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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 45 42
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,601 1,393 1,912
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.32% 4.38% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 4.93% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 781 1,124
10th Percentile £313 £331 £363
25th Percentile £404 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.33% +4.52%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £685 £725 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £524
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.53% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 22 45
10th Percentile £20.79 £19.29 £20.03
25th Percentile £22.16 £28.19 £28.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £49.04 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +22.60% +21.21%
75th Percentile - £59.69 £56.00
90th Percentile £59.75 £92.83 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £49.12 £41.67
% change year-on-year -7.46% +17.90% +24.37%

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 32,585 28,260 37,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.84% 88.76% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,582 17,185 24,531
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,992 898 1,578
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.17
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.56 £18.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%
75th Percentile £55.89 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.33
% change year-on-year -21.76% -29.73% +46.88%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -8 1,433 £500 -4.76% 496
UK excluding London -1 899 £475 -5.00% 453
London -13 581 £525 -4.55% 140
Work from Home -19 410 £500 -4.76% 186
North of England -2 273 £450 -13.46% 86
Midlands +9 231 £475 -5.00% 85
South East +8 190 £475 -13.64% 149
North West +9 170 £414 -17.20% 42
West Midlands +5 154 £479 -4.30% 46
South West +8 116 £525 -4.55% 46
Yorkshire -13 100 £487 -11.45% 29
East Midlands +26 77 £425 +3.03% 39
Scotland +3 61 £450 +18.42% 25
East of England -33 38 £520 +15.56% 53
Wales +2 11 £406 - 16
Northern Ireland -3 7 £413 -32.65% 5
North East -23 3 £500 -13.04% 18

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
1 118 (7.37%) Confluence
2 83 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.56%) nginx
5 7 (0.44%) CMS
5 7 (0.44%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.37%) Mule
6 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) Appian
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.19%) Moodle
10 2 (0.12%) FileNet
10 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.062%) Traefik
Applications
1 89 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
2 88 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 83 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (2.87%) MS Visio
5 41 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.44%) Trello
8 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.25%) Windchill
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.062%) InDesign
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.062%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 54 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.44%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
9 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 217 (13.55%) Azure
2 151 (9.43%) AWS
3 103 (6.43%) GCP
3 103 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (5.37%) Power Platform
5 45 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (2.50%) SaaS
7 34 (2.12%) Entra ID
8 32 (2.00%) Serverless
9 25 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (1.50%) AWS KMS
10 24 (1.50%) GitHub
11 21 (1.31%) Amazon S3
11 21 (1.31%) Power Automate
12 19 (1.19%) PaaS
13 16 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (1.00%) IaaS
13 16 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
13 16 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 97 (6.06%) Firewall
2 77 (4.81%) DNS
3 60 (3.75%) Network Security
4 47 (2.94%) VPN
5 45 (2.81%) WAN
6 29 (1.81%) LAN
7 27 (1.69%) SSH
8 25 (1.56%) SSL
9 23 (1.44%) HTTP
10 22 (1.37%) DHCP
10 22 (1.37%) SD-WAN
10 22 (1.37%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.06%) SMTP
11 17 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (1.00%) SAN
12 16 (1.00%) Wireless
13 15 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 15 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 15 (0.94%) FTP
14 14 (0.87%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.62%) Power BI
2 40 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.56%) Metadata
5 23 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 21 (1.31%) Tableau
8 17 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (0.87%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.44%) MySQL
12 6 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.31%) Big Data
13 5 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.25%) Pinecone
14 4 (0.25%) Redis
15 3 (0.19%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 190 (11.87%) JIRA
2 70 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.94%) Liquibase
4 30 (1.87%) Git
5 29 (1.81%) GitLab
6 15 (0.94%) Vagrant
7 10 (0.62%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.37%) JUnit
11 5 (0.31%) Mockito
12 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
12 4 (0.25%) MLflow
12 4 (0.25%) MSI
13 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
14 2 (0.12%) AdminStudio
14 2 (0.12%) git-flow
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
14 2 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 717 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 509 (31.79%) Finance
3 308 (19.24%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (10.31%) Banking
5 159 (9.93%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
7 57 (3.56%) Manufacturing
8 46 (2.87%) Legal
8 46 (2.87%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
10 38 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (2.37%) Retail
11 34 (2.12%) Local Government
11 34 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.00%) Financial Institution
