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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 59 58
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -19
Contract jobs citing Change Management 789 579 673
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.99% 4.27% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 4.63% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 363 426
10th Percentile £400 £346 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £755 £772
England median daily rate £525 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £28.70 - £32.38
25th Percentile £43.25 - £32.51
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.60 £49.27
Median % change year-on-year +101.05% -41.95% -10.43%
75th Percentile £76.96 £34.30 £66.88
90th Percentile £97.00 £37.72 £68.45
England median hourly rate £38.50 £32.05 £50.00
% change year-on-year +20.12% -35.90% +2.05%

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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 79 £600 +4.35% 23
West London -2 24 £556 +17.11% 9
South London -5 20 £525 -9.17% 5
East London +4 8 £750 +19.05% 9
North London 0 3 £450 +2.27% 1
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 45 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.56%) Confluence
3 15 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.77%) IIS
5 10 (1.27%) Appian
6 7 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.76%) CMS
8 5 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.63%) Camunda
9 4 (0.51%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.38%) Kentico
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) MTS
11 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.13%) InDesign
8 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 28 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.76%) OpenText MBPM
3 6 (0.76%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.63%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.51%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.51%) SAP QM
6 3 (0.38%) Finacle
6 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.25%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.25%) HFM
7 2 (0.25%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 131 (16.60%) Azure
2 60 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (7.10%) Entra ID
4 49 (6.21%) AWS
5 45 (5.70%) SaaS
6 44 (5.58%) Power Platform
7 41 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (2.28%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.15%) GCP
10 17 (2.15%) OCI
11 13 (1.65%) Google Workspace
11 13 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (1.52%) Smartsheet
13 11 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (1.39%) GitHub
13 11 (1.39%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.27%) PaaS
15 9 (1.14%) Google Drive
16 8 (1.01%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.69%) Firewall
2 20 (2.53%) Network Security
3 18 (2.28%) DNS
4 17 (2.15%) WAN
5 12 (1.52%) LAN
5 12 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.52%) VPN
6 10 (1.27%) DHCP
7 8 (1.01%) BGP
7 8 (1.01%) SSL
8 7 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (0.89%) HTTPS
8 7 (0.89%) OSPF
8 7 (0.89%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.63%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.51%) Internet
10 4 (0.51%) SNMP
10 4 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.82%) SQL Server
2 30 (3.80%) Power BI
3 22 (2.79%) Metadata
4 14 (1.77%) Oracle Database
5 7 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.51%) Data Mart
8 4 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.51%) MySQL
8 4 (0.51%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.51%) Pinecone
8 4 (0.51%) Tableau
9 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.38%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 101 (12.80%) JIRA
2 26 (3.30%) Git
3 22 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.51%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.51%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.51%) Maven
5 4 (0.51%) MLflow
6 3 (0.38%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (0.38%) Snyk
6 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.25%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.13%) GitLab
8 1 (0.13%) Hudson
8 1 (0.13%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.13%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 307 (38.91%) Finance
2 291 (36.88%) Social Skills
3 115 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (11.28%) Banking
5 61 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.83%) Legal
7 42 (5.32%) Marketing
8 38 (4.82%) Retail
9 32 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (2.79%) Law
13 19 (2.41%) Financial Institution
14 16 (2.03%) Local Government
15 15 (1.90%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.77%) Aviation
16 14 (1.77%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.65%) Front Office
18 12 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 102 (12.93%) Project Manager
2 91 (11.53%) Analyst
3 78 (9.89%) Lead
4 75 (9.51%) Change Manager
5 63 (7.98%) Consultant
6 52 (6.59%) Senior
7 49 (6.21%) Business Analyst
8 34 (4.31%) Developer
9 26 (3.30%) Programme Manager
9 26 (3.30%) Senior Manager
9 26 (3.30%) Support Engineer
10 25 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
11 23 (2.92%) Business Manager
