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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 50 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,829 1,279 1,864
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.95% 4.34% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 4.79% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 816 1,104
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 £699 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £471 £500
% change year-on-year +6.10% -5.75% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 50 59
10th Percentile £22.43 £28.60 £14.35
25th Percentile £22.68 £50.00 £28.32
Median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +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% -11.70%

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 39,257 26,715 37,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.87% 90.74% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,800 17,298 24,377
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,340 1,040 2,418
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.75 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -3.59%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.53% -17.50% -2.78%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 1,629 £500 - 525
UK excluding London -7 964 £500 +6.10% 405
London -5 707 £500 -6.98% 184
Work from Home -1 536 £525 +5.00% 192
North of England -12 297 £475 +5.56% 104
Midlands -1 226 £500 -0.05% 77
South East +8 220 £510 +4.08% 123
North West +2 197 £451 +2.97% 54
West Midlands -14 153 £507 +1.15% 42
South West -6 103 £525 +5.00% 39
Yorkshire -40 91 £487 +8.22% 38
East Midlands +14 71 £450 +27.12% 33
East of England -15 67 £475 -2.51% 36
Scotland -4 65 £471 +25.47% 27
Wales -8 10 £600 +60.00% 6
North East -18 9 £440 -23.48% 13
Northern Ireland -2 5 £450 -14.29% 3

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
1 119 (6.51%) Confluence
2 76 (4.16%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.71%) 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 85 (4.65%) Microsoft Project
2 76 (4.16%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 35 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.27%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) Windchill
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.055%) InDesign
10 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 76 (4.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
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 Cash Management
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 290 (15.86%) Azure
2 141 (7.71%) AWS
3 112 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
4 96 (5.25%) Power Platform
5 76 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (4.16%) GCP
6 73 (3.99%) SaaS
7 64 (3.50%) Entra ID
8 39 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (1.64%) Google Workspace
9 30 (1.64%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.59%) PaaS
11 22 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (1.15%) OCI
12 21 (1.15%) OpenShift
13 19 (1.04%) GitHub
13 19 (1.04%) Google Sheets
13 19 (1.04%) IaaS
14 18 (0.98%) Azure AKS
15 17 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 116 (6.34%) Firewall
2 69 (3.77%) Network Security
3 63 (3.44%) DNS
3 63 (3.44%) WAN
4 52 (2.84%) LAN
5 51 (2.79%) VPN
6 38 (2.08%) SD-WAN
7 32 (1.75%) BGP
8 30 (1.64%) OSPF
8 30 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
9 29 (1.59%) SSL
10 25 (1.37%) DHCP
10 25 (1.37%) TCP/IP
11 24 (1.31%) MPLS
12 18 (0.98%) SAN
12 18 (0.98%) Wireless
13 17 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 17 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 15 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.21%) Power BI
2 57 (3.12%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.64%) Metadata
4 24 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.31%) Tableau
5 23 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
7 17 (0.93%) Oracle Database
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 7 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
13 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.27%) Big Data
14 5 (0.27%) Redis
15 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 229 (12.52%) JIRA
2 48 (2.62%) Git
3 40 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.66%) Liquibase
4 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.55%) GitLab
6 8 (0.44%) MLflow
7 7 (0.38%) JUnit
8 5 (0.27%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.27%) Mockito
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%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 739 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 602 (32.91%) Finance
3 324 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 146 (7.98%) Banking
6 72 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (3.83%) Legal
8 69 (3.77%) Retail
9 58 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (2.68%) Marketing
10 49 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 38 (2.08%) Local Government
13 34 (1.86%) Law
14 33 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (1.80%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.20%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.09%) Aviation
17 18 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 217 (11.86%) Project Manager
2 207 (11.32%) Lead
3 199 (10.88%) Analyst
4 154 (8.42%) Change Manager
5 128 (7.00%) Senior
6 123 (6.72%) Business Analyst
7 114 (6.23%) Consultant
8 73 (3.99%) Administrator
9 65 (3.55%) Developer
10 64 (3.50%) Programme Manager
11 52 (2.84%) Architect
