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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 48 42
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,783 1,259 1,891
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.07% 4.26% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 4.71% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 800 1,145
10th Percentile £318 £318 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £699 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 31 58
10th Percentile £21.65 £27.00 £14.31
25th Percentile £22.67 £33.38 £21.87
Median hourly rate £42.05 £57.50 £33.80
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +70.13% -29.59%
75th Percentile £56.69 £71.25 £60.81
90th Percentile £84.50 £87.05 £62.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £57.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -27.21% +73.90% -31.11%

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 37,591 26,736 38,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 90.46% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,832 17,220 24,877
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,217 938 2,335
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.21 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.94 £16.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.51 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.28 £71.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.31 £31.76 £31.13
% change year-on-year -7.73% +2.04% -12.14%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -5 1,593 £500 -3.52% 571
UK excluding London -5 969 £484 +1.89% 462
London -11 667 £525 - 187
Work from Home -3 519 £525 +5.00% 237
North of England -13 294 £472 +4.89% 103
Midlands +2 229 £500 -0.25% 98
South East +10 218 £500 - 151
North West +2 196 £424 -3.14% 59
West Midlands -13 153 £510 -0.63% 60
South West +13 117 £525 - 30
Yorkshire -35 92 £488 -2.50% 32
East Midlands +14 74 £425 +34.07% 37
East of England -16 63 £475 +2.70% 56
Scotland -4 59 £450 +20.00% 22
Wales +1 13 £433 -27.83% 13
North East -21 6 £438 -23.91% 12
Northern Ireland -6 4 £383 -36.25% 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
1 118 (6.62%) Confluence
2 78 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.56%) SAS
5 9 (0.50%) Appian
6 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.28%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.11%) Moodle
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.056%) CICS
10 1 (0.056%) JBoss
10 1 (0.056%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 93 (5.22%) Microsoft Project
2 76 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 37 (2.08%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.28%) Acrobat
5 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.22%) Trello
6 4 (0.22%) Windchill
7 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.056%) InDesign
7 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.056%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 74 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.34%) Finacle
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.28%) Primavera
7 5 (0.28%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.17%) iTrent
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 289 (16.21%) Azure
2 155 (8.69%) AWS
3 110 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
4 96 (5.38%) Power Platform
5 94 (5.27%) GCP
6 74 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (3.31%) Entra ID
8 54 (3.03%) SaaS
9 31 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.51%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.40%) PaaS
12 23 (1.29%) Serverless
13 21 (1.18%) Google Workspace
13 21 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (1.07%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.07%) IaaS
14 19 (1.07%) OpenShift
15 18 (1.01%) GitHub
16 16 (0.90%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 113 (6.34%) Firewall
2 72 (4.04%) Network Security
3 62 (3.48%) WAN
4 61 (3.42%) DNS
5 52 (2.92%) LAN
5 52 (2.92%) VPN
6 36 (2.02%) SD-WAN
7 32 (1.79%) BGP
8 30 (1.68%) OSPF
9 26 (1.46%) TCP/IP
9 26 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.35%) SSL
11 23 (1.29%) DHCP
11 23 (1.29%) MPLS
12 19 (1.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 19 (1.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 16 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (0.90%) SAN
14 15 (0.84%) HTTP
14 15 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (4.43%) Power BI
2 50 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (1.46%) Metadata
5 20 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.12%) Tableau
6 17 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
7 16 (0.90%) Oracle Database
8 12 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (0.56%) Big Data
10 10 (0.56%) MySQL
11 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.45%) Pinecone
12 8 (0.45%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
14 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 216 (12.11%) JIRA
2 50 (2.80%) Jenkins
3 45 (2.52%) Git
4 20 (1.12%) GitLab
4 20 (1.12%) Liquibase
5 12 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.45%) MLflow
7 7 (0.39%) JUnit
8 5 (0.28%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.28%) Mockito
9 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.11%) git-flow
11 2 (0.11%) Hudson
12 1 (0.056%) TestRail
General
1 755 (42.34%) Social Skills
2 575 (32.25%) Finance
3 334 (18.73%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 151 (8.47%) Banking
6 77 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
7 67 (3.76%) Legal
8 62 (3.48%) Retail
9 57 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.64%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.19%) Local Government
12 39 (2.19%) Telecoms
13 35 (1.96%) Law
14 34 (1.91%) Marketing
15 33 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (1.63%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.23%) Investment Banking
18 18 (1.01%) Aviation
19 17 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 226 (12.68%) Project Manager
2 217 (12.17%) Analyst
3 190 (10.66%) Lead
4 148 (8.30%) Change Manager
