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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 60 58
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -17
Contract jobs citing Change Management 763 528 690
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.96% 4.12% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.46% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 329 441
10th Percentile £400 £347 £336
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £673
90th Percentile £736 £751 £750
England median daily rate £525 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £28.70 - £32.35
25th Percentile £43.25 - £32.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.60 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +101.05% -17.17% -37.22%
75th Percentile £76.96 £34.30 £52.99
90th Percentile £97.00 £37.72 £62.90
England median hourly rate £34.87 £43.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -18.91% -14.00% +3.31%

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 17,127 11,843 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.34% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,395 7,916 11,030
10th Percentile £360 £336 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.18 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -16 79 £550 -2.22% 25
South London +6 21 £513 -11.79% 5
West London -6 20 £500 +11.11% 10
East London +4 8 £750 +28.21% 7
North London +3 3 £450 +2.27% 3
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 42 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.72%) Confluence
3 16 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.83%) IIS
5 12 (1.57%) Appian
6 7 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.66%) Camunda
7 5 (0.66%) CMS
8 4 (0.52%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.39%) Kentico
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.13%) MTS
10 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 18 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (1.83%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.13%) InDesign
7 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.66%) Finacle
4 5 (0.66%) OpenText MBPM
4 5 (0.66%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.66%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.52%) SAP QM
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.26%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.26%) Global One
7 2 (0.26%) Primavera
7 2 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 123 (16.12%) Azure
2 58 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (6.16%) AWS
4 46 (6.03%) Entra ID
5 42 (5.50%) SaaS
6 41 (5.37%) Power Platform
7 40 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (2.62%) Power Automate
10 18 (2.36%) GCP
11 14 (1.83%) OCI
12 13 (1.70%) Google Workspace
12 13 (1.70%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.57%) Smartsheet
14 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (1.31%) PaaS
15 9 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (1.18%) GitHub
15 9 (1.18%) Google Drive
16 8 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.80%) Firewall
2 19 (2.49%) WAN
3 17 (2.23%) Network Security
4 16 (2.10%) DNS
5 13 (1.70%) LAN
6 12 (1.57%) VPN
7 10 (1.31%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.18%) BGP
8 9 (1.18%) DHCP
9 8 (1.05%) OSPF
9 8 (1.05%) SSL
9 8 (1.05%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.92%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.52%) Internet
13 4 (0.52%) Intranet
13 4 (0.52%) NetScaler
14 3 (0.39%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.41%) Power BI
3 21 (2.75%) Metadata
4 13 (1.70%) Oracle Database
5 8 (1.05%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (0.79%) Pinecone
7 5 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.52%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.52%) Data Mart
8 4 (0.52%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.52%) MySQL
8 4 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.39%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.39%) Stardog
9 3 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 101 (13.24%) JIRA
2 24 (3.15%) Git
3 22 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.92%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.79%) MLflow
6 4 (0.52%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.52%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.52%) Maven
7 3 (0.39%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.39%) Snyk
7 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.13%) git-flow
8 1 (0.13%) GitLab
8 1 (0.13%) Hudson
8 1 (0.13%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 298 (39.06%) Finance
2 286 (37.48%) Social Skills
3 107 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.40%) Banking
5 54 (7.08%) Public Sector
6 46 (6.03%) Legal
7 42 (5.50%) Marketing
8 36 (4.72%) Retail
9 27 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (2.88%) Law
13 18 (2.36%) Financial Institution
14 16 (2.10%) Local Government
15 14 (1.83%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.70%) Front Office
16 13 (1.70%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.44%) Investment Banking
17 11 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 91 (11.93%) Project Manager
2 85 (11.14%) Analyst
3 80 (10.48%) Lead
4 78 (10.22%) Change Manager
5 60 (7.86%) Consultant
6 50 (6.55%) Senior
7 46 (6.03%) Business Analyst
8 35 (4.59%) Developer
9 28 (3.67%) Programme Manager
10 26 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
10 26 (3.41%) Support Engineer
