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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,823 1,256 1,863
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.98% 4.30% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 4.74% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 801 1,109
10th Percentile £325 £317 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -4.13%
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% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 45 54
10th Percentile £22.43 £28.60 £14.13
25th Percentile £22.68 £50.00 £26.49
Median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £37.84
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +42.71% -21.38%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.05 £79.39 £64.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £60.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year -29.58% +61.38% -22.75%

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 39,019 26,482 37,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 90.62% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,692 17,180 24,590
10th Percentile £315 £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 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,006 2,380
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.38 £19.05 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.58
90th Percentile £77.75 £75.38 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £29.12 £33.03
% change year-on-year +27.08% -11.86% -6.76%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 1,628 £500 -1.96% 586
UK excluding London -5 960 £500 +5.82% 483
London -3 706 £501 -6.88% 182
Work from Home -1 538 £525 +5.00% 230
North of England -12 294 £475 +5.56% 112
Midlands -1 225 £500 - 102
South East +12 220 £502 +0.30% 147
North West +3 199 £434 +0.64% 61
West Midlands -14 153 £507 +1.30% 58
South West -6 102 £525 +5.00% 39
Yorkshire -34 87 £487 -2.60% 35
East Midlands +8 70 £438 +23.59% 42
East of England -11 67 £475 -2.51% 52
Scotland +1 63 £468 +24.73% 21
Wales -7 11 £575 +53.33% 17
North East -19 8 £440 -23.48% 16
Northern Ireland -6 5 £450 -14.29% 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
1 120 (6.58%) Confluence
2 69 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.71%) SAS
5 9 (0.49%) Appian
6 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.27%) IIS
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%) Moodle
10 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.055%) CICS
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 89 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
2 77 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.87%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.27%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) 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 75 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.33%) Finacle
7 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.33%) Primavera
7 6 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.27%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.22%) iTrent
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 290 (15.91%) Azure
2 144 (7.90%) AWS
3 107 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (5.38%) Power Platform
5 77 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
6 75 (4.11%) GCP
7 64 (3.51%) SaaS
8 61 (3.35%) Entra ID
9 37 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (1.59%) PaaS
10 29 (1.59%) Power Automate
11 23 (1.26%) Google Workspace
12 22 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (1.15%) OCI
14 20 (1.10%) OpenShift
15 19 (1.04%) GitHub
15 19 (1.04%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.04%) IaaS
16 17 (0.93%) Serverless
17 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 118 (6.47%) Firewall
2 73 (4.00%) Network Security
3 62 (3.40%) DNS
3 62 (3.40%) WAN
4 53 (2.91%) LAN
5 52 (2.85%) VPN
6 37 (2.03%) SD-WAN
7 32 (1.76%) BGP
8 30 (1.65%) OSPF
9 29 (1.59%) SSL
10 27 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (1.43%) DHCP
11 26 (1.43%) TCP/IP
12 23 (1.26%) MPLS
13 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 18 (0.99%) SAN
14 18 (0.99%) Wireless
15 16 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (4.33%) Power BI
2 57 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.65%) Metadata
4 24 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.26%) Tableau
6 20 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
7 17 (0.93%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
9 9 (0.49%) MySQL
9 9 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
11 6 (0.33%) Big Data
11 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
11 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.27%) Redis
13 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 225 (12.34%) JIRA
2 47 (2.58%) Git
3 38 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.71%) Liquibase
5 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
6 11 (0.60%) GitLab
7 8 (0.44%) MLflow
8 7 (0.38%) JUnit
9 5 (0.27%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.27%) Mockito
10 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
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 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.16%) Snyk
11 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 750 (41.14%) Social Skills
2 601 (32.97%) Finance
3 334 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 145 (7.95%) Banking
6 75 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (3.84%) Legal
8 69 (3.78%) Retail
9 59 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.63%) Marketing
12 44 (2.41%) Manufacturing
13 40 (2.19%) Local Government
14 35 (1.92%) Law
15 34 (1.87%) Telecoms
16 32 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
17 23 (1.26%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.26%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.04%) Aviation
19 17 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (12.12%) Project Manager
