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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,829 1,271 1,867
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.98% 4.34% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 4.78% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 805 1,110
10th Percentile £325 £317 £341
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £695 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 50 56
10th Percentile £22.63 £28.60 £14.22
25th Percentile £22.68 £50.00 £25.56
Median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £37.84
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +42.71% -21.38%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.34
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.62 £66.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £60.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year -29.58% +61.38% -22.75%

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 39,056 26,574 37,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.05% 90.71% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,707 17,203 24,522
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,310 1,024 2,401
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.83
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £29.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year +31.90% -12.29% -8.47%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -1 1,634 £500 -1.67% 542
UK excluding London -6 959 £500 +5.26% 423
London -1 714 £500 -7.19% 195
Work from Home -2 536 £525 +5.00% 199
North of England -11 294 £475 +5.56% 109
Midlands 0 223 £500 -0.05% 89
South East +12 220 £510 +3.03% 132
North West -1 199 £448 +2.29% 57
West Midlands -13 151 £507 +1.15% 48
South West -9 102 £525 +5.00% 34
Yorkshire -39 87 £487 -2.60% 39
East Midlands +12 70 £450 +27.12% 39
East of England -18 69 £475 -2.51% 40
Scotland -1 64 £471 +25.47% 19
Wales -13 11 £575 +53.33% 7
North East -19 8 £440 -23.48% 13
Northern Ireland -6 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 79 (4.32%) 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 87 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
2 74 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (1.69%) 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 75 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.33%) Finacle
7 6 (0.33%) Primavera
8 5 (0.27%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.22%) iTrent
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 291 (15.91%) Azure
2 140 (7.65%) AWS
3 116 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 78 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 76 (4.16%) GCP
7 72 (3.94%) SaaS
8 62 (3.39%) Entra ID
9 38 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.64%) Google Workspace
10 30 (1.64%) Power Automate
11 29 (1.59%) PaaS
12 22 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (1.15%) OCI
14 20 (1.09%) OpenShift
15 19 (1.04%) GitHub
15 19 (1.04%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.04%) IaaS
16 17 (0.93%) Azure AKS
17 16 (0.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 117 (6.40%) Firewall
2 71 (3.88%) Network Security
3 64 (3.50%) DNS
4 62 (3.39%) WAN
5 52 (2.84%) LAN
6 51 (2.79%) VPN
7 38 (2.08%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.75%) BGP
9 30 (1.64%) OSPF
9 30 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
10 29 (1.59%) SSL
11 25 (1.37%) DHCP
11 25 (1.37%) TCP/IP
12 23 (1.26%) MPLS
13 18 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 18 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 18 (0.98%) SAN
13 18 (0.98%) Wireless
14 15 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.26%) Power BI
2 58 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.64%) Metadata
4 23 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.26%) Tableau
5 22 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
7 17 (0.93%) Oracle Database
8 11 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (0.49%) MySQL
9 9 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
11 7 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.27%) Big Data
14 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (0.22%) Redis
14 4 (0.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 228 (12.47%) JIRA
2 47 (2.57%) Git
3 37 (2.02%) 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%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.16%) Snyk
10 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 746 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 602 (32.91%) Finance
3 330 (18.04%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 145 (7.93%) Banking
6 76 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
7 71 (3.88%) Legal
8 70 (3.83%) Retail
9 60 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (2.62%) Marketing
10 48 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.13%) Local Government
13 36 (1.97%) Law
14 34 (1.86%) Telecoms
15 32 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 22 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.04%) Aviation
18 17 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 218 (11.92%) Project Manager
2 206 (11.26%) Lead
3 200 (10.93%) Analyst
4 156 (8.53%) Change Manager
5 126 (6.89%) Senior
6 123 (6.72%) Business Analyst
7 113 (6.18%) Consultant
