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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 47 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,734 1,285 1,920
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.05% 4.36% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 4.83% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 789 1,160
10th Percentile £313 £319 £350
25th Percentile £409 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.42%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.62% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 32 61
10th Percentile £21.05 £27.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £34.19 £25.25
Median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +52.62% -19.17%
75th Percentile £47.93 £70.63 £59.50
90th Percentile £83.53 £86.35 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.97 £57.12 £37.18
% change year-on-year -38.78% +53.64% -20.98%

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 36,854 26,627 38,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 90.37% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,339 16,995 25,088
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,197 898 2,338
10th Percentile £14.82 £15.48 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.36 £32.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -15.82% +3.17% -10.00%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -6 1,545 £500 -4.76% 543
UK excluding London -3 950 £487 -1.62% 430
London -16 638 £525 - 207
Work from Home -8 498 £525 +2.94% 208
North of England -12 290 £465 +1.92% 98
Midlands +5 235 £500 -0.05% 79
South East +11 209 £500 - 153
North West +2 190 £414 -8.00% 48
West Midlands -6 159 £508 +1.20% 54
South West +15 112 £525 +0.48% 36
Yorkshire -28 95 £488 -2.50% 36
East Midlands +17 75 £425 +34.07% 25
Scotland -3 59 £450 +17.65% 28
East of England -23 58 £475 -4.90% 37
Wales 0 13 £433 -27.83% 7
Northern Ireland -5 5 £450 -25.00% 6
North East -21 5 £450 -21.74% 15

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
1 113 (6.52%) Confluence
2 74 (4.27%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.58%) SAS
5 9 (0.52%) Appian
6 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.29%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.29%) IIS
8 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.23%) CMS
9 3 (0.17%) Moodle
10 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.058%) CICS
10 1 (0.058%) JBoss
10 1 (0.058%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 99 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
2 79 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 38 (2.19%) MS Visio
5 35 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.29%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.23%) Trello
8 4 (0.23%) Windchill
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.058%) InDesign
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 75 (4.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 11 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.29%) Finacle
6 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.23%) Primavera
8 3 (0.17%) iTrent
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 278 (16.03%) Azure
2 153 (8.82%) AWS
3 106 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
4 101 (5.82%) GCP
5 89 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 68 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (3.34%) Entra ID
8 50 (2.88%) SaaS
9 27 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (1.38%) Power Automate
10 24 (1.38%) Serverless
11 23 (1.33%) PaaS
12 21 (1.21%) Google Workspace
12 21 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (1.15%) GitHub
14 19 (1.10%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.10%) IaaS
14 19 (1.10%) OpenShift
15 18 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (0.87%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (6.00%) Firewall
2 65 (3.75%) Network Security
3 61 (3.52%) DNS
4 58 (3.34%) WAN
5 49 (2.83%) LAN
5 49 (2.83%) VPN
6 33 (1.90%) SD-WAN
7 30 (1.73%) BGP
8 27 (1.56%) OSPF
8 27 (1.56%) TCP/IP
9 26 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.38%) DHCP
11 21 (1.21%) MPLS
12 20 (1.15%) SSL
13 17 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 17 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 16 (0.92%) SAN
15 15 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (0.87%) HTTP
16 14 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.27%) Power BI
2 49 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.56%) Metadata
4 26 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.10%) Tableau
6 16 (0.92%) Oracle Database
7 15 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
8 13 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (0.63%) MySQL
11 10 (0.58%) Big Data
11 10 (0.58%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.46%) Pinecone
12 8 (0.46%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
14 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 206 (11.88%) JIRA
2 50 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.42%) Git
4 21 (1.21%) GitLab
4 21 (1.21%) Liquibase
5 12 (0.69%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.46%) MLflow
7 7 (0.40%) JUnit
8 5 (0.29%) Mockito
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.12%) git-flow
11 2 (0.12%) MSI
11 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.058%) GCC
12 1 (0.058%) Hudson
12 1 (0.058%) SoapUI
General
1 748 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 552 (31.83%) Finance
3 320 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (9.75%) Public Sector
5 146 (8.42%) Banking
6 74 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
7 66 (3.81%) Legal
8 57 (3.29%) Retail
9 54 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (2.88%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.25%) Local Government
13 38 (2.19%) Telecoms
14 35 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
15 34 (1.96%) Law
16 31 (1.79%) Marketing
17 28 (1.61%) Financial Institution
18 21 (1.21%) Investment Banking
19 17 (0.98%) Aviation
19 17 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 228 (13.15%) Project Manager
