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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 50 44
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,977 1,488 1,598
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.65% 4.55% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 5.03% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 878 843
10th Percentile £370 £331 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £624
90th Percentile £725 £725 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 76 45
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.50 £21.65
25th Percentile £25.50 £22.63 £30.41
Median hourly rate £50.50 £34.67 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +45.68% -38.91% +17.24%
75th Percentile £74.00 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.16 £70.08 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.42 £28.79 £57.40
% change year-on-year +71.66% -49.84% +19.25%

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 45,698 29,594 32,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.53% 85.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,784 18,388 20,318
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £726 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,048 1,782 1,485
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £66.95 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +82.22% -47.67% +7.50%

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 14 September 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 14 September 2026.

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 14 September 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 -11 1,737 £525 +5.00% 2,239
UK excluding London -23 961 £515 +8.42% 1,181
London -7 835 £540 -2.00% 1,279
Work from Home +1 580 £525 +8.53% 1,018
North of England -22 304 £500 +11.11% 295
South East +11 278 £575 +17.89% 284
North West -16 178 £475 +5.56% 190
Yorkshire -16 112 £500 +9.59% 84
Midlands -66 110 £480 +1.05% 165
Scotland +3 99 £493 +12.57% 110
South West -35 88 £525 +2.44% 181
West Midlands -66 82 £500 +5.26% 91
East of England -6 73 £509 -3.05% 112
East Midlands -24 27 £416 -6.25% 74
North East -27 14 £425 -5.56% 28
Northern Ireland -9 8 £750 +42.86% 28
Wales -14 7 £600 +81.18% 27
Channel Islands -4 2 £600 - 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
1 111 (5.61%) SharePoint
2 91 (4.60%) Confluence
3 33 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (0.96%) IIS
5 10 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.30%) Appian
7 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.30%) CICS
7 6 (0.30%) CMS
8 5 (0.25%) Camunda
8 5 (0.25%) SAS
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.10%) JBoss
11 2 (0.10%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.25%) Windchill
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Houdini
9 2 (0.10%) InDesign
9 2 (0.10%) NUKE
9 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.10%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.051%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.051%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.051%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 73 (3.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
5 14 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
6 12 (0.61%) Primavera
7 10 (0.51%) Maximo
8 9 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.40%) SAP PM
9 8 (0.40%) Teamcenter
10 7 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
10 7 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
11 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.25%) ContrOCC
12 5 (0.25%) iTrent
12 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.25%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 292 (14.77%) Azure
2 153 (7.74%) AWS
3 142 (7.18%) Power Platform
4 120 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (5.11%) Entra ID
6 71 (3.59%) GCP
7 62 (3.14%) SaaS
8 58 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
10 42 (2.12%) GitHub
11 35 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
12 33 (1.67%) OCI
13 27 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (1.37%) Power Automate
14 26 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 25 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 23 (1.16%) Serverless
16 23 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
17 22 (1.11%) Google Workspace
17 22 (1.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 130 (6.58%) Firewall
2 110 (5.56%) Network Security
3 78 (3.95%) DNS
4 60 (3.03%) VPN
5 57 (2.88%) WAN
6 40 (2.02%) DHCP
6 40 (2.02%) TCP/IP
7 37 (1.87%) Wireless
8 32 (1.62%) LAN
9 28 (1.42%) SSL
10 25 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.16%) BGP
12 19 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
12 19 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
12 19 (0.96%) OSPF
12 19 (0.96%) SD-WAN
13 16 (0.81%) MPLS
13 16 (0.81%) SNMP
14 15 (0.76%) HTTP
15 13 (0.66%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (5.72%) Power BI
2 67 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.77%) Oracle Database
4 34 (1.72%) Metadata
5 26 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.01%) Tableau
7 19 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
10 13 (0.66%) Db2
11 12 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.35%) Oracle BI EE
14 7 (0.35%) Oracle Database 11g
15 6 (0.30%) GIS
15 6 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
15 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 196 (9.91%) JIRA
2 65 (3.29%) Git
3 51 (2.58%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.56%) GitLab
5 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.35%) AdminStudio
7 7 (0.35%) InstallShield
8 6 (0.30%) Selenium
9 5 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.25%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.20%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
10 4 (0.20%) Snyk
11 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.15%) Hudson
11 3 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.15%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 774 (39.15%) Social Skills
2 732 (37.03%) Finance
3 342 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
4 212 (10.72%) Banking
5 177 (8.95%) Public Sector
6 95 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
7 88 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
8 86 (4.35%) Legal
9 78 (3.95%) Manufacturing
10 76 (3.84%) Retail
11 73 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
12 56 (2.83%) Telecoms
13 45 (2.28%) Marketing
13 45 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (1.92%) Law
15 31 (1.57%) Local Government
16 28 (1.42%) Front Office
