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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 47 45
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,980 1,525 1,626
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 4.61% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 5.09% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 913 934
10th Percentile £370 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -5.56%
75th Percentile £624 £613 £604
90th Percentile £725 £725 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +9.57% -6.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 82 58
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.50 £18.10
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £26.49
Median hourly rate £41.36 £46.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% -11.90% +8.47%
75th Percentile £76.75 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.00 £69.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.02 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +23.40% -36.84% +1.12%

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 45,145 29,940 33,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.42% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,873 18,766 21,491
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,664 1,872
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.63 £40.94
% change year-on-year +86.03% -42.28% +2.35%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -9 1,742 £525 +5.00% 899
UK excluding London -24 976 £515 +9.57% 569
London -1 829 £535 -2.73% 453
Work from Home -1 611 £525 +5.00% 418
North of England -22 290 £500 +11.11% 150
South East +4 269 £575 +24.32% 160
North West -17 168 £475 +5.56% 92
Midlands -34 150 £509 +7.21% 78
West Midlands -38 115 £525 +10.53% 55
Yorkshire -28 107 £500 +11.11% 43
South West -23 92 £525 +7.14% 70
Scotland +2 90 £500 +11.11% 49
East of England +1 80 £475 -8.65% 44
East Midlands -11 33 £430 +19.44% 23
North East -25 15 £425 -15.00% 17
Wales -15 9 £575 +53.33% 7
Northern Ireland -10 8 £750 +42.86% 21

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
2 101 (5.10%) Confluence
3 33 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.06%) IIS
5 11 (0.56%) SAS
6 9 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.35%) Appian
8 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.30%) CMS
9 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.25%) Camunda
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) CICS
11 3 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.051%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.051%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 74 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.10%) Houdini
8 2 (0.10%) NUKE
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.051%) InDesign
9 1 (0.051%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.051%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 76 (3.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 14 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
5 13 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
5 13 (0.66%) Primavera
6 10 (0.51%) Maximo
7 9 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.40%) SAP PM
9 7 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.25%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.25%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.20%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 309 (15.61%) Azure
2 159 (8.03%) AWS
3 139 (7.02%) Power Platform
4 118 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
5 98 (4.95%) Entra ID
6 77 (3.89%) SaaS
7 71 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (3.38%) GCP
9 53 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (1.92%) GitHub
11 30 (1.52%) OCI
12 29 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
13 27 (1.36%) Power Automate
14 26 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (1.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 24 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (1.16%) OneDrive
17 22 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
18 20 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 128 (6.46%) Firewall
2 102 (5.15%) Network Security
3 67 (3.38%) DNS
4 58 (2.93%) WAN
5 57 (2.88%) VPN
6 42 (2.12%) LAN
7 37 (1.87%) TCP/IP
8 34 (1.72%) Wireless
9 33 (1.67%) BGP
10 32 (1.62%) DHCP
11 30 (1.52%) OSPF
12 27 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (1.31%) SD-WAN
14 25 (1.26%) SSL
15 23 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
15 23 (1.16%) MPLS
16 20 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
17 18 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
18 17 (0.86%) HTTP
18 17 (0.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.81%) Power BI
2 64 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.57%) Oracle Database
4 29 (1.46%) Metadata
5 22 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
6 21 (1.06%) Tableau
7 20 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (1.01%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.56%) MySQL
10 10 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.40%) Db2
12 8 (0.40%) Oracle BI EE
13 7 (0.35%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.30%) GIS
14 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database 11g
14 6 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
15 5 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 230 (11.62%) JIRA
2 74 (3.74%) Git
3 58 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.45%) GitLab
4 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.35%) AdminStudio
5 7 (0.35%) InstallShield
6 6 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.25%) Selenium
7 5 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.25%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.20%) Hudson
8 4 (0.20%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.20%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.20%) Maven
8 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.20%) Snyk
9 3 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
General
1 720 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 709 (35.81%) Finance
3 312 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 178 (8.99%) Banking
6 94 (4.75%) Legal
7 83 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
7 83 (4.19%) Retail
8 74 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 68 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
10 58 (2.93%) Manufacturing
11 54 (2.73%) Marketing
12 53 (2.68%) Telecoms
13 48 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (1.97%) Law
15 35 (1.77%) Local Government
16 30 (1.52%) Aviation
