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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 51 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,830 1,283 1,866
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.94% 4.34% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.79% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 822 1,111
10th Percentile £325 £320 £335
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.95% -6.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 50 60
10th Percentile £22.63 £28.60 £14.40
25th Percentile £22.68 £50.00 £29.11
Median hourly rate £45.46 £54.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +20.00% -6.50%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.62 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.58% +41.18% -9.80%

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 39,397 26,809 37,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.78% 90.76% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,864 17,328 24,353
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £739 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,354 1,060 2,429
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.83 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.41% -20.00% -6.17%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 1,619 £500 -0.25% 482
UK excluding London -8 961 £500 +5.82% 417
London -6 708 £500 -8.05% 142
Work from Home -5 548 £525 +5.00% 169
North of England -12 296 £475 +5.56% 93
Midlands +1 224 £500 -0.05% 87
South East +7 214 £510 +4.08% 119
North West +2 192 £447 +2.17% 41
West Midlands -9 153 £510 +1.80% 38
South West -11 97 £500 - 41
Yorkshire -35 95 £487 +5.30% 39
Scotland +12 73 £473 +26.07% 19
East of England -12 71 £475 -2.51% 50
East Midlands +13 69 £425 +20.06% 47
Wales -12 10 £600 +60.00% 7
North East -16 9 £440 -23.48% 14
Northern Ireland -5 5 £450 -21.05% 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
1 112 (6.12%) Confluence
2 75 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.77%) SAS
5 9 (0.49%) Appian
6 8 (0.44%) IIS
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) CMS
10 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.055%) CICS
10 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.055%) Moodle
10 1 (0.055%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
Applications
1 84 (4.59%) Microsoft Project
2 74 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 33 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.27%) Acrobat
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) 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 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) Finacle
6 6 (0.33%) Primavera
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.16%) iTrent
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 284 (15.52%) Azure
2 143 (7.81%) AWS
3 109 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
4 93 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 75 (4.10%) GCP
6 73 (3.99%) SaaS
7 72 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (3.44%) Entra ID
9 40 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (1.69%) Google Workspace
11 30 (1.64%) Power Automate
12 28 (1.53%) PaaS
13 22 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (1.20%) OpenShift
14 19 (1.04%) GitHub
14 19 (1.04%) Google Sheets
14 19 (1.04%) OCI
15 17 (0.93%) IaaS
16 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 111 (6.07%) Firewall
2 69 (3.77%) Network Security
3 63 (3.44%) WAN
4 59 (3.22%) DNS
5 51 (2.79%) LAN
6 50 (2.73%) VPN
7 38 (2.08%) SD-WAN
8 32 (1.75%) BGP
9 31 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (1.64%) OSPF
11 29 (1.58%) SSL
12 25 (1.37%) TCP/IP
13 24 (1.31%) DHCP
13 24 (1.31%) MPLS
14 18 (0.98%) SAN
15 17 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 17 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.87%) Wireless
17 15 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
17 15 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.21%) Power BI
2 58 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.42%) Metadata
4 24 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.15%) Tableau
6 19 (1.04%) Oracle Database
6 19 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.55%) MySQL
10 9 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.44%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.27%) Big Data
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 225 (12.30%) JIRA
2 53 (2.90%) Git
3 42 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.55%) GitLab
6 9 (0.49%) Liquibase
7 8 (0.44%) MLflow
8 5 (0.27%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.27%) JUnit
9 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.22%) Hudson
9 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.16%) Mockito
10 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.16%) Snyk
10 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 737 (40.27%) Social Skills
2 599 (32.73%) Finance
3 321 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 142 (7.76%) Banking
6 73 (3.99%) Legal
7 72 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
8 71 (3.88%) Retail
9 57 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (2.68%) Marketing
10 49 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (2.30%) Manufacturing
12 38 (2.08%) Local Government
13 35 (1.91%) Law
14 33 (1.80%) Telecoms
15 32 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.20%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.09%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.04%) Aviation
19 18 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (12.08%) Project Manager
2 202 (11.04%) Lead
3 194 (10.60%) Analyst
4 155 (8.47%) Change Manager
5 126 (6.89%) Senior
6 122 (6.67%) Business Analyst
7 110 (6.01%) Consultant
8 77 (4.21%) Administrator
9 64 (3.50%) Developer
10 62 (3.39%) Programme Manager
11 54 (2.95%) Architect
12 52 (2.84%) Business Manager
