Change Management Contract Job Trends in London

Change Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Change Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 51 36
Rank change year-on-year -9 -15 +16
Contract jobs citing Change Management 601 613 992
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.18% 4.08% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 4.53% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 337 614
10th Percentile £369 £374 £395
25th Percentile £425 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £730 £760 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £29.11 £39.54 £25.70
25th Percentile £32.91 £46.06 £32.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.36% +7.27% +144.44%
75th Percentile £74.45 £87.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £94.06 £97.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £37.28 £41.50 £45.87
% change year-on-year -10.17% -9.52% +50.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Change Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 13,541 16,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.10% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,710 12,087
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 235
10th Percentile £18.17 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Change Management job vacancy trend in London

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Change Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Change Management

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in London

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Change Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Change Management

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in London

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +8 81 £475 -13.64% 25
South London +17 26 £429 -23.81% 6
West London -8 14 £425 +93.18% 14
East London +7 7 £630 +48.24% 13
North London +4 1 £600 - 1
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 55 (9.15%) Confluence
2 40 (6.66%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.66%) nginx
4 9 (1.50%) HCL Notes
4 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.00%) Mattermost
5 6 (1.00%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.67%) IIS
7 3 (0.50%) CICS
7 3 (0.50%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 39 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (4.99%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (3.83%) MS Visio
5 22 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (1.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.67%) Trello
8 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 29 (4.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.16%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.67%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.50%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.50%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.50%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.50%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.50%) VisionPLUS
6 2 (0.33%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.33%) Maximo
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.33%) SAP APO
6 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 69 (11.48%) Azure
2 55 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (7.65%) Power Platform
4 40 (6.66%) AWS
5 25 (4.16%) SaaS
6 20 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (2.66%) Amazon S3
8 15 (2.50%) Power Automate
9 13 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (2.16%) Entra ID
10 12 (2.00%) PaaS
10 12 (2.00%) PowerApps
11 11 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
11 11 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (1.66%) Amazon ELB
12 10 (1.66%) AWS KMS
12 10 (1.66%) GitHub
12 10 (1.66%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 46 (7.65%) Firewall
2 27 (4.49%) Network Security
3 21 (3.49%) DNS
4 17 (2.83%) WAN
5 16 (2.66%) VPN
6 13 (2.16%) HTTP
6 13 (2.16%) LAN
7 12 (2.00%) BGP
7 12 (2.00%) SMTP
7 12 (2.00%) SSH
8 11 (1.83%) OSPF
8 11 (1.83%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.66%) FTP
9 10 (1.66%) IMAP
9 10 (1.66%) OpenLDAP
10 8 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.00%) Skype
11 6 (1.00%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.16%) Power BI
2 22 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.16%) SQL Server
4 18 (3.00%) Tableau
5 17 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.33%) Metadata
7 7 (1.16%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.67%) Redis
10 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.33%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 71 (11.81%) JIRA
2 23 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.49%) Git
4 10 (1.66%) Vagrant
5 5 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.67%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.50%) ChangeMan
7 3 (0.50%) JUnit
7 3 (0.50%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.33%) Mockito
8 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) MSI
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 274 (45.59%) Social Skills
2 247 (41.10%) Finance
3 103 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.15%) Banking
5 45 (7.49%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (3.49%) Legal
9 18 (3.00%) Marketing
9 18 (3.00%) Retail
10 17 (2.83%) Investment Banking
11 16 (2.66%) Law
11 16 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.50%) Manufacturing
13 13 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (2.16%) Telecoms
14 12 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.83%) Local Government
