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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 58 61
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -23
Contract jobs citing Change Management 828 584 607
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.14% 4.29% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.65% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 369 370
10th Percentile £400 £345 £362
25th Percentile £425 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £31.85 - £41.20
25th Percentile £51.50 - £54.57
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -39.39% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58.92 - £77.13
90th Percentile £96.00 - £90.85
England median hourly rate £41.71 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +39.03% -47.83% +18.80%

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 17,809 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,743 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.86 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -15 85 £525 -6.67% 62
West London -8 22 £556 +8.54% 20
South London -9 19 £525 -9.17% 5
East London +6 8 £750 +19.05% 16
North London 0 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 50 (6.04%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.71%) Confluence
3 16 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.69%) IIS
5 7 (0.85%) Appian
6 6 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.60%) Camunda
8 4 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.48%) CMS
8 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.36%) Kentico
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 20 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 28 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.85%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
4 6 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.60%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.48%) SAP QM
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 CO
7 3 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.24%) Finacle
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 146 (17.63%) Azure
2 64 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (7.61%) Entra ID
4 57 (6.88%) AWS
4 57 (6.88%) Power Platform
5 47 (5.68%) SaaS
6 41 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (2.54%) GCP
9 19 (2.29%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.05%) GitHub
10 17 (2.05%) OCI
11 16 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.69%) OneDrive
13 13 (1.57%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (1.45%) Google Workspace
14 12 (1.45%) Smartsheet
15 11 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.95%) Firewall
2 28 (3.38%) Network Security
3 26 (3.14%) DNS
4 20 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 20 (2.42%) WAN
5 18 (2.17%) DHCP
6 15 (1.81%) LAN
6 15 (1.81%) VPN
7 10 (1.21%) SSL
8 8 (0.97%) BGP
9 7 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (0.85%) HTTPS
9 7 (0.85%) OSPF
10 6 (0.72%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.72%) VLAN
11 5 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.60%) HTTP
11 5 (0.60%) SNMP
11 5 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.07%) Power BI
2 41 (4.95%) SQL Server
3 21 (2.54%) Metadata
4 15 (1.81%) Oracle Database
5 8 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.72%) Tableau
8 5 (0.60%) MySQL
8 5 (0.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.48%) Data Mart
9 4 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.48%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 101 (12.20%) JIRA
2 29 (3.50%) Git
3 22 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.72%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.48%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.48%) Maven
6 3 (0.36%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (0.36%) Snyk
6 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.24%) Selenium
8 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.12%) Flyway
8 1 (0.12%) Hudson
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 320 (38.65%) Finance
2 308 (37.20%) Social Skills
3 125 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (12.20%) Banking
5 66 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 50 (6.04%) Legal
7 40 (4.83%) Marketing
8 36 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
9 33 (3.99%) Retail
10 31 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.78%) Law
13 22 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (2.66%) Telecoms
14 17 (2.05%) Local Government
15 15 (1.81%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.81%) Front Office
15 15 (1.81%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 105 (12.68%) Analyst
2 104 (12.56%) Project Manager
3 88 (10.63%) Lead
4 72 (8.70%) Change Manager
5 68 (8.21%) Consultant
6 59 (7.13%) Business Analyst
6 59 (7.13%) Senior
7 30 (3.62%) Developer
8 29 (3.50%) Programme Manager
9 25 (3.02%) Business Manager
9 25 (3.02%) Senior Manager
10 24 (2.90%) Delivery Manager
11 23 (2.78%) Support Engineer
12 22 (2.66%) Business Change Manager
13 21 (2.54%) Administrator
13 21 (2.54%) Network Engineer
