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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 55 37
Rank change year-on-year -4 -18 +16
Contract jobs citing Change Management 570 631 1,077
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.26% 3.96% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 4.43% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 342 679
10th Percentile £348 £360 £392
25th Percentile £416 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £670 £688 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile £29.26 £33.65 £24.65
25th Percentile £33.29 £37.27 £29.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £49.04 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +10.20% +53.45%
75th Percentile £73.57 £63.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £93.71 £83.00 £79.50
England median hourly rate £28.79 £56.75 £48.40
% change year-on-year -49.26% +17.24% +48.92%

All Process and 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 12,373 14,239 18,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.45% 89.33% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,149 9,210 13,447
10th Percentile £333 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 175 228
10th Percentile £18.06 £17.70 £18.45
25th Percentile £24.94 £24.17 £21.50
Median hourly rate £30.25 £38.07 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -3.92% +1.77%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.50 £62.25
90th Percentile £64.93 £78.75 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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 £550 -5.17% 95
South London +18 24 £425 -15.08% 6
West London 0 10 £550 +35.38% 12
East London +8 9 £630 +48.24% 11
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 (8.42%) Confluence
2 30 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.75%) nginx
4 6 (1.05%) Mattermost
4 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.05%) Skype for Business
5 5 (0.88%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.53%) CICS
7 3 (0.53%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.18%) Moodle
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle UPK
9 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 34 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 25 (4.39%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (2.81%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.53%) Trello
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.18%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 30 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.88%) SAP APO
3 5 (0.88%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.70%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.53%) OpenText MBPM
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.53%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.53%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.53%) VisionPLUS
6 2 (0.35%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.35%) SAP PLM
6 2 (0.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (9.12%) Azure
2 39 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (5.96%) Power Platform
4 31 (5.44%) AWS
5 25 (4.39%) SaaS
6 16 (2.81%) Amazon S3
7 13 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (1.93%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (1.75%) Amazon ELB
10 10 (1.75%) AWS KMS
10 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (1.75%) Power Automate
10 10 (1.75%) Route 53
11 9 (1.58%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.40%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 42 (7.37%) Firewall
2 17 (2.98%) DNS
3 14 (2.46%) WAN
4 13 (2.28%) HTTP
4 13 (2.28%) Network Security
5 12 (2.11%) LAN
5 12 (2.11%) SMTP
5 12 (2.11%) SSH
5 12 (2.11%) VPN
6 10 (1.75%) FTP
6 10 (1.75%) IMAP
6 10 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
7 9 (1.58%) BGP
7 9 (1.58%) OSPF
8 8 (1.40%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.40%) Unified Communications
9 6 (1.05%) Skype
9 6 (1.05%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.88%) MPLS
10 5 (0.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.91%) Power BI
2 20 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (2.28%) Tableau
5 11 (1.93%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.40%) Metadata
7 4 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.53%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.35%) MySQL
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.35%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (10.53%) JIRA
2 20 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 18 (3.16%) Git
4 10 (1.75%) Vagrant
5 3 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.53%) ChangeMan
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.53%) REST Assured
5 3 (0.53%) Selenium
6 2 (0.35%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.18%) GCC
7 1 (0.18%) JUnit
7 1 (0.18%) Mockito
7 1 (0.18%) MSI
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 237 (41.58%) Finance
1 237 (41.58%) Social Skills
2 80 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (11.23%) Banking
4 41 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
6 23 (4.04%) Legal
7 19 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (3.16%) Law
8 18 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.98%) Marketing
10 16 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (2.46%) Front Office
11 14 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.46%) Retail
12 13 (2.28%) Telecoms
13 12 (2.11%) Local Government
14 10 (1.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 103 (18.07%) Analyst
2 85 (14.91%) Project Manager
3 71 (12.46%) Business Analyst
4 64 (11.23%) Lead
5 43 (7.54%) Consultant
6 42 (7.37%) Change Manager
