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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 48 37
Rank change year-on-year -13 -11 +13
Contract jobs citing Change Management 603 612 973
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.19% 4.10% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 4.55% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 338 601
10th Percentile £370 £374 £395
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £730 £758 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £29.11 £39.54 £25.70
25th Percentile £32.91 £46.06 £32.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.36% +7.27% +144.44%
75th Percentile £74.45 £87.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £94.06 £97.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £37.28 £54.00 £45.87
% change year-on-year -30.96% +17.74% +50.38%

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 13,164 13,457 16,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.37% 90.13% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,669 8,640 11,879
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £761 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 165 233
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.04 £18.36
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +11.65% -15.64%
75th Percentile £52.66 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

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 23 December 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 23 December 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 23 December 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 +5 81 £475 -13.64% 74
South London +15 26 £429 -23.81% 12
West London -6 14 £425 +93.18% 15
East London +7 7 £630 +48.24% 10
North London +4 1 £600 - 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 55 (9.12%) Confluence
2 41 (6.80%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.66%) nginx
4 9 (1.49%) HCL Notes
4 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.00%) Mattermost
5 6 (1.00%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.66%) IIS
7 3 (0.50%) CICS
7 3 (0.50%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 39 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (4.98%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (3.81%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.66%) Trello
7 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 29 (4.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.16%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.66%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.50%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.50%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.50%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.50%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.50%) VisionPLUS
6 2 (0.33%) Maximo
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.33%) SAP APO
6 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 69 (11.44%) Azure
2 55 (9.12%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (7.63%) Power Platform
4 40 (6.63%) AWS
5 25 (4.15%) SaaS
6 20 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (2.65%) Amazon S3
8 15 (2.49%) Power Automate
9 14 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (2.16%) Entra ID
11 12 (1.99%) PaaS
11 12 (1.99%) PowerApps
12 11 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.66%) Amazon ELB
13 10 (1.66%) GitHub
13 10 (1.66%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 46 (7.63%) Firewall
2 28 (4.64%) Network Security
3 21 (3.48%) DNS
4 17 (2.82%) WAN
5 16 (2.65%) VPN
6 13 (2.16%) HTTP
6 13 (2.16%) LAN
7 12 (1.99%) BGP
7 12 (1.99%) SMTP
7 12 (1.99%) SSH
8 11 (1.82%) OSPF
8 11 (1.82%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.66%) FTP
9 10 (1.66%) IMAP
9 10 (1.66%) OpenLDAP
10 8 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.00%) Skype
11 6 (1.00%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.14%) Power BI
2 22 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.15%) SQL Server
4 18 (2.99%) Tableau
5 17 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.33%) Metadata
7 7 (1.16%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.66%) Redis
10 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.33%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (11.77%) JIRA
2 23 (3.81%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.48%) Git
4 10 (1.66%) Vagrant
5 5 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.50%) ChangeMan
7 3 (0.50%) JUnit
7 3 (0.50%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.33%) Mockito
8 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) Ant
9 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) MSI
9 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 276 (45.77%) Social Skills
2 249 (41.29%) Finance
3 104 (17.25%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.12%) Banking
5 45 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (3.65%) Legal
9 21 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.99%) Marketing
10 18 (2.99%) Retail
11 17 (2.82%) Investment Banking
12 16 (2.65%) Law
12 16 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.49%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (2.16%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.82%) Local Government
17 10 (1.66%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 96 (15.92%) Analyst
2 76 (12.60%) Project Manager
3 67 (11.11%) Change Manager
4 63 (10.45%) Business Analyst
5 55 (9.12%) Lead
6 36 (5.97%) Senior
7 35 (5.80%) Developer
