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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,823 1,250 1,787
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 4.34% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.77% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 771 1,049
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £415 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £621
90th Percentile £700 £700 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 49 71
10th Percentile £19.25 £31.13 £14.44
25th Percentile £22.63 £46.25 £29.91
Median hourly rate £25.54 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.70% +8.00% -0.49%
75th Percentile £62.88 £68.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £70.50 £69.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.52 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -55.62% +15.00% +3.31%

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 41,043 26,226 36,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 91.02% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,708 16,839 23,557
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,067 2,473
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.26 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £27.94 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.31% -22.39% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.09 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.85 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.33% -32.93% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 1,602 £500 - 627
UK excluding London -10 954 £500 +6.38% 419
London -6 699 £513 -6.82% 284
Work from Home -1 540 £525 +6.06% 259
North of England -16 292 £475 +5.56% 102
Midlands +2 214 £505 +6.21% 67
South East +1 205 £538 +10.14% 127
North West -1 168 £450 -0.11% 47
West Midlands -8 142 £515 +7.19% 43
Yorkshire -29 114 £493 +9.44% 46
South West -6 97 £500 - 53
East of England -10 82 £488 -2.50% 35
Scotland -1 74 £488 +17.47% 23
East Midlands +21 70 £430 +18.46% 24
Wales -10 10 £550 +46.67% 10
North East -19 10 £425 -24.44% 10
Northern Ireland -10 6 £475 -16.48% 13

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 (5.87%) Confluence
2 79 (4.33%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.88%) IIS
5 14 (0.77%) SAS
6 11 (0.60%) Appian
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.16%) CICS
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
12 1 (0.055%) Moodle
12 1 (0.055%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 72 (3.95%) Microsoft Project
2 64 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 74 (4.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.33%) Finacle
6 6 (0.33%) Primavera
6 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.27%) Maximo
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 270 (14.81%) Azure
2 133 (7.30%) AWS
3 110 (6.03%) Power Platform
4 101 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 69 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (3.68%) SaaS
8 64 (3.51%) GCP
9 40 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
10 33 (1.81%) Google Workspace
10 33 (1.81%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.37%) OpenShift
12 22 (1.21%) PaaS
13 21 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.10%) GitHub
14 20 (1.10%) Google Sheets
14 20 (1.10%) OCI
15 18 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.93%) PowerApps
17 16 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 100 (5.49%) Firewall
2 68 (3.73%) Network Security
3 65 (3.57%) DNS
4 54 (2.96%) WAN
5 50 (2.74%) VPN
6 46 (2.52%) LAN
7 31 (1.70%) BGP
7 31 (1.70%) SD-WAN
8 29 (1.59%) OSPF
8 29 (1.59%) SSL
9 28 (1.54%) TCP/IP
10 25 (1.37%) MPLS
11 24 (1.32%) DHCP
11 24 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 19 (1.04%) SAN
13 17 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
13 17 (0.93%) Wireless
14 15 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.94%) Power BI
2 63 (3.46%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.65%) Metadata
4 26 (1.43%) Tableau
5 25 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
7 19 (1.04%) Oracle Database
7 19 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.04%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.55%) MySQL
10 9 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.44%) Oracle BI EE
11 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (0.27%) Big Data
13 5 (0.27%) DB2
13 5 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 228 (12.51%) JIRA
2 60 (3.29%) Git
3 50 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.55%) GitLab
6 9 (0.49%) MLflow
7 8 (0.44%) InstallShield
8 7 (0.38%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.22%) Hudson
9 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.22%) Liquibase
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.16%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.16%) Snyk
11 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.11%) git-flow
11 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 696 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 623 (34.17%) Finance
3 293 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (9.87%) Public Sector
5 151 (8.28%) Banking
6 88 (4.83%) Legal
7 80 (4.39%) Retail
8 63 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
9 57 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.58%) Marketing
10 47 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (2.14%) Law
12 37 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 31 (1.70%) Local Government
15 30 (1.65%) Telecoms
16 25 (1.37%) Investment Banking
17 23 (1.26%) Aviation
17 23 (1.26%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 211 (11.57%) Project Manager
2 181 (9.93%) Analyst
2 181 (9.93%) Lead
3 153 (8.39%) Change Manager
4 140 (7.68%) Senior
5 116 (6.36%) Business Analyst
6 112 (6.14%) Consultant
7 74 (4.06%) Administrator
8 65 (3.57%) Programme Manager
9 62 (3.40%) Developer
10 57 (3.13%) Senior Manager
11 50 (2.74%) Business Manager
12 48 (2.63%) Architect
12 48 (2.63%) Network Engineer
13 42 (2.30%) IT Manager
14 41 (2.25%) Business Change Manager
14 41 (2.25%) Delivery Manager
