Change Management Contracts

Change Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 46 40
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +16
Contract jobs citing Change Management 1,508 1,614 2,599
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.57% 4.15% 4.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 4.85% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 907 923 1,594
10th Percentile £325 £313 £359
25th Percentile £400 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.70% +3.52%
75th Percentile £616 £607 £650
90th Percentile £725 £712 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 54 46
10th Percentile £21.06 £18.25 £20.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.49 £35.00
Median hourly rate £37.28 £56.25 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -33.72% +16.22% +112.75%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.60 £58.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £69.85 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £48.27
% change year-on-year -36.84% -1.58% +119.39%

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 29,869 33,284 47,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.47% 85.48% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,656 21,283 32,342
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £546
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.76% -0.82%
75th Percentile £625 £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 1,699 1,835 1,536
10th Percentile £14.19 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.35 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% -1.91% +57.74%
75th Percentile £47.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -46.75% +17.24% +64.77%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the UK

Change Management
Top 18 Contract 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 12 August 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 0 1,280 £500 -2.91% 1,050
UK excluding London +6 779 £470 -6.00% 642
London +5 579 £550 - 527
Work from Home -14 448 £500 - 378
North of England -1 260 £450 -12.45% 174
North West +2 156 £450 -10.89% 96
Midlands +16 146 £475 -1.14% 94
South East +3 134 £476 +0.26% 208
West Midlands +13 115 £475 -5.00% 63
Yorkshire -6 100 £450 -12.45% 57
South West +12 81 £501 -8.86% 52
Scotland -12 78 £450 -10.00% 53
East of England +11 53 £525 +31.25% 52
East Midlands +8 28 £360 +1.41% 30
Northern Ireland 0 21 £525 +208.82% 7
Wales -2 10 £375 -6.25% 11
North East -6 2 £500 -44.26% 24
Channel Islands - 1 - - 1

