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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 57 43
Rank change year-on-year -7 -14 +3
Contract jobs citing Change Management 694 499 816
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.11% 3.95% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 4.32% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 314 510
10th Percentile £398 £356 £375
25th Percentile £415 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.38% -3.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £45.15 - £36.81
25th Percentile £54.00 - £43.17
Median hourly rate £74.46 £28.60 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +160.35% -50.26% +29.94%
75th Percentile £96.25 £61.80 £65.38
90th Percentile £98.50 £81.72 £67.85
England median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £35.86
% change year-on-year -26.24% +58.26% -25.30%

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 15,126 11,538 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.53% 91.39% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,169 7,836 11,414
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 169 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.83 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.23 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -10 80 £500 -4.31% 44
South London +1 23 £500 -16.67% 7
West London -12 17 £500 +56.25% 14
East London +4 4 £638 +27.50% 7
North London - 2 £575 - 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 44 (6.34%) Confluence
2 34 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.15%) Appian
5 5 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.72%) HCL Notes
6 3 (0.43%) IIS
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (4.03%) Microsoft Project
2 27 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (3.03%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.43%) Trello
6 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.86%) Finacle
3 6 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.72%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.72%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.72%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.43%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.29%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.29%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.29%) Global One
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.29%) Primavera
8 1 (0.14%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 117 (16.86%) Azure
2 52 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (5.91%) AWS
5 38 (5.48%) Power Platform
6 30 (4.32%) Entra ID
7 27 (3.89%) SaaS
8 22 (3.17%) Power Automate
9 18 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (2.16%) GCP
11 14 (2.02%) PaaS
12 12 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (1.73%) IaaS
12 12 (1.73%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.44%) GitHub
13 10 (1.44%) OCI
14 9 (1.30%) Azure AI
15 8 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
15 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (1.15%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.76%) Firewall
2 30 (4.32%) Network Security
3 23 (3.31%) WAN
4 19 (2.74%) LAN
5 18 (2.59%) VPN
6 17 (2.45%) SD-WAN
7 13 (1.87%) BGP
8 12 (1.73%) OSPF
9 11 (1.59%) DNS
10 9 (1.30%) NetScaler
11 8 (1.15%) Cisco IOS
11 8 (1.15%) SSL
12 7 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (1.01%) DHCP
12 7 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (0.86%) Intranet
13 6 (0.86%) NX-OS
14 4 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
15 3 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.75%) Power BI
3 12 (1.73%) Metadata
4 11 (1.59%) Tableau
5 8 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.15%) Pinecone
5 8 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.86%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.58%) MySQL
9 3 (0.43%) GIS
9 3 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (0.43%) Redis
10 2 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 93 (13.40%) JIRA
2 18 (2.59%) Git
3 16 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.59%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.15%) MLflow
6 4 (0.58%) Liquibase
6 4 (0.58%) Maven
7 3 (0.43%) JUnit
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.43%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.29%) git-flow
8 2 (0.29%) Mockito
8 2 (0.29%) Snyk
9 1 (0.14%) Ant
9 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.14%) Hudson
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
General
1 286 (41.21%) Social Skills
2 285 (41.07%) Finance
3 120 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (11.53%) Banking
5 45 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 34 (4.90%) Legal
7 31 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.75%) Marketing
9 26 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (3.75%) Retail
10 21 (3.03%) Investment Banking
10 21 (3.03%) Law
11 16 (2.31%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.44%) Local Government
14 9 (1.30%) Aviation
14 9 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (12.68%) Change Manager
2 79 (11.38%) Analyst
3 78 (11.24%) Project Manager
4 66 (9.51%) Lead
5 54 (7.78%) Business Analyst
6 46 (6.63%) Senior
7 40 (5.76%) Developer
8 39 (5.62%) Consultant
9 26 (3.75%) Business Manager
10 25 (3.60%) Architect
11 21 (3.03%) Programme Manager
11 21 (3.03%) Support Engineer
