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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,817 1,281 1,854
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.83% 4.37% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 4.81% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 809 1,099
10th Percentile £325 £321 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.95% -6.33%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £625
90th Percentile £695 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 51 63
10th Percentile £22.63 £28.60 £14.09
25th Percentile £22.68 £50.00 £28.32
Median hourly rate £42.25 £54.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +12.50% -0.55%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.18 £78.47 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -29.58% +26.32% -1.31%

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 40,071 26,623 37,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.55% 90.89% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,236 17,168 24,151
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,397 1,072 2,456
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.67 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -1.39%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.84 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.31 £27.64 £37.18
% change year-on-year +56.68% -25.66% +6.23%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 1,600 £500 - 571
UK excluding London -9 944 £500 +6.38% 418
London -3 703 £500 -9.01% 204
Work from Home -1 545 £525 +5.00% 204
North of England -14 291 £475 +5.56% 106
Midlands -2 223 £500 - 77
South East -2 211 £510 +5.70% 113
North West +1 185 £436 -0.34% 50
West Midlands -9 150 £513 +2.50% 37
Yorkshire -34 98 £487 +5.30% 45
South West -19 90 £500 - 53
East Midlands +16 71 £425 +20.06% 39
East of England -12 71 £475 -2.51% 45
Scotland -1 70 £470 +17.50% 23
Wales -12 10 £600 +60.00% 8
North East -20 8 £433 -24.78% 13
Northern Ireland -5 6 £475 -16.67% 6

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
1 111 (6.11%) Confluence
2 74 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.77%) SAS
5 12 (0.66%) IIS
6 9 (0.50%) Appian
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.055%) Moodle
11 1 (0.055%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.055%) MTS
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.055%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 80 (4.40%) Microsoft Project
2 68 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 31 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.28%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.17%) Windchill
11 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.055%) InDesign
11 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 78 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) Finacle
6 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.33%) Primavera
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 283 (15.58%) Azure
2 142 (7.82%) AWS
3 110 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
4 101 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.02%) GCP
6 72 (3.96%) SaaS
7 67 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (3.69%) Entra ID
8 40 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.71%) Google Workspace
9 31 (1.71%) Power Automate
10 26 (1.43%) PaaS
11 22 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
11 22 (1.21%) OpenShift
12 20 (1.10%) GitHub
13 19 (1.05%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.05%) OCI
14 16 (0.88%) PowerApps
15 15 (0.83%) IaaS
15 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 111 (6.11%) Firewall
2 69 (3.80%) Network Security
3 62 (3.41%) WAN
4 61 (3.36%) DNS
5 53 (2.92%) VPN
6 50 (2.75%) LAN
7 38 (2.09%) SD-WAN
8 33 (1.82%) BGP
9 31 (1.71%) OSPF
9 31 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (1.54%) SSL
10 28 (1.54%) TCP/IP
11 25 (1.38%) DHCP
12 24 (1.32%) MPLS
13 19 (1.05%) SAN
14 18 (0.99%) Wireless
15 17 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 17 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 15 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
16 15 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (4.62%) Power BI
2 63 (3.47%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (1.38%) Metadata
4 24 (1.32%) Tableau
5 21 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
7 18 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 15 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.61%) MySQL
10 10 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (0.28%) Big Data
14 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI EE
14 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.22%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 222 (12.22%) JIRA
2 57 (3.14%) Git
3 48 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.50%) GitLab
5 9 (0.50%) MLflow
6 6 (0.33%) Liquibase
7 5 (0.28%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
8 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.22%) Hudson
8 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.22%) Maven
8 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.17%) JUnit
9 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.17%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.11%) git-flow
General
1 721 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 596 (32.80%) Finance
3 315 (17.34%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 146 (8.04%) Banking
6 76 (4.18%) Legal
7 72 (3.96%) Retail
8 63 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (2.53%) Marketing
12 40 (2.20%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.98%) Law
14 35 (1.93%) Local Government
15 33 (1.82%) Telecoms
16 32 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (1.21%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.21%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.05%) Aviation
19 18 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 219 (12.05%) Project Manager
2 190 (10.46%) Lead
