Change Management Contracts

Change Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 43 55
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,377 1,945 3,126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.40% 4.49% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 5.13% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 1,146 1,894
10th Percentile £321 £361 £325
25th Percentile £415 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £642 £650
90th Percentile £725 £709 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 52 36
10th Percentile £20.87 £16.25 £19.88
25th Percentile £30.57 £27.54 £22.19
Median hourly rate £55.37 £39.02 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.91% +11.49% +39.19%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.80 £60.94
90th Percentile £89.98 £62.45 £80.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.75 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.86% +14.29% +53.85%

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 27,796 37,930 62,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.86% 87.52% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,845 25,062 43,371
10th Percentile £306 £300 £330
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £650
90th Percentile £743 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 889 1,768 1,728
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.00 £11.84
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.14 £16.24
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +16.92% +47.73%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.29 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.88 £40.25 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% +54.81% +41.07%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 20 January 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 20 January 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 17 Contract 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 20 January 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 -2 1,149 £525 -4.55% 595
UK excluding London +7 628 £500 -4.31% 389
London -14 573 £550 -1.79% 236
Work from Home -10 490 £525 - 392
North of England +4 188 £523 -0.48% 121
South East -9 123 £550 +6.28% 75
North West +19 113 £500 -6.54% 87
Midlands +9 110 £500 -4.76% 80
West Midlands +5 95 £500 -4.76% 53
South West -4 77 £550 -3.51% 42
Scotland +11 64 £375 -21.05% 28
Yorkshire -3 61 £550 - 30
East of England +24 59 £450 -10.00% 38
North East -7 16 £575 +43.75% 4
East Midlands +13 13 £413 -25.00% 27
Northern Ireland -7 6 £613 +40.80% 5
Wales -5 5 £506 +12.50% 8

