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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 57 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -24
Contract jobs citing Change Management 830 585 597
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 4.34% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 4.70% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 371 351
10th Percentile £398 £338 £350
25th Percentile £426 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +0.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £28.70 £29.26 £37.01
25th Percentile £43.25 £33.29 £44.08
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -37.50% +82.86%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.57 £69.50
90th Percentile £58.00 £93.71 £87.80
England median hourly rate £48.84 £30.00 £58.17
% change year-on-year +62.80% -48.43% +23.48%

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 17,907 12,452 14,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,284 9,876
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 291 255 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -12.33% -8.75%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 85 £525 -8.70% 32
West London -8 23 £538 +13.16% 40
South London -23 13 £563 +7.14% 4
East London +9 12 £750 +19.05% 10
North London +3 4 £450 +2.27% 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 52 (6.27%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.86%) Confluence
3 18 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.57%) IIS
5 6 (0.72%) Appian
5 6 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.60%) Camunda
7 4 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.48%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 24 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) InDesign
7 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 29 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.84%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
4 6 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.60%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.48%) Front Arena
6 4 (0.48%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.36%) Summit
7 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.24%) Eikon
8 2 (0.24%) HFM
8 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 141 (16.99%) Azure
2 68 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (7.83%) Entra ID
4 62 (7.47%) Power Platform
5 60 (7.23%) AWS
6 42 (5.06%) SaaS
7 35 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (2.89%) GitHub
10 21 (2.53%) GCP
11 20 (2.41%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.29%) OCI
13 16 (1.93%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.69%) Google Workspace
14 14 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
14 14 (1.69%) OneDrive
15 13 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (1.20%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.66%) Firewall
2 33 (3.98%) Network Security
3 29 (3.49%) DNS
4 22 (2.65%) WAN
5 21 (2.53%) TCP/IP
6 20 (2.41%) DHCP
7 18 (2.17%) VPN
8 15 (1.81%) LAN
9 9 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (0.96%) HTTPS
10 8 (0.96%) SSL
10 8 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.84%) HTTP
12 6 (0.72%) VLAN
13 5 (0.60%) FTP
13 5 (0.60%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.60%) SSH
13 5 (0.60%) Wireless
14 4 (0.48%) 4G
14 4 (0.48%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.78%) Power BI
2 41 (4.94%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.89%) Metadata
4 16 (1.93%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.72%) Tableau
9 5 (0.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.48%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.48%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.36%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.36%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 87 (10.48%) JIRA
2 27 (3.25%) Git
3 23 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.72%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.48%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.36%) GitLab
6 3 (0.36%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (0.36%) Selenium
6 3 (0.36%) Snyk
6 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.12%) Maven
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 336 (40.48%) Finance
2 333 (40.12%) Social Skills
3 140 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (13.61%) Banking
5 66 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 48 (5.78%) Legal
7 41 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
8 35 (4.22%) Marketing
9 32 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.86%) Retail
10 25 (3.01%) Law
10 25 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (2.89%) Telecoms
12 21 (2.53%) Front Office
13 19 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (2.05%) Local Government
15 16 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (1.93%) Manufacturing
16 15 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 114 (13.73%) Analyst
2 107 (12.89%) Project Manager
3 105 (12.65%) Lead
4 65 (7.83%) Consultant
5 63 (7.59%) Change Manager
6 61 (7.35%) Senior
7 59 (7.11%) Business Analyst
8 30 (3.61%) Senior Manager
9 27 (3.25%) Developer
10 26 (3.13%) Business Manager
11 24 (2.89%) Programme Manager
12 22 (2.65%) Administrator
13 21 (2.53%) Business Change Manager
14 20 (2.41%) Financial Analyst
15 19 (2.29%) Applications Support