3 188 (10.35%) Analyst
4 146 (8.04%) Change Manager
5 130 (7.15%) Senior
6 119 (6.55%) Business Analyst
7 110 (6.05%) Consultant
8 75 (4.13%) Administrator
9 69 (3.80%) Developer
10 62 (3.41%) Programme Manager
11 53 (2.92%) Architect
12 50 (2.75%) Network Engineer
12 50 (2.75%) Senior Manager
13 47 (2.59%) Business Manager
13 47 (2.59%) IT Manager
14 38 (2.09%) Delivery Manager
15 37 (2.04%) Business Change Manager
16 34 (1.87%) SAP Manager
17 32 (1.76%) Support Engineer
18 30 (1.65%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.75%) REST
2 36 (1.98%) .NET
3 27 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.27%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.21%) OAuth
6 21 (1.16%) Middleware
7 16 (0.88%) CSS
7 16 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (0.77%) Web Services
9 13 (0.72%) HTML
9 13 (0.72%) LDAP
9 13 (0.72%) SAML
10 12 (0.66%) SOAP
11 11 (0.61%) RESTful
12 10 (0.55%) OpenID
12 10 (0.55%) Pandas
12 10 (0.55%) pytest
12 10 (0.55%) React
13 9 (0.50%) NumPy
13 9 (0.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 90 (4.95%) Management Information System
2 79 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 78 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 69 (3.80%) Data Centre
5 50 (2.75%) Virtual Team
6 45 (2.48%) CMDB
7 43 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (2.26%) PMI
9 40 (2.20%) Cloud Native
10 31 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.49%) PKI
13 19 (1.05%) Operational Technology
14 18 (0.99%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.99%) Security Posture
14 18 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.94%) Mainframe
16 16 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
16 16 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 175 (9.63%) Windows
2 81 (4.46%) Linux
3 63 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 44 (2.42%) Unix
5 29 (1.60%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.44%) Solaris
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.28%) AIX
11 5 (0.28%) VMS
12 4 (0.22%) HPUX
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.22%) SUSE
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (31.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 446 (24.55%) Agile
3 429 (23.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 372 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
5 367 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 334 (18.38%) ITIL
7 324 (17.83%) Project Management
8 299 (16.46%) Migration
9 240 (13.21%) DevOps
10 210 (11.56%) Project Delivery
11 194 (10.68%) ERP
12 189 (10.40%) Roadmaps
13 182 (10.02%) Decision-Making
14 172 (9.47%) ITSM
15 166 (9.14%) Validation
16 165 (9.08%) Risk Management
17 153 (8.42%) CI/CD
18 143 (7.87%) Service Management
19 139 (7.65%) Workshop Facilitation
20 135 (7.43%) AI
Programming Languages
1 165 (9.08%) SQL
2 111 (6.11%) Python
3 87 (4.79%) PowerShell
4 49 (2.70%) C#
5 45 (2.48%) Bash
6 41 (2.26%) PL/SQL
7 35 (1.93%) Java
8 27 (1.49%) T-SQL
9 25 (1.38%) JavaScript
10 13 (0.72%) COBOL
11 12 (0.66%) JCL
11 12 (0.66%) Korn
12 11 (0.61%) REXX
13 10 (0.55%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.50%) CLIST
14 9 (0.50%) Groovy
15 5 (0.28%) ABAP
15 5 (0.28%) Go
15 5 (0.28%) Perl
16 4 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 368 (20.25%) Security Cleared
2 263 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 248 (13.65%) Degree
4 116 (6.38%) PMI Certification
4 116 (6.38%) PMP
5 51 (2.81%) CISSP
5 51 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 45 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
7 44 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 38 (2.09%) CISM
8 38 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 34 (1.87%) CCNP
10 30 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
11 27 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 24 (1.32%) APMG
14 20 (1.10%) CIMA
15 19 (1.05%) ACCA
16 18 (0.99%) Azure Certification
17 15 (0.83%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (6.11%) QA
2 93 (5.12%) GDPR
3 87 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.79%) PMO
4 68 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (3.63%) SLA
6 44 (2.42%) NIST
7 27 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.16%) SOC 2
9 19 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.94%) IFRS
11 15 (0.83%) IFRS 17
12 12 (0.66%) GRC
13 10 (0.55%) Basel III
14 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.44%) ITGC
15 7 (0.39%) COBIT
16 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 125 (6.88%) Active Directory
2 51 (2.81%) Docker
3 48 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.55%) vSphere
9 9 (0.50%) ACF2
9 9 (0.50%) RACF
9 9 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
10 8 (0.44%) Firmware
10 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.28%) KVM
11 5 (0.28%) XenApp
11 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 80 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.69%) Ansible
3 65 (3.58%) Terraform
4 34 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.38%) Grafana
5 25 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.32%) SCCM
7 20 (1.10%) vCenter Server
8 18 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 11 (0.61%) CA Endevor
11 10 (0.55%) Puppet
11 10 (0.55%) SCOM
12 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
12 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 8 (0.44%) Kibana
14 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
15 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 284 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 179 (9.85%) ServiceNow
3 175 (9.63%) SAP
4 159 (8.75%) Oracle
5 75 (4.13%) Cisco
6 71 (3.91%) VMware
7 67 (3.69%) Salesforce
8 66 (3.63%) Google
9 37 (2.04%) Citrix
10 33 (1.82%) F5
11 30 (1.65%) Workday
12 29 (1.60%) Splunk
13 26 (1.43%) IFS
14 25 (1.38%) Juniper
15 23 (1.27%) Palo Alto
16 21 (1.16%) CheckPoint
16 21 (1.16%) Fortinet
17 17 (0.94%) Dynatrace
17 17 (0.94%) Red Hat
17 17 (0.94%) Remedy