2 214 (12.34%) Analyst
3 182 (10.50%) Lead
4 141 (8.13%) Change Manager
5 124 (7.15%) Business Analyst
6 122 (7.04%) Senior
7 110 (6.34%) Consultant
8 60 (3.46%) Programme Manager
9 57 (3.29%) Developer
10 56 (3.23%) Business Manager
11 54 (3.11%) Administrator
12 51 (2.94%) Architect
13 46 (2.65%) Senior Manager
14 40 (2.31%) Network Engineer
15 39 (2.25%) Business Change Manager
15 39 (2.25%) IT Manager
16 38 (2.19%) SAP Manager
17 34 (1.96%) Service Manager
18 33 (1.90%) Delivery Manager
19 28 (1.61%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.58%) REST
2 31 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (1.67%) .NET
4 27 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (1.33%) RESTful
6 21 (1.21%) .NET Framework
7 20 (1.15%) OAuth
8 17 (0.98%) SAML
9 16 (0.92%) Middleware
10 15 (0.87%) Web Services
11 12 (0.69%) CSS
11 12 (0.69%) OpenID
11 12 (0.69%) SOAP
12 11 (0.63%) HTML
12 11 (0.63%) LDAP
13 10 (0.58%) ISPF
13 10 (0.58%) pytest
14 9 (0.52%) NumPy
14 9 (0.52%) Pandas
14 9 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 91 (5.25%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.58%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.94%) CMDB
6 48 (2.77%) Cloud Native
7 47 (2.71%) Virtual Team
8 40 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (1.96%) PMI
10 31 (1.79%) PKI
11 29 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.33%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
16 18 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (0.98%) NHS
17 17 (0.98%) Security Posture
18 16 (0.92%) Operational Technology
19 15 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 167 (9.63%) Windows
2 70 (4.04%) Linux
3 57 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 39 (2.25%) Unix
5 30 (1.73%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.23%) CentOS
9 4 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.17%) Android
11 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 1 (0.058%) Debian
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.058%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.058%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (32.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 445 (25.66%) Agile
3 412 (23.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 381 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
5 336 (19.38%) ITIL
6 329 (18.97%) Project Management
7 324 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 278 (16.03%) Migration
9 236 (13.61%) DevOps
10 200 (11.53%) Project Delivery
11 167 (9.63%) ITSM
12 164 (9.46%) PRINCE2
13 158 (9.11%) ERP
13 158 (9.11%) Risk Management
13 158 (9.11%) Roadmaps
14 151 (8.71%) Service Management
15 147 (8.48%) Decision-Making
16 141 (8.13%) CI/CD
17 140 (8.07%) Validation
18 137 (7.90%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 160 (9.23%) SQL
2 133 (7.67%) Python
3 98 (5.65%) PowerShell
4 43 (2.48%) Bash
5 42 (2.42%) C#
6 30 (1.73%) Java
7 22 (1.27%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.21%) JavaScript
9 18 (1.04%) T-SQL
10 17 (0.98%) Go
11 14 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.69%) COBOL
13 11 (0.63%) JCL
14 10 (0.58%) CLIST
14 10 (0.58%) REXX
15 7 (0.40%) Korn
16 6 (0.35%) Groovy
17 5 (0.29%) ABAP
18 4 (0.23%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 344 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 281 (16.21%) Degree
3 239 (13.78%) SC Cleared
4 117 (6.75%) PMI Certification
5 107 (6.17%) PMP
6 50 (2.88%) Master's Degree
7 48 (2.77%) DV Cleared
8 47 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (2.13%) CISSP
11 30 (1.73%) CISM
12 29 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 28 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
14 25 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (1.21%) APMG
15 21 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
16 20 (1.15%) CCNP
17 17 (0.98%) Azure Certification
18 15 (0.87%) MBA
19 12 (0.69%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.06%) QA
2 84 (4.84%) GDPR
3 82 (4.73%) Data Quality
4 69 (3.98%) PMO
5 59 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (3.29%) SLA
7 30 (1.73%) NIST
8 23 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.04%) IFRS
10 17 (0.98%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.87%) IFRS 17
12 12 (0.69%) Accessibility
13 11 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.58%) Basel III
15 8 (0.46%) GRC
15 8 (0.46%) MiFID
15 8 (0.46%) NCSC
16 7 (0.40%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.29%) EMIR
17 5 (0.29%) RMADS
System Software
1 113 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.86%) Docker
3 38 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.58%) ACF2
5 10 (0.58%) RACF
5 10 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.52%) Firmware
7 8 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.29%) KVM
9 5 (0.29%) vSphere
9 5 (0.29%) XenApp
9 5 (0.29%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.17%) NFS
11 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 89 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.69%) Terraform
3 59 (3.40%) Ansible
4 35 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.67%) Grafana
5 29 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.33%) SCCM
7 14 (0.81%) Puppet
7 14 (0.81%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.75%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.63%) Kibana
10 10 (0.58%) CA Endevor
11 9 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.52%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.46%) SCOM
13 6 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
14 5 (0.29%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 299 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 174 (10.03%) SAP
3 163 (9.40%) ServiceNow
4 118 (6.81%) Oracle
5 72 (4.15%) Google
6 65 (3.75%) Cisco
7 60 (3.46%) Salesforce
8 59 (3.40%) VMware
9 34 (1.96%) Citrix
10 33 (1.90%) Splunk
11 32 (1.85%) Workday
12 31 (1.79%) F5
13 23 (1.33%) Juniper
14 22 (1.27%) Atlassian
15 20 (1.15%) Palo Alto
16 19 (1.10%) Fortinet
17 17 (0.98%) Ariba
17 17 (0.98%) CheckPoint
17 17 (0.98%) Remedy
17 17 (0.98%) SolarWinds