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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 43 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,587 1,609 2,198
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.44% 4.36% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 5.03% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 848 1,358
10th Percentile £313 £349 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 28 42
10th Percentile £20.70 £22.78 £20.89
25th Percentile £22.51 £28.88 £23.76
Median hourly rate £30.00 £42.79 £39.02
Median % change year-on-year -29.89% +9.66% +11.49%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.66 £55.11
90th Percentile £66.20 £84.28 £62.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.71% +18.57% -

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 31,979 31,998 41,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.50% 86.61% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,013 19,257 27,677
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,115 1,171 1,588
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -22.46% +25.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +48.33%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 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 November 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 -6 1,410 £500 -4.76% 605
UK excluding London +4 881 £475 -5.00% 505
London -8 601 £535 -2.73% 202
Work from Home -18 419 £500 -4.76% 254
North of England -13 256 £450 -14.29% 125
Midlands +17 206 £475 -9.52% 74
South East +8 186 £500 -4.31% 180
North West -2 172 £437 -16.12% 71
West Midlands +8 151 £475 -9.52% 37
South West +27 112 £529 -1.17% 46
Yorkshire -32 80 £500 -5.21% 42
Scotland +2 69 £450 +12.50% 28
East Midlands +30 55 £425 - 35
East of England -15 40 £525 +10.53% 48
Northern Ireland -1 14 £475 +179.41% 6
Wales -1 13 £413 +3.13% 9
North East -18 3 £475 -17.39% 14
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 132 (8.32%) Confluence
2 80 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.76%) nginx
5 9 (0.57%) CMS
6 6 (0.38%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.38%) IIS
6 6 (0.38%) JBoss
6 6 (0.38%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.38%) Mule
6 6 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.25%) CICS
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.13%) FileNet
8 2 (0.13%) Moodle
9 1 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.063%) Traefik
9 1 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 107 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (6.18%) Microsoft Office
3 84 (5.29%) Microsoft Project
4 42 (2.65%) MS Visio
5 41 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 8 (0.50%) Trello
8 7 (0.44%) Windchill
9 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.063%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.063%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.063%) InDesign
11 1 (0.063%) Notion
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.063%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 58 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
3 11 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.32%) Maximo
6 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.32%) SAP APO
6 5 (0.32%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.32%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.25%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 165 (10.40%) Azure
2 147 (9.26%) AWS
3 102 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (5.73%) GCP
5 77 (4.85%) Power Platform
6 53 (3.34%) SaaS
7 38 (2.39%) Serverless
8 36 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.14%) AWS KMS
10 31 (1.95%) Amazon S3
11 26 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (1.64%) Entra ID
11 26 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 25 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (1.51%) Amazon ELB
14 20 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
14 20 (1.26%) GitHub
15 18 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
16 17 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
17 14 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 102 (6.43%) Firewall
2 76 (4.79%) DNS
3 56 (3.53%) Network Security
4 41 (2.58%) WAN
5 34 (2.14%) SSH
6 33 (2.08%) VPN
7 29 (1.83%) HTTP
8 26 (1.64%) LAN
8 26 (1.64%) SMTP
9 23 (1.45%) FTP
10 22 (1.39%) DHCP
11 21 (1.32%) Wireless
12 17 (1.07%) SD-WAN
13 15 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
13 15 (0.95%) SSL
14 14 (0.88%) TCP/IP
15 13 (0.82%) BGP
15 13 (0.82%) IPsec
15 13 (0.82%) OSPF
16 12 (0.76%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.03%) Power BI
2 40 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.70%) NoSQL
6 24 (1.51%) Metadata
7 20 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 17 (1.07%) Oracle Database
8 17 (1.07%) Tableau
9 10 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
10 8 (0.50%) MySQL
10 8 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.38%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.32%) Big Data
13 5 (0.32%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 200 (12.60%) JIRA
2 87 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 46 (2.90%) Git
4 35 (2.21%) Liquibase
5 30 (1.89%) GitLab
6 24 (1.51%) Vagrant
7 14 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.38%) JUnit
9 6 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.32%) Mockito
10 5 (0.32%) MSI
11 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 685 (43.16%) Social Skills
2 534 (33.65%) Finance
3 279 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (10.27%) Banking
5 140 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 77 (4.85%) Manufacturing
7 69 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
8 52 (3.28%) Legal
9 51 (3.21%) Telecoms
10 49 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
11 42 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
12 39 (2.46%) Financial Institution
13 37 (2.33%) Retail
14 36 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 32 (2.02%) Law
15 32 (2.02%) Marketing
16 27 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 26 (1.64%) Local Government
18 19 (1.20%) Billing
Job Titles
1 266 (16.76%) Analyst
