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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,817 1,264 1,863
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.85% 4.32% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.75% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 807 1,106
10th Percentile £325 £319 £333
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £695 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 50 61
10th Percentile £22.63 £28.60 £14.44
25th Percentile £22.68 £50.00 £29.91
Median hourly rate £43.86 £54.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.79% +12.50% -0.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.13 £78.62 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -29.58% +26.32% +0.81%

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 39,989 26,597 37,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.89% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,206 17,155 24,229
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.62% -3.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,068 2,445
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.65 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.96 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.84 £59.95
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £27.76 £37.18
% change year-on-year +57.38% -25.34% +3.28%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -5 1,602 £500 - 546
UK excluding London -8 947 £500 +6.38% 406
London -3 702 £500 -8.68% 199
Work from Home -2 547 £525 +5.00% 195
North of England -14 294 £475 +5.56% 102
Midlands -4 223 £500 - 78
South East +9 211 £510 +5.70% 118
North West +1 188 £436 -0.34% 47
West Midlands -9 151 £510 +2.05% 38
Yorkshire -32 98 £487 +5.30% 45
South West -18 91 £500 - 44
East of England -7 71 £475 -2.51% 38
East Midlands +16 70 £425 +20.06% 38
Scotland -2 69 £470 +17.50% 25
Wales -7 10 £600 +60.00% 7
North East -20 8 £433 -24.78% 12
Northern Ireland -3 6 £475 -16.67% 6

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
1 111 (6.11%) Confluence
2 74 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.77%) SAS
5 11 (0.61%) IIS
6 9 (0.50%) Appian
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.055%) Moodle
11 1 (0.055%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.055%) MTS
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 79 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 68 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 32 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (1.71%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.28%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.17%) Windchill
11 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.055%) InDesign
11 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 77 (4.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) Finacle
6 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.33%) Primavera
7 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 284 (15.63%) Azure
2 141 (7.76%) AWS
3 110 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
4 100 (5.50%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.02%) GCP
6 72 (3.96%) SaaS
7 69 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (3.69%) Entra ID
9 39 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (1.71%) Google Workspace
10 31 (1.71%) Power Automate
11 26 (1.43%) PaaS
12 22 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (1.21%) OpenShift
13 20 (1.10%) GitHub
14 19 (1.05%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.05%) OCI
15 16 (0.88%) IaaS
15 16 (0.88%) PowerApps
16 15 (0.83%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (6.11%) Firewall
2 70 (3.85%) Network Security
3 62 (3.41%) WAN
4 60 (3.30%) DNS
5 53 (2.92%) VPN
6 50 (2.75%) LAN
7 38 (2.09%) SD-WAN
8 33 (1.82%) BGP
9 31 (1.71%) OSPF
9 31 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (1.54%) SSL
10 28 (1.54%) TCP/IP
11 25 (1.38%) DHCP
12 24 (1.32%) MPLS
13 19 (1.05%) SAN
14 18 (0.99%) Wireless
15 17 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 17 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 15 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.57%) Power BI
2 62 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.43%) Metadata
4 25 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (1.32%) Tableau
6 21 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 19 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
8 15 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.66%) MySQL
10 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (0.28%) Big Data
14 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.22%) Oracle Database 11g
15 4 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 220 (12.11%) JIRA
2 56 (3.08%) Git
3 47 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.50%) GitLab
5 9 (0.50%) MLflow
6 7 (0.39%) Liquibase
7 5 (0.28%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
8 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.22%) Hudson
8 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.22%) JUnit
8 4 (0.22%) Maven
8 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.17%) Snyk
9 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.11%) git-flow
General
1 724 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 594 (32.69%) Finance
3 318 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 145 (7.98%) Banking
6 75 (4.13%) Legal
7 71 (3.91%) Retail
8 66 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (2.53%) Marketing
12 40 (2.20%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.98%) Law
14 35 (1.93%) Local Government
15 33 (1.82%) Telecoms
16 32 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (1.21%) Investment Banking
18 21 (1.16%) Financial Institution
19 19 (1.05%) Aviation
20 18 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 217 (11.94%) Project Manager
2 191 (10.51%) Lead
3 189 (10.40%) Analyst
4 151 (8.31%) Change Manager
5 130 (7.15%) Senior
6 120 (6.60%) Business Analyst
7 110 (6.05%) Consultant
8 75 (4.13%) Administrator
9 69 (3.80%) Developer
