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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 48 44
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,972 1,509 1,576
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.67% 4.58% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 5.06% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 907 867
10th Percentile £368 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.66% -3.89%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £621
90th Percentile £725 £725 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £471 £500
% change year-on-year +8.22% -5.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 78 51
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £26.57
Median hourly rate £48.84 £34.67 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.89% -36.97% +17.08%
75th Percentile £74.50 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.83 £70.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £28.79 £47.50
% change year-on-year +46.75% -39.39% -1.31%

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 45,455 29,807 32,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.45% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,783 18,569 20,737
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,905 1,767 1,609
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.30 £18.89
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -12 1,739 £525 +5.00% 962
UK excluding London -20 968 £510 +8.22% 664
London -5 830 £540 -2.00% 456
Work from Home 0 593 £525 +5.00% 390
North of England -24 296 £500 +11.11% 159
South East +9 288 £575 +20.42% 189
North West -14 177 £475 +5.56% 96
Midlands -64 112 £492 +3.63% 84
Yorkshire -26 104 £500 +11.11% 48
Scotland +2 98 £493 +15.88% 41
South West -35 87 £525 +2.44% 111
East of England +8 80 £475 -9.52% 72
West Midlands -62 80 £525 +10.53% 57
East Midlands -19 30 £421 +5.25% 27
North East -24 15 £425 -15.00% 17
Northern Ireland -10 8 £750 +42.86% 6
Wales -16 7 £600 +81.18% 22

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
1 110 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 81 (4.11%) Confluence
3 34 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (0.96%) IIS
5 10 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.30%) Appian
7 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.30%) CMS
8 5 (0.25%) Camunda
9 4 (0.20%) CICS
9 4 (0.20%) SAS
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.10%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.051%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.051%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 70 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
4 42 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.20%) Windchill
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Houdini
9 2 (0.10%) InDesign
9 2 (0.10%) NUKE
9 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.051%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.051%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.051%) Revit
10 1 (0.051%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 68 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
5 14 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.51%) Maximo
6 10 (0.51%) Primavera
7 9 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.41%) SAP PM
8 8 (0.41%) Teamcenter
9 7 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.25%) ContrOCC
11 5 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
11 5 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.25%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.25%) SAP QM
12 4 (0.20%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 303 (15.37%) Azure
2 150 (7.61%) AWS
3 142 (7.20%) Power Platform
4 122 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
5 105 (5.32%) Entra ID
6 65 (3.30%) GCP
6 65 (3.30%) SaaS
7 64 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
9 41 (2.08%) GitHub
10 32 (1.62%) OCI
11 29 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
11 29 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
12 28 (1.42%) Power Automate
13 25 (1.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 23 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (1.17%) OneDrive
15 22 (1.12%) Google Workspace
15 22 (1.12%) OpenShift
15 22 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 138 (7.00%) Firewall
2 110 (5.58%) Network Security
3 78 (3.96%) DNS
4 65 (3.30%) VPN
5 61 (3.09%) WAN
6 40 (2.03%) DHCP
6 40 (2.03%) TCP/IP
7 39 (1.98%) LAN
8 38 (1.93%) Wireless
9 28 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (1.27%) BGP
10 25 (1.27%) SSL
11 24 (1.22%) SD-WAN
12 22 (1.12%) OSPF
13 21 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
14 20 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
14 20 (1.01%) MPLS
15 15 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
15 15 (0.76%) HTTP
16 14 (0.71%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (5.93%) Power BI
2 65 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.67%) Oracle Database
4 31 (1.57%) Metadata
5 24 (1.22%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (0.91%) Tableau
8 16 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (0.56%) Db2
11 11 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.41%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.41%) MySQL
13 7 (0.35%) Oracle BI EE
13 7 (0.35%) Oracle Database 11g
14 6 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (0.30%) DataStage
14 6 (0.30%) GIS
14 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 193 (9.79%) JIRA
2 61 (3.09%) Git
3 50 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.41%) GitLab
6 7 (0.35%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.35%) InstallShield
6 7 (0.35%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.30%) Selenium
8 5 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.25%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.20%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.20%) Snyk
10 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.15%) Hudson
10 3 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.15%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 764 (38.74%) Social Skills
2 727 (36.87%) Finance
3 343 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (10.14%) Banking
5 185 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 91 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
7 85 (4.31%) Legal
8 83 (4.21%) Retail
9 82 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
10 73 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
11 69 (3.50%) Manufacturing
12 57 (2.89%) Telecoms
13 46 (2.33%) Marketing
14 42 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (2.03%) Law
16 32 (1.62%) Local Government
17 26 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.22%) Front Office