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 101 (6.70%) Confluence
2 55 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.99%) CMS
4 14 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.66%) IIS
6 7 (0.46%) JBoss
7 6 (0.40%) nginx
7 6 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.33%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.27%) Mule
10 3 (0.20%) CICS
10 3 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) Apache
12 1 (0.066%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle UPK
12 1 (0.066%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 92 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (2.32%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.73%) Trello
7 6 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.27%) Windchill
9 3 (0.20%) InfoPath
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.066%) Notion
11 1 (0.066%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.066%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 49 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.73%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 8 (0.53%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.46%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.33%) SAP APO
6 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.33%) SAP PLM
6 5 (0.33%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.27%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 113 (7.49%) Azure
2 94 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
3 78 (5.17%) AWS
4 66 (4.38%) Power Platform
5 48 (3.18%) SaaS
6 28 (1.86%) GCP
7 26 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
8 23 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (1.33%) Amazon S3
10 19 (1.26%) Entra ID
11 18 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (1.19%) GitHub
11 18 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (1.13%) Amazon ELB
12 17 (1.13%) AWS KMS
12 17 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
13 12 (0.80%) OCI
13 12 (0.80%) OneDrive
13 12 (0.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 106 (7.03%) Firewall
2 45 (2.98%) Network Security
3 43 (2.85%) WAN
4 42 (2.79%) DNS
5 30 (1.99%) VPN
6 27 (1.79%) BGP
7 26 (1.72%) LAN
7 26 (1.72%) OSPF
8 23 (1.53%) Wireless
9 22 (1.46%) SD-WAN
10 21 (1.39%) HTTP
10 21 (1.39%) WebEx
11 20 (1.33%) SSH
12 18 (1.19%) Skype
13 17 (1.13%) MPLS
14 16 (1.06%) SMTP
15 15 (0.99%) FTP
15 15 (0.99%) SSL
16 14 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
17 13 (0.86%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.58%) Power BI
2 29 (1.92%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.79%) Oracle Database
4 20 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
5 13 (0.86%) NoSQL
6 12 (0.80%) Metadata
7 11 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.73%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.73%) Tableau
8 10 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.60%) RDBMS
9 9 (0.60%) SAP HANA
10 8 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.40%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.40%) Siebel EIM
13 4 (0.27%) MySQL
14 3 (0.20%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 150 (9.95%) JIRA
2 53 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.45%) Git
4 19 (1.26%) Vagrant
5 16 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (0.73%) SonarQube
7 10 (0.66%) MSI
8 9 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.60%) GitLab
8 9 (0.60%) Liquibase
9 8 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (0.40%) CA Release Automation
10 6 (0.40%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.20%) ChangeMan
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.20%) Selenium
13 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 546 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 543 (36.01%) Finance
3 255 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (11.60%) Banking
5 111 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 75 (4.97%) Manufacturing
7 68 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
9 61 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
10 59 (3.91%) Legal
11 58 (3.85%) Telecoms
12 47 (3.12%) Law
13 44 (2.92%) Marketing
14 38 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 36 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 35 (2.32%) Retail
17 28 (1.86%) Financial Institution
18 25 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
19 19 (1.26%) French Language
20 16 (1.06%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 246 (16.31%) Analyst
2 188 (12.47%) Project Manager
3 138 (9.15%) Business Analyst
4 111 (7.36%) Lead
5 102 (6.76%) Consultant
6 100 (6.63%) Change Manager
7 79 (5.24%) Senior
8 66 (4.38%) Administrator
9 58 (3.85%) Architect
10 57 (3.78%) IT Manager
11 51 (3.38%) Developer
12 49 (3.25%) Programme Manager
13 47 (3.12%) Service Manager
14 39 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
15 36 (2.39%) Network Engineer
16 31 (2.06%) Senior Manager
17 30 (1.99%) DevOps Engineer
17 30 (1.99%) SAP Manager
17 30 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
18 29 (1.92%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.33%) REST
2 18 (1.19%) .NET
3 16 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 16 (1.06%) Web Services
4 15 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (0.93%) SOAP
6 13 (0.86%) HTML
7 11 (0.73%) CSS
7 11 (0.73%) RESTful
8 9 (0.60%) Spring Boot
9 8 (0.53%) 802.1X
9 8 (0.53%) Middleware
9 8 (0.53%) React
10 7 (0.46%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.46%) LDAP
11 6 (0.40%) JMS
11 6 (0.40%) XML
12 5 (0.33%) ADO
12 5 (0.33%) Gherkin
12 5 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.91%) Management Information System
2 61 (4.05%) Data Centre
3 51 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 44 (2.92%) CMDB
6 34 (2.25%) Life Science
7 26 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 24 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.33%) Operational Technology
9 20 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 18 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
10 18 (1.19%) Replication
11 17 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.06%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.06%) Security Posture
13 15 (0.99%) PKI
14 14 (0.93%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.86%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 133 (8.82%) Windows
2 72 (4.77%) Linux
3 30 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.46%) Unix
5 18 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.19%) VMS
6 17 (1.13%) Amazon Linux
7 16 (1.06%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.33%) zOS
10 3 (0.20%) CentOS
10 3 (0.20%) MVS
10 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.066%) SUSE
12 1 (0.066%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (23.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 346 (22.94%) Agile
3 311 (20.62%) Project Management
4 292 (19.36%) Problem-Solving
5 254 (16.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 230 (15.25%) ITIL
7 214 (14.19%) Migration
8 190 (12.60%) Project Delivery
9 167 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 160 (10.61%) Risk Management
11 141 (9.35%) Roadmaps
12 132 (8.75%) Service Management
13 124 (8.22%) Decision-Making
13 124 (8.22%) DevOps
14 114 (7.56%) ERP
15 108 (7.16%) Process Improvement
16 96 (6.37%) Data Migration
16 96 (6.37%) PRINCE2
17 95 (6.30%) Problem Management
18 90 (5.97%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 99 (6.56%) SQL
2 84 (5.57%) Python
3 63 (4.18%) PowerShell
4 46 (3.05%) Java
5 33 (2.19%) C#
6 24 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 22 (1.46%) PL/SQL
8 21 (1.39%) Perl
9 17 (1.13%) Groovy
10 9 (0.60%) Go
11 6 (0.40%) VB
12 5 (0.33%) ABAP
12 5 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.27%) C++
13 4 (0.27%) REXX
13 4 (0.27%) VBA
14 3 (0.20%) Formula Language
14 3 (0.20%) LotusScript
14 3 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 225 (14.92%) Degree
2 208 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 131 (8.69%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.77%) PMP
5 70 (4.64%) PMI Certification
6 48 (3.18%) ITIL Certification
7 41 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 35 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.86%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.39%) CCNP
13 19 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (0.99%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.93%) CCNA
16 13 (0.86%) ISEB
17 12 (0.80%) APMG
17 12 (0.80%) AWS Certification
17 12 (0.80%) CBAP
18 11 (0.73%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (4.18%) QA
2 58 (3.85%) PMO
3 38 (2.52%) SLA
4 36 (2.39%) Data Quality
5 34 (2.25%) GDPR
6 19 (1.26%) NIST
7 17 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.86%) MiFID
9 11 (0.73%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.73%) EMIR
9 11 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.46%) GxP
11 7 (0.46%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.46%) NCSC
12 6 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.40%) ITGC
13 4 (0.27%) P3O
14 3 (0.20%) HL7
14 3 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 63 (4.18%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.06%) Docker
3 18 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.06%) vSphere
5 14 (0.93%) DFS Replication
5 14 (0.93%) Firmware
6 13 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.40%) Dovecot
7 6 (0.40%) Postfix
7 6 (0.40%) Squid
8 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.20%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.066%) Snort
12 1 (0.066%) SRDF
12 1 (0.066%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (2.52%) Grafana
2 34 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 34 (2.25%) Prometheus
3 31 (2.06%) Ansible
3 31 (2.06%) Terraform
4 22 (1.46%) SCCM
5 21 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (1.06%) Oracle RMAN
7 7 (0.46%) Kibana
7 7 (0.46%) Nessus
7 7 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (0.27%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.27%) SCOM
10 3 (0.20%) CA Endevor
10 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.20%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.20%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 267 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 164 (10.88%) SAP
3 105 (6.96%) ServiceNow
4 97 (6.43%) Oracle
5 79 (5.24%) Cisco
6 47 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 37 (2.45%) Splunk
8 34 (2.25%) Juniper
9 30 (1.99%) Remedy
9 30 (1.99%) VMware
10 28 (1.86%) Google
11 20 (1.33%) Workday
12 18 (1.19%) Ariba
12 18 (1.19%) CheckPoint
12 18 (1.19%) Polycom
13 16 (1.06%) F5
13 16 (1.06%) Fortinet
14 15 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.93%) Commvault
15 14 (0.93%) Red Hat