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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 47 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,805 1,238 1,900
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.10% 4.26% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 4.70% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 798 1,151
10th Percentile £322 £318 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £699 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.53% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 30 58
10th Percentile £21.65 £26.15 £14.31
25th Percentile £22.66 £34.01 £21.87
Median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £35.86
Median % change year-on-year -27.21% +60.37% -25.30%
75th Percentile £52.72 £71.88 £60.94
90th Percentile £84.65 £87.05 £62.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -27.21% +73.90% -31.11%

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 37,733 26,318 38,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 90.56% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 17,091 24,889
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 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,221 949 2,344
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.19 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -1.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £76.00 £76.25 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.52 £31.80
% change year-on-year -4.82% -0.88% -12.28%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 1,611 £500 -2.44% 586
UK excluding London -6 972 £487 +2.53% 483
London -10 683 £525 - 182
Work from Home -6 524 £525 +5.00% 230
North of England -11 299 £472 +4.89% 112
Midlands +4 232 £500 - 102
South East +11 211 £500 - 147
North West 0 199 £424 -0.21% 61
West Midlands -11 156 £508 +1.50% 58
South West +7 114 £525 +0.48% 39
Yorkshire -31 92 £488 -2.50% 35
East Midlands +16 74 £425 +34.07% 42
East of England -15 65 £475 -2.51% 52
Scotland 0 63 £450 +20.00% 21
Wales -5 12 £433 -27.83% 17
North East -16 8 £440 -23.48% 16
Northern Ireland -8 4 £383 -36.25% 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
1 121 (6.70%) Confluence
2 76 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.55%) 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 2 (0.11%) Moodle
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.055%) CICS
10 1 (0.055%) JBoss
10 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 97 (5.37%) Microsoft Project
2 76 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (2.05%) 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 75 (4.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.89%) 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%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.33%) Primavera
7 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
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%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 290 (16.07%) Azure
2 151 (8.37%) AWS
3 109 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
4 94 (5.21%) Power Platform
5 88 (4.88%) GCP
6 77 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (3.21%) Entra ID
8 54 (2.99%) SaaS
9 31 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.50%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.39%) PaaS
12 23 (1.27%) Serverless
13 21 (1.16%) Google Workspace
14 20 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
15 19 (1.05%) GitHub
15 19 (1.05%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.05%) IaaS
15 19 (1.05%) OCI
15 19 (1.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 116 (6.43%) Firewall
2 72 (3.99%) Network Security
3 61 (3.38%) WAN
4 59 (3.27%) DNS
5 53 (2.94%) LAN
6 51 (2.83%) VPN
7 36 (1.99%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.77%) BGP
9 30 (1.66%) OSPF
10 26 (1.44%) TCP/IP
10 26 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (1.33%) SSL
12 23 (1.27%) DHCP
12 23 (1.27%) MPLS
13 19 (1.05%) SAN
14 18 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 18 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 17 (0.94%) Wireless
16 16 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
17 15 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (4.21%) Power BI
2 51 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.33%) Metadata
5 21 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.11%) Tableau
7 18 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
8 16 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.55%) MySQL
12 9 (0.50%) Big Data
12 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
13 8 (0.44%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
15 6 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
15 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.28%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 226 (12.52%) JIRA
2 53 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 48 (2.66%) Git
4 21 (1.16%) Liquibase
5 20 (1.11%) 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%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.11%) Hudson
12 2 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
12 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 755 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 586 (32.47%) Finance
3 339 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 153 (8.48%) Banking
6 77 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
7 67 (3.71%) Legal
8 62 (3.43%) Retail
9 56 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.60%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.16%) Local Government
13 38 (2.11%) Telecoms
14 37 (2.05%) Marketing
15 35 (1.94%) Law
16 34 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (1.61%) Financial Institution
18 22 (1.22%) Investment Banking
19 18 (1.00%) Aviation
