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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 48 44
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,971 1,485 1,671
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 4.51% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 4.98% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 883 961
10th Percentile £363 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% -2.86% -7.27%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £606
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +11.35% -7.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 81 61
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £29.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% -13.64% +13.95%
75th Percentile £76.75 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.00 £69.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.61 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.71% -40.00% +13.22%

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 44,856 29,798 34,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.42% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,719 22,071
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,670 1,616 2,026
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.38 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.82 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.59% -40.46% -

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -7 1,737 £525 +5.00% 633
UK excluding London -18 979 £515 +11.35% 406
London +3 816 £537 -2.32% 308
Work from Home 0 609 £525 +7.36% 274
North of England -25 300 £500 +11.11% 107
South East +7 267 £575 +24.32% 142
North West -18 172 £475 +5.56% 64
Midlands -27 152 £506 +6.53% 56
West Midlands -34 118 £525 +10.53% 36
Yorkshire -31 112 £500 +11.11% 33
South West -27 90 £519 +5.87% 55
Scotland +1 85 £493 +9.44% 16
East of England +3 80 £475 -6.86% 30
East Midlands -2 32 £430 +20.11% 20
North East -26 16 £425 -15.00% 11
Wales -13 10 £600 +60.00% 4
Northern Ireland -11 7 £750 +42.86% 4

