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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,815 1,283 1,846
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.81% 4.38% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 4.81% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 808 1,087
10th Percentile £325 £322 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £625
90th Percentile £695 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 51 63
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.60 £14.09
25th Percentile £22.66 £50.00 £28.32
Median hourly rate £36.36 £54.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.68% +12.50% -0.83%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £78.47 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.61 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.65% +26.32% -1.58%

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 40,206 26,654 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,270 17,186 24,018
10th Percentile £320 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,084 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.64 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.84% -26.13% +7.14%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -3 1,597 £500 - 643
UK excluding London -11 950 £500 +5.82% 497
London -4 695 £500 -8.84% 213
Work from Home -1 539 £525 +5.00% 253
North of England -11 289 £475 +5.56% 118
Midlands -5 222 £502 +0.30% 81
South East +6 216 £510 +4.08% 149
North West -2 179 £436 -3.11% 55
West Midlands -12 149 £513 +2.50% 37
Yorkshire -34 102 £487 +5.30% 52
South West -20 91 £500 -1.96% 58
East of England -10 73 £475 -2.51% 52
East Midlands +18 71 £438 +20.52% 43
Scotland -2 71 £475 +18.75% 24
Wales -15 10 £600 +60.00% 14
North East -19 8 £433 -24.78% 13
Northern Ireland -6 6 £475 -16.67% 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
1 111 (6.12%) Confluence
2 74 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.77%) SAS
5 13 (0.72%) IIS
6 9 (0.50%) Appian
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.055%) Moodle
11 1 (0.055%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.055%) MTS
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.055%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 79 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 69 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 31 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.28%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.17%) Windchill
11 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.055%) InDesign
11 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.055%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 77 (4.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
5 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.33%) Finacle
7 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.33%) Primavera
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.17%) Maximo
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 283 (15.59%) Azure
2 143 (7.88%) AWS
3 108 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
4 105 (5.79%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.02%) GCP
6 72 (3.97%) SaaS
7 67 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (3.64%) Entra ID
9 40 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (1.71%) Google Workspace
10 31 (1.71%) Power Automate
11 26 (1.43%) PaaS
12 23 (1.27%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.10%) GitHub
15 19 (1.05%) Google Sheets
15 19 (1.05%) OCI
16 16 (0.88%) PowerApps
17 15 (0.83%) IaaS
17 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 109 (6.01%) Firewall
2 67 (3.69%) Network Security
3 62 (3.42%) DNS
4 60 (3.31%) WAN
5 52 (2.87%) VPN
6 49 (2.70%) LAN
7 36 (1.98%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.76%) BGP
9 30 (1.65%) OSPF
10 29 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (1.54%) SSL
12 27 (1.49%) TCP/IP
13 24 (1.32%) DHCP
13 24 (1.32%) MPLS
14 20 (1.10%) SAN
15 18 (0.99%) Wireless
16 17 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 17 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 16 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (4.85%) Power BI
2 64 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.43%) Metadata
3 26 (1.43%) Tableau
4 25 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
7 17 (0.94%) Oracle Database
8 16 (0.88%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (0.55%) MySQL
11 9 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
13 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
13 6 (0.33%) Oracle BI EE
14 5 (0.28%) Big Data
14 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 222 (12.23%) JIRA
2 57 (3.14%) Git
3 48 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.50%) GitLab
5 9 (0.50%) MLflow
6 5 (0.28%) InstallShield
6 5 (0.28%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
7 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.22%) Hudson
7 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.22%) Maven
7 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (0.17%) Snyk
8 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.11%) git-flow
9 2 (0.11%) JUnit
General
1 715 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 598 (32.95%) Finance
3 315 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 147 (8.10%) Banking
6 78 (4.30%) Legal
7 74 (4.08%) Retail
8 60 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (2.53%) Marketing
12 39 (2.15%) Law
13 37 (2.04%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.93%) Local Government
15 33 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
16 32 (1.76%) Telecoms
17 22 (1.21%) Investment Banking
18 21 (1.16%) Financial Institution
19 19 (1.05%) Aviation
20 18 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 215 (11.85%) Project Manager
2 186 (10.25%) Analyst
2 186 (10.25%) Lead
3 146 (8.04%) Change Manager
4 134 (7.38%) Senior
5 119 (6.56%) Business Analyst
6 109 (6.01%) Consultant
7 75 (4.13%) Administrator
