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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 57 45
Rank change year-on-year -4 -12 +1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 707 507 806
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.08% 4.01% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 4.37% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 320 502
10th Percentile £400 £356 £364
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £670
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £36.70 - £36.81
25th Percentile £39.25 - £43.17
Median hourly rate £58.92 £28.60 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +106.01% -50.26% +29.94%
75th Percentile £95.00 £61.80 £65.38
90th Percentile £98.00 £81.72 £67.85
England median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £35.86
% change year-on-year -20.94% +60.37% -25.92%

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 15,475 11,601 15,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.22% 91.69% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,379 7,867 11,338
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £803 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 333
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
% change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -7 78 £500 -4.76% 44
South London +1 24 £500 -16.67% 7
West London -13 18 £463 +44.53% 14
East London +1 6 £649 +29.75% 7
North London +3 2 £575 +30.68% 1
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 44 (6.22%) Confluence
2 32 (4.53%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.13%) Appian
5 5 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.71%) HCL Notes
6 3 (0.42%) IIS
7 2 (0.28%) CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
1 25 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.83%) MS Visio
4 18 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.42%) Trello
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 21 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.85%) Finacle
5 5 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.71%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.71%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.71%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.42%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.28%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.28%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.28%) Global One
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.28%) Primavera
8 2 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 118 (16.69%) Azure
2 52 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (5.52%) AWS
4 39 (5.52%) Power Platform
5 33 (4.67%) Entra ID
6 31 (4.38%) SaaS
7 23 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (3.25%) Power Automate
8 16 (2.26%) PaaS
9 15 (2.12%) GCP
10 13 (1.84%) PowerApps
11 12 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (1.70%) IaaS
11 12 (1.70%) OCI
12 11 (1.56%) GitHub
13 9 (1.27%) Azure AI
13 9 (1.27%) Serverless
13 9 (1.27%) Smartsheet
14 8 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.53%) Firewall
2 29 (4.10%) Network Security
3 22 (3.11%) WAN
4 18 (2.55%) LAN
4 18 (2.55%) VPN
5 17 (2.40%) SD-WAN
6 13 (1.84%) BGP
6 13 (1.84%) DNS
7 12 (1.70%) OSPF
8 9 (1.27%) DHCP
8 9 (1.27%) NetScaler
9 8 (1.13%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (1.13%) SSL
10 7 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (0.85%) Intranet
11 6 (0.85%) NX-OS
12 3 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 3 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.68%) Power BI
3 11 (1.56%) Metadata
3 11 (1.56%) Tableau
4 9 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.13%) Pinecone
5 8 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.57%) MySQL
8 4 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.42%) GIS
9 3 (0.42%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (0.42%) Redis
10 2 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 93 (13.15%) JIRA
2 18 (2.55%) Git
3 15 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.56%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.13%) MLflow
6 4 (0.57%) Liquibase
6 4 (0.57%) Maven
6 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.42%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.42%) JUnit
7 3 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.42%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.42%) Snyk
8 2 (0.28%) git-flow
8 2 (0.28%) Mockito
9 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.14%) Hudson
9 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 291 (41.16%) Social Skills
2 288 (40.74%) Finance
3 120 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (11.32%) Banking
5 45 (6.36%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.95%) Legal
7 34 (4.81%) Marketing
8 32 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (3.68%) Retail
11 21 (2.97%) Investment Banking
12 20 (2.83%) Law
13 17 (2.40%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.70%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.41%) Local Government
16 9 (1.27%) Aviation
16 9 (1.27%) Front Office
17 8 (1.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 91 (12.87%) Change Manager
2 81 (11.46%) Analyst
3 77 (10.89%) Project Manager
4 68 (9.62%) Lead
5 54 (7.64%) Business Analyst
6 46 (6.51%) Senior
7 42 (5.94%) Consultant
8 41 (5.80%) Developer
9 26 (3.68%) Architect
9 26 (3.68%) Business Manager
10 23 (3.25%) Support Engineer