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 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 102 (5.18%) Confluence
3 33 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.07%) IIS
5 13 (0.66%) SAS
6 10 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.41%) Appian
8 7 (0.36%) CMS
9 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.25%) Camunda
11 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) CICS
12 3 (0.15%) Kentico
12 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
14 1 (0.051%) Jupyter
Applications
1 70 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 70 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (2.89%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.10%) Houdini
7 2 (0.10%) NUKE
8 1 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.051%) InDesign
8 1 (0.051%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.051%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 78 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (0.66%) Primavera
5 11 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 10 (0.51%) Maximo
7 9 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.36%) SAP PM
10 6 (0.30%) OpenText MBPM
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.25%) ContrOCC
11 5 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
11 5 (0.25%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.25%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.25%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 304 (15.42%) Azure
2 157 (7.97%) AWS
3 133 (6.75%) Power Platform
4 116 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
5 98 (4.97%) Entra ID
6 77 (3.91%) SaaS
7 71 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (3.45%) GCP
9 50 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
10 36 (1.83%) GitHub
11 30 (1.52%) OCI
12 29 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
13 25 (1.27%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 24 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 22 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (1.12%) OneDrive
16 21 (1.07%) Serverless
16 21 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 129 (6.54%) Firewall
2 101 (5.12%) Network Security
3 62 (3.15%) DNS
4 56 (2.84%) WAN
5 54 (2.74%) VPN
6 41 (2.08%) LAN
7 33 (1.67%) BGP
7 33 (1.67%) TCP/IP
7 33 (1.67%) Wireless
8 30 (1.52%) OSPF
9 27 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (1.27%) DHCP
10 25 (1.27%) MPLS
11 24 (1.22%) SSL
12 23 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
12 23 (1.17%) SD-WAN
13 20 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
14 18 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
15 17 (0.86%) HTTP
16 15 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (5.43%) Power BI
2 60 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.67%) Metadata
4 29 (1.47%) Oracle Database
5 23 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
6 22 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 20 (1.01%) Tableau
8 19 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.51%) MySQL
11 8 (0.41%) Oracle BI EE
12 7 (0.36%) Db2
13 6 (0.30%) GIS
13 6 (0.30%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database 11g
13 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.25%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 233 (11.82%) JIRA
2 74 (3.75%) Git
3 59 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.46%) GitLab
6 7 (0.36%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.36%) InstallShield
7 5 (0.25%) Selenium
7 5 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.25%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.20%) Hudson
8 4 (0.20%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.20%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.20%) Maven
8 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.20%) Snyk
9 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
General
1 719 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 706 (35.82%) Finance
3 310 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (9.79%) Public Sector
5 170 (8.63%) Banking
6 93 (4.72%) Legal
7 87 (4.41%) Retail
8 82 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
9 76 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
10 68 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
11 57 (2.89%) Manufacturing
12 54 (2.74%) Marketing
13 50 (2.54%) Telecoms
14 46 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (2.03%) Law
16 36 (1.83%) Local Government
17 32 (1.62%) Aviation
18 25 (1.27%) Financial Institution
19 22 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 19 (0.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 227 (11.52%) Project Manager
2 216 (10.96%) Lead
3 207 (10.50%) Analyst
4 151 (7.66%) Senior
5 146 (7.41%) Change Manager
6 125 (6.34%) Consultant
7 120 (6.09%) Business Analyst
8 72 (3.65%) Administrator
9 70 (3.55%) Network Engineer
10 61 (3.09%) Senior Manager
11 58 (2.94%) Developer
12 57 (2.89%) Programme Manager
13 50 (2.54%) Business Manager
13 50 (2.54%) IT Manager
14 48 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
15 44 (2.23%) Support Engineer
16 43 (2.18%) Service Manager
17 41 (2.08%) Architect
17 41 (2.08%) Cloud Engineer
18 39 (1.98%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (3.09%) REST
2 36 (1.83%) .NET
3 35 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.17%) CSS
4 23 (1.17%) HTML
5 20 (1.01%) Middleware
6 16 (0.81%) SOAP
7 15 (0.76%) .NET Framework
7 15 (0.76%) Ajax
7 15 (0.76%) OAuth
7 15 (0.76%) Web Services
8 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (0.56%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (0.56%) JSON
9 11 (0.56%) LDAP
9 11 (0.56%) RESTful
9 11 (0.56%) Spring
10 10 (0.51%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.41%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 98 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 95 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 81 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 77 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 58 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 47 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (1.67%) PMI
10 31 (1.57%) Operational Technology
10 31 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.52%) CMDB
11 30 (1.52%) Security Posture
12 26 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.32%) PKI
13 25 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 23 (1.17%) Public Cloud
15 22 (1.12%) AI Agents
16 21 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
17 17 (0.86%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 202 (10.25%) Windows
2 110 (5.58%) Linux
3 76 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (2.23%) Unix
6 18 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.61%) Solaris
8 10 (0.51%) VMS
9 8 (0.41%) AIX
9 8 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.30%) SUSE
12 5 (0.25%) Android
12 5 (0.25%) HPUX
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (33.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 506 (25.67%) Agile
3 468 (23.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 437 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 360 (18.26%) ITIL
6 347 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
7 342 (17.35%) Project Management
8 311 (15.78%) Migration
9 297 (15.07%) Project Delivery
10 257 (13.04%) DevOps
11 236 (11.97%) Decision-Making
12 234 (11.87%) Roadmaps
13 211 (10.71%) ERP
13 211 (10.71%) Service Management
14 209 (10.60%) AI
15 200 (10.15%) ITSM
16 169 (8.57%) CI/CD
16 169 (8.57%) PRINCE2
17 168 (8.52%) Risk Management
18 153 (7.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 153 (7.76%) SQL
2 150 (7.61%) Python
3 120 (6.09%) PowerShell
4 60 (3.04%) Bash
5 51 (2.59%) Java
6 49 (2.49%) C#
7 45 (2.28%) PL/SQL
8 43 (2.18%) JavaScript
9 23 (1.17%) T-SQL
10 17 (0.86%) Bicep
11 12 (0.61%) Korn
12 10 (0.51%) Groovy
13 9 (0.46%) Go
14 7 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.30%) ABAP
15 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.30%) COBOL
16 5 (0.25%) Perl
17 4 (0.20%) JCL
17 4 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 406 (20.60%) Security Cleared
2 299 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 220 (11.16%) Degree
4 152 (7.71%) PMP
5 142 (7.20%) PMI Certification
6 70 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 61 (3.09%) CISSP
8 59 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (2.18%) CCNP
10 37 (1.88%) CISM
11 31 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
13 28 (1.42%) Azure Certification
14 24 (1.22%) APMG
15 23 (1.17%) Master's Degree
16 22 (1.12%) CIMA
16 22 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
16 22 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 21 (1.07%) ACCA
18 20 (1.01%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (5.48%) QA
2 99 (5.02%) PMO
3 92 (4.67%) SLA
4 83 (4.21%) Data Quality
4 83 (4.21%) GDPR
5 69 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (2.38%) NIST
7 31 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 27 (1.37%) GRC
9 23 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 21 (1.07%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.61%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.51%) ITGC
13 7 (0.36%) COBIT
13 7 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.36%) EMIR
14 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.30%) GMP
14 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.25%) IFRS
System Software
1 132 (6.70%) Active Directory
2 79 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.28%) Docker
4 27 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.91%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.86%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.66%) vSphere
10 10 (0.51%) vCloud
11 7 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.20%) KVM
13 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.10%) Ceph
14 2 (0.10%) Firmware
15 1 (0.051%) NFS
15 1 (0.051%) Sendmail
15 1 (0.051%) Squid
15 1 (0.051%) XenApp
15 1 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 107 (5.43%) Terraform
2 74 (3.75%) Ansible
3 71 (3.60%) Kubernetes
4 36 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (1.67%) vCenter Server
6 24 (1.22%) Grafana
6 24 (1.22%) SCOM
7 23 (1.17%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.76%) SCCM
10 12 (0.61%) Avamar
11 10 (0.51%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.41%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.36%) Argo
13 7 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (0.36%) PowerCLI
13 7 (0.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 347 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 216 (10.96%) ServiceNow
3 189 (9.59%) Oracle
4 174 (8.83%) SAP
5 102 (5.18%) VMware
6 90 (4.57%) Cisco
7 76 (3.86%) Salesforce
8 48 (2.44%) Google
9 37 (1.88%) IBM
10 35 (1.78%) Splunk
11 33 (1.67%) Citrix
12 32 (1.62%) F5
13 31 (1.57%) Red Hat
14 30 (1.52%) CheckPoint
15 29 (1.47%) Palo Alto
16 28 (1.42%) Juniper
17 26 (1.32%) Zscaler
18 25 (1.27%) IFS
19 24 (1.22%) Workday
20 22 (1.12%) Fortinet