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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 55 64
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -26
Contract jobs citing Change Management 837 585 599
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.15% 4.36% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 4.70% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 366 332
10th Percentile £400 £348 £350
25th Percentile £435 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £553 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% -3.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £739 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £28.70 £29.26 £35.83
25th Percentile £43.25 £33.29 £41.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £54.04
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -25.98% -1.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.57 £74.50
90th Percentile £58.00 £93.71 £89.80
England median hourly rate £53.00 £30.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +76.67% -48.54% +20.45%

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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £675 £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 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -22 85 £516 -12.13% 141
West London -2 28 £450 -18.55% 39
South London -17 15 £550 +28.28% 13
East London +8 13 £750 +19.05% 11
North London +3 4 £450 +2.27%
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 54 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 42 (5.02%) Confluence
3 18 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.55%) IIS
5 6 (0.72%) Appian
5 6 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.60%) Camunda
7 4 (0.48%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
9 2 (0.24%) CICS
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.12%) Documentum
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) InDesign
7 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 31 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.84%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.60%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.48%) Front Arena
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.48%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.36%) iTrent
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.36%) Summit
7 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 139 (16.61%) Azure
2 72 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (8.48%) Power Platform
4 66 (7.89%) AWS
5 63 (7.53%) Entra ID
6 39 (4.66%) SaaS
7 30 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (2.99%) GitHub
9 22 (2.63%) GCP
10 21 (2.51%) Power Automate
11 20 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (2.27%) OCI
13 16 (1.91%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.67%) Google Workspace
14 14 (1.67%) OneDrive
15 11 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.31%) Serverless
16 10 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.85%) Firewall
2 36 (4.30%) Network Security
3 33 (3.94%) DNS
4 25 (2.99%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.63%) WAN
6 21 (2.51%) DHCP
7 19 (2.27%) VPN
8 15 (1.79%) LAN
9 9 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (1.08%) SSL
10 8 (0.96%) HTTP
10 8 (0.96%) HTTPS
10 8 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.72%) VLAN
12 5 (0.60%) FTP
12 5 (0.60%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.60%) SNMP
12 5 (0.60%) SSH
13 4 (0.48%) 5G
13 4 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.21%) Power BI
2 41 (4.90%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.87%) Metadata
4 18 (2.15%) Oracle Database
5 10 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.08%) Tableau
7 7 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.60%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 90 (10.75%) JIRA
2 31 (3.70%) Git
3 25 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.84%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.60%) GitLab
6 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.48%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.36%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.36%) Selenium
7 3 (0.36%) Snyk
7 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.24%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.24%) Postman
8 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.12%) Flyway
9 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 343 (40.98%) Finance
2 338 (40.38%) Social Skills
3 145 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (14.10%) Banking
5 68 (8.12%) Public Sector
6 50 (5.97%) Legal
7 45 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
8 38 (4.54%) Organisational Skills
9 34 (4.06%) Marketing
10 29 (3.46%) Retail
11 26 (3.11%) Front Office
12 25 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (2.87%) Manufacturing
13 24 (2.87%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.75%) Law
15 22 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (2.27%) Local Government
17 18 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
19 13 (1.55%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 116 (13.86%) Analyst
2 109 (13.02%) Project Manager
3 107 (12.78%) Lead
4 66 (7.89%) Consultant
5 64 (7.65%) Senior
6 61 (7.29%) Business Analyst
7 59 (7.05%) Change Manager
8 30 (3.58%) Senior Manager
9 26 (3.11%) Developer
10 25 (2.99%) Business Manager
10 25 (2.99%) Programme Manager
