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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 50 42
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,787 1,265 1,826
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 4.33% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.76% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 793 1,074
10th Percentile £331 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.82% -5.25%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 51 65
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £14.18
25th Percentile £22.63 £50.00 £29.91
Median hourly rate £34.87 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.43% +8.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.53 £78.47 £69.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.48 £60.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -47.53% +25.00% -0.55%

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 40,059 26,552 37,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.94% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,139 17,089 23,891
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +2.93% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,402 1,086 2,440
10th Percentile £14.97 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -6 1,567 £500 - 538
UK excluding London -11 936 £500 +5.26% 380
London -6 680 £500 -9.05% 209
Work from Home -4 530 £525 +5.00% 210
North of England -16 287 £475 +5.56% 96
Midlands 0 215 £503 +0.60% 62
South East +1 204 £525 +7.58% 120
North West 0 175 £436 -3.11% 47
West Midlands -13 142 £515 +2.90% 32
Yorkshire -30 104 £488 +5.41% 41
South West -18 92 £500 -3.85% 35
Scotland +5 74 £475 +14.46% 17
East of England -7 74 £475 - 37
East Midlands +18 71 £438 +20.52% 29
Wales -10 11 £575 +53.33% 12
North East -16 8 £433 -24.78% 8
Northern Ireland -5 5 £475 -13.64% 9

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
1 109 (6.10%) Confluence
2 75 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.78%) SAS
5 12 (0.67%) IIS
6 9 (0.50%) Appian
7 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
10 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.056%) JBoss
11 1 (0.056%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.056%) MTS
11 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.056%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 77 (4.31%) Microsoft Project
2 68 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (1.51%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 2 (0.11%) Windchill
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.056%) InDesign
10 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.056%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 77 (4.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.34%) Finacle
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.34%) Primavera
8 4 (0.22%) Maximo
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG-F
9 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.11%) Sage X3
10 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 273 (15.28%) Azure
2 136 (7.61%) AWS
3 106 (5.93%) Power Platform
4 105 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (3.75%) GCP
5 67 (3.75%) SaaS
6 66 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (3.64%) Entra ID
8 38 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 32 (1.79%) Google Workspace
10 30 (1.68%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.40%) PaaS
12 24 (1.34%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.12%) GitHub
14 20 (1.12%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.06%) OCI
16 16 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
17 15 (0.84%) PowerApps
17 15 (0.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 106 (5.93%) Firewall
2 64 (3.58%) Network Security
3 62 (3.47%) DNS
4 57 (3.19%) WAN
5 52 (2.91%) VPN
6 47 (2.63%) LAN
7 34 (1.90%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.73%) BGP
9 29 (1.62%) OSPF
10 28 (1.57%) SSL
10 28 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (1.51%) TCP/IP
12 25 (1.40%) DHCP
13 24 (1.34%) MPLS
14 20 (1.12%) SAN
15 18 (1.01%) Wireless
16 17 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 17 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 16 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.98%) Power BI
2 61 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.45%) Metadata
4 25 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (1.40%) Tableau
5 20 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
5 20 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (0.95%) Relational Database
7 16 (0.90%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.56%) MySQL
11 9 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.45%) Pinecone
13 7 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
14 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
15 5 (0.28%) Big Data
15 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 4 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 220 (12.31%) JIRA
2 58 (3.25%) Git
3 47 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.62%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.56%) GitLab
6 9 (0.50%) MLflow
7 7 (0.39%) InstallShield
8 6 (0.34%) AdminStudio
9 5 (0.28%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.22%) Hudson
10 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.17%) Snyk
11 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.11%) git-flow
12 2 (0.11%) JUnit
General
1 697 (39.00%) Social Skills
2 596 (33.35%) Finance
3 296 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 143 (8.00%) Banking
6 78 (4.36%) Legal
7 71 (3.97%) Retail
8 61 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (2.52%) Marketing
12 36 (2.01%) Law
12 36 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.85%) Local Government
13 33 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (1.79%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.18%) Aviation
15 21 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.18%) Investment Banking
