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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 59 60
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -21
Contract jobs citing Change Management 824 581 617
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 4.27% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 4.64% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 365 379
10th Percentile £400 £340 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £31.85 - £41.20
25th Percentile £51.50 - £54.57
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -39.39% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58.92 - £77.13
90th Percentile £96.00 - £90.85
England median hourly rate £38.50 £32.05 £57.50
% change year-on-year +20.12% -44.26% +18.80%

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 17,817 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,764 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.89 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.81 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -22 80 £575 +4.55% 36
West London -6 23 £513 +7.89% 16
South London -12 19 £525 -9.17% 6
East London +6 8 £750 +19.05% 12
North London +1 3 £450 +2.27%
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 50 (6.07%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.61%) Confluence
3 16 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.70%) IIS
5 8 (0.97%) Appian
6 7 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.61%) Camunda
7 5 (0.61%) CMS
8 4 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.36%) Kentico
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 20 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 29 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.85%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
4 6 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.61%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.49%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.49%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.36%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.24%) Finacle
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 145 (17.60%) Azure
2 64 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (7.65%) Entra ID
4 56 (6.80%) AWS
5 55 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 47 (5.70%) SaaS
7 41 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (2.43%) GCP
9 20 (2.43%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.06%) OCI
11 15 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.70%) GitHub
12 14 (1.70%) OneDrive
13 13 (1.58%) Google Workspace
13 13 (1.58%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (1.46%) Smartsheet
15 10 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.85%) Firewall
2 27 (3.28%) Network Security
3 25 (3.03%) DNS
4 19 (2.31%) WAN
5 18 (2.18%) TCP/IP
6 17 (2.06%) DHCP
7 14 (1.70%) LAN
7 14 (1.70%) VPN
8 8 (0.97%) BGP
8 8 (0.97%) SSL
9 7 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (0.85%) HTTPS
9 7 (0.85%) OSPF
10 6 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.61%) HTTP
11 5 (0.61%) SNMP
11 5 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.73%) Power BI
1 39 (4.73%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.67%) Metadata
3 15 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (0.61%) Tableau
7 4 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.49%) Data Mart
7 4 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.49%) MySQL
7 4 (0.49%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.49%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.36%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 103 (12.50%) JIRA
2 27 (3.28%) Git
3 22 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
4 4 (0.49%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.49%) Maven
5 3 (0.36%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (0.36%) Snyk
5 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.24%) GitLab
6 2 (0.24%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.24%) MLflow
6 2 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.12%) Flyway
7 1 (0.12%) Hudson
7 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 318 (38.59%) Finance
2 304 (36.89%) Social Skills
3 120 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (11.29%) Banking
5 68 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 50 (6.07%) Legal
7 42 (5.10%) Marketing
8 35 (4.25%) Influencing Skills
8 35 (4.25%) Retail
9 31 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (2.79%) Law
12 22 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (2.67%) Telecoms
13 17 (2.06%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.94%) Local Government
15 15 (1.82%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.70%) Front Office
16 14 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 104 (12.62%) Project Manager
2 103 (12.50%) Analyst
3 83 (10.07%) Lead
4 73 (8.86%) Change Manager
5 65 (7.89%) Consultant
6 59 (7.16%) Senior
7 57 (6.92%) Business Analyst
8 30 (3.64%) Developer
9 29 (3.52%) Programme Manager
10 26 (3.16%) Business Manager
10 26 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
10 26 (3.16%) Support Engineer
11 25 (3.03%) Senior Manager
12 22 (2.67%) Business Change Manager
13 20 (2.43%) Administrator
13 20 (2.43%) Applications Support
13 20 (2.43%) Network Engineer
13 20 (2.43%) Technical Manager
