Change Management Job Trends in England

Change Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Change Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 97 82
Rank change year-on-year -30 -15 +35
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 1,200 1,161 2,623
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.55% 3.11% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 3.34% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 757 725 1,467
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,493 £87,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.61% +4.55% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Change Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,241 34,721 70,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.47% 93.08% 85.88%
Number of salaries quoted 36,707 20,549 53,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Change Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Change Management job vacancy trend in England

Change Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Change Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Change Management

Change Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Management in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Change Management in England

Change Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +12 475 £71,750 +6.30% 183
North of England -6 249 £42,215 -21.82% 110
South East -29 218 £57,500 - 128
Midlands -63 118 £56,750 +13.50% 82
North West -4 110 £42,500 -22.73% 56
Yorkshire -28 88 £38,000 -26.21% 41
West Midlands -56 83 £53,688 +1.12% 43
East of England -64 58 £65,000 +27.53% 36
South West -62 57 £42,500 -34.24% 36
North East +10 51 £41,500 -17.00% 14
East Midlands -55 35 £70,000 +80.65% 37
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 65 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 52 (4.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (2.25%) Confluence
4 16 (1.33%) Appian
5 7 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.33%) CMS
7 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.17%) MTS
8 2 (0.17%) SAS
8 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.083%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.083%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 56 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.25%) Trello
8 2 (0.17%) Solid Edge
9 1 (0.083%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.083%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 26 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.17%) Endur
4 12 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
4 12 (1.00%) Shopify
5 9 (0.75%) Magento
6 8 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.50%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
9 4 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 4 (0.33%) SAP PP
10 2 (0.17%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.17%) iTrent
10 2 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
10 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.083%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.083%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 227 (18.92%) Azure
2 147 (12.25%) Microsoft 365
3 92 (7.67%) Power Platform
4 85 (7.08%) AWS
5 84 (7.00%) SaaS
6 63 (5.25%) Entra ID
7 40 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (2.00%) Power Automate
9 23 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 20 (1.67%) Mimecast
11 19 (1.58%) OneDrive
12 17 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (1.42%) PaaS
12 17 (1.42%) PowerApps
13 16 (1.33%) Nutanix
14 14 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (1.17%) GCP
15 13 (1.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.00%) Firewall
2 53 (4.42%) DHCP
2 53 (4.42%) DNS
3 35 (2.92%) VLAN
4 33 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
5 29 (2.42%) VPN
6 24 (2.00%) WAN
7 23 (1.92%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.83%) Wireless
9 20 (1.67%) SAN
10 17 (1.42%) LAN
10 17 (1.42%) Network Security
10 17 (1.42%) Remote Desktop
11 15 (1.25%) SD-WAN
12 13 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (0.92%) BGP
13 11 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (0.92%) NX-OS
13 11 (0.92%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.75%) Power BI
2 53 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.33%) Pinecone
4 14 (1.17%) Metadata
5 9 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.58%) MongoDB
7 6 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (0.50%) Crystal Reports
7 6 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.50%) Power Query
8 5 (0.42%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.42%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.33%) Weaviate
10 3 (0.25%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.25%) MySQL
10 3 (0.25%) Redis
10 3 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (7.75%) JIRA
2 17 (1.42%) Rational DOORS
3 12 (1.00%) MLflow
4 11 (0.92%) Git
5 7 (0.58%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.17%) Selenium
8 2 (0.17%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.083%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.083%) GitLab
9 1 (0.083%) JUnit
9 1 (0.083%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.083%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.083%) ScriptRunner
General
1 557 (46.42%) Finance
2 541 (45.08%) Social Skills
3 253 (21.08%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (7.33%) Law
5 85 (7.08%) Legal
6 72 (6.00%) Banking
7 59 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (4.67%) Retail
9 46 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
10 44 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
11 41 (3.42%) Marketing
12 40 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (3.17%) Manufacturing
14 37 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (2.67%) Public Sector
16 27 (2.25%) Back Office
17 18 (1.50%) Aerospace
18 15 (1.25%) Italian Language
19 12 (1.00%) Front Office
19 12 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 265 (22.08%) Analyst
2 145 (12.08%) Senior
3 128 (10.67%) Business Analyst
4 89 (7.42%) IT Manager
