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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 50 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,794 1,261 1,816
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.77% 4.35% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.78% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 787 1,070
10th Percentile £338 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.82% -5.42%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 50 65
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £14.18
25th Percentile £22.63 £50.00 £29.91
Median hourly rate £34.87 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.43% +8.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £60.75 £69.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £73.10 £69.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.09 £58.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -52.19% +22.40% -0.55%

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 40,111 26,361 36,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.96% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,183 16,941 23,723
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.71% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,073 2,431
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.41 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.78 £38.00
% change year-on-year +74.59% -32.17% +8.57%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -4 1,568 £500 - 557
UK excluding London -11 937 £500 +5.26% 383
London -7 683 £500 -8.63% 224
Work from Home -1 535 £525 +5.00% 216
North of England -14 283 £475 +5.56% 98
Midlands -5 213 £506 +1.20% 59
South East +1 207 £525 +7.58% 127
North West -1 169 £450 - 50
West Midlands -14 141 £515 +2.90% 34
Yorkshire -31 106 £487 +5.30% 39
South West -10 95 £500 -3.85% 36
Scotland +9 75 £475 +16.56% 15
East of England -14 73 £475 -2.51% 38
East Midlands +20 70 £463 +27.41% 24
Wales -11 10 £575 +53.33% 11
North East -14 8 £433 -24.78% 9
Northern Ireland -7 7 £475 -13.64% 8

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
1 108 (6.02%) Confluence
2 77 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.78%) SAS
5 12 (0.67%) IIS
6 9 (0.50%) Appian
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.17%) CMS
11 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.056%) Mattermost
12 1 (0.056%) MS Project Server
12 1 (0.056%) MTS
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 75 (4.18%) Microsoft Project
2 69 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (1.45%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 2 (0.11%) Windchill
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.056%) InDesign
10 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.056%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 75 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Finacle
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Primavera
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.22%) Maximo
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
10 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 275 (15.33%) Azure
2 137 (7.64%) AWS
3 108 (6.02%) Power Platform
4 106 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (3.85%) GCP
6 67 (3.73%) SaaS
7 66 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 38 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (1.90%) Google Workspace
11 31 (1.73%) Power Automate
12 24 (1.34%) OpenShift
13 23 (1.28%) PaaS
14 22 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
15 20 (1.11%) GitHub
15 20 (1.11%) Google Sheets
15 20 (1.11%) OCI
16 16 (0.89%) Asana
16 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 104 (5.80%) Firewall
2 66 (3.68%) DNS
3 62 (3.46%) Network Security
4 56 (3.12%) WAN
5 52 (2.90%) VPN
6 46 (2.56%) LAN
7 34 (1.90%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.73%) BGP
9 29 (1.62%) OSPF
9 29 (1.62%) SSL
10 28 (1.56%) TCP/IP
11 26 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (1.39%) DHCP
13 24 (1.34%) MPLS
14 20 (1.11%) SAN
15 19 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 19 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 18 (1.00%) Wireless
17 17 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.02%) Power BI
2 60 (3.34%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.51%) Metadata
4 26 (1.45%) Tableau
5 25 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
6 20 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.84%) Oracle Database
9 12 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.56%) MySQL
12 9 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.45%) Pinecone
14 7 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
15 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
15 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
16 5 (0.28%) Big Data
16 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 5 (0.28%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 223 (12.43%) JIRA
2 61 (3.40%) Git
3 50 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.56%) GitLab
6 9 (0.50%) MLflow
7 7 (0.39%) InstallShield
8 6 (0.33%) AdminStudio
9 5 (0.28%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.22%) Hudson
10 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (0.17%) Snyk
11 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.11%) git-flow
13 1 (0.056%) Postman
General
1 694 (38.68%) Social Skills
2 600 (33.44%) Finance
3 299 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 148 (8.25%) Banking
6 81 (4.52%) Legal
7 73 (4.07%) Retail
8 60 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (2.56%) Marketing
12 37 (2.06%) Manufacturing
13 36 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (1.95%) Law
15 32 (1.78%) Local Government
16 31 (1.73%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.34%) Investment Banking
18 22 (1.23%) Aviation
19 20 (1.11%) Financial Institution
20 17 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 208 (11.59%) Project Manager
2 185 (10.31%) Lead
3 184 (10.26%) Analyst
4 141 (7.86%) Change Manager
5 137 (7.64%) Senior
