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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 50 40
Rank change year-on-year -19 -10 +8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 605 570 878
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.97% 4.19% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 4.63% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 312 542
10th Percentile £370 £356 £382
25th Percentile £415 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £544 £564
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -3.55% +1.03%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £29.11 £28.60 £25.70
25th Percentile £32.91 £30.20 £32.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £39.54 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% +14.51% +22.62%
75th Percentile £74.45 £53.02 £61.25
90th Percentile £94.06 £75.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -10.95%

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 13,833 12,324 16,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.73% 90.63% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,202 7,872 11,677
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 152 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.03 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.56 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.38 £51.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -4 79 £500 -6.76% 34
South London +16 28 £454 -28.82% 5
West London -10 16 £463 +110.23% 5
East London +5 5 £525 +23.53% 11
North London +5 2 £575 - 2
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 45 (7.44%) Confluence
2 33 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.32%) Appian
5 6 (0.99%) Mattermost
5 6 (0.99%) nginx
5 6 (0.99%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.83%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.50%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 31 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (4.63%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (4.13%) MS Visio
4 23 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.99%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 3 (0.50%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 26 (4.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.83%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.83%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.66%) Finacle
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.50%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.33%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.33%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.33%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 89 (14.71%) Azure
2 54 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (7.27%) AWS
4 40 (6.61%) Power Platform
5 28 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.14%) Power Automate
7 17 (2.81%) Entra ID
8 16 (2.64%) Amazon S3
9 15 (2.48%) SaaS
10 14 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (2.15%) GitHub
12 12 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.65%) Amazon ELB
14 10 (1.65%) AWS KMS
14 10 (1.65%) Serverless
15 9 (1.49%) Azure AI
15 9 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.28%) Firewall
2 29 (4.79%) Network Security
3 20 (3.31%) WAN
4 18 (2.98%) VPN
5 17 (2.81%) DNS
6 16 (2.64%) LAN
7 13 (2.15%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.65%) BGP
9 9 (1.49%) HTTP
9 9 (1.49%) NetScaler
9 9 (1.49%) OSPF
10 8 (1.32%) SMTP
11 7 (1.16%) Intranet
11 7 (1.16%) SSH
11 7 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.99%) IMAP
12 6 (0.99%) OpenLDAP
12 6 (0.99%) Skype
12 6 (0.99%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 32 (5.29%) Power BI
3 18 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (2.31%) Tableau
6 13 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (1.49%) Metadata
8 8 (1.32%) Pinecone
9 7 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.83%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.66%) Redis
12 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.50%) GIS
12 3 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
13 2 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (11.74%) JIRA
2 20 (3.31%) Git
3 18 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.82%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.32%) MLflow
6 6 (0.99%) Vagrant
7 3 (0.50%) JUnit
7 3 (0.50%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.33%) git-flow
8 2 (0.33%) Mockito
9 1 (0.17%) Ant
9 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) TestRail
General
1 284 (46.94%) Social Skills
2 257 (42.48%) Finance
3 107 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.24%) Banking
5 44 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (4.30%) Legal
9 25 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (3.31%) Investment Banking
10 20 (3.31%) Marketing
10 20 (3.31%) Retail
11 17 (2.81%) Law
12 13 (2.15%) Financial Institution
12 13 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.98%) Local Government
13 12 (1.98%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.82%) Front Office
14 11 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 92 (15.21%) Analyst
2 72 (11.90%) Change Manager
2 72 (11.90%) Project Manager
3 62 (10.25%) Business Analyst
4 60 (9.92%) Lead
5 40 (6.61%) Senior
6 34 (5.62%) Developer
7 31 (5.12%) Consultant
8 25 (4.13%) Architect
9 21 (3.47%) Business Manager
10 19 (3.14%) Programme Manager
11 17 (2.81%) C# Developer
12 16 (2.64%) Business Change Manager