5 85 (7.08%) Lead
6 83 (6.92%) Project Manager
7 76 (6.33%) Support Analyst
8 75 (6.25%) Trainee
8 75 (6.25%) Trainee Analyst
8 75 (6.25%) Trainee Business Analyst
9 71 (5.92%) Change Manager
10 62 (5.17%) Applications Support
10 62 (5.17%) Consultant
11 52 (4.33%) Applications Support Analyst
12 45 (3.75%) Service Manager
13 42 (3.50%) Head of QA
13 42 (3.50%) Support Engineer
14 40 (3.33%) IT Engineer
15 39 (3.25%) Senior Manager
16 29 (2.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.42%) REST
2 20 (1.67%) Middleware
3 17 (1.42%) PyTorch
3 17 (1.42%) TensorFlow
4 16 (1.33%) Django
4 16 (1.33%) FastAPI
4 16 (1.33%) scikit-learn
4 16 (1.33%) Web Services
5 15 (1.25%) RESTful
6 13 (1.08%) OAuth
7 12 (1.00%) Faiss
7 12 (1.00%) Flask
7 12 (1.00%) Hugging Face
7 12 (1.00%) JWT
7 12 (1.00%) NumPy
7 12 (1.00%) OpenAPI
7 12 (1.00%) Pandas
7 12 (1.00%) pytest
7 12 (1.00%) SOAP
7 12 (1.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 76 (6.33%) Management Information System
2 49 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 49 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 34 (2.83%) Low-Code
4 33 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 32 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (2.58%) Data Centre
7 30 (2.50%) CMDB
8 29 (2.42%) Life Science
9 26 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 22 (1.83%) Cloud Native
11 19 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.42%) Driving Licence
14 16 (1.33%) Algorithms
15 11 (0.92%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.75%) IoT
16 9 (0.75%) Operational Technology
16 9 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 122 (10.17%) Windows
2 61 (5.08%) Windows Server
3 40 (3.33%) Linux
4 18 (1.50%) Unix
5 16 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.33%) VMS
10 3 (0.25%) AIX
10 3 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.17%) Android
11 2 (0.17%) CentOS
11 2 (0.17%) Debian
11 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.083%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (30.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 318 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
3 261 (21.75%) Project Management
4 260 (21.67%) ITIL
5 247 (20.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 245 (20.42%) Agile
7 244 (20.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 172 (14.33%) Project Delivery
9 164 (13.67%) ITSM
10 157 (13.08%) Roadmaps
11 148 (12.33%) Business Analysis
12 141 (11.75%) Service Delivery
13 137 (11.42%) Service Management
14 125 (10.42%) AI
14 125 (10.42%) Incident Management
15 121 (10.08%) ERP
16 120 (10.00%) PRINCE2
17 114 (9.50%) Analytics
17 114 (9.50%) Decision-Making
18 100 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 98 (8.17%) SQL
2 61 (5.08%) Python
3 48 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 17 (1.42%) R
6 14 (1.17%) Java
7 11 (0.92%) Go
8 10 (0.83%) C#
9 9 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.67%) Bash
10 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.33%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.33%) VBA
13 3 (0.25%) ABAP
13 3 (0.25%) Korn
13 3 (0.25%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.17%) Bicep
14 2 (0.17%) RPG
15 1 (0.083%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 268 (22.33%) Degree
2 72 (6.00%) PMI Certification
3 63 (5.25%) PMP
4 60 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 42 (3.50%) IRCA
6 41 (3.42%) Master's Degree
7 30 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (2.50%) SC Cleared
8 25 (2.08%) CISSP
9 22 (1.83%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.50%) Chartered Engineer
12 15 (1.25%) CRISC
13 14 (1.17%) CISA
13 14 (1.17%) DBS Check
13 14 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.00%) CISM
14 12 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.17%) QA
2 75 (6.25%) GDPR
3 70 (5.83%) SLA
4 53 (4.42%) PMO
5 46 (3.83%) Data Quality
6 44 (3.67%) ISO 9001
7 38 (3.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 35 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 25 (2.08%) ITGC
10 23 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 21 (1.75%) NIST
12 17 (1.42%) Accessibility
13 13 (1.08%) GRC
14 11 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.83%) COBIT
16 8 (0.67%) GMP
16 8 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 19770
17 7 (0.58%) NIST 800
18 5 (0.42%) MiFID
18 5 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 132 (11.00%) Active Directory
2 51 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (2.92%) Hyper-V
4 25 (2.08%) Docker
5 19 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.42%) Firmware
7 9 (0.75%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (0.42%) vSphere
10 3 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.083%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.083%) IAG
12 1 (0.083%) KVM
12 1 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 68 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (3.00%) Terraform
3 32 (2.67%) Kubernetes
4 28 (2.33%) Ansible
5 21 (1.75%) SCCM
6 15 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.25%) vCenter Server
7 8 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.50%) SCOM
9 5 (0.42%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 4 (0.33%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.33%) Nagios
10 4 (0.33%) Packer
10 4 (0.33%) SolarWinds Orion
11 3 (0.25%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.25%) Grafana
11 3 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.17%) Kibana
12 2 (0.17%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 237 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 96 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 75 (6.25%) SAP
4 68 (5.67%) VMware
5 46 (3.83%) Oracle
6 38 (3.17%) Cisco
7 29 (2.42%) Dell
8 26 (2.17%) HP
9 22 (1.83%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.75%) IBM
11 17 (1.42%) OpenAI
12 16 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
12 16 (1.33%) Dell Compellent
13 15 (1.25%) IFS
13 15 (1.25%) Nimble Storage
14 14 (1.17%) SolarWinds
15 13 (1.08%) Atlassian
15 13 (1.08%) Fortinet
16 12 (1.00%) EMC