Change Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Change Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Change Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 98 90
Rank change year-on-year -18 -8 +20
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 807 779 1,780
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.51% 2.82% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 3.06% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 460 454 1,018
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,438 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +1.80%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,114 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,875 £85,307 £76,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,184 25,459 50,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.18% 92.14% 85.72%
Number of salaries quoted 23,968 13,634 37,852
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Change Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Change Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Change Management

Change Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Change Management in the UK excluding London

Change Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 March 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
North of England +27 286 £42,500 -22.73% 84
South East -20 186 £57,500 - 139
North West +5 116 £46,250 -15.91% 43
Yorkshire -3 113 £37,500 -31.82% 31
Midlands -49 108 £55,450 +10.90% 76
West Midlands -40 79 £50,000 -4.21% 51
Scotland +4 72 £30,500 -51.20% 21
South West -32 61 £42,500 -34.43% 31
North East +22 57 £44,500 -11.44% 12
East of England -44 57 £55,000 +7.91% 41
East Midlands -43 30 £70,000 +69.70% 25
Northern Ireland -8 29 £35,500 - 5
Wales -11 10 £37,500 -23.47% 7
Change Management
UK

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 33 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.61%) Confluence
4 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.25%) CMS
5 2 (0.25%) SAS
6 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.37%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.37%) Siemens NX
6 3 (0.37%) Trello
7 2 (0.25%) Solid Edge
7 2 (0.25%) Weka
8 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.73%) Dynamics NAV
3 13 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.49%) Shopify
5 9 (1.12%) Magento
6 8 (0.99%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.50%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 4 (0.50%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.50%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.37%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
10 2 (0.25%) iTrent
10 2 (0.25%) Q-Pulse
10 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.25%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 157 (19.45%) Azure
2 85 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 77 (9.54%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (7.93%) AWS
5 47 (5.82%) Entra ID
6 45 (5.58%) SaaS
7 29 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (3.22%) Nutanix
9 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
9 14 (1.73%) PowerApps
10 13 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
10 13 (1.61%) Power Automate
11 12 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.36%) OneDrive
13 10 (1.24%) Mimecast
14 9 (1.12%) GCP
15 8 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (0.87%) IaaS
16 7 (0.87%) Miro
16 7 (0.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.21%) Firewall
2 32 (3.97%) DNS
3 30 (3.72%) DHCP
4 27 (3.35%) Remote Desktop
5 26 (3.22%) Wireless
6 20 (2.48%) WAN
7 15 (1.86%) LAN
7 15 (1.86%) VLAN
8 13 (1.61%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.36%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
10 9 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (1.12%) Junos
10 9 (1.12%) NX-OS
10 9 (1.12%) Wireshark
11 7 (0.87%) BGP
11 7 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (0.74%) EIGRP
12 6 (0.74%) OSPF
12 6 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (7.19%) Power BI
2 22 (2.73%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.49%) Metadata
4 8 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.50%) Tableau
7 3 (0.37%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (0.37%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.37%) MySQL
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.37%) Redis
8 2 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.25%) Power Query
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (9.42%) JIRA
2 12 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
3 11 (1.36%) Git
4 8 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.12%) git-flow
6 1 (0.12%) GitLab
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 379 (46.96%) Finance
2 370 (45.85%) Social Skills
3 160 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (5.95%) Legal
5 47 (5.82%) Law
6 34 (4.21%) Manufacturing
7 31 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (2.97%) Retail
10 19 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.35%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.98%) Public Sector
12 15 (1.86%) Local Government
12 15 (1.86%) Marketing
13 13 (1.61%) Banking
14 11 (1.36%) Advertising
14 11 (1.36%) Back Office
15 10 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.99%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 236 (29.24%) Analyst
2 145 (17.97%) Business Analyst
3 103 (12.76%) Trainee
3 103 (12.76%) Trainee Analyst
3 103 (12.76%) Trainee Business Analyst
4 78 (9.67%) Senior
5 69 (8.55%) Project Manager
6 55 (6.82%) Lead
7 48 (5.95%) Support Analyst
