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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 56 55
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -18
Contract jobs citing Change Management 824 572 627
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.02% 4.28% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 4.62% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 350 339
10th Percentile £400 £348 £352
25th Percentile £450 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
England median daily rate £534 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.75% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £41.83 £29.26 £33.65
25th Percentile £52.25 £33.29 £37.27
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £49.04
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -18.43% +10.20%
75th Percentile £61.56 £73.57 £63.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £93.71 £83.00
England median hourly rate £50.50 £27.68 £56.75
% change year-on-year +82.44% -51.22% +23.72%

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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -23 87 £563 +2.27% 89
West London +4 32 £550 -0.45% 18
East London +4 9 £638 +1.19% 6
South London -24 9 £550 +29.41% 4
North London - 4 £450 -
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 (5.46%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.61%) Confluence
3 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.58%) IIS
5 6 (0.73%) Appian
6 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.61%) Camunda
6 5 (0.61%) CMS
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.36%) CICS
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
8 3 (0.36%) nginx
8 3 (0.36%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.36%) InDesign
6 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.85%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
5 6 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.61%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.49%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.49%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.36%) iTrent
8 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.36%) Summit
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 134 (16.26%) Azure
2 71 (8.62%) Power Platform
3 67 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (8.01%) AWS
5 58 (7.04%) Entra ID
6 28 (3.40%) SaaS
7 26 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (3.16%) GitHub
8 25 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
10 20 (2.43%) GCP
11 18 (2.18%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.06%) OCI
13 15 (1.82%) OneDrive
14 14 (1.70%) Google Workspace
15 13 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (1.46%) Serverless
17 11 (1.33%) PowerApps
18 10 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 9 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.19%) Firewall
2 41 (4.98%) Network Security
3 33 (4.00%) DNS
4 27 (3.28%) TCP/IP
5 23 (2.79%) WAN
6 20 (2.43%) DHCP
6 20 (2.43%) VPN
7 17 (2.06%) LAN
8 9 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.97%) HTTP
9 8 (0.97%) HTTPS
10 7 (0.85%) SAN
10 7 (0.85%) VLAN
11 5 (0.61%) BGP
11 5 (0.61%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.61%) SNMP
11 5 (0.61%) SSH
11 5 (0.61%) SSL
12 4 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.55%) Power BI
2 40 (4.85%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.91%) Metadata
4 20 (2.43%) Oracle Database
5 10 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.85%) Tableau
9 6 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (0.49%) Data Mart
11 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 75 (9.10%) JIRA
2 28 (3.40%) Git
3 24 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.73%) GitLab
5 4 (0.49%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.49%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.36%) Selenium
6 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.24%) Postman
7 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Flyway
8 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 350 (42.48%) Social Skills
2 342 (41.50%) Finance
3 142 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (13.96%) Banking
5 77 (9.34%) Public Sector
6 52 (6.31%) Influencing Skills
7 50 (6.07%) Legal
8 39 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
9 34 (4.13%) Manufacturing
10 28 (3.40%) Front Office
11 27 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (3.16%) Retail
13 25 (3.03%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (2.79%) Law
15 19 (2.31%) Aviation
15 19 (2.31%) Local Government
15 19 (2.31%) Marketing
16 16 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 120 (14.56%) Project Manager
2 115 (13.96%) Analyst
3 103 (12.50%) Lead
4 68 (8.25%) Senior
5 66 (8.01%) Business Analyst
6 63 (7.65%) Consultant
7 61 (7.40%) Change Manager
8 30 (3.64%) Business Manager
9 28 (3.40%) Senior Manager
10 27 (3.28%) Programme Manager
11 25 (3.03%) Business Change Manager
12 24 (2.91%) IT Manager
13 21 (2.55%) Developer
13 21 (2.55%) Financial Analyst
13 21 (2.55%) Technical Manager
14 20 (2.43%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.18%) Finance Business Analyst
15 18 (2.18%) IT Project Manager
16 17 (2.06%) Administrator
