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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 42 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 +17
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,608 1,600 2,149
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.45% 4.37% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 5.02% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 846 1,319
10th Percentile £314 £340 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £728 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 28 42
10th Percentile £20.79 £20.08 £21.56
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.85 £24.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £42.79 £41.67
Median % change year-on-year -29.89% +2.70% +19.04%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.66 £55.64
90th Percentile £69.59 £84.28 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.71% +3.75% +14.29%

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 32,259 31,857 40,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.36% 87.03% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,239 19,190 27,102
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,092 1,151 1,562
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.24% +25.37%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.74 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.05% -26.97% +39.06%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -2 1,441 £500 -4.76% 585
UK excluding London +5 886 £475 -5.00% 532
London -11 617 £525 -4.55% 203
Work from Home -22 428 £500 -4.76% 224
North of England -17 262 £450 -14.08% 140
Midlands +13 209 £475 -9.52% 90
South East +8 186 £500 -4.76% 191
North West +1 178 £438 -15.66% 65
West Midlands +6 155 £475 -9.52% 47
South West +25 116 £525 -1.87% 38
Yorkshire -38 80 £500 -4.76% 63
Scotland 0 62 £450 +12.50% 26
East Midlands +25 54 £425 - 41
East of England -16 42 £523 +10.00% 41
Wales -2 13 £413 +3.13% 9
Northern Ireland +1 12 £475 +187.88% 7
North East -19 3 £475 -17.39% 13
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 134 (8.33%) Confluence
2 82 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.75%) nginx
5 8 (0.50%) CMS
6 6 (0.37%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.37%) JBoss
6 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.37%) Mule
6 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.12%) FileNet
9 2 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.062%) Traefik
10 1 (0.062%) WebLogic
Applications
1 107 (6.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (5.60%) Microsoft Project
4 42 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.61%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.44%) Windchill
7 6 (0.37%) Trello
8 5 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.062%) InDesign
10 1 (0.062%) Notion
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 56 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Maximo
7 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.31%) SAP APO
7 5 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 171 (10.63%) Azure
2 149 (9.27%) AWS
3 101 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
4 93 (5.78%) GCP
5 81 (5.04%) Power Platform
6 55 (3.42%) SaaS
7 38 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (2.36%) Serverless
8 33 (2.05%) AWS KMS
9 31 (1.93%) Entra ID
10 30 (1.87%) Amazon S3
11 25 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (1.43%) Amazon ELB
14 22 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
15 20 (1.24%) GitHub
16 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
17 16 (1.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.59%) Firewall
2 79 (4.91%) DNS
3 60 (3.73%) Network Security
4 43 (2.67%) WAN
5 38 (2.36%) VPN
6 33 (2.05%) SSH
7 27 (1.68%) HTTP
8 26 (1.62%) LAN
9 25 (1.55%) SMTP
10 21 (1.31%) FTP
10 21 (1.31%) Wireless
11 20 (1.24%) DHCP
12 17 (1.06%) SSL
13 16 (1.00%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.93%) TCP/IP
15 14 (0.87%) IPsec
16 12 (0.75%) BGP
16 12 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
16 12 (0.75%) Cisco IPT
16 12 (0.75%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.17%) Power BI
2 40 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.68%) NoSQL
6 26 (1.62%) Metadata
7 20 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 20 (1.24%) Tableau
8 17 (1.06%) Oracle Database
9 11 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (0.62%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
11 8 (0.50%) MySQL
11 8 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.37%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.31%) Big Data
14 5 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 202 (12.56%) JIRA
2 85 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 43 (2.67%) Git
4 35 (2.18%) Liquibase
5 30 (1.87%) GitLab
6 23 (1.43%) Vagrant
7 13 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.37%) JUnit
10 5 (0.31%) Mockito
10 5 (0.31%) MSI
10 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 690 (42.91%) Social Skills
2 539 (33.52%) Finance
3 284 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (10.07%) Banking
5 146 (9.08%) Public Sector
6 72 (4.48%) Manufacturing
7 67 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
8 53 (3.30%) Legal
9 50 (3.11%) Telecoms
10 47 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.55%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
14 37 (2.30%) Retail
15 36 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
16 33 (2.05%) Law
17 32 (1.99%) Marketing
18 26 (1.62%) Local Government
19 22 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 19 (1.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 266 (16.54%) Analyst
2 207 (12.87%) Project Manager
3 156 (9.70%) Lead
4 141 (8.77%) Business Analyst
5 112 (6.97%) Change Manager
6 103 (6.41%) Consultant
7 94 (5.85%) Senior
8 60 (3.73%) Administrator
9 57 (3.54%) Developer
10 51 (3.17%) IT Manager
10 51 (3.17%) Programme Manager
11 45 (2.80%) Architect
12 41 (2.55%) Service Manager
13 40 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
