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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 44 41
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,480 1,588 2,503
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 4.16% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.04% 4.86% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 836 1,534
10th Percentile £330 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £704 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 44 44
10th Percentile £21.50 £23.20 £21.67
25th Percentile £22.63 £31.82 £29.96
Median hourly rate £34.67 £57.40 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -39.60% +18.58% +86.15%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.60 £56.50
90th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.79 £58.05 £47.11
% change year-on-year -50.40% +23.21% +91.66%

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 29,370 32,658 44,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.62% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,234 20,154 30,464
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,777 1,475 1,557
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.70 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -47.67% +6.17% +76.09%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +4 1,267 £500 -4.76% 1,334
UK excluding London +5 764 £475 -5.00% 1,134
London +6 579 £554 -2.38% 459
Work from Home -21 407 £480 -5.33% 616
North of England -1 239 £450 -12.62% 224
Midlands +20 172 £475 - 188
North West +1 141 £450 -11.24% 130
West Midlands +19 135 £475 -1.14% 109
South East -4 127 £488 -2.01% 399
Yorkshire -13 94 £456 -13.10% 70
South West +27 85 £513 -6.82% 115
Scotland -11 69 £450 -10.00% 63
East of England +6 47 £525 +8.25% 125
East Midlands +15 35 £444 +25.00% 70
Northern Ireland +6 22 £525 +208.82% 15
Wales 0 9 £331 -17.21% 21
North East -8 2 £450 -25.00% 26
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 115 (7.77%) Confluence
2 60 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.08%) CMS
4 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.81%) nginx
5 10 (0.68%) IIS
6 6 (0.41%) JBoss
6 6 (0.41%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.41%) Mule
6 6 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.34%) IBM Notes
8 4 (0.27%) CICS
9 3 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.14%) FileNet
11 1 (0.068%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle UPK
11 1 (0.068%) SAS
11 1 (0.068%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 99 (6.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (3.78%) Microsoft Project
4 43 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.23%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 10 (0.68%) Trello
8 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.27%) Windchill
9 3 (0.20%) InfoPath
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.068%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.068%) Notion
11 1 (0.068%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 51 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 8 (0.54%) SAP SD
5 7 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.41%) SAP PP
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.34%) SAP APO
7 5 (0.34%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.34%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.34%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.27%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.27%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 99 (6.69%) Azure
2 96 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
3 95 (6.42%) AWS
4 72 (4.86%) Power Platform
5 40 (2.70%) SaaS
6 39 (2.64%) GCP
7 31 (2.09%) Amazon S3
8 26 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 26 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 25 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (1.69%) Amazon ELB
9 25 (1.69%) AWS KMS
10 21 (1.42%) GitHub
11 20 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.22%) Serverless
13 17 (1.15%) Entra ID
14 14 (0.95%) Power Automate
14 14 (0.95%) PowerApps
14 14 (0.95%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 100 (6.76%) Firewall
2 58 (3.92%) DNS
3 45 (3.04%) Network Security
4 37 (2.50%) WAN
5 31 (2.09%) VPN
6 29 (1.96%) SSH
7 27 (1.82%) HTTP
8 24 (1.62%) SMTP
9 23 (1.55%) FTP
9 23 (1.55%) LAN
9 23 (1.55%) Skype
9 23 (1.55%) Wireless
10 21 (1.42%) WebEx
11 17 (1.15%) DHCP
11 17 (1.15%) SSL
12 16 (1.08%) BGP
12 16 (1.08%) OSPF
12 16 (1.08%) SD-WAN
13 14 (0.95%) IPsec
14 12 (0.81%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.12%) Power BI
2 30 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (1.69%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.42%) NoSQL
4 21 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (1.08%) Metadata
5 16 (1.08%) Tableau
6 15 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
7 14 (0.95%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.61%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.41%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.27%) Power Query
11 4 (0.27%) Siebel EIM
12 3 (0.20%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 172 (11.62%) JIRA
2 67 (4.53%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.70%) Git
4 25 (1.69%) Vagrant
5 17 (1.15%) GitLab
5 17 (1.15%) Liquibase
6 16 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (0.68%) MSI
8 9 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.27%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (0.27%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.27%) Selenium
12 3 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.20%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 566 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 535 (36.15%) Finance
3 242 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (11.08%) Banking
5 128 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (4.73%) Manufacturing
8 59 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
9 56 (3.78%) Legal
10 54 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
11 45 (3.04%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.97%) Law
13 41 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 40 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 40 (2.70%) Marketing
15 36 (2.43%) Financial Institution
16 35 (2.36%) Retail
17 25 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (1.22%) French Language
