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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 44 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,606 1,438 1,942
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.35% 4.46% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 5.04% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,031 799 1,157
10th Percentile £313 £332 £363
25th Percentile £402 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 22 42
10th Percentile £20.70 £19.29 £19.63
25th Percentile £22.16 £28.19 £26.01
Median hourly rate £43.66 £49.04 £41.67
Median % change year-on-year -10.98% +17.70% +29.19%
75th Percentile £45.46 £59.69 £56.05
90th Percentile £61.35 £92.83 £64.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £49.12 £43.33
% change year-on-year -7.46% +13.37% +31.30%

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 32,425 28,554 37,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.87% 88.48% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,478 17,360 24,692
10th Percentile £304 £308 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,006 922 1,534
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.65% -32.42% +55.17%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 1,443 £500 -4.76% 598
UK excluding London +1 896 £475 -5.00% 519
London -12 594 £525 -4.55% 171
Work from Home -21 408 £500 -4.76% 231
North of England -9 274 £450 -13.46% 101
Midlands +12 229 £475 -5.00% 92
South East +6 184 £473 -14.09% 167
North West +6 170 £424 -15.25% 52
West Midlands +3 154 £475 -5.00% 54
South West +19 116 £525 -4.55% 52
Yorkshire -15 101 £487 -11.45% 38
East Midlands +25 75 £402 -2.55% 37
Scotland 0 59 £444 +14.15% 28
East of England -23 43 £520 +15.56% 62
Wales +4 12 £406 - 22
Northern Ireland -6 7 £413 -32.65% 6
North East -24 3 £500 -13.04% 12

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
1 120 (7.47%) Confluence
2 85 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.62%) nginx
5 7 (0.44%) CMS
6 6 (0.37%) HCL Notes
6 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.37%) Mule
6 6 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.31%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.19%) Appian
9 3 (0.19%) Moodle
10 2 (0.12%) FileNet
10 2 (0.12%) JBoss
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.062%) Traefik
Applications
1 92 (5.73%) Microsoft Project
2 91 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 82 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (2.62%) MS Visio
5 40 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 8 (0.50%) Trello
8 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.25%) Windchill
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.062%) InDesign
11 1 (0.062%) Notion
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.062%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 55 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.62%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.44%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.25%) VisionPLUS
10 3 (0.19%) Maximo
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 216 (13.45%) Azure
2 157 (9.78%) AWS
3 108 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
4 105 (6.54%) GCP
5 89 (5.54%) Power Platform
6 44 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (2.68%) SaaS
8 34 (2.12%) Entra ID
8 34 (2.12%) Serverless
9 26 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.56%) AWS KMS
11 24 (1.49%) GitHub
12 22 (1.37%) Amazon S3
13 20 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (1.18%) PaaS
15 18 (1.12%) Power Automate
15 18 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
16 17 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 96 (5.98%) Firewall
2 77 (4.79%) DNS
3 59 (3.67%) Network Security
4 43 (2.68%) VPN
5 40 (2.49%) WAN
6 28 (1.74%) SSH
7 26 (1.62%) SSL
8 25 (1.56%) LAN
9 24 (1.49%) HTTP
10 22 (1.37%) TCP/IP
11 21 (1.31%) DHCP
12 18 (1.12%) SMTP
13 17 (1.06%) SD-WAN
13 17 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (1.00%) FTP
14 16 (1.00%) SAN
15 15 (0.93%) IPsec
15 15 (0.93%) Wireless
16 14 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 14 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.67%) Power BI
2 37 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (2.24%) SQL Server
4 25 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 24 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (1.49%) Metadata
5 24 (1.49%) Tableau
6 18 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 13 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.44%) MySQL
10 7 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.31%) Big Data
13 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.25%) Redis
14 3 (0.19%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 193 (12.02%) JIRA
2 74 (4.61%) Jenkins
3 33 (2.05%) Liquibase
4 31 (1.93%) Git
5 30 (1.87%) GitLab
6 16 (1.00%) Vagrant
7 9 (0.56%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.37%) JUnit
11 5 (0.31%) Mockito
12 4 (0.25%) ChangeMan
12 4 (0.25%) MSI
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.19%) InstallShield
13 3 (0.19%) MLflow
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
14 2 (0.12%) git-flow
14 2 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 716 (44.58%) Social Skills
2 507 (31.57%) Finance
3 304 (18.93%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (10.59%) Banking
5 162 (10.09%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
7 60 (3.74%) Manufacturing
8 45 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 43 (2.68%) Legal
10 41 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 41 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
12 38 (2.37%) Retail
13 35 (2.18%) Financial Institution
14 32 (1.99%) Local Government
15 31 (1.93%) Marketing
16 25 (1.56%) Law
17 24 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (1.06%) Investment Banking
19 15 (0.93%) Billing
Job Titles
1 235 (14.63%) Analyst
2 202 (12.58%) Project Manager
3 170 (10.59%) Lead
4 133 (8.28%) Change Manager
5 130 (8.09%) Business Analyst
6 100 (6.23%) Senior
7 99 (6.16%) Consultant
8 53 (3.30%) Developer
9 48 (2.99%) Architect
