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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 59 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 692 495 749
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.84% 3.96% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 4.29% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 299 473
10th Percentile £400 £356 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £751 £760
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £25.55 - £36.81
25th Percentile £35.00 £28.60 £43.17
Median hourly rate £58.92 £34.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.78% -40.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £65.38
90th Percentile £98.00 £78.50 £67.85
England median hourly rate £35.00 £53.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -34.88% +7.50% +2.67%

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 15,918 11,536 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.22% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,645 7,806 11,096
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £808 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.16 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -14 78 £500 -8.97% 57
South London +4 21 £500 -16.67% 5
West London -12 19 £500 +56.25% 10
East London -3 5 £750 - 5
North London +1 1 £550 +25.00%
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 42 (6.07%) Confluence
2 40 (5.78%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.16%) Appian
5 6 (0.87%) IIS
6 5 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.58%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) MTS
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
3 17 (2.46%) MS Visio
4 16 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.87%) Finacle
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.29%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.29%) Global One
7 2 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.29%) Primavera
7 2 (0.29%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 108 (15.61%) Azure
2 55 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (6.50%) Power Platform
4 39 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (5.20%) AWS
5 36 (5.20%) Entra ID
6 33 (4.77%) SaaS
7 27 (3.90%) Power Automate
8 22 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (2.46%) GCP
10 16 (2.31%) PowerApps
11 12 (1.73%) OCI
12 11 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (1.59%) Smartsheet
13 10 (1.45%) GitHub
13 10 (1.45%) PaaS
14 9 (1.30%) Asana
14 9 (1.30%) Azure AI
15 8 (1.16%) Anthropic Claude
15 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.32%) Firewall
2 17 (2.46%) DNS
2 17 (2.46%) VPN
3 16 (2.31%) Network Security
3 16 (2.31%) WAN
4 14 (2.02%) SD-WAN
5 12 (1.73%) LAN
6 11 (1.59%) DHCP
7 10 (1.45%) BGP
8 9 (1.30%) OSPF
9 8 (1.16%) SSL
10 6 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (0.87%) Intranet
10 6 (0.87%) NetScaler
11 5 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.58%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.58%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.43%) FTP
13 3 (0.43%) Internet
13 3 (0.43%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 28 (4.05%) Power BI
3 14 (2.02%) Metadata
4 9 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.16%) Pinecone
5 8 (1.16%) Tableau
6 7 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.58%) MySQL
8 4 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.29%) KDB
10 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 99 (14.31%) JIRA
2 18 (2.60%) Git
3 16 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.45%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.16%) MLflow
6 4 (0.58%) Maven
6 4 (0.58%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.43%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.43%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.43%) Snyk
8 2 (0.29%) git-flow
9 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.14%) Hudson
9 1 (0.14%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 271 (39.16%) Finance
2 270 (39.02%) Social Skills
3 108 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (11.13%) Banking
5 48 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 42 (6.07%) Legal
7 38 (5.49%) Marketing
8 26 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (3.32%) Retail
11 22 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.75%) Law
13 17 (2.46%) Financial Institution
14 15 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (2.02%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.59%) Aviation
17 10 (1.45%) Front Office
18 9 (1.30%) Local Government
18 9 (1.30%) Telecoms
19 6 (0.87%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (11.13%) Change Manager
2 76 (10.98%) Analyst
3 73 (10.55%) Lead
4 72 (10.40%) Project Manager
5 49 (7.08%) Senior
6 45 (6.50%) Business Analyst
6 45 (6.50%) Consultant
7 36 (5.20%) Developer
8 28 (4.05%) Programme Manager
9 23 (3.32%) Architect
10 22 (3.18%) Business Manager
10 22 (3.18%) Support Engineer
11 21 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
