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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 59 58
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing Change Management 817 571 629
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 4.27% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.61% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 351 339
10th Percentile £400 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £750 £750 £755
England median daily rate £531 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.10% -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 £52.25 £27.68 £56.75
% change year-on-year +88.76% -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 17,982 12,382 14,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.49% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,765 8,174 9,384
10th Percentile £360 £334 £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 £663 £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 338 244 181
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.81 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.80% -7.80%
75th Percentile £60.25 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.38 £64.93 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -15 88 £563 +2.27% 128
West London +7 33 £550 -0.45% 29
East London +5 9 £638 +1.19% 7
South London -28 9 £550 +29.41% 6
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 47 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.41%) Confluence
3 19 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.59%) IIS
5 6 (0.73%) Appian
6 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.61%) Camunda
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.49%) CMS
7 4 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.37%) CICS
8 3 (0.37%) Kentico
8 3 (0.37%) nginx
8 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.12%) Documentum
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.37%) InDesign
6 3 (0.37%) 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 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.86%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (0.86%) Oracle BPM
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 (0.37%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.37%) iTrent
8 3 (0.37%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.37%) Summit
9 2 (0.24%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.24%) HFM
9 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 133 (16.28%) Azure
2 71 (8.69%) Power Platform
3 68 (8.32%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (7.96%) AWS
5 58 (7.10%) Entra ID
6 29 (3.55%) SaaS
7 26 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (3.18%) GitHub
8 24 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 19 (2.33%) GCP
10 18 (2.20%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.08%) OCI
12 15 (1.84%) OneDrive
13 14 (1.71%) Google Workspace
14 13 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (1.47%) Serverless
16 11 (1.35%) PowerApps
17 10 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 9 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.36%) Firewall
2 41 (5.02%) Network Security
3 33 (4.04%) DNS
4 27 (3.30%) TCP/IP
5 24 (2.94%) WAN
6 21 (2.57%) VPN
7 20 (2.45%) DHCP
8 17 (2.08%) LAN
9 9 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.98%) HTTP
10 8 (0.98%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.86%) SAN
11 7 (0.86%) VLAN
12 6 (0.73%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.61%) BGP
13 5 (0.61%) SNMP
13 5 (0.61%) SSH
13 5 (0.61%) SSL
14 4 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.61%) Power BI
2 39 (4.77%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.94%) Metadata
4 20 (2.45%) Oracle Database
5 10 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.98%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.86%) 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%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (8.94%) JIRA
2 28 (3.43%) Git
3 23 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.61%) GitLab
5 4 (0.49%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.49%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.37%) Selenium
6 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.37%) 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%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 343 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 332 (40.64%) Finance
3 143 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (14.32%) Banking
5 78 (9.55%) Public Sector
6 53 (6.49%) Influencing Skills
7 50 (6.12%) Legal
8 39 (4.77%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (4.04%) Manufacturing
10 27 (3.30%) Front Office
10 27 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (3.18%) Retail
11 26 (3.18%) Telecoms
12 23 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
12 23 (2.82%) Law
13 21 (2.57%) Marketing
14 19 (2.33%) Aviation
14 19 (2.33%) Local Government
15 16 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 117 (14.32%) Project Manager
2 113 (13.83%) Analyst
3 104 (12.73%) Lead
4 68 (8.32%) Senior
5 64 (7.83%) Business Analyst
6 63 (7.71%) Consultant
7 59 (7.22%) Change Manager
8 28 (3.43%) Programme Manager
8 28 (3.43%) Senior Manager
9 26 (3.18%) Business Manager
10 25 (3.06%) IT Manager
