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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 52 40
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 +9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 605 556 888
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.96% 4.09% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 4.52% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 305 547
10th Percentile £375 £356 £381
25th Percentile £415 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -7.08% +0.44%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 5
10th Percentile £32.91 £28.60 £25.70
25th Percentile £44.17 £30.20 £32.00
Median hourly rate £74.46 £39.54 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +88.32% +14.51% -2.49%
75th Percentile £98.75 £53.02 £61.25
90th Percentile £103.57 £75.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -11.48%

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 13,830 12,308 16,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.61% 90.65% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,214 7,868 11,762
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 220 153 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.13 £55.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 0 79 £500 -6.76% 34
South London +14 27 £433 -32.16% 5
West London -11 15 £463 +110.23% 5
East London +1 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 44 (7.27%) 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%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.83%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.66%) nginx
8 3 (0.50%) IIS
9 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.33%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.17%) Moodle
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 30 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (4.13%) MS Visio
4 23 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 3 (0.50%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 27 (4.46%) 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
6 3 (0.50%) Workday HCM
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
8 1 (0.17%) Actimize
8 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.17%) Maximo
8 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 88 (14.55%) Azure
2 52 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.28%) AWS
5 29 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (3.31%) Power Automate
7 17 (2.81%) Entra ID
8 16 (2.64%) SaaS
9 14 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (1.82%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.82%) GitHub
12 10 (1.65%) PaaS
12 10 (1.65%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.49%) Azure AI
13 9 (1.49%) IaaS
13 9 (1.49%) Serverless
13 9 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.95%) Firewall
2 29 (4.79%) Network Security
3 20 (3.31%) WAN
4 18 (2.98%) VPN
5 16 (2.64%) LAN
6 15 (2.48%) DNS
7 13 (2.15%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.65%) BGP
9 9 (1.49%) NetScaler
9 9 (1.49%) OSPF
10 7 (1.16%) HTTP
10 7 (1.16%) Intranet
10 7 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.99%) Skype
11 6 (0.99%) SMTP
11 6 (0.99%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.99%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.83%) DHCP
12 5 (0.83%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 30 (4.96%) Power BI
3 14 (2.31%) Tableau
4 13 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.49%) Metadata
7 8 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (1.32%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.83%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.50%) GIS
11 3 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (0.50%) Redis
12 2 (0.33%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.33%) MySQL
12 2 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 68 (11.24%) JIRA
2 17 (2.81%) Git
3 15 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.82%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.32%) MLflow
6 4 (0.66%) 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%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 284 (46.94%) Social Skills
2 262 (43.31%) Finance
3 106 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (11.40%) Banking
5 42 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (4.63%) Legal
8 27 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (3.47%) Investment Banking
10 21 (3.47%) Retail
11 20 (3.31%) Marketing
12 17 (2.81%) Law
13 13 (2.15%) Financial Institution
13 13 (2.15%) Local Government
13 13 (2.15%) Manufacturing
13 13 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.98%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.82%) Front Office
16 10 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 91 (15.04%) Analyst
2 76 (12.56%) Project Manager
3 72 (11.90%) Change Manager
4 62 (10.25%) Business Analyst
5 60 (9.92%) Lead
6 40 (6.61%) Senior
7 34 (5.62%) Developer
8 33 (5.45%) Consultant
9 25 (4.13%) Architect
10 21 (3.47%) Business Manager
11 18 (2.98%) Programme Manager
12 17 (2.81%) C# Developer
13 16 (2.64%) Business Change Manager
