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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 50 40
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 +11
Contract jobs citing Change Management 589 562 901
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.99% 4.14% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 4.57% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 309 558
10th Percentile £367 £350 £379
25th Percentile £415 £456 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £540 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -5.26% +3.54%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £29.11 £28.60 £25.70
25th Percentile £32.91 £30.20 £32.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £39.54 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% +14.51% +22.62%
75th Percentile £74.45 £53.02 £61.25
90th Percentile £94.06 £75.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £45.46 £49.04 £37.18
% change year-on-year -7.30% +31.90% -10.95%

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 13,417 12,298 16,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.90% 90.53% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,905 7,768 11,834
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 153 347
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.15
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +18.33% -18.06%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -3 79 £496 -7.60% 56
South London +11 22 £425 -33.33% 8
West London -14 14 £463 +110.23% 5
East London +1 5 £525 +23.53% 11
North London +5 2 £575 - 1
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 41 (6.96%) Confluence
2 32 (5.43%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.19%) Appian
4 7 (1.19%) nginx
5 6 (1.02%) Mattermost
5 6 (1.02%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.85%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.51%) CMS
7 3 (0.51%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.17%) CICS
8 1 (0.17%) Moodle
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 32 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (4.07%) MS Visio
4 23 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.68%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 24 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.68%) Finacle
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.68%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.68%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.51%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.34%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.34%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.34%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (13.75%) Azure
2 52 (8.83%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (6.45%) AWS
3 38 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 25 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.06%) Power Automate
5 18 (3.06%) SaaS
6 14 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.21%) Amazon S3
7 13 (2.21%) GitHub
8 12 (2.04%) PaaS
9 11 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (1.70%) Serverless
11 9 (1.53%) IaaS
11 9 (1.53%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (1.36%) Azure AI
12 8 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.62%) Firewall
2 28 (4.75%) Network Security
3 20 (3.40%) WAN
4 17 (2.89%) DNS
4 17 (2.89%) VPN
5 16 (2.72%) LAN
6 13 (2.21%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.70%) HTTP
8 9 (1.53%) SMTP
9 8 (1.36%) BGP
9 8 (1.36%) Intranet
9 8 (1.36%) NetScaler
9 8 (1.36%) SSH
10 7 (1.19%) FTP
10 7 (1.19%) IMAP
10 7 (1.19%) OpenLDAP
10 7 (1.19%) OSPF
10 7 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.02%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.09%) Power BI
3 19 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (2.38%) Tableau
5 9 (1.53%) Metadata
6 7 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.19%) Pinecone
6 7 (1.19%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.68%) Redis
9 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.51%) GIS
9 3 (0.51%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.51%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (10.87%) JIRA
2 19 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.89%) Git
4 11 (1.87%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.19%) MLflow
5 7 (1.19%) Vagrant
6 3 (0.51%) JUnit
6 3 (0.51%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.34%) git-flow
7 2 (0.34%) Mockito
8 1 (0.17%) Ant
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.17%) GCC
8 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.17%) TestRail
General
1 279 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 253 (42.95%) Finance
3 105 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.54%) Banking
5 41 (6.96%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (4.41%) Legal
8 24 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (3.40%) Investment Banking
10 20 (3.40%) Retail
11 17 (2.89%) Law
11 17 (2.89%) Marketing
12 13 (2.21%) Local Government
12 13 (2.21%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.87%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.87%) Front Office
14 11 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (15.11%) Analyst
2 71 (12.05%) Change Manager
2 71 (12.05%) Project Manager
3 62 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 62 (10.53%) Lead
4 38 (6.45%) Senior
5 36 (6.11%) Developer
6 30 (5.09%) Consultant
7 24 (4.07%) Architect
8 20 (3.40%) Business Manager
9 18 (3.06%) Programme Manager
10 17 (2.89%) C# Developer
11 16 (2.72%) Senior Manager
