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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 58 67
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -29
Contract jobs citing Change Management 837 588 583
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 4.35% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 4.71% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 369 336
10th Percentile £398 £347 £330
25th Percentile £430 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £554 £551
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +0.50% -4.13%
75th Percentile £649 £700 £675
90th Percentile £740 £775 £769
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £28.70 £29.26 £35.83
25th Percentile £43.25 £33.29 £41.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £54.04
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -25.98% +20.09%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.57 £74.50
90th Percentile £58.00 £93.71 £89.80
England median hourly rate £50.50 £30.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +68.33% -48.54% +20.45%

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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -21 84 £525 -8.70% 81
West London -2 25 £538 -2.27% 27
South London -21 14 £563 +18.42% 8
East London +8 12 £750 +19.05% 9
North London +1 4 £450 +2.27%
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 54 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.30%) Confluence
3 18 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.55%) IIS
5 6 (0.72%) Appian
5 6 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.60%) Camunda
7 4 (0.48%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
9 2 (0.24%) CICS
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 25 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.48%) 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
8 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 30 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.84%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.60%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.48%) Front Arena
6 4 (0.48%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.36%) iTrent
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.36%) Summit
7 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 140 (16.73%) Azure
2 69 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 63 (7.53%) AWS
5 62 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 41 (4.90%) SaaS
7 33 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (2.99%) GitHub
10 22 (2.63%) GCP
11 20 (2.39%) OCI
12 19 (2.27%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
14 16 (1.91%) PowerApps
15 14 (1.67%) Google Workspace
15 14 (1.67%) OneDrive
16 12 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.50%) Firewall
2 33 (3.94%) Network Security
3 30 (3.58%) DNS
4 22 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 21 (2.51%) DHCP
5 21 (2.51%) WAN
6 17 (2.03%) VPN
7 14 (1.67%) LAN
8 9 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.08%) SSL
9 8 (0.96%) HTTP
9 8 (0.96%) HTTPS
9 8 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.72%) VLAN
11 5 (0.60%) FTP
11 5 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.60%) SNMP
11 5 (0.60%) SSH
12 4 (0.48%) BGP
12 4 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.97%) Power BI
2 41 (4.90%) SQL Server
3 23 (2.75%) Metadata
4 17 (2.03%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.08%) Tableau
6 7 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.72%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.48%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.48%) Data Mart
9 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.48%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 87 (10.39%) JIRA
2 30 (3.58%) Git
3 24 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.84%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.48%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.48%) GitLab
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%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.24%) Postman
7 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 341 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 340 (40.62%) Finance
3 144 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (13.86%) Banking
5 68 (8.12%) Public Sector
6 50 (5.97%) Legal
7 41 (4.90%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (4.06%) Marketing
8 34 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (3.58%) Retail
10 25 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (2.99%) Telecoms
11 24 (2.87%) Law
12 23 (2.75%) Front Office
13 22 (2.63%) Manufacturing
14 21 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (2.03%) Local Government
16 15 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (1.31%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 114 (13.62%) Analyst
2 111 (13.26%) Project Manager
3 107 (12.78%) Lead
4 65 (7.77%) Consultant
5 63 (7.53%) Change Manager
6 62 (7.41%) Senior
7 59 (7.05%) Business Analyst
8 30 (3.58%) Senior Manager
9 26 (3.11%) Developer
10 25 (2.99%) Business Manager
11 23 (2.75%) Programme Manager
12 22 (2.63%) Administrator
13 21 (2.51%) Business Change Manager
13 21 (2.51%) Financial Analyst
14 20 (2.39%) Applications Support
