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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 57 61
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -22
Contract jobs citing Change Management 821 580 627
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 4.28% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 4.63% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 364 387
10th Percentile £400 £344 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £769 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £31.85 - £41.20
25th Percentile £51.50 - £54.57
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -39.39% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58.92 - £77.13
90th Percentile £96.00 - £90.85
England median hourly rate £38.50 £32.05 £57.50
% change year-on-year +20.12% -44.26% +25.00%

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 17,727 12,515 14,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.25% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,711 8,371 10,405
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.26 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -18 79 £550 - 35
West London -6 23 £513 +7.89% 13
South London -9 20 £525 -9.17% 7
East London +6 8 £750 +19.05% 12
North London +1 3 £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 51 (6.21%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.75%) Confluence
3 17 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.71%) IIS
5 8 (0.97%) Appian
6 7 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.61%) Camunda
7 5 (0.61%) CMS
8 4 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.37%) Kentico
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 28 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.73%) OpenText MBPM
3 6 (0.73%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.61%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.49%) SAP QM
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.37%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.37%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 145 (17.66%) Azure
2 64 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (7.55%) Entra ID
4 56 (6.82%) AWS
5 53 (6.46%) Power Platform
6 47 (5.72%) SaaS
7 41 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (2.44%) GCP
9 20 (2.44%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.07%) OCI
11 15 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.71%) GitHub
12 14 (1.71%) OneDrive
13 13 (1.58%) Google Workspace
13 13 (1.58%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (1.46%) Smartsheet
15 10 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.10%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.87%) Firewall
2 26 (3.17%) Network Security
3 24 (2.92%) DNS
4 19 (2.31%) WAN
5 17 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.95%) DHCP
7 14 (1.71%) LAN
7 14 (1.71%) VPN
8 8 (0.97%) BGP
8 8 (0.97%) SSL
9 7 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (0.85%) HTTPS
9 7 (0.85%) OSPF
10 6 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.61%) SNMP
11 5 (0.61%) VLAN
11 5 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.63%) SQL Server
2 37 (4.51%) Power BI
3 22 (2.68%) Metadata
4 13 (1.58%) Oracle Database
5 7 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.61%) Tableau
7 4 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.49%) Data Mart
7 4 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.49%) MySQL
7 4 (0.49%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.49%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.37%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 104 (12.67%) JIRA
2 27 (3.29%) Git
3 22 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
4 4 (0.49%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.49%) Maven
5 3 (0.37%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (0.37%) Snyk
5 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.37%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.24%) GitLab
6 2 (0.24%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.24%) MLflow
6 2 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.12%) Flyway
7 1 (0.12%) Hudson
7 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 317 (38.61%) Finance
2 303 (36.91%) Social Skills
3 119 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (11.45%) Banking
5 68 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.97%) Legal
7 42 (5.12%) Marketing
8 36 (4.38%) Retail
9 35 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (2.80%) Law
14 21 (2.56%) Telecoms
15 19 (2.31%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.95%) Local Government
17 15 (1.83%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.71%) Aviation
19 13 (1.58%) Front Office
19 13 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 103 (12.55%) Project Manager
2 101 (12.30%) Analyst
3 83 (10.11%) Lead
4 74 (9.01%) Change Manager
5 64 (7.80%) Consultant
6 59 (7.19%) Senior
7 55 (6.70%) Business Analyst
8 32 (3.90%) Developer
9 30 (3.65%) Programme Manager
10 26 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
11 25 (3.05%) Business Manager
11 25 (3.05%) Senior Manager
