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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 61 63
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -25
Contract jobs citing Change Management 826 573 595
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 4.28% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 4.63% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 365 356
10th Percentile £400 £334 £351
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £28.70 £27.91 £41.20
25th Percentile £43.25 £29.93 £54.57
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.29 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.24% -49.57% +88.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £36.64 £77.13
90th Percentile £58.00 £38.66 £90.85
England median hourly rate £41.71 £30.00 £58.17
% change year-on-year +39.03% -48.43% +20.19%

All Process & 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 17,874 12,372 14,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.51% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,706 8,225 9,980
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 190
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.78% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 25 August 2026.

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 25 August 2026.

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 25 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -18 86 £525 -6.67% 61
West London -8 22 £538 +4.88% 37
South London -21 13 £563 +4.65% 4
East London +8 9 £750 +19.05% 14
North London +1 4 £450 +2.27% 3
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 49 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.87%) Confluence
3 15 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.69%) IIS
5 6 (0.73%) Appian
5 6 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.61%) Camunda
7 4 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.48%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
9 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 24 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) InDesign
7 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 29 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.85%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
4 6 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.61%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.48%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.36%) Front Arena
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.24%) Eikon
8 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.24%) iTrent
8 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 142 (17.19%) Azure
2 66 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (7.87%) Entra ID
4 58 (7.02%) Power Platform
5 57 (6.90%) AWS
6 45 (5.45%) SaaS
7 37 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (2.66%) GCP
10 21 (2.54%) GitHub
11 19 (2.30%) OCI
11 19 (2.30%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.82%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.69%) Google Workspace
13 14 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.45%) OneDrive
14 12 (1.45%) Smartsheet
15 10 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.08%) Firewall
2 31 (3.75%) Network Security
3 28 (3.39%) DNS
4 22 (2.66%) WAN
5 21 (2.54%) TCP/IP
6 19 (2.30%) DHCP
7 18 (2.18%) VPN
8 15 (1.82%) LAN
9 9 (1.09%) SSL
10 8 (0.97%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (0.85%) HTTP
11 7 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.73%) VLAN
12 6 (0.73%) Wireless
13 5 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.61%) FTP
13 5 (0.61%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.61%) SSH
14 4 (0.48%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.45%) Power BI
2 42 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.66%) Metadata
4 15 (1.82%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.73%) Tableau
9 5 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (0.61%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.48%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.48%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 93 (11.26%) JIRA
2 26 (3.15%) Git
3 25 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.73%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.48%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.36%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (0.36%) Selenium
6 3 (0.36%) Snyk
6 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.24%) Maven
7 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.12%) Flyway
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 331 (40.07%) Finance
2 325 (39.35%) Social Skills
3 135 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (12.83%) Banking
5 63 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 48 (5.81%) Legal
7 40 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
8 37 (4.48%) Marketing
9 32 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.87%) Retail
10 25 (3.03%) Law
10 25 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (2.78%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.42%) Front Office
13 17 (2.06%) Local Government
14 16 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (1.94%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (1.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 110 (13.32%) Analyst
2 102 (12.35%) Lead
3 101 (12.23%) Project Manager
4 69 (8.35%) Consultant
5 64 (7.75%) Change Manager
6 59 (7.14%) Senior
7 57 (6.90%) Business Analyst
8 31 (3.75%) Developer
9 28 (3.39%) Senior Manager
10 27 (3.27%) Business Manager