8 68 (3.75%) Developer
9 63 (3.47%) Programme Manager
10 54 (2.98%) Architect
11 52 (2.87%) Network Engineer
11 52 (2.87%) Senior Manager
12 48 (2.64%) Business Manager
13 46 (2.53%) IT Manager
14 39 (2.15%) Delivery Manager
15 38 (2.09%) Business Change Manager
16 33 (1.82%) SAP Manager
16 33 (1.82%) Support Engineer
17 30 (1.65%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.75%) REST
2 36 (1.98%) .NET
3 27 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.27%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.21%) OAuth
6 21 (1.16%) Middleware
7 17 (0.94%) CSS
8 16 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (0.77%) HTML
9 14 (0.77%) Web Services
10 13 (0.72%) LDAP
10 13 (0.72%) SAML
11 12 (0.66%) SOAP
12 10 (0.55%) OpenID
12 10 (0.55%) Pandas
12 10 (0.55%) pytest
12 10 (0.55%) React
12 10 (0.55%) RESTful
13 9 (0.50%) NumPy
13 9 (0.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 87 (4.79%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.46%) Product Ownership
3 77 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 71 (3.91%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.48%) CMDB
6 44 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 43 (2.37%) Virtual Team
8 41 (2.26%) PMI
9 39 (2.15%) Cloud Native
10 31 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (1.54%) PKI
13 19 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.99%) Mainframe
14 18 (0.99%) Operational Technology
14 18 (0.99%) Security Posture
14 18 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 176 (9.70%) Windows
2 85 (4.68%) Linux
3 65 (3.58%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.48%) Unix
5 27 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.44%) Solaris
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.28%) AIX
11 5 (0.28%) VMS
12 4 (0.22%) HPUX
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.22%) SUSE
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) Android
14 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (31.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 442 (24.35%) Agile
3 430 (23.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 373 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
5 362 (19.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 331 (18.24%) ITIL
7 315 (17.36%) Project Management
8 298 (16.42%) Migration
9 232 (12.78%) DevOps
10 206 (11.35%) Project Delivery
11 193 (10.63%) ERP
12 190 (10.47%) Roadmaps
13 184 (10.14%) Decision-Making
14 176 (9.70%) ITSM
15 169 (9.31%) Validation
16 166 (9.15%) Risk Management
17 154 (8.48%) CI/CD
18 142 (7.82%) Service Management
19 139 (7.66%) Workshop Facilitation
20 137 (7.55%) AI
Programming Languages
1 168 (9.26%) SQL
2 114 (6.28%) Python
3 87 (4.79%) PowerShell
4 49 (2.70%) C#
5 46 (2.53%) Bash
6 41 (2.26%) PL/SQL
7 34 (1.87%) Java
8 27 (1.49%) T-SQL
9 26 (1.43%) JavaScript
10 13 (0.72%) COBOL
11 12 (0.66%) JCL
12 11 (0.61%) REXX
13 10 (0.55%) Korn
14 9 (0.50%) CLIST
14 9 (0.50%) Groovy
14 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.28%) ABAP
15 5 (0.28%) Go
15 5 (0.28%) Perl
16 4 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 371 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 264 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 242 (13.33%) Degree
4 116 (6.39%) PMI Certification
4 116 (6.39%) PMP
5 53 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 51 (2.81%) CISSP
7 46 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (2.09%) CISM
9 38 (2.09%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.93%) CCNP
11 27 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
12 26 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (1.32%) APMG
14 21 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 20 (1.10%) CIMA
16 19 (1.05%) ACCA
16 19 (1.05%) Azure Certification
17 15 (0.83%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (6.23%) QA
2 94 (5.18%) GDPR
3 89 (4.90%) Data Quality
4 88 (4.85%) PMO
5 68 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (3.53%) SLA
7 44 (2.42%) NIST
8 27 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 19 (1.05%) PCI DSS
11 17 (0.94%) IFRS
12 15 (0.83%) IFRS 17
13 12 (0.66%) GRC
14 10 (0.55%) Basel III
15 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.44%) ITGC
16 7 (0.39%) COBIT
17 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
18 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
18 5 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 124 (6.83%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (2.75%) Docker
4 24 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.55%) vSphere
8 9 (0.50%) ACF2
8 9 (0.50%) RACF
8 9 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
9 8 (0.44%) Firmware
9 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.28%) KVM
10 5 (0.28%) XenApp
10 5 (0.28%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.11%) Ceph
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 79 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 68 (3.75%) Ansible
3 66 (3.64%) Terraform
4 34 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.38%) Grafana
5 25 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.32%) SCCM
7 22 (1.21%) vCenter Server
8 18 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 12 (0.66%) SCOM
11 11 (0.61%) CA Endevor
12 10 (0.55%) Puppet
13 9 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.50%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.44%) Kibana
15 7 (0.39%) PowerCLI
16 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 281 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 182 (10.03%) ServiceNow
3 174 (9.59%) SAP
4 159 (8.76%) Oracle
5 76 (4.19%) VMware
6 74 (4.08%) Cisco
7 66 (3.64%) Google
7 66 (3.64%) Salesforce
8 35 (1.93%) Citrix
9 33 (1.82%) F5
10 31 (1.71%) Splunk
11 27 (1.49%) IFS
11 27 (1.49%) Workday
12 25 (1.38%) Juniper
13 24 (1.32%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.21%) CheckPoint
15 21 (1.16%) Fortinet
16 19 (1.05%) Dynatrace
16 19 (1.05%) Remedy
17 17 (0.94%) SolarWinds