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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 52 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,908 1,394 1,762
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.68% 4.38% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.83% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 840 1,025
10th Percentile £363 £325 £311
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% -0.50% -8.44%
75th Percentile £617 £620 £608
90th Percentile £711 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +7.11% -3.11% -3.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 71 75
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.16 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £29.00 £29.91
Median hourly rate £34.94 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +8.00% +2.67%
75th Percentile £74.13 £58.51 £61.60
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.16 £66.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.52 £37.28 £49.00
% change year-on-year -31.55% -23.92% +4.00%

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 44,015 28,835 36,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.69% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,345 18,178 23,579
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,643 1,429 2,511
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.79 £17.50 £16.18
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -2.41%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.83 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.04% -34.86% +8.91%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -4 1,671 £525 +5.00% 703
UK excluding London -14 964 £509 +7.11% 480
London +1 774 £525 -4.55% 319
Work from Home -3 590 £525 +5.00% 323
North of England -22 291 £475 +5.56% 122
South East +2 239 £575 +17.35% 152
Midlands -12 175 £515 +8.42% 64
North West -15 165 £453 +2.95% 86
West Midlands -26 128 £520 +9.47% 40
Yorkshire -28 109 £500 +8.11% 28
Scotland 0 89 £484 +9.82% 37
South West -16 88 £519 -1.19% 67
East of England -3 79 £475 -5.00% 30
East Midlands +11 45 £513 +43.16% 24
North East -21 17 £425 -15.00% 11
Wales -15 11 £575 +53.33% 8
Northern Ireland -12 6 £475 -9.52% 10

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
1 107 (5.61%) Confluence
2 93 (4.87%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.10%) IIS
5 14 (0.73%) SAS
6 12 (0.63%) Appian
7 10 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.42%) CMS
9 6 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.26%) Camunda
11 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.21%) CICS
11 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.16%) Kentico
12 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
14 1 (0.052%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 61 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (1.36%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.052%) Houdini
9 1 (0.052%) InDesign
9 1 (0.052%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.052%) NUKE
9 1 (0.052%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.052%) Trello
9 1 (0.052%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 77 (4.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.68%) Primavera
4 12 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.52%) Maximo
5 10 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.31%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.26%) ContrOCC
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.26%) SAP QM
10 4 (0.21%) Finacle
10 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
11 3 (0.16%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 270 (14.15%) Azure
2 142 (7.44%) AWS
3 113 (5.92%) Power Platform
4 107 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
5 86 (4.51%) Entra ID
6 73 (3.83%) SaaS
7 68 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (3.20%) GCP
9 37 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
10 33 (1.73%) Google Workspace
11 28 (1.47%) OCI
12 27 (1.42%) GitHub
13 25 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
14 24 (1.26%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 20 (1.05%) PaaS
17 18 (0.94%) Serverless
17 18 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 123 (6.45%) Firewall
2 86 (4.51%) Network Security
3 59 (3.09%) WAN
4 54 (2.83%) DNS
5 49 (2.57%) VPN
6 45 (2.36%) LAN
7 37 (1.94%) BGP
8 34 (1.78%) OSPF
9 31 (1.62%) SD-WAN
9 31 (1.62%) Wireless
10 29 (1.52%) MPLS
11 27 (1.42%) TCP/IP
12 25 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
13 22 (1.15%) SSL
14 21 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
15 20 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
15 20 (1.05%) DHCP
16 15 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
17 14 (0.73%) HTTP
17 14 (0.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (4.82%) Power BI
2 61 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.83%) Metadata
4 30 (1.57%) Oracle Database
5 25 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
6 23 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (1.21%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (0.89%) Tableau
9 13 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.52%) MySQL
11 8 (0.42%) Oracle BI EE
12 7 (0.37%) Db2
13 6 (0.31%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.31%) Oracle Database 11g
14 5 (0.26%) Big Data
14 5 (0.26%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.26%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 232 (12.16%) JIRA
2 71 (3.72%) Git
3 58 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.58%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.52%) GitLab
6 7 (0.37%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.37%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.31%) MLflow
8 5 (0.26%) Selenium
9 4 (0.21%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.21%) Hudson
9 4 (0.21%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.21%) Liquibase
9 4 (0.21%) Maven
9 4 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.16%) Snyk
10 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 702 (36.79%) Social Skills
2 686 (35.95%) Finance
3 299 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 156 (8.18%) Banking
6 97 (5.08%) Legal
7 86 (4.51%) Retail
8 73 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
9 71 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 54 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (2.73%) Marketing
13 51 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (2.15%) Law
15 40 (2.10%) Telecoms
16 38 (1.99%) Local Government
17 26 (1.36%) Aviation
18 23 (1.21%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.21%) Investment Banking