12 22 (2.79%) Business Change Manager
13 20 (2.53%) Technical Manager
14 19 (2.41%) Applications Support
14 19 (2.41%) IT Engineer
14 19 (2.41%) IT Support
14 19 (2.41%) IT Support Engineer
15 17 (2.15%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.44%) REST
2 29 (3.68%) .NET
3 18 (2.28%) .NET Framework
4 14 (1.77%) OAuth
5 13 (1.65%) Middleware
5 13 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (1.65%) Web Services
6 12 (1.52%) CSS
7 10 (1.27%) React
7 10 (1.27%) RESTful
8 9 (1.14%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.14%) Spring
9 8 (1.01%) HTML
9 8 (1.01%) J2EE
9 8 (1.01%) SOAP
9 8 (1.01%) SPFx
10 7 (0.89%) JSON
10 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.76%) OpenID
11 6 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (6.21%) Onboarding
2 29 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (3.42%) Data Centre
4 23 (2.92%) PMI
4 23 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.28%) CMDB
7 16 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.77%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.77%) FMCG
9 11 (1.39%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.27%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.27%) Operational Technology
10 10 (1.27%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.01%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.89%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 83 (10.52%) Windows
2 25 (3.17%) Linux
2 25 (3.17%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.65%) Unix
4 10 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.25%) AIX
9 2 (0.25%) Android
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) HPUX
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.13%) SUSE
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (32.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 195 (24.71%) Agile
3 191 (24.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 161 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 125 (15.84%) Migration
6 123 (15.59%) DevOps
6 123 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
7 122 (15.46%) ITIL
7 122 (15.46%) Project Management
8 107 (13.56%) Project Delivery
9 105 (13.31%) Decision-Making
9 105 (13.31%) Roadmaps
10 97 (12.29%) AI
11 76 (9.63%) User Acceptance Testing
12 71 (9.00%) CI/CD
13 70 (8.87%) PRINCE2
14 69 (8.75%) Analytics
15 59 (7.48%) ERP
15 59 (7.48%) Risk Management
15 59 (7.48%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 89 (11.28%) SQL
2 47 (5.96%) Python
3 42 (5.32%) C#
4 33 (4.18%) PL/SQL
5 32 (4.06%) PowerShell
6 25 (3.17%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.92%) T-SQL
8 22 (2.79%) Java
9 9 (1.14%) Bash
9 9 (1.14%) Korn
10 7 (0.89%) Groovy
11 3 (0.38%) Bicep
12 2 (0.25%) C++
12 2 (0.25%) Perl
12 2 (0.25%) SHACL
12 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.25%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.13%) C
13 1 (0.13%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 79 (10.01%) Degree
2 76 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 61 (7.73%) PMI Certification
3 61 (7.73%) PMP
4 60 (7.60%) SC Cleared
5 27 (3.42%) CISSP
6 22 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (2.41%) CISM
8 13 (1.65%) APMG
9 12 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 10 (1.27%) CCNP
11 10 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.01%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.89%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.76%) CISA
14 6 (0.76%) SSCP
15 5 (0.63%) ACCA
15 5 (0.63%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (7.22%) QA
2 50 (6.34%) PMO
3 38 (4.82%) SLA
4 34 (4.31%) Data Quality
5 26 (3.30%) GDPR
6 21 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.52%) GRC
9 10 (1.27%) PCI DSS
10 8 (1.01%) ITGC
10 8 (1.01%) NIST
11 6 (0.76%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.63%) COBIT
12 5 (0.63%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.38%) IFRS
System Software
1 56 (7.10%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.52%) Docker
3 10 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) XenApp
8 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (4.06%) Terraform
2 20 (2.53%) Ansible
3 17 (2.15%) Kubernetes
4 15 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.76%) CASB
6 6 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
6 6 (0.76%) SCCM
7 5 (0.63%) vRealize
7 5 (0.63%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.51%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.51%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.51%) Grafana
8 4 (0.51%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.38%) Packer
9 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.38%) Puppet
10 2 (0.25%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 132 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 95 (12.04%) ServiceNow
3 82 (10.39%) Oracle
4 51 (6.46%) SAP
5 49 (6.21%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.79%) Citrix
6 22 (2.79%) VMware
7 21 (2.66%) Google
8 19 (2.41%) Cisco
9 15 (1.90%) Zscaler
10 14 (1.77%) Splunk
11 12 (1.52%) Workday
12 8 (1.01%) Apple
12 8 (1.01%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.89%) Databricks
13 7 (0.89%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.89%) IBM
13 7 (0.89%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.76%) Juniper
14 6 (0.76%) OpenText