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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 63 52
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 -9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 707 491 720
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.85% 4.07% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 4.41% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 299 462
10th Percentile £400 £356 £336
25th Percentile £415 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £674
90th Percentile £727 £750 £769
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £25.55 - £32.35
25th Percentile £35.00 - £32.44
Median hourly rate £58.92 £28.60 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +106.01% -17.17% -37.22%
75th Percentile £95.00 £34.30 £52.99
90th Percentile £98.00 £37.72 £62.90
England median hourly rate £34.87 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -30.26% - -4.43%

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 16,273 11,140 15,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.30% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,862 7,463 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 193 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +14.29% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.20 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -20 76 £520 -5.45% 65
South London +3 21 £500 -14.89% 5
West London -11 21 £500 +55.04% 13
East London -2 6 £649 +10.90% 7
North London 0 2 £500 +13.64% 3
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 42 (5.94%) SharePoint
2 38 (5.37%) Confluence
3 15 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.70%) Appian
5 11 (1.56%) IIS
6 5 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.57%) CMS
8 3 (0.42%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.28%) Kentico
9 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) MTS
10 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (2.26%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.85%) Finacle
3 6 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.42%) OpenText MBPM
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.28%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.28%) Global One
6 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.28%) Primavera
6 2 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 114 (16.12%) Azure
2 54 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (6.08%) Entra ID
4 40 (5.66%) AWS
5 39 (5.52%) Power Platform
6 37 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (5.09%) SaaS
8 25 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (3.11%) Power Automate
10 19 (2.69%) GCP
11 14 (1.98%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.84%) OCI
13 11 (1.56%) GitHub
13 11 (1.56%) Smartsheet
14 10 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (1.41%) PaaS
15 9 (1.27%) Azure AI
16 8 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
16 8 (1.13%) Asana
16 8 (1.13%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.25%) Firewall
2 17 (2.40%) Network Security
3 15 (2.12%) WAN
4 14 (1.98%) DNS
5 11 (1.56%) LAN
5 11 (1.56%) SD-WAN
5 11 (1.56%) VPN
6 9 (1.27%) BGP
7 8 (1.13%) DHCP
7 8 (1.13%) OSPF
7 8 (1.13%) SSL
8 6 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (0.85%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.85%) Intranet
8 6 (0.85%) NetScaler
9 5 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.42%) FTP
10 3 (0.42%) MPLS
10 3 (0.42%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 23 (3.25%) Power BI
3 14 (1.98%) Metadata
4 9 (1.27%) Oracle Database
5 8 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.13%) Pinecone
5 8 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.57%) MySQL
7 4 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (0.57%) Tableau
8 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.28%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.28%) KDB
9 2 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (13.86%) JIRA
2 18 (2.55%) Git
3 17 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.27%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.13%) MLflow
6 4 (0.57%) Maven
7 3 (0.42%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.42%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.42%) Snyk
7 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.28%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.28%) git-flow
9 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.14%) Hudson
9 1 (0.14%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.14%) Selenium
9 1 (0.14%) TestRail
9 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 275 (38.90%) Finance
2 272 (38.47%) Social Skills
3 98 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.03%) Banking
5 50 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 44 (6.22%) Legal
7 39 (5.52%) Marketing
8 29 (4.10%) Retail
9 26 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.83%) Law
13 18 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (2.26%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.70%) Front Office
15 12 (1.70%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.56%) Aviation
16 11 (1.56%) Local Government
17 10 (1.41%) Manufacturing
18 9 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (11.32%) Change Manager
2 79 (11.17%) Project Manager
3 77 (10.89%) Lead
4 70 (9.90%) Analyst
5 47 (6.65%) Consultant
6 46 (6.51%) Senior
7 43 (6.08%) Business Analyst
8 38 (5.37%) Developer
9 27 (3.82%) Programme Manager
