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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 47 43
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,603 1,337 2,001
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.16% 4.26% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 4.78% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 757 1,188
10th Percentile £313 £321 £350
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £639
90th Percentile £688 £704 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 56
10th Percentile £20.79 £27.32 £16.95
25th Percentile £23.56 £31.76 £26.12
Median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +45.24% -10.95%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £56.60
90th Percentile £59.38 £79.69 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -22.54%

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 33,610 27,994 39,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.22% 89.12% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,285 16,989 25,814
10th Percentile £305 £307 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,025 871 2,057
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.65 £62.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.78 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.72% -14.50% +24.57%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -6 1,420 £500 -4.76% 590
UK excluding London +3 889 £475 -5.00% 477
London -20 582 £520 -5.11% 233
Work from Home -16 419 £500 -4.76% 244
North of England -4 273 £451 -11.47% 96
Midlands +7 224 £475 -5.00% 112
South East +8 185 £492 -10.55% 156
North West +4 172 £414 -15.61% 52
West Midlands -2 147 £489 -2.30% 71
South West +9 115 £525 -4.55% 38
Yorkshire -18 96 £487 -11.45% 35
East Midlands +24 77 £445 +13.81% 41
Scotland +11 64 £431 +15.00% 33
East of England -34 35 £488 +8.33% 36
Wales +8 13 £414 -31.08% 15
Northern Ireland +2 8 £450 -26.53% 2
North East -26 5 £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
1 114 (7.11%) Confluence
2 77 (4.80%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.44%) Appian
4 7 (0.44%) CMS
4 7 (0.44%) nginx
5 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
5 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.25%) IIS
8 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.19%) CICS
8 3 (0.19%) Moodle
8 3 (0.19%) Mule
8 3 (0.19%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) FileNet
9 2 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.062%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 94 (5.86%) Microsoft Project
2 72 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 40 (2.50%) MS Visio
5 35 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.37%) Trello
8 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.25%) Windchill
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.062%) InDesign
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.062%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 60 (3.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.44%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.25%) Finacle
9 4 (0.25%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.19%) Kondor
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.19%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 232 (14.47%) Azure
2 144 (8.98%) AWS
3 105 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (6.11%) GCP
5 85 (5.30%) Power Platform
6 51 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (2.74%) Entra ID
8 39 (2.43%) SaaS
9 29 (1.81%) Serverless
10 25 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (1.43%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.31%) Google Workspace
13 19 (1.19%) AWS KMS
13 19 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.19%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
13 19 (1.19%) PaaS
14 17 (1.06%) GitHub
15 16 (1.00%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (6.05%) Firewall
2 73 (4.55%) DNS
3 59 (3.68%) Network Security
4 43 (2.68%) VPN
4 43 (2.68%) WAN
5 32 (2.00%) LAN
6 25 (1.56%) DHCP
6 25 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.43%) SD-WAN
8 21 (1.31%) SSL
9 20 (1.25%) HTTP
10 19 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (1.06%) BGP
11 17 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 17 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 17 (1.06%) SSH
12 16 (1.00%) OSPF
12 16 (1.00%) SAN
13 13 (0.81%) Kerberos
13 13 (0.81%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (4.49%) Power BI
2 46 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 34 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.56%) Metadata
5 20 (1.25%) Tableau
6 19 (1.19%) NoSQL
7 18 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 15 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (0.81%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.50%) Big Data
11 8 (0.50%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.44%) MySQL
13 6 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.37%) Pinecone
14 5 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
15 4 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 183 (11.42%) JIRA
2 60 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.81%) Git
4 28 (1.75%) Liquibase
5 26 (1.62%) GitLab
6 12 (0.75%) Visual Studio
7 10 (0.62%) Vagrant
8 6 (0.37%) JUnit
8 6 (0.37%) MLflow
8 6 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.31%) Mockito
10 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.25%) MSI
11 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) AdminStudio
12 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.12%) ChangeMan
12 2 (0.12%) git-flow
13 1 (0.062%) Browser DevTools
General
1 738 (46.04%) Social Skills
2 526 (32.81%) Finance
3 310 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (9.98%) Banking
5 159 (9.92%) Public Sector
6 68 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
7 55 (3.43%) Manufacturing
8 49 (3.06%) Legal
9 47 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
9 47 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (2.62%) Telecoms
11 40 (2.50%) Retail
12 35 (2.18%) Local Government
13 34 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (2.00%) Financial Institution
15 30 (1.87%) Marketing
16 27 (1.68%) Law
17 22 (1.37%) Investment Banking
18 20 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 238 (14.85%) Analyst