8 31 (5.14%) Consultant
9 25 (4.15%) Architect
10 20 (3.32%) Business Manager
11 19 (3.15%) Programme Manager
12 16 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (2.65%) Business Change Manager
13 15 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (2.49%) IT Manager
14 14 (2.32%) Senior Manager
14 14 (2.32%) Transformation Manager
15 12 (1.99%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (1.99%) Financial Analyst
15 12 (1.99%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.49%) .NET
2 12 (1.99%) LDAP
3 10 (1.66%) REST
4 8 (1.33%) .NET Framework
4 8 (1.33%) HTML
4 8 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.16%) Kafka
5 7 (1.16%) SAML
6 6 (1.00%) OAuth
7 5 (0.83%) Node.js
7 5 (0.83%) OpenID
7 5 (0.83%) SOAP
8 4 (0.66%) CSS
8 4 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.66%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (0.66%) Keycloak
8 4 (0.66%) RESTful
8 4 (0.66%) YAML
9 3 (0.50%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.81%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.15%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.48%) CMDB
5 14 (2.32%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.32%) Replication
6 13 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 12 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.82%) PKI
8 11 (1.82%) PMI
9 9 (1.49%) Life Science
10 8 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.16%) e-Learning
12 6 (1.00%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.79%) Windows
2 25 (4.15%) Linux
3 12 (1.99%) VMS
4 10 (1.66%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (1.66%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.33%) Unix
6 6 (1.00%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.50%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (31.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 168 (27.86%) Agile
3 145 (24.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 120 (19.90%) Project Management
5 114 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 80 (13.27%) ITIL
8 77 (12.77%) Migration
9 74 (12.27%) Project Delivery
10 65 (10.78%) Decision-Making
11 61 (10.12%) DevOps
12 58 (9.62%) Roadmaps
13 56 (9.29%) PRINCE2
14 55 (9.12%) Risk Management
15 54 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
16 50 (8.29%) ERP
16 50 (8.29%) Workshop Facilitation
17 48 (7.96%) Process Improvement
17 48 (7.96%) Scrum
17 48 (7.96%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 82 (13.60%) SQL
2 50 (8.29%) Python
3 32 (5.31%) PowerShell
4 24 (3.98%) C#
5 14 (2.32%) Groovy
5 14 (2.32%) Java
5 14 (2.32%) PL/SQL
6 13 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.33%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.16%) Bash
8 7 (1.16%) Korn
9 4 (0.66%) Formula Language
9 4 (0.66%) Go
9 4 (0.66%) LotusScript
10 3 (0.50%) C
10 3 (0.50%) C++
10 3 (0.50%) Perl
11 2 (0.33%) COBOL
11 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 118 (19.57%) Degree
2 74 (12.27%) Security Cleared
3 49 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 47 (7.79%) PMI Certification
5 38 (6.30%) PMP
6 15 (2.49%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.49%) APMG
9 9 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.33%) CCNP
11 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.00%) CCIE
12 6 (1.00%) CFA
13 5 (0.83%) JNCIE
13 5 (0.83%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.63%) QA
2 37 (6.14%) PMO
3 27 (4.48%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.15%) GDPR
5 14 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.32%) SLA
6 9 (1.49%) NIST
7 8 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.33%) MiFID
8 6 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.83%) EMIR
9 5 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.66%) GMP
10 4 (0.66%) IFRS
11 3 (0.50%) ITGC
12 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.33%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.33%) NCSC
12 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 28 (4.64%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.32%) Docker
3 10 (1.66%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.66%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.66%) Postfix
3 10 (1.66%) Squid
4 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.33%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.17%) XenApp
7 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (5.31%) Terraform
2 15 (2.49%) Grafana
3 14 (2.32%) Prometheus
4 13 (2.16%) Kubernetes
5 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (1.82%) Nessus
7 10 (1.66%) Ansible
7 10 (1.66%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.33%) SCOM
9 6 (1.00%) HP SiteScope
10 4 (0.66%) Rancher
11 3 (0.50%) CA Endevor
11 3 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.50%) SCCM
12 2 (0.33%) Argo
12 2 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.33%) Puppet
12 2 (0.33%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.33%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 108 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.95%) ServiceNow
3 54 (8.96%) SAP
4 47 (7.79%) Oracle
5 21 (3.48%) Cisco
5 21 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.82%) Workday
7 10 (1.66%) F5
7 10 (1.66%) Fortinet
7 10 (1.66%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.49%) Citrix
8 9 (1.49%) Lotus
8 9 (1.49%) Remedy
9 8 (1.33%) CheckPoint
9 8 (1.33%) VMware
10 7 (1.16%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.16%) Juniper
10 7 (1.16%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.16%) Splunk
10 7 (1.16%) Zscaler