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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 43 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,574 1,594 2,179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.43% 4.37% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 5.07% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 830 1,341
10th Percentile £322 £340 £363
25th Percentile £407 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £709 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 32 45
10th Percentile £20.59 £26.27 £20.03
25th Percentile £22.16 £31.82 £23.43
Median hourly rate £30.00 £49.04 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% +22.60% +14.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £60.11 £55.15
90th Percentile £68.46 £65.56 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £56.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -47.13% +41.86% +16.79%

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 31,942 31,430 40,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.97% 86.20% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,014 18,916 27,596
10th Percentile £295 £310 £308
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,079 1,112 1,584
10th Percentile £14.48 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.73 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -31.42% -24.83% +51.80%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 13 November 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 -6 1,399 £500 -4.76% 980
UK excluding London +1 867 £475 -5.00% 654
London -8 606 £550 -1.57% 413
Work from Home -19 412 £500 -4.76% 416
North of England -16 253 £450 -14.08% 170
Midlands +16 200 £475 -5.00% 102
South East +3 174 £500 - 208
North West -2 171 £438 -16.47% 107
West Midlands +9 151 £475 -7.32% 51
South West +27 114 £533 +6.50% 57
Yorkshire -37 77 £500 -9.09% 51
Scotland +5 71 £450 +5.88% 30
East Midlands +25 49 £441 - 50
East of England -14 44 £525 +35.83% 59
Northern Ireland -1 15 £488 +186.76% 19
Wales -3 11 £413 +3.13% 16
North East -17 3 £475 -5.00% 13
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
1 131 (8.32%) Confluence
2 77 (4.89%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.76%) nginx
5 9 (0.57%) CMS
6 7 (0.44%) IIS
7 6 (0.38%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.38%) JBoss
7 6 (0.38%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.38%) Mule
7 6 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.13%) FileNet
9 2 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.064%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.064%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle UPK
10 1 (0.064%) Smallworld
Applications
1 106 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (5.21%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 40 (2.54%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.44%) Trello
8 6 (0.38%) Windchill
9 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.064%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.064%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.064%) Notion
11 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.064%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 55 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.44%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.32%) Maximo
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.32%) SAP APO
7 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.32%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.25%) SAP VC
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 148 (9.40%) Azure
2 140 (8.89%) AWS
3 91 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
4 79 (5.02%) GCP
5 72 (4.57%) Power Platform
6 50 (3.18%) SaaS
7 37 (2.35%) Serverless
8 36 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.16%) AWS KMS
10 33 (2.10%) Amazon S3
11 26 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 25 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (1.52%) Amazon ELB
13 24 (1.52%) Entra ID
14 20 (1.27%) GitHub
15 17 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
15 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
17 13 (0.83%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 100 (6.35%) Firewall
2 72 (4.57%) DNS
3 55 (3.49%) Network Security
4 39 (2.48%) WAN
5 34 (2.16%) SSH
6 30 (1.91%) VPN
7 28 (1.78%) HTTP
8 26 (1.65%) SMTP
9 25 (1.59%) LAN
10 23 (1.46%) FTP
11 20 (1.27%) DHCP
11 20 (1.27%) Wireless
12 16 (1.02%) SD-WAN
13 15 (0.95%) SSL
14 14 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
14 14 (0.89%) TCP/IP
15 13 (0.83%) BGP
15 13 (0.83%) IPsec
15 13 (0.83%) OSPF
16 12 (0.76%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (3.81%) Power BI
2 39 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 27 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 25 (1.59%) Metadata
6 19 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 18 (1.14%) Tableau
8 15 (0.95%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.57%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.51%) MySQL
12 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.38%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.32%) Big Data
14 5 (0.32%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 204 (12.96%) JIRA
2 86 (5.46%) Jenkins
3 44 (2.80%) Git
4 34 (2.16%) Liquibase
5 30 (1.91%) GitLab
6 24 (1.52%) Vagrant
7 13 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.64%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.38%) MSI
11 5 (0.32%) JUnit
11 5 (0.32%) Mockito
12 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (0.19%) CA Release Automation
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 673 (42.76%) Social Skills
2 539 (34.24%) Finance
3 263 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (10.48%) Banking
5 132 (8.39%) Public Sector
6 78 (4.96%) Manufacturing
7 69 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
8 53 (3.37%) Legal
9 51 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
10 49 (3.11%) Telecoms
11 46 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (2.48%) Financial Institution
12 39 (2.48%) Retail
13 38 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
14 37 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
15 34 (2.16%) Marketing
16 33 (2.10%) Law
17 30 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (1.65%) Local Government
