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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 49 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +11
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,765 1,254 1,920
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.08% 4.28% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 4.73% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 783 1,163
10th Percentile £313 £320 £350
25th Percentile £408 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -2.42%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £633
90th Percentile £685 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 31 62
10th Percentile £21.22 £27.00 £14.52
25th Percentile £22.63 £33.38 £25.06
Median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +52.62% -19.17%
75th Percentile £50.74 £71.25 £59.50
90th Percentile £84.50 £87.05 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £35.12
% change year-on-year -27.21% +63.71% -25.35%

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 37,207 26,505 38,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 90.41% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,564 17,019 25,049
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £744 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,206 924 2,336
10th Percentile £14.93 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.99 £16.05
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.64 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.08% +0.44% -10.00%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -7 1,577 £500 -4.76% 572
UK excluding London -1 967 £485 +2.11% 471
London -14 654 £525 - 198
Work from Home -9 507 £525 +3.24% 218
North of England -12 292 £475 +5.56% 109
Midlands +6 235 £500 - 93
South East +13 217 £500 - 158
North West +3 195 £430 -4.56% 60
West Midlands -2 157 £510 +1.80% 59
South West +10 116 £525 - 33
Yorkshire -29 92 £488 -2.50% 38
East Midlands +12 77 £425 +34.07% 34
Scotland -2 60 £450 +17.65% 29
East of England -18 58 £475 -2.51% 51
Wales +1 13 £433 -27.83% 8
North East -19 5 £450 -21.74% 13
Northern Ireland -6 4 £383 -36.25% 8

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
1 117 (6.63%) Confluence
2 75 (4.25%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.57%) SAS
5 9 (0.51%) Appian
6 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.28%) IIS
8 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.23%) CMS
9 3 (0.17%) Moodle
10 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.057%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.057%) CICS
10 1 (0.057%) JBoss
10 1 (0.057%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (5.38%) Microsoft Project
2 79 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 38 (2.15%) MS Visio
5 35 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.28%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.23%) Trello
8 4 (0.23%) Windchill
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.057%) InDesign
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.057%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 73 (4.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.34%) Finacle
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.28%) Primavera
8 5 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.17%) iTrent
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.11%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 283 (16.03%) Azure
2 151 (8.56%) AWS
3 108 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
4 93 (5.27%) GCP
5 91 (5.16%) Power Platform
6 71 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (3.46%) Entra ID
8 52 (2.95%) SaaS
9 31 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (1.36%) Power Automate
11 23 (1.30%) PaaS
12 22 (1.25%) Serverless
13 21 (1.19%) Google Workspace
13 21 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (1.08%) GitHub
14 19 (1.08%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.08%) IaaS
14 19 (1.08%) OpenShift
15 15 (0.85%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.35%) Firewall
2 71 (4.02%) Network Security
3 62 (3.51%) DNS
4 60 (3.40%) WAN
5 54 (3.06%) VPN
6 50 (2.83%) LAN
7 35 (1.98%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.76%) BGP
9 29 (1.64%) OSPF
10 28 (1.59%) TCP/IP
11 26 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (1.36%) DHCP
13 23 (1.30%) MPLS
14 22 (1.25%) SSL
15 17 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 17 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.91%) HTTP
16 16 (0.91%) SAN
17 15 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
17 15 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (4.31%) Power BI
2 49 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (1.47%) Metadata
5 20 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.08%) Tableau
7 16 (0.91%) Oracle Database
7 16 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
8 13 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (0.62%) MySQL
11 10 (0.57%) Big Data
12 9 (0.51%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.45%) Pinecone
13 8 (0.45%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
15 6 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
15 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
16 5 (0.28%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 213 (12.07%) JIRA
2 49 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.38%) Git
4 20 (1.13%) GitLab
4 20 (1.13%) Liquibase
5 12 (0.68%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.45%) MLflow
7 7 (0.40%) JUnit
8 5 (0.28%) Mockito
9 4 (0.23%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) AdminStudio
10 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.11%) git-flow
11 2 (0.11%) Hudson
11 2 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 757 (42.89%) Social Skills
2 556 (31.50%) Finance
3 329 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 146 (8.27%) Banking
6 74 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
7 65 (3.68%) Legal
8 61 (3.46%) Retail
9 54 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 53 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (2.83%) Manufacturing
12 40 (2.27%) Local Government
13 39 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 34 (1.93%) Law
15 33 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
16 32 (1.81%) Marketing
17 27 (1.53%) Financial Institution
18 20 (1.13%) Investment Banking
