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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 58 64
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -26
Contract jobs citing Change Management 835 579 585
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.14% 4.35% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.71% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 365 343
10th Percentile £398 £344 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £646 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £28.70 £29.26 £35.83
25th Percentile £43.25 £33.29 £41.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £54.04
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -25.98% +20.09%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.57 £74.50
90th Percentile £58.00 £93.71 £89.80
England median hourly rate £49.67 £30.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +65.57% -48.54% +20.45%

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 17,968 12,305 14,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.45% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,753 8,146 9,703
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 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 185
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -18 84 £525 -8.70% 79
West London -5 24 £538 +13.16% 39
South London -18 14 £563 +9.76% 6
East London +8 12 £750 +19.05% 11
North London +1 4 £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 52 (6.23%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.31%) Confluence
3 18 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.56%) IIS
5 6 (0.72%) Appian
5 6 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.60%) Camunda
7 4 (0.48%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
9 2 (0.24%) CICS
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 24 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) InDesign
6 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 30 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.84%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
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%) iTrent
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.36%) Summit
7 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 139 (16.65%) Azure
2 67 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (7.78%) Power Platform
4 62 (7.43%) AWS
4 62 (7.43%) Entra ID
5 40 (4.79%) SaaS
6 35 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (3.11%) GitHub
9 21 (2.51%) GCP
10 20 (2.40%) OCI
11 19 (2.28%) Power Automate
12 16 (1.92%) PowerApps
13 15 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 14 (1.68%) Google Workspace
14 14 (1.68%) OneDrive
15 13 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.63%) Firewall
2 33 (3.95%) Network Security
3 30 (3.59%) DNS
4 22 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 21 (2.51%) DHCP
5 21 (2.51%) WAN
6 18 (2.16%) VPN
7 14 (1.68%) LAN
8 9 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.08%) SSL
9 8 (0.96%) HTTP
9 8 (0.96%) HTTPS
9 8 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.72%) VLAN
11 5 (0.60%) FTP
11 5 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.60%) SNMP
11 5 (0.60%) SSH
12 4 (0.48%) 5G
12 4 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.87%) Power BI
2 41 (4.91%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.87%) Metadata
4 17 (2.04%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.84%) Tableau
7 6 (0.72%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.48%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.48%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 89 (10.66%) JIRA
2 28 (3.35%) Git
3 25 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.84%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.48%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.48%) 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%) Flyway
8 1 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 339 (40.60%) Finance
2 338 (40.48%) Social Skills
3 143 (17.13%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (13.77%) Banking
5 69 (8.26%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.87%) Legal
7 39 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (4.07%) Marketing
8 34 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.71%) Retail
10 25 (2.99%) Telecoms
11 24 (2.87%) Law
11 24 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.63%) Front Office
13 19 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (2.16%) Manufacturing
15 17 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (2.04%) Local Government
16 15 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 113 (13.53%) Analyst
2 107 (12.81%) Lead
2 107 (12.81%) Project Manager
3 65 (7.78%) Consultant
4 64 (7.66%) Change Manager
5 62 (7.43%) Senior
6 58 (6.95%) Business Analyst
7 31 (3.71%) Senior Manager
8 27 (3.23%) Business Manager
9 26 (3.11%) Developer
10 24 (2.87%) Programme Manager
11 22 (2.63%) Administrator
11 22 (2.63%) Business Change Manager
