Change Management Contracts

Change Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 43 42
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,366 1,783 2,682
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.40% 4.11% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 4.82% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 1,035 1,652
10th Percentile £325 £313 £356
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% +6.80%
75th Percentile £612 £613 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £505
% change year-on-year -3.65% -2.38% +5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 75 51
10th Percentile £22.63 £18.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £29.91 £30.38
Median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +3.31% +86.15%
75th Percentile £58.75 £61.60 £66.88
90th Percentile £70.16 £68.33 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.28 £50.00 £46.11
% change year-on-year -25.44% +8.45% +102.66%

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 28,184 37,006 49,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.85% 85.27% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,766 23,597 34,412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,384 2,548 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.88 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 Contract 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 2 July 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 -5 1,142 £500 -2.72% 3,632
UK excluding London +3 674 £475 -3.65% 2,007
London -5 533 £550 - 1,875
Work from Home -12 437 £500 -1.19% 1,487
North of England +3 218 £450 -12.45% 489
North West +10 134 £445 -12.23% 314
South East +7 125 £490 +7.22% 560
Midlands +13 107 £475 -7.32% 294
West Midlands +25 89 £475 -9.52% 195
Yorkshire -13 80 £456 -11.24% 139
Scotland -11 76 £431 -9.26% 163
South West -2 73 £508 -3.33% 217
East of England +11 50 £500 +25.00% 188
Northern Ireland +2 21 £525 +208.82% 47
East Midlands -5 15 £358 -11.60% 97
Wales -8 9 £375 -28.57% 65
North East -6 2 £500 -44.26% 39
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (5.42%) Confluence
2 44 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.81%) CMS
4 11 (0.81%) IIS
5 8 (0.59%) Apache
5 8 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.44%) JBoss
7 5 (0.37%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.22%) SAS
9 3 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.073%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle UPK
11 1 (0.073%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 78 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (3.59%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (2.05%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.66%) Trello
7 3 (0.22%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Smart View
7 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Windchill
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.073%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 47 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.95%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 9 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.51%) SAP PP
6 6 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.44%) SAP SD
7 5 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.29%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.29%) SAP PLM
9 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.22%) SAP VC
9 3 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 103 (7.54%) Azure
2 85 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
3 61 (4.47%) AWS
4 54 (3.95%) Power Platform
5 43 (3.15%) SaaS
6 22 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (1.54%) Entra ID
8 16 (1.17%) Amazon S3
9 15 (1.10%) GCP
10 13 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (0.81%) GitHub
11 11 (0.81%) OneDrive
12 10 (0.73%) IaaS
12 10 (0.73%) OpenShift
12 10 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (0.66%) Google Workspace
13 9 (0.66%) Power Automate
13 9 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 85 (6.22%) Firewall
2 41 (3.00%) WAN
3 40 (2.93%) Network Security
4 31 (2.27%) DNS
5 28 (2.05%) LAN
6 25 (1.83%) BGP
7 24 (1.76%) OSPF
7 24 (1.76%) VPN
8 21 (1.54%) WebEx
9 19 (1.39%) Skype
9 19 (1.39%) Wireless
10 18 (1.32%) DHCP
10 18 (1.32%) SD-WAN
11 17 (1.24%) MPLS
12 14 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
12 14 (1.02%) HTTP
13 13 (0.95%) EIGRP
13 13 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
14 12 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.22%) Power BI
2 29 (2.12%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.90%) Oracle Database
4 18 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
5 13 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (0.88%) SAP HANA
7 9 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.51%) RDBMS
9 7 (0.51%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.51%) Tableau
10 6 (0.44%) Metadata
10 6 (0.44%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.44%) Siebel EIM
11 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.37%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (0.37%) MySQL
12 4 (0.29%) Big Data
12 4 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 114 (8.35%) JIRA
2 37 (2.71%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.20%) Git
4 11 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (0.73%) MSI
5 10 (0.73%) SonarQube
5 10 (0.73%) Vagrant
6 7 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.44%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (0.44%) CA Release Automation
7 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.29%) GitLab
10 3 (0.22%) GoCD
10 3 (0.22%) Selenium
11 2 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.15%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 509 (37.26%) Finance
2 503 (36.82%) Social Skills
3 253 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (10.98%) Banking
5 89 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 70 (5.12%) Manufacturing
7 65 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 59 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
8 59 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (3.88%) Telecoms
10 52 (3.81%) Legal
11 48 (3.51%) Law
12 45 (3.29%) Marketing
13 35 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 32 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 28 (2.05%) Retail
16 27 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.39%) Financial Institution