6 118 (6.58%) Business Analyst
7 110 (6.13%) Consultant
8 71 (3.96%) Administrator
9 68 (3.79%) Programme Manager
10 60 (3.34%) Developer
11 53 (2.95%) Senior Manager
12 49 (2.73%) Architect
12 49 (2.73%) Business Manager
12 49 (2.73%) Network Engineer
13 44 (2.45%) IT Manager
14 40 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
15 39 (2.17%) Business Change Manager
16 34 (1.90%) Support Engineer
17 32 (1.78%) SAP Manager
18 31 (1.73%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.84%) REST
2 31 (1.73%) .NET
3 27 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.28%) OAuth
5 22 (1.23%) Middleware
6 19 (1.06%) .NET Framework
6 19 (1.06%) CSS
7 17 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (0.89%) HTML
9 15 (0.84%) Web Services
10 14 (0.78%) LDAP
11 11 (0.61%) React
11 11 (0.61%) RESTful
11 11 (0.61%) SOAP
12 10 (0.56%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.56%) Pandas
12 10 (0.56%) pytest
13 9 (0.50%) Django
13 9 (0.50%) NumPy
13 9 (0.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 90 (5.02%) Management Information System
2 84 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 73 (4.07%) Data Centre
4 68 (3.79%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.45%) CMDB
7 40 (2.23%) Cloud Native
7 40 (2.23%) PMI
8 39 (2.17%) Virtual Team
9 31 (1.73%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.39%) PKI
12 19 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.00%) Operational Technology
13 18 (1.00%) Security Posture
14 17 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (0.89%) Low-Code
16 14 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 172 (9.59%) Windows
2 84 (4.68%) Linux
3 65 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.62%) Unix
5 25 (1.39%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.50%) Solaris
7 9 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.28%) SUSE
9 5 (0.28%) VMS
10 4 (0.22%) AIX
10 4 (0.22%) HPUX
10 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (30.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 423 (23.58%) Agile
3 420 (23.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 357 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
5 352 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 326 (18.17%) ITIL
7 314 (17.50%) Project Management
8 299 (16.67%) Migration
9 224 (12.49%) DevOps
10 206 (11.48%) Project Delivery
11 194 (10.81%) Roadmaps
12 193 (10.76%) ERP
13 187 (10.42%) Decision-Making
14 170 (9.48%) ITSM
14 170 (9.48%) Validation
15 165 (9.20%) Risk Management
16 153 (8.53%) CI/CD
17 139 (7.75%) Service Management
17 139 (7.75%) Workshop Facilitation
18 138 (7.69%) AI
Programming Languages
1 167 (9.31%) SQL
2 116 (6.47%) Python
3 88 (4.91%) PowerShell
4 46 (2.56%) Bash
5 44 (2.45%) C#
6 41 (2.29%) PL/SQL
7 33 (1.84%) Java
8 28 (1.56%) JavaScript
9 23 (1.28%) T-SQL
10 11 (0.61%) Korn
11 9 (0.50%) Groovy
11 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.45%) COBOL
13 7 (0.39%) JCL
14 6 (0.33%) REXX
15 5 (0.28%) Go
16 4 (0.22%) ABAP
16 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.22%) C++
16 4 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 370 (20.62%) Security Cleared
2 263 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 235 (13.10%) Degree
4 116 (6.47%) PMP
5 113 (6.30%) PMI Certification
6 53 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.79%) CISSP
8 46 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (2.17%) Master's Degree
11 38 (2.12%) CISM
12 35 (1.95%) CCNP
13 28 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
14 26 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
15 24 (1.34%) APMG
16 21 (1.17%) CIMA
17 20 (1.11%) ACCA
18 19 (1.06%) Azure Certification
19 17 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 14 (0.78%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.08%) QA
2 93 (5.18%) GDPR
3 91 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 91 (5.07%) PMO
4 68 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 64 (3.57%) SLA
6 44 (2.45%) NIST
7 28 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.17%) SOC 2
9 19 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.95%) IFRS
11 15 (0.84%) IFRS 17
12 12 (0.67%) GRC
13 9 (0.50%) Basel III
14 8 (0.45%) ITGC
15 7 (0.39%) COBIT
15 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 126 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 59 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (2.90%) Docker
4 24 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 19 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.89%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.56%) vSphere
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.33%) Firmware
10 6 (0.33%) KVM
11 4 (0.22%) ACF2
11 4 (0.22%) RACF
11 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
11 4 (0.22%) vCloud
11 4 (0.22%) XenApp
11 4 (0.22%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.17%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 81 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 71 (3.96%) Terraform
3 70 (3.90%) Ansible
4 33 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.45%) Grafana
5 26 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.28%) SCCM
7 22 (1.23%) vCenter Server
8 20 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.78%) SCOM
10 13 (0.72%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.56%) Puppet
12 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
13 8 (0.45%) Kibana
14 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
15 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.33%) CA Endevor
15 6 (0.33%) CASB
16 5 (0.28%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 276 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 180 (10.03%) ServiceNow
3 172 (9.59%) SAP
4 162 (9.03%) Oracle
5 80 (4.46%) VMware
6 69 (3.85%) Cisco
6 69 (3.85%) Salesforce
7 64 (3.57%) Google
8 33 (1.84%) F5
8 33 (1.84%) Splunk
9 31 (1.73%) Citrix
10 28 (1.56%) IFS
11 27 (1.51%) Workday
12 25 (1.39%) Palo Alto
13 23 (1.28%) Juniper
14 22 (1.23%) CheckPoint
15 20 (1.11%) Dynatrace
16 19 (1.06%) Fortinet
16 19 (1.06%) IBM
17 18 (1.00%) Remedy