12 21 (2.51%) Financial Analyst
13 20 (2.40%) Applications Support
14 19 (2.28%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (2.28%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.16%) Finance Business Analyst
15 18 (2.16%) Technical Manager
16 17 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.63%) Terraform
2 30 (3.59%) REST
3 27 (3.23%) .NET
4 14 (1.68%) Middleware
5 13 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (1.32%) CSS
6 11 (1.32%) HTML
7 10 (1.20%) .NET Framework
8 9 (1.08%) OAuth
8 9 (1.08%) SOAP
9 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (0.96%) React
9 8 (0.96%) SPFx
10 7 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.84%) Web Services
11 6 (0.72%) JSON
12 5 (0.60%) LDAP
12 5 (0.60%) SAML
12 5 (0.60%) Spring
12 5 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.50%) Onboarding
2 30 (3.59%) Data Centre
2 30 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 28 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.40%) PMI
6 17 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.80%) Cloud Native
7 15 (1.80%) FMCG
8 14 (1.68%) CMDB
8 14 (1.68%) Security Posture
9 12 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.32%) Clustering
10 11 (1.32%) Operational Technology
11 10 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.20%) PKI
11 10 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.08%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 85 (10.18%) Windows
2 30 (3.59%) Windows Server
3 26 (3.11%) 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
7 3 (0.36%) zOS
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
9 1 (0.12%) HPUX
9 1 (0.12%) MVS
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (40.12%) Stakeholder Management
2 217 (25.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 216 (25.87%) Agile
4 185 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 144 (17.25%) Migration
6 142 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
7 136 (16.29%) Project Delivery
8 132 (15.81%) Project Management
9 131 (15.69%) ITIL
10 124 (14.85%) Decision-Making
11 119 (14.25%) Roadmaps
12 113 (13.53%) DevOps
13 110 (13.17%) AI
14 97 (11.62%) Analytics
15 88 (10.54%) PRINCE2
16 85 (10.18%) User Acceptance Testing
17 77 (9.22%) Workshop Facilitation
18 74 (8.86%) CI/CD
18 74 (8.86%) Service Management
19 70 (8.38%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (11.50%) SQL
2 59 (7.07%) Python
3 49 (5.87%) PowerShell
4 32 (3.83%) PL/SQL
5 29 (3.47%) C#
6 22 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.63%) T-SQL
7 17 (2.04%) Bash
7 17 (2.04%) Java
8 12 (1.44%) Korn
9 10 (1.20%) Bicep
10 9 (1.08%) Groovy
11 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.36%) JCL
12 3 (0.36%) VBScript
13 2 (0.24%) C++
13 2 (0.24%) COBOL
13 2 (0.24%) Perl
13 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 95 (11.38%) Degree
2 89 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 74 (8.86%) PMI Certification
3 74 (8.86%) PMP
4 72 (8.62%) SC Cleared
5 23 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.63%) CISSP
7 19 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (1.92%) APMG
8 16 (1.92%) CISM
9 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.20%) CCNP
11 9 (1.08%) ACCA
11 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.08%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.96%) CIMA
12 8 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.84%) CISA
14 6 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.83%) QA
2 52 (6.23%) PMO
3 41 (4.91%) Data Quality
4 34 (4.07%) SLA
5 23 (2.75%) GDPR
6 18 (2.16%) GRC
7 15 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.56%) 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%) IFRS
14 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 56 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (1.44%) Docker
5 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) Squid
6 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) Postfix
7 2 (0.24%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (2.75%) Ansible
2 22 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (1.68%) Kubernetes
5 11 (1.32%) SCCM
6 9 (1.08%) Grafana
7 8 (0.96%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.72%) CASB
9 6 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (0.72%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.60%) vRealize
11 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.48%) Control-M
11 4 (0.48%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.48%) systemd
12 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.36%) Packer
12 3 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 159 (19.04%) Microsoft
2 86 (10.30%) Oracle
3 84 (10.06%) ServiceNow
4 58 (6.95%) SAP
5 45 (5.39%) Salesforce
6 30 (3.59%) VMware
7 22 (2.63%) Google
8 21 (2.51%) Cisco
9 20 (2.40%) Zscaler
10 16 (1.92%) Splunk
11 15 (1.80%) Citrix
12 14 (1.68%) Workday
13 11 (1.32%) Databricks
14 10 (1.20%) Dynatrace
14 10 (1.20%) IBM
14 10 (1.20%) Red Hat
15 9 (1.08%) Apple
16 8 (0.96%) Remedy
17 7 (0.84%) Alteryx
17 7 (0.84%) BMC