11 25 (3.05%) Support Engineer
12 22 (2.68%) Business Change Manager
13 20 (2.44%) Administrator
13 20 (2.44%) Network Engineer
13 20 (2.44%) Technical Manager
14 19 (2.31%) IT Engineer
14 19 (2.31%) IT Support
14 19 (2.31%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.14%) REST
2 27 (3.29%) .NET
3 14 (1.71%) .NET Framework
3 14 (1.71%) CSS
4 13 (1.58%) Web Services
5 12 (1.46%) Middleware
5 12 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (1.34%) OAuth
7 10 (1.22%) HTML
7 10 (1.22%) SOAP
8 9 (1.10%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.10%) Spring
9 8 (0.97%) Jakarta EE
9 8 (0.97%) React
9 8 (0.97%) RESTful
9 8 (0.97%) SPFx
10 7 (0.85%) JSON
10 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.73%) jQuery
11 6 (0.73%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.46%) Onboarding
2 29 (3.53%) Data Centre
3 27 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 24 (2.92%) PMI
6 18 (2.19%) CMDB
6 18 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.95%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.71%) FMCG
9 12 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 8 (0.97%) Clustering
12 8 (0.97%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.97%) PKI
12 8 (0.97%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.85%) Derivative
13 7 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 87 (10.60%) Windows
2 26 (3.17%) Windows Server
3 24 (2.92%) Linux
4 12 (1.46%) Unix
5 10 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.24%) AIX
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.12%) HPUX
11 1 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (33.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 205 (24.97%) Agile
3 201 (24.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 173 (21.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 144 (17.54%) Migration
6 133 (16.20%) ITIL
7 126 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (15.35%) Project Management
8 125 (15.23%) DevOps
9 121 (14.74%) Project Delivery
10 114 (13.89%) Roadmaps
11 110 (13.40%) Decision-Making
12 101 (12.30%) AI
13 79 (9.62%) PRINCE2
14 75 (9.14%) User Acceptance Testing
15 72 (8.77%) Analytics
15 72 (8.77%) CI/CD
16 67 (8.16%) Service Management
17 65 (7.92%) ERP
18 63 (7.67%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 86 (10.48%) SQL
2 46 (5.60%) Python
3 41 (4.99%) C#
4 36 (4.38%) PowerShell
5 30 (3.65%) PL/SQL
6 27 (3.29%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.56%) Java
7 21 (2.56%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.34%) Korn
9 10 (1.22%) Bash
10 7 (0.85%) Groovy
11 6 (0.73%) Bicep
12 2 (0.24%) C++
12 2 (0.24%) Perl
12 2 (0.24%) SHACL
12 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.24%) VBA
13 1 (0.12%) C
13 1 (0.12%) COBOL
13 1 (0.12%) RPG
Qualifications
1 90 (10.96%) Security Cleared
2 83 (10.11%) Degree
3 72 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 69 (8.40%) PMI Certification
5 66 (8.04%) PMP
6 27 (3.29%) CISSP
7 23 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (2.44%) CISM
9 15 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.71%) APMG
11 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 11 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (1.34%) CCNP
13 10 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.85%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.73%) CISA
15 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.73%) SSCP
16 5 (0.61%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.82%) QA
2 52 (6.33%) PMO
3 41 (4.99%) SLA
4 32 (3.90%) Data Quality
5 23 (2.80%) GDPR
6 21 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.83%) GRC
7 15 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.10%) ITGC
10 8 (0.97%) NIST
11 5 (0.61%) COBIT
11 5 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.49%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 61 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.10%) Docker
5 6 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.12%) Squid
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) XenApp
9 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (4.63%) Terraform
2 22 (2.68%) Ansible
3 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.71%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.73%) CASB
6 6 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
6 6 (0.73%) SCCM
6 6 (0.73%) ZABBIX
7 5 (0.61%) vRealize
8 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.49%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.49%) Grafana
8 4 (0.49%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.37%) Packer
9 3 (0.37%) Puppet
9 3 (0.37%) SCOM
9 3 (0.37%) systemd
9 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 99 (12.06%) ServiceNow
3 76 (9.26%) Oracle
4 52 (6.33%) SAP
5 49 (5.97%) Salesforce
6 30 (3.65%) VMware
7 25 (3.05%) Cisco
8 22 (2.68%) Google
9 20 (2.44%) Citrix
9 20 (2.44%) Zscaler
10 15 (1.83%) Splunk
11 12 (1.46%) Workday
12 8 (0.97%) Apple
12 8 (0.97%) Databricks
12 8 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.97%) IBM
12 8 (0.97%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.85%) Juniper
14 6 (0.73%) HP
14 6 (0.73%) OpenText