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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 52 37
Rank change year-on-year -13 -15 +14
Contract jobs citing Change Management 581 580 886
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 4.13% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.57% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 320 526
10th Percentile £375 £372 £384
25th Percentile £420 £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 £723 £739 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.33%
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% +22.92%

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 13,119 12,681 15,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.32% 90.30% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,100 11,299
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £451
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 222 154 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.77 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.90 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.65 £80.53 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +4 80 £475 -13.64% 37
South London +17 23 £425 -24.48% 4
West London -9 13 £425 +93.18% 16
East London +1 5 £525 +23.53% 9
North London +5 2 £575 -
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 (7.40%) Confluence
2 36 (6.20%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.55%) nginx
4 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.20%) HCL Notes
6 6 (1.03%) Mattermost
6 6 (1.03%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.69%) Appian
7 4 (0.69%) 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 40 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (4.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (4.65%) MS Visio
4 26 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.69%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (4.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.86%) 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 (0.34%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.17%) Actimize
6 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 74 (12.74%) Azure
2 50 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (6.88%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.54%) AWS
5 22 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.27%) SaaS
7 16 (2.75%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.58%) Amazon S3
8 15 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 12 (2.07%) GitHub
9 12 (2.07%) PaaS
10 11 (1.89%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (1.55%) Amazon ELB
12 9 (1.55%) IaaS
12 9 (1.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.57%) Firewall
2 30 (5.16%) Network Security
3 20 (3.44%) WAN
4 19 (3.27%) DNS
5 18 (3.10%) VPN
6 16 (2.75%) LAN
7 14 (2.41%) SD-WAN
8 12 (2.07%) HTTP
9 11 (1.89%) SMTP
9 11 (1.89%) SSH
10 9 (1.55%) BGP
10 9 (1.55%) FTP
10 9 (1.55%) IMAP
10 9 (1.55%) OpenLDAP
11 8 (1.38%) NetScaler
11 8 (1.38%) OSPF
12 7 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.03%) Intranet
13 6 (1.03%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.68%) Power BI
2 28 (4.82%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (2.58%) Tableau
6 10 (1.72%) Metadata
7 8 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.03%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.69%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.69%) Redis
11 3 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.52%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (0.52%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (10.84%) JIRA
2 21 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.27%) Git
4 9 (1.55%) Vagrant
4 9 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.69%) MLflow
6 3 (0.52%) ChangeMan
6 3 (0.52%) JUnit
6 3 (0.52%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.34%) git-flow
7 2 (0.34%) Mockito
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.17%) Ant
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.17%) MSI
8 1 (0.17%) Selenium
8 1 (0.17%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 274 (47.16%) Social Skills
2 239 (41.14%) Finance
3 107 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (10.84%) Banking
5 42 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.48%) Legal
6 26 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (3.27%) Investment Banking
9 19 (3.27%) Retail
10 17 (2.93%) Marketing
11 16 (2.75%) Law
12 14 (2.41%) Local Government
12 14 (2.41%) Manufacturing
13 13 (2.24%) Telecoms
14 12 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.55%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.55%) Front Office
15 9 (1.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (15.15%) Analyst
2 71 (12.22%) Change Manager
3 70 (12.05%) Project Manager
4 60 (10.33%) Business Analyst
5 58 (9.98%) Lead
6 35 (6.02%) Senior
7 34 (5.85%) Developer
8 30 (5.16%) Consultant
9 25 (4.30%) Architect
10 21 (3.61%) Programme Manager
11 20 (3.44%) Business Manager
12 17 (2.93%) IT Manager
12 17 (2.93%) Senior Manager
13 16 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (2.58%) Business Change Manager
14 15 (2.58%) Transformation Manager
15 14 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
16 13 (2.24%) C# Developer
17 11 (1.89%) AWS DevOps
17 11 (1.89%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.44%) .NET
2 14 (2.41%) REST
3 13 (2.24%) .NET Framework