19 18 (1.14%) Billing
Job Titles
1 271 (17.22%) Analyst
2 199 (12.64%) Project Manager
3 150 (9.53%) Lead
4 144 (9.15%) Business Analyst
5 110 (6.99%) Change Manager
6 100 (6.35%) Consultant
7 84 (5.34%) Senior
8 61 (3.88%) Administrator
9 54 (3.43%) Programme Manager
10 53 (3.37%) Developer
11 51 (3.24%) IT Manager
12 45 (2.86%) Architect
13 44 (2.80%) Service Manager
14 41 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (2.29%) AWS Engineer
15 36 (2.29%) SAP Manager
16 34 (2.16%) Delivery Manager
17 33 (2.10%) Senior Manager
18 32 (2.03%) Business Manager
19 31 (1.97%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.05%) REST
2 41 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (2.10%) RESTful
4 25 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (1.33%) .NET
6 17 (1.08%) LDAP
7 14 (0.89%) SAML
8 12 (0.76%) HTML
9 10 (0.64%) .NET Framework
9 10 (0.64%) 802.1X
9 10 (0.64%) OAuth
9 10 (0.64%) OpenID
10 9 (0.57%) CSS
11 8 (0.51%) Kafka
12 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.44%) SOAP
13 6 (0.38%) ISPF
13 6 (0.38%) Spring Boot
14 5 (0.32%) FHIR
14 5 (0.32%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 79 (5.02%) Management Information System
2 72 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 46 (2.92%) Virtual Team
4 44 (2.80%) Data Centre
4 44 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 43 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 38 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 34 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.03%) Replication
9 31 (1.97%) Life Science
9 31 (1.97%) PKI
10 29 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 28 (1.78%) CMDB
12 25 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.02%) NHS
16 14 (0.89%) Operational Technology
16 14 (0.89%) PMI
17 13 (0.83%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 156 (9.91%) Windows
2 110 (6.99%) Linux
3 38 (2.41%) Unix
4 31 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.65%) VMS
6 24 (1.52%) Amazon Linux
7 20 (1.27%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.89%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.38%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.25%) zOS
12 2 (0.13%) Android
12 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.064%) AIX
13 1 (0.064%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.064%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.064%) Solaris
13 1 (0.064%) SUSE
13 1 (0.064%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (27.76%) Agile
2 410 (26.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 347 (22.05%) Project Management
4 329 (20.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 321 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
6 277 (17.60%) ITIL
7 219 (13.91%) Project Delivery
8 207 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 207 (13.15%) DevOps
9 199 (12.64%) Migration
10 162 (10.29%) Service Management
11 146 (9.28%) PRINCE2
12 139 (8.83%) Risk Management
13 128 (8.13%) ERP
14 126 (8.01%) Decision-Making
15 125 (7.94%) Roadmaps
16 124 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
17 122 (7.75%) ITSM
18 121 (7.69%) CI/CD
19 108 (6.86%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 142 (9.02%) Python
2 125 (7.94%) SQL
3 88 (5.59%) PowerShell
4 56 (3.56%) Java
5 34 (2.16%) Go
6 31 (1.97%) C#
7 27 (1.72%) Groovy
8 24 (1.52%) JavaScript
9 18 (1.14%) Perl
9 18 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 16 (1.02%) Bash
11 9 (0.57%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.51%) COBOL
12 8 (0.51%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.38%) ABAP
13 6 (0.38%) CLIST
13 6 (0.38%) JCL
13 6 (0.38%) Korn
13 6 (0.38%) REXX
14 5 (0.32%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 286 (18.17%) Degree
2 262 (16.65%) Security Cleared
3 191 (12.13%) SC Cleared
4 89 (5.65%) PMI Certification
5 86 (5.46%) PMP
6 74 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 50 (3.18%) Master's Degree
8 36 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (2.22%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
11 25 (1.59%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (1.21%) APMG
15 16 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.83%) Azure Certification
17 12 (0.76%) CCNP
17 12 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 11 (0.70%) CCNA
18 11 (0.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.08%) QA
2 69 (4.38%) PMO
3 50 (3.18%) GDPR
4 39 (2.48%) SLA
5 37 (2.35%) Data Quality
6 28 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.27%) NIST
8 15 (0.95%) MiFID
9 14 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.76%) EMIR
10 12 (0.76%) NCSC
11 7 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.38%) IFRS
13 5 (0.32%) GxP
13 5 (0.32%) HL7
13 5 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 92 (5.84%) Active Directory
2 66 (4.19%) Docker
3 22 (1.40%) DFS Replication
4 19 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.76%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.76%) Postfix
5 12 (0.76%) Squid
6 10 (0.64%) Firmware
7 7 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.38%) ACF2
8 6 (0.38%) RACF
8 6 (0.38%) Time Sharing Option
9 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.19%) vSphere
12 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.064%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.70%) Terraform
2 64 (4.07%) Grafana
3 61 (3.88%) Prometheus
4 54 (3.43%) Kubernetes
5 43 (2.73%) Ansible
6 27 (1.72%) SCCM
7 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.83%) Nessus
9 10 (0.64%) CA Endevor
9 10 (0.64%) Kibana
9 10 (0.64%) Proxmox
9 10 (0.64%) SCOM
10 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.44%) Puppet
11 6 (0.38%) HP SiteScope
11 6 (0.38%) WSUS
12 5 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (0.32%) EMC VPLEX
12 5 (0.32%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 314 (19.95%) Microsoft
2 158 (10.04%) SAP
3 125 (7.94%) ServiceNow
4 93 (5.91%) Oracle
5 62 (3.94%) Cisco
6 55 (3.49%) Splunk
7 53 (3.37%) Salesforce
8 49 (3.11%) Google
9 34 (2.16%) VMware
10 28 (1.78%) Remedy
11 27 (1.72%) Workday
12 25 (1.59%) Atlassian
12 25 (1.59%) F5
13 24 (1.52%) Juniper
14 22 (1.40%) IBM
15 19 (1.21%) CheckPoint
16 17 (1.08%) Fortinet
17 16 (1.02%) Ariba
17 16 (1.02%) Red Hat
18 12 (0.76%) Citrix