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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 61 57
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 753 515 696
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.94% 4.09% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.43% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 320 449
10th Percentile £400 £345 £347
25th Percentile £421 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £728 £750 £750
England median daily rate £522 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +4.30% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £28.70 - £32.35
25th Percentile £43.25 - £32.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.60 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +101.05% -17.17% -37.22%
75th Percentile £76.96 £34.30 £52.99
90th Percentile £97.00 £37.72 £62.90
England median hourly rate £34.87 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -30.26% - -0.49%

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 17,007 11,628 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.40% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,788 11,072
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 214 309
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -13 83 £550 -4.35% 38
South London +2 21 £513 -12.77% 7
West London -17 19 £500 +11.11% 11
East London +3 8 £750 +28.21% 5
North London +2 3 £450 +2.27% 2
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 44 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.91%) Confluence
3 16 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.86%) IIS
5 13 (1.73%) Appian
6 7 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.66%) Camunda
7 5 (0.66%) CMS
8 3 (0.40%) Kentico
8 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.13%) MTS
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 18 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.66%) Finacle
4 5 (0.66%) OpenText MBPM
4 5 (0.66%) Oracle BPM
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.53%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.40%) SAP QM
6 3 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.27%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.27%) Global One
7 2 (0.27%) Primavera
7 2 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 122 (16.20%) Azure
2 60 (7.97%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (6.11%) Entra ID
4 45 (5.98%) AWS
5 41 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (5.44%) SaaS
6 39 (5.18%) Power Platform
7 23 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (2.79%) Power Automate
9 18 (2.39%) GCP
10 13 (1.73%) Google Workspace
10 13 (1.73%) OCI
10 13 (1.73%) PowerApps
11 12 (1.59%) Smartsheet
12 10 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (1.33%) GitHub
12 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (1.33%) PaaS
13 9 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (1.20%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.45%) Firewall
2 18 (2.39%) WAN
3 16 (2.12%) Network Security
4 15 (1.99%) DNS
5 12 (1.59%) LAN
6 11 (1.46%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.46%) VPN
7 9 (1.20%) BGP
7 9 (1.20%) DHCP
8 8 (1.06%) OSPF
8 8 (1.06%) SSL
9 7 (0.93%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (0.80%) Intranet
10 6 (0.80%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.66%) NetScaler
12 3 (0.40%) FTP
12 3 (0.40%) Internet
12 3 (0.40%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.19%) Power BI
3 19 (2.52%) Metadata
4 12 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 7 (0.93%) Pinecone
5 7 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.53%) MySQL
9 3 (0.40%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.40%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.40%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.40%) Tableau
10 2 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.27%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 101 (13.41%) JIRA
2 22 (2.92%) Git
3 21 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.93%) MLflow
4 7 (0.93%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.53%) Maven
6 3 (0.40%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.40%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (0.40%) Snyk
6 3 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.27%) git-flow
8 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.13%) GitLab
8 1 (0.13%) Hudson
8 1 (0.13%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 293 (38.91%) Finance
2 284 (37.72%) Social Skills
3 105 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (11.29%) Banking
5 55 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 47 (6.24%) Legal
7 40 (5.31%) Marketing
8 34 (4.52%) Retail
9 26 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (2.92%) Law
11 22 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.39%) Financial Institution
13 17 (2.26%) Local Government
14 14 (1.86%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.73%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.59%) Front Office
17 11 (1.46%) Aviation
17 11 (1.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (11.82%) Project Manager
2 80 (10.62%) Analyst
2 80 (10.62%) Change Manager
3 78 (10.36%) Lead
4 60 (7.97%) Consultant
5 50 (6.64%) Senior
6 46 (6.11%) Business Analyst
7 35 (4.65%) Developer
8 28 (3.72%) Programme Manager
9 26 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
9 26 (3.45%) Support Engineer
10 24 (3.19%) Senior Manager
11 22 (2.92%) Business Manager
12 20 (2.66%) Business Change Manager
12 20 (2.66%) Technical Manager
13 19 (2.52%) Architect