2 202 (12.60%) Project Manager
3 179 (11.17%) Lead
4 133 (8.30%) Business Analyst
5 131 (8.17%) Change Manager
6 102 (6.36%) Senior
7 92 (5.74%) Consultant
8 56 (3.49%) Developer
9 52 (3.24%) Programme Manager
10 49 (3.06%) Architect
11 45 (2.81%) Business Manager
12 42 (2.62%) IT Manager
12 42 (2.62%) Senior Manager
13 37 (2.31%) Administrator
14 36 (2.25%) Service Manager
15 32 (2.00%) Business Change Manager
16 29 (1.81%) Network Engineer
17 28 (1.75%) SAP Manager
18 27 (1.68%) AWS Engineer
18 27 (1.68%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.68%) REST
2 39 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.87%) .NET
3 30 (1.87%) RESTful
4 25 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (1.25%) LDAP
5 20 (1.25%) OAuth
6 19 (1.19%) .NET Framework
6 19 (1.19%) SAML
7 14 (0.87%) Middleware
7 14 (0.87%) OpenID
8 12 (0.75%) HTML
9 10 (0.62%) ISPF
9 10 (0.62%) SOAP
10 9 (0.56%) CSS
10 9 (0.56%) Web Services
10 9 (0.56%) XML
11 8 (0.50%) Kafka
11 8 (0.50%) OAuth2
12 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.43%) Management Information System
2 86 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 68 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 47 (2.93%) CMDB
5 46 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 40 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.43%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.25%) PKI
10 29 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.75%) PMI
12 27 (1.68%) Public Cloud
13 26 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.31%) Replication
14 21 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
16 19 (1.19%) Data Structures
16 19 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
17 17 (1.06%) Life Science
18 16 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 156 (9.73%) Windows
2 89 (5.55%) Linux
3 47 (2.93%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.56%) Unix
5 31 (1.93%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.81%) VMS
7 11 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
8 10 (0.62%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.44%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.25%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.19%) Android
13 2 (0.12%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.12%) zOS
14 1 (0.062%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (30.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 431 (26.89%) Agile
3 392 (24.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 355 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
5 324 (20.21%) ITIL
6 320 (19.96%) Project Management
7 264 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 239 (14.91%) Migration
9 209 (13.04%) DevOps
10 182 (11.35%) Project Delivery
11 161 (10.04%) PRINCE2
12 156 (9.73%) Service Management
13 152 (9.48%) ITSM
14 137 (8.55%) Decision-Making
15 136 (8.48%) ERP
16 135 (8.42%) Roadmaps
17 132 (8.23%) Risk Management
18 125 (7.80%) CI/CD
19 122 (7.61%) Workshop Facilitation
20 113 (7.05%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 153 (9.54%) SQL
2 147 (9.17%) Python
3 104 (6.49%) PowerShell
4 39 (2.43%) Bash
5 32 (2.00%) C#
6 27 (1.68%) Go
7 25 (1.56%) Java
8 20 (1.25%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.06%) JavaScript
10 16 (1.00%) Groovy
10 16 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.75%) COBOL
13 11 (0.69%) JCL
14 10 (0.62%) CLIST
14 10 (0.62%) REXX
15 8 (0.50%) Korn
16 6 (0.37%) Perl
17 5 (0.31%) TypeScript
18 4 (0.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 298 (18.59%) Degree
2 288 (17.97%) Security Cleared
3 199 (12.41%) SC Cleared
4 103 (6.43%) PMI Certification
5 93 (5.80%) PMP
6 60 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (3.74%) Master's Degree
7 44 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 37 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 23 (1.43%) APMG
12 22 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
13 20 (1.25%) CISSP
14 18 (1.12%) Azure Certification
14 18 (1.12%) CISM
15 16 (1.00%) AWS Certification
16 15 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
17 14 (0.87%) CCNP
18 13 (0.81%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.99%) QA
2 74 (4.62%) PMO
3 63 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 59 (3.68%) GDPR
5 44 (2.74%) SLA
6 34 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.00%) IFRS
8 14 (0.87%) NIST
9 13 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.81%) IFRS 17
10 12 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.62%) GRC
12 8 (0.50%) Basel III
12 8 (0.50%) MiFID
12 8 (0.50%) NCSC
13 5 (0.31%) EMIR
13 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.31%) RMADS
System Software
1 106 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 73 (4.55%) Docker
3 30 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.62%) ACF2
5 10 (0.62%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.62%) Firmware
5 10 (0.62%) RACF
5 10 (0.62%) Time Sharing Option
6 9 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.44%) Dovecot
7 7 (0.44%) Postfix
7 7 (0.44%) Squid
7 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.25%) XenApp
9 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.19%) KVM
10 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (5.12%) Kubernetes
2 72 (4.49%) Terraform
3 59 (3.68%) Ansible
4 45 (2.81%) Grafana
5 44 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 32 (2.00%) SCCM
7 28 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.06%) Puppet
9 14 (0.87%) Kibana
9 14 (0.87%) SCOM
10 12 (0.75%) CA Endevor
11 10 (0.62%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.62%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.56%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 7 (0.44%) Nessus
13 7 (0.44%) Proxmox
13 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 285 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 135 (8.42%) SAP
3 130 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 108 (6.74%) Oracle
5 71 (4.43%) Google
6 59 (3.68%) Cisco
7 56 (3.49%) Salesforce
8 48 (2.99%) Splunk
8 48 (2.99%) VMware
9 30 (1.87%) F5
10 28 (1.75%) Citrix
11 24 (1.50%) Workday
12 19 (1.19%) Juniper
13 18 (1.12%) Fortinet
13 18 (1.12%) Remedy
14 17 (1.06%) Atlassian
14 17 (1.06%) CheckPoint
15 16 (1.00%) Adobe
15 16 (1.00%) IBM
16 14 (0.87%) Red Hat