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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 45 46
Rank change year-on-year -18 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,973 1,527 1,596
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.69% 4.61% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 5.10% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 912 916
10th Percentile £375 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.82% -4.28%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £616
90th Percentile £725 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +11.28% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 77 51
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.06 £18.14
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £26.42
Median hourly rate £41.71 £37.28 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% -32.22% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75.44 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £29.40 £45.00
% change year-on-year +39.48% -34.68% -6.76%

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 45,350 29,954 33,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.50% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,857 18,668 21,203
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,845 1,726 1,796
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.23
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -12 1,741 £525 +5.00% 1,360
UK excluding London -23 964 £523 +11.28% 838
London -2 834 £540 -1.82% 705
Work from Home -2 599 £525 +5.00% 562
North of England -31 285 £500 +11.11% 214
South East +6 279 £575 +19.79% 237
North West -16 168 £490 +8.84% 137
Midlands -45 128 £500 +5.26% 95
Yorkshire -28 102 £500 +11.11% 60
West Midlands -49 95 £515 +8.42% 59
South West -26 93 £528 +6.57% 130
Scotland -4 87 £500 +13.51% 64
East of England +3 83 £500 -4.76% 70
East Midlands -14 31 £445 +23.61% 36
North East -29 15 £425 -15.00% 23
Northern Ireland -8 8 £750 +42.86% 21
Wales -16 8 £575 +53.33% 20

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
1 105 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 87 (4.41%) Confluence
3 33 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.06%) IIS
5 10 (0.51%) SAS
6 9 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.30%) Appian
8 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.30%) CMS
9 5 (0.25%) Camunda
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
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%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.051%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.20%) Windchill
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Houdini
9 2 (0.10%) NUKE
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.051%) InDesign
10 1 (0.051%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.051%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 72 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
4 15 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 14 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
5 14 (0.71%) Primavera
6 10 (0.51%) Maximo
7 9 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
7 9 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.41%) 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 IBP
10 5 (0.25%) SAP QM
10 5 (0.25%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 306 (15.51%) Azure
2 150 (7.60%) AWS
3 142 (7.20%) Power Platform
4 119 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
5 105 (5.32%) Entra ID
6 75 (3.80%) SaaS
7 69 (3.50%) GCP
8 65 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
9 54 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
10 39 (1.98%) GitHub
11 34 (1.72%) OCI
12 30 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
13 28 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 27 (1.37%) Power Automate
15 24 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (1.12%) Google Workspace
17 21 (1.06%) OneDrive
17 21 (1.06%) OpenShift
17 21 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
18 20 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 129 (6.54%) Firewall
2 108 (5.47%) Network Security
3 73 (3.70%) DNS
4 60 (3.04%) VPN
4 60 (3.04%) WAN
5 41 (2.08%) LAN
6 39 (1.98%) DHCP
6 39 (1.98%) TCP/IP
7 35 (1.77%) Wireless
8 28 (1.42%) BGP
9 27 (1.37%) OSPF
9 27 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (1.32%) SD-WAN
11 24 (1.22%) SSL
12 23 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (1.12%) MPLS
14 18 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
14 18 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
15 17 (0.86%) HTTP
16 15 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (5.98%) Power BI
2 64 (3.24%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.57%) Oracle Database
4 26 (1.32%) Metadata
5 20 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
5 20 (1.01%) Relational Database
5 20 (1.01%) Tableau
6 19 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.51%) MySQL
10 8 (0.41%) Db2
10 8 (0.41%) Oracle BI EE
11 7 (0.35%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.30%) GIS
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database 11g
12 6 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.25%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 213 (10.80%) JIRA
2 64 (3.24%) Git
3 56 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.41%) GitLab
6 7 (0.35%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.35%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.30%) Selenium
7 6 (0.30%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.25%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.20%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.20%) Hudson
9 4 (0.20%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.20%) Snyk
10 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.15%) Maven
10 3 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
General
1 735 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 717 (36.34%) Finance
3 327 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (9.28%) Banking
5 182 (9.22%) Public Sector
6 89 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
7 88 (4.46%) Legal
7 88 (4.46%) Retail
8 73 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
9 72 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
10 64 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 56 (2.84%) Telecoms
12 50 (2.53%) Marketing
13 40 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (1.88%) Law
15 35 (1.77%) Local Government
16 29 (1.47%) Aviation
