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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 48 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,681 1,293 1,954
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.14% 4.22% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 4.70% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 733 1,166
10th Percentile £313 £326 £353
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.05% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 30 59
10th Percentile £20.79 £28.44 £17.58
25th Percentile £22.76 £35.75 £29.10
Median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -12.00%
75th Percentile £56.69 £71.88 £59.25
90th Percentile £75.01 £87.05 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £37.18
% change year-on-year -20.94% +54.65% -12.52%

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 35,252 27,502 38,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.92% 89.66% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,364 16,881 25,241
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,119 838 2,150
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.08 £72.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +6.22%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -5 1,489 £500 -4.76% 459
UK excluding London +3 928 £475 -5.00% 403
London -21 612 £523 -0.48% 164
Work from Home -12 456 £500 -3.85% 200
North of England -6 291 £451 -10.78% 89
Midlands +10 243 £500 - 72
South East +3 185 £475 -9.52% 137
North West +9 179 £402 -14.92% 52
West Midlands +4 164 £500 - 53
South West +11 115 £525 -4.55% 39
Yorkshire -10 107 £487 -11.45% 27
East Midlands +23 79 £435 +11.25% 19
Scotland +6 67 £425 +6.92% 27
East of England -38 39 £500 +0.10% 39
Wales +8 14 £414 -31.08% 9
Northern Ireland -2 7 £400 -33.33% 3
North East -23 5 £475 -17.39% 12

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
1 122 (7.26%) Confluence
2 78 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.54%) Appian
5 6 (0.36%) Mattermost
5 6 (0.36%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.30%) HCL Notes
6 5 (0.30%) SAS
7 4 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.24%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) IIS
7 4 (0.24%) nginx
8 3 (0.18%) Moodle
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.12%) FileNet
9 2 (0.12%) JBoss
9 2 (0.12%) Mule
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 96 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
2 75 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 41 (2.44%) MS Visio
5 33 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.30%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.30%) Trello
7 4 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.24%) Windchill
8 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.059%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.059%) InDesign
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.059%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 71 (4.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.30%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.24%) Finacle
8 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.18%) iTrent
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 249 (14.81%) Azure
2 153 (9.10%) AWS
3 111 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
4 103 (6.13%) GCP
5 87 (5.18%) Power Platform
6 55 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 41 (2.44%) SaaS
9 29 (1.73%) Serverless
10 26 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (1.55%) Power Automate
11 21 (1.25%) AWS KMS
11 21 (1.25%) Google Workspace
12 20 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (1.19%) PaaS
13 19 (1.13%) Google Sheets
14 18 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (1.07%) GitHub
14 18 (1.07%) OpenShift
15 17 (1.01%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.83%) Firewall
2 70 (4.16%) DNS
3 61 (3.63%) Network Security
4 47 (2.80%) VPN
5 46 (2.74%) WAN
6 36 (2.14%) LAN
7 28 (1.67%) TCP/IP
8 26 (1.55%) DHCP
9 23 (1.37%) SD-WAN
10 22 (1.31%) BGP
11 21 (1.25%) SSL
11 21 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (1.13%) OSPF
13 16 (0.95%) HTTP
13 16 (0.95%) SAN
14 15 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 15 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 14 (0.83%) MPLS
16 13 (0.77%) Kerberos
16 13 (0.77%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.22%) Power BI
2 48 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (1.67%) Metadata
5 21 (1.25%) Tableau
6 17 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 16 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (0.77%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (0.54%) Big Data
11 8 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.48%) MySQL
11 8 (0.48%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 191 (11.36%) JIRA
2 58 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.20%) Git
4 29 (1.73%) Liquibase
5 27 (1.61%) GitLab
6 12 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.48%) MLflow
8 6 (0.36%) JUnit
8 6 (0.36%) Vagrant
9 5 (0.30%) Mockito
9 5 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.24%) MSI
11 3 (0.18%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) AdminStudio
12 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.12%) git-flow
13 1 (0.059%) Maven
13 1 (0.059%) Toad
General
1 774 (46.04%) Social Skills
2 559 (33.25%) Finance
3 319 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 163 (9.70%) Banking
6 71 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
7 59 (3.51%) Legal
8 55 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (3.15%) Manufacturing
10 52 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (2.44%) Retail
12 40 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 40 (2.38%) Telecoms
13 38 (2.26%) Local Government
14 33 (1.96%) Financial Institution
15 32 (1.90%) Marketing
16 29 (1.73%) Law
17 23 (1.37%) Investment Banking
18 17 (1.01%) Retail Banking
19 16 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 248 (14.75%) Analyst
2 208 (12.37%) Project Manager
3 183 (10.89%) Lead
4 140 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 130 (7.73%) Change Manager
6 117 (6.96%) Senior
7 100 (5.95%) Consultant
8 60 (3.57%) Programme Manager
9 54 (3.21%) Architect
10 51 (3.03%) Developer
