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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 46 42
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,594 1,393 1,937
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.29% 4.37% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 4.92% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 780 1,134
10th Percentile £313 £331 £363
25th Percentile £403 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £546
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.89% +4.05%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 23 50
10th Percentile £20.79 £20.08 £19.14
25th Percentile £22.16 £29.38 £28.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £45.67
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +18.25% +36.31%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £59.00
90th Percentile £59.75 £91.40 £62.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -19.89% +18.22% +40.15%

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 32,654 28,287 37,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.81% 88.79% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,662 17,217 24,715
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,980 898 1,602
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%
75th Percentile £56.06 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.80 £74.91 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.83
% change year-on-year -21.76% -30.52% +51.12%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 1,425 £500 -4.76% 488
UK excluding London +2 897 £475 -5.00% 447
London -16 577 £525 -4.55% 139
Work from Home -17 411 £500 -4.76% 198
North of England -8 274 £450 -13.88% 82
Midlands +6 230 £475 -5.00% 87
South East +10 187 £475 -13.64% 150
North West +8 172 £414 -17.30% 41
West Midlands 0 153 £482 -3.60% 51
South West +16 118 £525 -4.55% 47
Yorkshire -18 99 £487 -11.45% 24
East Midlands +25 77 £425 +3.03% 36
Scotland +2 61 £450 +19.21% 25
East of England -32 37 £520 +15.56% 48
Wales +5 11 £406 - 15
Northern Ireland -1 7 £413 -32.65% 5
North East -26 3 £500 -13.04% 20

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 (7.28%) Confluence
2 83 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.56%) nginx
5 7 (0.44%) CMS
5 7 (0.44%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.38%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.38%) Mule
6 6 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) Appian
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.19%) Moodle
10 2 (0.13%) FileNet
10 2 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.063%) SAS
11 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.063%) Traefik
Applications
1 89 (5.58%) Microsoft Project
2 87 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 82 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (2.89%) MS Visio
5 41 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.44%) Trello
8 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.25%) Windchill
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.063%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.063%) InDesign
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.063%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 56 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 217 (13.61%) Azure
2 150 (9.41%) AWS
3 103 (6.46%) GCP
3 103 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (5.40%) Power Platform
5 45 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (2.51%) SaaS
7 34 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 32 (2.01%) Serverless
9 25 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (1.51%) GitHub
11 23 (1.44%) AWS KMS
12 21 (1.32%) Power Automate
13 20 (1.25%) Amazon S3
14 19 (1.19%) PaaS
15 16 (1.00%) IaaS
15 16 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
16 15 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.96%) Firewall
2 76 (4.77%) DNS
3 59 (3.70%) Network Security
4 47 (2.95%) VPN
5 45 (2.82%) WAN
6 29 (1.82%) LAN
7 25 (1.57%) SSH
7 25 (1.57%) SSL
8 22 (1.38%) DHCP
8 22 (1.38%) HTTP
8 22 (1.38%) SD-WAN
8 22 (1.38%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.00%) SAN
10 16 (1.00%) SMTP
10 16 (1.00%) Wireless
11 15 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 15 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 14 (0.88%) FTP
12 14 (0.88%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.64%) Power BI
2 40 (2.51%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.57%) Metadata
5 22 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (1.38%) NoSQL
6 21 (1.32%) Tableau
7 17 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (0.88%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.44%) MySQL
10 7 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.31%) Big Data
12 5 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.25%) Pinecone
13 4 (0.25%) Redis
14 3 (0.19%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 188 (11.79%) JIRA
2 70 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.94%) Liquibase
4 29 (1.82%) Git
4 29 (1.82%) GitLab
5 14 (0.88%) Vagrant
6 10 (0.63%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.38%) JUnit
9 5 (0.31%) Mockito
10 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
10 4 (0.25%) MLflow
10 4 (0.25%) MSI
11 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.13%) AdminStudio
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.13%) Subversion
12 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 723 (45.36%) Social Skills
2 507 (31.81%) Finance
3 308 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (10.23%) Banking
5 158 (9.91%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
7 59 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 46 (2.89%) Legal
9 45 (2.82%) Telecoms
10 40 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (2.38%) Retail
13 35 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (2.13%) Local Government
15 32 (2.01%) Financial Institution
15 32 (2.01%) Marketing
16 29 (1.82%) Law
17 24 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (1.25%) Investment Banking
