Change Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Change Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 38 45
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing Change Management 428 786 1,248
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.32% 5.11% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 5.82% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 380 672
10th Percentile £313 £348 £363
25th Percentile £375 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -3.72% +8.80%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 34
10th Percentile £18.43 £13.63 £23.15
25th Percentile £31.76 £17.49 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £51.25 £53.57
Median % change year-on-year -37.46% -4.32% +104.45%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £87.05 £67.45 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £48.00 £48.13
% change year-on-year +12.50% -0.27% +114.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,023 13,505 23,232
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.03% 87.83% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,195 9,015 16,421
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 573 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Change Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Change Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Change Management.

Change Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Change Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Change Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Change Management.

Change Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Change Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Change Management hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (3.27%) Confluence
2 11 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.40%) CMS
4 5 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 26 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.70%) Trello
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.23%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.23%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.70%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.47%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.47%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.47%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.23%) iTrent
6 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (7.94%) Azure
2 20 (4.67%) Power Platform
3 14 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.04%) SaaS
5 11 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (1.64%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.40%) IaaS
8 5 (1.17%) AWS
8 5 (1.17%) GitHub
8 5 (1.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (0.93%) GCP
9 4 (0.93%) Mimecast
9 4 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.70%) Smartsheet
11 2 (0.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.47%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.37%) Firewall
2 14 (3.27%) WAN
3 11 (2.57%) Network Security
4 10 (2.34%) VPN
5 9 (2.10%) LAN
6 8 (1.87%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (1.87%) MPLS
6 8 (1.87%) SD-WAN
6 8 (1.87%) Wireless
7 6 (1.40%) BGP
7 6 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (1.40%) DNS
8 5 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (1.17%) EIGRP
8 5 (1.17%) HTTP
8 5 (1.17%) OSPF
8 5 (1.17%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.93%) DHCP
9 4 (0.93%) Internet
10 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.74%) Power BI
2 11 (2.57%) Oracle Database
3 10 (2.34%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (0.70%) Tableau
6 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.47%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.47%) DB2
6 2 (0.47%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (0.47%) Power Query
6 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.47%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.47%) Tableau Server
7 1 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.23%) GIS
7 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (5.14%) JIRA
2 10 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.40%) Visual Studio
4 5 (1.17%) Git
5 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.23%) Flyway
6 1 (0.23%) GitLab
6 1 (0.23%) GoCD
6 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.23%) Selenium
6 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.23%) Toad
6 1 (0.23%) Travis CI
General
1 170 (39.72%) Finance
2 154 (35.98%) Social Skills
3 72 (16.82%) Banking
4 68 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.24%) Organisational Skills
5 31 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.54%) Manufacturing
7 25 (5.84%) Telecoms
8 20 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (4.21%) Legal
10 17 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (3.97%) Law
11 13 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (2.57%) Marketing
12 11 (2.57%) Retail
13 9 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.87%) Local Government
15 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.93%) Automotive
16 4 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (16.82%) Analyst
2 59 (13.79%) Project Manager
3 42 (9.81%) Change Manager
4 36 (8.41%) Business Analyst
5 34 (7.94%) Senior
6 32 (7.48%) Lead
7 24 (5.61%) Consultant
8 21 (4.91%) Network Engineer
9 18 (4.21%) Business Manager
10 17 (3.97%) Business Change Manager
11 16 (3.74%) IT Manager
12 15 (3.50%) Architect
13 14 (3.27%) Change Consultant
14 13 (3.04%) Senior Manager
15 12 (2.80%) Programme Manager
16 11 (2.57%) Banking Project Manager
16 11 (2.57%) Developer
17 9 (2.10%) Business Change Consultant
17 9 (2.10%) Business Consultant
17 9 (2.10%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.64%) CSS
3 6 (1.40%) Ajax
3 6 (1.40%) HTML
3 6 (1.40%) REST
3 6 (1.40%) Web Services
4 5 (1.17%) SOAP
4 5 (1.17%) XML
5 3 (0.70%) .NET
6 2 (0.47%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.47%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.47%) Node.js
7 1 (0.23%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.23%) ADO
7 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.23%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.23%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.23%) MDX
7 1 (0.23%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.84%) Management Information System
2 16 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (3.50%) Data Centre
4 13 (3.04%) Operational Technology
5 12 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.57%) CMDB
6 11 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.34%) Life Science
8 8 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.87%) PMI
8 8 (1.87%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.64%) FMCG
10 6 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.93%) NHS
11 4 (0.93%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.70%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.47%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.47%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.78%) Windows
2 10 (2.34%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.64%) Linux
4 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.70%) Unix
5 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.47%) zOS
6 1 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) MVS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (22.20%) Agile
2 94 (21.96%) Project Management
3 90 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (21.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 65 (15.19%) ITIL
5 59 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 54 (12.62%) Migration
7 45 (10.51%) Project Delivery
8 35 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (8.18%) Decision-Making
9 34 (7.94%) Waterfall
10 33 (7.71%) Risk Management
11 32 (7.48%) Service Management
12 30 (7.01%) PRINCE2
13 28 (6.54%) Collaborative Working
14 27 (6.31%) DevOps
14 27 (6.31%) Problem Management
15 25 (5.84%) Roadmaps
16 24 (5.61%) Process Improvement
17 23 (5.37%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.31%) SQL
2 16 (3.74%) Python
3 11 (2.57%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.34%) C#
5 8 (1.87%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.93%) Bash
6 4 (0.93%) Delphi
6 4 (0.93%) Java
7 3 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
7 3 (0.70%) VBA
8 2 (0.47%) JCL
8 2 (0.47%) MUMPS
8 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.47%) VB
9 1 (0.23%) Groovy
9 1 (0.23%) REXX
9 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (13.55%) Degree
2 25 (5.84%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.44%) PMI Certification
4 16 (3.74%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.27%) PMP
6 12 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (2.57%) APMG
8 10 (2.34%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.40%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.93%) CCNA
12 4 (0.93%) CCNP
12 4 (0.93%) CISSP
13 3 (0.70%) BC Cleared
13 3 (0.70%) CISM
13 3 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.67%) PMO
2 14 (3.27%) QA
3 9 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.87%) GDPR
5 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.70%) SLA
6 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.47%) COBIT
6 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.47%) MiFID
6 2 (0.47%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) COSO
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) GxP
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.23%) ITGC
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (2.80%) vSphere
2 8 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.70%) Docker
5 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.87%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.64%) Ansible
4 5 (1.17%) SCCM
4 5 (1.17%) Terraform
5 4 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.70%) Grafana
6 3 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.47%) Avamar
7 2 (0.47%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.47%) Tivoli NetView
7 2 (0.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Argo
8 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.23%) Puppet
8 1 (0.23%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 59 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.35%) Oracle
3 39 (9.11%) SAP
4 23 (5.37%) ServiceNow
5 22 (5.14%) Cisco
6 13 (3.04%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.87%) CheckPoint
7 8 (1.87%) Workday
8 6 (1.40%) Aruba
8 6 (1.40%) Commvault
8 6 (1.40%) Remedy
9 5 (1.17%) Google
9 5 (1.17%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.17%) VMware
10 4 (0.93%) F5
10 4 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.93%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.93%) Proofpoint
10 4 (0.93%) Snow
11 3 (0.70%) Arista