7 33 (5.79%) Senior
8 27 (4.74%) Developer
9 23 (4.04%) IT Manager
10 18 (3.16%) Architect
10 18 (3.16%) Programme Manager
11 15 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (2.46%) Business Manager
12 14 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
12 14 (2.46%) Transformation Manager
13 13 (2.28%) Senior Manager
13 13 (2.28%) Service Manager
14 12 (2.11%) Business Change Manager
14 12 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (2.11%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.11%) LDAP
1 12 (2.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (1.93%) .NET
3 6 (1.05%) HTML
4 4 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
4 4 (0.70%) Kafka
4 4 (0.70%) Playwright
4 4 (0.70%) REST
4 4 (0.70%) XMPP
5 3 (0.53%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.53%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.53%) CSS
5 3 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.53%) Middleware
5 3 (0.53%) Node.js
5 3 (0.53%) OAuth
5 3 (0.53%) React
5 3 (0.53%) RESTful
5 3 (0.53%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.91%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.86%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.81%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.28%) Onboarding
4 13 (2.28%) Replication
5 10 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (1.75%) Life Science
6 9 (1.58%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.40%) e-Learning
7 8 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.40%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.23%) PMI
9 6 (1.05%) PKI
10 5 (0.88%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.88%) CMDB
10 5 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.49%) Windows
2 27 (4.74%) Linux
3 12 (2.11%) Ubuntu
3 12 (2.11%) VMS
4 10 (1.75%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (1.40%) Unix
6 6 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.53%) zOS
9 2 (0.35%) CentOS
10 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (28.60%) Agile
2 158 (27.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 128 (22.46%) Project Management
4 120 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 107 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (14.04%) Project Delivery
7 76 (13.33%) Migration
8 67 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (11.05%) Risk Management
10 62 (10.88%) ERP
11 61 (10.70%) ITIL
12 60 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
13 55 (9.65%) PRINCE2
14 50 (8.77%) Decision-Making
15 43 (7.54%) DevOps
15 43 (7.54%) Waterfall
16 42 (7.37%) Business Intelligence
16 42 (7.37%) Data Migration
16 42 (7.37%) Scrum
17 40 (7.02%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 71 (12.46%) SQL
2 43 (7.54%) Python
3 25 (4.39%) PowerShell
4 20 (3.51%) C#
5 14 (2.46%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.28%) Java
7 12 (2.11%) Groovy
8 8 (1.40%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.70%) Go
9 4 (0.70%) Korn
10 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.53%) Bash
10 3 (0.53%) Formula Language
10 3 (0.53%) LotusScript
10 3 (0.53%) SOQL
10 3 (0.53%) SOSL
10 3 (0.53%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.35%) ABAP
11 2 (0.35%) C
11 2 (0.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 104 (18.25%) Degree
2 58 (10.18%) Security Cleared
3 48 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 45 (7.89%) PMI Certification
5 43 (7.54%) PMP
6 13 (2.28%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.58%) APMG
9 9 (1.58%) CBAP
10 8 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.05%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 5 (0.88%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 4 (0.70%) CCIE
14 4 (0.70%) CCNP
14 4 (0.70%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.61%) QA
2 29 (5.09%) PMO
3 19 (3.33%) GDPR
4 17 (2.98%) MiFID
5 16 (2.81%) Data Quality
6 15 (2.63%) EMIR
7 14 (2.46%) SLA
8 12 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (1.75%) NIST
10 7 (1.23%) PCI DSS
11 6 (1.05%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.70%) GMP
12 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.53%) IFRS
13 3 (0.53%) ITGC
13 3 (0.53%) NCSC
14 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.35%) GAAP
System Software
1 30 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.63%) Docker
3 10 (1.75%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.75%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.75%) Postfix
3 10 (1.75%) Squid
4 5 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.35%) Firmware
6 2 (0.35%) vSphere
7 1 (0.18%) etcd
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (4.56%) Terraform
2 14 (2.46%) Grafana
3 13 (2.28%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.93%) Nessus
5 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.75%) Proxmox
6 9 (1.58%) Ansible
7 8 (1.40%) SCOM
8 7 (1.23%) Kubernetes
9 6 (1.05%) HP SiteScope
10 3 (0.53%) CA Endevor
10 3 (0.53%) SCCM
11 2 (0.35%) Argo
11 2 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
11 2 (0.35%) Rancher
11 2 (0.35%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.18%) Istio
12 1 (0.18%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 96 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.12%) SAP
3 38 (6.67%) Oracle
4 37 (6.49%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.16%) Cisco
7 10 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.75%) Workday
8 9 (1.58%) VMware
9 8 (1.40%) Fortinet
9 8 (1.40%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.40%) Splunk
10 7 (1.23%) Remedy
11 6 (1.05%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.88%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.88%) F5
12 5 (0.88%) Google
12 5 (0.88%) Juniper
12 5 (0.88%) Lotus