19 15 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 242 (15.18%) Analyst
2 199 (12.48%) Project Manager
3 173 (10.85%) Lead
4 138 (8.66%) Change Manager
5 137 (8.59%) Business Analyst
6 102 (6.40%) Senior
7 92 (5.77%) Consultant
8 52 (3.26%) Developer
9 49 (3.07%) Programme Manager
10 46 (2.89%) Business Manager
10 46 (2.89%) Senior Manager
11 44 (2.76%) Administrator
11 44 (2.76%) Architect
11 44 (2.76%) IT Manager
12 36 (2.26%) Service Manager
13 33 (2.07%) Business Change Manager
14 32 (2.01%) AWS Engineer
15 31 (1.94%) SAP Manager
16 29 (1.82%) Transformation Manager
17 27 (1.69%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.51%) REST
2 41 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.88%) RESTful
4 25 (1.57%) .NET
5 24 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
6 18 (1.13%) SAML
7 16 (1.00%) OAuth
8 15 (0.94%) LDAP
9 14 (0.88%) .NET Framework
10 13 (0.82%) Middleware
10 13 (0.82%) OpenID
11 12 (0.75%) HTML
12 11 (0.69%) 802.1X
13 10 (0.63%) ISPF
14 9 (0.56%) SOAP
15 8 (0.50%) CSS
15 8 (0.50%) Kafka
15 8 (0.50%) XML
16 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
16 7 (0.44%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.40%) Management Information System
2 83 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 46 (2.89%) Cloud Native
5 43 (2.70%) CMDB
6 40 (2.51%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.45%) Virtual Team
8 36 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (2.26%) PKI
9 30 (1.88%) Public Cloud
10 29 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
11 28 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.63%) PMI
12 26 (1.63%) Replication
13 23 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (1.38%) Life Science
15 20 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (1.00%) NHS
17 15 (0.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 167 (10.48%) Windows
2 95 (5.96%) Linux
3 44 (2.76%) Unix
3 44 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.88%) Windows 10
5 17 (1.07%) VMS
6 14 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
7 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.25%) zOS
12 3 (0.19%) Android
12 3 (0.19%) CentOS
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.13%) AIX
13 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.063%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.063%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 422 (26.47%) Agile
3 379 (23.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 337 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
5 333 (20.89%) Project Management
6 330 (20.70%) ITIL
7 260 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 220 (13.80%) DevOps
9 216 (13.55%) Migration
10 198 (12.42%) Project Delivery
11 160 (10.04%) PRINCE2
11 160 (10.04%) Service Management
12 151 (9.47%) ITSM
13 138 (8.66%) Decision-Making
14 134 (8.41%) Roadmaps
15 132 (8.28%) CI/CD
15 132 (8.28%) ERP
16 117 (7.34%) Risk Management
17 112 (7.03%) Service Delivery
17 112 (7.03%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 147 (9.22%) Python
2 140 (8.78%) SQL
3 98 (6.15%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.32%) Bash
5 32 (2.01%) Java
6 30 (1.88%) Go
7 28 (1.76%) C#
8 19 (1.19%) Groovy
8 19 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 16 (1.00%) JavaScript
10 14 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 14 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.75%) COBOL
12 10 (0.63%) CLIST
12 10 (0.63%) JCL
12 10 (0.63%) REXX
13 9 (0.56%) Korn
14 8 (0.50%) Perl
15 7 (0.44%) C++
16 4 (0.25%) C
Qualifications
1 310 (19.45%) Security Cleared
2 295 (18.51%) Degree
3 214 (13.43%) SC Cleared
4 105 (6.59%) PMI Certification
5 93 (5.83%) PMP
6 64 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (3.89%) Master's Degree
8 42 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (1.51%) APMG
12 24 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 20 (1.25%) CISSP
14 19 (1.19%) AWS Certification
15 18 (1.13%) Azure Certification
15 18 (1.13%) CISM
16 15 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
17 14 (0.88%) CCNP
18 13 (0.82%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (5.58%) QA
2 81 (5.08%) PMO
3 57 (3.58%) GDPR
4 55 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 43 (2.70%) SLA
6 34 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.88%) IFRS
7 14 (0.88%) NIST
8 12 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.69%) IFRS 17
10 10 (0.63%) GRC
11 8 (0.50%) Basel III
11 8 (0.50%) MiFID
11 8 (0.50%) NCSC
12 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.31%) EMIR
12 5 (0.31%) RMADS
System Software
1 99 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.52%) Docker
3 27 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.88%) DFS Replication
6 13 (0.82%) Firmware
7 10 (0.63%) ACF2
7 10 (0.63%) RACF
7 10 (0.63%) Time Sharing Option
8 9 (0.56%) Dovecot
8 9 (0.56%) Postfix
8 9 (0.56%) Squid
9 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.25%) XenApp
11 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.19%) NFS
13 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 84 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 81 (5.08%) Terraform
3 56 (3.51%) Ansible
4 52 (3.26%) Grafana
5 51 (3.20%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.20%) SCCM
7 28 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.00%) Puppet
9 14 (0.88%) CA Endevor
10 13 (0.82%) Kibana
10 13 (0.82%) SCOM
11 10 (0.63%) Nessus
12 9 (0.56%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.56%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 9 (0.56%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.38%) HP SiteScope
14 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 290 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 146 (9.16%) SAP
3 135 (8.47%) ServiceNow
4 107 (6.71%) Oracle
5 67 (4.20%) Google
6 63 (3.95%) Cisco
7 60 (3.76%) Salesforce
8 51 (3.20%) Splunk
9 44 (2.76%) VMware
10 32 (2.01%) F5
11 27 (1.69%) Workday
12 24 (1.51%) CheckPoint
13 23 (1.44%) Citrix
13 23 (1.44%) Juniper
14 21 (1.32%) Atlassian
15 18 (1.13%) Fortinet
15 18 (1.13%) IBM
15 18 (1.13%) Remedy
16 16 (1.00%) Adobe
17 14 (0.88%) Red Hat