14 20 (2.42%) Applications Support
14 20 (2.42%) Technical Manager
15 16 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
15 16 (1.93%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.23%) REST
2 27 (3.26%) .NET
3 15 (1.81%) CSS
4 13 (1.57%) .NET Framework
5 12 (1.45%) Middleware
5 12 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (1.45%) Web Services
6 11 (1.33%) HTML
7 10 (1.21%) SOAP
8 9 (1.09%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.09%) OAuth
8 9 (1.09%) Spring
9 8 (0.97%) Jakarta EE
9 8 (0.97%) React
9 8 (0.97%) SPFx
10 6 (0.72%) jQuery
10 6 (0.72%) JSON
10 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (0.72%) RESTful
11 5 (0.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.25%) Onboarding
2 33 (3.99%) Data Centre
3 28 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.90%) PMI
5 23 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.05%) CMDB
6 17 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.93%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.69%) FMCG
9 12 (1.45%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.45%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.21%) Clustering
11 10 (1.21%) Operational Technology
11 10 (1.21%) PKI
12 9 (1.09%) Derivative
13 8 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (11.23%) Windows
2 29 (3.50%) Windows Server
3 25 (3.02%) Linux
4 12 (1.45%) Unix
5 10 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.09%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.24%) AIX
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.12%) Android
10 1 (0.12%) HPUX
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) SUSE
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (33.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 208 (25.12%) Agile
3 202 (24.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 173 (20.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 143 (17.27%) Migration
6 133 (16.06%) ITIL
7 127 (15.34%) Project Management
8 124 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
9 123 (14.86%) DevOps
10 120 (14.49%) Project Delivery
11 117 (14.13%) Roadmaps
12 112 (13.53%) Decision-Making
13 107 (12.92%) AI
14 84 (10.14%) Analytics
15 78 (9.42%) PRINCE2
16 75 (9.06%) User Acceptance Testing
17 70 (8.45%) CI/CD
18 66 (7.97%) Service Management
19 64 (7.73%) ITSM
20 63 (7.61%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (11.23%) SQL
2 50 (6.04%) Python
3 38 (4.59%) C#
3 38 (4.59%) PowerShell
4 31 (3.74%) PL/SQL
5 26 (3.14%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.66%) T-SQL
7 21 (2.54%) Java
8 11 (1.33%) Bash
8 11 (1.33%) Korn
9 6 (0.72%) Bicep
9 6 (0.72%) Groovy
10 2 (0.24%) C++
10 2 (0.24%) Perl
10 2 (0.24%) SHACL
10 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.24%) VBA
11 1 (0.12%) COBOL
11 1 (0.12%) RPG
11 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 92 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 85 (10.27%) Degree
3 75 (9.06%) SC Cleared
4 68 (8.21%) PMI Certification
5 65 (7.85%) PMP
6 28 (3.38%) CISSP
7 24 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (2.54%) CISM
9 17 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.69%) APMG
11 12 (1.45%) CCNP
11 12 (1.45%) DV Cleared
12 11 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.85%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.72%) CISA
15 6 (0.72%) SSCP
16 5 (0.60%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.64%) QA
2 51 (6.16%) PMO
3 42 (5.07%) SLA
4 34 (4.11%) Data Quality
5 24 (2.90%) GDPR
6 21 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.93%) GRC
8 15 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.09%) ITGC
11 8 (0.97%) NIST
12 6 (0.72%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.60%) COBIT
14 4 (0.48%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 62 (7.49%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.97%) Docker
5 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.12%) Squid
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) XenApp
9 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (4.83%) Terraform
2 23 (2.78%) Ansible
3 21 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.57%) Kubernetes
5 11 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.85%) SCCM
7 6 (0.72%) CASB
7 6 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (0.72%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.60%) vRealize
9 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.48%) Grafana
9 4 (0.48%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.48%) systemd
10 3 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.36%) Packer
10 3 (0.36%) Puppet
10 3 (0.36%) SCOM
Vendors
1 151 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 95 (11.47%) ServiceNow
3 77 (9.30%) Oracle
4 53 (6.40%) SAP
5 46 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 32 (3.86%) VMware
7 26 (3.14%) Cisco
8 22 (2.66%) Zscaler
9 20 (2.42%) Citrix
9 20 (2.42%) Google
10 16 (1.93%) Splunk
11 13 (1.57%) Workday
12 11 (1.33%) Databricks
13 8 (0.97%) Apple
13 8 (0.97%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.97%) IBM
13 8 (0.97%) Juniper
13 8 (0.97%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.72%) BMC
14 6 (0.72%) HP