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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,803 1,267 1,835
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.80% 4.35% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.79% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 797 1,078
10th Percentile £325 £324 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 51 63
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £14.09
25th Percentile £22.63 £50.00 £28.32
Median hourly rate £34.94 £54.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +12.50% -0.83%
75th Percentile £64.00 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £86.08 £78.47 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.09 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -53.18% +26.32% -1.86%

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 40,077 26,470 37,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.96% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,204 17,026 23,967
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +1.77% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,075 2,431
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.35 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.88% -27.07% +7.14%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -3 1,583 £500 - 535
UK excluding London -8 947 £500 +5.26% 388
London -5 686 £500 -8.80% 200
Work from Home -2 533 £525 +5.00% 216
North of England -12 285 £475 +5.56% 104
Midlands -3 221 £500 - 68
South East 0 213 £510 +6.25% 111
North West -3 174 £436 -3.11% 49
West Midlands -8 148 £513 +2.50% 30
Yorkshire -28 103 £487 +5.35% 48
South West -20 93 £500 -1.96% 44
Scotland -2 74 £475 +14.46% 18
East of England -9 73 £475 - 34
East Midlands +20 71 £438 +20.52% 37
Wales -8 11 £575 +53.33% 10
North East -16 8 £433 -24.78% 8
Northern Ireland -5 5 £475 -19.15% 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
1 107 (5.93%) Confluence
2 74 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.78%) SAS
5 12 (0.67%) IIS
6 9 (0.50%) Appian
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
10 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.055%) Moodle
11 1 (0.055%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.055%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 78 (4.33%) Microsoft Project
2 68 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 2 (0.11%) Windchill
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.055%) InDesign
10 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 77 (4.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.33%) Finacle
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Primavera
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) Maximo
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG-F
9 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.11%) Loan IQ
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 282 (15.64%) Azure
2 143 (7.93%) AWS
3 105 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
3 105 (5.82%) Power Platform
4 73 (4.05%) GCP
5 68 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (3.72%) SaaS
7 66 (3.66%) Entra ID
8 39 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.72%) Google Workspace
10 30 (1.66%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.39%) PaaS
12 24 (1.33%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (1.16%) GitHub
15 19 (1.05%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.05%) OCI
16 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
17 15 (0.83%) PowerApps
17 15 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.99%) Firewall
2 66 (3.66%) Network Security
3 62 (3.44%) DNS
4 57 (3.16%) WAN
5 52 (2.88%) VPN
6 47 (2.61%) LAN
7 34 (1.89%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.72%) BGP
9 29 (1.61%) OSPF
10 28 (1.55%) SSL
10 28 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (1.50%) TCP/IP
12 25 (1.39%) DHCP
13 24 (1.33%) MPLS
14 20 (1.11%) SAN
15 18 (1.00%) Wireless
16 17 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 17 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 16 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (4.88%) Power BI
2 61 (3.38%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.44%) Metadata
3 26 (1.44%) Tableau
4 25 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
7 17 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (0.55%) MySQL
11 9 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
13 6 (0.33%) Oracle BI EE
14 5 (0.28%) Big Data
14 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 218 (12.09%) JIRA
2 58 (3.22%) Git
3 48 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.55%) GitLab
6 9 (0.50%) MLflow
7 7 (0.39%) InstallShield
8 6 (0.33%) AdminStudio
9 5 (0.28%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.22%) Hudson
10 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.17%) Snyk
11 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.11%) git-flow
12 2 (0.11%) JUnit
General
1 703 (38.99%) Social Skills
2 597 (33.11%) Finance
3 310 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (10.15%) Public Sector
5 144 (7.99%) Banking
6 78 (4.33%) Legal
7 71 (3.94%) Retail
8 60 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (2.50%) Marketing
12 37 (2.05%) Law
13 36 (2.00%) Manufacturing
14 33 (1.83%) Local Government
15 32 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.77%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.16%) Aviation
16 21 (1.16%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.16%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 215 (11.92%) Project Manager
2 187 (10.37%) Lead
3 183 (10.15%) Analyst
4 142 (7.88%) Change Manager
5 135 (7.49%) Senior
6 116 (6.43%) Business Analyst
7 109 (6.05%) Consultant
8 76 (4.22%) Administrator
9 66 (3.66%) Programme Manager
10 64 (3.55%) Developer
11 53 (2.94%) Senior Manager
12 51 (2.83%) Architect
13 50 (2.77%) Network Engineer
14 48 (2.66%) Business Manager
15 45 (2.50%) IT Manager