19 18 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 215 (11.27%) Project Manager
2 198 (10.38%) Lead
3 197 (10.32%) Analyst
4 147 (7.70%) Change Manager
5 140 (7.34%) Senior
6 123 (6.45%) Consultant
7 116 (6.08%) Business Analyst
8 70 (3.67%) Administrator
9 67 (3.51%) Programme Manager
10 63 (3.30%) Network Engineer
11 58 (3.04%) Senior Manager
12 57 (2.99%) Developer
13 53 (2.78%) Business Manager
14 50 (2.62%) IT Manager
15 47 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
16 45 (2.36%) Support Engineer
17 42 (2.20%) Service Manager
18 41 (2.15%) Architect
19 39 (2.04%) Business Change Manager
20 33 (1.73%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (3.14%) REST
2 36 (1.89%) .NET
3 34 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.15%) CSS
4 22 (1.15%) HTML
5 21 (1.10%) OAuth
6 20 (1.05%) .NET Framework
6 20 (1.05%) Middleware
7 15 (0.79%) Web Services
8 14 (0.73%) LDAP
8 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
8 14 (0.73%) RESTful
9 13 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (0.68%) SOAP
10 12 (0.63%) Ajax
10 12 (0.63%) Spring
11 11 (0.58%) JSON
11 11 (0.58%) React
12 10 (0.52%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.47%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 94 (4.93%) Management Information System
2 78 (4.09%) Data Centre
3 75 (3.93%) Onboarding
4 72 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 54 (2.83%) Cloud Native
6 51 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (1.83%) Virtual Team
8 32 (1.68%) Operational Technology
9 31 (1.62%) PMI
10 30 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.52%) CMDB
11 29 (1.52%) Data Structures
12 26 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.21%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.15%) PKI
15 20 (1.05%) Public Cloud
16 19 (1.00%) AI Agents
17 16 (0.84%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 194 (10.17%) Windows
2 107 (5.61%) Linux
3 71 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.46%) Unix
5 42 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.00%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.63%) Solaris
8 10 (0.52%) VMS
9 8 (0.42%) AIX
9 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.37%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.31%) Android
11 6 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.31%) SUSE
11 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.26%) HPUX
12 5 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (32.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 487 (25.52%) Agile
3 455 (23.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 406 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 354 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
6 332 (17.40%) ITIL
7 315 (16.51%) Project Management
8 300 (15.72%) Migration
9 259 (13.57%) Project Delivery
10 251 (13.16%) DevOps
11 225 (11.79%) Decision-Making
12 215 (11.27%) Roadmaps
13 202 (10.59%) ERP
14 189 (9.91%) AI
15 178 (9.33%) Risk Management
16 174 (9.12%) ITSM
16 174 (9.12%) Service Management
17 170 (8.91%) CI/CD
18 159 (8.33%) Validation
19 149 (7.81%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 175 (9.17%) SQL
2 142 (7.44%) Python
3 111 (5.82%) PowerShell
4 49 (2.57%) Bash
4 49 (2.57%) C#
4 49 (2.57%) Java
5 47 (2.46%) PL/SQL
6 38 (1.99%) JavaScript
7 25 (1.31%) T-SQL
8 11 (0.58%) Korn
9 10 (0.52%) Groovy
10 9 (0.47%) COBOL
10 9 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 8 (0.42%) Go
12 7 (0.37%) Bicep
12 7 (0.37%) JCL
13 6 (0.31%) ABAP
14 5 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.26%) Perl
14 5 (0.26%) REXX
Qualifications
1 370 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 270 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 221 (11.58%) Degree
4 131 (6.87%) PMP
5 120 (6.29%) PMI Certification
6 58 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
6 58 (3.04%) DV Cleared
7 56 (2.94%) CISSP
8 42 (2.20%) CCNP
9 37 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (1.78%) CISM
11 28 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
12 26 (1.36%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.31%) APMG
13 25 (1.31%) Azure Certification
13 25 (1.31%) CIMA
14 24 (1.26%) ACCA
15 22 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
16 19 (1.00%) CCNA
17 17 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (5.82%) QA
2 92 (4.82%) GDPR
2 92 (4.82%) PMO
3 90 (4.72%) SLA
4 83 (4.35%) Data Quality
5 70 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (2.36%) NIST
7 31 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 23 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.21%) SOC 2
9 22 (1.15%) GRC
10 10 (0.52%) IFRS
11 9 (0.47%) ISO 9001
11 9 (0.47%) ITGC
12 8 (0.42%) COBIT
12 8 (0.42%) IFRS 17
13 7 (0.37%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.31%) GMP
14 6 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 130 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 69 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (2.57%) Docker
4 23 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.84%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.58%) vSphere
9 10 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.42%) vCloud
11 4 (0.21%) KVM
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.10%) ACF2
13 2 (0.10%) Ceph
13 2 (0.10%) Firmware
13 2 (0.10%) RACF
13 2 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.10%) XenApp
13 2 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 89 (4.66%) Terraform
2 73 (3.83%) Ansible
3 72 (3.77%) Kubernetes
4 32 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.36%) vCenter Server
6 24 (1.26%) Grafana
7 23 (1.21%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.10%) SCOM
8 21 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.89%) SCCM
10 12 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.52%) Avamar
11 10 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.42%) Cisco Prime
12 8 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.37%) Argo
13 7 (0.37%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (0.37%) PowerCLI
13 7 (0.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 297 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 192 (10.06%) ServiceNow
3 190 (9.96%) Oracle
4 170 (8.91%) SAP
5 87 (4.56%) VMware
6 81 (4.25%) Cisco
7 72 (3.77%) Salesforce
8 57 (2.99%) Google
9 35 (1.83%) Citrix
9 35 (1.83%) Splunk
10 32 (1.68%) IBM
11 31 (1.62%) F5
12 28 (1.47%) CheckPoint
12 28 (1.47%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.31%) IFS
13 25 (1.31%) Workday
14 24 (1.26%) Red Hat
15 23 (1.21%) Juniper
16 22 (1.15%) Fortinet
17 20 (1.05%) Remedy