Hybrid/Remote Change Management Job Trends

Change Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Change Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 137 79
Rank change year-on-year +31 -58 +41
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 617 381 782
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.48% 2.27% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 2.42% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 357 249 351
10th Percentile £35,130 £32,700 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,128 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,250 £96,300 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,082 15,724 19,287
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.68% 93.80% 88.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,329 8,388 11,437
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,026
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Change Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Change Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Change Management
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Change Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Change Management

Change Management
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Change Management over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Change Management salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 71 (11.51%) SharePoint
2 49 (7.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.78%) Confluence
4 9 (1.46%) IIS
5 2 (0.32%) CMS
5 2 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.16%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 21 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.49%) Simulink
6 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.16%) Houdini
7 1 (0.16%) Notion
7 1 (0.16%) NUKE
7 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (6.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (4.38%) Dynamics GP
3 9 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.49%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.49%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.32%) iTrent
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.32%) Primavera
7 2 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.16%) Actimize
8 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.16%) Odoo
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 133 (21.56%) Azure
2 85 (13.78%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (11.51%) SaaS
4 58 (9.40%) AWS
5 56 (9.08%) Entra ID
6 54 (8.75%) Power Platform
7 26 (4.21%) Mimecast
8 23 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
9 17 (2.76%) OneDrive
10 14 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (1.78%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.46%) PaaS
13 8 (1.30%) GCP
13 8 (1.30%) IaaS
13 8 (1.30%) Serverless
14 6 (0.97%) Boomi
14 6 (0.97%) GitHub
15 5 (0.81%) Intacct
15 5 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.67%) Firewall
2 31 (5.02%) Broadband
2 31 (5.02%) DNS
3 30 (4.86%) TCP/IP
4 26 (4.21%) DHCP
5 24 (3.89%) VPN
6 21 (3.40%) VLAN
7 20 (3.24%) LAN
7 20 (3.24%) WAN
8 14 (2.27%) BGP
9 11 (1.78%) OSPF
10 10 (1.62%) Network Security
10 10 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (1.46%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (1.46%) VXLAN
12 8 (1.30%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (1.13%) HSRP
13 7 (1.13%) Structured Cabling
13 7 (1.13%) VRRP
14 6 (0.97%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.48%) SQL Server
2 36 (5.83%) Power BI
3 34 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (4.05%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.97%) Metadata
8 6 (0.97%) MySQL
8 6 (0.97%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.81%) Tableau
10 4 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.65%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.32%) Power Query
12 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.16%) Big Data
12 1 (0.16%) Redis
12 1 (0.16%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 64 (10.37%) JIRA
2 20 (3.24%) Git
3 5 (0.81%) GitLab
3 5 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.65%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.32%) MLflow
5 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.32%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.16%) Flyway
General
1 274 (44.41%) Social Skills
2 185 (29.98%) Finance
3 147 (23.82%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (12.16%) Legal
5 61 (9.89%) Law
6 59 (9.56%) Organisational Skills
7 55 (8.91%) Influencing Skills
8 48 (7.78%) Marketing
9 46 (7.46%) Public Sector
10 45 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 43 (6.97%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (6.81%) Retail
13 33 (5.35%) Games
14 24 (3.89%) Banking
14 24 (3.89%) French Language
15 16 (2.59%) Back Office
15 16 (2.59%) Telecoms
16 15 (2.43%) German Language
17 13 (2.11%) Aerospace
18 12 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (19.29%) Senior
2 91 (14.75%) Analyst
3 75 (12.16%) Lead
4 47 (7.62%) Support Engineer
5 40 (6.48%) Support Analyst
6 32 (5.19%) IT Manager
7 31 (5.02%) Developer
8 30 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 30 (4.86%) Project Manager
9 29 (4.70%) Consultant
10 28 (4.54%) Marketing Manager
