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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 51 38
Rank change year-on-year -14 -13 +13
Contract jobs citing Change Management 574 577 906
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.05% 4.16% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.61% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 320 543
10th Percentile £375 £372 £381
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £724 £739 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £29.11 £38.63 £24.65
25th Percentile £32.91 £44.08 £29.38
Median hourly rate £40.50 £54.00 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +18.03% +103.33%
75th Percentile £74.45 £95.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £94.06 £98.00 £81.38
England median hourly rate £45.46 £49.04 £40.26
% change year-on-year -7.30% +21.82% +25.80%

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 12,937 12,504 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.26% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,531 7,979 11,519
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 152 259
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +5 81 £475 -13.64% 34
South London +15 23 £425 -24.48% 7
West London -8 13 £425 +93.18% 14
East London 0 5 £525 +23.53% 8
North London +6 1 £600 -
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 43 (7.49%) Confluence
2 37 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.57%) nginx
4 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.22%) HCL Notes
6 6 (1.05%) Mattermost
6 6 (1.05%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.70%) Appian
7 4 (0.70%) IIS
8 3 (0.52%) CICS
8 3 (0.52%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 38 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (4.53%) Microsoft Project
3 26 (4.53%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.70%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.52%) Finacle
4 3 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.52%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.52%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.52%) VisionPLUS
5 2 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.35%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.35%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.17%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 74 (12.89%) Azure
2 50 (8.71%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 39 (6.79%) AWS
5 22 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.31%) SaaS
7 16 (2.79%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.61%) Amazon S3
8 15 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (2.09%) Entra ID
9 12 (2.09%) GitHub
9 12 (2.09%) PaaS
10 11 (1.92%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (1.57%) Amazon ELB
12 9 (1.57%) IaaS
12 9 (1.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.84%) Firewall
2 30 (5.23%) Network Security
3 19 (3.31%) DNS
3 19 (3.31%) WAN
4 17 (2.96%) VPN
5 16 (2.79%) LAN
6 13 (2.26%) SD-WAN
7 12 (2.09%) HTTP
8 11 (1.92%) SMTP
8 11 (1.92%) SSH
9 9 (1.57%) BGP
9 9 (1.57%) FTP
9 9 (1.57%) IMAP
9 9 (1.57%) OpenLDAP
10 8 (1.39%) NetScaler
10 8 (1.39%) OSPF
11 7 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.05%) Intranet
12 6 (1.05%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.92%) Power BI
2 26 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (2.79%) Tableau
5 8 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.39%) Metadata
6 5 (0.87%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.87%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.70%) Pinecone
7 4 (0.70%) Redis
8 3 (0.52%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.52%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.35%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 64 (11.15%) JIRA
2 22 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.31%) Git
4 9 (1.57%) Vagrant
5 8 (1.39%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.70%) MLflow
7 3 (0.52%) ChangeMan
7 3 (0.52%) JUnit
7 3 (0.52%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.35%) git-flow
8 2 (0.35%) Mockito
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.17%) Ant
9 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.17%) MSI
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 270 (47.04%) Social Skills
2 232 (40.42%) Finance
3 108 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.45%) Banking
5 42 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (4.01%) Legal
9 20 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (3.31%) Retail
11 18 (3.14%) Investment Banking
12 17 (2.96%) Marketing
13 15 (2.61%) Law
14 14 (2.44%) Manufacturing
15 13 (2.26%) Local Government
15 13 (2.26%) Telecoms
16 12 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (1.57%) Financial Institution
18 9 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 87 (15.16%) Analyst
2 72 (12.54%) Change Manager
3 67 (11.67%) Project Manager
4 60 (10.45%) Business Analyst
5 58 (10.10%) Lead
6 33 (5.75%) Senior
7 32 (5.57%) Developer
8 30 (5.23%) Consultant
9 26 (4.53%) Architect
10 20 (3.48%) Programme Manager
11 19 (3.31%) Business Manager
12 16 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (2.79%) IT Manager
12 16 (2.79%) Senior Manager
13 15 (2.61%) Business Change Manager
14 14 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
15 13 (2.26%) Transformation Manager
16 11 (1.92%) AWS DevOps
16 11 (1.92%) C# Developer
17 10 (1.74%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.14%) .NET