11 22 (2.63%) Administrator
11 22 (2.63%) Business Change Manager
12 21 (2.51%) Financial Analyst
13 20 (2.39%) Applications Support
13 20 (2.39%) Data Engineer
14 19 (2.27%) IT Manager
14 19 (2.27%) Technical Manager
15 18 (2.15%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (2.15%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.38%) Terraform
2 32 (3.82%) REST
3 27 (3.23%) .NET
4 15 (1.79%) Middleware
5 12 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (1.31%) CSS
6 11 (1.31%) HTML
6 11 (1.31%) SOAP
7 10 (1.19%) .NET Framework
8 9 (1.08%) OAuth
8 9 (1.08%) Web Services
9 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (0.96%) React
9 8 (0.96%) SPFx
10 7 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.84%) JSON
11 6 (0.72%) Kafka
11 6 (0.72%) LDAP
11 6 (0.72%) SAML
12 5 (0.60%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.60%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 30 (3.58%) Data Centre
3 30 (3.58%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.27%) PMI
6 18 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 15 (1.79%) Operational Technology
8 14 (1.67%) Security Posture
9 13 (1.55%) CMDB
9 13 (1.55%) FMCG
10 12 (1.43%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.31%) Clustering
11 11 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.31%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.19%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.19%) Derivative
12 10 (1.19%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 87 (10.39%) Windows
2 31 (3.70%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.23%) Linux
4 13 (1.55%) Unix
5 10 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.36%) AIX
8 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.36%) zOS
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Solaris
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.12%) HPUX
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (41.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 218 (26.05%) Agile
3 211 (25.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 179 (21.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 145 (17.32%) Migration
6 141 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
7 136 (16.25%) Project Delivery
8 130 (15.53%) Project Management
9 128 (15.29%) ITIL
9 128 (15.29%) Roadmaps
10 125 (14.93%) Decision-Making
11 113 (13.50%) AI
12 110 (13.14%) DevOps
13 100 (11.95%) Analytics
14 89 (10.63%) PRINCE2
14 89 (10.63%) User Acceptance Testing
15 77 (9.20%) Workshop Facilitation
16 75 (8.96%) Process Improvement
17 74 (8.84%) CI/CD
18 69 (8.24%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 101 (12.07%) SQL
2 64 (7.65%) Python
3 47 (5.62%) PowerShell
4 32 (3.82%) PL/SQL
5 29 (3.46%) C#
6 24 (2.87%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.63%) T-SQL
8 19 (2.27%) Java
9 17 (2.03%) Bash
10 13 (1.55%) Korn
11 10 (1.19%) Bicep
11 10 (1.19%) Groovy
12 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.36%) JCL
13 3 (0.36%) VBScript
14 2 (0.24%) C++
14 2 (0.24%) COBOL
14 2 (0.24%) Perl
14 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 96 (11.47%) Degree
2 89 (10.63%) Security Cleared
3 79 (9.44%) PMP
4 78 (9.32%) PMI Certification
5 73 (8.72%) SC Cleared
6 22 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.39%) CISSP
8 18 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (1.79%) CISM
10 13 (1.55%) APMG
11 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.19%) CCNP
12 10 (1.19%) DV Cleared
13 9 (1.08%) ACCA
13 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.96%) CIMA
15 6 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.72%) CISA
15 6 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.45%) QA
2 48 (5.73%) PMO
3 44 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 34 (4.06%) SLA
5 26 (3.11%) GDPR
6 18 (2.15%) GRC
7 17 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.08%) ITGC
9 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.84%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.72%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.72%) NIST
11 6 (0.72%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.48%) IFRS
13 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.36%) COBIT
System Software
1 57 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.55%) Docker
4 12 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.36%) Squid
7 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) Postfix
7 2 (0.24%) RACF
7 2 (0.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 23 (2.75%) Ansible
1 23 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (1.79%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.31%) SCCM
5 9 (1.08%) Grafana
6 8 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
8 6 (0.72%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.60%) CASB
9 5 (0.60%) vRealize
10 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.48%) Control-M
10 4 (0.48%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.48%) systemd
11 3 (0.36%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 165 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 87 (10.39%) Oracle
3 82 (9.80%) ServiceNow
4 58 (6.93%) SAP
5 44 (5.26%) Salesforce
6 31 (3.70%) VMware
7 23 (2.75%) Zscaler
8 22 (2.63%) Google
9 21 (2.51%) Cisco
10 17 (2.03%) Splunk
11 14 (1.67%) Citrix
12 13 (1.55%) Databricks
13 12 (1.43%) Workday
14 11 (1.31%) Dynatrace
14 11 (1.31%) Red Hat
15 9 (1.08%) Apple
15 9 (1.08%) IBM
16 8 (0.96%) Bloomberg
16 8 (0.96%) Remedy
17 7 (0.84%) OpenText