11 49 (2.91%) Business Manager
12 44 (2.62%) Senior Manager
13 43 (2.56%) Administrator
14 40 (2.38%) IT Manager
15 36 (2.14%) SAP Manager
15 36 (2.14%) Service Manager
16 34 (2.02%) Network Engineer
17 33 (1.96%) Business Change Manager
18 29 (1.73%) Delivery Manager
19 28 (1.67%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (3.75%) REST
2 39 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.78%) RESTful
4 28 (1.67%) .NET
4 28 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 22 (1.31%) OAuth
6 19 (1.13%) .NET Framework
6 19 (1.13%) SAML
7 17 (1.01%) LDAP
8 15 (0.89%) Middleware
9 14 (0.83%) OpenID
10 12 (0.71%) HTML
10 12 (0.71%) Web Services
11 10 (0.59%) CSS
11 10 (0.59%) ISPF
11 10 (0.59%) SOAP
12 9 (0.54%) Django
12 9 (0.54%) NumPy
12 9 (0.54%) Pandas
12 9 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.59%) Management Information System
2 89 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 77 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 52 (3.09%) Cloud Native
5 50 (2.97%) CMDB
6 48 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 46 (2.74%) Virtual Team
8 40 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (2.08%) PKI
10 32 (1.90%) PMI
11 30 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.73%) Public Cloud
13 26 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
14 25 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.43%) Data Structures
16 21 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
17 20 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
18 16 (0.95%) e-Learning
18 16 (0.95%) NHS
18 16 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 152 (9.04%) Windows
2 88 (5.23%) Linux
3 46 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.38%) Unix
5 34 (2.02%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.54%) VMS
7 9 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.24%) CentOS
11 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.18%) Android
13 2 (0.12%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.059%) Debian
14 1 (0.059%) Solaris
14 1 (0.059%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (32.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 450 (26.77%) Agile
3 407 (24.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 373 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
5 324 (19.27%) ITIL
6 319 (18.98%) Project Management
7 299 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 266 (15.82%) Migration
9 217 (12.91%) DevOps
10 193 (11.48%) Project Delivery
11 160 (9.52%) Service Management
12 159 (9.46%) ITSM
12 159 (9.46%) PRINCE2
13 147 (8.74%) Decision-Making
13 147 (8.74%) ERP
14 145 (8.63%) Risk Management
15 136 (8.09%) Roadmaps
16 135 (8.03%) CI/CD
16 135 (8.03%) Workshop Facilitation
17 125 (7.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 156 (9.28%) SQL
2 151 (8.98%) Python
3 106 (6.31%) PowerShell
4 41 (2.44%) Bash
5 32 (1.90%) C#
6 26 (1.55%) Go
6 26 (1.55%) Java
7 20 (1.19%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.13%) JavaScript
9 15 (0.89%) Shell Script
9 15 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.71%) COBOL
11 11 (0.65%) Groovy
11 11 (0.65%) JCL
12 10 (0.59%) CLIST
12 10 (0.59%) REXX
13 7 (0.42%) Korn
14 6 (0.36%) Perl
15 4 (0.24%) ABAP
15 4 (0.24%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 312 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 300 (17.85%) Degree
3 219 (13.03%) SC Cleared
4 109 (6.48%) PMI Certification
5 97 (5.77%) PMP
6 64 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (3.75%) Master's Degree
8 47 (2.80%) DV Cleared
9 41 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.55%) CISSP
11 25 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 24 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
13 23 (1.37%) APMG
13 23 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (1.31%) CISM
15 18 (1.07%) CCNP
16 17 (1.01%) Azure Certification
17 15 (0.89%) MBA
18 14 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (6.31%) QA
2 71 (4.22%) PMO
3 69 (4.10%) Data Quality
4 66 (3.93%) GDPR
5 43 (2.56%) SLA
6 42 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.13%) IFRS
8 16 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.89%) IFRS 17
9 15 (0.89%) NIST
10 14 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.77%) Accessibility
12 11 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.59%) Basel III
13 10 (0.59%) GRC
14 8 (0.48%) MiFID
14 8 (0.48%) NCSC
15 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.30%) EMIR
16 5 (0.30%) RMADS
System Software
1 111 (6.60%) Active Directory
2 75 (4.46%) Docker
3 34 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.59%) ACF2
5 10 (0.59%) RACF
5 10 (0.59%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.59%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.54%) Firmware
7 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.36%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.30%) KVM
9 5 (0.30%) vSphere
9 5 (0.30%) XenApp
9 5 (0.30%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.24%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.24%) Postfix
10 4 (0.24%) Squid
Systems Management
1 87 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 72 (4.28%) Terraform
3 66 (3.93%) Ansible
4 41 (2.44%) Grafana
5 40 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.84%) SCCM
7 30 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.01%) Puppet
9 14 (0.83%) Kibana
10 13 (0.77%) SCOM
10 13 (0.77%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.59%) CA Endevor
11 10 (0.59%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.54%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 7 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.36%) HP SiteScope
15 5 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
15 5 (0.30%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 298 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 154 (9.16%) SAP
3 144 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 110 (6.54%) Oracle
5 72 (4.28%) Google
6 64 (3.81%) Cisco
7 62 (3.69%) Salesforce
8 55 (3.27%) VMware
9 49 (2.91%) Splunk
10 35 (2.08%) Citrix
11 28 (1.67%) F5
12 27 (1.61%) Workday
13 21 (1.25%) Juniper
14 19 (1.13%) Atlassian
14 19 (1.13%) Remedy
15 18 (1.07%) Fortinet
16 16 (0.95%) Adobe
16 16 (0.95%) CheckPoint
16 16 (0.95%) IBM
16 16 (0.95%) Palo Alto