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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 43 40
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,627 1,589 2,102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.46% 4.40% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.01% 5.03% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 852 1,279
10th Percentile £313 £341 £363
25th Percentile £404 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £698 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 27 44
10th Percentile £20.79 £19.85 £21.67
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.71 £24.94
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £41.67
Median % change year-on-year -27.71% -0.40% +24.37%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.16 £55.85
90th Percentile £70.16 £85.70 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.67% -15.09% +16.79%

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 32,500 31,582 39,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.05% 87.42% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,460 19,152 26,649
10th Percentile £300 £310 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,092 1,104 1,551
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.53 £63.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.93 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.71% -23.53% +30.77%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 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 5 December 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 -3 1,457 £500 -4.76% 556
UK excluding London 0 895 £475 -5.00% 503
London -9 619 £525 -4.55% 175
Work from Home -22 424 £500 -4.76% 234
North of England -16 270 £451 -14.10% 142
Midlands +11 210 £475 -8.43% 99
South East +10 194 £492 -4.93% 161
North West -1 175 £440 -15.79% 78
West Midlands +7 154 £475 -9.52% 56
South West +17 113 £525 +0.96% 44
Yorkshire -17 92 £489 -6.95% 53
Scotland +3 60 £450 +13.21% 20
East Midlands +26 56 £400 - 42
East of England -15 43 £500 +4.17% 34
Wales -5 13 £413 +3.13% 10
Northern Ireland +3 10 £488 +186.76% 5
North East -19 3 £475 -17.39% 13
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 137 (8.42%) Confluence
2 83 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.68%) nginx
5 8 (0.49%) CMS
5 8 (0.49%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.37%) Mule
6 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
7 5 (0.31%) JBoss
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.18%) Moodle
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.061%) Traefik
Applications
1 108 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (5.90%) Microsoft Project
3 89 (5.47%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.58%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.43%) Windchill
7 6 (0.37%) Trello
8 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.061%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.061%) InDesign
10 1 (0.061%) Notion
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 54 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.31%) Maximo
7 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.31%) SAP APO
7 5 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 182 (11.19%) Azure
2 157 (9.65%) AWS
3 103 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
4 97 (5.96%) GCP
5 86 (5.29%) Power Platform
6 56 (3.44%) SaaS
7 42 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.34%) Serverless
9 32 (1.97%) AWS KMS
9 32 (1.97%) Entra ID
10 29 (1.78%) Amazon S3
11 24 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 23 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (1.35%) Amazon ELB
14 21 (1.29%) GitHub
15 20 (1.23%) Power Automate
16 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
17 17 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.52%) Firewall
2 82 (5.04%) DNS
3 61 (3.75%) Network Security
4 41 (2.52%) VPN
4 41 (2.52%) WAN
5 33 (2.03%) SSH
6 27 (1.66%) HTTP
7 24 (1.48%) LAN
7 24 (1.48%) SMTP
8 23 (1.41%) SSL
9 21 (1.29%) DHCP
9 21 (1.29%) FTP
10 19 (1.17%) Wireless
11 17 (1.04%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.92%) TCP/IP
13 14 (0.86%) BGP
13 14 (0.86%) IPsec
14 13 (0.80%) OSPF
14 13 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.74%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (4.43%) Power BI
2 39 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (1.91%) SQL Server
4 27 (1.66%) NoSQL
5 25 (1.54%) Metadata
5 25 (1.54%) Tableau
6 19 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (1.04%) Oracle Database
8 11 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (0.55%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.49%) MySQL
11 7 (0.43%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
11 7 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.31%) Big Data
13 5 (0.31%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 206 (12.66%) JIRA
2 87 (5.35%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.58%) Git
4 35 (2.15%) Liquibase
5 32 (1.97%) GitLab
6 22 (1.35%) Vagrant
7 12 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.37%) JUnit
9 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.31%) Mockito
10 5 (0.31%) MSI
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.18%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.18%) Selenium
12 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 702 (43.15%) Social Skills
2 534 (32.82%) Finance
3 289 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (9.90%) Banking
5 151 (9.28%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (4.30%) Manufacturing
8 52 (3.20%) Telecoms
9 51 (3.13%) Legal
10 46 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.52%) Financial Institution
13 38 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
13 38 (2.34%) Retail
14 34 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
15 31 (1.91%) Marketing
16 30 (1.84%) Law
17 27 (1.66%) Local Government
18 20 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 19 (1.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 258 (15.86%) Analyst
2 209 (12.85%) Project Manager
3 162 (9.96%) Lead
