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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 52 43
Rank change year-on-year -11 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 2,000 1,468 1,627
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.68% 4.49% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 4.97% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,187 859 840
10th Percentile £375 £325 £313
25th Percentile £435 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £728 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 76 45
10th Percentile £19.25 £20.95 £23.26
25th Percentile £25.54 £22.63 £32.29
Median hourly rate £53.00 £32.05 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +65.37% -43.52% +17.24%
75th Percentile £76.75 £56.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.10 £70.08 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.50 £25.15 £57.40
% change year-on-year +104.81% -56.19% +18.58%

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 45,811 29,562 32,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.30% 90.52% 85.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,345 20,161
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,152 1,818 1,440
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £67.47 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £66.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.06 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.00% -48.10% +1.18%

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 21 September 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 21 September 2026.

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 21 September 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 -11 1,746 £525 +5.00% 2,742
UK excluding London -23 965 £510 +7.37% 1,458
London -2 840 £548 -0.45% 1,491
Work from Home +1 569 £525 +7.36% 1,737
North of England -17 313 £500 +8.70% 349
South East +4 275 £564 +15.15% 354
North West -14 181 £475 +3.26% 216
Yorkshire -14 119 £500 +11.11% 107
Midlands -71 109 £480 +1.05% 195
Scotland +2 104 £500 +11.11% 124
South West -31 85 £550 +7.32% 229
West Midlands -69 82 £500 +5.26% 117
East of England -8 69 £505 -4.81% 148
East Midlands -23 27 £416 -4.91% 78
North East -29 13 £433 -3.89% 32
Northern Ireland -10 8 £750 +42.86% 45
Wales -13 8 £538 +62.30% 32
Channel Islands -4 2 £600 - 2

