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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 134 66
Rank change year-on-year +29 -68 +48
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 609 373 942
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.49% 2.29% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 2.46% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 357 263 391
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £37,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,750 £67,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,768 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.59% +1.40% -

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 19,914 15,166 20,533
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.38% 93.21% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,271 8,607 12,553
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 20 September 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 78 (12.81%) SharePoint
2 51 (8.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.13%) Confluence
4 9 (1.48%) IIS
5 2 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.49%) Simulink
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Houdini
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) NUKE
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (6.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (4.43%) Dynamics GP
3 8 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.49%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.49%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.49%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.33%) Primavera
6 2 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.16%) iTrent
7 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.16%) Odoo
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (22.66%) Azure
2 87 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (12.48%) SaaS
4 61 (10.02%) Entra ID
5 56 (9.20%) AWS
6 50 (8.21%) Power Platform
7 30 (4.93%) Mimecast
8 24 (3.94%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (2.63%) OneDrive
10 13 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.64%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.31%) GCP
12 8 (1.31%) IaaS
12 8 (1.31%) PaaS
13 7 (1.15%) Boomi
13 7 (1.15%) Serverless
14 6 (0.99%) Intacct
15 5 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (0.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.75%) Firewall
2 32 (5.25%) Broadband
2 32 (5.25%) DNS
3 31 (5.09%) TCP/IP
4 27 (4.43%) DHCP
5 24 (3.94%) VPN
6 21 (3.45%) LAN
6 21 (3.45%) VLAN
6 21 (3.45%) WAN
7 12 (1.97%) BGP
8 11 (1.81%) Network Security
8 11 (1.81%) OSPF
9 10 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.31%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (1.15%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (1.15%) Structured Cabling
11 7 (1.15%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.99%) VoIP
13 5 (0.82%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.82%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 33 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (5.09%) Power BI
4 24 (3.94%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.99%) MySQL
8 5 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.82%) Tableau
9 4 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.66%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.66%) Metadata
9 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.33%) Power Query
11 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.16%) Big Data
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.16%) SSDT
11 1 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (11.49%) JIRA
2 23 (3.78%) Git
3 5 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.66%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.66%) GitLab
4 4 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.33%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.16%) Flyway
7 1 (0.16%) MLflow
General
1 273 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 184 (30.21%) Finance
3 147 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (13.14%) Legal
5 62 (10.18%) Law
6 57 (9.36%) Organisational Skills
7 53 (8.70%) Marketing
8 50 (8.21%) Influencing Skills
9 43 (7.06%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (6.90%) Public Sector
11 39 (6.40%) Retail
12 38 (6.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 33 (5.42%) Games
14 23 (3.78%) Banking
15 22 (3.61%) French Language
16 16 (2.63%) Telecoms
17 15 (2.46%) Back Office
18 14 (2.30%) Aerospace
18 14 (2.30%) German Language
19 13 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (19.21%) Senior
2 88 (14.45%) Analyst
3 69 (11.33%) Lead
4 52 (8.54%) Support Engineer
5 39 (6.40%) Support Analyst
6 35 (5.75%) Consultant
7 31 (5.09%) IT Manager
8 30 (4.93%) Project Manager
9 29 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 29 (4.76%) Marketing Manager
10 28 (4.60%) Developer
11 27 (4.43%) Technology Manager
12 25 (4.11%) Applications Support
12 25 (4.11%) IT Support
13 24 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (3.94%) Service Manager
13 24 (3.94%) Systems Engineer
14 23 (3.78%) Service Analyst
15 21 (3.45%) Process Analyst
16 18 (2.96%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.60%) RESTful
2 14 (2.30%) Middleware
2 14 (2.30%) Terraform
3 11 (1.81%) .NET
4 6 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.82%) PySpark
5 5 (0.82%) Web Services
6 4 (0.66%) ASP.NET
6 4 (0.66%) YAML
7 3 (0.49%) ADO
8 2 (0.33%) CSS
8 2 (0.33%) HTML
8 2 (0.33%) JSON
8 2 (0.33%) REST
8 2 (0.33%) SAP PI
9 1 (0.16%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.16%) DOM
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.16%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.06%) Management Information System
2 41 (6.73%) Cloud Native
3 34 (5.58%) Low-Code
4 32 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (4.60%) Marketing Technology
7 27 (4.43%) Blog
8 25 (4.11%) Onboarding
9 24 (3.94%) Video\Live Streaming
10 20 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (3.12%) Data Centre
12 15 (2.46%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.64%) Derivative
14 9 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.31%) Client/Server
15 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
16 7 (1.15%) Driving Licence
17 6 (0.99%) Private Cloud
17 6 (0.99%) Public Cloud
17 6 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.90%) Windows
2 31 (5.09%) Windows Server
3 20 (3.28%) Linux
4 2 (0.33%) AIX
4 2 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (0.33%) Solaris
4 2 (0.33%) VxWorks
4 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (40.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 184 (30.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 147 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 147 (24.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 145 (23.81%) Decision-Making
5 141 (23.15%) ITIL
6 136 (22.33%) AI
7 131 (21.51%) Agile
8 95 (15.60%) Service Delivery
9 89 (14.61%) Project Delivery
10 79 (12.97%) Coaching
10 79 (12.97%) Project Management
11 71 (11.66%) Service Management
12 65 (10.67%) Incident Management
13 64 (10.51%) Release Management
13 64 (10.51%) Roadmaps
14 61 (10.02%) Risk Management
15 60 (9.85%) Analytics
15 60 (9.85%) Mentoring
16 59 (9.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 63 (10.34%) SQL
2 55 (9.03%) Python
3 34 (5.58%) R
4 29 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 25 (4.11%) Go
6 14 (2.30%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.48%) C#
7 9 (1.48%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.99%) C++
9 4 (0.66%) Java
10 3 (0.49%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.33%) Bash
11 2 (0.33%) C
11 2 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.33%) PHP
12 1 (0.16%) Bicep
12 1 (0.16%) Delphi
12 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.16%) Ruby
12 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 85 (13.96%) Degree
2 33 (5.42%) Security Cleared
3 29 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.12%) PMP
5 18 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.63%) APMG
7 15 (2.46%) PMI Certification
8 13 (2.13%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.48%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.15%) CISM
12 7 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.99%) ACCA
13 6 (0.99%) CIMA
13 6 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (5.58%) SLA
3 30 (4.93%) GDPR
4 28 (4.60%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.28%) QA
6 16 (2.63%) PMO
7 15 (2.46%) Data Quality
8 12 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.64%) GRC
10 6 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.66%) NIST
11 4 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.49%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.33%) MiFID
13 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.33%) PERC
14 1 (0.16%) COBIT
14 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 66 (10.84%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.30%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.82%) 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 43 (7.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.97%) Ansible
4 5 (0.82%) ZABBIX
5 4 (0.66%) Packer
6 3 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.49%) Autotask
6 3 (0.49%) Grafana
6 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.16%) Nessus
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.16%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 163 (26.77%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.54%) SAP
3 39 (6.40%) ServiceNow
4 32 (5.25%) Oracle
5 30 (4.93%) CrowdStrike
6 26 (4.27%) Cisco
7 19 (3.12%) VMware
8 17 (2.79%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.97%) Workday
10 9 (1.48%) YouTube
11 8 (1.31%) Remedy
12 7 (1.15%) IBM
12 7 (1.15%) IFS
12 7 (1.15%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.99%) Aruba
13 6 (0.99%) Sage
13 6 (0.99%) Veeam
14 4 (0.66%) F5
14 4 (0.66%) Google
14 4 (0.66%) Infor