19 18 (1.02%) Aviation
20 17 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 230 (13.03%) Project Manager
2 215 (12.18%) Analyst
3 186 (10.54%) Lead
4 148 (8.39%) Change Manager
5 126 (7.14%) Business Analyst
6 120 (6.80%) Senior
7 113 (6.40%) Consultant
8 63 (3.57%) Programme Manager
9 58 (3.29%) Developer
10 57 (3.23%) Business Manager
11 54 (3.06%) Administrator
12 52 (2.95%) Architect
13 44 (2.49%) Network Engineer
13 44 (2.49%) Senior Manager
14 40 (2.27%) Business Change Manager
14 40 (2.27%) IT Manager
15 34 (1.93%) Service Manager
16 33 (1.87%) Delivery Manager
16 33 (1.87%) SAP Manager
17 29 (1.64%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.51%) REST
2 30 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (1.64%) .NET
3 29 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.25%) RESTful
5 21 (1.19%) .NET Framework
6 20 (1.13%) OAuth
7 17 (0.96%) Middleware
7 17 (0.96%) SAML
8 15 (0.85%) Web Services
9 13 (0.74%) SOAP
10 12 (0.68%) CSS
10 12 (0.68%) OpenID
11 11 (0.62%) HTML
11 11 (0.62%) LDAP
12 10 (0.57%) ISPF
12 10 (0.57%) pytest
13 9 (0.51%) Django
13 9 (0.51%) NumPy
13 9 (0.51%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.72%) Management Information System
2 87 (4.93%) Onboarding
3 78 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.63%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.95%) CMDB
6 46 (2.61%) Cloud Native
6 46 (2.61%) Virtual Team
7 39 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (1.98%) PMI
9 31 (1.76%) PKI
10 30 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (1.70%) Data Structures
11 24 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 21 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.96%) NHS
15 17 (0.96%) Operational Technology
15 17 (0.96%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.85%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 172 (9.75%) Windows
2 70 (3.97%) Linux
3 58 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 39 (2.21%) Unix
5 32 (1.81%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.23%) CentOS
9 4 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.17%) Android
10 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.11%) VMS
12 1 (0.057%) Debian
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.057%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (32.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 452 (25.61%) Agile
3 428 (24.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 392 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
5 346 (19.60%) ITIL
6 339 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 329 (18.64%) Project Management
8 279 (15.81%) Migration
9 236 (13.37%) DevOps
10 206 (11.67%) Project Delivery
11 170 (9.63%) ITSM
12 165 (9.35%) PRINCE2
13 161 (9.12%) Roadmaps
14 160 (9.07%) Risk Management
15 159 (9.01%) ERP
16 157 (8.90%) Service Management
17 155 (8.78%) Decision-Making
18 146 (8.27%) Validation
19 143 (8.10%) Workshop Facilitation
20 136 (7.71%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 163 (9.24%) SQL
2 131 (7.42%) Python
3 103 (5.84%) PowerShell
4 42 (2.38%) Bash
4 42 (2.38%) C#
5 29 (1.64%) Java
6 25 (1.42%) PL/SQL
7 20 (1.13%) JavaScript
8 18 (1.02%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.85%) Go
10 14 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.68%) COBOL
12 11 (0.62%) JCL
13 10 (0.57%) CLIST
13 10 (0.57%) REXX
14 7 (0.40%) Korn
15 6 (0.34%) Groovy
16 5 (0.28%) ABAP
16 5 (0.28%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 348 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 281 (15.92%) Degree
3 239 (13.54%) SC Cleared
4 117 (6.63%) PMI Certification
5 108 (6.12%) PMP
6 49 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 49 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 47 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 40 (2.27%) CISSP
10 32 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.81%) CISM
11 31 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 26 (1.47%) CCNP
14 25 (1.42%) APMG
15 22 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (1.02%) Azure Certification
17 15 (0.85%) MBA
18 12 (0.68%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.72%) QA
2 86 (4.87%) GDPR
3 83 (4.70%) Data Quality
4 80 (4.53%) PMO
5 60 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (3.29%) SLA
7 32 (1.81%) NIST
8 24 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.02%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.96%) IFRS
11 15 (0.85%) IFRS 17
12 11 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.57%) Accessibility
13 10 (0.57%) Basel III
14 8 (0.45%) GRC
14 8 (0.45%) MiFID
14 8 (0.45%) NCSC
14 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.28%) EMIR
15 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 117 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.68%) Docker
3 40 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.57%) ACF2
5 10 (0.57%) RACF
5 10 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.51%) Firmware
6 9 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.28%) KVM
8 5 (0.28%) vSphere
8 5 (0.28%) XenApp
8 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.17%) NFS
10 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 88 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.63%) Terraform
3 58 (3.29%) Ansible
4 39 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (1.59%) Grafana
5 28 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.47%) SCCM
7 14 (0.79%) Puppet
7 14 (0.79%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.62%) Kibana
10 10 (0.57%) CA Endevor
11 9 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.51%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.45%) SCOM
13 6 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
14 5 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.28%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 298 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 166 (9.41%) SAP
3 161 (9.12%) ServiceNow
4 122 (6.91%) Oracle
5 70 (3.97%) Google
6 67 (3.80%) Cisco
7 64 (3.63%) Salesforce
8 61 (3.46%) VMware
9 35 (1.98%) Citrix
10 34 (1.93%) Workday
11 32 (1.81%) Splunk
12 31 (1.76%) F5
13 23 (1.30%) Juniper
14 22 (1.25%) Atlassian
14 22 (1.25%) Palo Alto
15 20 (1.13%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.02%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.02%) Remedy
17 17 (0.96%) SolarWinds
18 16 (0.91%) Ariba