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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 58 59
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -22
Contract jobs citing Change Management 820 576 630
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.06% 4.29% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 4.63% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 357 342
10th Percentile £400 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £773
England median daily rate £530 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £41.83 £29.26 £33.65
25th Percentile £52.25 £33.29 £37.27
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £49.04
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -18.43% +10.20%
75th Percentile £61.56 £73.57 £63.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £93.71 £83.00
England median hourly rate £53.00 £27.68 £57.40
% change year-on-year +91.47% -51.77% +18.58%

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 17,972 12,434 14,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.55% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,197 9,428
10th Percentile £360 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 243 184
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.01 £24.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -9.62%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.55 £78.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -13 90 £550 - 123
West London +7 34 £475 -14.03% 24
East London +4 9 £638 +1.19% 7
South London -26 9 £550 +28.28% 7
North London +3 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 48 (5.85%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.39%) Confluence
3 19 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.59%) IIS
5 6 (0.73%) Appian
6 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.61%) Camunda
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.49%) CMS
7 4 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.37%) CICS
8 3 (0.37%) Kentico
8 3 (0.37%) nginx
8 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.12%) Documentum
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.37%) InDesign
6 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.85%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
5 6 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.61%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.49%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.49%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.37%) iTrent
8 3 (0.37%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.37%) Summit
9 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.24%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 134 (16.34%) Azure
2 72 (8.78%) Power Platform
3 69 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (8.05%) AWS
5 59 (7.20%) Entra ID
6 30 (3.66%) SaaS
7 26 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (3.17%) GitHub
8 25 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (2.93%) Microsoft Copilot
10 19 (2.32%) GCP
10 19 (2.32%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.07%) OCI
12 15 (1.83%) OneDrive
13 14 (1.71%) Google Workspace
14 13 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (1.46%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.46%) Serverless
16 10 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.34%) Firewall
2 41 (5.00%) Network Security
3 33 (4.02%) DNS
4 27 (3.29%) TCP/IP
5 24 (2.93%) WAN
6 21 (2.56%) VPN
7 20 (2.44%) DHCP
8 17 (2.07%) LAN
9 9 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.98%) HTTP
10 8 (0.98%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.85%) VLAN
12 6 (0.73%) SAN
12 6 (0.73%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.61%) BGP
13 5 (0.61%) SNMP
13 5 (0.61%) SSH
13 5 (0.61%) SSL
14 4 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.59%) Power BI
2 40 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.93%) Metadata
4 20 (2.44%) Oracle Database
5 11 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.98%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.85%) Tableau
9 6 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (9.15%) JIRA
2 29 (3.54%) Git
3 23 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.61%) GitLab
5 4 (0.49%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.49%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.37%) Selenium
6 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.37%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.24%) Postman
7 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Flyway
8 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 344 (41.95%) Social Skills
2 332 (40.49%) Finance
3 143 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (14.39%) Banking
5 77 (9.39%) Public Sector
6 53 (6.46%) Influencing Skills
7 51 (6.22%) Legal
8 39 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (4.02%) Manufacturing
10 27 (3.29%) Front Office
10 27 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (3.17%) Retail
11 26 (3.17%) Telecoms
12 24 (2.93%) Law
13 23 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (2.80%) Marketing
14 19 (2.32%) Aviation
14 19 (2.32%) Local Government
15 16 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 116 (14.15%) Project Manager
2 113 (13.78%) Analyst
3 103 (12.56%) Lead
4 69 (8.41%) Senior
5 66 (8.05%) Consultant
6 64 (7.80%) Business Analyst
7 59 (7.20%) Change Manager