14 20 (2.39%) IT Manager
15 19 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (2.27%) Data Engineer
16 18 (2.15%) Finance Business Analyst
17 17 (2.03%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.50%) Terraform
2 32 (3.82%) REST
3 27 (3.23%) .NET
4 13 (1.55%) Middleware
4 13 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (1.31%) CSS
5 11 (1.31%) HTML
6 10 (1.19%) .NET Framework
7 9 (1.08%) OAuth
7 9 (1.08%) SOAP
8 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (0.96%) React
8 8 (0.96%) SPFx
9 7 (0.84%) Web Services
10 6 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (0.72%) JSON
11 5 (0.60%) OpenID
11 5 (0.60%) RESTful
11 5 (0.60%) SAML
11 5 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.36%) Onboarding
2 30 (3.58%) Data Centre
2 30 (3.58%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.46%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.39%) PMI
6 18 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.79%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.67%) FMCG
9 14 (1.67%) Operational Technology
9 14 (1.67%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.55%) CMDB
11 12 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.31%) Clustering
12 11 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.19%) PKI
14 9 (1.08%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 84 (10.04%) Windows
2 29 (3.46%) Windows Server
3 25 (2.99%) Linux
4 10 (1.19%) Unix
5 9 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.96%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.36%) zOS
10 2 (0.24%) AIX
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) HPUX
11 1 (0.12%) MVS
11 1 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (40.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 218 (26.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 215 (25.69%) Agile
4 183 (21.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 144 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
6 143 (17.08%) Migration
7 137 (16.37%) Project Delivery
8 133 (15.89%) Project Management
9 132 (15.77%) ITIL
10 123 (14.70%) Decision-Making
10 123 (14.70%) Roadmaps
11 113 (13.50%) AI
12 110 (13.14%) DevOps
13 96 (11.47%) Analytics
14 88 (10.51%) PRINCE2
15 85 (10.16%) User Acceptance Testing
16 80 (9.56%) Workshop Facilitation
17 73 (8.72%) CI/CD
18 72 (8.60%) Service Management
19 71 (8.48%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (11.71%) SQL
2 61 (7.29%) Python
3 48 (5.73%) PowerShell
4 32 (3.82%) PL/SQL
5 29 (3.46%) C#
6 24 (2.87%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.63%) T-SQL
8 17 (2.03%) Java
9 16 (1.91%) Bash
10 13 (1.55%) Korn
11 10 (1.19%) Bicep
12 9 (1.08%) Groovy
13 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.36%) JCL
14 3 (0.36%) VBScript
15 2 (0.24%) C++
15 2 (0.24%) COBOL
15 2 (0.24%) Perl
15 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 95 (11.35%) Degree
2 89 (10.63%) Security Cleared
3 75 (8.96%) PMI Certification
3 75 (8.96%) PMP
4 72 (8.60%) SC Cleared
5 23 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.63%) CISSP
7 19 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (1.91%) APMG
8 16 (1.91%) CISM
9 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.19%) CCNP
11 9 (1.08%) ACCA
11 9 (1.08%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.96%) CIMA
12 8 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.84%) CISA
14 6 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.69%) QA
2 52 (6.21%) PMO
3 40 (4.78%) Data Quality
4 34 (4.06%) SLA
5 25 (2.99%) GDPR
6 18 (2.15%) GRC
7 15 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.19%) ITGC
10 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.84%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.84%) NIST
12 6 (0.72%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.60%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.60%) COBIT
14 4 (0.48%) IFRS
14 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 56 (6.69%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (1.43%) Docker
5 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) Squid
6 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) Postfix
7 2 (0.24%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (2.63%) Ansible
1 22 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (1.67%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.31%) SCCM
5 8 (0.96%) Grafana
6 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
6 7 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.72%) CASB
7 6 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
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%) Control-M
9 4 (0.48%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.48%) systemd
10 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.36%) Packer
10 3 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 163 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 86 (10.27%) Oracle
3 84 (10.04%) ServiceNow
4 58 (6.93%) SAP
5 45 (5.38%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.46%) VMware
7 22 (2.63%) Google
8 21 (2.51%) Cisco
9 20 (2.39%) Zscaler
10 16 (1.91%) Splunk
11 15 (1.79%) Citrix
12 14 (1.67%) Workday
13 12 (1.43%) Databricks
14 10 (1.19%) Dynatrace
14 10 (1.19%) IBM
14 10 (1.19%) Red Hat
15 9 (1.08%) Apple
16 8 (0.96%) Remedy
17 7 (0.84%) Alteryx
17 7 (0.84%) BMC