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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 49 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,814 1,223 1,882
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.08% 4.21% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.65% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 787 1,135
10th Percentile £325 £317 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £699 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 30 56
10th Percentile £21.65 £26.15 £14.22
25th Percentile £22.64 £34.01 £26.06
Median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -27.21% +54.65% -22.54%
75th Percentile £47.93 £71.88 £61.25
90th Percentile £84.80 £87.05 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £35.12
% change year-on-year -27.21% +63.71% -26.83%

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 38,117 26,296 38,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.75% 90.49% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,146 17,083 24,839
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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 956 2,346
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.12 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.35 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £31.64 £31.80
% change year-on-year -1.23% -0.50% -11.67%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -4 1,619 £500 -1.96% 586
UK excluding London -4 977 £489 +2.89% 483
London -7 686 £515 -1.90% 182
Work from Home -4 529 £525 +5.00% 230
North of England -13 299 £472 +4.89% 112
Midlands -1 232 £500 -0.10% 102
South East +6 215 £502 +0.30% 147
North West +2 199 £424 +1.28% 61
West Midlands -13 157 £508 +1.20% 58
South West +10 112 £504 -3.13% 39
Yorkshire -32 92 £488 -2.50% 35
East Midlands +15 73 £425 +34.07% 42
East of England -15 67 £475 -4.95% 52
Scotland +2 64 £450 +20.00% 21
Wales -6 13 £492 -18.08% 17
North East -14 8 £440 -23.48% 16
Northern Ireland -7 4 £383 -32.00% 9

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
1 122 (6.73%) Confluence
2 75 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.61%) SAS
5 9 (0.50%) Appian
6 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.28%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.22%) CMS
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.11%) Moodle
11 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.055%) CICS
11 1 (0.055%) JBoss
11 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (5.24%) Microsoft Project
2 76 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (2.04%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.28%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.22%) Trello
7 4 (0.22%) Windchill
8 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.055%) InDesign
8 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 76 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Finacle
7 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.33%) Primavera
7 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
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 Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 292 (16.10%) Azure
2 153 (8.43%) AWS
3 107 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
4 96 (5.29%) Power Platform
5 89 (4.91%) GCP
6 78 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (3.36%) Entra ID
8 55 (3.03%) SaaS
9 31 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.49%) Power Automate
11 26 (1.43%) PaaS
12 23 (1.27%) Serverless
13 21 (1.16%) Google Workspace
14 20 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
15 19 (1.05%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.05%) IaaS
15 19 (1.05%) OCI
15 19 (1.05%) OpenShift
16 18 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 116 (6.39%) Firewall
2 72 (3.97%) Network Security
3 61 (3.36%) WAN
4 58 (3.20%) DNS
5 53 (2.92%) LAN
6 50 (2.76%) VPN
7 36 (1.98%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.76%) BGP
9 30 (1.65%) OSPF
10 27 (1.49%) SSL
11 26 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (1.38%) TCP/IP
13 23 (1.27%) MPLS
14 22 (1.21%) DHCP
15 19 (1.05%) SAN
16 18 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 18 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 17 (0.94%) Wireless
18 16 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
19 15 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.30%) Power BI
2 52 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.49%) Metadata
5 21 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.16%) Tableau
6 19 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 18 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (0.61%) MySQL
10 9 (0.50%) Big Data
10 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.50%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
11 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 227 (12.51%) JIRA
2 52 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 48 (2.65%) Git
4 21 (1.16%) Liquibase
5 20 (1.10%) GitLab
6 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.44%) MLflow
8 7 (0.39%) JUnit
9 5 (0.28%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.28%) Mockito
10 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
11 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.11%) Snyk
General
1 757 (41.73%) Social Skills
2 591 (32.58%) Finance
3 340 (18.74%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 153 (8.43%) Banking
6 78 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
7 67 (3.69%) Legal
8 66 (3.64%) Retail
9 57 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.59%) Manufacturing
12 38 (2.09%) Local Government
12 38 (2.09%) Marketing
12 38 (2.09%) Telecoms
13 35 (1.93%) Law
14 34 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (1.60%) Financial Institution
16 22 (1.21%) Investment Banking
17 18 (0.99%) Aviation
18 17 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 223 (12.29%) Project Manager
2 210 (11.58%) Analyst
3 195 (10.75%) Lead
4 152 (8.38%) Change Manager
5 130 (7.17%) Business Analyst
6 125 (6.89%) Senior
7 112 (6.17%) Consultant
