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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 51 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,830 1,241 1,858
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.00% 4.25% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 4.69% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 789 1,108
10th Percentile £325 £317 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -3.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £696 £699 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 44 56
10th Percentile £22.04 £28.60 £14.22
25th Percentile £22.68 £44.88 £26.06
Median hourly rate £42.25 £54.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +45.24% -22.75%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.15 £79.54 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.05 £57.50 £35.12
% change year-on-year -26.87% +63.71% -27.03%

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 39,061 26,469 37,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.38% 90.57% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,736 17,183 24,573
10th Percentile £314 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £636 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,329 996 2,365
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £19.10 £19.99 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.38 £70.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% -7.69% -10.34%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -3 1,637 £500 -0.89% 586
UK excluding London -4 967 £493 +3.68% 483
London -5 707 £509 -3.10% 182
Work from Home -3 537 £525 +5.00% 230
North of England -11 291 £474 +5.22% 112
Midlands 0 232 £500 -0.05% 102
South East +14 218 £500 - 147
North West +3 196 £425 - 61
West Midlands -14 157 £507 +1.15% 58
South West -5 108 £525 +5.00% 39
Yorkshire -38 87 £487 -2.60% 35
East Midlands +17 73 £425 +20.06% 42
East of England -15 67 £475 -4.90% 52
Scotland -2 62 £465 +24.00% 21
Wales -7 10 £550 +8.64% 17
North East -21 8 £440 -23.48% 16
Northern Ireland -6 5 £450 -20.00% 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
1 119 (6.50%) Confluence
2 72 (3.93%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.71%) SAS
5 9 (0.49%) Appian
6 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.27%) IIS
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.11%) Moodle
10 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.055%) CICS
10 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 89 (4.86%) Microsoft Project
2 76 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.86%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.27%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) Windchill
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.055%) InDesign
10 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 76 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.33%) Finacle
8 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.33%) Primavera
8 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.27%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.22%) iTrent
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 294 (16.07%) Azure
2 146 (7.98%) AWS
3 111 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
4 96 (5.25%) Power Platform
5 79 (4.32%) GCP
6 75 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (3.50%) Entra ID
8 63 (3.44%) SaaS
9 37 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (1.58%) PaaS
11 28 (1.53%) Power Automate
12 23 (1.26%) Google Workspace
13 21 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (1.15%) OCI
14 20 (1.09%) OpenShift
15 19 (1.04%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.04%) IaaS
15 19 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (0.98%) Serverless
17 17 (0.93%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 119 (6.50%) Firewall
2 73 (3.99%) Network Security
3 62 (3.39%) DNS
3 62 (3.39%) WAN
4 53 (2.90%) LAN
5 52 (2.84%) VPN
6 37 (2.02%) SD-WAN
7 32 (1.75%) BGP
8 30 (1.64%) OSPF
9 29 (1.58%) SSL
10 27 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (1.42%) DHCP
11 26 (1.42%) TCP/IP
12 23 (1.26%) MPLS
13 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 18 (0.98%) SAN
14 18 (0.98%) Wireless
15 16 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.26%) Power BI
2 53 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.58%) Metadata
4 24 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (1.20%) Tableau
6 18 (0.98%) Oracle Database
6 18 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
9 9 (0.49%) MySQL
10 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
10 8 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.38%) Big Data
12 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.27%) Redis
14 4 (0.22%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 224 (12.24%) JIRA
2 46 (2.51%) Git
3 40 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.77%) Liquibase
5 13 (0.71%) GitLab
6 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.44%) MLflow
8 7 (0.38%) JUnit
9 5 (0.27%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.27%) Mockito
10 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.22%) Hudson
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
11 3 (0.16%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.16%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 753 (41.15%) Social Skills
2 597 (32.62%) Finance
3 336 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 148 (8.09%) Banking
6 75 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (3.83%) Legal
8 69 (3.77%) Retail
9 58 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (2.46%) Marketing
12 44 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 39 (2.13%) Local Government
14 36 (1.97%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.91%) Law
16 32 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (1.31%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.31%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.04%) Aviation
19 17 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 225 (12.30%) Project Manager
2 206 (11.26%) Analyst
3 200 (10.93%) Lead
4 157 (8.58%) Change Manager
