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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 49 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,754 1,339 1,922
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.11% 4.39% 4.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.87% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 788 1,153
10th Percentile £313 £318 £350
25th Percentile £411 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -1.67% -2.37%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 33 59
10th Percentile £20.79 £28.60 £15.76
25th Percentile £22.63 £38.00 £26.57
Median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +52.62% -19.17%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £60.38
90th Percentile £84.05 £85.64 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £57.12 £37.18
% change year-on-year -26.73% +53.64% -19.36%

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 36,846 27,490 38,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 90.18% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,348 17,263 25,101
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -2.18% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 895 2,262
10th Percentile £14.79 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.05 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £31.76 £33.28
% change year-on-year -20.09% -4.57% -4.91%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 1,562 £500 -4.76% 632
UK excluding London -2 960 £482 -3.60% 532
London -20 647 £525 - 206
Work from Home -9 498 £514 +0.74% 295
North of England -13 299 £470 -6.00% 113
Midlands +11 248 £500 - 88
South East -3 199 £500 - 189
North West +7 190 £418 -7.06% 62
West Midlands +5 171 £503 +0.20% 59
South West +9 114 £525 -2.78% 47
Yorkshire -22 105 £487 -7.19% 38
East Midlands +21 77 £425 +20.06% 28
Scotland +4 62 £450 +17.65% 31
East of England -29 52 £475 -4.95% 65
Wales +9 14 £424 -30.82% 9
Northern Ireland -5 5 £450 -25.00% 5
North East -24 4 £475 -17.39% 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
1 116 (6.61%) Confluence
2 77 (4.39%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.57%) SAS
5 9 (0.51%) Appian
6 5 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.29%) HCL Notes
6 5 (0.29%) IIS
7 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 4 (0.23%) Mattermost
8 3 (0.17%) Moodle
8 3 (0.17%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.057%) nginx
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.057%) Traefik
Applications
1 97 (5.53%) Microsoft Project
2 78 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 39 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 36 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Trello
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.057%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.057%) InDesign
9 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.057%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 75 (4.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.29%) Finacle
7 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.29%) Primavera
7 5 (0.29%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.17%) iTrent
10 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 278 (15.85%) Azure
2 158 (9.01%) AWS
3 114 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
4 104 (5.93%) GCP
5 88 (5.02%) Power Platform
6 65 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (3.25%) Entra ID
8 52 (2.96%) SaaS
9 26 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (1.48%) Serverless
10 24 (1.37%) Power Automate
11 23 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
12 22 (1.25%) PaaS
13 21 (1.20%) Google Workspace
14 20 (1.14%) OpenShift
15 19 (1.08%) Google Sheets
16 18 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
16 18 (1.03%) GitHub
16 18 (1.03%) IaaS
17 16 (0.91%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (6.10%) Firewall
2 68 (3.88%) DNS
3 65 (3.71%) Network Security
4 53 (3.02%) VPN
5 52 (2.96%) WAN
6 41 (2.34%) LAN
7 29 (1.65%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.60%) DHCP
8 28 (1.60%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.54%) BGP
10 24 (1.37%) OSPF
11 23 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (1.25%) SSL
13 17 (0.97%) MPLS
14 16 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 16 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 15 (0.86%) HTTP
15 15 (0.86%) Wireless
16 14 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (0.80%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.16%) Power BI
2 49 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.60%) Metadata
4 27 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.08%) Tableau
6 18 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 15 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
10 13 (0.74%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.57%) Big Data
13 9 (0.51%) MySQL
14 8 (0.46%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.46%) Relational Database
15 7 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
16 6 (0.34%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
16 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 5 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 205 (11.69%) JIRA
2 52 (2.96%) Jenkins
3 41 (2.34%) Git
4 25 (1.43%) Liquibase
5 24 (1.37%) GitLab
6 12 (0.68%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.46%) MLflow
8 7 (0.40%) JUnit
9 5 (0.29%) Mockito
10 3 (0.17%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.11%) git-flow
11 2 (0.11%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.11%) MSI
11 2 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.057%) GCC
12 1 (0.057%) Hudson
12 1 (0.057%) SoapUI
General
1 765 (43.61%) Social Skills
2 575 (32.78%) Finance
3 321 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 155 (8.84%) Banking
6 77 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
7 66 (3.76%) Legal
8 58 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
9 55 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.85%) Retail
11 48 (2.74%) Manufacturing
12 40 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (2.17%) Local Government
14 36 (2.05%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.88%) Financial Institution
15 33 (1.88%) Law
16 32 (1.82%) Marketing