8 64 (3.53%) Programme Manager
9 61 (3.36%) Administrator
10 60 (3.31%) Business Manager
11 59 (3.25%) Developer
12 52 (2.87%) Architect
13 49 (2.70%) Network Engineer
14 46 (2.54%) Senior Manager
15 42 (2.32%) Business Change Manager
16 40 (2.21%) IT Manager
17 34 (1.87%) SAP Manager
18 33 (1.82%) Delivery Manager
18 33 (1.82%) Service Manager
19 31 (1.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (3.58%) REST
2 31 (1.71%) .NET
2 31 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 30 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (1.21%) RESTful
5 21 (1.16%) .NET Framework
6 20 (1.10%) OAuth
7 19 (1.05%) Middleware
8 17 (0.94%) SAML
9 15 (0.83%) Web Services
10 13 (0.72%) CSS
10 13 (0.72%) OpenID
10 13 (0.72%) SOAP
11 12 (0.66%) LDAP
12 11 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 11 (0.61%) HTML
13 10 (0.55%) ISPF
13 10 (0.55%) pytest
14 9 (0.50%) Django
14 9 (0.50%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.40%) Management Information System
2 86 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.87%) CMDB
6 50 (2.76%) Virtual Team
7 47 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 40 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (2.04%) PMI
10 31 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.65%) PKI
12 24 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.27%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.05%) Operational Technology
15 19 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.99%) NHS
17 17 (0.94%) Replication
18 16 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 173 (9.54%) Windows
2 76 (4.19%) Linux
3 62 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.04%) Unix
5 30 (1.65%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.22%) CentOS
10 4 (0.22%) VMS
10 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.17%) Android
11 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.055%) Debian
13 1 (0.055%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.055%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.055%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (32.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 471 (25.96%) Agile
3 437 (24.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 397 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
5 351 (19.35%) ITIL
6 345 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 327 (18.03%) Project Management
8 292 (16.10%) Migration
9 252 (13.89%) DevOps
10 208 (11.47%) Project Delivery
11 172 (9.48%) ITSM
12 171 (9.43%) Roadmaps
13 167 (9.21%) ERP
14 164 (9.04%) PRINCE2
15 162 (8.93%) Decision-Making
16 161 (8.88%) Risk Management
17 159 (8.77%) Service Management
18 151 (8.32%) Validation
19 146 (8.05%) CI/CD
19 146 (8.05%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 173 (9.54%) SQL
2 134 (7.39%) Python
3 105 (5.79%) PowerShell
4 45 (2.48%) C#
5 44 (2.43%) Bash
6 32 (1.76%) PL/SQL
7 30 (1.65%) Java
8 24 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 21 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.83%) Go
11 14 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.66%) COBOL
13 11 (0.61%) JCL
14 10 (0.55%) CLIST
14 10 (0.55%) Groovy
14 10 (0.55%) REXX
15 9 (0.50%) Korn
16 5 (0.28%) ABAP
16 5 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 361 (19.90%) Security Cleared
2 281 (15.49%) Degree
3 253 (13.95%) SC Cleared
4 119 (6.56%) PMI Certification
5 111 (6.12%) PMP
6 54 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.76%) CISSP
8 48 (2.65%) Master's Degree
9 46 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (2.21%) CISM
13 30 (1.65%) CCNP
13 30 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 29 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
15 26 (1.43%) APMG
16 19 (1.05%) Azure Certification
17 18 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
18 15 (0.83%) CIMA
18 15 (0.83%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.68%) QA
2 89 (4.91%) GDPR
3 87 (4.80%) PMO
4 84 (4.63%) Data Quality
5 62 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (3.25%) SLA
7 36 (1.98%) NIST
8 25 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.94%) IFRS
9 17 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.83%) IFRS 17
11 13 (0.72%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.55%) Basel III
13 9 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.44%) GRC
14 8 (0.44%) MiFID
15 7 (0.39%) Accessibility
15 7 (0.39%) NCSC
16 6 (0.33%) COBIT
17 5 (0.28%) EMIR
System Software
1 115 (6.34%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.58%) Docker
3 44 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.55%) ACF2
7 10 (0.55%) RACF
7 10 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
8 9 (0.50%) Firmware
9 8 (0.44%) vSphere
10 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.28%) KVM
11 5 (0.28%) XenApp
11 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.17%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 87 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 68 (3.75%) Terraform
3 63 (3.47%) Ansible
4 36 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (1.54%) Grafana
5 28 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.21%) SCCM
7 17 (0.94%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.77%) FortiGate
9 13 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.66%) Puppet
11 11 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 10 (0.55%) CA Endevor
12 10 (0.55%) Kibana
13 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.44%) SCOM
15 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
16 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 301 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 172 (9.48%) ServiceNow
3 169 (9.32%) SAP
4 138 (7.61%) Oracle
5 73 (4.02%) Salesforce
6 71 (3.91%) Cisco
7 66 (3.64%) VMware
8 63 (3.47%) Google
9 36 (1.98%) Workday
10 35 (1.93%) Citrix
11 33 (1.82%) Splunk
12 31 (1.71%) F5
13 25 (1.38%) Atlassian
14 22 (1.21%) Juniper
14 22 (1.21%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.16%) Fortinet
16 18 (0.99%) CheckPoint
16 18 (0.99%) Remedy
17 17 (0.94%) SolarWinds
18 16 (0.88%) Ariba