15 19 (2.29%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (2.17%) Data Engineer
16 18 (2.17%) Delivery Manager
16 18 (2.17%) Finance Business Analyst
16 18 (2.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.54%) Terraform
2 31 (3.73%) REST
3 27 (3.25%) .NET
4 13 (1.57%) Middleware
4 13 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (1.45%) CSS
6 11 (1.33%) .NET Framework
6 11 (1.33%) HTML
7 9 (1.08%) OAuth
7 9 (1.08%) SOAP
8 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (0.96%) React
8 8 (0.96%) SPFx
8 8 (0.96%) Web Services
9 6 (0.72%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.72%) JSON
9 6 (0.72%) Spring
10 5 (0.60%) OpenID
10 5 (0.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.43%) Onboarding
2 31 (3.73%) Data Centre
3 30 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.53%) PMI
6 17 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.81%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.81%) FMCG
9 14 (1.69%) CMDB
9 14 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.33%) Clustering
11 11 (1.33%) Operational Technology
12 10 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.20%) PKI
12 10 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.08%) Derivative
13 9 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (10.60%) Windows
2 31 (3.73%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.25%) Linux
4 10 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.20%) Unix
5 8 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.96%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.24%) AIX
8 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Android
8 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.24%) zOS
9 1 (0.12%) HPUX
9 1 (0.12%) MVS
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (39.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 214 (25.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 210 (25.30%) Agile
4 184 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 144 (17.35%) Migration
6 137 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
7 135 (16.27%) Project Delivery
8 132 (15.90%) ITIL
9 131 (15.78%) Project Management
10 121 (14.58%) Roadmaps
11 119 (14.34%) Decision-Making
12 111 (13.37%) AI
13 110 (13.25%) DevOps
14 97 (11.69%) Analytics
15 86 (10.36%) PRINCE2
16 84 (10.12%) User Acceptance Testing
17 75 (9.04%) Workshop Facilitation
18 74 (8.92%) Service Management
19 72 (8.67%) CI/CD
19 72 (8.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (11.45%) SQL
2 58 (6.99%) Python
3 50 (6.02%) PowerShell
4 31 (3.73%) C#
4 31 (3.73%) PL/SQL
5 23 (2.77%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.65%) T-SQL
7 18 (2.17%) Java
8 16 (1.93%) Bash
9 12 (1.45%) Korn
10 10 (1.20%) Bicep
11 8 (0.96%) Groovy
12 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.36%) VBScript
14 2 (0.24%) C++
14 2 (0.24%) JCL
14 2 (0.24%) Perl
14 2 (0.24%) SHACL
14 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (11.20%) Degree
2 90 (10.84%) Security Cleared
3 74 (8.92%) PMI Certification
3 74 (8.92%) PMP
4 72 (8.67%) SC Cleared
5 22 (2.65%) CISSP
5 22 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (2.05%) APMG
8 16 (1.93%) CISM
9 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.20%) CCNP
11 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (0.96%) ACCA
13 7 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.84%) CIMA
13 7 (0.84%) CISA
14 6 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.87%) QA
2 52 (6.27%) PMO
3 39 (4.70%) Data Quality
4 35 (4.22%) SLA
5 22 (2.65%) GDPR
6 18 (2.17%) GRC
7 15 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.20%) ITGC
10 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.84%) NIST
12 6 (0.72%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.60%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.60%) COBIT
14 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 60 (7.23%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (1.33%) Docker
5 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.36%) Squid
7 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.24%) Postfix
9 1 (0.12%) Firmware
9 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.12%) RACF
9 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (2.65%) Ansible
3 15 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (1.57%) Kubernetes
5 11 (1.33%) SCCM
6 8 (0.96%) Grafana
7 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
7 7 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.72%) CASB
8 6 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
8 6 (0.72%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.60%) vRealize
10 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.48%) Control-M
10 4 (0.48%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.48%) systemd
11 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.36%) Packer
11 3 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 161 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.24%) ServiceNow
3 84 (10.12%) Oracle
4 55 (6.63%) SAP
5 44 (5.30%) Salesforce
6 30 (3.61%) VMware
7 22 (2.65%) Cisco
7 22 (2.65%) Google
8 20 (2.41%) Zscaler
9 16 (1.93%) Citrix
9 16 (1.93%) Splunk
10 13 (1.57%) Workday
11 10 (1.20%) Databricks
11 10 (1.20%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.08%) Apple
12 9 (1.08%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.08%) IBM
13 7 (0.84%) Alteryx
14 6 (0.72%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.72%) Fortinet