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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 58 61
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -25
Contract jobs citing Change Management 834 578 619
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.10% 4.29% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 4.64% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 358 336
10th Percentile £400 £348 £350
25th Percentile £450 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £680 £678
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 9 3 6
10th Percentile £31.85 £29.26 £33.65
25th Percentile £51.50 £33.29 £37.27
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £49.04
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -18.43% -10.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £73.57 £63.50
90th Percentile £75.50 £93.71 £83.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £58.17
% change year-on-year +83.33% -48.43% +20.19%

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 18,072 12,468 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.58% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,839 8,220 9,409
10th Percentile £358 £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 £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 243 178
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 88 £550 -8.33% 100
West London +2 34 £475 -14.03% 38
East London +8 11 £649 +2.98% 10
South London -21 10 £550 +28.28% 8
North London +3 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 49 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.32%) Confluence
3 18 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.56%) IIS
5 6 (0.72%) Appian
6 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.60%) Camunda
6 5 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.48%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.36%) CICS
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
8 3 (0.36%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 26 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.36%) InDesign
6 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.84%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.84%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
5 6 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.60%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.48%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.36%) Front Arena
8 3 (0.36%) iTrent
8 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.36%) Summit
8 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.24%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 132 (15.83%) Azure
2 71 (8.51%) Power Platform
3 68 (8.15%) AWS
3 68 (8.15%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (6.83%) Entra ID
5 36 (4.32%) SaaS
6 31 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (3.00%) GitHub
8 24 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
9 20 (2.40%) Power Automate
10 19 (2.28%) GCP
10 19 (2.28%) OCI
11 15 (1.80%) OneDrive
12 14 (1.68%) Google Workspace
13 13 (1.56%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.44%) Serverless
15 11 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.00%) Firewall
2 38 (4.56%) Network Security
3 35 (4.20%) DNS
4 26 (3.12%) TCP/IP
5 23 (2.76%) DHCP
5 23 (2.76%) WAN
6 19 (2.28%) VPN
7 16 (1.92%) LAN
8 9 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (0.96%) HTTP
9 8 (0.96%) HTTPS
9 8 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.72%) SAN
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
11 5 (0.60%) SSL
12 4 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.24%) Power BI
2 40 (4.80%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.64%) Metadata
4 19 (2.28%) Oracle Database
5 11 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (0.96%) Tableau
7 7 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.84%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.60%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (0.48%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 79 (9.47%) JIRA
2 29 (3.48%) Git
3 24 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.60%) GitLab
4 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.48%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.36%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.36%) Selenium
6 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.24%) Postman
7 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.12%) Snyk
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 345 (41.37%) Social Skills
2 336 (40.29%) Finance
3 142 (17.03%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (14.15%) Banking
5 69 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 51 (6.12%) Legal
7 50 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.84%) Manufacturing
10 30 (3.60%) Marketing
11 27 (3.24%) Front Office
11 27 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (3.12%) Retail
12 26 (3.12%) Telecoms
13 24 (2.88%) Law
14 23 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (2.28%) Aviation
15 19 (2.28%) Local Government
16 16 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 119 (14.27%) Project Manager
2 116 (13.91%) Analyst
3 103 (12.35%) Lead
4 70 (8.39%) Consultant
5 67 (8.03%) Senior
6 64 (7.67%) Business Analyst
7 61 (7.31%) Change Manager
8 29 (3.48%) Senior Manager
9 28 (3.36%) Programme Manager
10 27 (3.24%) Business Manager
11 23 (2.76%) Business Change Manager