18 18 (1.32%) French Language
19 15 (1.10%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 249 (18.23%) Analyst
2 176 (12.88%) Project Manager
3 139 (10.18%) Business Analyst
4 118 (8.64%) Lead
5 95 (6.95%) Consultant
6 89 (6.52%) Change Manager
7 73 (5.34%) Senior
8 52 (3.81%) IT Manager
9 48 (3.51%) Programme Manager
10 47 (3.44%) Administrator
10 47 (3.44%) Architect
11 42 (3.07%) Developer
12 39 (2.86%) Service Manager
13 37 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
14 35 (2.56%) Network Engineer
15 33 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
16 32 (2.34%) Business Manager
17 29 (2.12%) SAP Manager
18 26 (1.90%) IT Project Manager
19 24 (1.76%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.24%) Web Services
2 16 (1.17%) .NET
3 15 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (1.10%) REST
3 15 (1.10%) SOAP
4 14 (1.02%) CSS
5 12 (0.88%) HTML
6 11 (0.81%) Middleware
7 10 (0.73%) Spring Boot
8 8 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.59%) React
9 7 (0.51%) .NET Framework
9 7 (0.51%) XML
10 6 (0.44%) JMS
11 5 (0.37%) Ajax
11 5 (0.37%) Gherkin
11 5 (0.37%) RESTful
11 5 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
12 4 (0.29%) 802.1X
12 4 (0.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 73 (5.34%) Management Information System
2 49 (3.59%) Data Centre
3 48 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.71%) CMDB
5 31 (2.27%) Life Science
5 31 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.32%) Operational Technology
9 17 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
10 15 (1.10%) Security Posture
10 15 (1.10%) Virtual Team
11 13 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (0.88%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.88%) e-Learning
12 12 (0.88%) PKI
13 11 (0.81%) PMI
14 10 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 102 (7.47%) Windows
2 60 (4.39%) Linux
3 33 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.32%) Unix
4 18 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 15 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (0.59%) VMS
7 6 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.29%) CentOS
8 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.29%) zOS
9 3 (0.22%) MVS
9 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.073%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.073%) SUSE
11 1 (0.073%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (24.30%) Agile
2 310 (22.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 301 (22.04%) Project Management
4 296 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 216 (15.81%) Migration
6 214 (15.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 204 (14.93%) ITIL
8 156 (11.42%) Project Delivery
9 148 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 144 (10.54%) Risk Management
11 123 (9.00%) Roadmaps
12 122 (8.93%) Service Management
13 111 (8.13%) Decision-Making
14 104 (7.61%) ERP
15 97 (7.10%) Data Migration
15 97 (7.10%) DevOps
16 94 (6.88%) Waterfall
17 93 (6.81%) Process Improvement
18 89 (6.52%) PRINCE2
19 85 (6.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (6.44%) SQL
2 67 (4.90%) Python
3 52 (3.81%) PowerShell
4 35 (2.56%) Java
5 26 (1.90%) C#
6 20 (1.46%) PL/SQL
7 18 (1.32%) JavaScript
8 15 (1.10%) Perl
9 8 (0.59%) Groovy
9 8 (0.59%) VB
10 5 (0.37%) REXX
10 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.29%) ABAP
11 4 (0.29%) JCL
11 4 (0.29%) MUMPS
11 4 (0.29%) Ruby
11 4 (0.29%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.29%) VBA
12 3 (0.22%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 191 (13.98%) Degree
2 152 (11.13%) Security Cleared
3 97 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 63 (4.61%) PMP
5 61 (4.47%) PMI Certification
6 43 (3.15%) ITIL Certification
7 40 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 29 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 20 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (1.39%) CCNP
12 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (1.02%) APMG
13 14 (1.02%) CBAP
13 14 (1.02%) CCNA
14 13 (0.95%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.88%) ISEB
16 11 (0.81%) CISSP
17 8 (0.59%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (3.59%) PMO
1 49 (3.59%) QA
2 37 (2.71%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.49%) GDPR
4 29 (2.12%) SLA
5 16 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.17%) NIST
6 14 (1.02%) MiFID
7 12 (0.88%) EMIR
8 11 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.59%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.51%) GxP
10 7 (0.51%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.51%) NCSC
10 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.37%) ITGC
12 4 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.29%) P3O
13 3 (0.22%) Basel III
13 3 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 58 (4.25%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.68%) Docker
4 17 (1.24%) vSphere
5 13 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.66%) Firmware
7 7 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.37%) DFS Replication
8 5 (0.37%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.15%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.15%) Postfix
11 2 (0.15%) Squid
11 2 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 29 (2.12%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.90%) Ansible
3 23 (1.68%) Grafana
4 20 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (1.32%) Terraform
7 16 (1.17%) SCCM
8 15 (1.10%) Oracle RMAN
9 8 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.44%) Kibana
11 5 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
11 5 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (0.37%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.37%) Puppet
12 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.29%) Nagios
12 4 (0.29%) Tivoli NetView
13 3 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 226 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 150 (10.98%) SAP
3 93 (6.81%) Oracle
4 82 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 76 (5.56%) Cisco
6 39 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 35 (2.56%) VMware
8 28 (2.05%) Splunk
9 26 (1.90%) Juniper
10 23 (1.68%) Remedy
10 23 (1.68%) Workday
11 19 (1.39%) Google
12 18 (1.32%) Ariba
12 18 (1.32%) Polycom
13 15 (1.10%) Palo Alto
13 15 (1.10%) SolarWinds
14 14 (1.02%) Commvault
15 13 (0.95%) Citrix
15 13 (0.95%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.95%) Red Hat