14 15 (2.48%) Senior Manager
15 13 (2.15%) IT Manager
15 13 (2.15%) SAP Manager
16 12 (1.98%) Delivery Manager
16 12 (1.98%) Transformation Manager
17 11 (1.82%) Administrator
18 9 (1.49%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.13%) .NET
2 19 (3.14%) .NET Framework
2 19 (3.14%) REST
3 15 (2.48%) OAuth
4 12 (1.98%) RESTful
4 12 (1.98%) Web Services
5 9 (1.49%) NumPy
5 9 (1.49%) Pandas
5 9 (1.49%) pytest
6 8 (1.32%) Django
6 8 (1.32%) FastAPI
6 8 (1.32%) Flask
6 8 (1.32%) HTML
6 8 (1.32%) Hugging Face
6 8 (1.32%) JWT
6 8 (1.32%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.32%) SAML
6 8 (1.32%) scikit-learn
6 8 (1.32%) Swagger
6 8 (1.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.63%) Onboarding
1 28 (4.63%) Product Ownership
2 24 (3.97%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.80%) CMDB
4 20 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (2.48%) PKI
7 14 (2.31%) PMI
8 12 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.65%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.16%) Life Science
11 7 (1.16%) Replication
11 7 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.99%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.99%) e-Learning
12 6 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.08%) Windows
2 20 (3.31%) Linux
3 15 (2.48%) Windows 10
4 14 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.49%) Unix
6 6 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.83%) VMS
8 4 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.33%) Android
9 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (34.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 163 (26.94%) Agile
3 152 (25.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 116 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (16.86%) Project Management
6 85 (14.05%) ITIL
7 83 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (13.06%) Migration
9 76 (12.56%) Project Delivery
10 66 (10.91%) Decision-Making
11 64 (10.58%) DevOps
12 63 (10.41%) Roadmaps
13 59 (9.75%) User Acceptance Testing
14 58 (9.59%) Workshop Facilitation
15 57 (9.42%) Risk Management
16 55 (9.09%) PRINCE2
17 52 (8.60%) AI
18 51 (8.43%) Requirements Gathering
19 50 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
20 49 (8.10%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 91 (15.04%) SQL
2 45 (7.44%) Python
3 30 (4.96%) C#
3 30 (4.96%) PowerShell
4 19 (3.14%) PL/SQL
5 14 (2.31%) T-SQL
6 12 (1.98%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.82%) Java
8 8 (1.32%) Groovy
9 6 (0.99%) Bash
10 5 (0.83%) Korn
11 4 (0.66%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.50%) Perl
12 3 (0.50%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.33%) Go
13 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.17%) ABAP
14 1 (0.17%) C
14 1 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 114 (18.84%) Degree
2 69 (11.40%) Security Cleared
3 48 (7.93%) PMI Certification
4 44 (7.27%) SC Cleared
5 39 (6.45%) PMP
6 22 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.98%) CISSP
10 10 (1.65%) APMG
10 10 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.32%) CCNP
11 8 (1.32%) CISM
12 7 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.99%) CFA
13 6 (0.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.60%) QA
2 39 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 32 (5.29%) PMO
4 30 (4.96%) GDPR
5 22 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (3.14%) 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%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.50%) GRC
14 2 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 33 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.64%) Docker
3 6 (0.99%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.83%) XenApp
4 5 (0.83%) XenDesktop
5 4 (0.66%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.66%) Dovecot
5 4 (0.66%) Postfix
5 4 (0.66%) Squid
6 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (3.80%) Terraform
2 20 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.32%) Grafana
5 7 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.16%) SCCM
5 7 (1.16%) SCOM
6 6 (0.99%) Ansible
6 6 (0.99%) HP SiteScope
7 5 (0.83%) SCVMM
8 4 (0.66%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.66%) Nessus
8 4 (0.66%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.50%) Puppet
9 3 (0.50%) Rancher
10 2 (0.33%) Argo
10 2 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.17%) Istio
11 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 106 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 70 (11.57%) ServiceNow
3 51 (8.43%) SAP
4 47 (7.77%) Oracle
5 28 (4.63%) Salesforce
6 25 (4.13%) Citrix
7 22 (3.64%) Cisco
8 13 (2.15%) Workday
9 12 (1.98%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.98%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.98%) VMware
10 9 (1.49%) Remedy
10 9 (1.49%) UiPath
11 8 (1.32%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.32%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.32%) F5
11 8 (1.32%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.16%) Splunk
12 7 (1.16%) Zscaler
13 6 (0.99%) Juniper