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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 57 62
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -23
Contract jobs citing Change Management 842 577 612
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.16% 4.35% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 4.70% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 357 341
10th Percentile £400 £344 £350
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £741 £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 £54.00 £30.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +80.00% -48.54% +19.71%

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 17,965 12,280 14,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.50% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,777 8,103 9,542
10th Percentile £359 £330 £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 310 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -13 87 £525 -12.50% 114
West London -1 30 £450 -18.55% 47
South London -19 15 £550 +28.28% 5
East London +8 11 £649 +2.98% 13
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 51 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 45 (5.34%) Confluence
3 18 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.54%) IIS
5 6 (0.71%) Appian
6 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.59%) Camunda
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.48%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.36%) CICS
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 27 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.83%) 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
8 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.83%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (0.83%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.59%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.48%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.36%) Front Arena
7 3 (0.36%) iTrent
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.36%) Summit
7 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.24%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 142 (16.86%) Azure
2 70 (8.31%) AWS
3 69 (8.19%) Power Platform
4 68 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
5 63 (7.48%) Entra ID
6 38 (4.51%) SaaS
7 29 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (3.09%) GitHub
10 23 (2.73%) GCP
11 21 (2.49%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (2.38%) OCI
13 19 (2.26%) Power Automate
14 14 (1.66%) Google Workspace
14 14 (1.66%) OneDrive
14 14 (1.66%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.43%) Serverless
16 11 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.94%) Firewall
2 37 (4.39%) Network Security
3 35 (4.16%) DNS
4 26 (3.09%) TCP/IP
5 23 (2.73%) DHCP
5 23 (2.73%) WAN
6 19 (2.26%) VPN
7 16 (1.90%) LAN
8 9 (1.07%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.07%) SSL
9 8 (0.95%) HTTP
9 8 (0.95%) HTTPS
9 8 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.71%) SAN
10 6 (0.71%) VLAN
11 5 (0.59%) FTP
11 5 (0.59%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.59%) SNMP
11 5 (0.59%) SSH
12 4 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.06%) Power BI
2 40 (4.75%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.97%) Metadata
4 18 (2.14%) Oracle Database
5 11 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (0.95%) Tableau
7 7 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.83%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.59%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.59%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (0.48%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 92 (10.93%) JIRA
2 32 (3.80%) Git
3 27 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.83%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.59%) 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%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.24%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.24%) Postman
8 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
General
1 345 (40.97%) Social Skills
2 342 (40.62%) Finance
3 144 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (14.37%) Banking
5 70 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 50 (5.94%) Legal
7 49 (5.82%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.80%) Marketing
10 29 (3.44%) Retail
11 28 (3.33%) Manufacturing
12 27 (3.21%) Front Office
13 26 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (2.97%) Telecoms
15 24 (2.85%) Law
16 22 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (2.26%) Local Government
18 15 (1.78%) Aviation
18 15 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 117 (13.90%) Analyst
2 116 (13.78%) Project Manager
3 106 (12.59%) Lead
4 68 (8.08%) Consultant
5 66 (7.84%) Senior
6 63 (7.48%) Business Analyst
7 58 (6.89%) Change Manager
8 30 (3.56%) Senior Manager
9 27 (3.21%) Programme Manager
10 26 (3.09%) Business Manager
11 24 (2.85%) Developer
12 22 (2.61%) Business Change Manager
12 22 (2.61%) Financial Analyst
12 22 (2.61%) IT Manager
13 21 (2.49%) Technical Manager
14 20 (2.38%) Administrator
14 20 (2.38%) Data Engineer
15 19 (2.26%) Applications Support