2 14 (2.44%) REST
3 11 (1.92%) .NET Framework
3 11 (1.92%) LDAP
4 8 (1.39%) HTML
4 8 (1.39%) OAuth
4 8 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.22%) Kafka
5 7 (1.22%) RESTful
5 7 (1.22%) SAML
6 5 (0.87%) Node.js
6 5 (0.87%) NumPy
6 5 (0.87%) OpenID
6 5 (0.87%) Pandas
6 5 (0.87%) pytest
6 5 (0.87%) SOAP
6 5 (0.87%) Web Services
7 4 (0.70%) Flask
7 4 (0.70%) Swagger
7 4 (0.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.70%) Management Information System
1 27 (4.70%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.18%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.66%) CMDB
4 14 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (2.44%) PKI
5 13 (2.26%) PMI
5 13 (2.26%) Replication
6 12 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.09%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.57%) Life Science
8 8 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.05%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.05%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.87%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.28%) Windows
2 24 (4.18%) Linux
3 11 (1.92%) VMS
3 11 (1.92%) Windows 10
3 11 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.57%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (1.57%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.57%) Unix
5 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.52%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (32.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 155 (27.00%) Agile
3 148 (25.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 111 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (18.29%) Project Management
6 85 (14.81%) ITIL
7 73 (12.72%) Project Delivery
8 72 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 67 (11.67%) Migration
10 65 (11.32%) DevOps
11 64 (11.15%) Decision-Making
12 61 (10.63%) Roadmaps
13 56 (9.76%) Workshop Facilitation
14 52 (9.06%) PRINCE2
14 52 (9.06%) Risk Management
15 50 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
16 46 (8.01%) CI/CD
16 46 (8.01%) Process Improvement
16 46 (8.01%) User Acceptance Testing
17 44 (7.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 86 (14.98%) SQL
2 49 (8.54%) Python
3 31 (5.40%) PowerShell
4 22 (3.83%) C#
5 16 (2.79%) PL/SQL
6 13 (2.26%) Groovy
7 11 (1.92%) Java
7 11 (1.92%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.74%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.22%) Bash
9 7 (1.22%) Korn
10 4 (0.70%) Go
11 3 (0.52%) C
11 3 (0.52%) C++
11 3 (0.52%) Perl
11 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.35%) COBOL
12 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.35%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.17%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 119 (20.73%) Degree
2 74 (12.89%) Security Cleared
3 48 (8.36%) PMI Certification
3 48 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.45%) PMP
5 19 (3.31%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.09%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.74%) APMG
9 10 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.39%) CCNP
11 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.05%) CCIE
12 6 (1.05%) CFA
12 6 (1.05%) CISSP
12 6 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (0.87%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.14%) QA
2 33 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 32 (5.57%) PMO
4 23 (4.01%) GDPR
5 20 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (2.79%) SLA
7 9 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.57%) NIST
8 8 (1.39%) MiFID
9 7 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.87%) EMIR
11 4 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.70%) GMP
11 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.52%) IFRS
13 2 (0.35%) COBIT
13 2 (0.35%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.35%) ITGC
13 2 (0.35%) NCSC
13 2 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 27 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.01%) Docker
3 9 (1.57%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.57%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.57%) Postfix
3 9 (1.57%) Squid
4 5 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.70%) XenApp
5 4 (0.70%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.35%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 32 (5.57%) Terraform
2 17 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.44%) Grafana
4 13 (2.26%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.74%) Nessus
7 9 (1.57%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.39%) Ansible
8 8 (1.39%) SCOM
9 6 (1.05%) HP SiteScope
10 5 (0.87%) SCCM
11 4 (0.70%) Rancher
11 4 (0.70%) SCVMM
12 3 (0.52%) CA Endevor
12 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.52%) Puppet
13 2 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.35%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 100 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.80%) ServiceNow
3 48 (8.36%) SAP
4 45 (7.84%) Oracle
5 22 (3.83%) Cisco
5 22 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.96%) Citrix
7 12 (2.09%) Remedy
8 11 (1.92%) Fortinet
8 11 (1.92%) Workday
9 10 (1.74%) F5
10 9 (1.57%) CheckPoint
10 9 (1.57%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.39%) VMware
11 8 (1.39%) Zscaler
12 7 (1.22%) Lotus
12 7 (1.22%) Splunk
13 6 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.05%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.05%) Palo Alto