10 47 (2.93%) Administrator
11 44 (2.74%) Programme Manager
11 44 (2.74%) Senior Manager
12 42 (2.62%) IT Manager
13 41 (2.55%) Business Manager
14 36 (2.24%) Service Manager
15 33 (2.05%) AWS Engineer
16 31 (1.93%) DevOps Engineer
16 31 (1.93%) SAP Manager
17 30 (1.87%) Business Change Manager
18 26 (1.62%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.42%) REST
2 42 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
3 31 (1.93%) RESTful
4 24 (1.49%) .NET
4 24 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
5 17 (1.06%) SAML
6 16 (1.00%) LDAP
7 13 (0.81%) Middleware
7 13 (0.81%) OAuth
8 12 (0.75%) .NET Framework
8 12 (0.75%) HTML
9 11 (0.68%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.68%) OpenID
10 8 (0.50%) CSS
10 8 (0.50%) ISPF
10 8 (0.50%) Kafka
10 8 (0.50%) SOAP
11 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.44%) XML
12 5 (0.31%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.48%) Management Information System
2 86 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 65 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 51 (3.18%) Cloud Native
5 50 (3.11%) CMDB
6 46 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 40 (2.49%) Virtual Team
8 36 (2.24%) PKI
9 34 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
11 30 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 27 (1.68%) Replication
14 26 (1.62%) PMI
15 23 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
16 22 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
17 21 (1.31%) Life Science
18 20 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
19 16 (1.00%) NHS
20 15 (0.93%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 166 (10.34%) Windows
2 98 (6.10%) Linux
3 42 (2.62%) Unix
4 41 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.81%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.18%) VMS
7 16 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
8 13 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 12 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.25%) zOS
13 3 (0.19%) CentOS
13 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.12%) AIX
14 2 (0.12%) Android
14 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.062%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.062%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (29.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 431 (26.84%) Agile
3 366 (22.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 339 (21.11%) Project Management
5 336 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
6 327 (20.36%) ITIL
7 252 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 220 (13.70%) DevOps
9 209 (13.01%) Migration
10 200 (12.45%) Project Delivery
11 161 (10.02%) Service Management
12 159 (9.90%) PRINCE2
13 156 (9.71%) ITSM
14 137 (8.53%) Roadmaps
15 133 (8.28%) Decision-Making
16 128 (7.97%) CI/CD
16 128 (7.97%) ERP
17 118 (7.35%) Risk Management
18 114 (7.10%) Service Delivery
19 113 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 148 (9.22%) Python
2 134 (8.34%) SQL
3 100 (6.23%) PowerShell
4 36 (2.24%) Bash
4 36 (2.24%) Java
5 32 (1.99%) Go
6 27 (1.68%) C#
7 21 (1.31%) Groovy
8 19 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.06%) JavaScript
10 13 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.62%) COBOL
13 9 (0.56%) Korn
13 9 (0.56%) Perl
14 8 (0.50%) CLIST
14 8 (0.50%) JCL
14 8 (0.50%) REXX
15 7 (0.44%) C++
16 4 (0.25%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 311 (19.36%) Security Cleared
2 296 (18.43%) Degree
3 218 (13.57%) SC Cleared
4 107 (6.66%) PMI Certification
5 95 (5.92%) PMP
6 67 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (3.92%) Master's Degree
8 41 (2.55%) DV Cleared
9 38 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 23 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
13 22 (1.37%) AWS Certification
14 21 (1.31%) APMG
15 20 (1.25%) CISSP
16 19 (1.18%) Azure Certification
17 18 (1.12%) CISM
18 14 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 13 (0.81%) MBA
20 12 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (5.73%) QA
2 79 (4.92%) PMO
3 53 (3.30%) GDPR
4 50 (3.11%) Data Quality
5 39 (2.43%) SLA
6 31 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.18%) NIST
8 15 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.68%) IFRS
11 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.50%) Basel III
13 8 (0.50%) MiFID
14 7 (0.44%) GRC
14 7 (0.44%) IFRS 17
15 6 (0.37%) NCSC
16 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.31%) EMIR
16 5 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 95 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.48%) Docker
3 25 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.00%) DFS Replication
4 16 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.87%) Firmware
6 10 (0.62%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.62%) Postfix
6 10 (0.62%) Squid
7 8 (0.50%) ACF2
7 8 (0.50%) RACF
7 8 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
7 8 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.19%) NFS
9 3 (0.19%) XenApp
9 3 (0.19%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 83 (5.17%) Terraform
2 81 (5.04%) Kubernetes
3 58 (3.61%) Ansible
4 56 (3.49%) Grafana
5 55 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.30%) SCCM
7 29 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.87%) Puppet
9 13 (0.81%) SCOM
10 12 (0.75%) CA Endevor
10 12 (0.75%) Kibana
11 11 (0.68%) Nessus
12 10 (0.62%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.56%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.44%) Tivoli
14 7 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.37%) HP SiteScope
16 5 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 305 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 149 (9.28%) SAP
3 140 (8.72%) ServiceNow
4 106 (6.60%) Oracle
5 66 (4.11%) Google
6 59 (3.67%) Salesforce
7 58 (3.61%) Cisco
8 52 (3.24%) Splunk
9 43 (2.68%) VMware
10 31 (1.93%) F5
11 28 (1.74%) Workday
12 23 (1.43%) Atlassian
12 23 (1.43%) CheckPoint
13 22 (1.37%) Juniper
13 22 (1.37%) Remedy
14 21 (1.31%) Citrix
15 18 (1.12%) IBM
16 16 (1.00%) Adobe
16 16 (1.00%) Fortinet
16 16 (1.00%) Red Hat