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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 52 40
Rank change year-on-year -11 -12 0
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,981 1,475 1,655
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.64% 4.47% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 4.94% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 887 842
10th Percentile £368 £325 £323
25th Percentile £434 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 72 45
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.51 £23.26
25th Percentile £26.19 £22.63 £32.29
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -47.13% +17.24%
75th Percentile £76.75 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.11 £70.14 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.25 £25.15 £57.40
% change year-on-year +111.77% -56.19% +18.58%

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 45,930 29,887 32,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.55% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,618 18,553 19,727
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £635 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,299 1,876 1,335
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.60 £65.00 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -48.10% +1.18%

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 5 October 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 5 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 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 5 October 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 -8 1,732 £530 +6.00% 2,316
UK excluding London -21 972 £501 +5.37% 1,313
London -13 818 £550 - 1,140
Work from Home -2 562 £525 +6.17% 934
North of England -13 316 £500 +9.29% 312
South East -7 275 £550 +12.24% 358
North West -14 177 £475 +5.56% 180
Yorkshire -3 127 £500 +8.11% 98
Midlands -72 104 £480 +1.05% 193
Scotland +3 99 £488 +8.44% 126
South West -37 89 £544 +4.82% 157
East of England +7 78 £509 -5.30% 119
West Midlands -69 77 £500 +5.26% 110
East Midlands -21 27 £416 -6.52% 83
North East -28 12 £413 -8.33% 37
Wales -17 8 £450 +35.88% 32
Northern Ireland -11 7 £750 +42.86% 30
Channel Islands -4 2 £600 - 1

