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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 48 42
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 +11
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,717 1,318 1,929
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.07% 4.43% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 4.91% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 796 1,166
10th Percentile £313 £321 £350
25th Percentile £408 £406 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £633
90th Percentile £681 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 33 61
10th Percentile £21.05 £27.32 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £35.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +52.62% -19.27%
75th Percentile £47.93 £70.00 £59.50
90th Percentile £83.53 £85.64 £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.97 £57.12 £37.18
% change year-on-year -38.78% +53.64% -20.98%

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 36,399 26,862 38,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 90.27% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,113 17,118 25,178
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,154 913 2,346
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.52 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -18.86% +0.83% -10.00%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -10 1,530 £500 -4.76% 601
UK excluding London -1 945 £478 -4.40% 513
London -20 629 £525 - 167
Work from Home -9 486 £520 +4.00% 306
North of England -11 291 £465 -2.11% 112
Midlands +5 240 £492 -1.60% 80
South East +1 198 £500 - 186
North West +6 189 £414 -8.00% 59
West Midlands -3 164 £500 -2.63% 56
South West +10 114 £525 - 42
Yorkshire -25 98 £487 -2.60% 42
East Midlands +17 76 £425 +20.06% 23
Scotland -2 61 £450 +17.65% 29
East of England -29 54 £475 -2.51% 65
Wales +1 13 £433 -27.83% 10
Northern Ireland -5 5 £450 -25.00% 3
North East -21 4 £475 -17.39% 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
1 113 (6.58%) Confluence
2 75 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.58%) SAS
5 9 (0.52%) Appian
6 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.29%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.29%) IIS
8 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.23%) CMS
9 3 (0.17%) Moodle
10 2 (0.12%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.058%) CICS
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.058%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (5.53%) Microsoft Project
2 81 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (2.15%) MS Visio
5 36 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.29%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.23%) Trello
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.058%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.058%) InDesign
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.058%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 73 (4.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 11 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.29%) Finacle
6 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.23%) Primavera
8 3 (0.17%) iTrent
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 274 (15.96%) Azure
2 151 (8.79%) AWS
3 109 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
4 101 (5.88%) GCP
5 88 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 64 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 51 (2.97%) SaaS
9 26 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (1.40%) Power Automate
11 23 (1.34%) Serverless
12 22 (1.28%) PaaS
13 21 (1.22%) Google Workspace
13 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (1.11%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.11%) OpenShift
15 18 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (1.05%) IaaS
16 17 (0.99%) GitHub
17 15 (0.87%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (6.00%) Firewall
2 66 (3.84%) Network Security
3 65 (3.79%) DNS
4 53 (3.09%) WAN
5 52 (3.03%) VPN
6 41 (2.39%) LAN
7 29 (1.69%) SD-WAN
7 29 (1.69%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.63%) BGP
9 26 (1.51%) DHCP
10 25 (1.46%) OSPF
11 23 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (1.28%) SSL
13 19 (1.11%) MPLS
14 17 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 17 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 15 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (0.87%) Wireless
16 14 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (0.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.25%) Power BI
2 49 (2.85%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.63%) Metadata
4 25 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.11%) Tableau
6 18 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (0.93%) Oracle Database
8 14 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.58%) Big Data
10 10 (0.58%) MySQL
10 10 (0.58%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.47%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.23%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 203 (11.82%) JIRA
2 48 (2.80%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.33%) Git
4 22 (1.28%) Liquibase
5 21 (1.22%) GitLab
6 12 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.47%) MLflow
8 7 (0.41%) JUnit
9 5 (0.29%) Mockito
10 4 (0.23%) Maven
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.12%) git-flow
12 2 (0.12%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.12%) MSI
12 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
13 1 (0.058%) GoCD
13 1 (0.058%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.058%) TestRail
General
1 745 (43.39%) Social Skills
2 548 (31.92%) Finance
3 318 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 148 (8.62%) Banking
6 76 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
7 65 (3.79%) Legal
8 54 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
8 54 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
9 51 (2.97%) Retail
10 46 (2.68%) Manufacturing
11 38 (2.21%) Local Government
12 37 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (2.10%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.92%) Law
15 31 (1.81%) Marketing