13 15 (2.48%) Senior Manager
14 13 (2.15%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.15%) IT Manager
15 12 (1.98%) SAP Manager
15 12 (1.98%) Transformation Manager
16 11 (1.82%) Administrator
17 10 (1.65%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.13%) .NET
2 19 (3.14%) .NET Framework
3 18 (2.98%) REST
4 15 (2.48%) OAuth
5 12 (1.98%) RESTful
6 11 (1.82%) Web Services
7 9 (1.49%) NumPy
7 9 (1.49%) Pandas
7 9 (1.49%) pytest
8 8 (1.32%) Django
8 8 (1.32%) Faiss
8 8 (1.32%) FastAPI
8 8 (1.32%) Flask
8 8 (1.32%) Hugging Face
8 8 (1.32%) JWT
8 8 (1.32%) LDAP
8 8 (1.32%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.32%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.32%) Swagger
8 8 (1.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.63%) Onboarding
1 28 (4.63%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.13%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.80%) CMDB
4 19 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (2.48%) PKI
7 12 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.98%) PMI
8 10 (1.65%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.65%) Replication
9 9 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.49%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.32%) Life Science
11 7 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.99%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (10.25%) Windows
2 21 (3.47%) Linux
3 15 (2.48%) Windows 10
4 14 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.32%) Unix
6 7 (1.16%) VMS
7 6 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.33%) Android
8 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (33.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 165 (27.27%) Agile
3 155 (25.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 116 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (17.02%) Project Management
6 85 (14.05%) ITIL
7 80 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (12.73%) Migration
8 77 (12.73%) Project Delivery
9 67 (11.07%) Decision-Making
10 66 (10.91%) DevOps
11 64 (10.58%) Roadmaps
12 59 (9.75%) User Acceptance Testing
13 58 (9.59%) Risk Management
13 58 (9.59%) Workshop Facilitation
14 56 (9.26%) PRINCE2
15 52 (8.60%) AI
15 52 (8.60%) Business Intelligence
15 52 (8.60%) Requirements Gathering
16 51 (8.43%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 97 (16.03%) SQL
2 51 (8.43%) Python
3 31 (5.12%) PowerShell
4 30 (4.96%) C#
5 19 (3.14%) PL/SQL
6 14 (2.31%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.82%) Groovy
7 11 (1.82%) Java
7 11 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.16%) Bash
9 5 (0.83%) Korn
10 4 (0.66%) Go
10 4 (0.66%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.66%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.50%) Perl
12 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.17%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.17%) R
13 1 (0.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 117 (19.34%) Degree
2 68 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 47 (7.77%) PMI Certification
4 43 (7.11%) SC Cleared
5 39 (6.45%) PMP
6 22 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.82%) CISSP
10 10 (1.65%) APMG
10 10 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.32%) CCNP
12 7 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.16%) CISM
12 7 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.99%) CBAP
13 6 (0.99%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.93%) QA
2 40 (6.61%) Data Quality
3 35 (5.79%) PMO
4 29 (4.79%) GDPR
5 21 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.98%) SLA
7 10 (1.65%) NIST
8 8 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.32%) IFRS
8 8 (1.32%) MiFID
9 7 (1.16%) IFRS 17
9 7 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.99%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.83%) EMIR
12 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.66%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.50%) GMP
13 3 (0.50%) GRC
14 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 33 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.13%) Docker
3 6 (0.99%) DFS Replication
3 6 (0.99%) Dovecot
3 6 (0.99%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.99%) Postfix
3 6 (0.99%) Squid
3 6 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.83%) XenApp
4 5 (0.83%) XenDesktop
5 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.33%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (4.46%) Terraform
2 23 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.82%) Grafana
5 10 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.16%) SCCM
6 7 (1.16%) SCOM
7 6 (0.99%) Ansible
7 6 (0.99%) HP SiteScope
7 6 (0.99%) Nessus
7 6 (0.99%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.83%) SCVMM
9 4 (0.66%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.66%) Rancher
10 3 (0.50%) Puppet
11 2 (0.33%) Argo
11 2 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
12 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 105 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 73 (12.07%) ServiceNow
3 50 (8.26%) SAP
4 47 (7.77%) Oracle
5 26 (4.30%) Salesforce
6 25 (4.13%) Citrix
7 22 (3.64%) Cisco
8 12 (1.98%) Fortinet
8 12 (1.98%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.98%) VMware
8 12 (1.98%) Workday
9 9 (1.49%) Remedy
9 9 (1.49%) UiPath
10 8 (1.32%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.32%) CheckPoint
10 8 (1.32%) F5
10 8 (1.32%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.16%) Splunk
11 7 (1.16%) Zscaler
12 6 (0.99%) Jaspersoft