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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 47 45
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,987 1,525 1,612
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 4.60% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 5.09% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 917 925
10th Percentile £371 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -5.31%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £606
90th Percentile £725 £725 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +9.84% -6.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 78 54
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.17 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £26.49
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.64 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -31.31% +16.22%
75th Percentile £76.75 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.00 £69.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.51 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +25.03% -36.84% -1.58%

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 45,268 29,990 33,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.46% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,764 21,291
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £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 £729 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,826 1,696 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.89 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +13.33%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -11 1,748 £525 +5.00% 957
UK excluding London -24 970 £516 +9.84% 568
London -2 842 £538 -2.27% 493
Work from Home 0 610 £525 +5.00% 372
North of England -24 282 £500 +11.11% 147
South East +2 271 £575 +22.99% 176
North West -20 164 £475 +5.56% 78
Midlands -42 139 £503 +5.89% 88
West Midlands -41 105 £520 +9.47% 59
Yorkshire -27 103 £500 +11.11% 51
South West -23 95 £525 +4.74% 57
Scotland +3 91 £496 +10.28% 33
East of England +4 82 £475 -9.09% 52
East Midlands -6 32 £430 +19.44% 29
North East -29 15 £425 -15.00% 20
Wales -17 9 £575 +53.33% 10
Northern Ireland -7 8 £750 +42.86% 16

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
1 108 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 97 (4.88%) Confluence
3 33 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.06%) IIS
5 11 (0.55%) SAS
6 9 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.30%) Appian
8 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.30%) CMS
9 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.25%) Camunda
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) CICS
11 3 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.050%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.050%) Jupyter
Applications
1 75 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Houdini
9 2 (0.10%) NUKE
9 2 (0.10%) Windchill
10 1 (0.050%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.050%) InDesign
10 1 (0.050%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.050%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 73 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 15 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (0.65%) Primavera
5 10 (0.50%) Maximo
6 9 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
6 9 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.40%) SAP PM
8 7 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.25%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.25%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.25%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.20%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 307 (15.45%) Azure
2 155 (7.80%) AWS
3 141 (7.10%) Power Platform
4 118 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (5.18%) Entra ID
6 75 (3.77%) SaaS
7 70 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (3.22%) GCP
9 53 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (1.91%) GitHub
11 34 (1.71%) OCI
12 31 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
13 27 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (1.36%) Power Automate
14 25 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (1.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 24 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (1.16%) OneDrive
17 22 (1.11%) Google Workspace
18 21 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 129 (6.49%) Firewall
2 104 (5.23%) Network Security
3 71 (3.57%) DNS
4 62 (3.12%) VPN
5 59 (2.97%) WAN
6 41 (2.06%) LAN
7 40 (2.01%) TCP/IP
8 36 (1.81%) DHCP
9 34 (1.71%) Wireless
10 31 (1.56%) BGP
11 29 (1.46%) OSPF
12 27 (1.36%) SD-WAN
12 27 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (1.26%) SSL
14 23 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
15 22 (1.11%) MPLS
16 20 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
17 18 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
18 17 (0.86%) HTTP
19 15 (0.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.84%) Power BI
2 63 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.56%) Oracle Database
4 29 (1.46%) Metadata
5 21 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
5 21 (1.06%) Tableau
6 20 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 19 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.55%) MySQL
10 10 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.40%) Db2
11 8 (0.40%) Oracle BI EE
12 7 (0.35%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.30%) GIS
13 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database 11g
13 6 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 225 (11.32%) JIRA
2 74 (3.72%) Git
3 56 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.40%) GitLab
6 7 (0.35%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.35%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.30%) Selenium
7 6 (0.30%) SonarQube
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%) Hudson
9 4 (0.20%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.20%) Maven
9 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.20%) Snyk
10 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
General
1 730 (36.74%) Social Skills
2 710 (35.73%) Finance
3 321 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (9.61%) Public Sector
5 183 (9.21%) Banking
6 93 (4.68%) Legal
7 88 (4.43%) Retail
8 86 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
9 74 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
10 70 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
11 60 (3.02%) Manufacturing
12 54 (2.72%) Telecoms
13 51 (2.57%) Marketing
