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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 51 46
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,959 1,509 1,594
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.65% 4.57% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 5.06% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 904 892
10th Percentile £374 £325 £307
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £496 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% -3.32% -5.09%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £619
90th Percentile £725 £725 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +10.75% -7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 78 51
10th Percentile £19.25 £21.17 £18.14
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £26.42
Median hourly rate £41.71 £34.67 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.32% -36.97% +13.95%
75th Percentile £71.62 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.58 £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 45,360 29,849 33,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.48% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,797 18,603 21,010
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,875 1,763 1,706
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +7.39%

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 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 24 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 24 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 -13 1,724 £525 +5.00% 641
UK excluding London -20 959 £515 +10.75% 513
London -3 825 £540 -1.91% 245
Work from Home -4 586 £525 +5.00% 260
North of England -26 291 £500 +11.11% 135
South East +5 278 £575 +20.73% 157
North West -16 175 £479 +6.44% 90
Midlands -56 115 £493 +3.68% 73
Yorkshire -26 101 £500 +17.65% 34
Scotland +2 93 £490 +15.35% 20
South West -33 90 £525 +3.70% 73
East of England +1 83 £475 -9.52% 42
West Midlands -58 83 £525 +10.53% 52
East Midlands -13 30 £413 +14.11% 21
North East -27 15 £425 -15.00% 13
Northern Ireland -11 8 £750 +42.86% 10
Wales -16 8 £575 +62.85% 12

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
1 106 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 84 (4.29%) Confluence
3 32 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.07%) IIS
5 9 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.31%) Appian
7 6 (0.31%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.26%) Camunda
8 5 (0.26%) CMS
9 4 (0.20%) SAS
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) CICS
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.051%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.051%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 73 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
4 43 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.97%) 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%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Houdini
9 2 (0.10%) InDesign
9 2 (0.10%) NUKE
9 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.051%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.051%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 69 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 15 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
4 14 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (0.71%) Primavera
5 10 (0.51%) Maximo
6 9 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.41%) SAP PM
8 7 (0.36%) OpenText MBPM
8 7 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.31%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.26%) ContrOCC
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.26%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.26%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.20%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 303 (15.47%) Azure
2 151 (7.71%) AWS
3 141 (7.20%) Power Platform
4 118 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
5 106 (5.41%) Entra ID
6 70 (3.57%) SaaS
7 68 (3.47%) GCP
8 67 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
9 54 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
10 40 (2.04%) GitHub
11 32 (1.63%) OCI
12 28 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
13 27 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 27 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (1.12%) Google Workspace
14 22 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
15 21 (1.07%) OneDrive
15 21 (1.07%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 127 (6.48%) Firewall
2 107 (5.46%) Network Security
3 70 (3.57%) DNS
4 59 (3.01%) VPN
5 57 (2.91%) WAN
6 39 (1.99%) LAN
6 39 (1.99%) TCP/IP
7 38 (1.94%) DHCP
8 34 (1.74%) Wireless
9 27 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.23%) BGP
11 23 (1.17%) OSPF
11 23 (1.17%) SD-WAN
11 23 (1.17%) SSL
12 21 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
13 20 (1.02%) MPLS
14 18 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
15 15 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
15 15 (0.77%) VLAN
16 14 (0.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (6.02%) Power BI
2 67 (3.42%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.53%) Oracle Database
4 26 (1.33%) Metadata
5 23 (1.17%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.02%) Tableau
7 18 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
7 18 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.46%) Db2
9 9 (0.46%) MySQL
10 8 (0.41%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.41%) Oracle BI EE
11 6 (0.31%) GIS
11 6 (0.31%) Oracle Database 11g
11 6 (0.31%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.26%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 204 (10.41%) JIRA
2 60 (3.06%) Git
3 51 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.36%) AdminStudio
5 7 (0.36%) GitLab
5 7 (0.36%) InstallShield
5 7 (0.36%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.31%) Selenium
7 5 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.26%) 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%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.20%) Snyk
9 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.15%) Maven
9 3 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 745 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 723 (36.91%) Finance
3 336 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (9.80%) Banking
5 178 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 89 (4.54%) Influencing Skills
7 87 (4.44%) Legal
8 86 (4.39%) Retail
9 79 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
10 70 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
11 64 (3.27%) Manufacturing