11 21 (2.57%) Business Change Manager
11 21 (2.57%) Developer
11 21 (2.57%) Technical Manager
12 20 (2.45%) Data Engineer
12 20 (2.45%) Financial Analyst
13 18 (2.20%) IT Project Manager
14 17 (2.08%) Administrator
14 17 (2.08%) Cloud Engineer
14 17 (2.08%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.39%) Terraform
2 27 (3.30%) REST
3 22 (2.69%) .NET
4 17 (2.08%) Middleware
5 16 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (1.35%) SOAP
6 11 (1.35%) Web Services
7 9 (1.10%) .NET Framework
8 8 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.98%) Kafka
9 7 (0.86%) CSS
9 7 (0.86%) HTML
9 7 (0.86%) 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 77 (9.42%) Onboarding
2 41 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.16%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.67%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.45%) Operational Technology
8 17 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.96%) CMDB
9 16 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.71%) Cloud Native
11 13 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.59%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.59%) Replication
11 13 (1.59%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.47%) PMI
13 11 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.22%) FMCG
14 10 (1.22%) PKI
15 9 (1.10%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.63%) Windows
2 39 (4.77%) Windows Server
3 33 (4.04%) Linux
4 16 (1.96%) Unix
5 13 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.35%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.86%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.49%) AIX
8 4 (0.49%) macOS
8 4 (0.49%) zOS
9 3 (0.37%) Solaris
9 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.37%) 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%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (46.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 213 (26.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 208 (25.46%) Agile
4 172 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 146 (17.87%) Migration
6 138 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
6 138 (16.89%) Project Delivery
7 136 (16.65%) Roadmaps
8 127 (15.54%) ITIL
9 121 (14.81%) Project Management
10 120 (14.69%) AI
11 113 (13.83%) Decision-Making
12 99 (12.12%) Analytics
13 95 (11.63%) DevOps
14 91 (11.14%) PRINCE2
15 89 (10.89%) User Acceptance Testing
15 89 (10.89%) Workshop Facilitation
16 82 (10.04%) Risk Management
17 76 (9.30%) Process Improvement
17 76 (9.30%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (10.89%) SQL
2 62 (7.59%) Python
3 52 (6.36%) PowerShell
4 24 (2.94%) PL/SQL
5 23 (2.82%) C#
6 20 (2.45%) Bash
7 17 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.96%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.84%) Java
10 11 (1.35%) Bicep
10 11 (1.35%) Korn
11 8 (0.98%) Groovy
12 4 (0.49%) JCL
12 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.37%) COBOL
13 3 (0.37%) VBScript
14 2 (0.24%) C++
14 2 (0.24%) SHACL
14 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 98 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 97 (11.87%) Degree
3 79 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 76 (9.30%) PMI Certification
5 74 (9.06%) PMP
6 23 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.71%) APMG
8 13 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.22%) CCNP
11 10 (1.22%) CISSP
12 8 (0.98%) ACCA
12 8 (0.98%) CISM
13 7 (0.86%) CIMA
13 7 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.36%) QA
3 39 (4.77%) PMO
4 35 (4.28%) SLA
5 23 (2.82%) GDPR
6 17 (2.08%) GRC
7 15 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.86%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.86%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.73%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.61%) IFRS
12 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.49%) ITGC
12 4 (0.49%) NIST
13 3 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 53 (6.49%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.71%) Docker
4 13 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.37%) RACF
7 3 (0.37%) 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 25 (3.06%) Ansible
2 24 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 13 (1.59%) SCCM
4 13 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.47%) Grafana
6 10 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.73%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.61%) vRealize
10 4 (0.49%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.49%) Puppet
10 4 (0.49%) systemd
11 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.37%) Packer
11 3 (0.37%) Rancher
11 3 (0.37%) SCOM
11 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 169 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 77 (9.42%) Oracle
3 72 (8.81%) ServiceNow
4 62 (7.59%) SAP
5 34 (4.16%) VMware
6 32 (3.92%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.94%) Zscaler
8 23 (2.82%) Cisco
9 19 (2.33%) Google
9 19 (2.33%) Splunk
10 17 (2.08%) Databricks
11 14 (1.71%) Citrix
12 13 (1.59%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.59%) IBM
12 13 (1.59%) Workday
13 12 (1.47%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.35%) Apple
14 11 (1.35%) Bloomberg
15 9 (1.10%) Remedy
16 7 (0.86%) OpenText