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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 148 73
Rank change year-on-year +32 -75 +9
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 36 47 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.41% 1.09% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.27% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 17 28 89
10th Percentile - £39,801 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,750 £44,073 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,175 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.32% -1.50% -1.14%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,650 £93,117 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,768 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.40% - -

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 2,296 3,695 2,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.90% 85.65% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,003 1,596 1,991
10th Percentile £26,794 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,489 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +14 27 £44,128 -32.11% 20
Glasgow +52 7 £66,000 +43.48% 15
Midlothian - 1 - - 8
Renfrewshire - 1 £51,645 - 1
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (2.78%) CMS
1 1 (2.78%) Confluence
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.78%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (8.33%) GCP
2 3 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (33.33%) Firewall
2 11 (30.56%) LAN
2 11 (30.56%) Wireless
3 10 (27.78%) SD-WAN
3 10 (27.78%) WAN
3 10 (27.78%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.78%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 18 (50.00%) Finance
2 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 10 (27.78%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Back Office
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Analyst
2 7 (19.44%) Network Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Network Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Network Support
4 5 (13.89%) Network Support Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Support Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Trainee
5 4 (11.11%) Trainee Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Trainee Business Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Applications Support
6 3 (8.33%) Applications Support Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Product Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Change Manager
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 11 (30.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 11 (30.56%) Coaching
2 11 (30.56%) Customer Service
3 10 (27.78%) Asset Management
3 10 (27.78%) Load Balancing
3 10 (27.78%) Network Monitoring
3 10 (27.78%) Network Planning
3 10 (27.78%) Network Virtualisation
3 10 (27.78%) Problem Management
3 10 (27.78%) Project Management
4 9 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 6 (16.67%) ITIL
6 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (13.89%) Agile
7 5 (13.89%) Analytics
8 4 (11.11%) Risk Management
9 3 (8.33%) DevOps
9 3 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) CCNP
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) HNC
3 1 (2.78%) HND
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.78%) QA
1 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Grafana
1 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Cisco
2 10 (27.78%) CheckPoint
2 10 (27.78%) Meraki
2 10 (27.78%) Palo Alto
2 10 (27.78%) SolarWinds
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) Symantec