17 24 (1.21%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 20 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 228 (11.52%) Project Manager
2 219 (11.06%) Lead
3 212 (10.71%) Analyst
4 157 (7.93%) Senior
5 147 (7.42%) Change Manager
6 128 (6.46%) Consultant
7 127 (6.41%) Business Analyst
8 72 (3.64%) Administrator
8 72 (3.64%) Network Engineer
9 62 (3.13%) Senior Manager
10 58 (2.93%) Programme Manager
11 57 (2.88%) Developer
12 50 (2.53%) Business Manager
12 50 (2.53%) IT Manager
13 49 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
14 46 (2.32%) Support Engineer
15 43 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
15 43 (2.17%) Service Manager
16 38 (1.92%) Business Change Manager
16 38 (1.92%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (2.98%) REST
2 38 (1.92%) .NET
3 35 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.21%) CSS
4 24 (1.21%) HTML
5 20 (1.01%) Middleware
6 16 (0.81%) Ajax
6 16 (0.81%) SOAP
7 14 (0.71%) Web Services
8 13 (0.66%) .NET Framework
8 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
8 13 (0.66%) OAuth
9 12 (0.61%) 802.1X
9 12 (0.61%) Spring
10 11 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (0.51%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.45%) JSON
13 8 (0.40%) Jakarta EE
13 8 (0.40%) React
13 8 (0.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.15%) Onboarding
2 96 (4.85%) Management Information System
3 86 (4.34%) Data Centre
4 76 (3.84%) Product Ownership
5 56 (2.83%) Cloud Native
6 46 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (1.67%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.67%) PMI
10 32 (1.62%) CMDB
11 31 (1.57%) Virtual Team
12 30 (1.52%) Security Posture
13 29 (1.46%) PKI
14 28 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
15 24 (1.21%) Data Structures
16 23 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
17 22 (1.11%) AI Agents
17 22 (1.11%) Public Cloud
18 16 (0.81%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 216 (10.91%) Windows
2 111 (5.61%) Linux
3 86 (4.34%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (2.17%) Unix
6 20 (1.01%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.61%) Solaris
8 9 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.45%) VMS
9 8 (0.40%) AIX
10 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.30%) SUSE
12 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.25%) HPUX
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.20%) Android
14 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (33.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 506 (25.56%) Agile
3 475 (23.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 433 (21.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 368 (18.59%) ITIL
6 341 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
7 335 (16.92%) Project Management
8 311 (15.71%) Migration
9 295 (14.90%) Project Delivery
10 256 (12.93%) DevOps
11 237 (11.97%) Decision-Making
12 234 (11.82%) Roadmaps
13 215 (10.86%) Service Management
14 212 (10.71%) AI
15 207 (10.45%) ITSM
16 205 (10.35%) ERP
17 169 (8.54%) CI/CD
17 169 (8.54%) PRINCE2
18 168 (8.48%) Analytics
18 168 (8.48%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 162 (8.18%) SQL
2 150 (7.58%) Python
3 124 (6.26%) PowerShell
4 62 (3.13%) Bash
5 52 (2.63%) Java
6 49 (2.47%) C#
7 46 (2.32%) PL/SQL
8 45 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 23 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 18 (0.91%) Bicep
11 13 (0.66%) Korn
12 9 (0.45%) Groovy
13 8 (0.40%) Go
14 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.25%) ABAP
16 5 (0.25%) COBOL
16 5 (0.25%) Perl
17 4 (0.20%) JCL
17 4 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 407 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 301 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 222 (11.21%) Degree
4 154 (7.78%) PMP
5 144 (7.27%) PMI Certification
6 72 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 63 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
8 61 (3.08%) CISSP
9 44 (2.22%) CCNP
10 37 (1.87%) CISM
11 31 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
13 28 (1.41%) Azure Certification
14 26 (1.31%) APMG
15 24 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
15 24 (1.21%) Master's Degree
16 23 (1.16%) CCNA
16 23 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 21 (1.06%) CIMA
18 20 (1.01%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.40%) QA
2 97 (4.90%) PMO
3 96 (4.85%) SLA
4 90 (4.55%) Data Quality
5 84 (4.24%) GDPR
6 71 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 48 (2.42%) NIST
8 30 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 28 (1.41%) GRC
10 24 (1.21%) SOC 2
11 21 (1.06%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.56%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.51%) ITGC
14 8 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.35%) COBIT
15 7 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
15 7 (0.35%) EMIR
15 7 (0.35%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.30%) GMP
17 5 (0.25%) IFRS
System Software
1 137 (6.92%) Active Directory
2 84 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (2.17%) Docker
4 26 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.86%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.61%) vSphere
10 10 (0.51%) vCloud
11 7 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.15%) KVM
13 2 (0.10%) Ceph
13 2 (0.10%) Firmware
14 1 (0.051%) NFS
14 1 (0.051%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.051%) Squid
14 1 (0.051%) XenApp
14 1 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 109 (5.51%) Terraform
2 71 (3.59%) Ansible
3 68 (3.43%) Kubernetes
4 38 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (1.67%) vCenter Server
6 27 (1.36%) SCOM
7 23 (1.16%) Grafana
8 22 (1.11%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.86%) SCCM
11 15 (0.76%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.66%) Avamar
13 10 (0.51%) Data Guard
14 8 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.40%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.35%) Argo
15 7 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
15 7 (0.35%) vRealize
16 6 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
16 6 (0.30%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 354 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 221 (11.16%) ServiceNow
3 187 (9.44%) Oracle
4 171 (8.64%) SAP
5 109 (5.51%) VMware
6 97 (4.90%) Cisco
7 78 (3.94%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.32%) Google
9 37 (1.87%) Splunk
10 36 (1.82%) IBM
11 33 (1.67%) Citrix
12 32 (1.62%) Red Hat
13 30 (1.52%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.46%) CheckPoint
14 29 (1.46%) F5
15 28 (1.41%) Zscaler
16 27 (1.36%) Juniper
17 25 (1.26%) IFS
17 25 (1.26%) Workday
18 23 (1.16%) Fortinet