19 17 (1.15%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 260 (17.57%) Analyst
2 177 (11.96%) Project Manager
3 142 (9.59%) Business Analyst
4 124 (8.38%) Lead
5 105 (7.09%) Consultant
6 93 (6.28%) Change Manager
7 80 (5.41%) Senior
8 65 (4.39%) Administrator
9 57 (3.85%) IT Manager
10 54 (3.65%) Developer
11 53 (3.58%) Architect
12 47 (3.18%) Programme Manager
13 42 (2.84%) Service Manager
14 38 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
15 34 (2.30%) Delivery Manager
16 29 (1.96%) AWS Engineer
16 29 (1.96%) SAP Consultant
16 29 (1.96%) Senior Manager
17 28 (1.89%) Financial Analyst
18 27 (1.82%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
1 25 (1.69%) REST
2 23 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (1.35%) RESTful
4 17 (1.15%) .NET
5 15 (1.01%) LDAP
6 12 (0.81%) HTML
7 11 (0.74%) SOAP
7 11 (0.74%) Web Services
8 10 (0.68%) 802.1X
9 9 (0.61%) CSS
10 8 (0.54%) React
11 7 (0.47%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.47%) Spring Boot
12 6 (0.41%) Kafka
12 6 (0.41%) Middleware
13 5 (0.34%) ADO
14 4 (0.27%) JMS
14 4 (0.27%) XML
14 4 (0.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 55 (3.72%) Data Centre
3 49 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.97%) Onboarding
5 39 (2.64%) CMDB
6 36 (2.43%) Life Science
7 28 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.76%) Replication
9 25 (1.69%) Cloud Native
10 23 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 21 (1.42%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.28%) PKI
14 17 (1.15%) Operational Technology
15 16 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
16 15 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
16 15 (1.01%) Security Posture
17 12 (0.81%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 138 (9.32%) Windows
2 93 (6.28%) Linux
3 26 (1.76%) VMS
4 25 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.62%) Amazon Linux
5 24 (1.62%) Unix
6 17 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (1.08%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.95%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.27%) zOS
10 3 (0.20%) CentOS
11 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.068%) AIX
12 1 (0.068%) Android
12 1 (0.068%) Solaris
12 1 (0.068%) SUSE
12 1 (0.068%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (24.53%) Agile
2 358 (24.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 297 (20.07%) Project Management
4 294 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
5 266 (17.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 225 (15.20%) ITIL
7 207 (13.99%) Migration
8 184 (12.43%) Project Delivery
9 155 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 149 (10.07%) Risk Management
11 146 (9.86%) DevOps
12 135 (9.12%) Roadmaps
12 135 (9.12%) Service Management
13 119 (8.04%) Decision-Making
14 118 (7.97%) ERP
15 105 (7.09%) PRINCE2
16 102 (6.89%) Process Improvement
17 98 (6.62%) Data Migration
18 91 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
19 90 (6.08%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 104 (7.03%) SQL
2 98 (6.62%) Python
3 70 (4.73%) PowerShell
4 48 (3.24%) Java
5 33 (2.23%) C#
6 26 (1.76%) Groovy
7 22 (1.49%) JavaScript
8 21 (1.42%) Go
9 19 (1.28%) Perl
10 18 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.47%) VB
12 6 (0.41%) ABAP
13 5 (0.34%) Bash
13 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.27%) C++
14 4 (0.27%) Korn
14 4 (0.27%) PromQL
14 4 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.27%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 254 (17.16%) Degree
2 217 (14.66%) Security Cleared
3 144 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.27%) PMP
5 76 (5.14%) PMI Certification
6 49 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (2.77%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
9 38 (2.57%) DV Cleared
10 35 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.55%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (1.08%) APMG
15 15 (1.01%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.95%) CBAP
17 11 (0.74%) CCNP
17 11 (0.74%) ISEB
18 10 (0.68%) CCNA
19 9 (0.61%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (4.26%) QA
2 62 (4.19%) PMO
3 35 (2.36%) SLA
4 33 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.09%) GDPR
6 18 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.22%) NIST
7 13 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.81%) MiFID
9 10 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.68%) EMIR
9 10 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.54%) GxP
11 7 (0.47%) NCSC
12 6 (0.41%) ITGC
13 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) GRC
14 4 (0.27%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 64 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 49 (3.31%) Docker
3 22 (1.49%) DFS Replication
4 16 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.81%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.81%) Postfix
5 12 (0.81%) Squid
6 10 (0.68%) Firmware
7 9 (0.61%) vSphere
8 8 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.068%) etcd
12 1 (0.068%) Snort
12 1 (0.068%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.068%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.068%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (3.72%) Grafana
2 54 (3.65%) Terraform
3 50 (3.38%) Prometheus
4 45 (3.04%) Kubernetes
5 32 (2.16%) Ansible
6 27 (1.82%) SCCM
7 16 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.88%) Nessus
9 11 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (0.68%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.61%) SCOM
12 8 (0.54%) Kibana
13 6 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.41%) HP SiteScope
14 5 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
14 5 (0.34%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.27%) CA Endevor
15 4 (0.27%) Puppet
16 3 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 273 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 160 (10.81%) SAP
3 114 (7.70%) ServiceNow
4 88 (5.95%) Oracle
5 64 (4.32%) Cisco
6 48 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 47 (3.18%) Splunk
8 33 (2.23%) Google
9 32 (2.16%) Juniper
10 30 (2.03%) VMware
11 27 (1.82%) Remedy
12 19 (1.28%) F5
12 19 (1.28%) Workday
13 18 (1.22%) Polycom
14 16 (1.08%) Ariba
14 16 (1.08%) Fortinet
15 15 (1.01%) CheckPoint
16 14 (0.95%) IBM
17 13 (0.88%) Red Hat
18 12 (0.81%) Jaspersoft