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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 50 36
Rank change year-on-year -12 -14 +15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 594 597 906
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.14% 4.19% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 4.64% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 333 547
10th Percentile £376 £375 £392
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £723 £748 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £29.11 £38.63 £24.65
25th Percentile £32.91 £44.08 £29.38
Median hourly rate £40.50 £54.00 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +18.03% +103.33%
75th Percentile £74.45 £95.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £94.06 £98.00 £81.38
England median hourly rate £45.46 £49.04 £45.87
% change year-on-year -7.30% +6.92% +50.38%

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 13,101 12,867 15,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.42% 90.25% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,660 8,239 11,384
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.30%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 159 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.58 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.48 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.28 £54.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £69.18 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +9 85 £496 -9.91% 44
South London +16 25 £429 -31.40% 4
West London -8 14 £463 +110.23% 14
East London +5 7 £630 +48.24% 8
North London +4 1 £600 -
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 45 (7.58%) Confluence
2 37 (6.23%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.68%) nginx
4 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.01%) HCL Notes
5 6 (1.01%) Mattermost
5 6 (1.01%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.67%) IIS
7 3 (0.51%) Appian
7 3 (0.51%) CICS
7 3 (0.51%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 38 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (4.71%) Microsoft Project
3 26 (4.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (4.04%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 5 (0.84%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.17%) Notion
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (4.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.84%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.51%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.51%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.51%) VisionPLUS
6 2 (0.34%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.34%) Finacle
6 2 (0.34%) Maximo
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.34%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 72 (12.12%) Azure
2 54 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (7.24%) Power Platform
4 39 (6.57%) AWS
5 22 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (3.70%) SaaS
6 16 (2.69%) Amazon S3
6 16 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (2.36%) Power Automate
8 12 (2.02%) Entra ID
8 12 (2.02%) GitHub
8 12 (2.02%) PaaS
9 11 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
9 11 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (1.68%) Amazon ELB
10 10 (1.68%) AWS KMS
10 10 (1.68%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.58%) Firewall
2 28 (4.71%) Network Security
3 19 (3.20%) DNS
4 17 (2.86%) WAN
5 15 (2.53%) VPN
6 14 (2.36%) LAN
7 13 (2.19%) HTTP
8 12 (2.02%) SMTP
8 12 (2.02%) SSH
9 11 (1.85%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.68%) FTP
10 10 (1.68%) IMAP
10 10 (1.68%) OpenLDAP
11 9 (1.52%) BGP
12 8 (1.35%) OSPF
13 7 (1.18%) NetScaler
13 7 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (1.01%) Skype
14 6 (1.01%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.72%) Power BI
2 24 (4.04%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (2.86%) Tableau
5 8 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.35%) Metadata
6 5 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.67%) Redis
7 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.51%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (0.51%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.51%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (0.51%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (11.11%) JIRA
2 23 (3.87%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.37%) Git
4 10 (1.68%) Vagrant
5 8 (1.35%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.67%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.51%) ChangeMan
7 3 (0.51%) JUnit
7 3 (0.51%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.51%) MLflow
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.34%) git-flow
8 2 (0.34%) Mockito
9 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 274 (46.13%) Social Skills
2 241 (40.57%) Finance
3 106 (17.85%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (10.61%) Banking
5 44 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 28 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (3.70%) Legal
9 21 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (3.20%) Retail
11 17 (2.86%) Marketing
12 16 (2.69%) Investment Banking
12 16 (2.69%) Manufacturing
13 14 (2.36%) Law
14 13 (2.19%) Local Government
14 13 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (2.19%) Telecoms
15 12 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (1.68%) Front Office
16 10 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 89 (14.98%) Analyst
2 74 (12.46%) Project Manager
3 71 (11.95%) Change Manager
4 62 (10.44%) Business Analyst
5 57 (9.60%) Lead
6 35 (5.89%) Developer
