Change Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Change Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Change Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 31 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +42
Contract jobs citing Change Management 154 92 99
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.72% 5.72% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.79% 6.61% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 62 54
10th Percentile £302 £213 £352
25th Percentile £380 £428 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £600
90th Percentile £755 £748 £680
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £20.26 £14.04
25th Percentile £54.75 £26.26 £15.23
Median hourly rate £56.50 £36.88 £43.91
Median % change year-on-year +53.20% -16.01% -
75th Percentile £58.25 £48.13 £72.90
90th Percentile - £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £49.04 £45.87
% change year-on-year -14.65% +6.92% +58.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,978 1,392 1,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.34% 86.51% 84.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,251 866 1,009
10th Percentile £263 £221 £274
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £719 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 47 58
10th Percentile £13.55 £14.70 £14.77
25th Percentile £16.19 £16.51 £17.73
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £27.63
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% -21.85% +63.12%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.38 £54.06
90th Percentile £35.84 £52.50 £69.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +23.66%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Change Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Change Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Change Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Change Management

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the West Midlands

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Change Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Change Management

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Birmingham +7 70 £475 -5.00% 15
Warwickshire +4 41 £385 -30.00% 17
Shropshire -26 14 £496 +7.24% 3
Worcestershire - 6 £575 - 3
Wolverhampton +1 3 £346 - 1
Staffordshire -3 3 £413 +3.13% 4
Kingswinford - 3 £775 -
Coventry -16 2 - - 4
Solihull - 2 - -
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 21 (13.64%) Confluence
2 10 (6.49%) nginx
3 1 (0.65%) CICS
3 1 (0.65%) CMS
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (7.79%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (6.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.30%) Trello
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.30%) ResourceLink
2 2 (1.30%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Maximo
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.65%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 47 (30.52%) AWS
2 39 (25.32%) Azure
3 26 (16.88%) GCP
4 20 (12.99%) AWS KMS
5 19 (12.34%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (10.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (10.39%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (10.39%) Amazon ELB
6 16 (10.39%) Amazon S3
6 16 (10.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (6.49%) Route 53
8 7 (4.55%) Datadog
8 7 (4.55%) Serverless
9 6 (3.90%) Amazon Glacier
10 5 (3.25%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.25%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.60%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.95%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 34 (22.08%) DNS
2 28 (18.18%) Firewall
3 16 (10.39%) FTP
3 16 (10.39%) HTTP
3 16 (10.39%) SMTP
3 16 (10.39%) SSH
3 16 (10.39%) VPN
4 11 (7.14%) SSL
5 10 (6.49%) IMAP
5 10 (6.49%) OpenLDAP
5 10 (6.49%) Wireless
6 9 (5.84%) Cisco IPT
6 9 (5.84%) DHCP
6 9 (5.84%) DMVPN
6 9 (5.84%) IPsec
6 9 (5.84%) WAN
7 7 (4.55%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.90%) Network Security
9 2 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.79%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (6.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.60%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.60%) Power BI
7 3 (1.95%) MySQL
8 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (16.88%) JIRA
2 24 (15.58%) Jenkins
3 16 (10.39%) Git
3 16 (10.39%) Vagrant
4 8 (5.19%) GitLab
5 7 (4.55%) Liquibase
6 4 (2.60%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.65%) ChangeMan
General
1 85 (55.19%) Social Skills
2 47 (30.52%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (21.43%) Finance
4 26 (16.88%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.44%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (7.79%) Banking
7 8 (5.19%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.55%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.60%) Legal
11 3 (1.95%) Local Government
12 2 (1.30%) Law
12 2 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Electronics