12 55 (2.81%) Telecoms
13 48 (2.45%) Marketing
14 39 (1.99%) Law
15 38 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.63%) Local Government
17 23 (1.17%) Aviation
17 23 (1.17%) Front Office
17 23 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 238 (12.15%) Lead
2 226 (11.54%) Project Manager
3 210 (10.72%) Analyst
4 151 (7.71%) Senior
5 141 (7.20%) Change Manager
6 127 (6.48%) Consultant
7 119 (6.07%) Business Analyst
8 64 (3.27%) Administrator
8 64 (3.27%) Network Engineer
9 63 (3.22%) Senior Manager
10 60 (3.06%) Developer
11 49 (2.50%) IT Manager
12 48 (2.45%) Programme Manager
13 47 (2.40%) Business Manager
14 46 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
15 45 (2.30%) Delivery Manager
16 43 (2.19%) Support Engineer
17 39 (1.99%) Business Change Manager
17 39 (1.99%) Service Manager
18 35 (1.79%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (5.72%) Terraform
2 54 (2.76%) REST
3 40 (2.04%) .NET
4 33 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.28%) HTML
6 23 (1.17%) CSS
7 21 (1.07%) Middleware
8 16 (0.82%) Ajax
8 16 (0.82%) SOAP
9 15 (0.77%) Kafka
10 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
10 14 (0.71%) OAuth
11 12 (0.61%) .NET Framework
11 12 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (0.56%) 802.1X
12 11 (0.56%) Spring
12 11 (0.56%) Web Services
13 10 (0.51%) XML
14 9 (0.46%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 110 (5.62%) Onboarding
2 96 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 77 (3.93%) Data Centre
4 74 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 51 (2.60%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 45 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (1.79%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.68%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.68%) PKI
10 30 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.48%) PMI
12 28 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 26 (1.33%) CMDB
14 23 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.07%) AI Agents
16 20 (1.02%) Public Cloud
17 19 (0.97%) FMCG
18 18 (0.92%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 223 (11.38%) Windows
2 116 (5.92%) Linux
3 97 (4.95%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (2.35%) Unix
6 19 (0.97%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.71%) Solaris
8 10 (0.51%) AIX
8 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.51%) VMS
9 8 (0.41%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.31%) Android
11 6 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.31%) SUSE
12 5 (0.26%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.26%) HPUX
12 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (36.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 494 (25.22%) Agile
3 471 (24.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 437 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 372 (18.99%) ITIL
6 341 (17.41%) Project Management
7 339 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
8 314 (16.03%) Project Delivery
9 292 (14.91%) Migration
10 237 (12.10%) Roadmaps
11 235 (12.00%) Decision-Making
11 235 (12.00%) DevOps
12 223 (11.38%) Service Management
13 208 (10.62%) ITSM
14 207 (10.57%) AI
15 206 (10.52%) ERP
16 176 (8.98%) PRINCE2
17 173 (8.83%) Analytics
18 165 (8.42%) Process Improvement
19 164 (8.37%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 160 (8.17%) SQL
2 157 (8.01%) Python
3 141 (7.20%) PowerShell
4 75 (3.83%) Bash
5 52 (2.65%) Java
6 48 (2.45%) PL/SQL
7 46 (2.35%) C#
7 46 (2.35%) JavaScript
8 25 (1.28%) T-SQL
9 24 (1.23%) Bicep
10 14 (0.71%) Korn
11 12 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.46%) Go
12 9 (0.46%) Groovy
13 6 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.31%) VBScript
14 5 (0.26%) ABAP
14 5 (0.26%) COBOL
15 4 (0.20%) JCL
15 4 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 391 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 282 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 223 (11.38%) Degree
4 153 (7.81%) PMP
5 139 (7.10%) PMI Certification
6 74 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 61 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (3.01%) CISSP
9 45 (2.30%) CCNP
10 33 (1.68%) CISM
11 31 (1.58%) Azure Certification
12 30 (1.53%) APMG
13 24 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
14 23 (1.17%) ACCA
14 23 (1.17%) CIMA
14 23 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
14 23 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 21 (1.07%) CCNA
15 21 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.31%) QA
2 99 (5.05%) PMO
3 90 (4.59%) SLA
4 84 (4.29%) Data Quality
5 68 (3.47%) GDPR
6 58 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (2.30%) NIST
8 31 (1.58%) GRC
9 23 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (1.12%) SOC 2
11 17 (0.87%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.56%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.51%) ITGC
14 7 (0.36%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.36%) COBIT
14 7 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
14 7 (0.36%) EMIR
14 7 (0.36%) GMP
14 7 (0.36%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 139 (7.10%) Active Directory
2 93 (4.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (1.94%) Docker
4 27 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.07%) VMware NSX
6 19 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.66%) vCloud
9 13 (0.66%) vSphere
10 7 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.10%) Ceph
12 2 (0.10%) Firmware
13 1 (0.051%) KVM
13 1 (0.051%) NFS
13 1 (0.051%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.051%) Squid
Systems Management
1 70 (3.57%) Ansible
2 68 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 42 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (1.84%) vCenter Server
5 29 (1.48%) SCOM
6 24 (1.23%) Grafana
7 23 (1.17%) Prometheus
7 23 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.97%) SCCM
9 16 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.66%) Avamar
11 10 (0.51%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.41%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (0.36%) vRealize
14 6 (0.31%) CASB
14 6 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 367 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 204 (10.41%) ServiceNow
3 193 (9.85%) Oracle
4 153 (7.81%) SAP
5 117 (5.97%) VMware
6 90 (4.59%) Cisco
7 77 (3.93%) Salesforce
8 50 (2.55%) Google
9 37 (1.89%) IBM
9 37 (1.89%) Splunk
10 35 (1.79%) Red Hat
11 29 (1.48%) Palo Alto
12 28 (1.43%) CheckPoint
12 28 (1.43%) Citrix
12 28 (1.43%) F5
12 28 (1.43%) Zscaler
13 26 (1.33%) Workday
14 24 (1.23%) IFS
15 23 (1.17%) Remedy
16 21 (1.07%) Juniper