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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 41 41
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 +15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,460 1,651 2,273
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.39% 4.39% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 5.10% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 848 1,380
10th Percentile £325 £332 £363
25th Percentile £403 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £704 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 44 43
10th Percentile £20.36 £24.43 £19.90
25th Percentile £22.16 £33.52 £24.09
Median hourly rate £25.15 £55.87 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +28.95% +33.32%
75th Percentile £50.19 £61.60 £55.48
90th Percentile £70.29 £68.80 £62.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.95 £56.75 £43.33
% change year-on-year -57.80% +30.96% +33.32%

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 30,120 32,351 42,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.53% 86.01% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,720 19,487 28,729
10th Percentile £296 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,911 1,239 1,585
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%
75th Percentile £42.79 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -44.34% -8.88% +65.99%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 1,283 £500 -4.76% 870
UK excluding London -4 790 £475 -5.00% 711
London -1 568 £550 -4.35% 320
Work from Home -25 384 £500 -4.76% 411
North of England -17 225 £450 -14.29% 169
Midlands +22 194 £475 -2.91% 79
South East -3 151 £488 -2.40% 277
West Midlands +18 149 £475 -5.00% 44
North West -5 133 £450 -13.88% 107
South West +24 96 £525 -4.55% 94
Yorkshire -25 88 £466 -15.27% 50
Scotland -7 65 £450 -7.69% 26
East Midlands +20 45 £425 +19.72% 34
East of England -9 42 £525 +6.60% 51
Northern Ireland +6 20 £525 +208.82% 10
Wales +3 10 £415 +3.63% 13
North East -14 2 £450 -5.26% 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
1 120 (8.22%) Confluence
2 67 (4.59%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.82%) nginx
5 8 (0.55%) CMS
6 7 (0.48%) IIS
7 6 (0.41%) JBoss
7 6 (0.41%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.41%) Mule
7 6 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.34%) HCL Notes
9 4 (0.27%) CICS
10 2 (0.14%) FileNet
10 2 (0.14%) Moodle
11 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.068%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle UPK
11 1 (0.068%) Traefik
Applications
1 97 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (4.86%) Microsoft Project
4 42 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 40 (2.74%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.48%) Trello
8 5 (0.34%) Windchill
9 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.068%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.068%) Notion
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.068%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 55 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.41%) SAP MDG
5 6 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.34%) SAP APO
6 5 (0.34%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.27%) Maximo
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.27%) SAP PLM
7 4 (0.27%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.27%) SAP VC
7 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 130 (8.90%) AWS
2 124 (8.49%) Azure
3 84 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (5.00%) GCP
5 66 (4.52%) Power Platform
6 40 (2.74%) SaaS
7 34 (2.33%) AWS KMS
8 33 (2.26%) Amazon S3
9 29 (1.99%) Serverless
10 27 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 26 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 26 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (1.78%) Entra ID
12 25 (1.71%) Amazon ELB
13 23 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (1.58%) GitHub
14 17 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (0.96%) Route 53
17 13 (0.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 95 (6.51%) Firewall
2 64 (4.38%) DNS
3 46 (3.15%) Network Security
4 34 (2.33%) SSH
4 34 (2.33%) WAN
5 31 (2.12%) VPN
6 30 (2.05%) HTTP
7 26 (1.78%) SMTP
8 23 (1.58%) FTP
9 21 (1.44%) LAN
9 21 (1.44%) Wireless
10 20 (1.37%) DHCP
11 15 (1.03%) SSL
12 14 (0.96%) BGP
12 14 (0.96%) IPsec
12 14 (0.96%) OSPF
13 12 (0.82%) IMAP
13 12 (0.82%) OpenLDAP
13 12 (0.82%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.90%) Power BI
2 32 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (1.99%) NoSQL
4 23 (1.58%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.37%) Metadata
6 18 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (1.16%) Oracle Database
8 16 (1.10%) Tableau
9 13 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.62%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.41%) MySQL
12 6 (0.41%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.34%) Big Data
14 4 (0.27%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 179 (12.26%) JIRA
2 85 (5.82%) Jenkins
3 43 (2.95%) Git
4 29 (1.99%) GitLab
5 27 (1.85%) Liquibase
6 25 (1.71%) Vagrant
7 15 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.68%) MSI
9 7 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.27%) ChangeMan
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (0.21%) CA Release Automation
12 3 (0.21%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.21%) Selenium
13 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 586 (40.14%) Social Skills
2 514 (35.21%) Finance
3 232 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (11.23%) Banking
5 128 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.86%) Manufacturing
7 55 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
7 55 (3.77%) Legal
8 50 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
9 47 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (3.08%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.60%) Financial Institution
11 38 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
12 35 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (2.40%) Law
13 33 (2.26%) Marketing
14 31 (2.12%) Retail
15 29 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.23%) Front Office
17 16 (1.10%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 260 (17.81%) Analyst
2 185 (12.67%) Project Manager