10 62 (3.41%) Programme Manager
11 54 (2.97%) Architect
12 51 (2.81%) Business Manager
13 50 (2.75%) Network Engineer
13 50 (2.75%) Senior Manager
14 47 (2.59%) IT Manager
15 41 (2.26%) Business Change Manager
16 37 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
17 34 (1.87%) SAP Manager
18 31 (1.71%) Support Engineer
19 29 (1.60%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.81%) REST
2 35 (1.93%) .NET
3 27 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.27%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.21%) OAuth
6 21 (1.16%) Middleware
7 16 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (0.83%) CSS
9 14 (0.77%) Web Services
10 13 (0.72%) LDAP
10 13 (0.72%) SAML
11 12 (0.66%) HTML
11 12 (0.66%) SOAP
12 11 (0.61%) RESTful
13 10 (0.55%) OpenID
13 10 (0.55%) Pandas
13 10 (0.55%) pytest
13 10 (0.55%) React
14 9 (0.50%) Django
14 9 (0.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.06%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 78 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 69 (3.80%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.81%) Virtual Team
6 45 (2.48%) CMDB
7 43 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (2.31%) Cloud Native
9 41 (2.26%) PMI
10 32 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 31 (1.71%) Data Structures
12 28 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
13 26 (1.43%) PKI
14 19 (1.05%) Operational Technology
15 18 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 18 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
16 17 (0.94%) Mainframe
16 17 (0.94%) Public Cloud
17 16 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
17 16 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 172 (9.47%) Windows
2 81 (4.46%) Linux
3 60 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.48%) Unix
5 28 (1.54%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.44%) Solaris
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.28%) AIX
11 5 (0.28%) VMS
12 4 (0.22%) HPUX
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.22%) SUSE
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) Android
14 2 (0.11%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (31.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 447 (24.60%) Agile
3 429 (23.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 375 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
5 367 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 335 (18.44%) ITIL
7 325 (17.89%) Project Management
8 301 (16.57%) Migration
9 244 (13.43%) DevOps
10 212 (11.67%) Project Delivery
11 190 (10.46%) ERP
12 187 (10.29%) Roadmaps
13 180 (9.91%) Decision-Making
14 170 (9.36%) ITSM
15 169 (9.30%) Risk Management
16 166 (9.14%) Validation
17 153 (8.42%) CI/CD
18 144 (7.93%) Service Management
19 139 (7.65%) Workshop Facilitation
20 135 (7.43%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 163 (8.97%) SQL
2 113 (6.22%) Python
3 85 (4.68%) PowerShell
4 49 (2.70%) C#
5 45 (2.48%) Bash
6 41 (2.26%) PL/SQL
7 36 (1.98%) Java
8 27 (1.49%) T-SQL
9 24 (1.32%) JavaScript
10 13 (0.72%) COBOL
11 12 (0.66%) JCL
11 12 (0.66%) Korn
12 11 (0.61%) REXX
12 11 (0.61%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.50%) CLIST
13 9 (0.50%) Groovy
14 5 (0.28%) ABAP
14 5 (0.28%) Go
14 5 (0.28%) Perl
15 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 366 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 264 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 249 (13.70%) Degree
4 116 (6.38%) PMI Certification
5 115 (6.33%) PMP
6 51 (2.81%) CISSP
7 48 (2.64%) DV Cleared
8 45 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (2.09%) CISM
10 38 (2.09%) Master's Degree
11 34 (1.87%) CCNP
12 30 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (1.49%) APMG
13 27 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
13 27 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 20 (1.10%) CIMA
15 19 (1.05%) ACCA
15 19 (1.05%) Azure Certification
16 15 (0.83%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.16%) QA
2 93 (5.12%) GDPR
3 87 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.79%) PMO
4 68 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (3.63%) SLA
6 44 (2.42%) NIST
7 28 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.16%) SOC 2
9 19 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.94%) IFRS
11 15 (0.83%) IFRS 17
12 12 (0.66%) GRC
13 10 (0.55%) Basel III
14 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.44%) ITGC
15 7 (0.39%) COBIT
16 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 123 (6.77%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.86%) Docker
3 46 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.55%) vSphere
9 9 (0.50%) ACF2
9 9 (0.50%) RACF
9 9 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
10 8 (0.44%) Firmware
10 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.28%) KVM
11 5 (0.28%) XenApp
11 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 81 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.69%) Ansible
3 65 (3.58%) Terraform
4 34 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.38%) Grafana
5 25 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.27%) SCCM
7 18 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.99%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.83%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.61%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.55%) Puppet
11 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.44%) Kibana
12 8 (0.44%) SCOM
13 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 282 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 174 (9.58%) SAP
2 174 (9.58%) ServiceNow
3 159 (8.75%) Oracle
4 75 (4.13%) Cisco
5 69 (3.80%) VMware
6 67 (3.69%) Salesforce
7 66 (3.63%) Google
8 37 (2.04%) Citrix
9 33 (1.82%) F5
10 31 (1.71%) Workday
11 29 (1.60%) Splunk
12 26 (1.43%) IFS
13 25 (1.38%) Juniper
14 23 (1.27%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.16%) CheckPoint
15 21 (1.16%) Fortinet
16 17 (0.94%) Dynatrace
16 17 (0.94%) Red Hat
16 17 (0.94%) Remedy