20 17 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 226 (12.52%) Project Manager
2 209 (11.58%) Analyst
3 191 (10.58%) Lead
4 154 (8.53%) Change Manager
5 129 (7.15%) Business Analyst
6 126 (6.98%) Senior
7 110 (6.09%) Consultant
8 65 (3.60%) Programme Manager
9 60 (3.32%) Developer
10 59 (3.27%) Administrator
10 59 (3.27%) Business Manager
11 52 (2.88%) Architect
12 49 (2.71%) Network Engineer
13 46 (2.55%) Senior Manager
14 41 (2.27%) Business Change Manager
15 40 (2.22%) IT Manager
16 34 (1.88%) Delivery Manager
16 34 (1.88%) SAP Manager
17 33 (1.83%) Service Manager
18 31 (1.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.55%) REST
2 31 (1.72%) .NET
2 31 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
3 30 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (1.22%) RESTful
5 21 (1.16%) .NET Framework
6 19 (1.05%) Middleware
7 18 (1.00%) OAuth
8 15 (0.83%) SAML
8 15 (0.83%) Web Services
9 13 (0.72%) CSS
9 13 (0.72%) SOAP
10 12 (0.66%) HTML
11 11 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.55%) ISPF
12 10 (0.55%) OpenID
12 10 (0.55%) pytest
13 9 (0.50%) Django
13 9 (0.50%) NumPy
13 9 (0.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.37%) Management Information System
2 87 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.43%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.88%) CMDB
6 49 (2.71%) Virtual Team
7 47 (2.60%) Cloud Native
8 40 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (2.05%) PMI
10 31 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.66%) PKI
12 24 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.27%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.05%) Operational Technology
16 18 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (0.94%) NHS
17 17 (0.94%) Replication
18 16 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 175 (9.70%) Windows
2 74 (4.10%) Linux
3 62 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.94%) Unix
5 31 (1.72%) 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
1 582 (32.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 471 (26.09%) Agile
3 435 (24.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 398 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
5 346 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 346 (19.17%) ITIL
6 328 (18.17%) Project Management
7 288 (15.96%) Migration
8 246 (13.63%) DevOps
9 209 (11.58%) Project Delivery
10 173 (9.58%) Roadmaps
11 172 (9.53%) ITSM
12 164 (9.09%) ERP
13 163 (9.03%) PRINCE2
14 161 (8.92%) Decision-Making
15 160 (8.86%) Risk Management
16 158 (8.75%) Service Management
17 149 (8.25%) Validation
18 146 (8.09%) Workshop Facilitation
19 145 (8.03%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 170 (9.42%) SQL
2 131 (7.26%) Python
3 105 (5.82%) PowerShell
4 45 (2.49%) C#
5 44 (2.44%) Bash
6 30 (1.66%) PL/SQL
7 28 (1.55%) Java
8 24 (1.33%) JavaScript
9 21 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.83%) Go
11 14 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.66%) COBOL
13 11 (0.61%) JCL
14 10 (0.55%) CLIST
14 10 (0.55%) REXX
15 9 (0.50%) Groovy
15 9 (0.50%) Korn
16 5 (0.28%) ABAP
16 5 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 362 (20.06%) Security Cleared
2 279 (15.46%) Degree
3 253 (14.02%) SC Cleared
4 118 (6.54%) PMI Certification
5 109 (6.04%) PMP
6 54 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.66%) Master's Degree
8 46 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (2.49%) CISSP
10 42 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.99%) CISM
13 30 (1.66%) CCNP
14 29 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
14 29 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (1.44%) APMG
16 19 (1.05%) Azure Certification
16 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (0.83%) MBA
18 14 (0.78%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.65%) QA
2 87 (4.82%) PMO
3 85 (4.71%) GDPR
4 84 (4.65%) Data Quality
5 60 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (3.27%) SLA
7 33 (1.83%) NIST
8 23 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.94%) IFRS
10 16 (0.89%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.83%) IFRS 17
12 12 (0.66%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.55%) Basel III
14 9 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.44%) GRC
15 8 (0.44%) MiFID
16 7 (0.39%) Accessibility
16 7 (0.39%) NCSC
17 5 (0.28%) COBIT
17 5 (0.28%) EMIR
System Software
1 113 (6.26%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.60%) Docker
3 44 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.33%) 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%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 87 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 69 (3.82%) Terraform
3 63 (3.49%) Ansible
4 36 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.61%) Grafana
5 29 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.27%) SCCM
7 17 (0.94%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 12 (0.66%) Puppet
10 10 (0.55%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.55%) Kibana
10 10 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
11 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.44%) SCOM
13 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 302 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 169 (9.36%) ServiceNow
3 168 (9.31%) SAP
4 133 (7.37%) Oracle
5 71 (3.93%) Cisco
6 70 (3.88%) Salesforce
7 66 (3.66%) VMware
8 65 (3.60%) Google
9 36 (1.99%) Workday
10 35 (1.94%) Citrix
11 34 (1.88%) Splunk
12 31 (1.72%) F5
13 24 (1.33%) Atlassian
14 22 (1.22%) Juniper
14 22 (1.22%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.16%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.00%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.00%) Remedy
17 17 (0.94%) SolarWinds
18 16 (0.89%) Ariba