15 36 (1.97%) Support Engineer
16 34 (1.87%) Service Manager
17 32 (1.76%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.85%) REST
2 33 (1.81%) .NET
3 27 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.32%) OAuth
5 23 (1.26%) Middleware
6 21 (1.15%) .NET Framework
6 21 (1.15%) CSS
7 18 (0.99%) HTML
8 17 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (0.82%) Web Services
10 14 (0.77%) LDAP
11 12 (0.66%) RESTful
12 11 (0.60%) React
13 10 (0.55%) AngularJS
13 10 (0.55%) Pandas
13 10 (0.55%) pytest
13 10 (0.55%) SAML
13 10 (0.55%) SOAP
13 10 (0.55%) Spring
14 9 (0.49%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 86 (4.72%) Product Ownership
2 83 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 72 (3.95%) Data Centre
3 72 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 47 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (2.47%) Cloud Native
6 43 (2.36%) CMDB
7 38 (2.08%) PMI
8 35 (1.92%) Virtual Team
9 30 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.37%) PKI
13 21 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.10%) Operational Technology
15 18 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (0.99%) Low-Code
15 18 (0.99%) Security Posture
16 17 (0.93%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 183 (10.04%) Windows
2 88 (4.83%) Linux
3 72 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.58%) Unix
5 26 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.37%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.55%) Solaris
7 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.33%) AIX
10 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.33%) VMS
11 5 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.27%) SUSE
11 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.22%) HPUX
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.16%) zOS
14 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 577 (31.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 434 (23.81%) Agile
3 419 (22.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 370 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 357 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
6 322 (17.66%) ITIL
7 305 (16.73%) Project Management
8 303 (16.62%) Migration
9 236 (12.95%) DevOps
10 209 (11.46%) Project Delivery
11 195 (10.70%) ERP
12 194 (10.64%) Roadmaps
13 191 (10.48%) Decision-Making
14 173 (9.49%) Validation
15 168 (9.22%) Risk Management
16 159 (8.72%) CI/CD
17 157 (8.61%) ITSM
18 147 (8.06%) AI
19 141 (7.73%) Workshop Facilitation
20 132 (7.24%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 174 (9.54%) SQL
2 118 (6.47%) Python
3 93 (5.10%) PowerShell
4 47 (2.58%) C#
5 46 (2.52%) Bash
6 44 (2.41%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.87%) Java
7 34 (1.87%) JavaScript
8 25 (1.37%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.60%) Korn
10 9 (0.49%) Shell Script
11 8 (0.44%) Groovy
12 7 (0.38%) COBOL
13 6 (0.33%) JCL
14 5 (0.27%) ABAP
14 5 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.27%) Bicep
14 5 (0.27%) Go
15 4 (0.22%) REXX
15 4 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 365 (20.02%) Security Cleared
2 255 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 229 (12.56%) Degree
4 113 (6.20%) PMP
5 107 (5.87%) PMI Certification
6 54 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 52 (2.85%) CISSP
8 45 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 40 (2.19%) CISM
10 36 (1.97%) Master's Degree
11 34 (1.87%) CCNP
12 28 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (1.48%) APMG
13 27 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
14 22 (1.21%) CIMA
15 21 (1.15%) ACCA
16 19 (1.04%) Azure Certification
17 16 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 12 (0.66%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (6.09%) QA
2 94 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 93 (5.10%) GDPR
4 85 (4.66%) PMO
5 68 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 67 (3.68%) SLA
7 44 (2.41%) NIST
8 28 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.15%) SOC 2
10 20 (1.10%) PCI DSS
11 17 (0.93%) IFRS
12 15 (0.82%) IFRS 17
13 14 (0.77%) GRC
14 9 (0.49%) Basel III
15 8 (0.44%) ITGC
16 7 (0.38%) COBIT
17 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
17 6 (0.33%) ISO 9001
18 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
18 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 129 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 64 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (3.02%) Docker
4 25 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 22 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.93%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.60%) vSphere
8 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.33%) Firmware
9 6 (0.33%) KVM
9 6 (0.33%) vCloud
10 4 (0.22%) XenApp
10 4 (0.22%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.16%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) ACF2
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) RACF
12 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 85 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 77 (4.22%) Terraform
3 75 (4.11%) Ansible
4 33 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.48%) Grafana
5 27 (1.48%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.32%) SCCM
6 24 (1.32%) vCenter Server
7 22 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.88%) SCOM
9 13 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.55%) Puppet
11 9 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
12 8 (0.44%) Kibana
13 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.33%) Avamar
14 6 (0.33%) CASB
14 6 (0.33%) vRealize
15 5 (0.27%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 281 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 188 (10.31%) ServiceNow
3 168 (9.22%) SAP
4 165 (9.05%) Oracle
5 86 (4.72%) VMware
6 75 (4.11%) Salesforce
7 68 (3.73%) Cisco
8 54 (2.96%) Google
9 35 (1.92%) Splunk
10 34 (1.87%) F5
11 33 (1.81%) Citrix
12 27 (1.48%) IFS
13 26 (1.43%) Workday
14 24 (1.32%) Palo Alto
15 22 (1.21%) CheckPoint
15 22 (1.21%) IBM
15 22 (1.21%) Juniper
16 20 (1.10%) Dynatrace
17 19 (1.04%) Fortinet
17 19 (1.04%) Remedy