4 11 (1.89%) LDAP
5 9 (1.55%) HTML
5 9 (1.55%) OAuth
6 8 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.20%) Kafka
7 7 (1.20%) RESTful
7 7 (1.20%) SAML
8 6 (1.03%) OpenID
8 6 (1.03%) Web Services
9 5 (0.86%) CSS
9 5 (0.86%) Node.js
9 5 (0.86%) NumPy
9 5 (0.86%) Pandas
9 5 (0.86%) pytest
9 5 (0.86%) SOAP
10 4 (0.69%) Django
10 4 (0.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.65%) Management Information System
1 27 (4.65%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.13%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.79%) CMDB
4 14 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (2.41%) PKI
5 13 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.24%) PMI
5 13 (2.24%) Replication
6 11 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.55%) Life Science
9 7 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.03%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.03%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.86%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.69%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 60 (10.33%) Windows
2 24 (4.13%) Linux
3 13 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.89%) VMS
4 11 (1.89%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.55%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (1.55%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.55%) Unix
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.52%) zOS
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (32.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 157 (27.02%) Agile
3 151 (25.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 111 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (18.07%) Project Management
6 87 (14.97%) ITIL
7 74 (12.74%) Project Delivery
8 71 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 67 (11.53%) Decision-Making
9 67 (11.53%) Migration
10 64 (11.02%) DevOps
11 60 (10.33%) Roadmaps
12 56 (9.64%) Risk Management
12 56 (9.64%) Workshop Facilitation
13 55 (9.47%) PRINCE2
14 52 (8.95%) Business Intelligence
15 48 (8.26%) User Acceptance Testing
16 47 (8.09%) CI/CD
17 46 (7.92%) ERP
17 46 (7.92%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 87 (14.97%) SQL
2 50 (8.61%) Python
3 30 (5.16%) PowerShell
4 24 (4.13%) C#
5 17 (2.93%) PL/SQL
6 13 (2.24%) Groovy
7 12 (2.07%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.72%) Java
8 10 (1.72%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.20%) Bash
9 7 (1.20%) Korn
10 4 (0.69%) Go
11 3 (0.52%) C
11 3 (0.52%) C++
11 3 (0.52%) Perl
11 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.34%) COBOL
12 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.34%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 121 (20.83%) Degree
2 74 (12.74%) Security Cleared
3 50 (8.61%) PMI Certification
4 47 (8.09%) SC Cleared
5 39 (6.71%) PMP
6 20 (3.44%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (2.24%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.07%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.89%) APMG
11 10 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.55%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.55%) CCNP
13 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (1.03%) CCIE
14 6 (1.03%) CFA
14 6 (1.03%) CISSP
14 6 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.40%) QA
2 34 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.85%) PMO
3 24 (4.13%) GDPR
4 20 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.93%) SLA
6 9 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.55%) NIST
7 8 (1.38%) MiFID
8 7 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.86%) EMIR
9 5 (0.86%) IFRS
10 4 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.69%) GMP
10 4 (0.69%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.52%) GRC
12 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.34%) COBIT
12 2 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (4.82%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.96%) Docker
3 9 (1.55%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.55%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.55%) Postfix
3 9 (1.55%) Squid
4 5 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.69%) XenApp
5 4 (0.69%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.34%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 32 (5.51%) Terraform
2 17 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.41%) Grafana
4 13 (2.24%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.72%) Nessus
7 9 (1.55%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.38%) SCOM
9 7 (1.20%) Ansible
10 6 (1.03%) HP SiteScope
10 6 (1.03%) SCCM
11 4 (0.69%) Rancher
11 4 (0.69%) SCVMM
12 3 (0.52%) CA Endevor
12 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.52%) Puppet
13 2 (0.34%) Argo
13 2 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (0.34%) RSA Archer
14 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 103 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.67%) ServiceNow
3 51 (8.78%) SAP
4 49 (8.43%) Oracle
5 23 (3.96%) Cisco
6 22 (3.79%) Salesforce
7 18 (3.10%) Citrix
8 12 (2.07%) Remedy
8 12 (2.07%) Workday
9 11 (1.89%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.72%) CheckPoint
10 10 (1.72%) F5
11 9 (1.55%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.55%) VMware
11 9 (1.55%) Zscaler
12 7 (1.20%) Juniper
12 7 (1.20%) Lotus
12 7 (1.20%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.20%) Splunk
13 6 (1.03%) Dynatrace