13 19 (2.52%) IT Engineer
13 19 (2.52%) IT Support
13 19 (2.52%) IT Support Engineer
14 18 (2.39%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.65%) REST
2 30 (3.98%) .NET
3 21 (2.79%) .NET Framework
4 18 (2.39%) OAuth
5 14 (1.86%) Web Services
6 12 (1.59%) CSS
6 12 (1.59%) Middleware
7 11 (1.46%) React
7 11 (1.46%) RESTful
8 9 (1.20%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.06%) HTML
9 8 (1.06%) SPFx
9 8 (1.06%) Spring
10 7 (0.93%) Faiss
10 7 (0.93%) FastAPI
10 7 (0.93%) Hugging Face
10 7 (0.93%) JWT
10 7 (0.93%) OpenAPI
10 7 (0.93%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.52%) Onboarding
2 30 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
3 24 (3.19%) PMI
3 24 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.92%) Data Centre
4 22 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.39%) CMDB
6 14 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.73%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.73%) FMCG
7 13 (1.73%) Low-Code
7 13 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.06%) PKI
11 7 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.93%) Operational Technology
11 7 (0.93%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.80%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 89 (11.82%) Windows
2 24 (3.19%) Linux
3 23 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.73%) Unix
5 9 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.27%) AIX
10 2 (0.27%) Android
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.13%) HPUX
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) SUSE
11 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (31.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 190 (25.23%) Agile
3 181 (24.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 151 (20.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 122 (16.20%) DevOps
6 120 (15.94%) ITIL
7 118 (15.67%) Project Management
8 116 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
9 114 (15.14%) Migration
10 100 (13.28%) Decision-Making
11 96 (12.75%) Roadmaps
12 91 (12.08%) Project Delivery
13 84 (11.16%) AI
14 75 (9.96%) User Acceptance Testing
15 73 (9.69%) CI/CD
16 62 (8.23%) PRINCE2
17 61 (8.10%) Analytics
18 60 (7.97%) Workshop Facilitation
19 59 (7.84%) Risk Management
20 56 (7.44%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 98 (13.01%) SQL
2 47 (6.24%) Python
3 42 (5.58%) C#
4 34 (4.52%) PL/SQL
5 30 (3.98%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.19%) T-SQL
7 22 (2.92%) JavaScript
8 21 (2.79%) Java
9 7 (0.93%) Groovy
9 7 (0.93%) Korn
10 6 (0.80%) Bash
11 4 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.40%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.27%) C++
13 2 (0.27%) Perl
14 1 (0.13%) ABAP
14 1 (0.13%) C
14 1 (0.13%) COBOL
14 1 (0.13%) RPG
14 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (10.89%) Degree
2 79 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 60 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 59 (7.84%) PMI Certification
5 55 (7.30%) PMP
6 28 (3.72%) CISSP
7 20 (2.66%) CISM
8 17 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (1.99%) APMG
10 13 (1.73%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 11 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (1.46%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.33%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.06%) CISA
14 7 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 6 (0.80%) CBAP
15 6 (0.80%) CRISC
15 6 (0.80%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.70%) QA
2 46 (6.11%) PMO
3 37 (4.91%) SLA
4 35 (4.65%) Data Quality
5 28 (3.72%) GDPR
6 24 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.59%) GRC
9 11 (1.46%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.20%) NIST
11 8 (1.06%) ITGC
12 7 (0.93%) COBIT
13 6 (0.80%) IFRS
14 5 (0.66%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.66%) IFRS 17
15 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
15 4 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.40%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (6.77%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.99%) Docker
3 10 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.40%) XenApp
5 3 (0.40%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.13%) Squid
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (3.85%) Terraform
2 20 (2.66%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.52%) Ansible
4 13 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.06%) SCCM
7 6 (0.80%) CASB
7 6 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.66%) vRealize
9 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.53%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.53%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.53%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.53%) Puppet
10 3 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.40%) Grafana
10 3 (0.40%) Packer
10 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.40%) SCVMM
11 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 125 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 91 (12.08%) ServiceNow
3 77 (10.23%) Oracle
4 48 (6.37%) SAP
5 45 (5.98%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.59%) Citrix
7 22 (2.92%) VMware
8 21 (2.79%) Google
9 15 (1.99%) Workday
10 14 (1.86%) Cisco
11 13 (1.73%) Zscaler
12 11 (1.46%) Splunk
13 10 (1.33%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.93%) Apple
14 7 (0.93%) Automation Anywhere
14 7 (0.93%) Databricks
14 7 (0.93%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.93%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.93%) UiPath
15 6 (0.80%) Juniper