16 10 (1.66%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 96 (15.97%) Analyst
2 75 (12.48%) Project Manager
3 67 (11.15%) Change Manager
4 63 (10.48%) Business Analyst
5 56 (9.32%) Lead
6 36 (5.99%) Senior
7 34 (5.66%) Developer
8 31 (5.16%) Consultant
9 24 (3.99%) Architect
10 20 (3.33%) Business Manager
11 19 (3.16%) Programme Manager
12 16 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (2.66%) Business Change Manager
13 15 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (2.50%) IT Manager
14 14 (2.33%) Senior Manager
14 14 (2.33%) Transformation Manager
15 12 (2.00%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (2.00%) Financial Analyst
15 12 (2.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.50%) .NET
2 12 (2.00%) LDAP
3 9 (1.50%) REST
4 8 (1.33%) .NET Framework
4 8 (1.33%) HTML
4 8 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.16%) Kafka
5 7 (1.16%) SAML
6 6 (1.00%) OAuth
7 5 (0.83%) Node.js
7 5 (0.83%) OpenID
7 5 (0.83%) SOAP
8 4 (0.67%) CSS
8 4 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (0.67%) Keycloak
8 4 (0.67%) RESTful
8 4 (0.67%) YAML
9 3 (0.50%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.83%) Product Ownership
2 24 (3.99%) Management Information System
2 24 (3.99%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.49%) CMDB
4 15 (2.50%) Replication
5 14 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.83%) PMI
9 10 (1.66%) PKI
10 9 (1.50%) Life Science
11 8 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.16%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.00%) Cloud Native
13 6 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.65%) Windows
2 25 (4.16%) Linux
3 12 (2.00%) VMS
4 10 (1.66%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (1.66%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.33%) Unix
6 6 (1.00%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.50%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (31.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 167 (27.79%) Agile
3 145 (24.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 119 (19.80%) Project Management
5 113 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 80 (13.31%) ITIL
8 77 (12.81%) Migration
9 73 (12.15%) Project Delivery
10 65 (10.82%) Decision-Making
11 60 (9.98%) DevOps
12 58 (9.65%) Roadmaps
13 55 (9.15%) PRINCE2
14 54 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
15 53 (8.82%) Risk Management
16 49 (8.15%) ERP
16 49 (8.15%) Workshop Facilitation
17 48 (7.99%) User Acceptance Testing
18 47 (7.82%) Process Improvement
19 46 (7.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 81 (13.48%) SQL
2 50 (8.32%) Python
3 32 (5.32%) PowerShell
4 24 (3.99%) C#
5 14 (2.33%) Groovy
5 14 (2.33%) Java
5 14 (2.33%) PL/SQL
6 13 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.33%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.16%) Bash
8 7 (1.16%) Korn
9 4 (0.67%) Formula Language
9 4 (0.67%) Go
9 4 (0.67%) LotusScript
10 3 (0.50%) Perl
11 2 (0.33%) C
11 2 (0.33%) C++
11 2 (0.33%) COBOL
11 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 115 (19.13%) Degree
2 72 (11.98%) Security Cleared
3 49 (8.15%) SC Cleared
4 46 (7.65%) PMI Certification
5 37 (6.16%) PMP
6 14 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.66%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.50%) APMG
10 9 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (1.33%) CCNP
11 8 (1.33%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.00%) CCIE
13 6 (1.00%) CFA
14 5 (0.83%) JNCIE
14 5 (0.83%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.32%) QA
2 37 (6.16%) PMO
3 27 (4.49%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.00%) GDPR
5 14 (2.33%) SLA
6 13 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.33%) MiFID
7 8 (1.33%) NIST
8 6 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.83%) EMIR
9 5 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.67%) GMP
10 4 (0.67%) IFRS
11 3 (0.50%) ITGC
12 2 (0.33%) Basel III
12 2 (0.33%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.33%) NCSC
12 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 28 (4.66%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.33%) Docker
3 10 (1.66%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.66%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.66%) Postfix
3 10 (1.66%) Squid
4 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.33%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.17%) XenApp
7 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (5.32%) Terraform
2 15 (2.50%) Grafana
3 14 (2.33%) Prometheus
4 13 (2.16%) Kubernetes
5 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (1.83%) Nessus
7 10 (1.66%) Ansible
7 10 (1.66%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.33%) SCOM
9 6 (1.00%) HP SiteScope
10 4 (0.67%) Rancher
11 3 (0.50%) CA Endevor
11 3 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.50%) SCCM
12 2 (0.33%) Argo
12 2 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.33%) Puppet
12 2 (0.33%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.33%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 107 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.98%) ServiceNow
3 54 (8.99%) SAP
4 47 (7.82%) Oracle
5 21 (3.49%) Cisco
5 21 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.83%) Workday
7 10 (1.66%) F5
7 10 (1.66%) Fortinet
7 10 (1.66%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.50%) Citrix
8 9 (1.50%) Lotus
8 9 (1.50%) Remedy
9 8 (1.33%) CheckPoint
9 8 (1.33%) VMware
10 7 (1.16%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.16%) Juniper
10 7 (1.16%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.16%) Splunk
10 7 (1.16%) Zscaler