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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 51 42
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 642 544 827
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.92% 4.20% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 4.62% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 327 512
10th Percentile £397 £356 £393
25th Percentile £419 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £45.15 - £36.81
25th Percentile £54.00 £28.60 £43.17
Median hourly rate £74.46 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.74% -39.13% +55.41%
75th Percentile £96.25 £56.00 £65.38
90th Percentile £98.50 £79.40 £67.85
England median hourly rate £41.86 £54.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year -22.49% +45.24% -20.98%

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 14,689 11,780 16,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.80% 91.03% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 7,852 11,511
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% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 159 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £57.13 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £70.75 £77.68 £69.05
England median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -10 81 £491 -6.43% 52
South London 0 17 £500 -18.37% 6
West London -9 16 £500 +56.25% 14
East London 0 3 £525 +23.53% 7
North London - 2 £575 -
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 36 (5.61%) Confluence
2 30 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.25%) Appian
5 5 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.78%) HCL Notes
6 3 (0.47%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) Moodle
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.05%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (3.58%) MS Visio
5 21 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.47%) Trello
7 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.78%) Finacle
3 5 (0.78%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.78%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.31%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.16%) Actimize
7 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.16%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 107 (16.67%) Azure
2 52 (8.10%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (5.61%) AWS
5 34 (5.30%) Power Platform
6 28 (4.36%) Entra ID
7 22 (3.43%) SaaS
8 19 (2.96%) Power Automate
9 15 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.18%) PaaS
11 12 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (1.87%) GitHub
11 12 (1.87%) IaaS
12 10 (1.56%) GCP
13 9 (1.40%) Azure AI
13 9 (1.40%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.40%) Serverless
14 8 (1.25%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (1.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.61%) Firewall
2 30 (4.67%) Network Security
3 24 (3.74%) WAN
4 20 (3.12%) LAN
5 19 (2.96%) VPN
6 17 (2.65%) SD-WAN
7 13 (2.02%) BGP
8 12 (1.87%) DNS
8 12 (1.87%) OSPF
9 9 (1.40%) NetScaler
10 8 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (1.09%) Intranet
11 7 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (0.93%) DHCP
12 6 (0.93%) NX-OS
13 5 (0.78%) Internet
13 5 (0.78%) TCP/IP
14 4 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.76%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.89%) Power BI
3 10 (1.56%) Metadata
4 9 (1.40%) Tableau
5 8 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.25%) Pinecone
5 8 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.93%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.78%) MySQL
9 4 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.47%) GIS
10 3 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.47%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.47%) Redis
11 2 (0.31%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (11.84%) JIRA
2 15 (2.34%) Git
3 13 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.71%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.25%) MLflow
6 4 (0.62%) Maven
7 3 (0.47%) JUnit
7 3 (0.47%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.31%) git-flow
8 2 (0.31%) Mockito
9 1 (0.16%) Ant
9 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.16%) GCC
9 1 (0.16%) Hudson
9 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 272 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 254 (39.56%) Finance
3 108 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (11.06%) Banking
5 39 (6.07%) Public Sector
6 35 (5.45%) Legal
7 30 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
9 27 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (3.58%) Retail
11 22 (3.43%) Law
12 19 (2.96%) Investment Banking
12 19 (2.96%) Marketing
13 15 (2.34%) Financial Institution
14 14 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.87%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.71%) Local Government
17 9 (1.40%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.40%) Publishing
18 8 (1.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 83 (12.93%) Change Manager
2 82 (12.77%) Project Manager
3 78 (12.15%) Analyst
4 58 (9.03%) Lead
5 55 (8.57%) Business Analyst
6 42 (6.54%) Senior
7 38 (5.92%) Consultant