8 74 (4.05%) Administrator
9 65 (3.55%) Programme Manager
10 63 (3.44%) Developer
11 55 (3.01%) Business Manager
12 52 (2.84%) Architect
13 49 (2.68%) Network Engineer
14 47 (2.57%) Senior Manager
15 44 (2.41%) IT Manager
16 42 (2.30%) Business Change Manager
17 37 (2.02%) Delivery Manager
18 35 (1.91%) SAP Manager
19 33 (1.80%) Service Manager
19 33 (1.80%) Support Engineer
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 17 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (0.93%) SAML
8 15 (0.82%) RESTful
8 15 (0.82%) Web Services
9 14 (0.77%) OpenID
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%) Pandas
13 9 (0.49%) React
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.14%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 79 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.61%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.90%) Virtual Team
6 48 (2.62%) CMDB
7 44 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (2.35%) PMI
9 39 (2.13%) Cloud Native
10 31 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 27 (1.48%) PKI
13 25 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (0.98%) Operational Technology
16 17 (0.93%) Public Cloud
17 16 (0.87%) Security Posture
18 15 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
18 15 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 174 (9.51%) Windows
2 75 (4.10%) Linux
3 63 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.02%) Unix
5 28 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.27%) Solaris
11 4 (0.22%) AIX
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.22%) VMS
12 3 (0.16%) Android
12 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 3 (0.16%) HPUX
12 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.16%) SUSE
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (31.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 455 (24.88%) Agile
3 441 (24.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 389 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
5 370 (20.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 355 (19.41%) ITIL
7 338 (18.48%) Project Management
8 305 (16.68%) Migration
9 249 (13.61%) DevOps
10 224 (12.25%) Project Delivery
11 189 (10.33%) ERP
12 179 (9.79%) Roadmaps
13 176 (9.62%) Decision-Making
14 172 (9.40%) ITSM
15 168 (9.19%) Risk Management
16 159 (8.69%) Service Management
17 155 (8.47%) Validation
18 153 (8.37%) PRINCE2
19 145 (7.93%) CI/CD
20 141 (7.71%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 175 (9.57%) SQL
2 109 (5.96%) Python
3 97 (5.30%) PowerShell
4 50 (2.73%) C#
5 39 (2.13%) Bash
6 38 (2.08%) PL/SQL
7 32 (1.75%) Java
8 26 (1.42%) T-SQL
9 22 (1.20%) 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%) REXX
13 9 (0.49%) Groovy
13 9 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.33%) Perl
15 5 (0.27%) ABAP
15 5 (0.27%) Go
16 4 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 372 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 266 (14.54%) SC Cleared
3 262 (14.32%) Degree
4 122 (6.67%) PMI Certification
5 117 (6.40%) PMP
6 51 (2.79%) CISSP
6 51 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 44 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 42 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
9 39 (2.13%) CISM
9 39 (2.13%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.69%) CCNP
10 31 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
11 30 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 29 (1.59%) APMG
13 19 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 19 (1.04%) CIMA
14 18 (0.98%) ACCA
15 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.96%) QA
2 89 (4.87%) GDPR
2 89 (4.87%) PMO
3 85 (4.65%) Data Quality
4 66 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (3.44%) SLA
6 44 (2.41%) NIST
7 26 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (0.98%) IFRS
8 18 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 16 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.82%) IFRS 17
11 10 (0.55%) Basel III
12 9 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.49%) GRC
13 7 (0.38%) COBIT
13 7 (0.38%) ITGC
14 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.27%) NCSC
15 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 126 (6.89%) Active Directory
2 55 (3.01%) Docker
3 45 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.77%) 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%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 81 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.17%) Terraform
3 56 (3.06%) Ansible
4 35 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.26%) SCCM
6 20 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.04%) Grafana
7 19 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.93%) 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
1 299 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 180 (9.84%) ServiceNow
3 176 (9.62%) SAP
4 157 (8.58%) Oracle
5 76 (4.16%) Salesforce
6 71 (3.88%) Cisco
7 67 (3.66%) Google
8 66 (3.61%) VMware
9 37 (2.02%) Citrix
9 37 (2.02%) Workday
10 32 (1.75%) F5
11 25 (1.37%) Juniper
12 24 (1.31%) Splunk
13 23 (1.26%) Atlassian
13 23 (1.26%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.20%) IFS
15 20 (1.09%) CheckPoint
15 20 (1.09%) Fortinet
16 18 (0.98%) SolarWinds
17 17 (0.93%) Red Hat