IT Change Manager Contracts

IT Change Manager
UK

The median IT Change Manager daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 575 661
Rank change year-on-year +28 +86 +193
Contract jobs requiring an IT Change Manager 6 21 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.050% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.054% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 18 19
10th Percentile - - £300
25th Percentile - £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.94%
75th Percentile - £530 £519
90th Percentile - £611 £555
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,882 39,182 52,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 93.03% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,009 25,295 36,541
10th Percentile £285 £288 £310
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,416 2,570 1,574
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.50 £19.02
Median hourly rate £25.28 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.81% -5.88% +65.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.72 £39.03
% change year-on-year -38.24% +4.34% +85.83%

IT Change Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured IT Change Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IT Change Manager in the UK

IT Change Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Change Manager in the UK

IT Change Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Change Manager in the UK

IT Change Manager
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Change Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 18 July 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 +48 6 £475 -9.52% 2
London +30 3 £475 -26.92%
UK excluding London +12 3 - - 3
South East +30 2 - - 1
Work from Home +33 1 £475 -5.00% 1
West Midlands +5 1 - -
Midlands -2 1 - -

IT Change Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, IT Change Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring IT Change Manager in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) ITSM
2 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) SLA
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
4 1 (16.67%) Local Government
4 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) SCCM
4 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI

IT Change Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (16.67%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Local Government
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft