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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 61 52
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 -8
Contract jobs citing Change Management 698 487 728
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.83% 4.02% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.35% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 295 461
10th Percentile £400 £356 £340
25th Percentile £415 £416 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £658
90th Percentile £737 £750 £767
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
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% -35.15%
75th Percentile £95.00 £34.30 £52.99
90th Percentile £98.00 £37.72 £62.90
England median hourly rate £34.87 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -39.36% +15.00% -2.91%

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 16,108 11,188 15,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,765 7,537 11,061
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 306
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.90% -28.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.88
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -8 79 £501 -9.00% 75
South London -4 21 £500 -14.89% 4
West London -16 21 £500 +56.25% 9
East London -4 5 £750 +28.21% 6
North London 0 1 £550 +25.00% 4
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 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 41 (5.87%) Confluence
3 15 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.43%) Appian
5 8 (1.15%) IIS
6 5 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.57%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.43%) CMS
9 2 (0.29%) Camunda
9 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Kentico
10 1 (0.14%) MTS
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
1 21 (3.01%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.29%) MS Visio
4 15 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.86%) Finacle
3 6 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.29%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.29%) Global One
6 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.29%) OpenText MBPM
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.29%) Primavera
6 2 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.29%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 109 (15.62%) Azure
2 52 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (6.16%) Power Platform
4 41 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (5.59%) Entra ID
6 36 (5.16%) AWS
7 33 (4.73%) SaaS
8 26 (3.72%) Power Automate
9 23 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (2.44%) GCP
11 15 (2.15%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.72%) OCI
13 11 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (1.58%) GitHub
13 11 (1.58%) Smartsheet
14 9 (1.29%) Asana
14 9 (1.29%) Azure AI
14 9 (1.29%) PaaS
15 8 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
15 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.01%) Firewall
2 18 (2.58%) Network Security
3 15 (2.15%) DNS
4 14 (2.01%) VPN
4 14 (2.01%) WAN
5 12 (1.72%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.58%) LAN
7 10 (1.43%) BGP
8 9 (1.29%) DHCP
8 9 (1.29%) OSPF
9 8 (1.15%) SSL
10 6 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (0.86%) Intranet
10 6 (0.86%) NetScaler
11 5 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.57%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.43%) FTP
13 3 (0.43%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.87%) Power BI
3 16 (2.29%) Metadata
4 9 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.15%) Pinecone
5 8 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.15%) Tableau
6 6 (0.86%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.57%) MySQL
7 4 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (0.43%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.29%) KDB
9 2 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 99 (14.18%) JIRA
2 18 (2.58%) Git
3 17 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.43%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.15%) MLflow
6 4 (0.57%) Maven
6 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.43%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.43%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.43%) Snyk
8 2 (0.29%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.29%) git-flow
9 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.14%) Hudson
9 1 (0.14%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 279 (39.97%) Finance
2 271 (38.83%) Social Skills
3 105 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (11.46%) Banking
5 46 (6.59%) Public Sector
6 44 (6.30%) Legal
7 38 (5.44%) Marketing
8 26 (3.72%) Retail
9 25 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.72%) Law
13 18 (2.58%) Financial Institution
14 15 (2.15%) Investment Banking
14 15 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.58%) Aviation
15 11 (1.58%) Front Office
16 9 (1.29%) Local Government
16 9 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (11.32%) Change Manager
2 72 (10.32%) Analyst
2 72 (10.32%) Lead
2 72 (10.32%) Project Manager
3 48 (6.88%) Senior
4 46 (6.59%) Consultant
5 43 (6.16%) Business Analyst
6 38 (5.44%) Developer
