Change Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Change Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Change Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 260 330
Rank change year-on-year +14 +70 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Change Manager 58 85 148
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.55% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.59% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 63 104
10th Percentile £463 £401 £429
25th Percentile £493 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.09%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £725 £673
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +1.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Change Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Change Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Change Manager
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 Manager.

Change Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Change Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Change Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Change Manager
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 Manager.

Change Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Change Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Change Manager in the job title.

1 41 (70.69%) Change Management
2 28 (48.28%) Social Skills
3 23 (39.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 23 (39.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (22.41%) Impact Assessments
5 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (17.24%) Project Delivery
6 10 (17.24%) Agile
6 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
6 10 (17.24%) Project Management
7 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
7 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
7 9 (15.52%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (15.52%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (15.52%) Business Transformation
8 8 (13.79%) Project Planning
8 8 (13.79%) ITIL
9 7 (12.07%) Waterfall
9 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
9 7 (12.07%) DevOps
9 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
9 7 (12.07%) Impact Analysis
10 6 (10.34%) Matrix Organization
10 6 (10.34%) FMCG
11 5 (8.62%) Degree
11 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
11 5 (8.62%) Migration
11 5 (8.62%) Finance
11 5 (8.62%) Strategic Thinking
11 5 (8.62%) Coaching

Change Manager Skill Set
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 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
1 3 (5.17%) Smartsheet
2 1 (1.72%) Azure
2 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Influencing Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Organisational Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.62%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Local Government
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Automotive
7 1 (1.72%) French Language
7 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) FMCG
2 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Mac OS
1 3 (5.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (70.69%) Change Management
2 23 (39.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 23 (39.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (22.41%) Impact Assessments
4 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (17.24%) Agile
5 10 (17.24%) Project Delivery
5 10 (17.24%) Project Management
6 9 (15.52%) Business Transformation
7 8 (13.79%) ITIL
7 8 (13.79%) Project Planning
8 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
8 7 (12.07%) DevOps
8 7 (12.07%) Impact Analysis
8 7 (12.07%) Waterfall
9 6 (10.34%) Matrix Organization
10 5 (8.62%) Coaching
10 5 (8.62%) Migration
10 5 (8.62%) Strategic Thinking
11 4 (6.90%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) APMG
5 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.72%) PMP
5 1 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (5.17%) SCCM
2 2 (3.45%) Grafana
2 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
2 4 (6.90%) SAP
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.45%) Splunk
3 2 (3.45%) Workday
4 1 (1.72%) Planview