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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 43 40
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,616 1,584 2,095
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.43% 4.40% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 5.04% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 849 1,273
10th Percentile £313 £340 £363
25th Percentile £404 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 27 44
10th Percentile £20.79 £19.85 £21.67
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.71 £24.94
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £41.67
Median % change year-on-year -27.71% -0.40% +24.37%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.16 £55.85
90th Percentile £70.16 £85.70 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.67% -15.09% +16.79%

All Process and 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 32,497 31,445 39,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.04% 87.40% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,429 19,051 26,476
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,092 1,104 1,536
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.25 £14.39
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -24.93% +24.64%
75th Percentile £45.53 £63.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -29.71% -25.97% +36.12%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 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 4 December 2025. 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 -4 1,449 £500 -4.76% 697
UK excluding London +3 892 £475 -5.00% 603
London -8 615 £525 -4.55% 212
Work from Home -20 426 £500 -4.76% 350
North of England -16 268 £450 -14.29% 175
Midlands +16 213 £475 -9.52% 116
South East +7 191 £492 -4.93% 179
North West 0 174 £438 -16.27% 96
West Midlands +7 157 £475 -9.52% 64
South West +19 114 £525 +0.96% 55
Yorkshire -18 91 £489 -6.95% 65
Scotland +4 60 £450 +13.21% 27
East Midlands +27 56 £425 - 50
East of England -15 41 £520 +8.33% 46
Wales -5 13 £413 +3.13% 13
Northern Ireland +2 10 £488 +186.76% 6
North East -22 3 £475 -17.39% 16
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 137 (8.48%) Confluence
2 83 (5.14%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.74%) nginx
5 8 (0.50%) CMS
5 8 (0.50%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.37%) Mule
6 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
7 5 (0.31%) JBoss
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.19%) Moodle
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.062%) Traefik
Applications
1 108 (6.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (5.94%) Microsoft Project
3 91 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.60%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.43%) Windchill
7 6 (0.37%) Trello
8 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.062%) InDesign
10 1 (0.062%) Notion
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 54 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.31%) Maximo
7 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.31%) SAP APO
7 5 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 177 (10.95%) Azure
2 156 (9.65%) AWS
3 104 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
4 95 (5.88%) GCP
5 84 (5.20%) Power Platform
6 54 (3.34%) SaaS
7 41 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.35%) Serverless
9 33 (2.04%) AWS KMS
10 30 (1.86%) Amazon S3
10 30 (1.86%) Entra ID
11 25 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (1.42%) Amazon ELB
13 23 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (1.30%) GitHub
15 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (1.11%) Power Automate
15 18 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.56%) Firewall
2 81 (5.01%) DNS
3 61 (3.77%) Network Security
4 41 (2.54%) VPN
5 40 (2.48%) WAN
6 33 (2.04%) SSH
7 27 (1.67%) HTTP
8 25 (1.55%) SMTP
9 23 (1.42%) LAN
10 22 (1.36%) SSL
11 21 (1.30%) DHCP
11 21 (1.30%) FTP
12 19 (1.18%) Wireless
13 16 (0.99%) SD-WAN
14 14 (0.87%) IPsec
14 14 (0.87%) TCP/IP
15 13 (0.80%) BGP
16 12 (0.74%) Cisco IPT
16 12 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
16 12 (0.74%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.33%) Power BI
2 40 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.67%) NoSQL
6 26 (1.61%) Metadata
7 23 (1.42%) Tableau
8 20 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (1.05%) Oracle Database
10 11 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.56%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.50%) MySQL
13 7 (0.43%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
13 7 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.31%) Big Data
15 5 (0.31%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 202 (12.50%) JIRA
2 87 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 43 (2.66%) Git
4 35 (2.17%) Liquibase
5 31 (1.92%) GitLab
6 23 (1.42%) Vagrant
7 12 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.37%) JUnit
10 5 (0.31%) Mockito
10 5 (0.31%) MSI
10 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.19%) Selenium
12 3 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 698 (43.19%) Social Skills
2 531 (32.86%) Finance
3 289 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (9.96%) Banking
5 146 (9.03%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.33%) Manufacturing
7 69 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
8 52 (3.22%) Telecoms
9 50 (3.09%) Legal
10 47 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.54%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
14 38 (2.35%) Retail
15 35 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
16 33 (2.04%) Marketing
17 30 (1.86%) Law
18 26 (1.61%) Local Government
19 21 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 19 (1.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 259 (16.03%) Analyst
2 208 (12.87%) Project Manager
3 159 (9.84%) Lead
4 135 (8.35%) Business Analyst
5 115 (7.12%) Change Manager
6 99 (6.13%) Consultant
7 96 (5.94%) Senior
8 57 (3.53%) Developer
9 56 (3.47%) Administrator
