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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,832 1,274 1,852
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.95% 4.32% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 4.76% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 815 1,099
10th Percentile £325 £318 £336
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 50 59
10th Percentile £22.63 £28.60 £14.35
25th Percentile £22.68 £50.00 £28.32
Median hourly rate £43.86 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.79% +27.06% -11.70%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.62 £65.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.58% +41.18% -9.80%

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 39,324 26,741 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.82% 90.76% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,807 17,298 24,232
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,048 2,416
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.31 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £28.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.01% -17.86% -6.67%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 1,626 £500 - 505
UK excluding London -7 964 £500 +5.82% 376
London -5 707 £500 -7.41% 193
Work from Home -2 545 £525 +5.00% 193
North of England -13 299 £475 +5.56% 87
Midlands -2 228 £500 -0.05% 76
South East +10 217 £510 +4.08% 112
North West -2 197 £451 +2.97% 49
West Midlands -10 155 £510 +1.80% 37
South West -13 98 £504 +0.75% 33
Yorkshire -37 93 £487 +8.22% 29
East Midlands +12 71 £450 +27.12% 37
Scotland -1 69 £473 +26.07% 26
East of England -15 67 £475 -2.51% 35
Wales -7 10 £600 +60.00% 5
North East -20 9 £440 -23.48% 10
Northern Ireland -6 5 £450 -18.18% 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
1 116 (6.33%) Confluence
2 76 (4.15%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.76%) SAS
5 9 (0.49%) Appian
6 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.33%) IIS
7 5 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.22%) CMS
9 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.055%) CICS
9 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.055%) Moodle
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 86 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
2 75 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 35 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (1.80%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.27%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) 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 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.33%) Finacle
6 6 (0.33%) Primavera
7 5 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) iTrent
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 284 (15.50%) Azure
2 139 (7.59%) AWS
3 113 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
4 96 (5.24%) Power Platform
5 76 (4.15%) GCP
6 73 (3.98%) SaaS
7 72 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (3.44%) Entra ID
9 40 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.64%) Google Workspace
10 30 (1.64%) Power Automate
11 28 (1.53%) PaaS
12 22 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (1.20%) OpenShift
13 20 (1.09%) OCI
14 19 (1.04%) GitHub
14 19 (1.04%) Google Sheets
15 18 (0.98%) IaaS
16 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
17 15 (0.82%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 113 (6.17%) Firewall
2 69 (3.77%) Network Security
3 63 (3.44%) WAN
4 60 (3.28%) DNS
5 52 (2.84%) LAN
6 50 (2.73%) VPN
7 38 (2.07%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.75%) BGP
9 30 (1.64%) OSPF
9 30 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
10 29 (1.58%) SSL
11 25 (1.36%) TCP/IP
12 24 (1.31%) DHCP
12 24 (1.31%) MPLS
13 18 (0.98%) SAN
13 18 (0.98%) Wireless
14 17 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 17 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 15 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
15 15 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.20%) Power BI
2 57 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.47%) Metadata
4 23 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.26%) Tableau
5 21 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.04%) Oracle Database
7 18 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.55%) MySQL
9 10 (0.55%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.27%) Big Data
13 5 (0.27%) Redis
14 4 (0.22%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 228 (12.45%) JIRA
2 49 (2.67%) Git
3 42 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.55%) GitLab
6 9 (0.49%) Liquibase
7 8 (0.44%) MLflow
8 5 (0.27%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.27%) JUnit
9 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.22%) Hudson
9 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.16%) Mockito
10 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.16%) Snyk
10 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 734 (40.07%) Social Skills
2 606 (33.08%) Finance
3 326 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.21%) Public Sector
5 145 (7.91%) Banking
6 73 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
7 72 (3.93%) Legal
8 71 (3.88%) Retail
9 58 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.73%) Marketing
11 49 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 39 (2.13%) Local Government
14 34 (1.86%) Law
14 34 (1.86%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 22 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.04%) Aviation
18 18 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 222 (12.12%) Project Manager
2 205 (11.19%) Lead
3 198 (10.81%) Analyst
4 154 (8.41%) Change Manager
5 128 (6.99%) Senior
6 124 (6.77%) Business Analyst
7 111 (6.06%) Consultant
8 75 (4.09%) Administrator
