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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 51 38
Rank change year-on-year -15 -13 +13
Contract jobs citing Change Management 577 578 895
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.02% 4.13% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.56% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 319 537
10th Percentile £375 £362 £378
25th Percentile £422 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £723 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.33%
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% +62.46%
75th Percentile £74.45 £95.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £94.06 £98.00 £81.38
England median hourly rate £45.46 £55.37 £40.26
% change year-on-year -17.90% +37.55% +19.59%

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 13,093 12,664 16,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.28% 90.41% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,072 11,558
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 277
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.97 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.69 £24.42 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +10 80 £479 -12.95% 34
South London +16 23 £425 -24.48% 4
West London -9 13 £425 +93.18% 14
East London +1 5 £525 +23.53% 6
North London +6 2 £575 -
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 43 (7.45%) Confluence
2 35 (6.07%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.56%) nginx
4 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.04%) Mattermost
5 6 (1.04%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.87%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.69%) Appian
7 4 (0.69%) IIS
8 3 (0.52%) CICS
8 3 (0.52%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 39 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (4.68%) MS Visio
4 26 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.69%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (4.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.52%) Finacle
4 3 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.52%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.52%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.52%) VisionPLUS
5 2 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.35%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.17%) Actimize
6 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.17%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 74 (12.82%) Azure
2 50 (8.67%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (6.59%) AWS
3 38 (6.59%) Power Platform
4 22 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (3.29%) SaaS
6 15 (2.60%) Amazon S3
6 15 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (2.60%) Power Automate
7 12 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 12 (2.08%) GitHub
7 12 (2.08%) PaaS
8 10 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (1.56%) Amazon ELB
9 9 (1.56%) IaaS
9 9 (1.56%) Route 53
9 9 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.45%) Firewall
2 29 (5.03%) Network Security
3 20 (3.47%) WAN
4 19 (3.29%) DNS
5 18 (3.12%) VPN
6 16 (2.77%) LAN
7 14 (2.43%) SD-WAN
8 12 (2.08%) HTTP
9 11 (1.91%) SMTP
9 11 (1.91%) SSH
10 9 (1.56%) BGP
10 9 (1.56%) FTP
10 9 (1.56%) IMAP
10 9 (1.56%) OpenLDAP
11 8 (1.39%) NetScaler
11 8 (1.39%) OSPF
12 7 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.04%) Intranet
13 6 (1.04%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.55%) Power BI
2 27 (4.68%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (2.60%) Tableau
6 10 (1.73%) Metadata
7 7 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.87%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.69%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.69%) Pinecone
9 4 (0.69%) Redis
10 3 (0.52%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.52%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.52%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.35%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (10.92%) JIRA
2 21 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.29%) Git
4 9 (1.56%) Vagrant
4 9 (1.56%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.69%) MLflow
6 3 (0.52%) ChangeMan
6 3 (0.52%) JUnit
6 3 (0.52%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.35%) git-flow
7 2 (0.35%) Mockito
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.17%) Ant
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.17%) MSI
8 1 (0.17%) Selenium
8 1 (0.17%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 274 (47.49%) Social Skills
2 240 (41.59%) Finance
3 107 (18.54%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (10.75%) Banking
5 42 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.51%) Legal
6 26 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (3.29%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.12%) Retail
11 17 (2.95%) Marketing
12 16 (2.77%) Law
13 14 (2.43%) Local Government
13 14 (2.43%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.25%) Telecoms
15 12 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.56%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.56%) Front Office
16 9 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (15.25%) Analyst
2 71 (12.31%) Project Manager
3 70 (12.13%) Change Manager
4 60 (10.40%) Business Analyst
5 58 (10.05%) Lead
6 37 (6.41%) Senior
7 33 (5.72%) Developer
8 28 (4.85%) Consultant
9 25 (4.33%) Architect
10 21 (3.64%) Programme Manager
11 20 (3.47%) Business Manager
12 19 (3.29%) Senior Manager
13 16 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (2.77%) IT Manager