16 39 (2.16%) Delivery Manager
17 38 (2.11%) Business Change Manager
18 34 (1.89%) SAP Manager
19 33 (1.83%) Support Engineer
20 30 (1.66%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.72%) REST
2 33 (1.83%) .NET
3 27 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.22%) Middleware
4 22 (1.22%) OAuth
5 21 (1.16%) .NET Framework
6 17 (0.94%) CSS
6 17 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (0.78%) HTML
7 14 (0.78%) LDAP
7 14 (0.78%) Web Services
8 12 (0.67%) SAML
8 12 (0.67%) SOAP
9 10 (0.55%) Pandas
9 10 (0.55%) pytest
9 10 (0.55%) React
9 10 (0.55%) RESTful
10 9 (0.50%) NumPy
10 9 (0.50%) OpenID
10 9 (0.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 88 (4.88%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 74 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 71 (3.94%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.44%) CMDB
5 44 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (2.27%) PMI
7 40 (2.22%) Virtual Team
8 39 (2.16%) Cloud Native
9 31 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 31 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.50%) PKI
12 20 (1.11%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.00%) Mainframe
13 18 (1.00%) Operational Technology
13 18 (1.00%) Security Posture
13 18 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 172 (9.54%) Windows
2 86 (4.77%) Linux
3 63 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.50%) Unix
5 27 (1.50%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.50%) Solaris
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.28%) AIX
11 5 (0.28%) SUSE
11 5 (0.28%) VMS
11 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.22%) HPUX
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.17%) CentOS
13 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (31.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 432 (23.96%) Agile
3 422 (23.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 365 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
5 355 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 325 (18.03%) ITIL
7 311 (17.25%) Project Management
8 297 (16.47%) Migration
9 228 (12.65%) DevOps
10 204 (11.31%) Project Delivery
11 191 (10.59%) ERP
12 190 (10.54%) Roadmaps
13 185 (10.26%) Decision-Making
14 174 (9.65%) ITSM
15 170 (9.43%) Validation
16 166 (9.21%) Risk Management
17 153 (8.49%) CI/CD
18 142 (7.88%) Service Management
19 137 (7.60%) Workshop Facilitation
20 136 (7.54%) AI
Programming Languages
1 164 (9.10%) SQL
2 113 (6.27%) Python
3 87 (4.83%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.55%) Bash
4 46 (2.55%) C#
5 39 (2.16%) PL/SQL
6 34 (1.89%) Java
7 26 (1.44%) JavaScript
8 24 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 13 (0.72%) COBOL
10 12 (0.67%) JCL
11 11 (0.61%) REXX
12 10 (0.55%) Korn
13 9 (0.50%) CLIST
13 9 (0.50%) Groovy
13 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.28%) Go
14 5 (0.28%) Perl
15 4 (0.22%) ABAP
15 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 372 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 265 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 235 (13.03%) Degree
4 117 (6.49%) PMP
5 115 (6.38%) PMI Certification
6 54 (3.00%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.77%) CISSP
8 45 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (2.11%) CISM
11 37 (2.05%) Master's Degree
12 34 (1.89%) CCNP
13 28 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
14 25 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
15 24 (1.33%) APMG
16 20 (1.11%) CIMA
17 19 (1.05%) ACCA
17 19 (1.05%) Azure Certification
18 17 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 15 (0.83%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (6.27%) QA
2 94 (5.21%) GDPR
3 90 (4.99%) Data Quality
4 87 (4.83%) PMO
5 68 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 63 (3.49%) SLA
7 44 (2.44%) NIST
8 27 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 19 (1.05%) PCI DSS
11 17 (0.94%) IFRS
12 15 (0.83%) IFRS 17
13 12 (0.67%) GRC
14 10 (0.55%) Basel III
15 8 (0.44%) ITGC
16 7 (0.39%) COBIT
16 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
18 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
18 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 125 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 54 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (2.83%) Docker
4 25 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.89%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.55%) vSphere
8 9 (0.50%) ACF2
8 9 (0.50%) RACF
8 9 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
9 8 (0.44%) Firmware
10 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.33%) KVM
12 5 (0.28%) XenApp
12 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.17%) NFS
14 2 (0.11%) Ceph
14 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.11%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 81 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 70 (3.88%) Ansible
3 69 (3.83%) Terraform
4 33 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.44%) Grafana
5 26 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.39%) SCCM
7 22 (1.22%) vCenter Server
8 18 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.72%) FortiGate
10 12 (0.67%) SCOM
11 11 (0.61%) CA Endevor
12 10 (0.55%) Puppet
13 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.44%) Kibana
15 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
16 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 276 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 182 (10.09%) ServiceNow
3 173 (9.60%) SAP
4 157 (8.71%) Oracle
5 76 (4.22%) VMware
6 70 (3.88%) Cisco
7 68 (3.77%) Salesforce
8 66 (3.66%) Google
9 33 (1.83%) Citrix
10 32 (1.77%) F5
10 32 (1.77%) Splunk
11 27 (1.50%) IFS
12 26 (1.44%) Workday
13 25 (1.39%) Juniper
14 24 (1.33%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.16%) CheckPoint
16 19 (1.05%) Dynatrace
16 19 (1.05%) Fortinet
17 18 (1.00%) Remedy
18 16 (0.89%) Sage