16 28 (1.63%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.22%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.99%) Aviation
18 17 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 223 (12.99%) Analyst
2 217 (12.64%) Project Manager
3 178 (10.37%) Lead
4 142 (8.27%) Change Manager
5 127 (7.40%) Business Analyst
6 119 (6.93%) Senior
7 106 (6.17%) Consultant
8 60 (3.49%) Programme Manager
9 57 (3.32%) Business Manager
10 56 (3.26%) Developer
11 53 (3.09%) Administrator
12 50 (2.91%) Architect
13 44 (2.56%) Senior Manager
14 42 (2.45%) Network Engineer
15 40 (2.33%) Business Change Manager
16 37 (2.15%) IT Manager
16 37 (2.15%) SAP Manager
16 37 (2.15%) Service Manager
17 33 (1.92%) Delivery Manager
18 28 (1.63%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.61%) REST
2 30 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (1.69%) .NET
4 26 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (1.34%) RESTful
6 22 (1.28%) OAuth
7 21 (1.22%) .NET Framework
8 19 (1.11%) SAML
9 15 (0.87%) Middleware
9 15 (0.87%) Web Services
10 14 (0.82%) OpenID
11 13 (0.76%) LDAP
12 12 (0.70%) CSS
12 12 (0.70%) SOAP
13 11 (0.64%) HTML
14 10 (0.58%) ISPF
14 10 (0.58%) pytest
15 9 (0.52%) Django
15 9 (0.52%) NumPy
15 9 (0.52%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.59%) Management Information System
2 89 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 76 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.61%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.97%) CMDB
6 49 (2.85%) Cloud Native
7 45 (2.62%) Virtual Team
8 38 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (1.92%) PMI
10 31 (1.81%) PKI
11 28 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (0.99%) Security Posture
17 16 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
17 16 (0.93%) NHS
18 15 (0.87%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 163 (9.49%) Windows
2 68 (3.96%) Linux
3 55 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 39 (2.27%) Unix
5 33 (1.92%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.23%) CentOS
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.17%) Android
10 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 1 (0.058%) Debian
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.058%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.058%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (32.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 443 (25.80%) Agile
3 410 (23.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 376 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
5 331 (19.28%) ITIL
6 321 (18.70%) Project Management
7 318 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 277 (16.13%) Migration
9 234 (13.63%) DevOps
10 198 (11.53%) Project Delivery
11 166 (9.67%) ITSM
12 162 (9.44%) PRINCE2
13 156 (9.09%) Risk Management
14 154 (8.97%) Roadmaps
15 151 (8.79%) Decision-Making
15 151 (8.79%) Service Management
16 148 (8.62%) ERP
17 138 (8.04%) CI/CD
18 137 (7.98%) Validation
19 134 (7.80%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 161 (9.38%) SQL
2 134 (7.80%) Python
3 99 (5.77%) PowerShell
4 42 (2.45%) Bash
4 42 (2.45%) C#
5 30 (1.75%) Java
6 22 (1.28%) PL/SQL
7 21 (1.22%) JavaScript
8 18 (1.05%) Go
9 17 (0.99%) T-SQL
10 14 (0.82%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.70%) COBOL
12 11 (0.64%) JCL
13 10 (0.58%) CLIST
13 10 (0.58%) REXX
14 7 (0.41%) Korn
15 5 (0.29%) ABAP
15 5 (0.29%) Groovy
16 4 (0.23%) Perl
16 4 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 335 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 281 (16.37%) Degree
3 233 (13.57%) SC Cleared
4 112 (6.52%) PMI Certification
5 102 (5.94%) PMP
6 52 (3.03%) Master's Degree
7 49 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 45 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (1.98%) CISSP
11 29 (1.69%) CISM
11 29 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
11 29 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 24 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.22%) APMG
14 19 (1.11%) CCNP
15 16 (0.93%) Azure Certification
16 15 (0.87%) MBA
17 11 (0.64%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.00%) QA
2 82 (4.78%) GDPR
3 81 (4.72%) Data Quality
4 69 (4.02%) PMO
5 54 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (3.03%) SLA
7 23 (1.34%) NIST
8 21 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.05%) IFRS
10 17 (0.99%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.87%) IFRS 17
12 13 (0.76%) Accessibility
13 10 (0.58%) Basel III
13 10 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.58%) GRC
14 8 (0.47%) MiFID
14 8 (0.47%) NCSC
15 5 (0.29%) EMIR
15 5 (0.29%) RMADS
16 4 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 115 (6.70%) Active Directory
2 68 (3.96%) Docker
3 35 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.58%) ACF2
5 10 (0.58%) RACF
5 10 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.52%) Firmware
7 8 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.29%) KVM
9 5 (0.29%) vSphere
9 5 (0.29%) XenApp
9 5 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.17%) NFS
11 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 89 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 63 (3.67%) Terraform
3 59 (3.44%) Ansible
4 36 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (1.63%) SCCM
6 27 (1.57%) Grafana
6 27 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.87%) Puppet
8 14 (0.82%) vCenter Server
9 13 (0.76%) FortiGate
10 12 (0.70%) Kibana
11 10 (0.58%) CA Endevor
12 9 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.52%) SCOM
12 9 (0.52%) Tivoli
12 9 (0.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 8 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
15 5 (0.29%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 299 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 171 (9.96%) SAP
3 157 (9.14%) ServiceNow
4 116 (6.76%) Oracle
5 72 (4.19%) Google
6 67 (3.90%) Cisco
7 60 (3.49%) Salesforce
8 56 (3.26%) VMware
9 35 (2.04%) Splunk
10 34 (1.98%) Citrix
10 34 (1.98%) F5
11 32 (1.86%) Workday
12 25 (1.46%) Juniper
13 21 (1.22%) Atlassian
14 19 (1.11%) CheckPoint
14 19 (1.11%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.11%) Palo Alto
15 17 (0.99%) Ariba
15 17 (0.99%) Remedy
15 17 (0.99%) SolarWinds