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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,839 1,269 1,852
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.91% 4.32% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 4.76% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 813 1,097
10th Percentile £325 £321 £331
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £695 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 50 61
10th Percentile £21.75 £28.60 £14.44
25th Percentile £22.68 £50.00 £29.91
Median hourly rate £43.86 £54.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.79% +12.50% -0.27%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.62 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -29.58% +26.32% +0.81%

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 39,735 26,655 37,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.81% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,044 17,231 24,097
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,068 2,424
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.98 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £28.00 £35.98
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.17% -0.07%

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 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 28 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 28 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 -2 1,621 £500 - 493
UK excluding London -8 966 £500 +5.82% 446
London -2 708 £500 -7.41% 170
Work from Home -1 555 £525 +5.00% 198
North of England -12 300 £474 +5.22% 108
Midlands -3 222 £500 - 76
South East +5 213 £510 +5.70% 138
North West +5 196 £421 -3.76% 63
West Midlands -9 152 £508 +1.55% 36
South West -10 98 £500 - 37
Yorkshire -40 95 £487 +5.30% 34
Scotland +2 76 £471 +17.63% 25
East of England -13 71 £475 -2.51% 41
East Midlands +11 68 £419 +18.29% 38
Wales -10 10 £600 +60.00% 21
North East -20 9 £440 -23.48% 13
Northern Ireland -4 4 £463 -18.86% 10

