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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,874 1,347 1,780
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.67% 4.41% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 4.85% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,138 813 1,034
10th Percentile £354 £325 £313
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -1.48% -6.71%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £613
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 66 75
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.63 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £29.00 £29.91
Median hourly rate £35.00 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +8.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £74.01 £62.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.20 £70.16 £68.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.54 £44.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.28% -11.50% +6.12%

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 43,435 27,782 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.94% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,037 17,554 23,597
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,605 1,350 2,559
10th Percentile £14.74 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 29 June 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 1,641 £525 +5.00% 520
UK excluding London -15 949 £500 +5.26% 399
London -2 757 £525 -4.55% 211
Work from Home -2 582 £525 +5.00% 202
North of England -17 291 £475 +5.56% 91
South East -2 226 £563 +14.80% 125
Midlands -11 178 £514 +8.16% 73
North West -11 163 £449 +2.05% 59
West Midlands -28 126 £520 +9.47% 46
Yorkshire -22 113 £500 +8.11% 21
Scotland +1 87 £496 +15.14% 17
South West -17 87 £508 +2.53% 56
East of England -5 80 £475 -5.00% 25
East Midlands +18 50 £500 +39.66% 27
North East -23 15 £425 -15.00% 13
Wales -15 11 £575 +53.33% 10
Northern Ireland -14 6 £475 -9.52% 11

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
1 105 (5.60%) Confluence
2 89 (4.75%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.12%) IIS
5 14 (0.75%) SAS
6 13 (0.69%) Appian
7 10 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.37%) CMS
9 6 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.27%) Camunda
11 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.21%) CICS
11 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.16%) Kentico
12 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.053%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.053%) Mattermost
14 1 (0.053%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 62 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (2.93%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.053%) InDesign
9 1 (0.053%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
9 1 (0.053%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 77 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (0.64%) Primavera
4 11 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.53%) Maximo
5 10 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.32%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.27%) Finacle
8 5 (0.27%) OpenText MBPM
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.27%) SAP QM
9 4 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 267 (14.25%) Azure
2 143 (7.63%) AWS
3 108 (5.76%) Power Platform
4 106 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
5 79 (4.22%) Entra ID
6 73 (3.90%) SaaS
7 67 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (3.26%) GCP
9 36 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (1.81%) Google Workspace
11 25 (1.33%) OCI
11 25 (1.33%) Power Automate
12 24 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
14 21 (1.12%) GitHub
15 20 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (1.07%) PaaS
16 19 (1.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 18 (0.96%) Serverless
17 18 (0.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 112 (5.98%) Firewall
2 79 (4.22%) Network Security
3 61 (3.26%) WAN
4 51 (2.72%) DNS
5 48 (2.56%) LAN
6 42 (2.24%) VPN
7 32 (1.71%) BGP
7 32 (1.71%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.65%) MPLS
9 29 (1.55%) OSPF
10 28 (1.49%) TCP/IP
11 27 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (1.33%) Wireless
13 22 (1.17%) Cisco Nexus
13 22 (1.17%) SSL
14 17 (0.91%) DHCP
15 14 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 14 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 14 (0.75%) HTTP
15 14 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (4.64%) Power BI
2 61 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.81%) Metadata
4 29 (1.55%) Oracle Database
5 24 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
6 23 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (0.91%) Tableau
9 13 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.53%) MySQL
11 8 (0.43%) Oracle BI EE
12 7 (0.37%) Db2
13 6 (0.32%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database 11g
13 6 (0.32%) Pinecone
14 5 (0.27%) Big Data
14 5 (0.27%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 231 (12.33%) JIRA
2 70 (3.74%) Git
3 57 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.53%) GitLab
6 7 (0.37%) AdminStudio
6 7 (0.37%) InstallShield
6 7 (0.37%) MLflow
7 4 (0.21%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.21%) Hudson
7 4 (0.21%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.21%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.21%) Maven
8 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (0.16%) Snyk
8 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.11%) MSBuild
General
1 695 (37.09%) Social Skills
2 671 (35.81%) Finance
3 289 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (9.34%) Public Sector
5 158 (8.43%) Banking
6 97 (5.18%) Legal
7 87 (4.64%) Retail
8 67 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (2.88%) Manufacturing
11 51 (2.72%) Marketing
11 51 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
12 50 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (2.24%) Law
14 40 (2.13%) Telecoms
15 38 (2.03%) Local Government
16 24 (1.28%) Aviation
17 23 (1.23%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.23%) Investment Banking
18 18 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 213 (11.37%) Project Manager
2 197 (10.51%) Lead
3 189 (10.09%) Analyst
4 142 (7.58%) Senior
5 141 (7.52%) Change Manager
6 128 (6.83%) Consultant
