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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 46 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,590 1,395 1,948
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.28% 4.39% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 4.94% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 784 1,144
10th Percentile £313 £327 £363
25th Percentile £402 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.00% +3.10%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 24 53
10th Percentile £20.79 £20.87 £16.61
25th Percentile £22.16 £30.57 £28.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £55.37 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% +38.43% +18.84%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £59.75 £89.98 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £41.67
% change year-on-year -19.89% +36.19% +21.65%

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 32,565 28,230 37,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.70% 88.92% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,598 17,153 25,051
10th Percentile £304 £308 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,982 906 1,726
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.15
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.80 £17.54
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +17.96%
75th Percentile £56.69 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.81 £75.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £40.28
% change year-on-year -22.03% -23.58% +46.45%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 1,424 £500 -4.76% 464
UK excluding London 0 895 £475 -5.00% 422
London -15 577 £525 -4.55% 133
Work from Home -19 407 £500 -4.76% 162
North of England -6 271 £450 -13.88% 82
Midlands +8 233 £475 -5.00% 85
South East +10 185 £484 -12.09% 143
North West +6 170 £413 -17.50% 41
West Midlands +1 156 £475 -5.00% 49
South West +20 119 £525 -4.55% 44
Yorkshire -15 98 £487 -11.45% 25
East Midlands +27 77 £425 +3.03% 36
Scotland +4 59 £450 +20.00% 23
East of England -30 37 £520 +15.56% 42
Wales +6 12 £413 +1.54% 11
Northern Ireland -3 7 £413 -32.65% 4
North East -26 3 £500 -13.04% 19

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
1 116 (7.30%) Confluence
2 82 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.57%) nginx
5 7 (0.44%) CMS
6 6 (0.38%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.38%) Mule
6 6 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) Appian
7 5 (0.31%) CICS
7 5 (0.31%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
8 3 (0.19%) Moodle
9 2 (0.13%) FileNet
9 2 (0.13%) JBoss
10 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.063%) SAS
10 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.063%) Traefik
Applications
1 90 (5.66%) Microsoft Project
2 88 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 82 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
4 47 (2.96%) MS Visio
5 42 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.44%) Trello
8 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.25%) Windchill
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.063%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.063%) InDesign
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.063%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 55 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.19%) iTrent
9 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 216 (13.58%) Azure
2 147 (9.25%) AWS
3 102 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
4 100 (6.29%) GCP
5 84 (5.28%) Power Platform
6 44 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (2.52%) SaaS
8 34 (2.14%) Entra ID
9 29 (1.82%) Serverless
10 25 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (1.45%) AWS KMS
12 22 (1.38%) GitHub
13 20 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 20 (1.26%) Power Automate
14 19 (1.19%) PaaS
15 16 (1.01%) IaaS
15 16 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
16 15 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.97%) Firewall
2 76 (4.78%) DNS
3 59 (3.71%) Network Security
4 47 (2.96%) VPN
5 45 (2.83%) WAN
6 29 (1.82%) LAN
7 25 (1.57%) SSL
8 24 (1.51%) SSH
9 22 (1.38%) DHCP
9 22 (1.38%) HTTP
9 22 (1.38%) SD-WAN
9 22 (1.38%) TCP/IP
10 17 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (1.01%) SAN
11 16 (1.01%) SMTP
11 16 (1.01%) Wireless
12 15 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 15 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 14 (0.88%) FTP
13 14 (0.88%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.59%) Power BI
2 39 (2.45%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.45%) Metadata
5 22 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (1.32%) Tableau
7 19 (1.19%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
9 15 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (0.82%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.44%) MySQL
12 7 (0.44%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.31%) Big Data
14 5 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.25%) Pinecone
15 4 (0.25%) Redis
16 3 (0.19%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 187 (11.76%) JIRA
2 67 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.82%) Git
4 28 (1.76%) Liquibase
5 26 (1.64%) GitLab
6 14 (0.88%) Vagrant
7 10 (0.63%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.38%) JUnit
10 5 (0.31%) Mockito
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) MLflow
11 4 (0.25%) MSI
12 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.13%) AdminStudio
13 2 (0.13%) git-flow
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 722 (45.41%) Social Skills
2 506 (31.82%) Finance
3 311 (19.56%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.13%) Banking
5 159 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
7 59 (3.71%) Manufacturing
8 45 (2.83%) Legal
8 45 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.33%) Retail
12 35 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (2.14%) Local Government
14 32 (2.01%) Marketing
15 31 (1.95%) Financial Institution
16 28 (1.76%) Law
