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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 44 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,610 1,480 1,974
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.35% 4.43% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 5.02% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,028 817 1,189
10th Percentile £313 £331 £363
25th Percentile £403 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 23 44
10th Percentile £20.56 £20.08 £19.90
25th Percentile £22.16 £29.38 £27.54
Median hourly rate £41.86 £54.00 £45.87
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +17.74% +43.33%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.00 £56.02
90th Percentile £59.75 £91.40 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £49.12 £43.33
% change year-on-year -14.79% +13.37% +33.32%

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 32,632 29,487 37,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.11% 88.32% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,578 17,975 25,172
10th Percentile £304 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,027 953 1,511
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +25.71%
75th Percentile £53.44 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.69 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.58% -32.33% +40.63%

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 31 December 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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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 -8 1,448 £500 -4.76% 516
UK excluding London +4 907 £475 -5.00% 403
London -11 591 £525 -4.55% 201
Work from Home -22 406 £500 -4.53% 193
North of England -10 279 £451 -13.37% 87
Midlands +10 224 £475 -5.00% 72
South East +11 185 £475 -9.52% 140
North West +8 176 £434 -13.20% 50
West Midlands +4 153 £475 -5.00% 39
South West +21 121 £525 +2.94% 38
Yorkshire -19 101 £487 -11.45% 30
East Midlands +27 71 £425 +3.03% 33
Scotland +8 60 £450 +15.76% 22
East of England -20 46 £520 +15.56% 40
Wales +2 12 £406 - 11
Northern Ireland -6 7 £413 -32.65% 3
North East -23 2 £500 -13.04% 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
1 121 (7.52%) Confluence
2 87 (5.40%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.62%) nginx
5 9 (0.56%) HCL Notes
6 7 (0.43%) CMS
7 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.37%) Mule
7 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.31%) IIS
9 4 (0.25%) CICS
10 3 (0.19%) JBoss
10 3 (0.19%) Moodle
11 2 (0.12%) Appian
11 2 (0.12%) FileNet
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.062%) Traefik
Applications
1 97 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (5.78%) Microsoft Project
3 86 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (2.55%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.43%) Trello
7 5 (0.31%) Windchill
8 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.19%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.062%) InDesign
11 1 (0.062%) Notion
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 53 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.62%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.31%) Maximo
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 209 (12.98%) Azure
2 158 (9.81%) AWS
3 108 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
4 106 (6.58%) GCP
5 89 (5.53%) Power Platform
6 42 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (2.55%) SaaS
8 36 (2.24%) Serverless
9 34 (2.11%) Entra ID
10 26 (1.61%) AWS KMS
11 25 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.43%) Amazon S3
12 23 (1.43%) GitHub
13 20 (1.24%) Power Automate
14 19 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (1.18%) PaaS
15 18 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
15 18 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 98 (6.09%) Firewall
2 77 (4.78%) DNS
3 59 (3.66%) Network Security
4 43 (2.67%) VPN
5 38 (2.36%) WAN
6 30 (1.86%) SSH
7 25 (1.55%) SSL
8 24 (1.49%) HTTP
9 23 (1.43%) LAN
10 21 (1.30%) DHCP
11 19 (1.18%) SMTP
11 19 (1.18%) TCP/IP
12 17 (1.06%) FTP
12 17 (1.06%) SD-WAN
13 15 (0.93%) IPsec
13 15 (0.93%) SAN
13 15 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.93%) Wireless
14 13 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 13 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.66%) Power BI
2 37 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 27 (1.68%) NoSQL
5 25 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (1.49%) Metadata
6 24 (1.49%) Tableau
7 18 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 16 (0.99%) Oracle Database
9 13 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.50%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.43%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.43%) MySQL
12 6 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.31%) Big Data
14 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.25%) Redis
15 3 (0.19%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 195 (12.11%) JIRA
2 78 (4.84%) Jenkins
3 35 (2.17%) Liquibase
4 33 (2.05%) Git
5 32 (1.99%) GitLab
6 17 (1.06%) Vagrant
7 9 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.50%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.37%) JUnit
10 5 (0.31%) Mockito
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) MSI
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.12%) AdminStudio
13 2 (0.12%) Subversion
13 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 713 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 506 (31.43%) Finance
3 300 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (10.43%) Banking
5 159 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 62 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 46 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 43 (2.67%) Legal
10 42 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
11 40 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
11 40 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (2.42%) Retail
13 38 (2.36%) Financial Institution
14 32 (1.99%) Marketing
15 31 (1.93%) Local Government
16 25 (1.55%) Law
17 24 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (1.06%) Investment Banking
19 16 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 236 (14.66%) Analyst
2 204 (12.67%) Project Manager