17 21 (1.20%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.97%) Retail Banking
19 16 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 239 (13.63%) Analyst
2 223 (12.71%) Project Manager
3 184 (10.49%) Lead
4 141 (8.04%) Change Manager
5 137 (7.81%) Business Analyst
6 122 (6.96%) Senior
7 108 (6.16%) Consultant
8 61 (3.48%) Programme Manager
9 56 (3.19%) Developer
10 55 (3.14%) Business Manager
11 52 (2.96%) Architect
12 49 (2.79%) Administrator
13 44 (2.51%) Senior Manager
14 41 (2.34%) Network Engineer
15 38 (2.17%) Business Change Manager
16 37 (2.11%) IT Manager
16 37 (2.11%) SAP Manager
16 37 (2.11%) Service Manager
17 31 (1.77%) Delivery Manager
18 28 (1.60%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.65%) REST
2 34 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (1.65%) .NET
4 28 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 26 (1.48%) RESTful
6 22 (1.25%) OAuth
7 21 (1.20%) .NET Framework
8 19 (1.08%) SAML
9 15 (0.86%) Middleware
10 14 (0.80%) LDAP
10 14 (0.80%) OpenID
10 14 (0.80%) Web Services
11 12 (0.68%) SOAP
12 11 (0.63%) CSS
12 11 (0.63%) HTML
13 10 (0.57%) ISPF
13 10 (0.57%) pytest
14 9 (0.51%) Django
14 9 (0.51%) NumPy
14 9 (0.51%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.64%) Management Information System
2 91 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 77 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 53 (3.02%) CMDB
6 52 (2.96%) Cloud Native
7 46 (2.62%) Virtual Team
8 39 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (1.88%) PMI
10 31 (1.77%) PKI
11 29 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 27 (1.54%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.48%) Public Cloud
14 23 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
17 19 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
18 17 (0.97%) NHS
18 17 (0.97%) Security Posture
19 16 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 165 (9.41%) Windows
2 76 (4.33%) Linux
3 56 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 39 (2.22%) Unix
5 33 (1.88%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.23%) CentOS
9 4 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.23%) VMS
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.17%) Android
11 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.057%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.057%) Debian
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (31.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 454 (25.88%) Agile
3 416 (23.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 386 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
5 335 (19.10%) ITIL
6 327 (18.64%) Project Management
7 321 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 284 (16.19%) Migration
9 239 (13.63%) DevOps
10 202 (11.52%) Project Delivery
11 168 (9.58%) ITSM
12 164 (9.35%) PRINCE2
13 159 (9.06%) Risk Management
14 157 (8.95%) Roadmaps
15 154 (8.78%) ERP
15 154 (8.78%) Service Management
16 151 (8.61%) Decision-Making
17 144 (8.21%) CI/CD
18 141 (8.04%) Workshop Facilitation
19 138 (7.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 167 (9.52%) SQL
2 140 (7.98%) Python
3 102 (5.82%) PowerShell
4 43 (2.45%) Bash
5 42 (2.39%) C#
6 30 (1.71%) Java
7 22 (1.25%) Go
7 22 (1.25%) PL/SQL
8 20 (1.14%) JavaScript
9 17 (0.97%) T-SQL
10 14 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.68%) COBOL
12 11 (0.63%) JCL
13 10 (0.57%) CLIST
13 10 (0.57%) REXX
14 9 (0.51%) Korn
15 6 (0.34%) Groovy
16 5 (0.29%) ABAP
17 4 (0.23%) Bicep
17 4 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 332 (18.93%) Security Cleared
2 292 (16.65%) Degree
3 232 (13.23%) SC Cleared
4 114 (6.50%) PMI Certification
5 104 (5.93%) PMP
6 56 (3.19%) Master's Degree
7 54 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 43 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (1.94%) CISSP
11 29 (1.65%) CISM
11 29 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 28 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
13 24 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (1.20%) APMG
15 19 (1.08%) CCNP
16 17 (0.97%) Azure Certification
17 16 (0.91%) MBA
18 12 (0.68%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.93%) QA
2 83 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 82 (4.68%) GDPR
4 71 (4.05%) PMO
5 55 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (2.91%) SLA
7 23 (1.31%) NIST
8 21 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.08%) IFRS
10 18 (1.03%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.86%) IFRS 17
12 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
13 11 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.57%) Basel III
14 10 (0.57%) GRC
15 8 (0.46%) MiFID
15 8 (0.46%) NCSC
16 5 (0.29%) EMIR
16 5 (0.29%) RMADS
17 4 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 117 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 74 (4.22%) Docker
3 38 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.57%) ACF2
5 10 (0.57%) RACF
5 10 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.51%) Firmware
7 8 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.29%) KVM
9 5 (0.29%) vSphere
9 5 (0.29%) XenApp
9 5 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.17%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.057%) Squid
Systems Management
1 94 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.82%) Terraform
3 64 (3.65%) Ansible
4 36 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.82%) Grafana
6 31 (1.77%) Prometheus
7 29 (1.65%) SCCM
8 16 (0.91%) Puppet
9 14 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 13 (0.74%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.74%) Kibana
11 11 (0.63%) SCOM
12 10 (0.57%) CA Endevor
13 9 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.51%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
16 5 (0.29%) Progress Chef
16 5 (0.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 307 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 169 (9.64%) SAP
3 159 (9.06%) ServiceNow
4 118 (6.73%) Oracle
5 74 (4.22%) Google
6 67 (3.82%) Cisco
7 62 (3.53%) Salesforce
8 59 (3.36%) VMware
9 42 (2.39%) Splunk
10 36 (2.05%) Citrix
11 33 (1.88%) F5
12 32 (1.82%) Workday
13 24 (1.37%) Juniper
14 21 (1.20%) Atlassian
15 18 (1.03%) CheckPoint
15 18 (1.03%) Fortinet
15 18 (1.03%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.97%) Ariba
16 17 (0.97%) Remedy
16 17 (0.97%) Sage