2 204 (11.19%) Analyst
3 203 (11.14%) Lead
4 153 (8.39%) Change Manager
5 127 (6.97%) Senior
6 126 (6.91%) Business Analyst
7 115 (6.31%) Consultant
8 67 (3.68%) Administrator
9 63 (3.46%) Programme Manager
10 61 (3.35%) Developer
11 56 (3.07%) Business Manager
12 52 (2.85%) Architect
13 50 (2.74%) Network Engineer
14 48 (2.63%) Senior Manager
15 43 (2.36%) Business Change Manager
16 42 (2.30%) IT Manager
17 36 (1.97%) Delivery Manager
18 35 (1.92%) SAP Manager
19 33 (1.81%) Service Manager
19 33 (1.81%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.07%) REST
2 34 (1.87%) .NET
3 30 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.21%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.15%) OAuth
6 20 (1.10%) Middleware
7 18 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (0.93%) SAML
9 15 (0.82%) RESTful
9 15 (0.82%) Web Services
10 14 (0.77%) OpenID
11 13 (0.71%) LDAP
12 11 (0.60%) CSS
12 11 (0.60%) SOAP
13 10 (0.55%) ISPF
13 10 (0.55%) OAuth2
13 10 (0.55%) pytest
14 9 (0.49%) Django
14 9 (0.49%) NumPy
14 9 (0.49%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 93 (5.10%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 80 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.46%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.91%) Virtual Team
6 48 (2.63%) CMDB
7 43 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (2.30%) PMI
9 39 (2.14%) Cloud Native
10 31 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.70%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.54%) PKI
12 25 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (0.99%) Operational Technology
15 17 (0.93%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.88%) NHS
16 16 (0.88%) Public Cloud
16 16 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 175 (9.60%) Windows
2 74 (4.06%) Linux
3 64 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 36 (1.97%) Unix
5 30 (1.65%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.22%) CentOS
10 4 (0.22%) Solaris
10 4 (0.22%) VMS
10 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Android
11 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.11%) HPUX
12 2 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (31.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 455 (24.96%) Agile
3 441 (24.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 392 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
5 362 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 356 (19.53%) ITIL
7 331 (18.16%) Project Management
8 297 (16.29%) Migration
9 245 (13.44%) DevOps
10 216 (11.85%) Project Delivery
11 185 (10.15%) ERP
12 178 (9.76%) Roadmaps
13 177 (9.71%) Decision-Making
14 174 (9.54%) ITSM
15 164 (9.00%) Risk Management
16 161 (8.83%) Service Management
17 153 (8.39%) PRINCE2
17 153 (8.39%) Validation
18 143 (7.84%) CI/CD
19 142 (7.79%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 177 (9.71%) SQL
2 113 (6.20%) Python
3 100 (5.49%) PowerShell
4 48 (2.63%) C#
5 41 (2.25%) Bash
6 36 (1.97%) PL/SQL
7 31 (1.70%) Java
8 24 (1.32%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.10%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.66%) COBOL
11 11 (0.60%) JCL
12 10 (0.55%) CLIST
12 10 (0.55%) Groovy
12 10 (0.55%) Korn
12 10 (0.55%) REXX
13 9 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.33%) Go
14 6 (0.33%) Perl
15 5 (0.27%) ABAP
16 4 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 364 (19.97%) Security Cleared
2 263 (14.43%) Degree
3 261 (14.32%) SC Cleared
4 122 (6.69%) PMI Certification
5 117 (6.42%) PMP
6 52 (2.85%) CISSP
7 51 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 42 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (2.14%) CISM
10 39 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 31 (1.70%) CCNP
11 31 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 27 (1.48%) APMG
14 19 (1.04%) Azure Certification
15 18 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
16 17 (0.93%) CIMA
17 16 (0.88%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.87%) QA
2 89 (4.88%) GDPR
3 86 (4.72%) PMO
4 85 (4.66%) Data Quality
5 67 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (3.40%) SLA
7 45 (2.47%) NIST
8 25 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (0.99%) SOC 2
10 17 (0.93%) IFRS
11 16 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.82%) IFRS 17
13 10 (0.55%) Basel III
14 9 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.49%) GRC
15 7 (0.38%) Accessibility
15 7 (0.38%) COBIT
16 6 (0.33%) ITGC
17 5 (0.27%) NCSC
17 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 120 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.07%) Docker
3 45 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.77%) 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 8 (0.44%) Firmware
8 8 (0.44%) vSphere
9 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.27%) KVM
10 5 (0.27%) XenApp
10 5 (0.27%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 81 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 60 (3.29%) Terraform
3 55 (3.02%) Ansible
4 35 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.21%) SCCM
6 20 (1.10%) Grafana
6 20 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.93%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.77%) FortiGate
9 10 (0.55%) CA Endevor
9 10 (0.55%) Puppet
10 9 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
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%) CASB
Vendors
1 296 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 180 (9.87%) ServiceNow
3 175 (9.60%) SAP
4 156 (8.56%) Oracle
5 77 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 71 (3.89%) Cisco
7 67 (3.68%) VMware
8 62 (3.40%) Google
9 37 (2.03%) Workday
10 36 (1.97%) Citrix
11 33 (1.81%) F5
12 24 (1.32%) Atlassian
12 24 (1.32%) Juniper
12 24 (1.32%) Splunk
13 23 (1.26%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.15%) Fortinet
14 21 (1.15%) IFS
15 20 (1.10%) CheckPoint
16 18 (0.99%) Remedy
16 18 (0.99%) SolarWinds