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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 64 38
Rank change year-on-year +9 -26 +15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 585 599 1,159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.36% 3.71% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 4.16% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 332 740
10th Percentile £348 £350 £381
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £776
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £29.26 £35.83 £26.75
25th Percentile £33.29 £41.13 £37.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.04 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.98% -1.75% +126.80%
75th Percentile £73.57 £74.50 £58.19
90th Percentile £93.71 £89.80 £74.38
England median hourly rate £30.00 £58.30 £48.40
% change year-on-year -48.54% +20.45% +77.61%

All Process and 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 12,434 14,409 19,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.57% 89.23% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,225 9,616 14,380
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 180 226
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.56
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.67% +7.82%
75th Percentile £48.13 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £76.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 85 £588 -1.88% 114
South London +16 26 £429 -18.37% 3
West London -6 9 £553 +70.00% 16
East London +10 7 £630 +27.27% 11
North London -4 1 £440 - 2
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (7.52%) Confluence
2 33 (5.64%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.71%) nginx
4 9 (1.54%) CMS
5 6 (1.03%) Mattermost
5 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.03%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.85%) HCL Notes
6 5 (0.85%) IIS
6 5 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.51%) CICS
7 3 (0.51%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle UPK
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 32 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (4.27%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (2.05%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.68%) Trello
8 3 (0.51%) InfoPath
8 3 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.34%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 26 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.85%) SAP APO
3 5 (0.85%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.51%) Endur
5 3 (0.51%) OpenText MBPM
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.51%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.51%) VisionPLUS
6 2 (0.34%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.34%) SAP PLM
6 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 53 (9.06%) Azure
2 40 (6.84%) Power Platform
3 38 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (4.44%) AWS
5 24 (4.10%) SaaS
6 14 (2.39%) Amazon S3
6 14 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (2.05%) Power Automate
7 12 (2.05%) PowerApps
8 11 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (1.71%) Amazon ELB
9 10 (1.71%) AWS KMS
9 10 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.71%) Route 53
10 9 (1.54%) Google Workspace
11 8 (1.37%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.84%) Firewall
2 16 (2.74%) DNS
3 14 (2.39%) VPN
4 13 (2.22%) Network Security
4 13 (2.22%) WAN
5 12 (2.05%) HTTP
5 12 (2.05%) SSH
6 11 (1.88%) BGP
6 11 (1.88%) OSPF
7 10 (1.71%) FTP
7 10 (1.71%) IMAP
7 10 (1.71%) LAN
7 10 (1.71%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (1.71%) SMTP
8 9 (1.54%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.37%) Unified Communications
10 7 (1.20%) MPLS
11 6 (1.03%) Skype
12 5 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (0.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.13%) Power BI
2 15 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.05%) Tableau
5 10 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.20%) Metadata
7 5 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.51%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.17%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.17%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 59 (10.09%) JIRA
2 18 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.56%) Git
4 10 (1.71%) Vagrant
5 4 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.51%) ChangeMan
6 3 (0.51%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.51%) Selenium
7 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) MSI
8 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 259 (44.27%) Finance
2 234 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 83 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (12.48%) Banking
5 42 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (4.44%) Law
8 25 (4.27%) Marketing
9 23 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (3.42%) Legal
11 19 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.56%) Retail
14 14 (2.39%) Financial Institution
14 14 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (2.22%) Front Office
15 13 (2.22%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.88%) Back Office
16 11 (1.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 110 (18.80%) Analyst
2 84 (14.36%) Project Manager
3 71 (12.14%) Business Analyst
4 69 (11.79%) Lead
5 43 (7.35%) Senior
6 41 (7.01%) Consultant
7 38 (6.50%) Change Manager
8 29 (4.96%) Developer
9 25 (4.27%) Architect
10 23 (3.93%) IT Manager