9 65 (3.55%) Programme Manager
10 63 (3.44%) Developer
11 52 (2.84%) Architect
11 52 (2.84%) Business Manager
12 49 (2.67%) Network Engineer
12 49 (2.67%) Senior Manager
13 46 (2.51%) IT Manager
14 41 (2.24%) Business Change Manager
15 37 (2.02%) Delivery Manager
16 36 (1.97%) SAP Manager
17 33 (1.80%) Support Engineer
18 32 (1.75%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (2.89%) REST
2 35 (1.91%) .NET
3 29 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.26%) .NET Framework
4 23 (1.26%) OAuth
5 21 (1.15%) Middleware
6 18 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (0.82%) SAML
8 14 (0.76%) Web Services
9 13 (0.71%) CSS
9 13 (0.71%) LDAP
9 13 (0.71%) RESTful
10 12 (0.66%) OpenID
11 11 (0.60%) SOAP
12 10 (0.55%) HTML
12 10 (0.55%) ISPF
12 10 (0.55%) pytest
13 9 (0.49%) NumPy
13 9 (0.49%) Pandas
13 9 (0.49%) React
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 78 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.66%) Data Centre
5 54 (2.95%) Virtual Team
6 48 (2.62%) CMDB
7 46 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (2.46%) PMI
9 36 (1.97%) Cloud Native
10 31 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.42%) PKI
13 25 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (0.98%) Operational Technology
15 18 (0.98%) Security Posture
16 17 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (0.93%) Public Cloud
17 16 (0.87%) Low-Code
18 15 (0.82%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 171 (9.33%) Windows
2 82 (4.48%) Linux
3 60 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.24%) Unix
5 28 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.38%) Solaris
11 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.27%) AIX
12 5 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.27%) VMS
13 4 (0.22%) HPUX
13 4 (0.22%) SUSE
13 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.16%) Android
14 3 (0.16%) CentOS
14 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (31.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 459 (25.05%) Agile
3 440 (24.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 381 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
5 372 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 353 (19.27%) ITIL
7 344 (18.78%) Project Management
8 310 (16.92%) Migration
9 244 (13.32%) DevOps
10 221 (12.06%) Project Delivery
11 200 (10.92%) ERP
12 184 (10.04%) Roadmaps
13 183 (9.99%) Decision-Making
14 170 (9.28%) Risk Management
15 169 (9.22%) ITSM
16 156 (8.52%) Service Management
16 156 (8.52%) Validation
17 148 (8.08%) PRINCE2
18 146 (7.97%) CI/CD
19 143 (7.81%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 170 (9.28%) SQL
2 110 (6.00%) Python
3 90 (4.91%) PowerShell
4 50 (2.73%) C#
5 42 (2.29%) Bash
6 38 (2.07%) PL/SQL
7 32 (1.75%) Java
8 26 (1.42%) T-SQL
9 21 (1.15%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.66%) COBOL
10 12 (0.66%) Korn
11 11 (0.60%) JCL
11 11 (0.60%) REXX
12 10 (0.55%) CLIST
12 10 (0.55%) Groovy
13 9 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.33%) Go
14 6 (0.33%) Perl
15 5 (0.27%) ABAP
16 4 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 365 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 264 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 262 (14.30%) Degree
4 124 (6.77%) PMI Certification
5 118 (6.44%) PMP
6 51 (2.78%) CISSP
7 48 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 45 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 42 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (2.18%) Master's Degree
11 38 (2.07%) CISM
12 32 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
13 31 (1.69%) CCNP
13 31 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
14 30 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 27 (1.47%) APMG
16 20 (1.09%) CIMA
17 19 (1.04%) ACCA
17 19 (1.04%) Azure Certification
18 15 (0.82%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.00%) QA
2 90 (4.91%) GDPR
3 89 (4.86%) PMO
4 85 (4.64%) Data Quality
5 66 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (3.55%) SLA
7 42 (2.29%) NIST
8 25 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.04%) SOC 2
10 18 (0.98%) IFRS
11 17 (0.93%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.82%) IFRS 17
13 10 (0.55%) Basel III
13 10 (0.55%) GRC
14 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.38%) COBIT
15 7 (0.38%) ITGC
16 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 123 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 55 (3.00%) Docker
3 43 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.55%) ACF2
8 10 (0.55%) RACF
8 10 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
9 8 (0.44%) Firmware
9 8 (0.44%) vSphere
10 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.27%) KVM
11 5 (0.27%) XenApp
11 5 (0.27%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 83 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 60 (3.28%) Ansible
3 59 (3.22%) Terraform
4 34 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.26%) SCCM
6 22 (1.20%) Grafana
6 22 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.76%) FortiGate
9 10 (0.55%) CA Endevor
9 10 (0.55%) Puppet
10 9 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
10 9 (0.49%) Tivoli
10 9 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 8 (0.44%) Kibana
11 8 (0.44%) SCOM
12 7 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 301 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 181 (9.88%) ServiceNow
3 180 (9.83%) SAP
4 157 (8.57%) Oracle
5 75 (4.09%) Salesforce
6 72 (3.93%) Cisco
7 67 (3.66%) Google
8 64 (3.49%) VMware
9 37 (2.02%) Citrix
9 37 (2.02%) Workday
10 31 (1.69%) F5
11 25 (1.36%) IFS
11 25 (1.36%) Juniper
12 24 (1.31%) Splunk
13 23 (1.26%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.09%) CheckPoint
14 20 (1.09%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.09%) Red Hat
15 19 (1.04%) Atlassian
16 18 (0.98%) SolarWinds