16 18 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 213 (11.92%) Project Manager
2 183 (10.24%) Lead
3 181 (10.13%) Analyst
4 140 (7.83%) Change Manager
5 134 (7.50%) Senior
6 114 (6.38%) Business Analyst
7 108 (6.04%) Consultant
8 73 (4.09%) Administrator
9 67 (3.75%) Programme Manager
10 62 (3.47%) Developer
11 52 (2.91%) Senior Manager
12 50 (2.80%) Architect
13 48 (2.69%) Network Engineer
14 47 (2.63%) Business Manager
15 45 (2.52%) IT Manager
16 39 (2.18%) Delivery Manager
17 37 (2.07%) Business Change Manager
18 34 (1.90%) SAP Manager
19 33 (1.85%) Support Engineer
20 30 (1.68%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.80%) REST
2 32 (1.79%) .NET
3 27 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.23%) Middleware
5 21 (1.18%) OAuth
6 20 (1.12%) .NET Framework
7 18 (1.01%) CSS
8 17 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (0.84%) HTML
10 14 (0.78%) LDAP
10 14 (0.78%) Web Services
11 12 (0.67%) SOAP
12 10 (0.56%) Pandas
12 10 (0.56%) pytest
12 10 (0.56%) React
12 10 (0.56%) RESTful
12 10 (0.56%) SAML
13 9 (0.50%) NumPy
13 9 (0.50%) OpenID
13 9 (0.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 89 (4.98%) Management Information System
2 82 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 72 (4.03%) Data Centre
4 71 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.35%) CMDB
7 41 (2.29%) PMI
8 39 (2.18%) Cloud Native
8 39 (2.18%) Virtual Team
9 31 (1.73%) Data Structures
10 30 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.40%) PKI
13 20 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.01%) Operational Technology
14 18 (1.01%) Security Posture
15 17 (0.95%) Mainframe
15 17 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
16 16 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 171 (9.57%) Windows
2 83 (4.64%) Linux
3 63 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.63%) Unix
5 26 (1.45%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.50%) Solaris
9 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.28%) AIX
11 5 (0.28%) SUSE
11 5 (0.28%) VMS
12 4 (0.22%) HPUX
12 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (31.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 426 (23.84%) Agile
3 422 (23.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 359 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
5 350 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 322 (18.02%) ITIL
7 314 (17.57%) Project Management
8 295 (16.51%) Migration
9 223 (12.48%) DevOps
10 204 (11.42%) Project Delivery
11 194 (10.86%) ERP
12 192 (10.74%) Roadmaps
13 184 (10.30%) Decision-Making
14 169 (9.46%) Validation
15 167 (9.35%) ITSM
16 165 (9.23%) Risk Management
17 150 (8.39%) CI/CD
18 138 (7.72%) Workshop Facilitation
19 137 (7.67%) Service Management
20 135 (7.55%) AI
Programming Languages
1 164 (9.18%) SQL
2 115 (6.44%) Python
3 87 (4.87%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.57%) Bash
5 45 (2.52%) C#
6 39 (2.18%) PL/SQL
7 33 (1.85%) Java
8 27 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 23 (1.29%) T-SQL
10 13 (0.73%) COBOL
11 12 (0.67%) JCL
12 11 (0.62%) REXX
13 10 (0.56%) Korn
14 9 (0.50%) CLIST
14 9 (0.50%) Groovy
14 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.28%) Go
15 5 (0.28%) Perl
16 4 (0.22%) ABAP
16 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 360 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 257 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 234 (13.09%) Degree
4 117 (6.55%) PMP
5 115 (6.44%) PMI Certification
6 50 (2.80%) CISSP
6 50 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 45 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (2.13%) CISM
10 37 (2.07%) Master's Degree
11 34 (1.90%) CCNP
12 28 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
14 25 (1.40%) APMG
15 20 (1.12%) CIMA
16 19 (1.06%) ACCA
16 19 (1.06%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 15 (0.84%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.16%) QA
2 93 (5.20%) GDPR
3 88 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 88 (4.92%) PMO
4 68 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (3.53%) SLA
6 44 (2.46%) NIST
7 28 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 19 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.95%) IFRS
11 15 (0.84%) IFRS 17
12 12 (0.67%) GRC
13 10 (0.56%) Basel III
14 8 (0.45%) ITGC
15 7 (0.39%) COBIT
15 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.34%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 124 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (2.85%) Docker
4 25 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.56%) vSphere
8 9 (0.50%) ACF2
8 9 (0.50%) RACF
8 9 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.34%) Firmware
10 6 (0.34%) KVM
11 5 (0.28%) XenApp
11 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.17%) NFS
12 3 (0.17%) vCloud
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 81 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 70 (3.92%) Ansible
3 69 (3.86%) Terraform
4 33 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.45%) Grafana
5 26 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.34%) SCCM
7 20 (1.12%) vCenter Server
8 18 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.73%) FortiGate
10 12 (0.67%) SCOM
11 11 (0.62%) CA Endevor
12 10 (0.56%) Puppet
13 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.45%) Kibana
15 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
16 6 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.34%) CASB
Vendors
1 273 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 178 (9.96%) ServiceNow
3 172 (9.63%) SAP
4 159 (8.90%) Oracle
5 77 (4.31%) VMware
6 68 (3.81%) Cisco
6 68 (3.81%) Salesforce
7 62 (3.47%) Google
8 33 (1.85%) Citrix
9 32 (1.79%) F5
9 32 (1.79%) Splunk
10 28 (1.57%) IFS
11 26 (1.45%) Workday
12 24 (1.34%) Palo Alto
13 23 (1.29%) Juniper
14 21 (1.18%) CheckPoint
15 19 (1.06%) Dynatrace
15 19 (1.06%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.06%) IBM
16 18 (1.01%) Remedy