3 171 (10.62%) Lead
4 132 (8.20%) Change Manager
5 129 (8.01%) Business Analyst
6 98 (6.09%) Consultant
6 98 (6.09%) Senior
7 56 (3.48%) Developer
8 52 (3.23%) Administrator
9 47 (2.92%) Architect
10 44 (2.73%) Programme Manager
10 44 (2.73%) Senior Manager
11 43 (2.67%) IT Manager
12 40 (2.48%) Business Manager
13 36 (2.24%) Service Manager
14 35 (2.17%) AWS Engineer
14 35 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
15 31 (1.93%) SAP Manager
16 29 (1.80%) Business Change Manager
17 27 (1.68%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.48%) REST
2 45 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
3 32 (1.99%) RESTful
4 24 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (1.43%) .NET
6 17 (1.06%) SAML
7 16 (0.99%) LDAP
8 12 (0.75%) HTML
8 12 (0.75%) Middleware
8 12 (0.75%) OAuth
9 11 (0.68%) .NET Framework
9 11 (0.68%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.68%) OpenID
10 8 (0.50%) CSS
10 8 (0.50%) ISPF
10 8 (0.50%) Kafka
10 8 (0.50%) SOAP
11 7 (0.43%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.43%) XML
12 5 (0.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.47%) Onboarding
2 86 (5.34%) Management Information System
3 64 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 52 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 48 (2.98%) CMDB
6 45 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 40 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 38 (2.36%) PKI
9 34 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (1.93%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.74%) Replication
13 26 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 25 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (1.43%) PMI
16 21 (1.30%) Life Science
17 20 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
17 20 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
18 16 (0.99%) NHS
19 15 (0.93%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 167 (10.37%) Windows
2 100 (6.21%) Linux
3 44 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.67%) Unix
5 27 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.24%) VMS
7 17 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
8 13 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.25%) zOS
13 3 (0.19%) CentOS
13 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.12%) AIX
14 2 (0.12%) Android
14 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.062%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.062%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (28.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 433 (26.89%) Agile
3 360 (22.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 339 (21.06%) Project Management
5 334 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
6 326 (20.25%) ITIL
7 244 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 220 (13.66%) DevOps
9 208 (12.92%) Migration
10 203 (12.61%) Project Delivery
11 165 (10.25%) Service Management
12 160 (9.94%) PRINCE2
13 155 (9.63%) ITSM
14 139 (8.63%) Roadmaps
15 132 (8.20%) Decision-Making
16 128 (7.95%) CI/CD
17 126 (7.83%) ERP
18 121 (7.52%) Risk Management
19 116 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
20 112 (6.96%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 151 (9.38%) Python
2 132 (8.20%) SQL
3 99 (6.15%) PowerShell
4 39 (2.42%) Java
5 35 (2.17%) Bash
6 34 (2.11%) Go
7 30 (1.86%) C#
8 22 (1.37%) Groovy
9 20 (1.24%) JavaScript
10 18 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 12 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.68%) Perl
13 10 (0.62%) COBOL
14 9 (0.56%) Korn
15 8 (0.50%) CLIST
15 8 (0.50%) JCL
15 8 (0.50%) REXX
16 7 (0.43%) C++
17 4 (0.25%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 313 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 296 (18.39%) Degree
3 219 (13.60%) SC Cleared
4 105 (6.52%) PMI Certification
5 94 (5.84%) PMP
6 71 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (3.79%) Master's Degree
8 41 (2.55%) DV Cleared
9 39 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 24 (1.49%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
13 20 (1.24%) APMG
14 19 (1.18%) CISSP
15 18 (1.12%) Azure Certification
16 17 (1.06%) CISM
17 13 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 12 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
19 11 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.47%) QA
2 80 (4.97%) PMO
3 52 (3.23%) GDPR
4 48 (2.98%) Data Quality
5 40 (2.48%) SLA
6 30 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.12%) NIST
8 15 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.56%) IFRS
10 9 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.50%) MiFID
11 8 (0.50%) NCSC
12 7 (0.43%) GRC
13 6 (0.37%) Basel III
14 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.31%) EMIR
14 5 (0.31%) IFRS 17
14 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 97 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 74 (4.60%) Docker
3 24 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.06%) DFS Replication
5 15 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.87%) Firmware
7 10 (0.62%) Dovecot
7 10 (0.62%) Postfix
7 10 (0.62%) Squid
8 8 (0.50%) ACF2
8 8 (0.50%) RACF
8 8 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.19%) NFS
11 3 (0.19%) XenApp
11 3 (0.19%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 85 (5.28%) Terraform
2 82 (5.09%) Kubernetes
3 59 (3.66%) Ansible
3 59 (3.66%) Grafana
4 58 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 36 (2.24%) SCCM
6 26 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (0.87%) Puppet
8 13 (0.81%) Kibana
8 13 (0.81%) SCOM
9 12 (0.75%) CA Endevor
10 11 (0.68%) Nessus
11 10 (0.62%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.56%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.43%) Tivoli
13 7 (0.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
15 5 (0.31%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 308 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 151 (9.38%) SAP
3 144 (8.94%) ServiceNow
4 104 (6.46%) Oracle
5 67 (4.16%) Google
6 58 (3.60%) Salesforce
7 57 (3.54%) Cisco
8 56 (3.48%) Splunk
9 42 (2.61%) VMware
10 30 (1.86%) F5
11 26 (1.61%) Workday
12 24 (1.49%) Juniper
13 23 (1.43%) Atlassian
13 23 (1.43%) CheckPoint
14 22 (1.37%) Remedy
15 21 (1.30%) IBM
16 19 (1.18%) Citrix
17 18 (1.12%) Fortinet
18 16 (0.99%) Red Hat
19 13 (0.81%) EMC