14 19 (2.31%) IT Support
14 19 (2.31%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.37%) REST
2 27 (3.28%) .NET
3 15 (1.82%) CSS
4 13 (1.58%) .NET Framework
4 13 (1.58%) Web Services
5 12 (1.46%) Middleware
5 12 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (1.33%) HTML
7 10 (1.21%) OAuth
7 10 (1.21%) SOAP
8 9 (1.09%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.09%) Spring
9 8 (0.97%) Jakarta EE
9 8 (0.97%) React
9 8 (0.97%) SPFx
10 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.85%) RESTful
11 6 (0.73%) jQuery
11 6 (0.73%) JSON
12 5 (0.61%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.55%) Onboarding
2 30 (3.64%) Data Centre
3 28 (3.40%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.91%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.91%) PMI
5 19 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (2.18%) CMDB
7 16 (1.94%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.70%) FMCG
9 12 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.21%) Operational Technology
12 8 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.97%) Clustering
12 8 (0.97%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.97%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.85%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 90 (10.92%) Windows
2 28 (3.40%) Windows Server
3 24 (2.91%) Linux
4 11 (1.33%) Unix
5 10 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.09%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.24%) AIX
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.12%) Android
10 1 (0.12%) HPUX
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) SUSE
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (34.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 208 (25.24%) Agile
3 203 (24.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 174 (21.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 144 (17.48%) Migration
6 133 (16.14%) ITIL
7 126 (15.29%) Project Management
8 125 (15.17%) DevOps
8 125 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
9 119 (14.44%) Project Delivery
10 113 (13.71%) Roadmaps
11 111 (13.47%) Decision-Making
12 104 (12.62%) AI
13 79 (9.59%) PRINCE2
14 78 (9.47%) User Acceptance Testing
15 75 (9.10%) Analytics
16 72 (8.74%) CI/CD
17 68 (8.25%) Service Management
18 65 (7.89%) ITSM
19 64 (7.77%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 88 (10.68%) SQL
2 47 (5.70%) Python
3 41 (4.98%) C#
4 37 (4.49%) PowerShell
5 31 (3.76%) PL/SQL
6 26 (3.16%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.67%) T-SQL
8 21 (2.55%) Java
9 11 (1.33%) Korn
10 10 (1.21%) Bash
11 6 (0.73%) Bicep
11 6 (0.73%) Groovy
12 2 (0.24%) C++
12 2 (0.24%) Perl
12 2 (0.24%) SHACL
12 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.24%) VBA
13 1 (0.12%) COBOL
13 1 (0.12%) RPG
13 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (11.04%) Security Cleared
2 85 (10.32%) Degree
3 73 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 69 (8.37%) PMI Certification
5 66 (8.01%) PMP
6 27 (3.28%) CISSP
7 23 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (2.43%) CISM
9 17 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.70%) APMG
11 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 11 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (1.33%) CCNP
12 11 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.85%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.73%) CISA
15 6 (0.73%) SSCP
16 5 (0.61%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.80%) QA
2 52 (6.31%) PMO
3 40 (4.85%) SLA
4 34 (4.13%) Data Quality
5 24 (2.91%) GDPR
6 21 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.82%) GRC
7 15 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.21%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.09%) ITGC
10 8 (0.97%) NIST
11 6 (0.73%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.61%) COBIT
13 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.49%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 64 (7.77%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.09%) Docker
5 6 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.12%) Squid
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) XenApp
9 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (4.61%) Terraform
2 22 (2.67%) Ansible
3 20 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.70%) Kubernetes
5 11 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.85%) SCCM
7 6 (0.73%) CASB
7 6 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (0.73%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.61%) vRealize
9 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.49%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.49%) Grafana
9 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.49%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.36%) Packer
10 3 (0.36%) Puppet
10 3 (0.36%) SCOM
10 3 (0.36%) systemd
Vendors
1 149 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 99 (12.01%) ServiceNow
3 78 (9.47%) Oracle
4 53 (6.43%) SAP
5 48 (5.83%) Salesforce
6 31 (3.76%) VMware
7 25 (3.03%) Cisco
8 21 (2.55%) Google
9 20 (2.43%) Zscaler
10 19 (2.31%) Citrix
11 15 (1.82%) Splunk
12 12 (1.46%) Workday
13 8 (0.97%) Apple
13 8 (0.97%) Databricks
13 8 (0.97%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.97%) IBM
13 8 (0.97%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.85%) Juniper
15 6 (0.73%) HP
15 6 (0.73%) OpenText