8 29 (3.54%) Programme Manager
8 29 (3.54%) Senior Manager
9 26 (3.17%) Business Manager
10 25 (3.05%) IT Manager
11 21 (2.56%) Business Change Manager
11 21 (2.56%) Developer
11 21 (2.56%) Technical Manager
12 20 (2.44%) Data Engineer
12 20 (2.44%) Financial Analyst
13 18 (2.20%) IT Project Manager
14 17 (2.07%) Administrator
14 17 (2.07%) Cloud Engineer
14 17 (2.07%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.37%) Terraform
2 26 (3.17%) REST
3 23 (2.80%) .NET
4 17 (2.07%) Middleware
5 16 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (1.34%) SOAP
6 11 (1.34%) Web Services
7 9 (1.10%) .NET Framework
8 8 (0.98%) CSS
8 8 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.98%) HTML
8 8 (0.98%) Kafka
9 7 (0.85%) JSON
10 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (0.73%) Software Packaging
11 5 (0.61%) OAuth
11 5 (0.61%) RESTful
11 5 (0.61%) Spring
11 5 (0.61%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (9.39%) Onboarding
2 41 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.15%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.66%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.44%) Operational Technology
8 17 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.95%) CMDB
9 16 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.71%) Cloud Native
11 13 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.59%) PMI
11 13 (1.59%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.59%) Replication
11 13 (1.59%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.22%) FMCG
13 10 (1.22%) PKI
14 9 (1.10%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 96 (11.71%) Windows
2 39 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 33 (4.02%) Linux
4 16 (1.95%) Unix
5 13 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.34%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.85%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.49%) AIX
8 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.49%) zOS
9 3 (0.37%) Solaris
9 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (46.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 212 (25.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 210 (25.61%) Agile
4 175 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 145 (17.68%) Migration
6 140 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 138 (16.83%) Project Delivery
7 138 (16.83%) Roadmaps
8 126 (15.37%) ITIL
9 121 (14.76%) Project Management
10 120 (14.63%) AI
11 113 (13.78%) Decision-Making
12 100 (12.20%) Analytics
13 96 (11.71%) DevOps
14 91 (11.10%) PRINCE2
15 90 (10.98%) User Acceptance Testing
16 89 (10.85%) Workshop Facilitation
17 81 (9.88%) Risk Management
18 76 (9.27%) Process Improvement
18 76 (9.27%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (11.22%) SQL
2 62 (7.56%) Python
3 51 (6.22%) PowerShell
4 25 (3.05%) PL/SQL
5 24 (2.93%) C#
6 20 (2.44%) Bash
7 18 (2.20%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.83%) Java
10 12 (1.46%) Korn
11 11 (1.34%) Bicep
12 8 (0.98%) Groovy
13 4 (0.49%) JCL
13 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.37%) COBOL
14 3 (0.37%) VBScript
15 2 (0.24%) C++
15 2 (0.24%) SHACL
15 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (12.07%) Degree
2 98 (11.95%) Security Cleared
3 79 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 77 (9.39%) PMI Certification
5 75 (9.15%) PMP
6 23 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.71%) APMG
8 13 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.34%) CISSP
11 10 (1.22%) CCNP
12 8 (0.98%) ACCA
12 8 (0.98%) CISM
13 7 (0.85%) CIMA
13 7 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.34%) QA
3 39 (4.76%) PMO
4 34 (4.15%) SLA
5 23 (2.80%) GDPR
6 17 (2.07%) GRC
7 16 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.85%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.73%) ITGC
11 6 (0.73%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.61%) IFRS
12 5 (0.61%) NIST
13 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 54 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.71%) Docker
4 13 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.37%) RACF
7 3 (0.37%) Squid
8 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.24%) Firmware
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.24%) Postfix
8 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.24%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 25 (3.05%) Ansible
2 24 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (2.07%) Kubernetes
4 13 (1.59%) SCCM
4 13 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.46%) Grafana
6 10 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.73%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.61%) vRealize
10 4 (0.49%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.49%) Puppet
10 4 (0.49%) systemd
11 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.37%) Packer
11 3 (0.37%) Rancher
11 3 (0.37%) SCOM
11 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 169 (20.61%) Microsoft
2 79 (9.63%) Oracle
3 71 (8.66%) ServiceNow
4 62 (7.56%) SAP
5 34 (4.15%) Salesforce
5 34 (4.15%) VMware
6 24 (2.93%) Zscaler
7 22 (2.68%) Cisco
8 19 (2.32%) Google
8 19 (2.32%) Splunk
9 17 (2.07%) Databricks
10 14 (1.71%) Citrix
11 13 (1.59%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.59%) IBM
11 13 (1.59%) Workday
12 12 (1.46%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.34%) Bloomberg
14 9 (1.10%) Apple
14 9 (1.10%) Remedy
15 7 (0.85%) BMC