17 27 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 25 (1.26%) Aerospace
19 24 (1.21%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 235 (11.89%) Lead
2 225 (11.38%) Project Manager
3 219 (11.08%) Analyst
4 159 (8.04%) Senior
5 148 (7.49%) Change Manager
6 124 (6.27%) Business Analyst
7 118 (5.97%) Consultant
8 68 (3.44%) Senior Manager
9 64 (3.24%) Network Engineer
10 57 (2.88%) Administrator
11 56 (2.83%) Developer
11 56 (2.83%) IT Manager
12 54 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
13 49 (2.48%) Cloud Engineer
14 47 (2.38%) Programme Manager
15 46 (2.33%) Business Manager
16 39 (1.97%) Service Manager
17 38 (1.92%) Business Change Manager
17 38 (1.92%) Security Engineer
18 36 (1.82%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (5.82%) Terraform
2 52 (2.63%) REST
3 41 (2.07%) .NET
4 31 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.26%) HTML
6 23 (1.16%) Middleware
7 22 (1.11%) Kafka
8 21 (1.06%) CSS
9 17 (0.86%) OAuth
10 16 (0.81%) Ajax
11 15 (0.76%) 802.1X
11 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (0.66%) SOAP
13 12 (0.61%) .NET Framework
13 12 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (0.56%) XML
15 10 (0.51%) JSON
15 10 (0.51%) OAuth2
15 10 (0.51%) Web Services
16 9 (0.46%) React
Miscellaneous
1 124 (6.27%) Onboarding
2 99 (5.01%) Management Information System
3 82 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.48%) Cloud Native
5 49 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (1.87%) PKI
7 37 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (1.82%) Security Posture
9 35 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 33 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.52%) Operational Technology
12 26 (1.32%) CMDB
13 24 (1.21%) PMI
14 22 (1.11%) AI Agents
14 22 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
15 21 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.01%) Public Cloud
17 18 (0.91%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 220 (11.13%) Windows
2 125 (6.32%) Linux
3 98 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 51 (2.58%) Unix
6 22 (1.11%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.86%) Solaris
8 13 (0.66%) VMS
9 12 (0.61%) AIX
10 11 (0.56%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.40%) zOS
12 7 (0.35%) Android
12 7 (0.35%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.30%) SUSE
13 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.25%) HPUX
15 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (38.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 516 (26.10%) Agile
3 481 (24.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 459 (23.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 383 (19.37%) ITIL
6 336 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
7 330 (16.69%) Project Management
8 319 (16.14%) Project Delivery
9 278 (14.06%) Migration
10 257 (13.00%) Roadmaps
11 250 (12.65%) Decision-Making
12 238 (12.04%) Service Management
13 225 (11.38%) DevOps
14 215 (10.88%) AI
15 209 (10.57%) ITSM
16 193 (9.76%) PRINCE2
17 189 (9.56%) ERP
18 181 (9.16%) Process Improvement
19 180 (9.10%) Analytics
20 167 (8.45%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 174 (8.80%) Python
2 159 (8.04%) SQL
3 149 (7.54%) PowerShell
4 80 (4.05%) Bash
5 52 (2.63%) PL/SQL
6 50 (2.53%) Java
7 47 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 39 (1.97%) C#
9 26 (1.32%) Bicep
9 26 (1.32%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.76%) Korn
10 15 (0.76%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.61%) Groovy
12 9 (0.46%) Go
12 9 (0.46%) JCL
13 7 (0.35%) COBOL
13 7 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
14 6 (0.30%) VBScript
15 5 (0.25%) REXX
16 4 (0.20%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 401 (20.28%) Security Cleared
2 294 (14.87%) SC Cleared
3 227 (11.48%) Degree
4 150 (7.59%) PMP
5 136 (6.88%) PMI Certification
6 80 (4.05%) DV Cleared
7 58 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (2.78%) CISSP
9 41 (2.07%) CCNP
10 37 (1.87%) Azure Certification
11 29 (1.47%) APMG
12 28 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
13 27 (1.37%) CISM
14 26 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
16 24 (1.21%) ACCA
17 23 (1.16%) CIMA
17 23 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
18 22 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 21 (1.06%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.41%) PMO
2 103 (5.21%) QA
3 92 (4.65%) Data Quality
4 81 (4.10%) SLA
5 59 (2.98%) GDPR
6 45 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.77%) NIST
8 30 (1.52%) GRC
9 19 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.91%) SOC 2
11 16 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.56%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.56%) ITGC
13 8 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
13 8 (0.40%) GMP
13 8 (0.40%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.35%) COBIT
14 7 (0.35%) EMIR
15 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 131 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 99 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.23%) Docker
4 27 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (1.11%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.71%) vCloud
9 13 (0.66%) vSphere
10 9 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
12 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.15%) Squid
13 2 (0.10%) Ceph
13 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.10%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.10%) NFS
13 2 (0.10%) Postfix
13 2 (0.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 75 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 73 (3.69%) Ansible
3 40 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (1.82%) vCenter Server
5 30 (1.52%) SCOM
6 27 (1.37%) Grafana
6 27 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.32%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.16%) SCCM
9 15 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.61%) Data Guard
11 11 (0.56%) Avamar
12 9 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
13 8 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.35%) vRealize
15 6 (0.30%) Argo
15 6 (0.30%) CASB
15 6 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 369 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 200 (10.12%) ServiceNow
3 195 (9.86%) Oracle
4 149 (7.54%) SAP
5 123 (6.22%) VMware
6 97 (4.91%) Cisco
7 77 (3.89%) Salesforce
8 48 (2.43%) Google
9 45 (2.28%) Splunk
10 40 (2.02%) IBM
11 39 (1.97%) Red Hat
12 33 (1.67%) Palo Alto
12 33 (1.67%) Zscaler
13 31 (1.57%) F5
14 29 (1.47%) CheckPoint
15 28 (1.42%) Citrix
15 28 (1.42%) Workday
16 25 (1.26%) Juniper
17 22 (1.11%) Fortinet
17 22 (1.11%) Remedy