7 33 (5.56%) Senior
8 32 (5.39%) Consultant
9 26 (4.38%) Architect
10 19 (3.20%) Business Manager
10 19 (3.20%) Programme Manager
11 16 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (2.53%) Business Change Manager
12 15 (2.53%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (2.53%) Senior Manager
13 14 (2.36%) IT Manager
13 14 (2.36%) Transformation Manager
14 12 (2.02%) AWS DevOps
15 11 (1.85%) C# Developer
16 10 (1.68%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.03%) .NET
2 12 (2.02%) LDAP
2 12 (2.02%) REST
3 11 (1.85%) .NET Framework
4 8 (1.35%) HTML
4 8 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.18%) Kafka
5 7 (1.18%) OAuth
5 7 (1.18%) SAML
6 6 (1.01%) RESTful
7 5 (0.84%) Node.js
7 5 (0.84%) OpenID
7 5 (0.84%) SOAP
8 4 (0.67%) CSS
8 4 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.67%) NumPy
8 4 (0.67%) Pandas
8 4 (0.67%) pytest
8 4 (0.67%) Web Services
8 4 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.88%) Product Ownership
2 27 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.54%) CMDB
5 14 (2.36%) Replication
6 13 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.19%) PKI
6 13 (2.19%) PMI
7 12 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.52%) Life Science
11 7 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.18%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.01%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.01%) e-Learning
13 5 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.84%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.43%) Windows
2 25 (4.21%) Linux
3 12 (2.02%) VMS
4 11 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.68%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (1.68%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.35%) Unix
7 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.51%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (32.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 161 (27.10%) Agile
3 148 (24.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 116 (19.53%) Project Management
5 113 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (13.30%) ITIL
7 76 (12.79%) Project Delivery
8 71 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (11.62%) Migration
10 66 (11.11%) Decision-Making
11 63 (10.61%) DevOps
12 62 (10.44%) Roadmaps
13 54 (9.09%) PRINCE2
13 54 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
14 53 (8.92%) Risk Management
15 52 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
16 48 (8.08%) ERP
16 48 (8.08%) User Acceptance Testing
17 47 (7.91%) Scrum
18 46 (7.74%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 85 (14.31%) SQL
2 48 (8.08%) Python
3 31 (5.22%) PowerShell
4 22 (3.70%) C#
5 17 (2.86%) PL/SQL
6 14 (2.36%) Groovy
7 12 (2.02%) Java
8 11 (1.85%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.68%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.18%) Bash
10 7 (1.18%) Korn
11 4 (0.67%) Go
12 3 (0.51%) C
12 3 (0.51%) C++
12 3 (0.51%) Perl
13 2 (0.34%) COBOL
13 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.34%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.17%) LotusScript
14 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 118 (19.87%) Degree
2 73 (12.29%) Security Cleared
3 50 (8.42%) PMI Certification
4 48 (8.08%) SC Cleared
5 39 (6.57%) PMP
6 19 (3.20%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.85%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.68%) APMG
10 10 (1.68%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.18%) CCNP
12 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.01%) CFA
13 6 (1.01%) CISSP
13 6 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.84%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.41%) QA
2 34 (5.72%) PMO
3 31 (5.22%) Data Quality
4 21 (3.54%) GDPR
5 17 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.19%) SLA
7 11 (1.85%) NIST
8 8 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.35%) MiFID
9 5 (0.84%) EMIR
9 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.67%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.67%) GMP
10 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.51%) IFRS
12 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.34%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.34%) ITGC
12 2 (0.34%) NCSC
12 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.70%) Docker
3 10 (1.68%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.68%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.68%) Postfix
3 10 (1.68%) Squid
4 5 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.51%) XenApp
6 3 (0.51%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.34%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 31 (5.22%) Terraform
2 15 (2.53%) Grafana
2 15 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.85%) Nessus
5 10 (1.68%) Proxmox
6 8 (1.35%) Ansible
6 8 (1.35%) SCOM
7 6 (1.01%) HP SiteScope
8 5 (0.84%) SCCM
9 4 (0.67%) Rancher
10 3 (0.51%) CA Endevor
10 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.51%) SCVMM
11 2 (0.34%) Argo
11 2 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.34%) Puppet
11 2 (0.34%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 105 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.10%) ServiceNow
3 54 (9.09%) SAP
4 49 (8.25%) Oracle
5 23 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.37%) Cisco
7 16 (2.69%) Citrix
8 12 (2.02%) Workday
9 11 (1.85%) Remedy
10 10 (1.68%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.68%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.52%) F5
12 8 (1.35%) CheckPoint
12 8 (1.35%) VMware
13 7 (1.18%) Splunk
13 7 (1.18%) Zscaler
14 6 (1.01%) CyberArk
14 6 (1.01%) Dynatrace
14 6 (1.01%) Juniper
14 6 (1.01%) Lotus