13 16 (2.77%) Transformation Manager
14 15 (2.60%) Business Change Manager
15 13 (2.25%) C# Developer
15 13 (2.25%) DevOps Engineer
16 11 (1.91%) AWS DevOps
16 11 (1.91%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.29%) .NET
2 14 (2.43%) REST
3 13 (2.25%) .NET Framework
4 11 (1.91%) LDAP
5 9 (1.56%) OAuth
6 8 (1.39%) HTML
7 7 (1.21%) Kafka
7 7 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.21%) RESTful
7 7 (1.21%) SAML
8 6 (1.04%) OpenID
8 6 (1.04%) Web Services
9 5 (0.87%) CSS
9 5 (0.87%) Node.js
9 5 (0.87%) NumPy
9 5 (0.87%) Pandas
9 5 (0.87%) pytest
9 5 (0.87%) SOAP
10 4 (0.69%) Flask
10 4 (0.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.51%) Management Information System
1 26 (4.51%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.16%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.64%) CMDB
4 14 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (2.43%) PKI
5 13 (2.25%) Replication
6 12 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.08%) PMI
7 11 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.56%) Life Science
10 8 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.87%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.87%) e-Learning
13 5 (0.87%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.23%) Windows
2 24 (4.16%) Linux
3 12 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.91%) VMS
4 11 (1.91%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.56%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (1.56%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.56%) Unix
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.52%) zOS
8 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (33.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 157 (27.21%) Agile
3 151 (26.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 110 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (18.20%) Project Management
6 84 (14.56%) ITIL
7 74 (12.82%) Project Delivery
8 70 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 67 (11.61%) Migration
10 66 (11.44%) Decision-Making
11 63 (10.92%) DevOps
12 61 (10.57%) Roadmaps
13 57 (9.88%) Workshop Facilitation
14 56 (9.71%) PRINCE2
15 55 (9.53%) Risk Management
16 52 (9.01%) Business Intelligence
17 49 (8.49%) User Acceptance Testing
18 47 (8.15%) CI/CD
18 47 (8.15%) Process Improvement
19 46 (7.97%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 85 (14.73%) SQL
2 50 (8.67%) Python
3 30 (5.20%) PowerShell
4 23 (3.99%) C#
5 17 (2.95%) PL/SQL
6 13 (2.25%) Groovy
7 12 (2.08%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.73%) Java
9 9 (1.56%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.21%) Bash
10 7 (1.21%) Korn
11 4 (0.69%) Go
12 3 (0.52%) C
12 3 (0.52%) C++
12 3 (0.52%) Perl
12 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.35%) COBOL
13 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 120 (20.80%) Degree
2 70 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 48 (8.32%) PMI Certification
4 43 (7.45%) SC Cleared
5 40 (6.93%) PMP
6 20 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.08%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.91%) APMG
11 10 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.56%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.56%) CCNP
13 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (1.04%) CCIE
14 6 (1.04%) CFA
14 6 (1.04%) CISSP
14 6 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.63%) QA
2 34 (5.89%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.89%) PMO
3 24 (4.16%) GDPR
4 20 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.95%) SLA
6 9 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.56%) NIST
7 8 (1.39%) MiFID
8 7 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.04%) IFRS
10 5 (0.87%) EMIR
10 5 (0.87%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.69%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.69%) GMP
11 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.52%) GRC
13 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.35%) COBIT
13 2 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (4.85%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.99%) Docker
3 9 (1.56%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.56%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.56%) Postfix
3 9 (1.56%) Squid
4 5 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.69%) XenApp
5 4 (0.69%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.35%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 31 (5.37%) Terraform
2 17 (2.95%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.43%) Grafana
4 13 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.73%) Nessus
7 9 (1.56%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.39%) SCOM
9 7 (1.21%) Ansible
10 6 (1.04%) HP SiteScope
10 6 (1.04%) SCCM
11 4 (0.69%) Rancher
11 4 (0.69%) SCVMM
12 3 (0.52%) CA Endevor
12 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.52%) Puppet
13 2 (0.35%) Argo
13 2 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (0.35%) RSA Archer
14 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 100 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.75%) ServiceNow
3 50 (8.67%) SAP
4 47 (8.15%) Oracle
5 23 (3.99%) Cisco
6 22 (3.81%) Salesforce
7 18 (3.12%) Citrix
8 12 (2.08%) Workday
9 11 (1.91%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.73%) CheckPoint
10 10 (1.73%) F5
10 10 (1.73%) Remedy
11 9 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.56%) VMware
11 9 (1.56%) Zscaler
12 7 (1.21%) Juniper
12 7 (1.21%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.21%) Splunk
13 6 (1.04%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.04%) Dynatrace