19 21 (1.06%) Aerospace
19 21 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 240 (12.17%) Lead
2 230 (11.66%) Project Manager
3 215 (10.90%) Analyst
4 149 (7.56%) Senior
5 143 (7.25%) Change Manager
6 121 (6.14%) Consultant
7 120 (6.09%) Business Analyst
8 65 (3.30%) Network Engineer
8 65 (3.30%) Senior Manager
9 61 (3.09%) Administrator
10 56 (2.84%) Developer
11 53 (2.69%) IT Manager
12 51 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
13 47 (2.38%) Business Manager
13 47 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 47 (2.38%) Programme Manager
14 39 (1.98%) Support Engineer
15 38 (1.93%) Business Change Manager
15 38 (1.93%) Service Manager
16 36 (1.83%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (5.78%) Terraform
2 52 (2.64%) REST
3 39 (1.98%) .NET
4 32 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.27%) HTML
6 22 (1.12%) CSS
7 21 (1.06%) Middleware
8 17 (0.86%) Kafka
9 16 (0.81%) Ajax
9 16 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
10 15 (0.76%) SOAP
11 14 (0.71%) 802.1X
11 14 (0.71%) OAuth
12 12 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (0.56%) .NET Framework
14 10 (0.51%) Web Services
14 10 (0.51%) XML
15 9 (0.46%) JSON
15 9 (0.46%) React
15 9 (0.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 117 (5.93%) Onboarding
2 97 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 77 (3.90%) Data Centre
4 76 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 48 (2.43%) Cloud Native
6 47 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 46 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (1.77%) Security Posture
10 34 (1.72%) PKI
11 32 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.62%) Operational Technology
11 32 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 28 (1.42%) CMDB
13 26 (1.32%) PMI
14 23 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
15 20 (1.01%) AI Agents
15 20 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (1.01%) Public Cloud
16 19 (0.96%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 226 (11.46%) Windows
2 123 (6.24%) Linux
3 101 (5.12%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (2.48%) Unix
6 21 (1.06%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.76%) Solaris
8 13 (0.66%) VMS
9 12 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.56%) AIX
11 7 (0.35%) Android
11 7 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.30%) SUSE
13 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.25%) HPUX
13 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.25%) zOS
14 3 (0.15%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (37.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 499 (25.30%) Agile
3 481 (24.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 454 (23.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 386 (19.57%) ITIL
6 345 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
7 335 (16.99%) Project Management
8 323 (16.38%) Project Delivery
9 284 (14.40%) Migration
10 248 (12.58%) Roadmaps
11 242 (12.27%) Decision-Making
12 238 (12.07%) Service Management
13 228 (11.56%) DevOps
14 212 (10.75%) AI
15 211 (10.70%) ITSM
16 198 (10.04%) ERP
17 186 (9.43%) PRINCE2
18 182 (9.23%) Analytics
19 166 (8.42%) Risk Management
20 165 (8.37%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 164 (8.32%) Python
2 158 (8.01%) SQL
3 149 (7.56%) PowerShell
4 77 (3.90%) Bash
5 51 (2.59%) PL/SQL
6 47 (2.38%) Java
7 45 (2.28%) JavaScript
8 40 (2.03%) C#
9 25 (1.27%) Bicep
10 24 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 15 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.71%) Korn
13 11 (0.56%) Groovy
14 9 (0.46%) Go
15 6 (0.30%) JCL
15 6 (0.30%) VBScript
16 5 (0.25%) COBOL
16 5 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
17 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 412 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 299 (15.16%) SC Cleared
3 228 (11.56%) Degree
4 158 (8.01%) PMP
5 143 (7.25%) PMI Certification
6 79 (4.01%) DV Cleared
7 61 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
8 57 (2.89%) CISSP
9 44 (2.23%) CCNP
10 35 (1.77%) Azure Certification
11 31 (1.57%) CISM
12 30 (1.52%) APMG
13 27 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
14 26 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
15 25 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
15 25 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (1.22%) ACCA
17 23 (1.17%) CIMA
17 23 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 22 (1.12%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.38%) QA
2 104 (5.27%) PMO
3 87 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.41%) SLA
4 66 (3.35%) GDPR
5 57 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.23%) NIST
7 31 (1.57%) GRC
8 21 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.06%) SOC 2
9 17 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.61%) ITGC
11 11 (0.56%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.41%) COBIT
12 8 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.41%) GMP
13 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.35%) EMIR
13 7 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 138 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 97 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.08%) Docker
4 28 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (1.12%) VMware NSX
6 20 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.71%) vCloud
10 13 (0.66%) vSphere
11 9 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.20%) Firmware
13 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.15%) Squid
14 2 (0.10%) Ceph
14 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.10%) Dovecot
14 2 (0.10%) NFS
14 2 (0.10%) Postfix
15 1 (0.051%) RACF
Systems Management
1 70 (3.55%) Ansible
2 66 (3.35%) Kubernetes
3 46 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (1.83%) vCenter Server
5 30 (1.52%) SCOM
6 27 (1.37%) Grafana
7 26 (1.32%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (1.12%) SCCM
10 14 (0.71%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.56%) Avamar
11 11 (0.56%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.41%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
12 8 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.35%) vRealize
14 6 (0.30%) CASB
14 6 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 370 (18.76%) Microsoft
2 206 (10.45%) ServiceNow
3 194 (9.84%) Oracle
4 146 (7.40%) SAP
5 121 (6.14%) VMware
6 96 (4.87%) Cisco
7 79 (4.01%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.38%) Google
9 41 (2.08%) Splunk
10 39 (1.98%) IBM
11 36 (1.83%) Red Hat
12 32 (1.62%) Palo Alto
13 31 (1.57%) F5
14 30 (1.52%) CheckPoint
14 30 (1.52%) Zscaler
15 29 (1.47%) Citrix
16 24 (1.22%) Workday
17 23 (1.17%) IFS
17 23 (1.17%) Juniper
17 23 (1.17%) Remedy