2 204 (12.85%) Project Manager
3 160 (10.08%) Lead
4 139 (8.76%) Business Analyst
5 106 (6.68%) Change Manager
6 103 (6.49%) Consultant
7 89 (5.61%) Senior
8 60 (3.78%) Administrator
9 56 (3.53%) Developer
10 51 (3.21%) IT Manager
10 51 (3.21%) Programme Manager
11 44 (2.77%) Architect
12 42 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
13 41 (2.58%) Service Manager
14 37 (2.33%) Senior Manager
15 36 (2.27%) AWS Engineer
16 34 (2.14%) SAP Manager
17 33 (2.08%) Business Manager
18 31 (1.95%) Service Analyst
19 30 (1.89%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.21%) REST
2 42 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (2.08%) RESTful
4 24 (1.51%) .NET
4 24 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
5 17 (1.07%) LDAP
6 14 (0.88%) SAML
7 12 (0.76%) HTML
8 11 (0.69%) .NET Framework
9 10 (0.63%) 802.1X
9 10 (0.63%) OAuth
9 10 (0.63%) OpenID
10 9 (0.57%) CSS
10 9 (0.57%) SOAP
11 8 (0.50%) ISPF
11 8 (0.50%) Kafka
12 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.44%) XML
13 6 (0.38%) Spring Boot
14 5 (0.32%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.48%) Management Information System
2 80 (5.04%) Onboarding
3 47 (2.96%) Product Ownership
3 47 (2.96%) Virtual Team
4 45 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.77%) Cloud Native
6 39 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (2.08%) Replication
9 31 (1.95%) PKI
9 31 (1.95%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.89%) CMDB
10 30 (1.89%) Life Science
11 29 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.07%) NHS
14 17 (1.07%) PMI
15 14 (0.88%) Mainframe
16 13 (0.82%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 159 (10.02%) Windows
2 110 (6.93%) Linux
3 38 (2.39%) Unix
4 32 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.64%) VMS
6 24 (1.51%) Amazon Linux
7 22 (1.39%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.95%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.38%) CentOS
11 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.25%) zOS
12 2 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.13%) Android
12 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.063%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.063%) Debian
13 1 (0.063%) Solaris
13 1 (0.063%) SUSE
13 1 (0.063%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (27.79%) Agile
2 408 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 354 (22.31%) Project Management
4 349 (21.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 325 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
6 293 (18.46%) ITIL
7 225 (14.18%) Project Delivery
8 214 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 205 (12.92%) DevOps
10 201 (12.67%) Migration
11 170 (10.71%) Service Management
12 156 (9.83%) PRINCE2
13 136 (8.57%) ITSM
14 134 (8.44%) Risk Management
15 128 (8.07%) Roadmaps
16 127 (8.00%) Decision-Making
16 127 (8.00%) ERP
17 124 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
18 123 (7.75%) CI/CD
19 110 (6.93%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 143 (9.01%) Python
2 128 (8.07%) SQL
3 91 (5.73%) PowerShell
4 56 (3.53%) Java
5 35 (2.21%) Go
6 33 (2.08%) C#
7 28 (1.76%) Groovy
8 24 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.26%) Perl
9 20 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.13%) Bash
11 10 (0.63%) COBOL
11 10 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.57%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.50%) CLIST
13 8 (0.50%) JCL
13 8 (0.50%) REXX
14 7 (0.44%) Korn
15 6 (0.38%) ABAP
16 5 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 296 (18.65%) Degree
2 275 (17.33%) Security Cleared
3 203 (12.79%) SC Cleared
4 99 (6.24%) PMI Certification
5 92 (5.80%) PMP
6 74 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (3.34%) Master's Degree
8 40 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.14%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
12 25 (1.58%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
15 18 (1.13%) APMG
16 15 (0.95%) CCNP
17 14 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 13 (0.82%) Azure Certification
19 12 (0.76%) CCNA
20 11 (0.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.23%) QA
2 75 (4.73%) PMO
3 52 (3.28%) GDPR
4 40 (2.52%) SLA
5 39 (2.46%) Data Quality
6 29 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.20%) NIST
8 14 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.82%) MiFID
9 13 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.63%) EMIR
10 10 (0.63%) NCSC
11 9 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.38%) GRC
13 5 (0.32%) GxP
13 5 (0.32%) HL7
13 5 (0.32%) IFRS
13 5 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 93 (5.86%) Active Directory
2 69 (4.35%) Docker
3 22 (1.39%) DFS Replication
4 19 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.76%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.76%) Postfix
5 12 (0.76%) Squid
6 10 (0.63%) Firmware
7 8 (0.50%) ACF2
7 8 (0.50%) RACF
7 8 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.38%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.19%) vSphere
11 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.063%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 77 (4.85%) Terraform
2 59 (3.72%) Grafana
3 58 (3.65%) Prometheus
4 56 (3.53%) Kubernetes
5 44 (2.77%) Ansible
6 28 (1.76%) SCCM
7 19 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.82%) Nessus
9 12 (0.76%) CA Endevor
10 10 (0.63%) Kibana
10 10 (0.63%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.63%) SCOM
11 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.44%) Puppet
11 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
11 7 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 6 (0.38%) HP SiteScope
12 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 321 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 163 (10.27%) SAP
3 129 (8.13%) ServiceNow
4 102 (6.43%) Oracle
5 63 (3.97%) Cisco
6 58 (3.65%) Google
7 53 (3.34%) Salesforce
8 49 (3.09%) Splunk
9 35 (2.21%) VMware
10 28 (1.76%) Remedy
10 28 (1.76%) Workday
11 25 (1.58%) Atlassian
11 25 (1.58%) F5
12 24 (1.51%) Juniper
13 20 (1.26%) CheckPoint
13 20 (1.26%) IBM
14 18 (1.13%) Fortinet
15 16 (1.01%) Ariba
15 16 (1.01%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.95%) Citrix