16 17 (2.06%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.46%) Terraform
2 27 (3.28%) REST
3 22 (2.67%) .NET
4 18 (2.18%) Middleware
5 16 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (1.33%) SOAP
6 11 (1.33%) Web Services
7 9 (1.09%) .NET Framework
8 8 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.97%) Kafka
9 7 (0.85%) CSS
9 7 (0.85%) HTML
9 7 (0.85%) JSON
10 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (0.73%) Software Packaging
11 5 (0.61%) OAuth
11 5 (0.61%) RESTful
11 5 (0.61%) Spring
11 5 (0.61%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (9.47%) Onboarding
2 43 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.13%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.64%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.43%) Operational Technology
8 19 (2.31%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.06%) CMDB
9 17 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.58%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.58%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.58%) Replication
10 13 (1.58%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.33%) PMI
12 10 (1.21%) FMCG
12 10 (1.21%) PKI
13 9 (1.09%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 94 (11.41%) Windows
2 38 (4.61%) Windows Server
3 33 (4.00%) Linux
4 16 (1.94%) Unix
5 13 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.85%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.49%) AIX
8 4 (0.49%) macOS
8 4 (0.49%) zOS
9 3 (0.36%) Solaris
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (47.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 215 (26.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 214 (25.97%) Agile
4 173 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 146 (17.72%) Migration
6 140 (16.99%) Project Delivery
7 137 (16.63%) Roadmaps
8 135 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (15.66%) ITIL
10 128 (15.53%) AI
11 121 (14.68%) Project Management
12 114 (13.83%) Decision-Making
13 99 (12.01%) Analytics
14 97 (11.77%) DevOps
15 94 (11.41%) PRINCE2
16 91 (11.04%) User Acceptance Testing
17 88 (10.68%) Workshop Facilitation
18 84 (10.19%) Risk Management
19 78 (9.47%) Service Management
20 76 (9.22%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 90 (10.92%) SQL
2 63 (7.65%) Python
3 52 (6.31%) PowerShell
4 24 (2.91%) PL/SQL
5 23 (2.79%) C#
6 20 (2.43%) Bash
7 18 (2.18%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.94%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.82%) Java
10 11 (1.33%) Bicep
11 10 (1.21%) Korn
12 8 (0.97%) Groovy
13 4 (0.49%) JCL
13 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.36%) COBOL
14 3 (0.36%) VBScript
15 2 (0.24%) C++
15 2 (0.24%) SHACL
15 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (12.01%) Security Cleared
2 98 (11.89%) Degree
3 80 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 79 (9.59%) PMI Certification
5 77 (9.34%) PMP
6 23 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.82%) APMG
8 13 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.21%) CISSP
12 9 (1.09%) CCNP
13 8 (0.97%) CISM
14 7 (0.85%) ACCA
14 7 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.73%) CIMA
15 6 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.43%) QA
3 36 (4.37%) PMO
4 34 (4.13%) SLA
5 23 (2.79%) GDPR
6 17 (2.06%) GRC
7 15 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.21%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.85%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.73%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.49%) IFRS
13 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.49%) NIST
14 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.36%) ITGC
System Software
1 52 (6.31%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.82%) Docker
4 13 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.36%) RACF
7 3 (0.36%) Squid
8 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.24%) Firmware
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.24%) Postfix
8 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.24%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 27 (3.28%) Ansible
2 24 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (2.18%) Kubernetes
4 13 (1.58%) Grafana
4 13 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.46%) SCCM
6 10 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.73%) vRealize
8 6 (0.73%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.49%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.49%) Puppet
9 4 (0.49%) systemd
10 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.36%) Packer
10 3 (0.36%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.36%) Rancher
10 3 (0.36%) SCOM
10 3 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 168 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 77 (9.34%) Oracle
3 72 (8.74%) ServiceNow
4 62 (7.52%) SAP
5 34 (4.13%) Salesforce
5 34 (4.13%) VMware
6 23 (2.79%) Zscaler
7 22 (2.67%) Cisco
8 19 (2.31%) Google
8 19 (2.31%) Splunk
9 17 (2.06%) Databricks
10 14 (1.70%) Citrix
11 13 (1.58%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.58%) IBM
11 13 (1.58%) Workday
12 12 (1.46%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.33%) Apple
13 11 (1.33%) Bloomberg
14 9 (1.09%) Remedy
15 7 (0.85%) OpenText