10 52 (3.22%) Programme Manager
11 49 (3.03%) IT Manager
12 47 (2.91%) Architect
13 41 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
13 41 (2.54%) Senior Manager
14 40 (2.48%) Service Manager
15 36 (2.23%) AWS Engineer
15 36 (2.23%) Business Manager
16 35 (2.17%) SAP Manager
17 33 (2.04%) Service Analyst
18 29 (1.79%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.28%) REST
2 43 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.86%) RESTful
4 24 (1.49%) .NET
4 24 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (1.11%) LDAP
6 17 (1.05%) SAML
7 11 (0.68%) .NET Framework
7 11 (0.68%) 802.1X
7 11 (0.68%) OAuth
7 11 (0.68%) OpenID
8 10 (0.62%) HTML
9 8 (0.50%) ISPF
9 8 (0.50%) Kafka
9 8 (0.50%) SOAP
10 7 (0.43%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.43%) CSS
10 7 (0.43%) XML
11 6 (0.37%) SailPoint
12 5 (0.31%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.38%) Management Information System
2 85 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 52 (3.22%) Product Ownership
4 48 (2.97%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.85%) Cloud Native
5 46 (2.85%) Virtual Team
6 39 (2.41%) CMDB
6 39 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (2.35%) PKI
8 37 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (2.04%) Replication
10 31 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.61%) Life Science
13 25 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.11%) PMI
16 16 (0.99%) NHS
17 14 (0.87%) e-Learning
17 14 (0.87%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 155 (9.59%) Windows
2 103 (6.37%) Linux
3 35 (2.17%) Unix
3 35 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.61%) VMS
5 23 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
6 21 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.74%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.25%) zOS
10 3 (0.19%) CentOS
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) Android
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.062%) Debian
12 1 (0.062%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.062%) Solaris
12 1 (0.062%) SUSE
12 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (27.60%) Agile
2 424 (26.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 354 (21.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 352 (21.78%) Project Management
5 337 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
6 308 (19.06%) ITIL
7 234 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 220 (13.61%) Project Delivery
9 218 (13.49%) Migration
10 216 (13.37%) DevOps
11 174 (10.77%) Service Management
12 158 (9.78%) PRINCE2
13 144 (8.91%) ITSM
14 142 (8.79%) Roadmaps
15 137 (8.48%) Decision-Making
16 133 (8.23%) CI/CD
17 131 (8.11%) Risk Management
18 124 (7.67%) Cybersecurity
18 124 (7.67%) ERP
19 112 (6.93%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 149 (9.22%) Python
2 122 (7.55%) SQL
3 94 (5.82%) PowerShell
4 52 (3.22%) Java
5 35 (2.17%) Go
6 33 (2.04%) C#
7 27 (1.67%) Groovy
8 23 (1.42%) Bash
9 22 (1.36%) JavaScript
10 18 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 17 (1.05%) Perl
12 11 (0.68%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.62%) COBOL
14 9 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.50%) CLIST
15 8 (0.50%) JCL
15 8 (0.50%) REXX
16 7 (0.43%) Korn
17 6 (0.37%) ABAP
18 5 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 300 (18.56%) Degree
2 287 (17.76%) Security Cleared
3 213 (13.18%) SC Cleared
4 105 (6.50%) PMI Certification
5 97 (6.00%) PMP
6 74 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (3.53%) Master's Degree
8 40 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (2.04%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.55%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
13 22 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 18 (1.11%) APMG
14 18 (1.11%) CISSP
15 17 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (0.99%) CISM
17 15 (0.93%) Azure Certification
17 15 (0.93%) CCNP
18 13 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (5.38%) QA
2 77 (4.76%) PMO
3 57 (3.53%) GDPR
4 44 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 43 (2.66%) SLA
6 30 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.05%) NIST
7 17 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.68%) NCSC
11 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.56%) MiFID
13 7 (0.43%) IFRS
14 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.37%) EMIR
14 6 (0.37%) GRC
15 5 (0.31%) GxP
15 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
16 4 (0.25%) GMP
System Software
1 96 (5.94%) Active Directory
2 69 (4.27%) Docker
3 21 (1.30%) DFS Replication
4 20 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.74%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.74%) Postfix
5 12 (0.74%) Squid
6 11 (0.68%) Firmware
7 9 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.50%) ACF2
8 8 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.50%) RACF
8 8 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.12%) NFS
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.062%) Snort
Systems Management
1 87 (5.38%) Terraform
2 70 (4.33%) Kubernetes
3 59 (3.65%) Grafana
4 58 (3.59%) Prometheus
5 55 (3.40%) Ansible
6 27 (1.67%) SCCM
7 20 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.80%) Nessus
9 12 (0.74%) CA Endevor
10 11 (0.68%) Kibana
10 11 (0.68%) SCOM
11 10 (0.62%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.56%) Puppet
13 8 (0.50%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.43%) Tivoli
14 7 (0.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
16 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 322 (19.93%) Microsoft
2 162 (10.02%) SAP
3 144 (8.91%) ServiceNow
4 97 (6.00%) Oracle
5 60 (3.71%) Cisco
5 60 (3.71%) Google
6 54 (3.34%) Salesforce
7 49 (3.03%) Splunk
8 32 (1.98%) VMware
9 29 (1.79%) F5
10 27 (1.67%) Workday
11 26 (1.61%) Remedy
12 25 (1.55%) Atlassian
12 25 (1.55%) Juniper
13 22 (1.36%) CheckPoint
14 21 (1.30%) IBM
15 18 (1.11%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.93%) Ariba
16 15 (0.93%) Red Hat
17 13 (0.80%) Blue Coat