11 21 (3.03%) Senior Manager
12 20 (2.89%) Business Change Manager
13 19 (2.75%) IT Engineer
13 19 (2.75%) IT Support
13 19 (2.75%) IT Support Engineer
14 18 (2.60%) Administrator
15 16 (2.31%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.77%) REST
2 27 (3.90%) .NET
3 20 (2.89%) OAuth
4 19 (2.75%) .NET Framework
5 14 (2.02%) Web Services
6 13 (1.88%) CSS
7 11 (1.59%) React
8 10 (1.45%) HTML
8 10 (1.45%) Middleware
8 10 (1.45%) RESTful
9 9 (1.30%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.30%) NumPy
9 9 (1.30%) Pandas
9 9 (1.30%) pytest
10 8 (1.16%) Django
10 8 (1.16%) Flask
10 8 (1.16%) OpenID
10 8 (1.16%) scikit-learn
10 8 (1.16%) Swagger
10 8 (1.16%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.19%) Onboarding
2 26 (3.76%) CMDB
2 26 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
3 24 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.18%) PMI
5 21 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.60%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.88%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.16%) PKI
10 8 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.01%) FMCG
11 7 (1.01%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.87%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.87%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.72%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 76 (10.98%) Windows
2 21 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.17%) Linux
4 12 (1.73%) Unix
5 10 (1.45%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) Android
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (29.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 162 (23.41%) Agile
2 162 (23.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 126 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 115 (16.62%) Project Management
5 113 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (16.18%) ITIL
7 93 (13.44%) DevOps
8 92 (13.29%) Migration
8 92 (13.29%) Roadmaps
9 86 (12.43%) Decision-Making
10 77 (11.13%) Project Delivery
11 70 (10.12%) AI
12 60 (8.67%) User Acceptance Testing
12 60 (8.67%) Workshop Facilitation
13 59 (8.53%) CI/CD
14 56 (8.09%) Analytics
15 55 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
16 53 (7.66%) ITSM
16 53 (7.66%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (13.73%) SQL
2 41 (5.92%) C#
3 40 (5.78%) Python
4 30 (4.34%) PL/SQL
5 25 (3.61%) PowerShell
6 22 (3.18%) JavaScript
6 22 (3.18%) T-SQL
7 17 (2.46%) Java
8 7 (1.01%) Korn
9 5 (0.72%) Groovy
10 4 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.29%) Bash
12 2 (0.29%) C++
12 2 (0.29%) Perl
13 1 (0.14%) ABAP
13 1 (0.14%) Bicep
13 1 (0.14%) C
13 1 (0.14%) R
13 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 86 (12.43%) Degree
2 81 (11.71%) Security Cleared
3 54 (7.80%) SC Cleared
4 48 (6.94%) PMI Certification
5 45 (6.50%) PMP
6 22 (3.18%) CISSP
7 19 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (2.31%) APMG
8 16 (2.31%) CISM
8 16 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (2.17%) DV Cleared
10 14 (2.02%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 8 (1.16%) CCNP
12 8 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.01%) CISA
13 7 (1.01%) CRISC
13 7 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (7.95%) QA
2 45 (6.50%) PMO
3 43 (6.21%) Data Quality
4 32 (4.62%) GDPR
5 30 (4.34%) SLA
6 26 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.45%) NIST
9 9 (1.30%) PCI DSS
10 8 (1.16%) IFRS
10 8 (1.16%) ITGC
11 7 (1.01%) COBIT
11 7 (1.01%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.87%) GRC
13 4 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 46 (6.65%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.88%) Docker
3 9 (1.30%) Hyper-V
3 9 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.58%) XenApp
5 4 (0.58%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.14%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (3.18%) Terraform
2 20 (2.89%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.02%) Ansible
4 13 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.87%) CASB
6 6 (0.87%) SCCM
7 4 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.58%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.58%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.58%) PingFederate
7 4 (0.58%) SCVMM
8 3 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.43%) vRealize
9 2 (0.29%) Control-M
9 2 (0.29%) Grafana
9 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.29%) Puppet
9 2 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 113 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 100 (14.45%) ServiceNow
3 69 (9.97%) Oracle
4 45 (6.50%) SAP
5 41 (5.92%) Salesforce
6 26 (3.76%) Citrix
7 19 (2.75%) VMware
8 18 (2.60%) Cisco
9 17 (2.46%) Workday
10 13 (1.88%) Google
11 12 (1.73%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.30%) Zscaler
13 8 (1.16%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.16%) Juniper
13 8 (1.16%) Palo Alto
13 8 (1.16%) UiPath
14 6 (0.87%) Avaloq
14 6 (0.87%) F5
14 6 (0.87%) Meraki
14 6 (0.87%) Splunk