13 40 (2.49%) Senior Manager
14 37 (2.30%) SAP Manager
15 36 (2.24%) AWS Engineer
16 35 (2.18%) Business Manager
17 31 (1.93%) Service Analyst
18 30 (1.87%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.30%) REST
2 43 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.87%) RESTful
4 24 (1.49%) .NET
4 24 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (1.12%) LDAP
6 16 (1.00%) SAML
7 11 (0.68%) .NET Framework
7 11 (0.68%) 802.1X
8 10 (0.62%) HTML
8 10 (0.62%) OAuth
8 10 (0.62%) OpenID
8 10 (0.62%) SOAP
9 8 (0.50%) ISPF
9 8 (0.50%) Kafka
10 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.44%) CSS
10 7 (0.44%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.44%) XML
11 5 (0.31%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 89 (5.53%) Management Information System
2 85 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 50 (3.11%) Data Centre
3 50 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 48 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 44 (2.74%) Cloud Native
6 39 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (2.11%) CMDB
9 32 (1.99%) Replication
10 31 (1.93%) PKI
11 29 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (1.74%) Public Cloud
13 26 (1.62%) Life Science
14 25 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
16 18 (1.12%) PMI
17 17 (1.06%) NHS
18 14 (0.87%) Mainframe
19 13 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 156 (9.70%) Windows
2 109 (6.78%) Linux
3 38 (2.36%) Unix
4 33 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.55%) VMS
6 23 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
7 22 (1.37%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.93%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.37%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) zOS
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.12%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Android
13 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.062%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.062%) Debian
14 1 (0.062%) Solaris
14 1 (0.062%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (27.92%) Agile
2 426 (26.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 355 (22.08%) Project Management
4 351 (21.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 330 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
6 298 (18.53%) ITIL
7 226 (14.05%) Project Delivery
8 223 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 209 (13.00%) Migration
10 205 (12.75%) DevOps
11 173 (10.76%) Service Management
12 156 (9.70%) PRINCE2
13 140 (8.71%) ITSM
14 138 (8.58%) Roadmaps
15 136 (8.46%) Risk Management
16 134 (8.33%) Decision-Making
17 127 (7.90%) ERP
18 125 (7.77%) CI/CD
19 124 (7.71%) Cybersecurity
20 111 (6.90%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.96%) Python
2 127 (7.90%) SQL
3 91 (5.66%) PowerShell
4 53 (3.30%) Java
5 35 (2.18%) Go
6 32 (1.99%) C#
7 27 (1.68%) Groovy
8 21 (1.31%) JavaScript
8 21 (1.31%) PL/SQL
9 19 (1.18%) Bash
9 19 (1.18%) Perl
10 11 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.62%) COBOL
12 9 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.50%) CLIST
13 8 (0.50%) JCL
13 8 (0.50%) REXX
14 7 (0.44%) Korn
15 6 (0.37%) ABAP
16 5 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 299 (18.59%) Degree
2 288 (17.91%) Security Cleared
3 213 (13.25%) SC Cleared
4 100 (6.22%) PMI Certification
5 91 (5.66%) PMP
6 75 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (3.48%) Master's Degree
8 40 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (2.18%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
12 25 (1.55%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (1.18%) APMG
15 18 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (1.00%) CCNP
17 14 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 13 (0.81%) Azure Certification
19 11 (0.68%) CISSP
19 11 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (5.35%) QA
2 77 (4.79%) PMO
3 53 (3.30%) GDPR
4 43 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 41 (2.55%) SLA
6 29 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.12%) NIST
8 14 (0.87%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.75%) MiFID
11 11 (0.68%) NCSC
11 11 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.56%) EMIR
13 7 (0.44%) IFRS
14 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.37%) GRC
15 5 (0.31%) GxP
15 5 (0.31%) HL7
15 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 96 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 69 (4.29%) Docker
3 21 (1.31%) DFS Replication
4 18 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.75%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.75%) Postfix
5 12 (0.75%) Squid
6 10 (0.62%) Firmware
7 8 (0.50%) ACF2
7 8 (0.50%) RACF
7 8 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.37%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.19%) vSphere
11 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.062%) Snort
Systems Management
1 77 (4.79%) Terraform
2 58 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 57 (3.54%) Grafana
4 56 (3.48%) Prometheus
5 46 (2.86%) Ansible
6 27 (1.68%) SCCM
7 19 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.81%) Nessus
9 12 (0.75%) CA Endevor
10 11 (0.68%) Kibana
10 11 (0.68%) SCOM
11 10 (0.62%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.50%) Puppet
13 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
13 7 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 7 (0.44%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
15 5 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
15 5 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 320 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 163 (10.14%) SAP
3 138 (8.58%) ServiceNow
4 101 (6.28%) Oracle
5 64 (3.98%) Cisco
6 58 (3.61%) Google
7 52 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 49 (3.05%) Splunk
9 33 (2.05%) VMware
10 28 (1.74%) Workday
11 27 (1.68%) F5
11 27 (1.68%) Remedy
12 25 (1.55%) Atlassian
12 25 (1.55%) Juniper
13 21 (1.31%) CheckPoint
14 20 (1.24%) IBM
15 19 (1.18%) Fortinet
16 17 (1.06%) Ariba
17 16 (1.00%) Red Hat
18 14 (0.87%) Citrix