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
1 114 (6.20%) Confluence
2 76 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.76%) SAS
5 9 (0.49%) Appian
5 9 (0.49%) IIS
6 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 2 (0.11%) CICS
10 1 (0.054%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.054%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.054%) Moodle
10 1 (0.054%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 85 (4.62%) Microsoft Project
2 73 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 32 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.27%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) Windchill
11 1 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.054%) InDesign
11 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.054%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 77 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) Finacle
6 6 (0.33%) Primavera
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
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%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 286 (15.55%) Azure
2 140 (7.61%) AWS
3 111 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (5.33%) Power Platform
5 75 (4.08%) SaaS
6 72 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (3.92%) GCP
7 66 (3.59%) Entra ID
8 40 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.69%) Google Workspace
9 31 (1.69%) Power Automate
10 28 (1.52%) PaaS
11 22 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
11 22 (1.20%) OpenShift
12 19 (1.03%) GitHub
12 19 (1.03%) Google Sheets
12 19 (1.03%) OCI
13 17 (0.92%) IaaS
14 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
14 16 (0.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.09%) Firewall
2 70 (3.81%) Network Security
3 63 (3.43%) WAN
4 61 (3.32%) DNS
5 54 (2.94%) VPN
6 51 (2.77%) LAN
7 38 (2.07%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.74%) BGP
9 31 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (1.63%) OSPF
11 29 (1.58%) SSL
12 26 (1.41%) TCP/IP
13 25 (1.36%) DHCP
14 24 (1.31%) MPLS
15 19 (1.03%) SAN
16 18 (0.98%) Wireless
17 17 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 17 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 15 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
18 15 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (4.40%) Power BI
2 61 (3.32%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.41%) Metadata
4 25 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.25%) Tableau
6 21 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (1.09%) Oracle Database
7 20 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (0.76%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.60%) MySQL
10 9 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (0.27%) Big Data
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (0.22%) Oracle Database 11g
14 4 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 230 (12.51%) JIRA
2 54 (2.94%) Git
3 43 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.49%) GitLab
6 8 (0.44%) Liquibase
6 8 (0.44%) MLflow
7 5 (0.27%) InstallShield
7 5 (0.27%) JUnit
8 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
8 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.22%) Hudson
8 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.22%) Maven
8 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.16%) Mockito
9 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.16%) Snyk
9 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 734 (39.91%) Social Skills
2 602 (32.74%) Finance
3 323 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 143 (7.78%) Banking
6 75 (4.08%) Legal
7 72 (3.92%) Retail
8 70 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
9 57 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (2.66%) Marketing
11 47 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (2.12%) Manufacturing
13 38 (2.07%) Local Government
14 36 (1.96%) Law
15 33 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (1.79%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 21 (1.14%) Financial Institution
18 19 (1.03%) Aviation
19 18 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (12.02%) Project Manager
2 203 (11.04%) Lead
3 195 (10.60%) Analyst
4 150 (8.16%) Change Manager
5 128 (6.96%) Senior
6 123 (6.69%) Business Analyst
7 111 (6.04%) Consultant
8 76 (4.13%) Administrator
9 68 (3.70%) Developer
10 63 (3.43%) Programme Manager
11 54 (2.94%) Architect
12 52 (2.83%) Business Manager
13 50 (2.72%) Network Engineer
13 50 (2.72%) Senior Manager
14 46 (2.50%) IT Manager
15 41 (2.23%) Business Change Manager
16 37 (2.01%) Delivery Manager
17 34 (1.85%) SAP Manager
18 31 (1.69%) Service Manager
18 31 (1.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.83%) REST
2 34 (1.85%) .NET
3 27 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.25%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.20%) OAuth
6 21 (1.14%) Middleware
7 16 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (0.82%) CSS
9 14 (0.76%) SAML
9 14 (0.76%) Web Services
10 13 (0.71%) LDAP
11 12 (0.65%) HTML
11 12 (0.65%) RESTful
11 12 (0.65%) SOAP
12 11 (0.60%) OpenID
13 10 (0.54%) pytest
13 10 (0.54%) React
14 9 (0.49%) ISPF
14 9 (0.49%) NumPy
14 9 (0.49%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.17%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 79 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 68 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.88%) Virtual Team
6 48 (2.61%) CMDB
7 45 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (2.28%) Cloud Native
8 42 (2.28%) PMI
9 31 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 31 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 28 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.52%) PKI
11 20 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.03%) Operational Technology
13 18 (0.98%) Security Posture
14 17 (0.92%) Public Cloud
15 16 (0.87%) Low-Code
16 14 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 172 (9.35%) Windows
2 82 (4.46%) Linux
3 62 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 44 (2.39%) Unix
5 29 (1.58%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.44%) Solaris
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.27%) AIX
11 5 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.27%) VMS
11 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.22%) HPUX
12 4 (0.22%) SUSE
13 3 (0.16%) CentOS
13 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 456 (24.80%) Agile
3 436 (23.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 378 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
5 372 (20.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 350 (19.03%) ITIL
7 340 (18.49%) Project Management
8 307 (16.69%) Migration
9 248 (13.49%) DevOps
10 222 (12.07%) Project Delivery
11 198 (10.77%) ERP
12 189 (10.28%) Roadmaps
13 183 (9.95%) Decision-Making
14 170 (9.24%) ITSM
14 170 (9.24%) Risk Management
15 164 (8.92%) Validation
16 152 (8.27%) CI/CD
17 151 (8.21%) Service Management
18 144 (7.83%) PRINCE2
19 140 (7.61%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 169 (9.19%) SQL
2 112 (6.09%) Python
3 89 (4.84%) PowerShell
4 49 (2.66%) C#
5 44 (2.39%) Bash
6 42 (2.28%) PL/SQL
7 35 (1.90%) Java
8 27 (1.47%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.25%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.65%) Korn
11 11 (0.60%) COBOL
11 11 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.54%) JCL
12 10 (0.54%) REXX
13 9 (0.49%) CLIST
13 9 (0.49%) Groovy
14 5 (0.27%) ABAP
14 5 (0.27%) Go
14 5 (0.27%) Perl
15 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 367 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 266 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 256 (13.92%) Degree
4 119 (6.47%) PMI Certification
5 117 (6.36%) PMP
6 51 (2.77%) CISSP
7 47 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 43 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (2.07%) CISM
10 38 (2.07%) Master's Degree
11 32 (1.74%) CCNP
11 32 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
12 31 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 28 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 27 (1.47%) APMG
15 21 (1.14%) CIMA
16 20 (1.09%) ACCA
17 19 (1.03%) Azure Certification
18 15 (0.82%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (6.04%) QA
2 91 (4.95%) GDPR
3 89 (4.84%) PMO
4 87 (4.73%) Data Quality
5 66 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (3.59%) SLA
6 44 (2.39%) NIST
7 26 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.14%) SOC 2
9 18 (0.98%) IFRS
10 17 (0.92%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.82%) IFRS 17
12 10 (0.54%) Basel III
12 10 (0.54%) GRC
13 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.44%) ITGC
14 7 (0.38%) COBIT
15 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
16 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 126 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.88%) Docker
3 46 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.54%) vSphere
9 9 (0.49%) ACF2
9 9 (0.49%) RACF
9 9 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
10 8 (0.44%) Firmware
10 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.27%) KVM
11 5 (0.27%) XenApp
11 5 (0.27%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 82 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.48%) Ansible
3 62 (3.37%) Terraform
4 34 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (1.31%) Grafana
5 24 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.25%) SCCM
7 18 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.76%) FortiGate
9 10 (0.54%) Puppet
10 9 (0.49%) CA Endevor
10 9 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
10 9 (0.49%) Tivoli
10 9 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 8 (0.44%) Kibana
11 8 (0.44%) SCOM
12 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 293 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 176 (9.57%) SAP
2 176 (9.57%) ServiceNow
3 161 (8.75%) Oracle
4 73 (3.97%) Cisco
4 73 (3.97%) Salesforce
5 68 (3.70%) VMware
6 66 (3.59%) Google
7 38 (2.07%) Citrix
8 33 (1.79%) Workday
9 32 (1.74%) F5
10 27 (1.47%) Splunk
11 26 (1.41%) IFS
12 25 (1.36%) Juniper
13 23 (1.25%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.14%) CheckPoint
15 20 (1.09%) Fortinet
15 20 (1.09%) Red Hat
16 17 (0.92%) Atlassian
16 17 (0.92%) Remedy