11 52 (2.84%) Business Manager
12 49 (2.68%) Network Engineer
12 49 (2.68%) Senior Manager
13 45 (2.46%) IT Manager
14 40 (2.19%) Business Change Manager
15 37 (2.02%) Delivery Manager
16 34 (1.86%) SAP Manager
17 33 (1.80%) Support Engineer
18 32 (1.75%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.17%) REST
2 35 (1.91%) .NET
3 30 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.37%) OAuth
5 23 (1.26%) .NET Framework
6 20 (1.09%) Middleware
7 18 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (0.93%) SAML
9 14 (0.77%) OpenID
9 14 (0.77%) RESTful
9 14 (0.77%) Web Services
10 13 (0.71%) CSS
10 13 (0.71%) LDAP
11 11 (0.60%) SOAP
12 10 (0.55%) HTML
12 10 (0.55%) ISPF
12 10 (0.55%) OAuth2
12 10 (0.55%) pytest
13 9 (0.49%) NumPy
13 9 (0.49%) React
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.14%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.37%) Onboarding
2 80 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 66 (3.61%) Data Centre
4 52 (2.84%) Virtual Team
5 48 (2.62%) CMDB
6 45 (2.46%) PMI
7 44 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (2.08%) Cloud Native
9 31 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 30 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (1.42%) PKI
12 25 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (0.98%) Operational Technology
15 17 (0.93%) Public Cloud
16 16 (0.87%) Replication
16 16 (0.87%) Security Posture
17 15 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 172 (9.40%) Windows
2 77 (4.21%) Linux
3 63 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.08%) Unix
5 27 (1.48%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.04%) 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 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.27%) Solaris
11 5 (0.27%) VMS
12 4 (0.22%) AIX
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.16%) Android
13 3 (0.16%) CentOS
13 3 (0.16%) HPUX
13 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.16%) SUSE
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (31.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 461 (25.21%) Agile
3 440 (24.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 385 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 373 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 356 (19.46%) ITIL
7 340 (18.59%) Project Management
8 304 (16.62%) Migration
9 250 (13.67%) DevOps
10 220 (12.03%) Project Delivery
11 194 (10.61%) ERP
12 182 (9.95%) Decision-Making
12 182 (9.95%) Roadmaps
13 172 (9.40%) ITSM
14 170 (9.29%) Risk Management
15 157 (8.58%) Service Management
15 157 (8.58%) Validation
16 149 (8.15%) PRINCE2
17 148 (8.09%) CI/CD
18 140 (7.65%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 173 (9.46%) SQL
2 112 (6.12%) Python
3 97 (5.30%) PowerShell
4 50 (2.73%) C#
5 41 (2.24%) Bash
6 38 (2.08%) PL/SQL
7 35 (1.91%) Java
8 26 (1.42%) T-SQL
9 21 (1.15%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.66%) COBOL
11 11 (0.60%) JCL
11 11 (0.60%) Korn
12 10 (0.55%) CLIST
12 10 (0.55%) Groovy
12 10 (0.55%) REXX
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
1 368 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 266 (14.54%) SC Cleared
3 265 (14.49%) Degree
4 124 (6.78%) PMI Certification
5 117 (6.40%) PMP
6 50 (2.73%) CISSP
7 48 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 45 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 42 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (2.19%) Master's Degree
11 38 (2.08%) CISM
12 32 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 31 (1.69%) CCNP
13 31 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
14 30 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 28 (1.53%) APMG
16 20 (1.09%) CIMA
17 19 (1.04%) ACCA
17 19 (1.04%) Azure Certification
18 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (6.07%) QA
2 89 (4.87%) PMO
3 87 (4.76%) GDPR
4 85 (4.65%) Data Quality
5 67 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (3.55%) SLA
7 43 (2.35%) NIST
8 25 (1.37%) 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
14 9 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.49%) GRC
15 7 (0.38%) COBIT
15 7 (0.38%) ITGC
16 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.27%) NCSC
17 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 127 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.06%) Docker
3 45 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.82%) 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 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 84 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.23%) Terraform
3 58 (3.17%) Ansible
4 34 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.26%) SCCM
6 21 (1.15%) Grafana
6 21 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.98%) vCenter Server
9 14 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.55%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.55%) Puppet
11 9 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (0.49%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.44%) Kibana
12 8 (0.44%) SCOM
13 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 301 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 180 (9.84%) ServiceNow
3 178 (9.73%) SAP
4 156 (8.53%) Oracle
5 74 (4.05%) Salesforce
6 72 (3.94%) Cisco
7 67 (3.66%) Google
8 66 (3.61%) VMware
9 37 (2.02%) Citrix
9 37 (2.02%) Workday
10 31 (1.69%) F5
11 25 (1.37%) Juniper
12 24 (1.31%) IFS
12 24 (1.31%) Splunk
13 23 (1.26%) Atlassian
13 23 (1.26%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.09%) CheckPoint
14 20 (1.09%) Fortinet
15 18 (0.98%) Red Hat
15 18 (0.98%) SolarWinds