7 27 (3.87%) Programme Manager
8 23 (3.30%) Architect
8 23 (3.30%) Business Manager
9 22 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
9 22 (3.15%) Senior Manager
9 22 (3.15%) Support Engineer
10 20 (2.87%) Business Change Manager
11 19 (2.72%) IT Engineer
11 19 (2.72%) IT Support
11 19 (2.72%) IT Support Engineer
12 18 (2.58%) Administrator
13 16 (2.29%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.73%) REST
2 29 (4.15%) .NET
3 21 (3.01%) .NET Framework
4 20 (2.87%) OAuth
5 14 (2.01%) Web Services
6 13 (1.86%) CSS
7 11 (1.58%) React
7 11 (1.58%) RESTful
8 10 (1.43%) HTML
8 10 (1.43%) Middleware
9 9 (1.29%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.29%) NumPy
9 9 (1.29%) Pandas
9 9 (1.29%) pytest
10 8 (1.15%) Django
10 8 (1.15%) Flask
10 8 (1.15%) OpenID
10 8 (1.15%) scikit-learn
10 8 (1.15%) Swagger
10 8 (1.15%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.30%) Onboarding
2 27 (3.87%) CMDB
2 27 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.15%) PMI
5 18 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.44%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.86%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.29%) FMCG
9 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.15%) PKI
11 7 (1.00%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.86%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.86%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 80 (11.46%) Windows
2 22 (3.15%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.29%) Linux
4 12 (1.72%) Unix
5 10 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Android
10 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (29.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 165 (23.64%) Agile
3 160 (22.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 131 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 112 (16.05%) Project Management
6 111 (15.90%) ITIL
6 111 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (14.33%) DevOps
8 92 (13.18%) Migration
9 90 (12.89%) Roadmaps
10 85 (12.18%) Decision-Making
11 78 (11.17%) Project Delivery
12 71 (10.17%) AI
13 61 (8.74%) CI/CD
14 59 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
14 59 (8.45%) Workshop Facilitation
15 56 (8.02%) Analytics
16 55 (7.88%) Risk Management
17 54 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
18 50 (7.16%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 98 (14.04%) SQL
2 43 (6.16%) C#
3 41 (5.87%) Python
4 33 (4.73%) PL/SQL
5 25 (3.58%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.44%) T-SQL
7 23 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.58%) Java
9 7 (1.00%) Korn
10 4 (0.57%) Groovy
10 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.29%) Bash
12 2 (0.29%) C++
12 2 (0.29%) Perl
13 1 (0.14%) ABAP
13 1 (0.14%) Bicep
13 1 (0.14%) C
13 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 85 (12.18%) Degree
2 79 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 53 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 45 (6.45%) PMI Certification
5 42 (6.02%) PMP
6 24 (3.44%) CISSP
7 18 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.58%) CISM
8 17 (2.44%) APMG
9 16 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (2.01%) DV Cleared
10 14 (2.01%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.00%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.00%) CCNP
13 7 (1.00%) CISA
13 7 (1.00%) CRISC
13 7 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 6 (0.86%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.02%) QA
2 45 (6.45%) PMO
3 43 (6.16%) Data Quality
4 30 (4.30%) SLA
5 29 (4.15%) GDPR
6 24 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.43%) NIST
9 9 (1.29%) PCI DSS
10 8 (1.15%) IFRS
10 8 (1.15%) ITGC
11 7 (1.00%) COBIT
11 7 (1.00%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.86%) GRC
13 4 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.43%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.01%) Docker
3 9 (1.29%) Hyper-V
3 9 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.57%) XenApp
5 4 (0.57%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.14%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (3.30%) Terraform
2 20 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.15%) Ansible
4 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.00%) SCCM
7 6 (0.86%) CASB
8 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.57%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.57%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.57%) SCVMM
8 4 (0.57%) vRealize
9 3 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.29%) Control-M
10 2 (0.29%) Grafana
10 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.29%) Puppet
10 2 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 115 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 100 (14.33%) ServiceNow
3 70 (10.03%) Oracle
4 43 (6.16%) SAP
5 41 (5.87%) Salesforce
6 28 (4.01%) Citrix
7 20 (2.87%) VMware
8 16 (2.29%) Cisco
8 16 (2.29%) Workday
9 12 (1.72%) Google
9 12 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.43%) Zscaler
11 8 (1.15%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.15%) UiPath
12 7 (1.00%) Juniper
12 7 (1.00%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.00%) Splunk
13 6 (0.86%) Avaloq
13 6 (0.86%) F5
13 6 (0.86%) Temenos