7 112 (5.98%) Business Analyst
8 70 (3.74%) Administrator
9 67 (3.58%) Programme Manager
10 58 (3.09%) Developer
11 57 (3.04%) Senior Manager
12 56 (2.99%) Network Engineer
13 53 (2.83%) Business Manager
14 48 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
14 48 (2.56%) IT Manager
15 45 (2.40%) Support Engineer
16 42 (2.24%) Architect
17 39 (2.08%) Business Change Manager
17 39 (2.08%) Service Manager
18 32 (1.71%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (3.20%) REST
2 35 (1.87%) .NET
3 30 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.17%) CSS
4 22 (1.17%) OAuth
5 21 (1.12%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.12%) HTML
6 20 (1.07%) Middleware
7 15 (0.80%) Web Services
8 14 (0.75%) LDAP
9 13 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (0.64%) Ajax
10 12 (0.64%) RESTful
10 12 (0.64%) Spring
11 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
11 11 (0.59%) React
12 10 (0.53%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.53%) SOAP
13 9 (0.48%) JSON
13 9 (0.48%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.02%) Management Information System
2 79 (4.22%) Product Ownership
3 78 (4.16%) Data Centre
4 73 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 54 (2.88%) Cloud Native
6 53 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 33 (1.76%) PMI
9 32 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 31 (1.65%) CMDB
10 31 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 26 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
13 24 (1.28%) Security Posture
14 20 (1.07%) PKI
15 19 (1.01%) Public Cloud
16 17 (0.91%) AI Agents
16 17 (0.91%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 191 (10.19%) Windows
2 105 (5.60%) Linux
3 66 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.51%) Unix
5 41 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.07%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.64%) Solaris
8 9 (0.48%) VMS
8 9 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.43%) AIX
9 8 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.37%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.32%) Android
11 6 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.32%) SUSE
11 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.27%) HPUX
12 5 (0.27%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 610 (32.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 473 (25.24%) Agile
3 444 (23.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 395 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 348 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
6 321 (17.13%) ITIL
7 310 (16.54%) Project Management
8 303 (16.17%) Migration
9 250 (13.34%) DevOps
10 246 (13.13%) Project Delivery
11 218 (11.63%) Decision-Making
12 210 (11.21%) Roadmaps
13 200 (10.67%) ERP
14 177 (9.45%) AI
15 174 (9.28%) Risk Management
16 168 (8.96%) CI/CD
17 165 (8.80%) Validation
18 163 (8.70%) ITSM
19 161 (8.59%) Service Management
20 146 (7.79%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 177 (9.45%) SQL
2 134 (7.15%) Python
3 104 (5.55%) PowerShell
4 48 (2.56%) Bash
4 48 (2.56%) Java
5 47 (2.51%) PL/SQL
6 46 (2.45%) C#
7 38 (2.03%) JavaScript
8 25 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 10 (0.53%) Groovy
10 9 (0.48%) COBOL
10 9 (0.48%) Korn
11 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.37%) Go
12 7 (0.37%) JCL
13 6 (0.32%) ABAP
14 5 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.27%) Bicep
14 5 (0.27%) Perl
14 5 (0.27%) REXX
Qualifications
1 358 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 261 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 224 (11.95%) Degree
4 130 (6.94%) PMP
5 120 (6.40%) PMI Certification
6 57 (3.04%) CISSP
7 56 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 54 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (2.08%) CCNP
11 35 (1.87%) CISM
12 28 (1.49%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
14 26 (1.39%) Azure Certification
15 25 (1.33%) APMG
15 25 (1.33%) CIMA
16 24 (1.28%) ACCA
17 22 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
18 17 (0.91%) CCNA
19 16 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.82%) QA
2 92 (4.91%) PMO
3 91 (4.86%) GDPR
4 84 (4.48%) Data Quality
5 81 (4.32%) SLA
6 70 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (2.45%) NIST
8 30 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.23%) SOC 2
10 22 (1.17%) PCI DSS
11 21 (1.12%) GRC
12 13 (0.69%) IFRS
13 11 (0.59%) IFRS 17
14 9 (0.48%) ITGC
15 8 (0.43%) COBIT
16 6 (0.32%) Accessibility
16 6 (0.32%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.32%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.27%) EMIR
17 5 (0.27%) GMP
System Software
1 124 (6.62%) Active Directory
2 64 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (2.77%) Docker
4 23 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 19 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.53%) vSphere
9 7 (0.37%) vCloud
10 5 (0.27%) KVM
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.16%) XenApp
12 3 (0.16%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.11%) ACF2
13 2 (0.11%) Ceph
13 2 (0.11%) Firmware
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 87 (4.64%) Terraform
2 74 (3.95%) Ansible
3 73 (3.90%) Kubernetes
4 33 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.23%) Grafana
5 23 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.23%) vCenter Server
6 21 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.91%) SCCM
8 16 (0.85%) SCOM
9 12 (0.64%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.59%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.53%) Cisco Prime
12 8 (0.43%) Avamar
13 7 (0.37%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.37%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (0.37%) PowerCLI
13 7 (0.37%) Puppet
13 7 (0.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 293 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 186 (9.93%) Oracle
2 186 (9.93%) ServiceNow
3 170 (9.07%) SAP
4 80 (4.27%) VMware
5 73 (3.90%) Cisco
6 71 (3.79%) Salesforce
7 59 (3.15%) Google
8 34 (1.81%) Splunk
9 32 (1.71%) IBM
10 31 (1.65%) Citrix
11 27 (1.44%) F5
12 26 (1.39%) Workday
13 25 (1.33%) IFS
13 25 (1.33%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.33%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.17%) CheckPoint
14 22 (1.17%) Juniper
15 21 (1.12%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.07%) Remedy