Change Management Job Trends in Scotland

Change Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Change Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 118 76
Rank change year-on-year +17 -42 +14
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 48 39 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.80% 1.17% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.39% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 23 17 89
10th Percentile £25,850 £37,775 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,750 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £47,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.85% -14.55% -4.28%
75th Percentile £68,625 £57,088 £66,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £64,250 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,409 2,799 2,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.56% 84.31% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 1,331 1,882
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Change Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Change Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Change Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Change Management

Change Management
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Change Management in Scotland

Change Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +29 36 £28,000 -48.32% 9
Glasgow +1 11 £85,000 +86.81% 10
Midlothian - 1 - - 6
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (2.08%) CMS
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
1 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (45.83%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) AWS
3 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 6 (12.50%) SaaS
4 2 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (33.33%) Firewall
1 16 (33.33%) LAN
1 16 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 16 (33.33%) WAN
1 16 (33.33%) Wireless
1 16 (33.33%) Wireshark
2 1 (2.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 31 (64.58%) Finance
2 21 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 16 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.42%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Analyst
2 12 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Business Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Trainee
4 7 (14.58%) Trainee Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Trainee Business Analyst
5 6 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Applications Support
5 6 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Head of Data Management
6 5 (10.42%) Head of Risk Management
7 4 (8.33%) Network Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) Network Support
7 4 (8.33%) Network Support Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) Support Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.17%) Site Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Data Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 17 (35.42%) Data Centre
1 17 (35.42%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 17 (35.42%) Customer Service
3 16 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 16 (33.33%) Coaching
3 16 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 16 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 16 (33.33%) Network Planning
3 16 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 16 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 13 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (25.00%) Project Management
6 11 (22.92%) DevOps
7 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (18.75%) Business Analysis
9 8 (16.67%) Agile
9 8 (16.67%) Risk Management
10 7 (14.58%) AI
11 6 (12.50%) Customer Experience
11 6 (12.50%) Decision-Making
11 6 (12.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Degree
2 5 (10.42%) AWS Certification
2 5 (10.42%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.08%) QA
1 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Grafana
1 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
1 2 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 16 (33.33%) Cisco
1 16 (33.33%) Meraki
1 16 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 16 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow