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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 48 42
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,818 1,279 1,809
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.67% 4.38% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 4.81% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 778 1,052
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £415 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -2.72% -5.38%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +6.84% -6.40% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 53 75
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £15.06
25th Percentile £22.63 £40.00 £29.91
Median hourly rate £34.87 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.43% +8.00% -3.50%
75th Percentile £69.38 £68.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.13 £69.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.00% - +2.67%

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 41,914 26,586 37,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.67% 90.97% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,180 16,894 23,732
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,510 1,155 2,553
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.99 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% -23.32% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.11 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +83.32% -34.02% +8.91%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -4 1,599 £515 +2.90% 666
UK excluding London -12 942 £500 +6.84% 452
London -5 716 £525 -4.55% 307
Work from Home -2 555 £525 +6.06% 275
North of England -18 282 £472 +4.89% 104
South East -1 205 £550 +12.47% 137
Midlands +4 202 £513 +7.89% 80
North West -10 165 £447 +2.17% 54
West Midlands -21 134 £515 +8.42% 52
Yorkshire -29 106 £500 +11.11% 39
South West -1 98 £525 +7.69% 51
East of England +1 82 £475 -5.00% 36
Scotland -2 79 £475 +11.76% 28
East Midlands +20 66 £488 +34.30% 28
North East -14 11 £425 -22.73% 13
Wales -15 10 £550 +46.67% 12
Northern Ireland -10 6 £475 -11.63% 15

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
1 105 (5.78%) Confluence
2 83 (4.57%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.99%) IIS
5 14 (0.77%) SAS
6 13 (0.72%) Appian
7 8 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.33%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) CICS
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.17%) Camunda
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
10 3 (0.17%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.055%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 64 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.14%) Microsoft Project
3 29 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.22%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 76 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.55%) Primavera
5 10 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.33%) Finacle
7 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) Maximo
8 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.17%) OpenText MBPM
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
9 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 270 (14.85%) Azure
2 136 (7.48%) AWS
3 111 (6.11%) Power Platform
4 107 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
5 74 (4.07%) Entra ID
6 68 (3.74%) SaaS
7 66 (3.63%) GCP
8 64 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
10 37 (2.04%) Google Workspace
11 27 (1.49%) Power Automate
12 21 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (1.16%) GitHub
12 21 (1.16%) OCI
12 21 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 20 (1.10%) Google Sheets
13 20 (1.10%) PaaS
14 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (0.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 17 (0.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 104 (5.72%) Firewall
2 70 (3.85%) Network Security
3 56 (3.08%) WAN
4 55 (3.03%) DNS
5 46 (2.53%) LAN
6 43 (2.37%) VPN
7 31 (1.71%) BGP
8 30 (1.65%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.54%) OSPF
9 28 (1.54%) TCP/IP
10 27 (1.49%) MPLS
11 24 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (1.27%) SSL
13 19 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
13 19 (1.05%) DHCP
13 19 (1.05%) Wireless
14 18 (0.99%) SAN
15 16 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 16 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 15 (0.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.95%) Power BI
2 62 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.54%) Metadata
4 24 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.27%) Oracle Database
5 23 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
6 19 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.05%) Relational Database
6 19 (1.05%) Tableau
7 13 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.55%) MySQL
9 8 (0.44%) Oracle BI EE
9 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
10 7 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.33%) Db2
11 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.28%) Big Data
12 5 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 221 (12.16%) JIRA
2 60 (3.30%) Git
3 49 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.55%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.50%) MLflow
6 8 (0.44%) GitLab
7 7 (0.39%) AdminStudio
7 7 (0.39%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.22%) Hudson
8 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.22%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.17%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.11%) git-flow
10 2 (0.11%) Selenium
General
1 694 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 629 (34.60%) Finance
3 284 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 148 (8.14%) Banking
6 90 (4.95%) Legal
7 84 (4.62%) Retail
8 64 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
9 57 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
10 48 (2.64%) Marketing
11 46 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.42%) Manufacturing
13 43 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
14 40 (2.20%) Law
15 34 (1.87%) Telecoms
16 33 (1.82%) Local Government
17 24 (1.32%) Investment Banking
18 23 (1.27%) Aviation
19 21 (1.16%) Financial Institution