7 38 (5.92%) Developer
8 25 (3.89%) Architect
9 24 (3.74%) Business Manager
10 19 (2.96%) C# Developer
10 19 (2.96%) Programme Manager
10 19 (2.96%) Support Engineer
11 18 (2.80%) Business Change Manager
12 16 (2.49%) Delivery Manager
13 15 (2.34%) Senior Manager
14 14 (2.18%) IT Engineer
14 14 (2.18%) IT Support
14 14 (2.18%) IT Support Engineer
15 13 (2.02%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.05%) .NET
2 23 (3.58%) REST
3 21 (3.27%) .NET Framework
4 15 (2.34%) OAuth
4 15 (2.34%) Web Services
5 12 (1.87%) RESTful
6 9 (1.40%) CSS
6 9 (1.40%) NumPy
6 9 (1.40%) Pandas
6 9 (1.40%) pytest
7 8 (1.25%) Django
7 8 (1.25%) FastAPI
7 8 (1.25%) Flask
7 8 (1.25%) HTML
7 8 (1.25%) JWT
7 8 (1.25%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.25%) SAML
7 8 (1.25%) scikit-learn
7 8 (1.25%) Swagger
7 8 (1.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.98%) Onboarding
2 28 (4.36%) CMDB
3 26 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.49%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.18%) PKI
7 14 (2.18%) PMI
8 13 (2.02%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.71%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.93%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.93%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.93%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 76 (11.84%) Windows
2 18 (2.80%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.49%) Windows 10
4 13 (2.02%) Linux
5 11 (1.71%) Unix
6 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.31%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) AIX
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (32.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 163 (25.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 152 (23.68%) Agile
4 107 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (15.89%) Project Management
6 97 (15.11%) ITIL
7 93 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (12.77%) DevOps
9 79 (12.31%) Migration
10 74 (11.53%) Project Delivery
11 73 (11.37%) Roadmaps
12 68 (10.59%) Decision-Making
13 61 (9.50%) AI
14 58 (9.03%) PRINCE2
15 57 (8.88%) Risk Management
15 57 (8.88%) User Acceptance Testing
16 52 (8.10%) CI/CD
17 51 (7.94%) Workshop Facilitation
18 50 (7.79%) Analytics
19 49 (7.63%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 86 (13.40%) SQL
2 40 (6.23%) C#
3 39 (6.07%) Python
4 26 (4.05%) PowerShell
5 21 (3.27%) PL/SQL
6 16 (2.49%) Java
6 16 (2.49%) T-SQL
7 15 (2.34%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.09%) Bash
9 5 (0.78%) Korn
10 4 (0.62%) Groovy
10 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.47%) Perl
11 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.31%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.16%) ABAP
13 1 (0.16%) C
13 1 (0.16%) C++
13 1 (0.16%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 104 (16.20%) Degree
2 75 (11.68%) Security Cleared
3 46 (7.17%) PMI Certification
3 46 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.07%) PMP
5 17 (2.65%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.34%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.18%) CISSP
9 9 (1.40%) CCNP
9 9 (1.40%) CISM
10 8 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.09%) APMG
11 7 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (0.93%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.10%) QA
2 43 (6.70%) Data Quality
3 31 (4.83%) GDPR
4 30 (4.67%) PMO
5 28 (4.36%) SLA
6 25 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.71%) NIST
8 9 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.25%) MiFID
10 7 (1.09%) IFRS
10 7 (1.09%) IFRS 17
11 6 (0.93%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.78%) EMIR
13 4 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.62%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.47%) COBIT
14 3 (0.47%) GRC
15 2 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.65%) Docker
3 8 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.78%) XenApp
6 5 (0.78%) XenDesktop
7 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.31%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.27%) Terraform
3 17 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.40%) Ansible
5 7 (1.09%) FortiGate
5 7 (1.09%) SCCM
6 5 (0.78%) SCVMM
7 4 (0.62%) Grafana
7 4 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.47%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.47%) Puppet
8 3 (0.47%) Rancher
9 2 (0.31%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.31%) SCOM
9 2 (0.31%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.16%) Argo
10 1 (0.16%) Avamar
10 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 113 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 83 (12.93%) ServiceNow
3 49 (7.63%) Oracle
4 48 (7.48%) SAP
5 28 (4.36%) Citrix
6 26 (4.05%) Salesforce
7 25 (3.89%) Cisco
8 16 (2.49%) VMware
8 16 (2.49%) Workday
9 12 (1.87%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.71%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.56%) F5
12 9 (1.40%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.40%) Zscaler
13 8 (1.25%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.25%) UiPath
14 7 (1.09%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.09%) Juniper
14 7 (1.09%) Remedy
15 6 (0.93%) Meraki