17 24 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 23 (1.17%) Financial Institution
19 20 (1.01%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 232 (11.76%) Lead
2 222 (11.25%) Project Manager
3 212 (10.75%) Analyst
4 155 (7.86%) Senior
5 148 (7.50%) Change Manager
6 127 (6.44%) Consultant
7 123 (6.23%) Business Analyst
8 68 (3.45%) Administrator
8 68 (3.45%) Network Engineer
9 64 (3.24%) Senior Manager
10 60 (3.04%) Developer
11 50 (2.53%) IT Manager
11 50 (2.53%) Programme Manager
12 49 (2.48%) Business Manager
13 47 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
14 43 (2.18%) Delivery Manager
14 43 (2.18%) Support Engineer
15 41 (2.08%) Service Manager
16 39 (1.98%) Business Change Manager
17 35 (1.77%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (2.89%) REST
2 39 (1.98%) .NET
3 34 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.22%) HTML
5 23 (1.17%) CSS
6 19 (0.96%) Middleware
7 17 (0.86%) SOAP
8 16 (0.81%) Ajax
9 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
10 13 (0.66%) OAuth
11 12 (0.61%) .NET Framework
11 12 (0.61%) 802.1X
11 12 (0.61%) Kafka
11 12 (0.61%) Web Services
12 11 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (0.56%) Spring
13 10 (0.51%) XML
14 9 (0.46%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.46%) JSON
15 8 (0.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 108 (5.47%) Onboarding
2 99 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 80 (4.05%) Data Centre
4 75 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 47 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 44 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.67%) PKI
9 33 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (1.62%) Operational Technology
11 29 (1.47%) CMDB
11 29 (1.47%) PMI
12 28 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 23 (1.17%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.06%) AI Agents
16 20 (1.01%) Public Cloud
17 19 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 228 (11.56%) Windows
2 115 (5.83%) Linux
3 96 (4.87%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (2.18%) Unix
6 19 (0.96%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.61%) Solaris
8 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.51%) VMS
9 8 (0.41%) AIX
9 8 (0.41%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.30%) Android
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 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (34.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 501 (25.39%) Agile
3 474 (24.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 440 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 378 (19.16%) ITIL
6 343 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
7 336 (17.03%) Project Management
8 302 (15.31%) Project Delivery
9 298 (15.10%) Migration
10 248 (12.57%) DevOps
11 242 (12.27%) Roadmaps
12 236 (11.96%) Decision-Making
13 226 (11.45%) Service Management
14 213 (10.80%) ITSM
15 211 (10.69%) ERP
16 206 (10.44%) AI
17 174 (8.82%) Analytics
17 174 (8.82%) PRINCE2
18 167 (8.46%) CI/CD
19 162 (8.21%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 159 (8.06%) SQL
2 157 (7.96%) Python
3 137 (6.94%) PowerShell
4 71 (3.60%) Bash
5 52 (2.64%) Java
6 47 (2.38%) C#
7 46 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 46 (2.33%) PL/SQL
8 24 (1.22%) T-SQL
9 21 (1.06%) Bicep
10 14 (0.71%) Korn
11 10 (0.51%) Go
12 9 (0.46%) Groovy
12 9 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.30%) VBScript
14 5 (0.25%) ABAP
14 5 (0.25%) COBOL
15 4 (0.20%) JCL
15 4 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 399 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 288 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 225 (11.40%) Degree
4 154 (7.81%) PMP
5 140 (7.10%) PMI Certification
6 73 (3.70%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.04%) CISSP
8 58 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
9 42 (2.13%) CCNP
10 37 (1.88%) CISM
11 32 (1.62%) Azure Certification
12 28 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (1.37%) APMG
14 26 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
15 25 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
16 24 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 22 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
18 21 (1.06%) ACCA
18 21 (1.06%) CCNA
18 21 (1.06%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.17%) QA
2 98 (4.97%) PMO
3 94 (4.76%) SLA
4 89 (4.51%) Data Quality
5 77 (3.90%) GDPR
6 63 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 48 (2.43%) NIST
8 28 (1.42%) GRC
8 28 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 24 (1.22%) SOC 2
10 20 (1.01%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.56%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.51%) ITGC
13 7 (0.35%) COBIT
13 7 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.35%) EMIR
13 7 (0.35%) GMP
13 7 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.30%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 141 (7.15%) Active Directory
2 91 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.08%) Docker
4 27 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 20 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 19 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.66%) vSphere
9 12 (0.61%) vCloud
10 7 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.10%) Ceph
12 2 (0.10%) Firmware
12 2 (0.10%) KVM
13 1 (0.051%) NFS
13 1 (0.051%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.051%) Squid
Systems Management
1 114 (5.78%) Terraform
2 71 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 70 (3.55%) Ansible
4 42 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (1.77%) vCenter Server
6 29 (1.47%) SCOM
7 24 (1.22%) Grafana
7 24 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.17%) Prometheus
9 18 (0.91%) SCCM
10 16 (0.81%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.66%) Avamar
12 10 (0.51%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.41%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.41%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
14 7 (0.35%) vRealize
15 6 (0.30%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 367 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 213 (10.80%) ServiceNow
3 194 (9.83%) Oracle
4 161 (8.16%) SAP
5 116 (5.88%) VMware
6 96 (4.87%) Cisco
7 79 (4.00%) Salesforce
8 51 (2.58%) Google
9 38 (1.93%) Splunk
10 36 (1.82%) IBM
11 33 (1.67%) Red Hat
12 31 (1.57%) F5
13 29 (1.47%) CheckPoint
14 28 (1.42%) Citrix
14 28 (1.42%) Palo Alto
14 28 (1.42%) Zscaler
15 26 (1.32%) Workday
16 25 (1.27%) IFS
17 24 (1.22%) Juniper
17 24 (1.22%) Remedy