17 23 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (1.26%) Investment Banking
19 15 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 243 (15.28%) Analyst
2 201 (12.64%) Project Manager
3 173 (10.88%) Lead
4 139 (8.74%) Business Analyst
5 137 (8.62%) Change Manager
6 103 (6.48%) Senior
7 90 (5.66%) Consultant
8 51 (3.21%) Developer
9 48 (3.02%) Programme Manager
9 48 (3.02%) Senior Manager
10 46 (2.89%) Business Manager
11 45 (2.83%) Architect
12 44 (2.77%) Administrator
12 44 (2.77%) IT Manager
13 36 (2.26%) Service Manager
14 33 (2.08%) Business Change Manager
15 31 (1.95%) SAP Manager
16 30 (1.89%) AWS Engineer
17 29 (1.82%) Transformation Manager
18 26 (1.64%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.33%) REST
2 39 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (1.70%) RESTful
4 24 (1.51%) .NET
5 23 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
6 18 (1.13%) SAML
7 16 (1.01%) OAuth
8 15 (0.94%) LDAP
9 14 (0.88%) .NET Framework
10 13 (0.82%) Middleware
10 13 (0.82%) OpenID
11 11 (0.69%) 802.1X
11 11 (0.69%) HTML
12 10 (0.63%) ISPF
13 9 (0.57%) SOAP
14 8 (0.50%) CSS
14 8 (0.50%) Kafka
14 8 (0.50%) XML
15 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
15 7 (0.44%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.47%) Management Information System
2 83 (5.22%) Onboarding
3 65 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.77%) CMDB
5 43 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 40 (2.52%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.45%) Virtual Team
8 36 (2.26%) PKI
9 35 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (1.70%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.64%) Replication
13 25 (1.57%) PMI
14 22 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (1.38%) Life Science
15 21 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
16 20 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
17 16 (1.01%) NHS
18 15 (0.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 165 (10.38%) Windows
2 94 (5.91%) Linux
3 44 (2.77%) Unix
3 44 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.89%) Windows 10
5 17 (1.07%) VMS
6 14 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
7 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.25%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) zOS
12 3 (0.19%) Android
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.13%) AIX
13 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.063%) Solaris
14 1 (0.063%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (30.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 420 (26.42%) Agile
3 375 (23.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 338 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
5 333 (20.94%) Project Management
6 325 (20.44%) ITIL
7 261 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 218 (13.71%) Migration
9 213 (13.40%) DevOps
10 197 (12.39%) Project Delivery
11 162 (10.19%) PRINCE2
12 157 (9.87%) Service Management
13 150 (9.43%) ITSM
14 138 (8.68%) Decision-Making
15 134 (8.43%) Roadmaps
16 132 (8.30%) ERP
17 127 (7.99%) CI/CD
18 116 (7.30%) Risk Management
19 114 (7.17%) Workshop Facilitation
20 113 (7.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 145 (9.12%) Python
2 139 (8.74%) SQL
3 98 (6.16%) PowerShell
4 38 (2.39%) Bash
5 29 (1.82%) Java
6 27 (1.70%) C#
6 27 (1.70%) Go
7 19 (1.19%) Groovy
7 19 (1.19%) PL/SQL
8 15 (0.94%) JavaScript
9 14 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 14 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 13 (0.82%) COBOL
11 11 (0.69%) JCL
12 10 (0.63%) CLIST
12 10 (0.63%) REXX
13 9 (0.57%) Korn
14 8 (0.50%) Perl
15 7 (0.44%) C++
16 4 (0.25%) C
Qualifications
1 312 (19.62%) Security Cleared
2 291 (18.30%) Degree
3 214 (13.46%) SC Cleared
4 104 (6.54%) PMI Certification
5 95 (5.97%) PMP
6 61 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (3.71%) Master's Degree
8 44 (2.77%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.51%) APMG
11 24 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 20 (1.26%) CISSP
13 18 (1.13%) Azure Certification
13 18 (1.13%) CISM
14 16 (1.01%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.88%) CCNP
17 13 (0.82%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.66%) QA
2 82 (5.16%) PMO
3 55 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 54 (3.40%) GDPR
5 43 (2.70%) SLA
6 34 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.88%) IFRS
7 14 (0.88%) NIST
8 12 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.69%) IFRS 17
10 10 (0.63%) GRC
11 8 (0.50%) Basel III
11 8 (0.50%) MiFID
11 8 (0.50%) NCSC
12 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.31%) EMIR
12 5 (0.31%) RMADS
System Software
1 99 (6.23%) Active Directory
2 73 (4.59%) Docker
3 28 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.88%) DFS Replication
6 13 (0.82%) Firmware
7 10 (0.63%) ACF2
7 10 (0.63%) RACF
7 10 (0.63%) Time Sharing Option
8 9 (0.57%) Dovecot
8 9 (0.57%) Postfix
8 9 (0.57%) Squid
9 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.25%) XenApp
11 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.19%) NFS
13 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 82 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 77 (4.84%) Terraform
3 55 (3.46%) Ansible
4 49 (3.08%) Grafana
5 48 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.20%) SCCM
7 28 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.07%) Puppet
9 14 (0.88%) CA Endevor
9 14 (0.88%) Kibana
9 14 (0.88%) SCOM
10 10 (0.63%) Nessus
11 9 (0.57%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.57%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 9 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.38%) HP SiteScope
13 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 287 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 144 (9.06%) SAP
3 133 (8.36%) ServiceNow
4 104 (6.54%) Oracle
5 64 (4.03%) Google
6 63 (3.96%) Cisco
7 57 (3.58%) Salesforce
8 49 (3.08%) Splunk
9 45 (2.83%) VMware
10 32 (2.01%) F5
11 27 (1.70%) Workday
12 24 (1.51%) CheckPoint
12 24 (1.51%) Citrix
13 23 (1.45%) Juniper
14 21 (1.32%) Atlassian
15 18 (1.13%) Fortinet
15 18 (1.13%) Remedy
16 17 (1.07%) IBM
17 15 (0.94%) Adobe
18 14 (0.88%) Red Hat