12 20 (2.88%) Business Change Manager
13 19 (2.74%) C# Developer
14 17 (2.45%) Senior Manager
15 16 (2.31%) Administrator
15 16 (2.31%) Delivery Manager
15 16 (2.31%) IT Engineer
15 16 (2.31%) IT Support
15 16 (2.31%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.18%) .NET
2 27 (3.89%) REST
3 22 (3.17%) .NET Framework
4 17 (2.45%) OAuth
5 15 (2.16%) Web Services
6 12 (1.73%) RESTful
7 10 (1.44%) CSS
7 10 (1.44%) OpenID
7 10 (1.44%) SAML
8 9 (1.30%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.30%) Middleware
8 9 (1.30%) NumPy
8 9 (1.30%) Pandas
8 9 (1.30%) pytest
9 8 (1.15%) Flask
9 8 (1.15%) JWT
9 8 (1.15%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.15%) scikit-learn
9 8 (1.15%) Swagger
9 8 (1.15%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.32%) Onboarding
2 28 (4.03%) CMDB
3 26 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (2.59%) PMI
7 16 (2.31%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.16%) PKI
9 13 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.87%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.15%) FMCG
13 7 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.86%) Cloud Native
14 6 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (0.86%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.86%) Reference Data
14 6 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 78 (11.24%) Windows
2 18 (2.59%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.31%) Windows 10
4 13 (1.87%) Linux
5 11 (1.59%) Unix
6 6 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.14%) AIX
9 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (31.99%) Stakeholder Management
2 176 (25.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 169 (24.35%) Agile
4 123 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
5 112 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 110 (15.85%) ITIL
7 109 (15.71%) Project Management
8 96 (13.83%) DevOps
9 90 (12.97%) Migration
10 81 (11.67%) Project Delivery
10 81 (11.67%) Roadmaps
11 77 (11.10%) Decision-Making
12 71 (10.23%) AI
13 60 (8.65%) User Acceptance Testing
14 59 (8.50%) CI/CD
15 57 (8.21%) Risk Management
16 56 (8.07%) Workshop Facilitation
17 55 (7.93%) PRINCE2
18 54 (7.78%) Analytics
18 54 (7.78%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 97 (13.98%) SQL
2 43 (6.20%) C#
3 42 (6.05%) Python
4 27 (3.89%) PL/SQL
5 26 (3.75%) PowerShell
6 20 (2.88%) T-SQL
7 18 (2.59%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.45%) Java
9 7 (1.01%) Groovy
10 6 (0.86%) Bash
10 6 (0.86%) Korn
11 5 (0.72%) Perl
12 4 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.29%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.14%) ABAP
15 1 (0.14%) Formula Language
15 1 (0.14%) LotusScript
15 1 (0.14%) R
15 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 104 (14.99%) Degree
2 77 (11.10%) Security Cleared
3 49 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 47 (6.77%) PMI Certification
5 41 (5.91%) PMP
6 23 (3.31%) CISSP
7 20 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (2.45%) DV Cleared
9 16 (2.31%) CISM
9 16 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (2.31%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.87%) APMG
11 11 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (1.30%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.30%) CCNP
12 9 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.01%) Citrix Certification
13 7 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.36%) QA
2 44 (6.34%) Data Quality
3 43 (6.20%) PMO
4 29 (4.18%) GDPR
4 29 (4.18%) SLA
5 24 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.59%) NIST
6 11 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.01%) IFRS
7 7 (1.01%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.86%) COBIT
8 6 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.86%) MiFID
8 6 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.58%) GRC
9 4 (0.58%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.43%) EMIR
10 3 (0.43%) ITGC
System Software
1 39 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.31%) Docker
3 8 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.72%) XenApp
6 5 (0.72%) XenDesktop
7 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.29%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 21 (3.03%) Terraform
2 15 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.30%) Ansible
4 7 (1.01%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.86%) CASB
5 6 (0.86%) SCCM
6 5 (0.72%) SCVMM
7 4 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.58%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.58%) Grafana
7 4 (0.58%) PingFederate
7 4 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.43%) Rancher
9 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.29%) Puppet
9 2 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 119 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 96 (13.83%) ServiceNow
3 61 (8.79%) Oracle
4 49 (7.06%) SAP
5 36 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 30 (4.32%) Citrix
7 24 (3.46%) Cisco
8 20 (2.88%) Workday
9 16 (2.31%) VMware
10 12 (1.73%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.44%) F5
11 10 (1.44%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.15%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (1.15%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.15%) UiPath
12 8 (1.15%) Zscaler
13 7 (1.01%) Google
13 7 (1.01%) Juniper
14 6 (0.86%) Remedy
14 6 (0.86%) Temenos