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
1 107 (5.40%) SharePoint
2 90 (4.54%) Confluence
3 30 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.01%) IIS
5 13 (0.66%) CICS
6 7 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.30%) Appian
7 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.30%) CMS
8 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.25%) Camunda
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.15%) nginx
10 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.10%) JBoss
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 73 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.40%) Windchill
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.20%) InDesign
7 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Houdini
9 2 (0.10%) NUKE
9 2 (0.10%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.050%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.050%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.050%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 73 (3.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.56%) Maximo
5 11 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.50%) Primavera
7 9 (0.45%) Teamcenter
8 8 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.40%) SAP PM
9 7 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.35%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.30%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.25%) iTrent
11 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.25%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.25%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 294 (14.84%) Azure
2 152 (7.67%) AWS
3 149 (7.52%) Power Platform
4 117 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
5 99 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 78 (3.94%) GCP
7 55 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (2.73%) SaaS
9 50 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
10 48 (2.42%) GitHub
10 48 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
11 29 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
11 29 (1.46%) OCI
12 27 (1.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 27 (1.36%) Power Automate
13 25 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
14 23 (1.16%) OneDrive
14 23 (1.16%) Serverless
15 22 (1.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 125 (6.31%) Firewall
2 109 (5.50%) Network Security
3 86 (4.34%) DNS
4 61 (3.08%) VPN
5 55 (2.78%) WAN
6 47 (2.37%) TCP/IP
7 44 (2.22%) DHCP
8 36 (1.82%) Wireless
9 31 (1.56%) LAN
10 27 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.16%) BGP
12 21 (1.06%) SSL
13 19 (0.96%) OSPF
13 19 (0.96%) SAN
14 18 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
15 17 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
15 17 (0.86%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.81%) SNMP
17 14 (0.71%) MPLS
17 14 (0.71%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (5.91%) Power BI
2 65 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.72%) Metadata
4 32 (1.62%) Oracle Database
5 27 (1.36%) Relational Database
6 18 (0.91%) Db2
6 18 (0.91%) Tableau
7 16 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
10 10 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (0.45%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.35%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.35%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.35%) Oracle BI EE
13 6 (0.30%) GIS
13 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 180 (9.09%) JIRA
2 67 (3.38%) Git
3 52 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.66%) GitLab
5 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.30%) Selenium
6 6 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
7 5 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.25%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.15%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.15%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.15%) InstallShield
9 3 (0.15%) Postman
9 3 (0.15%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.10%) Liquibase
General
1 792 (39.98%) Social Skills
2 708 (35.74%) Finance
3 327 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (10.60%) Banking
5 173 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 107 (5.40%) Influencing Skills
7 98 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
8 94 (4.75%) Manufacturing
9 82 (4.14%) Legal
10 75 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
11 69 (3.48%) Retail
12 57 (2.88%) Telecoms
13 52 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (1.97%) Aerospace
15 38 (1.92%) Law
16 36 (1.82%) Marketing
17 34 (1.72%) Local Government
18 28 (1.41%) Aviation
18 28 (1.41%) Front Office
19 26 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 238 (12.01%) Lead
2 221 (11.16%) Project Manager
3 216 (10.90%) Analyst
4 165 (8.33%) Senior
5 150 (7.57%) Change Manager
6 121 (6.11%) Business Analyst
7 116 (5.86%) Consultant
8 61 (3.08%) Senior Manager
9 59 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
10 58 (2.93%) IT Manager
11 57 (2.88%) Network Engineer
12 55 (2.78%) Developer
13 50 (2.52%) Programme Manager
14 48 (2.42%) Cloud Engineer
15 47 (2.37%) Administrator
16 45 (2.27%) Business Manager
17 40 (2.02%) Security Engineer
18 38 (1.92%) Business Change Manager
18 38 (1.92%) Service Manager
19 37 (1.87%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (5.70%) Terraform
2 46 (2.32%) REST
3 36 (1.82%) .NET
4 33 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 26 (1.31%) Kafka
5 26 (1.31%) Middleware
6 23 (1.16%) HTML
7 19 (0.96%) CSS
8 17 (0.86%) Ajax
9 16 (0.81%) SOAP
10 15 (0.76%) 802.1X
10 15 (0.76%) OAuth
10 15 (0.76%) Web Services
10 15 (0.76%) XML
11 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (0.66%) JSON
13 11 (0.56%) .NET Framework
14 9 (0.45%) RESTful
15 8 (0.40%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 136 (6.87%) Onboarding
2 102 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 91 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 79 (3.99%) Data Centre
5 59 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 45 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.02%) PKI
9 38 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (1.82%) Operational Technology
11 36 (1.82%) Security Posture
12 32 (1.62%) CMDB
13 28 (1.41%) AI Agents
14 27 (1.36%) Virtual Team
15 24 (1.21%) Mainframe
16 22 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
17 21 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
17 21 (1.06%) Public Cloud
18 20 (1.01%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 235 (11.86%) Windows
2 129 (6.51%) Linux
3 106 (5.35%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (2.52%) Unix
6 22 (1.11%) Windows 10
7 20 (1.01%) Solaris
8 15 (0.76%) AIX
8 15 (0.76%) zOS
9 14 (0.71%) VMS
10 9 (0.45%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.40%) SUSE
11 8 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.35%) Android
12 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.25%) HPUX
15 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
15 4 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (41.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 507 (25.59%) Agile
3 485 (24.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 475 (23.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 378 (19.08%) ITIL
6 340 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
7 327 (16.51%) Project Delivery
8 317 (16.00%) Project Management
9 284 (14.34%) Roadmaps
10 281 (14.18%) Migration
11 248 (12.52%) Decision-Making
12 238 (12.01%) Service Management
13 230 (11.61%) AI
14 222 (11.21%) DevOps
15 205 (10.35%) ITSM
16 202 (10.20%) PRINCE2
17 185 (9.34%) Process Improvement
18 183 (9.24%) Analytics
19 181 (9.14%) ERP
20 176 (8.88%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 176 (8.88%) Python
2 155 (7.82%) PowerShell
3 147 (7.42%) SQL
4 84 (4.24%) Bash
5 48 (2.42%) Java
6 42 (2.12%) JavaScript
7 38 (1.92%) PL/SQL
8 36 (1.82%) C#
9 26 (1.31%) Bicep
10 22 (1.11%) T-SQL
11 18 (0.91%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.76%) JCL
13 13 (0.66%) Korn
14 12 (0.61%) Go
15 10 (0.50%) COBOL
16 9 (0.45%) Groovy
16 9 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.30%) VBScript
18 5 (0.25%) REXX
19 4 (0.20%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 415 (20.95%) Security Cleared
2 301 (15.19%) SC Cleared
3 240 (12.12%) Degree
4 149 (7.52%) PMP
5 140 (7.07%) PMI Certification
6 86 (4.34%) DV Cleared
7 46 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (2.07%) CISSP
9 40 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 35 (1.77%) CCNP
11 31 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.46%) APMG
12 29 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
13 28 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 23 (1.16%) AWS Certification
16 20 (1.01%) ACCA
17 19 (0.96%) CIMA
17 19 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
18 16 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 107 (5.40%) QA
3 91 (4.59%) PMO
4 77 (3.89%) SLA
5 45 (2.27%) GDPR
6 37 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.62%) GRC
8 25 (1.26%) NIST
9 16 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.61%) ISO 9001
11 9 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.45%) ITGC
11 9 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.40%) GMP
12 8 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.35%) EMIR
14 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 131 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 113 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.27%) Docker
4 29 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 28 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.96%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.71%) vCloud
8 14 (0.71%) vSphere
9 8 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (0.30%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) RACF
12 4 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.15%) Squid
14 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.10%) NFS
14 2 (0.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 82 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 72 (3.63%) Ansible
3 40 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (1.77%) vCenter Server
5 33 (1.67%) SCOM
6 29 (1.46%) Grafana
7 28 (1.41%) Prometheus
8 24 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.16%) SCCM
10 16 (0.81%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.61%) Avamar
12 10 (0.50%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.35%) Control-M
14 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.35%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
15 6 (0.30%) Argo
16 5 (0.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 388 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 190 (9.59%) ServiceNow
3 176 (8.88%) Oracle
4 156 (7.87%) SAP
5 136 (6.87%) VMware
6 91 (4.59%) Cisco
7 67 (3.38%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.37%) Splunk
9 46 (2.32%) Google
10 45 (2.27%) IBM
11 41 (2.07%) Red Hat
12 37 (1.87%) Zscaler
13 34 (1.72%) Palo Alto
14 30 (1.51%) Citrix
14 30 (1.51%) F5
15 27 (1.36%) Workday
16 24 (1.21%) CheckPoint
16 24 (1.21%) Juniper
17 21 (1.06%) Dell
17 21 (1.06%) Remedy