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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 49 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,800 1,240 1,890
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.10% 4.26% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 4.71% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 799 1,144
10th Percentile £322 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £699 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 31 58
10th Percentile £21.65 £27.00 £14.31
25th Percentile £22.66 £33.38 £21.87
Median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £33.80
Median % change year-on-year -27.21% +70.13% -29.59%
75th Percentile £52.72 £71.25 £60.81
90th Percentile £84.65 £87.05 £62.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -27.21% +73.90% -31.11%

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 37,704 26,329 38,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 90.53% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,901 17,073 24,878
10th Percentile £313 £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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.13% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,218 942 2,338
10th Percentile £14.94 £15.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.31 £57.75
90th Percentile £75.12 £77.10 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -5.54% +0.83% -12.50%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -6 1,605 £500 -2.91% 574
UK excluding London -6 973 £487 +2.58% 472
London -10 677 £523 -0.48% 180
Work from Home -4 523 £525 +5.00% 224
North of England -10 298 £475 +5.56% 109
Midlands 0 231 £500 -0.05% 97
South East +12 212 £500 - 145
North West +2 200 £430 -0.41% 60
West Midlands -7 155 £510 +1.80% 57
South West +8 115 £525 +0.48% 38
Yorkshire -32 92 £488 -2.50% 34
East Midlands +17 74 £425 +34.07% 38
East of England -19 65 £475 -2.51% 53
Scotland +2 63 £450 +20.00% 21
Wales -2 13 £433 -27.83% 16
North East -18 6 £438 -23.91% 15
Northern Ireland -7 4 £383 -36.25% 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
1 122 (6.78%) Confluence
2 79 (4.39%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.56%) SAS
5 9 (0.50%) Appian
6 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.28%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.11%) Moodle
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.056%) CICS
10 1 (0.056%) JBoss
10 1 (0.056%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 97 (5.39%) Microsoft Project
2 76 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (2.06%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.28%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.22%) Trello
7 4 (0.22%) Windchill
8 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.056%) InDesign
8 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.056%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 75 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Finacle
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.33%) Primavera
7 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.17%) iTrent
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 289 (16.06%) Azure
2 152 (8.44%) AWS
3 109 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 94 (5.22%) Power Platform
5 88 (4.89%) GCP
6 76 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (3.22%) Entra ID
8 54 (3.00%) SaaS
9 31 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.50%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.39%) PaaS
12 23 (1.28%) Serverless
13 21 (1.17%) Google Workspace
14 20 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
15 19 (1.06%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.06%) IaaS
15 19 (1.06%) OpenShift
16 18 (1.00%) GitHub
16 18 (1.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.22%) Firewall
2 70 (3.89%) Network Security
3 61 (3.39%) WAN
4 60 (3.33%) DNS
5 53 (2.94%) LAN
6 51 (2.83%) VPN
7 36 (2.00%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.78%) BGP
9 30 (1.67%) OSPF
10 26 (1.44%) TCP/IP
10 26 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.28%) DHCP
11 23 (1.28%) MPLS
11 23 (1.28%) SSL
12 19 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 19 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 19 (1.06%) SAN
13 16 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (4.22%) Power BI
2 51 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.33%) Metadata
5 21 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.11%) Tableau
7 18 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
8 16 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 12 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.56%) MySQL
12 9 (0.50%) Big Data
12 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
13 8 (0.44%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
15 6 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
15 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 224 (12.44%) JIRA
2 53 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 48 (2.67%) Git
4 20 (1.11%) GitLab
4 20 (1.11%) Liquibase
5 12 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.44%) MLflow
7 7 (0.39%) JUnit
8 5 (0.28%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.28%) Mockito
9 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.11%) git-flow
11 2 (0.11%) Hudson
12 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
General
1 757 (42.06%) Social Skills
2 585 (32.50%) Finance
3 338 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 153 (8.50%) Banking
6 77 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
7 67 (3.72%) Legal
8 62 (3.44%) Retail
9 56 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.67%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.17%) Local Government
13 38 (2.11%) Telecoms
14 37 (2.06%) Marketing
15 35 (1.94%) Law
16 34 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (1.61%) Financial Institution
18 22 (1.22%) Investment Banking
19 18 (1.00%) Aviation
20 17 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 227 (12.61%) Project Manager
2 211 (11.72%) Analyst
3 188 (10.44%) Lead
4 154 (8.56%) Change Manager