3 136 (9.32%) Business Analyst
4 128 (8.77%) Lead
5 97 (6.64%) Consultant
6 90 (6.16%) Change Manager
7 86 (5.89%) Senior
8 59 (4.04%) Administrator
9 54 (3.70%) IT Manager
10 50 (3.42%) Developer
10 50 (3.42%) Programme Manager
11 42 (2.88%) Architect
12 41 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
13 40 (2.74%) Service Manager
14 36 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
15 35 (2.40%) Senior Manager
16 34 (2.33%) Delivery Manager
17 31 (2.12%) SAP Manager
18 30 (2.05%) Service Analyst
19 28 (1.92%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
2 36 (2.47%) REST
3 28 (1.92%) RESTful
4 21 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 19 (1.30%) .NET
6 17 (1.16%) LDAP
7 14 (0.96%) HTML
8 10 (0.68%) 802.1X
8 10 (0.68%) SOAP
9 9 (0.62%) CSS
10 7 (0.48%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.48%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.48%) Kafka
10 7 (0.48%) Middleware
10 7 (0.48%) Web Services
11 6 (0.41%) OAuth
11 6 (0.41%) React
11 6 (0.41%) SAML
11 6 (0.41%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.34%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.79%) Management Information System
2 59 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.90%) Data Centre
4 47 (3.22%) Product Ownership
5 39 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (2.47%) Cloud Native
7 33 (2.26%) CMDB
7 33 (2.26%) Life Science
8 29 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.99%) Public Cloud
9 28 (1.92%) Replication
10 27 (1.85%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.58%) PKI
13 22 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
15 13 (0.89%) Data Structures
15 13 (0.89%) Operational Technology
16 12 (0.82%) Tandem
17 11 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 137 (9.38%) Windows
2 103 (7.05%) Linux
3 37 (2.53%) Unix
4 26 (1.78%) VMS
5 24 (1.64%) Amazon Linux
6 23 (1.58%) Windows Server
7 19 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.96%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.27%) CentOS
9 4 (0.27%) zOS
10 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.068%) AIX
11 1 (0.068%) Android
11 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.068%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.068%) Solaris
11 1 (0.068%) SUSE
11 1 (0.068%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (25.82%) Agile
2 360 (24.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 309 (21.16%) Project Management
4 287 (19.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 285 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
6 221 (15.14%) ITIL
7 198 (13.56%) Migration
8 184 (12.60%) Project Delivery
9 164 (11.23%) DevOps
10 159 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 138 (9.45%) Risk Management
12 134 (9.18%) Service Management
13 116 (7.95%) ERP
14 115 (7.88%) Decision-Making
15 112 (7.67%) PRINCE2
15 112 (7.67%) Roadmaps
16 107 (7.33%) CI/CD
17 97 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
18 96 (6.58%) Process Improvement
18 96 (6.58%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 131 (8.97%) Python
2 109 (7.47%) SQL
3 76 (5.21%) PowerShell
4 52 (3.56%) Java
5 34 (2.33%) C#
6 33 (2.26%) Go
7 28 (1.92%) JavaScript
8 27 (1.85%) Groovy
9 17 (1.16%) Perl
10 16 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 12 (0.82%) Bash
12 9 (0.62%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.48%) VB
14 5 (0.34%) ABAP
14 5 (0.34%) PromQL
14 5 (0.34%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.27%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.27%) Korn
15 4 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 254 (17.40%) Degree
2 234 (16.03%) Security Cleared
3 163 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 79 (5.41%) PMP
5 77 (5.27%) PMI Certification
6 66 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (3.36%) Master's Degree
8 36 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.19%) DV Cleared
10 26 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.64%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (0.96%) APMG
15 13 (0.89%) CBAP
16 12 (0.82%) Azure Certification
17 11 (0.75%) CCNP
18 10 (0.68%) CCNA
18 10 (0.68%) CISSP
18 10 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (4.79%) QA
2 63 (4.32%) PMO
3 52 (3.56%) GDPR
4 36 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 34 (2.33%) SLA
6 29 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.44%) NIST
8 17 (1.16%) MiFID
9 16 (1.10%) PCI DSS
10 15 (1.03%) EMIR
11 14 (0.96%) Accessibility
12 13 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.68%) NCSC
14 7 (0.48%) GRC
14 7 (0.48%) GxP
15 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.34%) IFRS
16 4 (0.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 80 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 61 (4.18%) Docker
3 22 (1.51%) DFS Replication
4 17 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.82%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.82%) Postfix
5 12 (0.82%) Squid
6 9 (0.62%) Firmware
6 9 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.34%) vSphere
8 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.068%) NFS
10 1 (0.068%) Snort
10 1 (0.068%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.068%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 70 (4.79%) Terraform
2 66 (4.52%) Grafana
3 61 (4.18%) Prometheus
4 54 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 44 (3.01%) Ansible
6 30 (2.05%) SCCM
7 18 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.89%) Nessus
9 10 (0.68%) Kibana
9 10 (0.68%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (0.62%) SCOM
11 8 (0.55%) Puppet
12 6 (0.41%) HP SiteScope
13 5 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
13 5 (0.34%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.27%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 300 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 151 (10.34%) SAP
3 115 (7.88%) ServiceNow
4 82 (5.62%) Oracle
5 60 (4.11%) Cisco
6 55 (3.77%) Splunk
7 47 (3.22%) Google
7 47 (3.22%) Salesforce
8 31 (2.12%) VMware
9 29 (1.99%) Juniper
10 28 (1.92%) Remedy
11 21 (1.44%) F5
12 20 (1.37%) IBM
13 18 (1.23%) CheckPoint
13 18 (1.23%) Workday
14 15 (1.03%) Ariba
15 14 (0.96%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.96%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.82%) Jaspersoft
16 12 (0.82%) Red Hat