4 136 (8.36%) Business Analyst
5 120 (7.38%) Change Manager
6 98 (6.02%) Senior
7 97 (5.96%) Consultant
8 58 (3.56%) Developer
9 56 (3.44%) Administrator
10 52 (3.20%) Programme Manager
11 49 (3.01%) Architect
11 49 (3.01%) IT Manager
12 42 (2.58%) Senior Manager
13 41 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
14 39 (2.40%) Service Manager
15 37 (2.27%) Business Manager
16 35 (2.15%) AWS Engineer
16 35 (2.15%) SAP Manager
17 33 (2.03%) Service Analyst
18 29 (1.78%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.26%) REST
2 43 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.84%) RESTful
4 24 (1.48%) .NET
4 24 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
5 17 (1.04%) LDAP
5 17 (1.04%) SAML
6 11 (0.68%) .NET Framework
6 11 (0.68%) 802.1X
6 11 (0.68%) OAuth
6 11 (0.68%) OpenID
7 10 (0.61%) HTML
8 8 (0.49%) ISPF
8 8 (0.49%) Kafka
8 8 (0.49%) SOAP
9 7 (0.43%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.43%) CSS
9 7 (0.43%) XML
10 6 (0.37%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.31%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 86 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 52 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.07%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.89%) Cloud Native
6 46 (2.83%) Virtual Team
7 40 (2.46%) CMDB
8 39 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.40%) PKI
9 38 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (2.09%) Replication
11 28 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.72%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.60%) Life Science
13 25 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.17%) PMI
16 16 (0.98%) NHS
17 14 (0.86%) e-Learning
17 14 (0.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 158 (9.71%) Windows
2 102 (6.27%) Linux
3 37 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.15%) Unix
5 25 (1.54%) VMS
6 22 (1.35%) Amazon Linux
6 22 (1.35%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.74%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.25%) zOS
10 3 (0.18%) CentOS
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) Android
11 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.061%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (27.47%) Agile
2 431 (26.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 355 (21.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 351 (21.57%) Project Management
5 334 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
6 311 (19.11%) ITIL
7 237 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 219 (13.46%) Migration
8 219 (13.46%) Project Delivery
9 217 (13.34%) DevOps
10 175 (10.76%) Service Management
11 158 (9.71%) PRINCE2
12 148 (9.10%) ITSM
13 141 (8.67%) Roadmaps
14 136 (8.36%) Decision-Making
15 132 (8.11%) CI/CD
16 130 (7.99%) Risk Management
17 124 (7.62%) ERP
18 122 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
19 112 (6.88%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 149 (9.16%) Python
2 123 (7.56%) SQL
3 94 (5.78%) PowerShell
4 52 (3.20%) Java
5 35 (2.15%) Go
6 34 (2.09%) C#
7 27 (1.66%) Groovy
8 23 (1.41%) Bash
9 21 (1.29%) JavaScript
10 19 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 17 (1.04%) Perl
12 12 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.61%) COBOL
14 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.49%) CLIST
15 8 (0.49%) JCL
15 8 (0.49%) REXX
16 7 (0.43%) Korn
17 6 (0.37%) ABAP
18 5 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 301 (18.50%) Degree
2 290 (17.82%) Security Cleared
3 213 (13.09%) SC Cleared
4 106 (6.52%) PMI Certification
5 96 (5.90%) PMP
6 73 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (3.56%) Master's Degree
8 40 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (2.03%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.54%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 18 (1.11%) APMG
13 18 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.11%) CISSP
14 16 (0.98%) CCNP
14 16 (0.98%) CISM
15 15 (0.92%) Azure Certification
16 13 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (5.35%) QA
2 77 (4.73%) PMO
3 56 (3.44%) GDPR
4 44 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 43 (2.64%) SLA
6 30 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.04%) NIST
7 17 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.92%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.61%) NCSC
11 9 (0.55%) MiFID
12 7 (0.43%) IFRS
13 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.37%) EMIR
13 6 (0.37%) GRC
14 5 (0.31%) GxP
14 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.25%) GMP
System Software
1 98 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 68 (4.18%) Docker
3 21 (1.29%) DFS Replication
3 21 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.68%) Dovecot
4 11 (0.68%) Postfix
4 11 (0.68%) Squid
5 10 (0.61%) Firmware
6 9 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.49%) ACF2
7 8 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.49%) RACF
7 8 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.18%) NFS
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.061%) Snort
Systems Management
1 87 (5.35%) Terraform
2 71 (4.36%) Kubernetes
3 58 (3.56%) Grafana
4 57 (3.50%) Prometheus
5 56 (3.44%) Ansible
6 29 (1.78%) SCCM
7 22 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.74%) CA Endevor
8 12 (0.74%) Nessus
9 11 (0.68%) Kibana
9 11 (0.68%) SCOM
10 10 (0.61%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.55%) Puppet
12 8 (0.49%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.43%) Tivoli
13 7 (0.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
14 6 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 321 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 160 (9.83%) SAP
3 148 (9.10%) ServiceNow
4 98 (6.02%) Oracle
5 61 (3.75%) Cisco
6 60 (3.69%) Google
7 55 (3.38%) Salesforce
8 49 (3.01%) Splunk
9 35 (2.15%) VMware
10 30 (1.84%) F5
11 28 (1.72%) Workday
12 26 (1.60%) Remedy
13 25 (1.54%) Atlassian
13 25 (1.54%) Juniper
14 22 (1.35%) CheckPoint
15 21 (1.29%) IBM
16 18 (1.11%) Fortinet
17 15 (0.92%) Citrix
17 15 (0.92%) Red Hat
18 14 (0.86%) Ariba