Change Management Job Trends in the West Midlands

Change Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Change Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 91 76
Rank change year-on-year -13 -15 -27
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 73 122 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.39% 2.95% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 3.22% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 50 67 100
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,252 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,313 £47,125 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,350 £52,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £82,625 £84,426 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,442 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.58% +4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,306 3,789 3,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.07% 91.48% 87.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,227 1,690 2,758
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,313 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Change Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Change Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Change Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Change Management

Change Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Change Management in the West Midlands

Change Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Birmingham -3 43 £51,500 -13.45% 10
Warwickshire +18 12 £42,500 -15.00% 17
Staffordshire -12 6 £54,344 +20.76% 3
Solihull +2 2 - - 1
Shropshire -12 2 - - 2
Dudley - 2 £75,000 - 1
Worcestershire -16 1 - - 4
Herefordshire - 1 - - 1
Coventry - 1 £70,000 - 1
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (12.33%) Confluence
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.48%) nginx
3 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (5.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (2.74%) Trello
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.37%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.74%) SAP PP
2 2 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.37%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (1.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.37%) Odoo
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.37%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.44%) Azure
2 10 (13.70%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (12.33%) AWS
4 8 (10.96%) Power Platform
5 7 (9.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (9.59%) Amazon ELB
5 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
5 7 (9.59%) AWS KMS
5 7 (9.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.48%) Route 53
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (4.11%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.74%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.74%) Slack
8 2 (2.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.33%) Firewall
2 7 (9.59%) DNS
2 7 (9.59%) FTP
2 7 (9.59%) HTTP
2 7 (9.59%) SMTP
2 7 (9.59%) SSH
3 4 (5.48%) IMAP
3 4 (5.48%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (2.74%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.74%) VLAN
4 2 (2.74%) VPN
4 2 (2.74%) WAN
4 2 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.37%) Internet
5 1 (1.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (8.22%) Power BI
3 4 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.37%) MySQL
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) JIRA
2 7 (9.59%) Git
2 7 (9.59%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.59%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (39.73%) Finance
2 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.96%) Legal
4 8 (10.96%) Manufacturing
4 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.85%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Law
6 4 (5.48%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (5.48%) Local Government
6 4 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Banking
7 3 (4.11%) Retail
8 2 (2.74%) Back Office
8 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Police
9 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Analyst
2 12 (16.44%) Business Analyst
3 9 (12.33%) Service Manager
3 9 (12.33%) Trainee
3 9 (12.33%) Trainee Analyst
3 9 (12.33%) Trainee Business Analyst
4 7 (9.59%) Change Manager
4 7 (9.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Senior
5 6 (8.22%) Business Manager
6 5 (6.85%) IT Manager
6 5 (6.85%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Business Change Manager
7 4 (5.48%) IT Services Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Lead
8 3 (4.11%) Support Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Support Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (2.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) LDAP
2 2 (2.74%) HTML
2 2 (2.74%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.37%) ODBC
3 1 (1.37%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.37%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) NHS
2 4 (5.48%) Replication
3 2 (2.74%) CMDB
3 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.74%) Housing Association
3 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.74%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) FMCG
4 1 (1.37%) IoT
4 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.33%) Windows
2 7 (9.59%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (9.59%) Linux
2 7 (9.59%) VMS
3 4 (5.48%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) Project Management
2 24 (32.88%) Continuous Improvement
2 24 (32.88%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (26.03%) ITIL
3 19 (26.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (23.29%) Agile
4 17 (23.29%) ITSM
5 16 (21.92%) Service Management
6 13 (17.81%) Service Delivery
7 12 (16.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (15.07%) Business Analysis
9 9 (12.33%) Configuration Management
10 8 (10.96%) DevOps
10 8 (10.96%) ERP
11 7 (9.59%) Cloud Security
11 7 (9.59%) Incident Management
11 7 (9.59%) Patch Management
11 7 (9.59%) Service Design
11 7 (9.59%) User Experience
12 6 (8.22%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.44%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.33%) SQL
3 8 (10.96%) Python
4 7 (9.59%) Groovy
5 3 (4.11%) Java
5 3 (4.11%) Perl
6 2 (2.74%) VBA
7 1 (1.37%) Bicep
7 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (23.29%) Degree
2 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (5.48%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.48%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.48%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.48%) PMP
5 2 (2.74%) APMG
5 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) HNC
6 1 (1.37%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) SLA
2 4 (5.48%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 2 (2.74%) PMO
4 2 (2.74%) QA
5 1 (1.37%) COBIT
5 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Docker
2 6 (8.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.48%) DFS Replication
3 4 (5.48%) Dovecot
3 4 (5.48%) Postfix
3 4 (5.48%) Squid
4 2 (2.74%) BitLocker
4 2 (2.74%) Firmware
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Terraform
2 7 (9.59%) Grafana
2 7 (9.59%) Prometheus
3 4 (5.48%) Nessus
3 4 (5.48%) Proxmox
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (21.92%) ServiceNow
2 13 (17.81%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.59%) SAP
4 4 (5.48%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (5.48%) Remedy
5 3 (4.11%) Oracle
6 2 (2.74%) Apple
6 2 (2.74%) BMC
6 2 (2.74%) HP
6 2 (2.74%) IFS
6 2 (2.74%) Kronos
6 2 (2.74%) McAfee
6 2 (2.74%) MobileIron
6 2 (2.74%) Sage
6 2 (2.74%) Workday
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.37%) Planon
7 1 (1.37%) VMware