10 24 (3.39%) Support Engineer
11 23 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
12 21 (2.97%) Architect
12 21 (2.97%) Senior Manager
13 20 (2.83%) Business Manager
14 19 (2.69%) Administrator
14 19 (2.69%) IT Engineer
14 19 (2.69%) IT Support
14 19 (2.69%) IT Support Engineer
15 18 (2.55%) Business Change Manager
16 15 (2.12%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.09%) REST
2 29 (4.10%) .NET
3 21 (2.97%) .NET Framework
4 19 (2.69%) OAuth
5 15 (2.12%) Web Services
6 13 (1.84%) CSS
7 12 (1.70%) Middleware
8 11 (1.56%) React
8 11 (1.56%) RESTful
9 10 (1.41%) HTML
10 9 (1.27%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.27%) NumPy
10 9 (1.27%) Pandas
11 8 (1.13%) FastAPI
11 8 (1.13%) Flask
11 8 (1.13%) pytest
11 8 (1.13%) PyTorch
11 8 (1.13%) scikit-learn
11 8 (1.13%) Swagger
11 8 (1.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
1 30 (4.24%) Onboarding
2 24 (3.39%) Product Ownership
3 22 (3.11%) PMI
4 19 (2.69%) CMDB
4 19 (2.69%) Data Centre
4 19 (2.69%) Management Information System
5 13 (1.84%) Low-Code
6 12 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (1.70%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.56%) FMCG
8 10 (1.41%) PKI
8 10 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.13%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.13%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.13%) Security Posture
10 6 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.85%) Reference Data
10 6 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (12.02%) Windows
2 23 (3.25%) Windows Server
3 20 (2.83%) Linux
4 13 (1.84%) Unix
5 10 (1.41%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) AIX
10 1 (0.14%) Android
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (29.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 171 (24.19%) Agile
3 164 (23.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 135 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 117 (16.55%) Project Management
6 111 (15.70%) ITIL
6 111 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (14.57%) Migration
8 102 (14.43%) DevOps
9 91 (12.87%) Roadmaps
10 86 (12.16%) Decision-Making
11 79 (11.17%) Project Delivery
12 78 (11.03%) AI
13 65 (9.19%) CI/CD
14 63 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
15 60 (8.49%) Risk Management
16 59 (8.35%) Analytics
17 55 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
18 54 (7.64%) ERP
18 54 (7.64%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 100 (14.14%) SQL
2 44 (6.22%) Python
3 42 (5.94%) C#
4 34 (4.81%) PL/SQL
5 28 (3.96%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.39%) T-SQL
7 22 (3.11%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.69%) Java
9 7 (0.99%) Korn
10 6 (0.85%) Bash
10 6 (0.85%) Groovy
11 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.42%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.28%) C
13 2 (0.28%) C++
13 2 (0.28%) Perl
14 1 (0.14%) ABAP
14 1 (0.14%) Bicep
14 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 82 (11.60%) Degree
2 81 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 55 (7.78%) SC Cleared
4 49 (6.93%) PMI Certification
5 47 (6.65%) PMP
6 27 (3.82%) CISSP
7 20 (2.83%) CISM
8 17 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (2.26%) APMG
10 15 (2.12%) DV Cleared
11 14 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.70%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (1.27%) Azure Certification
16 8 (1.13%) CISA
17 7 (0.99%) CRISC
17 7 (0.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 6 (0.85%) Citrix Certification
18 6 (0.85%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.49%) QA
2 43 (6.08%) PMO
3 37 (5.23%) Data Quality
4 32 (4.53%) SLA
5 27 (3.82%) GDPR
6 23 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.41%) NIST
8 10 (1.41%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.27%) GRC
10 8 (1.13%) ITGC
11 7 (0.99%) COBIT
12 6 (0.85%) IFRS
13 5 (0.71%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.57%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
15 3 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.28%) Basel III
16 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.26%) Docker
3 10 (1.41%) Hyper-V
3 10 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.57%) XenApp
5 4 (0.57%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.14%) Squid
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (3.54%) Terraform
2 22 (3.11%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.98%) Ansible
4 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.13%) SCCM
7 6 (0.85%) CASB
8 5 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.57%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.57%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.57%) SCVMM
9 4 (0.57%) vRealize
10 3 (0.42%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.42%) Grafana
10 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.42%) Puppet
11 2 (0.28%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 92 (13.01%) ServiceNow
3 73 (10.33%) Oracle
4 42 (5.94%) SAP
5 41 (5.80%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.96%) Citrix
7 22 (3.11%) VMware
8 16 (2.26%) Workday
9 15 (2.12%) Google
10 14 (1.98%) Cisco
11 12 (1.70%) OpenAI
12 11 (1.56%) Zscaler
13 8 (1.13%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.13%) Splunk
13 8 (1.13%) UiPath
14 7 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 6 (0.85%) Avaloq
15 6 (0.85%) Databricks
15 6 (0.85%) GoldenSource
15 6 (0.85%) Temenos