5 129 (7.23%) Business Analyst
6 122 (6.84%) Senior
7 112 (6.28%) Consultant
8 64 (3.59%) Programme Manager
9 59 (3.31%) Developer
10 57 (3.20%) Business Manager
11 55 (3.08%) Administrator
12 52 (2.92%) Architect
13 47 (2.64%) Network Engineer
14 45 (2.52%) Senior Manager
15 40 (2.24%) Business Change Manager
16 37 (2.08%) IT Manager
17 33 (1.85%) SAP Manager
18 32 (1.79%) Delivery Manager
19 31 (1.74%) Service Manager
20 30 (1.68%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.48%) REST
2 31 (1.74%) .NET
2 31 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
3 30 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (1.23%) RESTful
5 21 (1.18%) .NET Framework
6 19 (1.07%) OAuth
7 18 (1.01%) Middleware
8 16 (0.90%) SAML
9 15 (0.84%) Web Services
10 13 (0.73%) SOAP
11 12 (0.67%) CSS
12 11 (0.62%) HTML
12 11 (0.62%) OpenID
13 10 (0.56%) ISPF
13 10 (0.56%) LDAP
13 10 (0.56%) pytest
14 9 (0.50%) Django
14 9 (0.50%) Pandas
14 9 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.66%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.77%) Onboarding
3 81 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.86%) CMDB
6 46 (2.58%) Cloud Native
7 45 (2.52%) Virtual Team
8 39 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (2.02%) PMI
10 31 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (1.68%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.68%) PKI
12 24 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.29%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
16 17 (0.95%) NHS
16 17 (0.95%) Security Posture
17 16 (0.90%) Operational Technology
18 15 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 173 (9.70%) Windows
2 70 (3.93%) Linux
3 58 (3.25%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.13%) Unix
5 31 (1.74%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.22%) CentOS
9 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.17%) Android
10 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.11%) VMS
12 1 (0.056%) AIX
12 1 (0.056%) Debian
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.056%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (32.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 460 (25.80%) Agile
3 429 (24.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 396 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
5 347 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 343 (19.24%) ITIL
7 325 (18.23%) Project Management
8 283 (15.87%) Migration
9 240 (13.46%) DevOps
10 209 (11.72%) Project Delivery
11 168 (9.42%) Roadmaps
12 167 (9.37%) ITSM
13 162 (9.09%) ERP
13 162 (9.09%) PRINCE2
14 161 (9.03%) Risk Management
15 156 (8.75%) Service Management
16 154 (8.64%) Decision-Making
17 147 (8.24%) Validation
18 143 (8.02%) Workshop Facilitation
19 140 (7.85%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 168 (9.42%) SQL
2 131 (7.35%) Python
3 103 (5.78%) PowerShell
4 45 (2.52%) C#
5 42 (2.36%) Bash
6 28 (1.57%) Java
6 28 (1.57%) PL/SQL
7 21 (1.18%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.12%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.84%) Go
10 14 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.67%) COBOL
12 11 (0.62%) JCL
13 10 (0.56%) CLIST
13 10 (0.56%) REXX
14 8 (0.45%) Korn
15 7 (0.39%) Groovy
16 5 (0.28%) ABAP
16 5 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 355 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 278 (15.59%) Degree
3 246 (13.80%) SC Cleared
4 116 (6.51%) PMI Certification
5 107 (6.00%) PMP
6 52 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.69%) Master's Degree
8 47 (2.64%) CISSP
9 45 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (2.13%) CISM
11 29 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 28 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (1.51%) CCNP
14 24 (1.35%) APMG
15 21 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
16 19 (1.07%) Azure Certification
17 15 (0.84%) MBA
18 13 (0.73%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.61%) QA
2 87 (4.88%) GDPR
3 84 (4.71%) Data Quality
4 82 (4.60%) PMO
5 63 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (3.25%) SLA
7 35 (1.96%) NIST
8 25 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.95%) IFRS
11 15 (0.84%) IFRS 17
12 10 (0.56%) Basel III
12 10 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.56%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.45%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.45%) GRC
13 8 (0.45%) MiFID
13 8 (0.45%) NCSC
14 5 (0.28%) EMIR
14 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 114 (6.39%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.65%) Docker
3 42 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.56%) ACF2
6 10 (0.56%) RACF
6 10 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
6 10 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.50%) Firmware
7 9 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) KVM
9 5 (0.28%) vSphere
9 5 (0.28%) XenApp
9 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.17%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 87 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.65%) Terraform
3 58 (3.25%) Ansible
4 37 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.63%) Grafana
5 29 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.35%) SCCM
7 14 (0.79%) FortiGate
7 14 (0.79%) vCenter Server
8 12 (0.67%) Puppet
9 10 (0.56%) CA Endevor
9 10 (0.56%) Kibana
10 9 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
10 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 8 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.45%) SCOM
12 6 (0.34%) CASB
12 6 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
13 5 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 302 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 166 (9.31%) SAP
3 164 (9.20%) ServiceNow
4 127 (7.12%) Oracle
5 70 (3.93%) Google
6 69 (3.87%) Cisco
7 68 (3.81%) Salesforce
8 63 (3.53%) VMware
9 35 (1.96%) Citrix
9 35 (1.96%) Workday
10 33 (1.85%) F5
11 31 (1.74%) Splunk
12 23 (1.29%) Juniper
12 23 (1.29%) Palo Alto
13 22 (1.23%) Atlassian
14 21 (1.18%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.07%) CheckPoint
16 17 (0.95%) Remedy
16 17 (0.95%) SolarWinds
17 16 (0.90%) Ariba