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 61 (4.43%) Confluence
2 46 (3.34%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.67%) SAS
5 12 (0.87%) IIS
6 5 (0.36%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.22%) CMS
7 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.15%) Apache
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.073%) Jadu
9 1 (0.073%) JBoss
9 1 (0.073%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 77 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (4.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.45%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.36%) Trello
7 2 (0.15%) Open Workbench
8 1 (0.073%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.073%) CATIA
8 1 (0.073%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.073%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.073%) QuarkXPress
8 1 (0.073%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
3 6 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Endur
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.29%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.29%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.22%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.22%) SAP PLM
5 3 (0.22%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.22%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 117 (8.50%) Azure
2 73 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (3.34%) AWS
4 45 (3.27%) Power Platform
5 40 (2.90%) Entra ID
6 22 (1.60%) SaaS
7 19 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (1.31%) Yammer
9 17 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (1.02%) Serverless
11 13 (0.94%) Google Workspace
12 12 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (0.80%) GCP
14 10 (0.73%) OCI
14 10 (0.73%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (0.65%) Azure Functions
15 9 (0.65%) IaaS
16 8 (0.58%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.34%) Firewall
2 37 (2.69%) Network Security
3 32 (2.32%) DNS
4 28 (2.03%) LAN
5 25 (1.82%) DHCP
5 25 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.67%) BGP
6 23 (1.67%) SAN
7 22 (1.60%) VPN
7 22 (1.60%) WAN
7 22 (1.60%) Wireless
8 18 (1.31%) OSPF
9 13 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
9 13 (0.94%) MPLS
10 12 (0.87%) Multicast
10 12 (0.87%) NX-OS
11 11 (0.80%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.80%) VLAN
12 10 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
13 9 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.90%) SQL Server
2 36 (2.61%) Power BI
3 27 (1.96%) Oracle Database
4 24 (1.74%) Tableau
5 12 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (0.73%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (0.51%) Big Data
7 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (0.44%) Metadata
9 5 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.29%) DB2
10 4 (0.29%) Parquet
11 3 (0.22%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 3 (0.22%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.22%) QlikView
11 3 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 88 (6.39%) JIRA
2 20 (1.45%) Git
3 17 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.73%) Selenium
5 7 (0.51%) InstallShield
5 7 (0.51%) MSI
5 7 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (0.22%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.15%) Ant
8 2 (0.15%) GitLab
8 2 (0.15%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.15%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.073%) JDeveloper
9 1 (0.073%) Maven
General
1 560 (40.67%) Finance
2 482 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 275 (19.97%) Banking
4 219 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
5 118 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 50 (3.63%) Legal
7 46 (3.34%) Manufacturing
8 40 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (2.69%) Marketing
11 35 (2.54%) Telecoms
12 30 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
13 26 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (1.89%) Retail
14 25 (1.82%) Law
15 21 (1.53%) Local Government
15 21 (1.53%) Military
16 18 (1.31%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.16%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 241 (17.50%) Analyst
2 176 (12.78%) Project Manager
3 142 (10.31%) Lead
4 131 (9.51%) Change Manager
5 116 (8.42%) Business Analyst
6 102 (7.41%) Senior
7 77 (5.59%) Developer
8 65 (4.72%) Architect
9 60 (4.36%) Banking Analyst
10 52 (3.78%) Banking Business Analyst
10 52 (3.78%) Consultant
11 43 (3.12%) Business Change Manager
12 42 (3.05%) Business Manager
13 40 (2.90%) Administrator
14 39 (2.83%) Programme Manager
15 37 (2.69%) IT Manager
15 37 (2.69%) Network Engineer
16 36 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
17 32 (2.32%) Change Analyst
18 29 (2.11%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (1.38%) React
3 18 (1.31%) .NET
4 16 (1.16%) CSS
5 14 (1.02%) HTML
6 12 (0.87%) AngularJS
7 9 (0.65%) Middleware
7 9 (0.65%) Web Services
8 8 (0.58%) .NET Framework
8 8 (0.58%) REST
9 7 (0.51%) jQuery
9 7 (0.51%) LDAP
9 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.51%) Node.js
10 6 (0.44%) ASP.NET
10 6 (0.44%) Vue
10 6 (0.44%) WinForms
10 6 (0.44%) WPF
11 5 (0.36%) Kafka
11 5 (0.36%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 58 (4.21%) Management Information System
2 49 (3.56%) Product Ownership
3 40 (2.90%) Data Centre
4 33 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (1.89%) CMDB
6 25 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 21 (1.53%) NHS
8 16 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.02%) Life Science
10 12 (0.87%) Operational Technology
10 12 (0.87%) PMI
11 11 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.73%) FMCG
12 10 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.58%) Driving Licence
13 8 (0.58%) Enterprise Storage
13 8 (0.58%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.51%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 118 (8.57%) Windows
2 65 (4.72%) Linux
3 46 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.47%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.31%) Unix
6 16 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.36%) Android
9 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.15%) Solaris
12 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.073%) AIX
13 1 (0.073%) CentOS
13 1 (0.073%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.073%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (22.95%) Project Management
2 302 (21.93%) Agile
3 263 (19.10%) Stakeholder Management
4 247 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
5 182 (13.22%) ITIL
6 158 (11.47%) Risk Management
7 132 (9.59%) DevOps
8 125 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 121 (8.79%) Project Delivery
10 112 (8.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 111 (8.06%) Migration
12 104 (7.55%) PRINCE2
13 102 (7.41%) Service Management
14 94 (6.83%) Problem Management
15 91 (6.61%) Incident Management
16 84 (6.10%) Roadmaps
16 84 (6.10%) Waterfall
17 81 (5.88%) Decision-Making
17 81 (5.88%) Process Improvement
18 77 (5.59%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 99 (7.19%) SQL
2 88 (6.39%) Python
3 62 (4.50%) PowerShell
4 29 (2.11%) Java
5 23 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 21 (1.53%) C#
7 12 (0.87%) PL/SQL
8 10 (0.73%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.51%) Bash
10 7 (0.51%) R
11 6 (0.44%) VB
11 6 (0.44%) VB.NET
12 5 (0.36%) Perl
12 5 (0.36%) VBA
13 4 (0.29%) Clojure
13 4 (0.29%) Delphi
14 3 (0.22%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.15%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.15%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 184 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 165 (11.98%) Degree
3 132 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 59 (4.28%) PMI Certification
5 57 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 51 (3.70%) PMP
7 33 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
9 18 (1.31%) CCNP
10 16 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 16 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (1.02%) CCNA
13 13 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 11 (0.80%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.65%) CISSP
16 7 (0.51%) APMG
16 7 (0.51%) CCIE
17 6 (0.44%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.32%) PMO
2 54 (3.92%) QA
3 32 (2.32%) SLA
4 29 (2.11%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.02%) GDPR
6 10 (0.73%) NIST
7 8 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.44%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.29%) GRC
12 3 (0.22%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.22%) MiFID
13 2 (0.15%) COBIT
13 2 (0.15%) GxP
13 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.16%) Firmware
4 13 (0.94%) vSphere
5 12 (0.87%) Docker
6 7 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.15%) NFS
9 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.15%) XenApp
10 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 22 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
1 22 (1.60%) Terraform
2 21 (1.53%) Ansible
3 15 (1.09%) SCCM
4 13 (0.94%) ZABBIX
5 10 (0.73%) Grafana
5 10 (0.73%) Kubernetes
6 6 (0.44%) NetBackup
6 6 (0.44%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.44%) Puppet
6 6 (0.44%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.29%) Nagios
8 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.22%) HP Data Protector
8 3 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.15%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.15%) SCOM
9 2 (0.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 191 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 113 (8.21%) ServiceNow
3 107 (7.77%) Oracle
4 99 (7.19%) SAP
5 54 (3.92%) Cisco
6 35 (2.54%) VMware
7 31 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.16%) Google
9 14 (1.02%) HP
9 14 (1.02%) Juniper
10 12 (0.87%) F5
11 11 (0.80%) Arista
11 11 (0.80%) Citrix
11 11 (0.80%) Remedy
12 10 (0.73%) Fortinet
12 10 (0.73%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.73%) Snow
12 10 (0.73%) SolarWinds
13 9 (0.65%) Workday
14 8 (0.58%) Palo Alto