8 47 (5.82%) Change Manager
9 44 (5.45%) Head of QA
10 39 (4.83%) Applications Support
10 39 (4.83%) IT Manager
11 38 (4.71%) Developer
12 35 (4.34%) Cloud Engineer
13 30 (3.72%) Applications Support Analyst
14 29 (3.59%) Senior Manager
15 28 (3.47%) Support Engineer
16 26 (3.22%) Network Engineer
17 24 (2.97%) Project Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.11%) REST
2 15 (1.86%) HTML
3 14 (1.73%) Middleware
4 11 (1.36%) OLE
5 10 (1.24%) SOAP
6 6 (0.74%) React
7 5 (0.62%) Node.js
8 4 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (0.37%) Itk
9 3 (0.37%) JSON
9 3 (0.37%) Web Services
10 2 (0.25%) .NET
10 2 (0.25%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.25%) EDI
10 2 (0.25%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (0.12%) Playwright
11 1 (0.12%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.12%) RESTful
11 1 (0.12%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.18%) Management Information System
2 52 (6.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 28 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (3.35%) Public Cloud
5 26 (3.22%) Data Centre
6 25 (3.10%) Life Science
6 25 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 17 (2.11%) Driving Licence
10 11 (1.36%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.24%) PKI
12 9 (1.12%) IoT
12 9 (1.12%) NHS
13 8 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.74%) Client/Server
14 6 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.74%) Social Media
15 5 (0.62%) FMCG
15 5 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 89 (11.03%) Windows
2 49 (6.07%) Windows Server
3 22 (2.73%) Linux
4 8 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.74%) Unix
6 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.50%) VMS
8 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Android
10 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) CentOS
10 1 (0.12%) Debian
10 1 (0.12%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (33.71%) Problem-Solving
2 267 (33.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 260 (32.22%) Project Management
4 191 (23.67%) Agile
5 177 (21.93%) ITIL
6 171 (21.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 144 (17.84%) Business Analysis
8 135 (16.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 116 (14.37%) PRINCE2
10 115 (14.25%) ITSM
11 101 (12.52%) Service Delivery
12 97 (12.02%) Service Management
13 96 (11.90%) Project Delivery
14 85 (10.53%) Coaching
15 83 (10.29%) Analytics
15 83 (10.29%) ERP
16 76 (9.42%) Actionable Insight
16 76 (9.42%) Mentoring
17 75 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
18 71 (8.80%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (7.56%) SQL
2 54 (6.69%) PowerShell
3 30 (3.72%) JavaScript
4 26 (3.22%) Python
5 11 (1.36%) R
6 9 (1.12%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.50%) Bash
7 4 (0.50%) Go
7 4 (0.50%) VBA
8 3 (0.37%) Java
8 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.37%) Tcl
9 2 (0.25%) ABAP
9 2 (0.25%) C#
10 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 244 (30.24%) Degree
2 62 (7.68%) PMI Certification
3 59 (7.31%) PMP
4 44 (5.45%) IRCA
5 35 (4.34%) Security Cleared
6 34 (4.21%) Master's Degree
7 27 (3.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 23 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.98%) SC Cleared
11 15 (1.86%) DV Cleared
11 15 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
12 13 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.61%) DBS Check
13 12 (1.49%) Azure Certification
14 9 (1.12%) CCNP
15 8 (0.99%) AWS Certification
15 8 (0.99%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.43%) GDPR
2 65 (8.05%) QA
3 48 (5.95%) ISO 9001
4 41 (5.08%) SLA
5 26 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (3.22%) PMO
6 22 (2.73%) Data Quality
7 21 (2.60%) Accessibility
7 21 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.12%) GMP
9 8 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.87%) GRC
11 5 (0.62%) ITGC
11 5 (0.62%) NIST
11 5 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 3 (0.37%) GxP
14 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.25%) NCSC
14 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (10.29%) Active Directory
2 37 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (3.84%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.73%) Firmware
5 10 (1.24%) Docker
5 10 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.12%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.87%) vSphere
8 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (2.35%) Terraform
3 15 (1.86%) vCenter Server
4 14 (1.73%) Ansible
5 13 (1.61%) Kubernetes
6 9 (1.12%) SCCM
6 9 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.99%) Grafana
7 8 (0.99%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.87%) Control-M
9 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.50%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.37%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.25%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.12%) Nagios
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 143 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.58%) SAP
3 37 (4.58%) Cisco
3 37 (4.58%) VMware
4 30 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 27 (3.35%) Dell
6 25 (3.10%) Dell Compellent
6 25 (3.10%) HP
6 25 (3.10%) Nimble Storage
7 24 (2.97%) Atlassian
8 22 (2.73%) SolarWinds
9 20 (2.48%) Palo Alto
10 18 (2.23%) Meraki
10 18 (2.23%) Oracle
11 15 (1.86%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.24%) CheckPoint
12 10 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (1.24%) Splunk
13 9 (1.12%) ConnectWise
13 9 (1.12%) WooCommerce