20 18 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 210 (11.55%) Project Manager
2 184 (10.12%) Lead
3 179 (9.85%) Analyst
4 146 (8.03%) Change Manager
5 136 (7.48%) Senior
6 121 (6.66%) Consultant
7 113 (6.22%) Business Analyst
8 74 (4.07%) Administrator
9 65 (3.58%) Programme Manager
10 59 (3.25%) Developer
11 53 (2.92%) Senior Manager
12 49 (2.70%) Network Engineer
13 48 (2.64%) Business Manager
14 46 (2.53%) Architect
15 43 (2.37%) Delivery Manager
16 41 (2.26%) IT Manager
16 41 (2.26%) Support Engineer
17 37 (2.04%) Business Change Manager
18 34 (1.87%) Service Manager
19 31 (1.71%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.14%) REST
2 32 (1.76%) .NET
3 30 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.27%) OAuth
5 22 (1.21%) CSS
5 22 (1.21%) Middleware
6 20 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 19 (1.05%) HTML
8 16 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (0.88%) Web Services
9 13 (0.72%) LDAP
10 12 (0.66%) RESTful
11 11 (0.61%) React
12 10 (0.55%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.55%) SOAP
12 10 (0.55%) Spring
13 9 (0.50%) Django
13 9 (0.50%) Pandas
13 9 (0.50%) pytest
13 9 (0.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.01%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 73 (4.02%) Data Centre
4 68 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 53 (2.92%) Cloud Native
6 50 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (1.98%) PMI
8 35 (1.93%) CMDB
9 33 (1.82%) Virtual Team
10 31 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 26 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.43%) Operational Technology
13 25 (1.38%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.27%) PKI
15 21 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
16 18 (0.99%) Low-Code
16 18 (0.99%) Public Cloud
17 15 (0.83%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 195 (10.73%) Windows
2 99 (5.45%) Linux
3 70 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.53%) Unix
5 37 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.32%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.61%) Solaris
8 10 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.39%) AIX
10 7 (0.39%) VMS
10 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.28%) Android
12 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.28%) SUSE
13 4 (0.22%) HPUX
13 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (32.12%) Stakeholder Management
2 438 (24.09%) Agile
3 426 (23.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 366 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 340 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
6 314 (17.27%) ITIL
7 300 (16.50%) Migration
8 299 (16.45%) Project Management
9 236 (12.98%) DevOps
10 226 (12.43%) Project Delivery
11 204 (11.22%) ERP
12 199 (10.95%) Roadmaps
13 195 (10.73%) Decision-Making
14 171 (9.41%) Risk Management
15 165 (9.08%) Validation
16 163 (8.97%) CI/CD
17 160 (8.80%) ITSM
18 152 (8.36%) AI
19 147 (8.09%) Service Management
20 140 (7.70%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 178 (9.79%) SQL
2 127 (6.99%) Python
3 99 (5.45%) PowerShell
4 52 (2.86%) Bash
5 45 (2.48%) C#
6 44 (2.42%) PL/SQL
7 42 (2.31%) Java
8 35 (1.93%) JavaScript
9 24 (1.32%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.55%) Korn
11 9 (0.50%) Groovy
11 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.44%) COBOL
13 7 (0.39%) Go
13 7 (0.39%) JCL
14 6 (0.33%) ABAP
15 5 (0.28%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.28%) REXX
16 4 (0.22%) Perl
16 4 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 361 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 252 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 228 (12.54%) Degree
4 121 (6.66%) PMP
5 111 (6.11%) PMI Certification
6 58 (3.19%) DV Cleared
7 56 (3.08%) CISSP
8 47 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (1.98%) CISM
11 33 (1.82%) CCNP
12 32 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 26 (1.43%) APMG
13 26 (1.43%) CIMA
13 26 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
14 25 (1.38%) ACCA
14 25 (1.38%) Azure Certification
15 15 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 14 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (6.11%) QA
2 90 (4.95%) GDPR
3 88 (4.84%) Data Quality
4 86 (4.73%) PMO
5 72 (3.96%) SLA
6 68 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (2.53%) NIST
8 28 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 22 (1.21%) SOC 2
10 20 (1.10%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.99%) GRC
12 15 (0.83%) IFRS
13 13 (0.72%) IFRS 17
14 8 (0.44%) Basel III
14 8 (0.44%) COBIT
14 8 (0.44%) ITGC
15 6 (0.33%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.28%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.28%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 126 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 66 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (3.36%) Docker
4 24 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 24 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.55%) vSphere
9 7 (0.39%) vCloud
10 6 (0.33%) Firmware
10 6 (0.33%) KVM
11 4 (0.22%) XenApp
11 4 (0.22%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.11%) ACF2
13 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 81 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 79 (4.35%) Terraform
3 68 (3.74%) Ansible
4 33 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (1.54%) Grafana
5 28 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.38%) vCenter Server
7 22 (1.21%) SCCM
8 21 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.99%) SCOM
10 13 (0.72%) FortiGate
11 11 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
12 9 (0.50%) Puppet
13 8 (0.44%) Avamar
14 7 (0.39%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
14 7 (0.39%) vRealize
15 6 (0.33%) Argo
15 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 287 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 175 (9.63%) Oracle
3 174 (9.57%) ServiceNow
4 166 (9.13%) SAP
5 87 (4.79%) VMware
6 73 (4.02%) Salesforce
7 65 (3.58%) Cisco
8 64 (3.52%) Google
9 35 (1.93%) Splunk
10 31 (1.71%) Citrix
11 30 (1.65%) F5
12 27 (1.49%) Workday
13 26 (1.43%) IFS
14 24 (1.32%) IBM
15 23 (1.27%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.27%) Red Hat
16 22 (1.21%) CheckPoint
17 21 (1.16%) Dynatrace
17 21 (1.16%) Fortinet
18 20 (1.10%) Remedy