11 23 (2.76%) Developer
11 23 (2.76%) IT Manager
12 21 (2.52%) Financial Analyst
12 21 (2.52%) Technical Manager
13 20 (2.40%) Data Engineer
14 18 (2.16%) Administrator
14 18 (2.16%) Applications Support
14 18 (2.16%) Finance Business Analyst
14 18 (2.16%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.16%) Terraform
2 28 (3.36%) REST
3 25 (3.00%) .NET
4 18 (2.16%) Middleware
5 14 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (1.56%) SOAP
7 11 (1.32%) Web Services
8 10 (1.20%) .NET Framework
9 9 (1.08%) CSS
9 9 (1.08%) HTML
10 8 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (0.84%) Kafka
12 6 (0.72%) JSON
12 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (0.60%) React
13 5 (0.60%) RESTful
13 5 (0.60%) Software Packaging
13 5 (0.60%) SPFx
13 5 (0.60%) Spring
13 5 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 77 (9.23%) Onboarding
2 40 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.72%) Data Centre
3 31 (3.72%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.28%) Operational Technology
6 19 (2.28%) PMI
7 17 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.68%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.68%) CMDB
8 14 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.68%) Security Posture
9 13 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.44%) Replication
11 11 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.20%) Derivative
12 10 (1.20%) FMCG
12 10 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.39%) Windows
2 38 (4.56%) Windows Server
3 32 (3.84%) Linux
4 16 (1.92%) Unix
5 13 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.20%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.48%) AIX
8 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.48%) zOS
9 3 (0.36%) Solaris
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (44.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 212 (25.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 211 (25.30%) Agile
4 177 (21.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 145 (17.39%) Migration
6 141 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
7 136 (16.31%) Roadmaps
8 135 (16.19%) Project Delivery
9 127 (15.23%) Project Management
10 125 (14.99%) ITIL
11 123 (14.75%) Decision-Making
12 117 (14.03%) AI
13 99 (11.87%) Analytics
14 98 (11.75%) DevOps
15 93 (11.15%) User Acceptance Testing
16 91 (10.91%) PRINCE2
17 87 (10.43%) Workshop Facilitation
18 79 (9.47%) Process Improvement
19 78 (9.35%) Risk Management
20 74 (8.87%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 96 (11.51%) SQL
2 62 (7.43%) Python
3 49 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 28 (3.36%) PL/SQL
5 25 (3.00%) C#
6 19 (2.28%) Bash
6 19 (2.28%) JavaScript
6 19 (2.28%) T-SQL
7 15 (1.80%) Java
8 12 (1.44%) Korn
9 10 (1.20%) Bicep
10 8 (0.96%) Groovy
11 4 (0.48%) JCL
11 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.36%) COBOL
12 3 (0.36%) VBScript
13 2 (0.24%) C++
13 2 (0.24%) SHACL
13 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (11.87%) Degree
2 95 (11.39%) Security Cleared
3 81 (9.71%) PMI Certification
4 79 (9.47%) PMP
5 76 (9.11%) SC Cleared
6 23 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.56%) APMG
7 13 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.32%) CISSP
8 11 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.20%) ACCA
9 10 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.20%) CCNP
10 9 (1.08%) CIMA
11 8 (0.96%) CISM
12 7 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.60%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.35%) QA
2 50 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 40 (4.80%) PMO
4 35 (4.20%) SLA
5 24 (2.88%) GDPR
6 18 (2.16%) GRC
7 16 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.84%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.84%) ITGC
11 6 (0.72%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.72%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.60%) IFRS
13 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.48%) NIST
14 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 53 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.68%) Docker
4 13 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.36%) RACF
7 3 (0.36%) Squid
8 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.24%) Postfix
8 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.24%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) Firmware
9 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 25 (3.00%) Ansible
2 23 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (2.04%) Kubernetes
4 15 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.56%) SCCM
6 10 (1.20%) Grafana
7 9 (1.08%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.72%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (0.60%) vRealize
11 4 (0.48%) Data Guard
11 4 (0.48%) Puppet
11 4 (0.48%) systemd
12 3 (0.36%) Control-M
12 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.36%) Rancher
12 3 (0.36%) SCOM
12 3 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 170 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.19%) Oracle
3 76 (9.11%) ServiceNow
4 61 (7.31%) SAP
5 36 (4.32%) Salesforce
6 34 (4.08%) VMware
7 24 (2.88%) Zscaler
8 21 (2.52%) Cisco
9 19 (2.28%) Google
10 18 (2.16%) Splunk
11 15 (1.80%) Citrix
11 15 (1.80%) Databricks
12 13 (1.56%) IBM
13 12 (1.44%) Dynatrace
13 12 (1.44%) Workday
14 11 (1.32%) Bloomberg
14 11 (1.32%) Red Hat
15 9 (1.08%) Apple
15 9 (1.08%) Remedy
16 7 (0.84%) OpenText