11 22 (3.11%) Programme Manager
12 21 (2.97%) Business Change Manager
13 19 (2.69%) C# Developer
14 18 (2.55%) IT Engineer
14 18 (2.55%) IT Support
14 18 (2.55%) IT Support Engineer
15 17 (2.40%) Senior Manager
16 16 (2.26%) Administrator
16 16 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.24%) .NET
2 27 (3.82%) REST
3 22 (3.11%) .NET Framework
4 17 (2.40%) OAuth
5 15 (2.12%) Web Services
6 12 (1.70%) RESTful
7 10 (1.41%) OpenID
7 10 (1.41%) SAML
8 9 (1.27%) CSS
8 9 (1.27%) Middleware
8 9 (1.27%) NumPy
8 9 (1.27%) Pandas
8 9 (1.27%) pytest
9 8 (1.13%) FastAPI
9 8 (1.13%) Flask
9 8 (1.13%) JWT
9 8 (1.13%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.13%) scikit-learn
9 8 (1.13%) Swagger
9 8 (1.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.24%) Onboarding
2 26 (3.68%) CMDB
2 26 (3.68%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (3.11%) PMI
5 21 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.98%) PKI
9 13 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.84%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.13%) FMCG
13 6 (0.85%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.85%) Reference Data
13 6 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 78 (11.03%) Windows
2 18 (2.55%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.12%) Windows 10
4 13 (1.84%) Linux
5 11 (1.56%) Unix
6 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.14%) AIX
9 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (31.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 174 (24.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 166 (23.48%) Agile
4 119 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 111 (15.70%) ITIL
7 108 (15.28%) Project Management
8 99 (14.00%) DevOps
9 91 (12.87%) Migration
10 84 (11.88%) Roadmaps
11 83 (11.74%) Decision-Making
12 78 (11.03%) Project Delivery
13 69 (9.76%) AI
14 63 (8.91%) CI/CD
14 63 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
15 58 (8.20%) Workshop Facilitation
16 54 (7.64%) Analytics
16 54 (7.64%) Risk Management
17 53 (7.50%) ERP
18 52 (7.36%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 101 (14.29%) SQL
2 45 (6.36%) C#
3 39 (5.52%) Python
4 28 (3.96%) PL/SQL
5 24 (3.39%) PowerShell
6 21 (2.97%) T-SQL
7 18 (2.55%) Java
8 17 (2.40%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.99%) Groovy
9 7 (0.99%) Korn
10 6 (0.85%) Bash
11 5 (0.71%) Perl
12 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.42%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.28%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.14%) ABAP
15 1 (0.14%) C++
15 1 (0.14%) Formula Language
15 1 (0.14%) LotusScript
15 1 (0.14%) R
Qualifications
1 99 (14.00%) Degree
2 78 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 51 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 49 (6.93%) PMI Certification
5 43 (6.08%) PMP
6 24 (3.39%) CISSP
7 20 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (2.26%) CISM
8 16 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (2.26%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.98%) APMG
10 11 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 10 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.27%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.27%) CCNP
12 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.99%) Citrix Certification
13 7 (0.99%) CRISC
13 7 (0.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.20%) QA
2 41 (5.80%) Data Quality
3 40 (5.66%) PMO
4 30 (4.24%) SLA
5 29 (4.10%) GDPR
6 25 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.70%) NIST
7 12 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.99%) COBIT
8 7 (0.99%) IFRS
8 7 (0.99%) IFRS 17
9 6 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.85%) ITGC
9 6 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.71%) MiFID
11 4 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.42%) GRC
12 3 (0.42%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.28%) EMIR
System Software
1 40 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.26%) Docker
3 8 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.71%) XenApp
6 5 (0.71%) XenDesktop
7 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.28%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (3.11%) Kubernetes
1 22 (3.11%) Terraform
2 14 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.41%) Ansible
4 7 (0.99%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.85%) CASB
5 6 (0.85%) SCCM
5 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.71%) SCVMM
7 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.57%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.57%) Grafana
7 4 (0.57%) PingFederate
7 4 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.42%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.42%) Rancher
9 2 (0.28%) Control-M
9 2 (0.28%) Puppet
9 2 (0.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 121 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 99 (14.00%) ServiceNow
3 69 (9.76%) Oracle
4 49 (6.93%) SAP
5 40 (5.66%) Salesforce
6 30 (4.24%) Citrix
7 23 (3.25%) Cisco
8 20 (2.83%) Workday
9 16 (2.26%) VMware
10 12 (1.70%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.41%) F5
11 10 (1.41%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.13%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (1.13%) Google
12 8 (1.13%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.13%) UiPath
12 8 (1.13%) Zscaler
13 7 (0.99%) Juniper
14 6 (0.85%) Remedy
14 6 (0.85%) Temenos