10 27 (3.27%) Programme Manager
11 22 (2.66%) Administrator
11 22 (2.66%) Business Change Manager
12 19 (2.30%) Applications Support
12 19 (2.30%) Financial Analyst
13 18 (2.18%) Delivery Manager
13 18 (2.18%) Support Engineer
14 17 (2.06%) Cloud Engineer
14 17 (2.06%) Network Engineer
14 17 (2.06%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.33%) Terraform
2 32 (3.87%) REST
3 28 (3.39%) .NET
4 13 (1.57%) CSS
4 13 (1.57%) Middleware
4 13 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (1.45%) .NET Framework
6 11 (1.33%) HTML
7 9 (1.09%) OAuth
7 9 (1.09%) SOAP
7 9 (1.09%) Web Services
8 8 (0.97%) React
8 8 (0.97%) SPFx
9 7 (0.85%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.85%) Spring
10 6 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (0.73%) Jakarta EE
10 6 (0.73%) JSON
10 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.61%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.11%) Onboarding
2 31 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 28 (3.39%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.66%) PMI
6 20 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.82%) FMCG
9 13 (1.57%) CMDB
9 13 (1.57%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.33%) Clustering
11 11 (1.33%) Operational Technology
12 10 (1.21%) PKI
12 10 (1.21%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.09%) Derivative
14 8 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 87 (10.53%) Windows
2 29 (3.51%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.27%) Linux
4 11 (1.33%) Unix
5 10 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.97%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.24%) AIX
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.12%) Android
10 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) HPUX
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) SUSE
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (37.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 215 (26.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 208 (25.18%) Agile
4 183 (22.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 139 (16.83%) Migration
6 133 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
7 131 (15.86%) Project Delivery
7 131 (15.86%) Project Management
8 126 (15.25%) ITIL
9 119 (14.41%) Roadmaps
10 118 (14.29%) Decision-Making
11 116 (14.04%) DevOps
12 109 (13.20%) AI
13 89 (10.77%) Analytics
14 82 (9.93%) User Acceptance Testing
15 79 (9.56%) PRINCE2
16 73 (8.84%) CI/CD
16 73 (8.84%) Workshop Facilitation
17 70 (8.47%) Service Management
18 69 (8.35%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (11.74%) SQL
2 55 (6.66%) Python
3 46 (5.57%) PowerShell
4 35 (4.24%) C#
5 31 (3.75%) PL/SQL
6 24 (2.91%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.78%) T-SQL
8 21 (2.54%) Java
9 14 (1.69%) Bash
10 12 (1.45%) Korn
11 9 (1.09%) Bicep
12 8 (0.97%) Groovy
13 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.36%) VBScript
14 2 (0.24%) C++
14 2 (0.24%) Perl
14 2 (0.24%) SHACL
14 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.24%) VBA
15 1 (0.12%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 91 (11.02%) Degree
2 84 (10.17%) Security Cleared
3 68 (8.23%) PMI Certification
3 68 (8.23%) PMP
3 68 (8.23%) SC Cleared
4 22 (2.66%) CISSP
5 19 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.06%) APMG
7 16 (1.94%) CISM
8 11 (1.33%) CCNP
9 9 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (0.85%) ACCA
10 7 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.85%) CIMA
10 7 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.73%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.14%) QA
2 51 (6.17%) PMO
3 37 (4.48%) SLA
4 36 (4.36%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.54%) GDPR
6 18 (2.18%) GRC
7 15 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.09%) ITGC
10 8 (0.97%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.85%) NIST
12 6 (0.73%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.61%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.61%) COBIT
14 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 59 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (1.21%) Docker
5 5 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.36%) Squid
7 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.24%) Postfix
9 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (2.78%) Ansible
2 22 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (1.69%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.21%) SCCM
6 8 (0.97%) Grafana
7 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
7 7 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.73%) CASB
8 6 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
8 6 (0.73%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.61%) vRealize
10 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.48%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.48%) systemd
10 4 (0.48%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.36%) Control-M
11 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 159 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.29%) ServiceNow
3 83 (10.05%) Oracle
4 55 (6.66%) SAP
5 43 (5.21%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.51%) VMware
7 23 (2.78%) Google
8 21 (2.54%) Cisco
8 21 (2.54%) Zscaler
9 16 (1.94%) Citrix
9 16 (1.94%) Splunk
10 14 (1.69%) Workday
11 10 (1.21%) Databricks
12 9 (1.09%) Apple
12 9 (1.09%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.09%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.97%) IBM
14 7 (0.85%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.85%) Okta
15 6 (0.73%) New Relic