5 130 (7.10%) Business Analyst
6 126 (6.89%) Senior
7 113 (6.17%) Consultant
8 66 (3.61%) Administrator
9 63 (3.44%) Programme Manager
10 62 (3.39%) Developer
11 60 (3.28%) Business Manager
12 52 (2.84%) Architect
13 51 (2.79%) Network Engineer
14 49 (2.68%) Senior Manager
15 45 (2.46%) Business Change Manager
16 42 (2.30%) IT Manager
17 36 (1.97%) Delivery Manager
18 35 (1.91%) SAP Manager
19 34 (1.86%) Service Manager
20 32 (1.75%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.17%) REST
2 33 (1.80%) .NET
3 30 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.20%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.15%) Middleware
5 21 (1.15%) OAuth
6 20 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
7 18 (0.98%) SAML
8 16 (0.87%) RESTful
9 15 (0.82%) Web Services
10 14 (0.77%) OpenID
11 13 (0.71%) LDAP
12 11 (0.60%) SOAP
13 10 (0.55%) CSS
13 10 (0.55%) ISPF
13 10 (0.55%) OAuth2
13 10 (0.55%) pytest
14 9 (0.49%) Django
14 9 (0.49%) NumPy
14 9 (0.49%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.14%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 81 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.79%) Virtual Team
6 48 (2.62%) CMDB
7 42 (2.30%) PMI
8 41 (2.24%) Cloud Native
8 41 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 30 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.58%) PKI
11 24 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (0.98%) Operational Technology
15 17 (0.93%) Public Cloud
15 17 (0.93%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.87%) NHS
16 16 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 175 (9.56%) Windows
2 70 (3.83%) Linux
3 64 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 32 (1.75%) Unix
5 31 (1.69%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.22%) CentOS
10 4 (0.22%) VMS
10 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.16%) Android
11 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.055%) AIX
12 1 (0.055%) Debian
12 1 (0.055%) Solaris
12 1 (0.055%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.055%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (31.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 462 (25.25%) Agile
3 445 (24.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 394 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
5 355 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 353 (19.29%) ITIL
7 333 (18.20%) Project Management
8 299 (16.34%) Migration
9 248 (13.55%) DevOps
10 217 (11.86%) Project Delivery
11 183 (10.00%) ERP
12 177 (9.67%) Roadmaps
13 173 (9.45%) Decision-Making
14 170 (9.29%) ITSM
15 164 (8.96%) Risk Management
16 160 (8.74%) Service Management
17 158 (8.63%) PRINCE2
18 154 (8.42%) Validation
19 145 (7.92%) Workshop Facilitation
20 142 (7.76%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 176 (9.62%) SQL
2 117 (6.39%) Python
3 100 (5.46%) PowerShell
4 47 (2.57%) C#
5 42 (2.30%) Bash
6 35 (1.91%) PL/SQL
7 31 (1.69%) Java
8 23 (1.26%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.04%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.66%) COBOL
11 11 (0.60%) JCL
12 10 (0.55%) CLIST
12 10 (0.55%) Groovy
12 10 (0.55%) REXX
12 10 (0.55%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.49%) Korn
14 8 (0.44%) Go
15 6 (0.33%) Perl
16 5 (0.27%) ABAP
16 5 (0.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 361 (19.73%) Security Cleared
2 266 (14.54%) Degree
3 258 (14.10%) SC Cleared
4 124 (6.78%) PMI Certification
5 119 (6.50%) PMP
6 52 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.62%) CISSP
8 46 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 42 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (2.19%) Master's Degree
11 38 (2.08%) CISM
12 34 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
13 31 (1.69%) CCNP
13 31 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
14 29 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 28 (1.53%) APMG
16 19 (1.04%) Azure Certification
17 18 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.93%) CIMA
19 16 (0.87%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.74%) QA
2 94 (5.14%) GDPR
3 88 (4.81%) PMO
4 85 (4.64%) Data Quality
5 64 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 61 (3.33%) SLA
7 41 (2.24%) NIST
8 24 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.93%) IFRS
9 17 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.87%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.82%) IFRS 17
12 10 (0.55%) Basel III
13 9 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.38%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.38%) GRC
15 6 (0.33%) COBIT
16 5 (0.27%) MiFID
16 5 (0.27%) NCSC
16 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 122 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 59 (3.22%) Docker
3 45 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.55%) ACF2
7 10 (0.55%) RACF
7 10 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.44%) Firmware
8 8 (0.44%) vSphere
9 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.27%) KVM
10 5 (0.27%) XenApp
10 5 (0.27%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 83 (4.54%) Kubernetes
2 61 (3.33%) Terraform
3 56 (3.06%) Ansible
4 37 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.20%) SCCM
6 21 (1.15%) Grafana
6 21 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.93%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.77%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (0.60%) Puppet
10 10 (0.55%) CA Endevor
11 9 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (0.49%) Kibana
11 9 (0.49%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.44%) SCOM
13 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 301 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 176 (9.62%) ServiceNow
3 174 (9.51%) SAP
4 146 (7.98%) Oracle
5 75 (4.10%) Salesforce
6 72 (3.93%) Cisco
7 67 (3.66%) VMware
8 62 (3.39%) Google
9 37 (2.02%) Workday
10 36 (1.97%) Citrix
11 33 (1.80%) F5
12 26 (1.42%) Splunk
13 24 (1.31%) Juniper
14 23 (1.26%) Atlassian
14 23 (1.26%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.15%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.09%) CheckPoint
17 19 (1.04%) IFS
17 19 (1.04%) Remedy
18 18 (0.98%) SolarWinds