12 15 (2.55%) Business Change Manager
12 15 (2.55%) IT Manager
13 14 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.21%) Transformation Manager
15 11 (1.87%) DevOps Engineer
16 10 (1.70%) Administrator
17 9 (1.53%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.24%) .NET
2 18 (3.06%) .NET Framework
2 18 (3.06%) REST
3 14 (2.38%) OAuth
4 11 (1.87%) RESTful
5 10 (1.70%) Web Services
6 9 (1.53%) LDAP
7 8 (1.36%) HTML
7 8 (1.36%) NumPy
7 8 (1.36%) Pandas
7 8 (1.36%) pytest
7 8 (1.36%) SAML
8 7 (1.19%) FastAPI
8 7 (1.19%) Flask
8 7 (1.19%) JWT
8 7 (1.19%) Kafka
8 7 (1.19%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.19%) scikit-learn
8 7 (1.19%) Swagger
8 7 (1.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.58%) Onboarding
2 26 (4.41%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.07%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.90%) CMDB
5 18 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (2.55%) PKI
7 12 (2.04%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.04%) PMI
8 11 (1.87%) Replication
9 9 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.53%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.36%) Life Science
10 8 (1.36%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.85%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.85%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.02%) Windows
2 23 (3.90%) Linux
3 15 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.04%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.36%) Unix
5 8 (1.36%) VMS
6 7 (1.19%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.34%) Android
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (33.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 156 (26.49%) Agile
3 153 (25.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 115 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (17.49%) Project Management
6 85 (14.43%) ITIL
7 71 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (12.05%) Project Delivery
8 69 (11.71%) Migration
9 64 (10.87%) Decision-Making
10 63 (10.70%) DevOps
10 63 (10.70%) Roadmaps
11 58 (9.85%) Workshop Facilitation
12 57 (9.68%) Risk Management
13 56 (9.51%) PRINCE2
13 56 (9.51%) User Acceptance Testing
14 51 (8.66%) Requirements Gathering
15 49 (8.32%) Business Intelligence
15 49 (8.32%) CI/CD
15 49 (8.32%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 93 (15.79%) SQL
2 51 (8.66%) Python
3 30 (5.09%) PowerShell
4 29 (4.92%) C#
5 19 (3.23%) PL/SQL
6 14 (2.38%) T-SQL
7 12 (2.04%) Groovy
8 11 (1.87%) Java
8 11 (1.87%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.19%) Bash
10 6 (1.02%) Korn
11 4 (0.68%) Go
11 4 (0.68%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.68%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.51%) Perl
13 2 (0.34%) C
13 2 (0.34%) C++
13 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.34%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 119 (20.20%) Degree
2 64 (10.87%) Security Cleared
3 47 (7.98%) PMI Certification
4 39 (6.62%) PMP
5 38 (6.45%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.21%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (1.70%) APMG
11 9 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.36%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.19%) CCNP
13 7 (1.19%) CISSP
13 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.02%) CFA
14 6 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.85%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.83%) QA
2 39 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 34 (5.77%) PMO
4 27 (4.58%) GDPR
5 19 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (3.06%) SLA
7 9 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.53%) NIST
8 8 (1.36%) IFRS
8 8 (1.36%) MiFID
9 7 (1.19%) IFRS 17
9 7 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.02%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.85%) EMIR
12 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.68%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.51%) GMP
13 3 (0.51%) GRC
14 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (5.09%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.24%) Docker
3 7 (1.19%) DFS Replication
3 7 (1.19%) Dovecot
3 7 (1.19%) Postfix
3 7 (1.19%) Squid
4 5 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.68%) XenApp
5 4 (0.68%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.34%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (4.58%) Terraform
2 22 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.04%) Grafana
4 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.87%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.36%) SCOM
6 7 (1.19%) Nessus
6 7 (1.19%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.02%) HP SiteScope
7 6 (1.02%) SCCM
8 5 (0.85%) Ansible
9 4 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.68%) Rancher
9 4 (0.68%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.51%) Puppet
11 2 (0.34%) Argo
11 2 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
12 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 102 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 52 (8.83%) Oracle
4 48 (8.15%) SAP
5 23 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.74%) Citrix
7 21 (3.57%) Cisco
8 12 (2.04%) Fortinet
8 12 (2.04%) Workday
9 11 (1.87%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.36%) CheckPoint
10 8 (1.36%) F5
10 8 (1.36%) Remedy
10 8 (1.36%) UiPath
10 8 (1.36%) VMware
11 7 (1.19%) Automation Anywhere
11 7 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
11 7 (1.19%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.19%) Zscaler
12 6 (1.02%) Dynatrace