15 19 (2.26%) Finance Business Analyst
16 18 (2.14%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.58%) Terraform
2 31 (3.68%) REST
3 25 (2.97%) .NET
4 16 (1.90%) Middleware
5 12 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (1.43%) SOAP
6 10 (1.19%) .NET Framework
6 10 (1.19%) CSS
6 10 (1.19%) HTML
6 10 (1.19%) Web Services
7 9 (1.07%) OAuth
8 8 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.83%) JSON
9 7 (0.83%) Kafka
10 6 (0.71%) LDAP
10 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (0.71%) React
10 6 (0.71%) SAML
10 6 (0.71%) SPFx
11 5 (0.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 78 (9.26%) Onboarding
2 37 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.68%) Data Centre
4 30 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.14%) PMI
8 17 (2.02%) Operational Technology
8 17 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.78%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.66%) CMDB
10 14 (1.66%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.54%) FMCG
11 13 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.43%) Clustering
12 12 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.43%) PKI
13 11 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.31%) Replication
13 11 (1.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (11.16%) Windows
2 36 (4.28%) Windows Server
3 30 (3.56%) Linux
4 14 (1.66%) Unix
5 12 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.19%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.48%) AIX
8 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.48%) zOS
9 3 (0.36%) Solaris
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (43.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 219 (26.01%) Agile
3 212 (25.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 177 (21.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 148 (17.58%) Migration
6 147 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
7 138 (16.39%) Project Delivery
8 135 (16.03%) ITIL
8 135 (16.03%) Project Management
9 131 (15.56%) Roadmaps
10 127 (15.08%) Decision-Making
11 111 (13.18%) AI
11 111 (13.18%) DevOps
12 98 (11.64%) Analytics
13 91 (10.81%) PRINCE2
14 90 (10.69%) User Acceptance Testing
15 82 (9.74%) Workshop Facilitation
16 79 (9.38%) Process Improvement
17 74 (8.79%) CI/CD
17 74 (8.79%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (11.88%) SQL
2 65 (7.72%) Python
3 49 (5.82%) PowerShell
4 29 (3.44%) PL/SQL
5 26 (3.09%) C#
6 23 (2.73%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.38%) T-SQL
8 19 (2.26%) Bash
8 19 (2.26%) Java
9 12 (1.43%) Korn
10 11 (1.31%) Groovy
11 10 (1.19%) Bicep
12 4 (0.48%) JCL
12 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.36%) COBOL
13 3 (0.36%) VBScript
14 2 (0.24%) C++
14 2 (0.24%) SHACL
14 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (11.76%) Degree
2 95 (11.28%) Security Cleared
3 80 (9.50%) PMP
4 79 (9.38%) PMI Certification
5 78 (9.26%) SC Cleared
6 23 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.78%) APMG
8 14 (1.66%) CISSP
9 13 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.19%) ACCA
11 10 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.19%) CCNP
11 10 (1.19%) CISM
12 9 (1.07%) CIMA
13 7 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.53%) QA
2 47 (5.58%) Data Quality
3 43 (5.11%) PMO
4 34 (4.04%) SLA
5 27 (3.21%) GDPR
6 18 (2.14%) GRC
7 17 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.95%) ITGC
11 7 (0.83%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.71%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.71%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.59%) IFRS
13 5 (0.59%) NIST
14 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 58 (6.89%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.66%) Docker
4 12 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.36%) RACF
8 3 (0.36%) Squid
9 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.24%) Postfix
9 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.24%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) Firmware
10 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 25 (2.97%) Ansible
2 24 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (2.02%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.54%) SCCM
6 10 (1.19%) Grafana
7 9 (1.07%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.71%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (0.59%) vRealize
11 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.48%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.48%) Puppet
11 4 (0.48%) systemd
12 3 (0.36%) Control-M
12 3 (0.36%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.36%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.36%) SCOM
Vendors
1 163 (19.36%) Microsoft
2 83 (9.86%) Oracle
3 82 (9.74%) ServiceNow
4 57 (6.77%) SAP
5 37 (4.39%) Salesforce
6 33 (3.92%) VMware
7 24 (2.85%) Zscaler
8 22 (2.61%) Google
9 21 (2.49%) Cisco
10 18 (2.14%) Splunk
11 14 (1.66%) Citrix
11 14 (1.66%) Databricks
12 12 (1.43%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.43%) IBM
13 11 (1.31%) Bloomberg
13 11 (1.31%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.31%) Workday
14 9 (1.07%) Apple
14 9 (1.07%) Remedy
15 7 (0.83%) BMC