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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 51 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 -15 +14
Contract jobs citing Change Management 577 581 913
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.09% 4.14% 5.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 4.58% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 323 549
10th Percentile £375 £373 £398
25th Percentile £423 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £29.11 £38.63 £24.65
25th Percentile £32.91 £44.08 £29.38
Median hourly rate £40.50 £54.00 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +18.03% +103.33%
75th Percentile £74.45 £95.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £94.06 £98.00 £81.38
England median hourly rate £45.46 £49.04 £40.26
% change year-on-year -7.30% +21.82% +31.98%

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 12,887 12,677 16,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,501 8,101 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 258
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.52
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +6 82 £489 -11.09% 34
South London +13 23 £425 -24.48% 5
West London -9 13 £425 +93.18% 16
East London +3 7 £630 +48.24% 8
North London +4 1 £600 -
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 (7.63%) Confluence
2 36 (6.24%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.56%) nginx
4 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.04%) HCL Notes
5 6 (1.04%) Mattermost
5 6 (1.04%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.69%) Appian
6 4 (0.69%) IIS
7 3 (0.52%) CICS
7 3 (0.52%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 37 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 27 (4.68%) Microsoft Project
3 26 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (4.51%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.69%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (4.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.87%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.52%) Finacle
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.52%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.52%) VisionPLUS
5 2 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.35%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 72 (12.48%) Azure
2 49 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (6.76%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.59%) AWS
5 22 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (3.64%) SaaS
7 15 (2.60%) Amazon S3
7 15 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (2.60%) Power Automate
8 12 (2.08%) Entra ID
8 12 (2.08%) GitHub
8 12 (2.08%) PaaS
9 10 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (1.56%) AWS KMS
10 9 (1.56%) IaaS
10 9 (1.56%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.63%) Firewall
2 30 (5.20%) Network Security
3 18 (3.12%) DNS
3 18 (3.12%) WAN
4 15 (2.60%) LAN
4 15 (2.60%) VPN
5 12 (2.08%) HTTP
5 12 (2.08%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.91%) SMTP
6 11 (1.91%) SSH
7 9 (1.56%) BGP
7 9 (1.56%) FTP
7 9 (1.56%) IMAP
7 9 (1.56%) OpenLDAP
8 8 (1.39%) NetScaler
8 8 (1.39%) OSPF
9 7 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.04%) Skype
10 6 (1.04%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.72%) Power BI
2 26 (4.51%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (2.77%) Tableau
5 8 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.39%) Metadata
6 5 (0.87%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.69%) Pinecone
7 4 (0.69%) Redis
7 4 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.52%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.52%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (0.35%) GIS
9 2 (0.35%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 64 (11.09%) JIRA
2 22 (3.81%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.29%) Git
4 9 (1.56%) Vagrant
5 8 (1.39%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.69%) MLflow
6 4 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.52%) ChangeMan
7 3 (0.52%) JUnit
7 3 (0.52%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.35%) git-flow
8 2 (0.35%) Mockito
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) TestRail
General
1 270 (46.79%) Social Skills
2 236 (40.90%) Finance
3 106 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (10.23%) Banking
5 43 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (3.81%) Legal
9 21 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (3.29%) Retail
11 17 (2.95%) Marketing
12 16 (2.77%) Investment Banking
13 14 (2.43%) Law
13 14 (2.43%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.25%) Local Government
14 13 (2.25%) Telecoms
15 12 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.56%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 87 (15.08%) Analyst
2 71 (12.31%) Change Manager
3 70 (12.13%) Project Manager
4 60 (10.40%) Business Analyst
5 58 (10.05%) Lead
6 32 (5.55%) Developer
6 32 (5.55%) Senior
7 29 (5.03%) Consultant
8 28 (4.85%) Architect
9 20 (3.47%) Programme Manager
10 19 (3.29%) Business Manager
11 16 (2.77%) Senior Manager
12 15 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (2.60%) Business Change Manager
12 15 (2.60%) IT Manager
13 14 (2.43%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (2.43%) Transformation Manager
14 11 (1.91%) AWS DevOps