14 49 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (2.01%) Law
16 36 (1.81%) Local Government
17 30 (1.51%) Aviation
18 23 (1.16%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 21 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 228 (11.47%) Project Manager
2 225 (11.32%) Lead
3 211 (10.62%) Analyst
4 158 (7.95%) Senior
5 148 (7.45%) Change Manager
6 128 (6.44%) Consultant
7 124 (6.24%) Business Analyst
8 73 (3.67%) Administrator
9 71 (3.57%) Network Engineer
10 64 (3.22%) Senior Manager
11 60 (3.02%) Developer
12 55 (2.77%) Programme Manager
13 49 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
13 49 (2.47%) IT Manager
14 48 (2.42%) Business Manager
15 46 (2.32%) Support Engineer
16 43 (2.16%) Cloud Engineer
17 41 (2.06%) Service Manager
18 38 (1.91%) Business Change Manager
19 36 (1.81%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (2.97%) REST
2 39 (1.96%) .NET
3 36 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.21%) CSS
4 24 (1.21%) HTML
5 20 (1.01%) Middleware
6 17 (0.86%) SOAP
7 16 (0.81%) Ajax
8 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
8 13 (0.65%) Web Services
9 12 (0.60%) .NET Framework
9 12 (0.60%) 802.1X
9 12 (0.60%) OAuth
9 12 (0.60%) Spring
10 10 (0.50%) AngularJS
10 10 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (0.45%) JSON
12 8 (0.40%) Jakarta EE
12 8 (0.40%) React
12 8 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 104 (5.23%) Onboarding
2 98 (4.93%) Management Information System
3 83 (4.18%) Data Centre
4 76 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 55 (2.77%) Cloud Native
6 47 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 43 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (1.61%) PMI
10 31 (1.56%) CMDB
10 31 (1.56%) Operational Technology
10 31 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 31 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.46%) PKI
12 28 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
13 24 (1.21%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.11%) AI Agents
14 22 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.06%) Public Cloud
16 19 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 224 (11.27%) Windows
2 111 (5.59%) Linux
3 90 (4.53%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (2.16%) Unix
6 20 (1.01%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.60%) Solaris
8 9 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.45%) VMS
9 8 (0.40%) AIX
9 8 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.30%) SUSE
12 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.25%) HPUX
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.20%) Android
14 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (34.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 507 (25.52%) Agile
3 476 (23.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 442 (22.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 372 (18.72%) ITIL
6 338 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
7 332 (16.71%) Project Management
8 309 (15.55%) Migration
9 301 (15.15%) Project Delivery
10 250 (12.58%) DevOps
11 243 (12.23%) Decision-Making
12 238 (11.98%) Roadmaps
13 220 (11.07%) Service Management
14 209 (10.52%) ITSM
15 207 (10.42%) AI
15 207 (10.42%) ERP
16 174 (8.76%) Analytics
17 169 (8.51%) PRINCE2
18 162 (8.15%) CI/CD
18 162 (8.15%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (8.10%) SQL
2 150 (7.55%) Python
3 130 (6.54%) PowerShell
4 64 (3.22%) Bash
5 52 (2.62%) Java
6 49 (2.47%) C#
7 47 (2.37%) JavaScript
8 46 (2.32%) PL/SQL
9 24 (1.21%) T-SQL
10 19 (0.96%) Bicep
11 13 (0.65%) Korn
12 9 (0.45%) Groovy
13 7 (0.35%) Go
13 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.25%) ABAP
15 5 (0.25%) COBOL
15 5 (0.25%) VBScript
16 4 (0.20%) JCL
16 4 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 412 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 301 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 222 (11.17%) Degree
4 153 (7.70%) PMP
5 142 (7.15%) PMI Certification
6 75 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 63 (3.17%) CISSP
8 62 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (2.16%) CCNP
10 39 (1.96%) CISM
11 29 (1.46%) Azure Certification
11 29 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (1.36%) APMG
14 24 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
15 23 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 22 (1.11%) CIMA
16 22 (1.11%) Master's Degree
17 21 (1.06%) ACCA
17 21 (1.06%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (4.98%) QA
2 98 (4.93%) PMO
3 94 (4.73%) SLA
4 91 (4.58%) Data Quality
5 83 (4.18%) GDPR
6 69 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (2.47%) NIST
8 29 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 28 (1.41%) GRC
10 24 (1.21%) SOC 2
11 20 (1.01%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.55%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.50%) ITGC
14 7 (0.35%) COBIT
14 7 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
14 7 (0.35%) EMIR
14 7 (0.35%) GMP
14 7 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.25%) IFRS
System Software
1 139 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 86 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (2.11%) Docker
4 26 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.96%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.91%) VMware NSX
8 17 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.60%) vSphere
10 11 (0.55%) vCloud
11 7 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.10%) Ceph
13 2 (0.10%) Firmware
13 2 (0.10%) KVM
14 1 (0.050%) NFS
14 1 (0.050%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.050%) Squid
Systems Management
1 109 (5.49%) Terraform
2 70 (3.52%) Ansible
3 66 (3.32%) Kubernetes
4 42 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (1.66%) vCenter Server
6 28 (1.41%) SCOM
7 23 (1.16%) Grafana
7 23 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.11%) Prometheus
9 17 (0.86%) SCCM
10 15 (0.75%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.65%) Avamar
12 10 (0.50%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
14 7 (0.35%) vRealize
15 6 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
15 6 (0.30%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 361 (18.17%) Microsoft
2 222 (11.17%) ServiceNow
3 191 (9.61%) Oracle
4 168 (8.45%) SAP
5 112 (5.64%) VMware
6 96 (4.83%) Cisco
7 80 (4.03%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.32%) Google
9 36 (1.81%) IBM
9 36 (1.81%) Splunk
10 31 (1.56%) Red Hat
11 30 (1.51%) Citrix
11 30 (1.51%) F5
11 30 (1.51%) Palo Alto
12 29 (1.46%) CheckPoint
12 29 (1.46%) Zscaler
13 26 (1.31%) Workday
14 25 (1.26%) IFS
14 25 (1.26%) Juniper
15 24 (1.21%) Remedy