13 1 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.65%) Military
13 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (11.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (10.39%) Analyst
3 16 (10.39%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (10.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 16 (10.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (10.39%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (7.79%) Project Manager
4 12 (7.79%) Senior
4 12 (7.79%) Site Engineer
4 12 (7.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 12 (7.79%) Splunk Engineer
5 10 (6.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 10 (6.49%) Lead
6 9 (5.84%) SAP Manager
7 8 (5.19%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.19%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) Change Manager
8 7 (4.55%) Consultant
8 7 (4.55%) Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.34%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (7.14%) LDAP
3 9 (5.84%) 802.1X
3 9 (5.84%) Middleware
3 9 (5.84%) REST
4 7 (4.55%) RESTful
5 4 (2.60%) SailPoint
5 4 (2.60%) SAML
6 3 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.65%) PySpark
7 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 16 (10.39%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.39%) Replication
3 13 (8.44%) Management Information System
4 10 (6.49%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.55%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.95%) PKI
8 3 (1.95%) SCADA
9 2 (1.30%) CMDB
9 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.30%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.30%) NHS
9 2 (1.30%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (25.32%) Linux
2 35 (22.73%) Windows
3 16 (10.39%) Amazon Linux
3 16 (10.39%) VMS
4 15 (9.74%) Unix
5 10 (6.49%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.90%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.60%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.65%) AIX
8 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.65%) Solaris
8 1 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (40.26%) DevOps
2 42 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (24.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 37 (24.03%) Agile
5 36 (23.38%) CI/CD
6 35 (22.73%) Migration
7 29 (18.83%) ITIL
8 24 (15.58%) Project Management
9 22 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 20 (12.99%) Cloud Security
10 20 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 19 (12.34%) Computer Science
11 19 (12.34%) Observability
11 19 (12.34%) Patch Management
12 18 (11.69%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (10.39%) Dashboard Development
13 16 (10.39%) Incident Response
13 16 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (10.39%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (10.39%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.17%) Python
2 30 (19.48%) PowerShell
3 22 (14.29%) Bash
4 17 (11.04%) SQL
5 16 (10.39%) Groovy
6 8 (5.19%) Go
7 7 (4.55%) Java
8 6 (3.90%) Perl
9 4 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.65%) C++
10 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 48 (31.17%) SC Cleared
3 42 (27.27%) Degree
4 19 (12.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (7.79%) AWS Certification
6 10 (6.49%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.19%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.25%) MCDST
9 5 (3.25%) MCP
9 5 (3.25%) PMI Certification
9 5 (3.25%) PMP
10 3 (1.95%) CISM
10 3 (1.95%) CISSP
11 2 (1.30%) APMG
11 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.49%) QA
2 5 (3.25%) PMO
2 5 (3.25%) SLA
3 2 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.65%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.65%) NCSC
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (27.92%) Docker
2 22 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 16 (10.39%) DFS Replication
4 10 (6.49%) Dovecot
4 10 (6.49%) Postfix
4 10 (6.49%) Squid
5 5 (3.25%) Firmware
6 4 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.95%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.65%) Snort
Systems Management
1 31 (20.13%) Grafana
1 31 (20.13%) Kubernetes
1 31 (20.13%) Prometheus
2 27 (17.53%) Terraform
3 22 (14.29%) Ansible
4 12 (7.79%) Kibana
4 12 (7.79%) Puppet
5 10 (6.49%) Nessus
5 10 (6.49%) Proxmox
6 9 (5.84%) SCCM
7 1 (0.65%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.65%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 30 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.88%) ServiceNow
2 26 (16.88%) Splunk
3 15 (9.74%) SAP
4 10 (6.49%) CheckPoint
4 10 (6.49%) Cisco
4 10 (6.49%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (5.84%) Blue Coat
5 9 (5.84%) F5
5 9 (5.84%) Juniper
5 9 (5.84%) Oracle
6 7 (4.55%) AppDynamics
6 7 (4.55%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.25%) iManage
7 5 (3.25%) Mitel
8 4 (2.60%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.60%) Okta
8 4 (2.60%) VMware
9 3 (1.95%) Sage
10 2 (1.30%) HP