14 11 (1.91%) C# Developer
15 10 (1.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.12%) .NET
2 13 (2.25%) REST
3 11 (1.91%) .NET Framework
3 11 (1.91%) LDAP
4 8 (1.39%) HTML
4 8 (1.39%) OAuth
4 8 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.21%) Kafka
5 7 (1.21%) RESTful
5 7 (1.21%) SAML
6 5 (0.87%) Node.js
6 5 (0.87%) NumPy
6 5 (0.87%) OpenID
6 5 (0.87%) Pandas
6 5 (0.87%) pytest
6 5 (0.87%) SOAP
6 5 (0.87%) Web Services
7 4 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.69%) Swagger
7 4 (0.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.85%) Product Ownership
2 27 (4.68%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.16%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.64%) CMDB
5 14 (2.43%) PKI
6 13 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.25%) PMI
6 13 (2.25%) Replication
7 12 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.56%) Life Science
9 8 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.39%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.04%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.04%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.04%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.23%) Windows
2 24 (4.16%) Linux
3 11 (1.91%) VMS
3 11 (1.91%) Windows 10
3 11 (1.91%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.56%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (1.56%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.39%) Unix
6 4 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.52%) zOS
8 1 (0.17%) AIX
8 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (32.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 157 (27.21%) Agile
3 147 (25.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 110 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (18.89%) Project Management
6 81 (14.04%) ITIL
7 74 (12.82%) Project Delivery
8 70 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (11.96%) Migration
10 65 (11.27%) Decision-Making
11 63 (10.92%) DevOps
12 62 (10.75%) Roadmaps
13 56 (9.71%) Workshop Facilitation
14 54 (9.36%) PRINCE2
15 52 (9.01%) Risk Management
16 50 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
17 46 (7.97%) ERP
17 46 (7.97%) User Acceptance Testing
18 45 (7.80%) Process Improvement
18 45 (7.80%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 85 (14.73%) SQL
2 48 (8.32%) Python
3 30 (5.20%) PowerShell
4 22 (3.81%) C#
5 17 (2.95%) PL/SQL
6 13 (2.25%) Groovy
7 12 (2.08%) Java
8 11 (1.91%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.73%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.21%) Bash
10 7 (1.21%) Korn
11 4 (0.69%) Go
12 3 (0.52%) C
12 3 (0.52%) C++
12 3 (0.52%) Perl
13 2 (0.35%) COBOL
13 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.35%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.17%) R
14 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 120 (20.80%) Degree
2 75 (13.00%) Security Cleared
3 50 (8.67%) PMI Certification
4 49 (8.49%) SC Cleared
5 39 (6.76%) PMP
6 19 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.73%) APMG
9 10 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.39%) CCNP
12 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.04%) CCIE
13 6 (1.04%) CFA
13 6 (1.04%) CISSP
13 6 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.87%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.45%) QA
2 33 (5.72%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.72%) PMO
3 22 (3.81%) GDPR
4 18 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.25%) SLA
6 9 (1.56%) NIST
7 8 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.39%) MiFID
8 6 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.87%) EMIR
10 4 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.69%) GMP
11 3 (0.52%) IFRS
11 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.35%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.35%) ITGC
12 2 (0.35%) NCSC
12 2 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.81%) Docker
3 9 (1.56%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.56%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.56%) Postfix
3 9 (1.56%) Squid
4 5 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.69%) XenApp
5 4 (0.69%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.35%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 31 (5.37%) Terraform
2 16 (2.77%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.43%) Grafana
4 13 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.73%) Nessus
7 9 (1.56%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.39%) Ansible
8 8 (1.39%) SCOM
9 6 (1.04%) HP SiteScope
9 6 (1.04%) SCCM
10 4 (0.69%) Rancher
10 4 (0.69%) SCVMM
11 3 (0.52%) CA Endevor
11 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.35%) Argo
12 2 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.35%) Puppet
12 2 (0.35%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 98 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 61 (10.57%) ServiceNow
3 50 (8.67%) SAP
4 48 (8.32%) Oracle
5 22 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.64%) Cisco
7 17 (2.95%) Citrix
8 12 (2.08%) Remedy
9 11 (1.91%) Workday
10 10 (1.73%) F5
10 10 (1.73%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.56%) CheckPoint
11 9 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (1.39%) VMware
12 8 (1.39%) Zscaler
13 7 (1.21%) Splunk
14 6 (1.04%) Adobe
14 6 (1.04%) CyberArk
14 6 (1.04%) Juniper
14 6 (1.04%) Lotus