 (10.33%) Lead
3 187 (10.11%) Analyst
4 143 (7.73%) Change Manager
5 138 (7.46%) Senior
6 126 (6.81%) Consultant
7 119 (6.44%) Business Analyst
8 74 (4.00%) Administrator
9 64 (3.46%) Programme Manager
10 59 (3.19%) Developer
11 55 (2.97%) Senior Manager
12 52 (2.81%) Business Manager
13 51 (2.76%) Network Engineer
14 46 (2.49%) Architect
15 44 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
16 43 (2.33%) IT Manager
17 42 (2.27%) Support Engineer
18 38 (2.06%) Business Change Manager
19 33 (1.78%) Service Manager
20 31 (1.68%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (3.24%) REST
2 33 (1.78%) .NET
3 30 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.30%) OAuth
5 23 (1.24%) CSS
6 22 (1.19%) Middleware
7 21 (1.14%) HTML
8 20 (1.08%) .NET Framework
9 17 (0.92%) Web Services
10 15 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (0.76%) LDAP
12 13 (0.70%) RESTful
13 11 (0.59%) React
13 11 (0.59%) Spring
14 10 (0.54%) Ajax
14 10 (0.54%) AngularJS
14 10 (0.54%) SOAP
15 9 (0.49%) Django
15 9 (0.49%) OpenID
15 9 (0.49%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 87 (4.71%) Product Ownership
3 74 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 74 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 55 (2.97%) Cloud Native
5 54 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (1.89%) CMDB
6 35 (1.89%) PMI
7 33 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 32 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.46%) Operational Technology
11 26 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.35%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.19%) PKI
13 22 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.08%) Public Cloud
15 19 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
16 18 (0.97%) Low-Code
17 15 (0.81%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 193 (10.44%) Windows
2 101 (5.46%) Linux
3 67 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.49%) Unix
5 38 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.24%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.65%) Solaris
8 10 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.43%) AIX
11 7 (0.38%) VMS
11 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.32%) SUSE
12 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.27%) Android
13 5 (0.27%) HPUX
13 5 (0.27%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (32.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 453 (24.50%) Agile
3 434 (23.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 378 (20.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 350 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
6 316 (17.09%) ITIL
7 304 (16.44%) Migration
8 303 (16.39%) Project Management
9 242 (13.09%) DevOps
10 228 (12.33%) Project Delivery
11 208 (11.25%) ERP
12 207 (11.20%) Decision-Making
13 205 (11.09%) Roadmaps
14 174 (9.41%) Risk Management
15 169 (9.14%) Validation
16 166 (8.98%) CI/CD
17 155 (8.38%) AI
17 155 (8.38%) ITSM
18 151 (8.17%) Service Management
19 147 (7.95%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 180 (9.73%) SQL
2 132 (7.14%) Python
3 101 (5.46%) PowerShell
4 50 (2.70%) Bash
5 46 (2.49%) PL/SQL
6 45 (2.43%) C#
7 44 (2.38%) Java
8 37 (2.00%) JavaScript
9 24 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.54%) Groovy
11 9 (0.49%) Korn
12 8 (0.43%) COBOL
12 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.38%) Go
13 7 (0.38%) JCL
14 6 (0.32%) ABAP
15 5 (0.27%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.27%) REXX
16 4 (0.22%) Perl
16 4 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 366 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 262 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 228 (12.33%) Degree
4 126 (6.81%) PMP
5 117 (6.33%) PMI Certification
6 57 (3.08%) CISSP
6 57 (3.08%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 36 (1.95%) CCNP
9 36 (1.95%) CISM
10 33 (1.78%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
12 26 (1.41%) Azure Certification
12 26 (1.41%) CIMA
13 25 (1.35%) ACCA
13 25 (1.35%) APMG
14 23 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (0.81%) CCNA
16 14 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (5.95%) QA
2 92 (4.98%) GDPR
3 91 (4.92%) PMO
4 90 (4.87%) Data Quality
5 72 (3.89%) SLA
6 71 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 47 (2.54%) NIST
8 30 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 22 (1.19%) SOC 2
10 21 (1.14%) GRC
10 21 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.81%) IFRS
12 13 (0.70%) IFRS 17
13 8 (0.43%) COBIT
13 8 (0.43%) ITGC
14 7 (0.38%) Basel III
15 6 (0.32%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.32%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.27%) GMP
16 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 127 (6.87%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (3.24%) Docker
4 24 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (1.24%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.87%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.54%) vSphere
10 7 (0.38%) vCloud
11 6 (0.32%) KVM
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.22%) XenApp
12 4 (0.22%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.11%) ACF2
13 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) Firmware
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 80 (4.33%) Terraform
2 79 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 70 (3.79%) Ansible
4 34 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (1.51%) Grafana
5 28 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.30%) vCenter Server
7 21 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.08%) SCCM
9 17 (0.92%) SCOM
10 12 (0.65%) FortiGate
11 11 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.54%) Cisco Prime
13 8 (0.43%) Avamar
13 8 (0.43%) Puppet
14 7 (0.38%) Data Guard
14 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
14 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
14 7 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 294 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 183 (9.90%) Oracle
3 178 (9.63%) ServiceNow
4 173 (9.36%) SAP
5 83 (4.49%) VMware
6 74 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 67 (3.62%) Cisco
8 63 (3.41%) Google
9 36 (1.95%) Splunk
10 31 (1.68%) Citrix
11 30 (1.62%) F5
12 27 (1.46%) Workday
13 26 (1.41%) IBM
13 26 (1.41%) IFS
14 24 (1.30%) Red Hat
15 23 (1.24%) Juniper
15 23 (1.24%) Palo Alto
16 22 (1.19%) CheckPoint
16 22 (1.19%) Dynatrace
17 20 (1.08%) Remedy