12 32 (2.00%) Marketing
13 29 (1.81%) Law
14 24 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 20 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 15 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 241 (15.05%) Analyst
2 199 (12.43%) Project Manager
3 173 (10.81%) Lead
4 137 (8.56%) Change Manager
5 136 (8.49%) Business Analyst
6 102 (6.37%) Senior
7 96 (6.00%) Consultant
8 52 (3.25%) Developer
9 49 (3.06%) Programme Manager
10 46 (2.87%) Business Manager
10 46 (2.87%) Senior Manager
11 45 (2.81%) Architect
11 45 (2.81%) IT Manager
12 44 (2.75%) Administrator
13 36 (2.25%) Service Manager
14 33 (2.06%) AWS Engineer
14 33 (2.06%) Business Change Manager
15 30 (1.87%) SAP Manager
16 28 (1.75%) DevOps Engineer
16 28 (1.75%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.44%) REST
2 41 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (1.87%) RESTful
4 26 (1.62%) .NET
5 24 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
6 18 (1.12%) SAML
7 16 (1.00%) OAuth
8 15 (0.94%) LDAP
9 14 (0.87%) .NET Framework
10 13 (0.81%) HTML
10 13 (0.81%) Middleware
10 13 (0.81%) OpenID
11 11 (0.69%) 802.1X
12 9 (0.56%) CSS
12 9 (0.56%) ISPF
13 8 (0.50%) Kafka
13 8 (0.50%) SOAP
14 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
14 7 (0.44%) OAuth2
14 7 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.43%) Management Information System
2 83 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 64 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 52 (3.25%) CMDB
5 47 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.44%) Virtual Team
8 36 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (2.25%) PKI
9 30 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 29 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 28 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 27 (1.69%) Replication
13 26 (1.62%) PMI
14 23 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (1.25%) Life Science
15 20 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (1.00%) NHS
17 15 (0.94%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 169 (10.56%) Windows
2 96 (6.00%) Linux
3 44 (2.75%) Unix
3 44 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.12%) VMS
6 15 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
7 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.25%) zOS
12 3 (0.19%) Android
12 3 (0.19%) CentOS
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.12%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.062%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (29.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 424 (26.48%) Agile
3 376 (23.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 335 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
5 333 (20.80%) ITIL
6 331 (20.67%) Project Management
7 259 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 220 (13.74%) DevOps
9 215 (13.43%) Migration
10 198 (12.37%) Project Delivery
11 162 (10.12%) Service Management
12 160 (9.99%) PRINCE2
13 158 (9.87%) ITSM
14 135 (8.43%) Decision-Making
14 135 (8.43%) Roadmaps
15 131 (8.18%) CI/CD
16 130 (8.12%) ERP
17 119 (7.43%) Risk Management
18 118 (7.37%) Service Delivery
19 112 (7.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 148 (9.24%) Python
2 139 (8.68%) SQL
3 100 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.31%) Bash
5 33 (2.06%) Java
6 30 (1.87%) Go
7 29 (1.81%) C#
8 20 (1.25%) Groovy
9 19 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.06%) JavaScript
11 14 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 14 (0.87%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.69%) COBOL
13 9 (0.56%) CLIST
13 9 (0.56%) JCL
13 9 (0.56%) Korn
13 9 (0.56%) Perl
13 9 (0.56%) REXX
14 7 (0.44%) C++
15 4 (0.25%) C
Qualifications
1 314 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 295 (18.43%) Degree
3 219 (13.68%) SC Cleared
4 106 (6.62%) PMI Certification
5 94 (5.87%) PMP
6 64 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (3.87%) Master's Degree
8 42 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 23 (1.44%) APMG
14 20 (1.25%) CISSP
15 19 (1.19%) AWS Certification
16 18 (1.12%) Azure Certification
16 18 (1.12%) CISM
17 15 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
18 14 (0.87%) CCNP
19 13 (0.81%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.50%) QA
2 80 (5.00%) PMO
3 56 (3.50%) GDPR
4 54 (3.37%) Data Quality
5 43 (2.69%) SLA
6 34 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.94%) NIST
8 13 (0.81%) IFRS
8 13 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.62%) GRC
11 10 (0.62%) IFRS 17
12 8 (0.50%) Basel III
12 8 (0.50%) MiFID
13 7 (0.44%) NCSC
14 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.31%) EMIR
14 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 100 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.50%) Docker
3 27 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.94%) DFS Replication
6 14 (0.87%) Firmware
7 9 (0.56%) ACF2
7 9 (0.56%) Dovecot
7 9 (0.56%) Postfix
7 9 (0.56%) RACF
7 9 (0.56%) Squid
7 9 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.25%) XenApp
10 4 (0.25%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.19%) NFS
12 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 83 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 82 (5.12%) Terraform
3 56 (3.50%) Ansible
4 53 (3.31%) Grafana
5 52 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 36 (2.25%) SCCM
7 28 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.00%) Puppet
9 13 (0.81%) CA Endevor
9 13 (0.81%) Kibana
9 13 (0.81%) SCOM
10 10 (0.62%) Nessus
11 9 (0.56%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.50%) Tivoli
12 8 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
13 6 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 293 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 144 (8.99%) SAP
3 141 (8.81%) ServiceNow
4 107 (6.68%) Oracle
5 67 (4.18%) Google
6 63 (3.94%) Cisco
7 59 (3.69%) Salesforce
8 51 (3.19%) Splunk
9 44 (2.75%) VMware
10 32 (2.00%) F5
11 27 (1.69%) Workday
12 24 (1.50%) CheckPoint
13 23 (1.44%) Citrix
13 23 (1.44%) Juniper
13 23 (1.44%) Remedy
14 22 (1.37%) Atlassian
15 18 (1.12%) Fortinet
15 18 (1.12%) IBM
16 16 (1.00%) Adobe
17 14 (0.87%) Red Hat