13 49 (2.68%) Network Engineer
13 49 (2.68%) Senior Manager
14 46 (2.51%) IT Manager
15 41 (2.24%) Business Change Manager
16 36 (1.97%) Delivery Manager
17 35 (1.91%) SAP Manager
18 32 (1.75%) Support Engineer
19 31 (1.69%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (2.90%) REST
2 35 (1.91%) .NET
3 27 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.26%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.20%) OAuth
6 21 (1.15%) Middleware
7 18 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (0.77%) CSS
8 14 (0.77%) SAML
8 14 (0.77%) Web Services
9 13 (0.71%) LDAP
9 13 (0.71%) RESTful
10 12 (0.66%) SOAP
11 11 (0.60%) HTML
11 11 (0.60%) OpenID
12 10 (0.55%) ISPF
12 10 (0.55%) pytest
13 9 (0.49%) NumPy
13 9 (0.49%) Pandas
13 9 (0.49%) React
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.14%) Management Information System
2 79 (4.32%) Onboarding
3 77 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.66%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.90%) Virtual Team
6 48 (2.62%) CMDB
7 46 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (2.46%) PMI
9 40 (2.19%) Cloud Native
10 31 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.42%) PKI
13 20 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.04%) Operational Technology
15 18 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (0.98%) Public Cloud
15 18 (0.98%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.87%) Low-Code
17 15 (0.82%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 169 (9.23%) Windows
2 81 (4.43%) Linux
3 60 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 42 (2.30%) Unix
5 28 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.38%) Solaris
11 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.27%) AIX
12 5 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.27%) VMS
13 4 (0.22%) HPUX
13 4 (0.22%) SUSE
13 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.16%) Android
14 3 (0.16%) CentOS
14 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (31.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 453 (24.75%) Agile
3 439 (23.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 375 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
5 371 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 351 (19.18%) ITIL
7 338 (18.47%) Project Management
8 306 (16.72%) Migration
9 247 (13.50%) DevOps
10 222 (12.13%) Project Delivery
11 198 (10.82%) ERP
12 190 (10.38%) Roadmaps
13 182 (9.95%) Decision-Making
14 172 (9.40%) Risk Management
15 169 (9.23%) ITSM
16 160 (8.74%) Validation
17 150 (8.20%) CI/CD
17 150 (8.20%) Service Management
18 148 (8.09%) PRINCE2
19 142 (7.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 169 (9.23%) SQL
2 112 (6.12%) Python
3 89 (4.86%) PowerShell
4 50 (2.73%) C#
5 46 (2.51%) Bash
6 39 (2.13%) PL/SQL
7 32 (1.75%) Java
8 26 (1.42%) T-SQL
9 22 (1.20%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.66%) COBOL
10 12 (0.66%) Korn
11 11 (0.60%) JCL
11 11 (0.60%) REXX
12 10 (0.55%) CLIST
12 10 (0.55%) Groovy
12 10 (0.55%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.33%) Go
13 6 (0.33%) Perl
14 5 (0.27%) ABAP
15 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 366 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 265 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 257 (14.04%) Degree
4 122 (6.67%) PMI Certification
5 117 (6.39%) PMP
6 51 (2.79%) CISSP
7 47 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 43 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 42 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (2.19%) Master's Degree
11 38 (2.08%) CISM
12 32 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
13 31 (1.69%) CCNP
13 31 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 29 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
15 27 (1.48%) APMG
16 20 (1.09%) CIMA
17 19 (1.04%) ACCA
17 19 (1.04%) Azure Certification
18 15 (0.82%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (5.90%) QA
2 90 (4.92%) GDPR
3 88 (4.81%) PMO
4 86 (4.70%) Data Quality
5 66 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (3.61%) SLA
6 42 (2.30%) NIST
7 25 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (1.04%) SOC 2
9 18 (0.98%) IFRS
10 17 (0.93%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.82%) IFRS 17
12 10 (0.55%) Basel III
12 10 (0.55%) GRC
13 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.38%) COBIT
14 7 (0.38%) ITGC
15 6 (0.33%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 124 (6.78%) Active Directory
2 55 (3.01%) Docker
3 45 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.55%) ACF2
8 10 (0.55%) RACF
8 10 (0.55%) Time Sharing Option
8 10 (0.55%) vSphere
9 8 (0.44%) Firmware
9 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.27%) KVM
10 5 (0.27%) XenApp
10 5 (0.27%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 83 (4.54%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.50%) Ansible
3 63 (3.44%) Terraform
4 34 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.42%) Grafana
5 26 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.26%) SCCM
7 18 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.77%) FortiGate
9 10 (0.55%) CA Endevor
9 10 (0.55%) Puppet
10 9 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
10 9 (0.49%) Tivoli
10 9 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 8 (0.44%) Kibana
11 8 (0.44%) SCOM
12 7 (0.38%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 294 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 177 (9.67%) SAP
3 176 (9.62%) ServiceNow
4 155 (8.47%) Oracle
5 73 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 70 (3.83%) Cisco
7 67 (3.66%) Google
8 66 (3.61%) VMware
9 37 (2.02%) Citrix
10 33 (1.80%) Workday
11 31 (1.69%) F5
12 28 (1.53%) Splunk
13 26 (1.42%) IFS
14 25 (1.37%) Juniper
15 23 (1.26%) Palo Alto
16 20 (1.09%) CheckPoint
16 20 (1.09%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.09%) Red Hat
17 18 (0.98%) SolarWinds
18 17 (0.93%) Dynatrace