5 129 (7.17%) Business Analyst
6 125 (6.94%) Senior
7 111 (6.17%) Consultant
8 65 (3.61%) Programme Manager
9 60 (3.33%) Business Manager
9 60 (3.33%) Developer
10 57 (3.17%) Administrator
11 52 (2.89%) Architect
12 48 (2.67%) Network Engineer
13 46 (2.56%) Senior Manager
14 41 (2.28%) Business Change Manager
15 38 (2.11%) IT Manager
16 34 (1.89%) SAP Manager
17 33 (1.83%) Delivery Manager
18 31 (1.72%) Service Manager
19 30 (1.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.44%) REST
2 31 (1.72%) .NET
2 31 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
3 30 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (1.22%) RESTful
5 21 (1.17%) .NET Framework
6 19 (1.06%) Middleware
7 18 (1.00%) OAuth
8 15 (0.83%) SAML
8 15 (0.83%) Web Services
9 13 (0.72%) CSS
9 13 (0.72%) SOAP
10 12 (0.67%) HTML
11 11 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.56%) ISPF
12 10 (0.56%) OpenID
12 10 (0.56%) pytest
13 9 (0.50%) Django
13 9 (0.50%) NumPy
13 9 (0.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.44%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.72%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.89%) CMDB
6 48 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 47 (2.61%) Cloud Native
8 39 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (2.06%) PMI
10 31 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.67%) PKI
12 24 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.28%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.06%) Operational Technology
16 18 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (0.94%) NHS
17 17 (0.94%) Replication
18 16 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 177 (9.83%) Windows
2 73 (4.06%) Linux
3 61 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.11%) Unix
5 31 (1.72%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.50%) 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 (0.17%) Android
11 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.056%) Debian
13 1 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.056%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.056%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (32.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 469 (26.06%) Agile
3 435 (24.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 396 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
5 347 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 342 (19.00%) ITIL
7 331 (18.39%) Project Management
8 288 (16.00%) Migration
9 242 (13.44%) DevOps
10 211 (11.72%) Project Delivery
11 173 (9.61%) Roadmaps
12 164 (9.11%) ERP
12 164 (9.11%) ITSM
13 163 (9.06%) PRINCE2
14 161 (8.94%) Decision-Making
15 160 (8.89%) Risk Management
16 153 (8.50%) Service Management
17 147 (8.17%) Validation
18 146 (8.11%) Workshop Facilitation
19 143 (7.94%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 167 (9.28%) SQL
2 132 (7.33%) Python
3 105 (5.83%) PowerShell
4 45 (2.50%) C#
5 44 (2.44%) Bash
6 29 (1.61%) PL/SQL
7 28 (1.56%) Java
8 22 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 21 (1.17%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.83%) Go
11 14 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.67%) COBOL
13 11 (0.61%) JCL
14 10 (0.56%) CLIST
14 10 (0.56%) REXX
15 9 (0.50%) Korn
16 7 (0.39%) Groovy
17 5 (0.28%) ABAP
17 5 (0.28%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 359 (19.94%) Security Cleared
2 279 (15.50%) Degree
3 249 (13.83%) SC Cleared
4 118 (6.56%) PMI Certification
5 109 (6.06%) PMP
6 54 (3.00%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 46 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (2.50%) CISSP
9 45 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (2.00%) CISM
12 29 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 27 (1.50%) CCNP
14 26 (1.44%) APMG
15 19 (1.06%) Azure Certification
15 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.83%) MBA
17 14 (0.78%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.67%) QA
2 87 (4.83%) PMO
3 85 (4.72%) GDPR
4 84 (4.67%) Data Quality
5 60 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (3.28%) SLA
7 33 (1.83%) NIST
8 23 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.94%) IFRS
10 16 (0.89%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.83%) IFRS 17
12 12 (0.67%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.56%) Basel III
14 9 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.44%) GRC
15 8 (0.44%) MiFID
16 7 (0.39%) Accessibility
16 7 (0.39%) NCSC
17 5 (0.28%) EMIR
17 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 112 (6.22%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.61%) Docker
3 44 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.56%) ACF2
7 10 (0.56%) RACF
7 10 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
8 9 (0.50%) Firmware
9 8 (0.44%) vSphere
10 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.28%) KVM
11 5 (0.28%) XenApp
11 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.17%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 87 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 68 (3.78%) Terraform
3 60 (3.33%) Ansible
4 36 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.61%) Grafana
5 29 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.28%) SCCM
7 17 (0.94%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 12 (0.67%) Puppet
10 10 (0.56%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.56%) Kibana
10 10 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.44%) SCOM
13 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.33%) CASB
14 6 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 303 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 168 (9.33%) SAP
3 166 (9.22%) ServiceNow
4 130 (7.22%) Oracle
5 70 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.78%) Cisco
7 66 (3.67%) VMware
8 65 (3.61%) Google
9 36 (2.00%) Workday
10 35 (1.94%) Citrix
11 32 (1.78%) F5
12 31 (1.72%) Splunk
13 22 (1.22%) Atlassian
13 22 (1.22%) Juniper
13 22 (1.22%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.17%) Fortinet
15 18 (1.00%) CheckPoint
15 18 (1.00%) Remedy
16 17 (0.94%) SolarWinds
17 16 (0.89%) Ariba