11 21 (3.59%) Programme Manager
12 17 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
12 17 (2.91%) Senior Manager
13 14 (2.39%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (2.39%) Transformation Manager
14 13 (2.22%) Business Manager
14 13 (2.22%) Delivery Manager
14 13 (2.22%) Financial Analyst
14 13 (2.22%) Service Manager
15 12 (2.05%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.88%) LDAP
2 10 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (1.54%) .NET
4 5 (0.85%) React
5 4 (0.68%) HTML
5 4 (0.68%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (0.68%) Playwright
5 4 (0.68%) REST
5 4 (0.68%) XMPP
6 3 (0.51%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.51%) ADO
6 3 (0.51%) CSS
6 3 (0.51%) JSON
6 3 (0.51%) Kafka
6 3 (0.51%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.51%) Middleware
6 3 (0.51%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.34%) SOAP
7 2 (0.34%) Web Services
7 2 (0.34%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.79%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 12 (2.05%) Replication
5 11 (1.88%) Security Posture
6 10 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.37%) e-Learning
7 8 (1.37%) Life Science
8 7 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.20%) PMI
9 6 (1.03%) CMDB
9 6 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (0.68%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.68%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.68%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.35%) Windows
2 29 (4.96%) Linux
3 12 (2.05%) Ubuntu
3 12 (2.05%) VMS
4 10 (1.71%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (1.71%) Unix
5 9 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.51%) zOS
7 2 (0.34%) CentOS
8 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (27.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 155 (26.50%) Agile
3 132 (22.56%) Project Management
4 115 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
4 115 (19.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 95 (16.24%) Migration
6 76 (12.99%) Project Delivery
7 72 (12.31%) Risk Management
8 71 (12.14%) ERP
9 70 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (11.28%) ITIL
11 60 (10.26%) User Acceptance Testing
12 51 (8.72%) Decision-Making
13 50 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
13 50 (8.55%) PRINCE2
14 45 (7.69%) Data Migration
15 44 (7.52%) Roadmaps
16 41 (7.01%) Data Analysis
16 41 (7.01%) DevOps
17 39 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 72 (12.31%) SQL
2 40 (6.84%) Python
3 27 (4.62%) PowerShell
4 20 (3.42%) C#
5 11 (1.88%) Groovy
5 11 (1.88%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.71%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.37%) Java
8 4 (0.68%) Go
8 4 (0.68%) Korn
9 3 (0.51%) ABAP
9 3 (0.51%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.51%) Formula Language
9 3 (0.51%) LotusScript
9 3 (0.51%) SOQL
9 3 (0.51%) SOSL
9 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.34%) C
10 2 (0.34%) C++
10 2 (0.34%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 104 (17.78%) Degree
2 55 (9.40%) Security Cleared
3 46 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 45 (7.69%) PMI Certification
5 40 (6.84%) PMP
6 12 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.88%) CBAP
7 11 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.37%) APMG
10 6 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.85%) CCIE
11 5 (0.85%) CISSP
11 5 (0.85%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 5 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 4 (0.68%) GCIH
12 4 (0.68%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.47%) QA
2 28 (4.79%) PMO
3 18 (3.08%) SLA
4 15 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.88%) GDPR
5 11 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.88%) MiFID
6 10 (1.71%) EMIR
6 10 (1.71%) NIST
7 7 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.51%) GMP
9 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.51%) IFRS
9 3 (0.51%) ITGC
10 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (3.93%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.22%) Docker
3 10 (1.71%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.71%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.71%) Postfix
3 10 (1.71%) Squid
4 6 (1.03%) vSphere
5 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.34%) Firmware
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (3.25%) Terraform
2 13 (2.22%) Grafana
3 12 (2.05%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.88%) Nessus
5 10 (1.71%) Ansible
5 10 (1.71%) Proxmox
6 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.37%) SCOM
7 6 (1.03%) HP SiteScope
8 4 (0.68%) Kubernetes
9 3 (0.51%) CA Endevor
9 3 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (0.51%) SCCM
10 2 (0.34%) Argo
10 2 (0.34%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.17%) Istio
11 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.17%) Rancher
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.23%) SAP
3 43 (7.35%) Oracle
4 34 (5.81%) ServiceNow
5 24 (4.10%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.08%) Cisco
7 11 (1.88%) Workday
8 10 (1.71%) Google
8 10 (1.71%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.54%) Splunk
10 8 (1.37%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.37%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.37%) VMware
11 7 (1.20%) Adobe
12 6 (1.03%) Remedy
13 5 (0.85%) F5
13 5 (0.85%) Juniper
13 5 (0.85%) Lotus
13 5 (0.85%) SolarWinds
14 4 (0.68%) Citrix