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
1 109 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 96 (4.80%) Confluence
3 33 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (0.95%) IIS
5 9 (0.45%) CICS
5 9 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.30%) Appian
7 6 (0.30%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.30%) CMS
8 5 (0.25%) Camunda
8 5 (0.25%) SAS
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.10%) JBoss
11 2 (0.10%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 72 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.40%) Windchill
7 5 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Houdini
10 2 (0.10%) InDesign
10 2 (0.10%) NUKE
10 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.10%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.050%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.050%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.050%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.050%) Revit
Business Applications
1 75 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 14 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
5 13 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
6 11 (0.55%) Maximo
6 11 (0.55%) Primavera
7 9 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.45%) Teamcenter
8 8 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.40%) SAP PM
9 7 (0.35%) OpenText MBPM
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.30%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.25%) ContrOCC
11 5 (0.25%) iTrent
11 5 (0.25%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 299 (14.95%) Azure
2 153 (7.65%) AWS
3 142 (7.10%) Power Platform
4 120 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (5.15%) Entra ID
6 77 (3.85%) GCP
7 59 (2.95%) SaaS
8 58 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 45 (2.25%) GitHub
11 40 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
12 32 (1.60%) OCI
13 27 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (1.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 27 (1.35%) Power Automate
14 25 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
16 23 (1.15%) OpenShift
16 23 (1.15%) Serverless
17 22 (1.10%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 130 (6.50%) Firewall
2 112 (5.60%) Network Security
3 85 (4.25%) DNS
4 63 (3.15%) VPN
5 56 (2.80%) WAN
6 45 (2.25%) DHCP
6 45 (2.25%) TCP/IP
7 38 (1.90%) Wireless
8 32 (1.60%) LAN
9 27 (1.35%) SSL
10 25 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.15%) BGP
12 19 (0.95%) OSPF
13 18 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (0.85%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.80%) SNMP
16 14 (0.70%) HTTP
16 14 (0.70%) MPLS
16 14 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (5.65%) Power BI
2 66 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 37 (1.85%) Metadata
4 35 (1.75%) Oracle Database
5 28 (1.40%) Relational Database
6 19 (0.95%) Tableau
7 18 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (0.65%) Db2
11 12 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.35%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.35%) Oracle BI EE
13 7 (0.35%) Oracle Database 11g
14 6 (0.30%) DataStage
14 6 (0.30%) MySQL
14 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 198 (9.90%) JIRA
2 69 (3.45%) Git
3 55 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.60%) GitLab
5 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.30%) Selenium
8 5 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
8 5 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.25%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.20%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.20%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.20%) Snyk
10 3 (0.15%) AdminStudio
10 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.15%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.15%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 782 (39.10%) Social Skills
2 726 (36.30%) Finance
3 340 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (10.70%) Banking
5 173 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 101 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
7 93 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
8 86 (4.30%) Manufacturing
9 83 (4.15%) Legal
10 74 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
11 73 (3.65%) Retail
12 55 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 47 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (2.15%) Marketing
15 39 (1.95%) Law
16 33 (1.65%) Local Government
17 31 (1.55%) Aerospace
18 30 (1.50%) Front Office
19 27 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 24 (1.20%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 240 (12.00%) Lead
2 226 (11.30%) Project Manager
3 218 (10.90%) Analyst
4 168 (8.40%) Senior
5 146 (7.30%) Change Manager
6 123 (6.15%) Business Analyst
7 120 (6.00%) Consultant
8 67 (3.35%) Senior Manager
9 61 (3.05%) Network Engineer
10 59 (2.95%) Developer
11 58 (2.90%) Delivery Manager
11 58 (2.90%) IT Manager
12 55 (2.75%) Administrator
13 49 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
13 49 (2.45%) Programme Manager
14 47 (2.35%) Business Manager
15 41 (2.05%) Service Manager
16 39 (1.95%) Business Change Manager
16 39 (1.95%) Security Engineer
17 38 (1.90%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (5.75%) Terraform
2 52 (2.60%) REST
3 38 (1.90%) .NET
4 28 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (1.25%) HTML
5 25 (1.25%) Kafka
6 23 (1.15%) Middleware
7 21 (1.05%) CSS
8 17 (0.85%) Ajax
8 17 (0.85%) OAuth
8 17 (0.85%) SOAP
9 15 (0.75%) 802.1X
9 15 (0.75%) XML
10 14 (0.70%) JSON
10 14 (0.70%) Web Services
11 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.60%) .NET Framework
12 12 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (0.50%) OAuth2
13 10 (0.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 136 (6.80%) Onboarding
2 99 (4.95%) Management Information System
3 87 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 46 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.00%) PKI
9 38 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 36 (1.80%) Operational Technology
12 34 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.65%) Virtual Team
14 27 (1.35%) CMDB
15 25 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
16 24 (1.20%) AI Agents
17 23 (1.15%) PMI
18 21 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
18 21 (1.05%) Mainframe
19 20 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 228 (11.40%) Windows
2 129 (6.45%) Linux
3 105 (5.25%) Windows Server
4 55 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 53 (2.65%) Unix
6 22 (1.10%) Windows 10
7 19 (0.95%) Solaris
8 16 (0.80%) VMS
9 14 (0.70%) AIX
10 11 (0.55%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.55%) zOS
11 7 (0.35%) Android
11 7 (0.35%) SUSE
11 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.25%) HPUX
14 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (39.80%) Stakeholder Management
2 514 (25.70%) Agile
3 484 (24.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 460 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 387 (19.35%) ITIL
6 344 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
7 333 (16.65%) Project Management
8 323 (16.15%) Project Delivery
9 283 (14.15%) Migration
10 274 (13.70%) Roadmaps
11 257 (12.85%) Decision-Making
12 242 (12.10%) Service Management
13 234 (11.70%) DevOps
14 219 (10.95%) AI
15 214 (10.70%) ITSM
16 198 (9.90%) PRINCE2
17 192 (9.60%) ERP
18 187 (9.35%) Process Improvement
19 186 (9.30%) Analytics
20 178 (8.90%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 180 (9.00%) Python
2 158 (7.90%) SQL
3 150 (7.50%) PowerShell
4 83 (4.15%) Bash
5 53 (2.65%) Java
6 47 (2.35%) JavaScript
7 46 (2.30%) PL/SQL
8 37 (1.85%) C#
9 26 (1.30%) Bicep
10 24 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 17 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.70%) Korn
13 12 (0.60%) Groovy
14 11 (0.55%) Go
14 11 (0.55%) JCL
15 10 (0.50%) COBOL
16 9 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.30%) VBScript
18 5 (0.25%) REXX
19 4 (0.20%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 411 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 302 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 239 (11.95%) Degree
4 155 (7.75%) PMP
5 142 (7.10%) PMI Certification
6 86 (4.30%) DV Cleared
7 49 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (2.30%) CISSP
9 40 (2.00%) Azure Certification
10 38 (1.90%) CCNP
11 30 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.40%) APMG
12 28 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 27 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (1.20%) ACCA
14 24 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 23 (1.15%) CIMA
16 22 (1.10%) AWS Certification
16 22 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
17 19 (0.95%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.35%) QA
2 102 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 93 (4.65%) PMO
4 80 (4.00%) SLA
5 57 (2.85%) GDPR
6 44 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.65%) NIST
8 31 (1.55%) GRC
9 18 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.80%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.75%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.55%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.55%) ITGC
13 9 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
14 8 (0.40%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.40%) GMP
14 8 (0.40%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.35%) EMIR
16 6 (0.30%) IFRS
System Software
1 133 (6.65%) Active Directory
2 106 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (2.20%) Docker
4 28 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (1.10%) VMware NSX
6 20 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.80%) vSphere
9 14 (0.70%) vCloud
10 9 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) RACF
12 4 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.15%) Squid
14 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.10%) Dovecot
14 2 (0.10%) NFS
14 2 (0.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 81 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 77 (3.85%) Ansible
3 41 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (1.90%) vCenter Server
5 33 (1.65%) SCOM
6 28 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (1.35%) Grafana
8 26 (1.30%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.10%) SCCM
10 15 (0.75%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.60%) Avamar
11 12 (0.60%) Data Guard
12 9 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
13 8 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.35%) vRealize
15 6 (0.30%) Argo
15 6 (0.30%) NetBackup
16 5 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 369 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 199 (9.95%) ServiceNow
3 186 (9.30%) Oracle
4 152 (7.60%) SAP
5 130 (6.50%) VMware
6 95 (4.75%) Cisco
7 73 (3.65%) Salesforce
8 50 (2.50%) Google
9 48 (2.40%) Splunk
10 45 (2.25%) IBM
11 40 (2.00%) Red Hat
12 37 (1.85%) Zscaler
13 34 (1.70%) Palo Alto
14 32 (1.60%) F5
15 28 (1.40%) Citrix
16 26 (1.30%) CheckPoint
17 25 (1.25%) Juniper
17 25 (1.25%) Workday
18 23 (1.15%) Remedy
19 22 (1.10%) Dell
3,129 Change Management jobs Nationwide