11 27 (4.38%) Technology Manager
12 24 (3.89%) Applications Support
12 24 (3.89%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (3.89%) Service Analyst
12 24 (3.89%) Service Manager
13 23 (3.73%) IT Support
14 22 (3.57%) Process Analyst
15 21 (3.40%) Systems Engineer
16 18 (2.92%) Change Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.54%) RESTful
2 14 (2.27%) Middleware
3 12 (1.94%) .NET
3 12 (1.94%) Terraform
4 5 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.81%) PySpark
4 5 (0.81%) Web Services
5 4 (0.65%) ASP.NET
5 4 (0.65%) YAML
6 3 (0.49%) REST
7 2 (0.32%) ADO
7 2 (0.32%) Kafka
8 1 (0.16%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.16%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Camel
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.16%) Pandas
8 1 (0.16%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.16%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.16%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.46%) Management Information System
2 40 (6.48%) Cloud Native
3 32 (5.19%) Low-Code
3 32 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (4.38%) Blog
5 27 (4.38%) Marketing Technology
6 25 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 24 (3.89%) Video\Live Streaming
8 20 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (3.08%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.43%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.46%) Derivative
12 7 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.13%) FMCG
12 7 (1.13%) NHS
12 7 (1.13%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.97%) Housing Association
13 6 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.32%) Windows
2 28 (4.54%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.92%) Linux
4 2 (0.32%) AIX
4 2 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (0.32%) Solaris
4 2 (0.32%) VxWorks
4 2 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (41.49%) Continuous Improvement
2 194 (31.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 152 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
3 152 (24.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 148 (23.99%) Decision-Making
5 143 (23.18%) AI
5 143 (23.18%) ITIL
6 138 (22.37%) Agile
7 97 (15.72%) Service Delivery
8 86 (13.94%) Project Delivery
9 83 (13.45%) Coaching
10 80 (12.97%) Project Management
11 73 (11.83%) Service Management
12 66 (10.70%) Release Management
13 65 (10.53%) Roadmaps
14 64 (10.37%) Analytics
14 64 (10.37%) Incident Management
15 61 (9.89%) Risk Management
15 61 (9.89%) Test Automation
16 59 (9.56%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 68 (11.02%) SQL
2 55 (8.91%) Python
3 30 (4.86%) R
4 29 (4.70%) PowerShell
5 25 (4.05%) Go
6 13 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.46%) C#
7 9 (1.46%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.97%) C++
9 4 (0.65%) Java
10 3 (0.49%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.32%) Bash
11 2 (0.32%) Bicep
11 2 (0.32%) C
11 2 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.32%) PHP
12 1 (0.16%) Delphi
12 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.16%) Ruby
12 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (13.94%) Degree
2 38 (6.16%) Security Cleared
3 35 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.08%) PMP
5 18 (2.92%) APMG
6 16 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.43%) PMI Certification
8 13 (2.11%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.62%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.13%) CISM
13 6 (0.97%) ACCA
13 6 (0.97%) CIMA
13 6 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.97%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (5.35%) SLA
3 31 (5.02%) Accessibility
4 29 (4.70%) GDPR
5 21 (3.40%) QA
6 18 (2.92%) Data Quality
7 16 (2.59%) PMO
8 12 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.62%) GRC
10 6 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.81%) NIST
12 4 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.49%) ISO 19650
13 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.16%) COBIT
15 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 1 (0.16%) MiFID
15 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (9.40%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.27%) Hyper-V
3 13 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.81%) Docker
6 1 (0.16%) GPFS
6 1 (0.16%) Lustre
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.94%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.62%) Ansible
4 5 (0.81%) ZABBIX
5 4 (0.65%) Grafana
6 3 (0.49%) Autotask
6 3 (0.49%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.32%) Packer
8 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.16%) Nessus
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
8 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.16%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 162 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.75%) SAP
3 39 (6.32%) ServiceNow
4 35 (5.67%) Oracle
5 26 (4.21%) CrowdStrike
6 25 (4.05%) Cisco
7 17 (2.76%) VMware
8 16 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.59%) Workday
9 10 (1.62%) YouTube
10 9 (1.46%) Remedy
11 8 (1.30%) IFS
12 7 (1.13%) IBM
13 6 (0.97%) Aruba
13 6 (0.97%) Veeam
14 5 (0.81%) Sage
15 4 (0.65%) Dell
15 4 (0.65%) Epicor
15 4 (0.65%) HP
15 4 (0.65%) Infor