11 24 (3.15%) Senior Manager
12 22 (2.88%) Business Manager
13 20 (2.62%) Business Change Manager
13 20 (2.62%) Technical Manager
14 19 (2.49%) IT Engineer
14 19 (2.49%) IT Support
14 19 (2.49%) IT Support Engineer
15 18 (2.36%) Applications Support
15 18 (2.36%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.59%) REST
2 30 (3.93%) .NET
3 21 (2.75%) .NET Framework
4 17 (2.23%) OAuth
5 13 (1.70%) Web Services
6 12 (1.57%) CSS
6 12 (1.57%) Middleware
7 11 (1.44%) React
7 11 (1.44%) RESTful
8 9 (1.18%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.18%) Spring
9 8 (1.05%) HTML
9 8 (1.05%) J2EE
9 8 (1.05%) SPFx
10 7 (0.92%) OAuth2
10 7 (0.92%) OpenID
11 6 (0.79%) Flask
11 6 (0.79%) pytest
11 6 (0.79%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.46%) Onboarding
2 31 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (3.01%) Data Centre
3 23 (3.01%) PMI
3 23 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.36%) CMDB
6 14 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.57%) FMCG
8 12 (1.57%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.31%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.05%) Operational Technology
10 8 (1.05%) Security Posture
11 7 (0.92%) AI Agents
11 7 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.92%) PKI
11 7 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 88 (11.53%) Windows
2 25 (3.28%) Windows Server
3 24 (3.15%) Linux
4 14 (1.83%) Unix
5 9 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.26%) AIX
11 2 (0.26%) Android
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.13%) HPUX
12 1 (0.13%) Solaris
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE
12 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (30.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 194 (25.43%) Agile
3 183 (23.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 153 (20.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 122 (15.99%) DevOps
6 121 (15.86%) ITIL
7 119 (15.60%) Project Management
8 118 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
9 115 (15.07%) Migration
10 101 (13.24%) Decision-Making
11 97 (12.71%) Roadmaps
12 96 (12.58%) Project Delivery
13 90 (11.80%) AI
14 75 (9.83%) CI/CD
15 74 (9.70%) User Acceptance Testing
16 67 (8.78%) Analytics
17 63 (8.26%) PRINCE2
18 62 (8.13%) Risk Management
19 60 (7.86%) Workshop Facilitation
20 56 (7.34%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 98 (12.84%) SQL
2 48 (6.29%) Python
3 42 (5.50%) C#
4 34 (4.46%) PL/SQL
5 30 (3.93%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.15%) T-SQL
7 22 (2.88%) Java
7 22 (2.88%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.92%) Groovy
8 7 (0.92%) Korn
9 6 (0.79%) Bash
10 4 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.39%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.26%) C++
12 2 (0.26%) Perl
12 2 (0.26%) SHACL
12 2 (0.26%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.13%) Bicep
13 1 (0.13%) COBOL
13 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 83 (10.88%) Degree
2 78 (10.22%) Security Cleared
3 60 (7.86%) PMI Certification
3 60 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 57 (7.47%) PMP
5 28 (3.67%) CISSP
6 20 (2.62%) CISM
7 18 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (1.97%) APMG
9 12 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 11 (1.44%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.18%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.05%) CISA
14 7 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 6 (0.79%) CCNP
15 6 (0.79%) SSCP
16 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.60%) QA
2 47 (6.16%) PMO
3 38 (4.98%) SLA
4 36 (4.72%) Data Quality
5 28 (3.67%) GDPR
6 23 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.57%) GRC
9 11 (1.44%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.18%) NIST
11 8 (1.05%) ITGC
12 7 (0.92%) COBIT
13 6 (0.79%) IFRS
14 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
14 5 (0.66%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.66%) IFRS 17
15 4 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.52%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (6.68%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.97%) Docker
3 10 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.39%) XenApp
6 3 (0.39%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (3.80%) Terraform
2 20 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.49%) Ansible
4 13 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.18%) SCCM
7 6 (0.79%) CASB
7 6 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.66%) vRealize
9 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.52%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.52%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.52%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.52%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) Grafana
10 3 (0.39%) Packer
10 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.39%) SCVMM
11 2 (0.26%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 92 (12.06%) ServiceNow
3 79 (10.35%) Oracle
4 49 (6.42%) SAP
5 45 (5.90%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.54%) Citrix
7 22 (2.88%) VMware
8 21 (2.75%) Google
9 15 (1.97%) Cisco
10 14 (1.83%) Workday
10 14 (1.83%) Zscaler
11 13 (1.70%) Splunk
12 9 (1.18%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.05%) Apple
13 8 (1.05%) Databricks
14 7 (0.92%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.92%) IBM
14 7 (0.92%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.79%) Juniper
15 6 (0.79%) Palo Alto