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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 51 40
Rank change year-on-year -17 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 634 558 836
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.94% 4.30% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 4.73% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 323 513
10th Percentile £400 £356 £389
25th Percentile £421 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £45.15 - £38.93
25th Percentile £54.00 £28.60 £48.46
Median hourly rate £74.46 £35.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +112.74% -44.22% +59.87%
75th Percentile £96.25 £56.00 £74.63
90th Percentile £98.50 £79.40 £83.85
England median hourly rate £41.86 £54.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year -22.49% +45.24% -22.54%

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 14,486 11,803 16,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.91% 91.01% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,750 7,835 11,536
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 158 354
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.25 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year - +17.19% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.62 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.77 £69.85
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -8.84%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -16 81 £491 -8.39% 33
South London +2 18 £500 -20.00% 4
West London -12 15 £500 +83.49% 12
East London +1 4 £525 +23.53% 14
North London - 2 £575 - 2
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 36 (5.68%) Confluence
2 30 (4.73%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.26%) Appian
5 5 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.79%) HCL Notes
6 3 (0.47%) IIS
7 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.16%) Moodle
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.10%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (3.63%) MS Visio
5 21 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.47%) Trello
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.16%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.79%) Finacle
4 5 (0.79%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.79%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.47%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.32%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 104 (16.40%) Azure
2 52 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (5.68%) AWS
5 34 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 26 (4.10%) Entra ID
7 21 (3.31%) SaaS
8 19 (3.00%) Power Automate
9 13 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (2.05%) PaaS
10 12 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (1.74%) GitHub
11 11 (1.74%) IaaS
12 10 (1.58%) GCP
13 9 (1.42%) Azure AI
13 9 (1.42%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.42%) Serverless
14 8 (1.26%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (1.10%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.84%) Firewall
2 31 (4.89%) Network Security
3 24 (3.79%) WAN
4 20 (3.15%) LAN
5 19 (3.00%) VPN
6 17 (2.68%) SD-WAN
7 13 (2.05%) BGP
8 12 (1.89%) DNS
8 12 (1.89%) OSPF
9 9 (1.42%) NetScaler
10 8 (1.26%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (1.10%) Intranet
11 7 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (0.95%) DHCP
12 6 (0.95%) NX-OS
13 5 (0.79%) Internet
13 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
14 4 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.84%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.94%) Power BI
3 10 (1.58%) Metadata
4 9 (1.42%) Tableau
5 8 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.26%) Pinecone
5 8 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.95%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.79%) MySQL
9 4 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.47%) GIS
10 3 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.47%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.47%) Redis
11 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 75 (11.83%) JIRA
2 15 (2.37%) Git
3 13 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.74%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.26%) MLflow
6 4 (0.63%) Maven
7 3 (0.47%) JUnit
7 3 (0.47%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.32%) git-flow
8 2 (0.32%) Mockito
9 1 (0.16%) Ant
9 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.16%) GCC
9 1 (0.16%) Hudson
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 267 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 251 (39.59%) Finance
3 106 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.88%) Banking
5 40 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 34 (5.36%) Legal
7 29 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (3.63%) Retail
10 21 (3.31%) Law
11 19 (3.00%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.00%) Marketing
12 15 (2.37%) Financial Institution
13 14 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.74%) Local Government
14 11 (1.74%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.42%) Publishing
16 8 (1.26%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 83 (13.09%) Change Manager
2 81 (12.78%) Project Manager
3 78 (12.30%) Analyst
4 55 (8.68%) Business Analyst
4 55 (8.68%) Lead
5 42 (6.62%) Senior
6 38 (5.99%) Developer
7 37 (5.84%) Consultant
8 26 (4.10%) Business Manager
9 25 (3.94%) Architect
10 20 (3.15%) Business Change Manager
11 19 (3.00%) C# Developer
11 19 (3.00%) Programme Manager
12 17 (2.68%) Support Engineer
13 16 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
13 16 (2.52%) Senior Manager
14 14 (2.21%) Network Engineer
15 13 (2.05%) IT Engineer
15 13 (2.05%) IT Support
15 13 (2.05%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.10%) .NET
2 23 (3.63%) REST
3 21 (3.31%) .NET Framework
4 15 (2.37%) OAuth
4 15 (2.37%) Web Services
5 12 (1.89%) RESTful
6 9 (1.42%) CSS
6 9 (1.42%) NumPy
6 9 (1.42%) Pandas
6 9 (1.42%) pytest
7 8 (1.26%) Django
7 8 (1.26%) Flask
7 8 (1.26%) HTML
7 8 (1.26%) Hugging Face
7 8 (1.26%) JWT
7 8 (1.26%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.26%) SAML
7 8 (1.26%) scikit-learn
7 8 (1.26%) Swagger
7 8 (1.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.89%) Onboarding
2 28 (4.42%) CMDB
3 27 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.63%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.37%) Data Centre
8 14 (2.21%) PKI
8 14 (2.21%) PMI
9 13 (2.05%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.74%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (1.10%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.95%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.95%) e-Learning
13 6 (0.95%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.95%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 75 (11.83%) Windows
2 18 (2.84%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.52%) Windows 10
4 14 (2.21%) Linux
5 11 (1.74%) Unix
6 6 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.32%) Android
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) AIX
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (33.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 159 (25.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 153 (24.13%) Agile
4 106 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
5 101 (15.93%) Project Management
6 98 (15.46%) ITIL
7 92 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (12.93%) DevOps
9 80 (12.62%) Migration
10 73 (11.51%) Project Delivery
11 71 (11.20%) Roadmaps
12 69 (10.88%) Decision-Making
13 59 (9.31%) AI
13 59 (9.31%) PRINCE2
14 56 (8.83%) Risk Management
14 56 (8.83%) User Acceptance Testing
15 51 (8.04%) CI/CD
16 50 (7.89%) Analytics
16 50 (7.89%) ITSM
16 50 (7.89%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 86 (13.56%) SQL
2 39 (6.15%) C#
3 38 (5.99%) Python
4 25 (3.94%) PowerShell
5 21 (3.31%) PL/SQL
6 16 (2.52%) Java
6 16 (2.52%) T-SQL
7 15 (2.37%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.10%) Bash
9 5 (0.79%) Korn
10 4 (0.63%) Groovy
10 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.47%) Perl
11 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.32%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.16%) ABAP
13 1 (0.16%) C
13 1 (0.16%) C++
13 1 (0.16%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 102 (16.09%) Degree
2 73 (11.51%) Security Cleared
3 47 (7.41%) PMI Certification
4 45 (7.10%) SC Cleared
5 40 (6.31%) PMP
6 18 (2.84%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.37%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.05%) CISSP
11 9 (1.42%) CCNP
11 9 (1.42%) CISM
12 8 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.10%) APMG
13 7 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.95%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.20%) QA
2 43 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 31 (4.89%) GDPR
4 29 (4.57%) PMO
5 28 (4.42%) SLA
6 24 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.58%) NIST
8 8 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.26%) MiFID
8 8 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.10%) IFRS
9 7 (1.10%) IFRS 17
10 6 (0.95%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.95%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.79%) EMIR
12 4 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.63%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.47%) GRC
14 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.68%) Docker
3 8 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.79%) XenApp
6 5 (0.79%) XenDesktop
7 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.32%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.15%) Terraform
3 16 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.42%) Ansible
5 7 (1.10%) FortiGate
5 7 (1.10%) SCCM
6 5 (0.79%) SCVMM
7 4 (0.63%) Grafana
7 4 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.47%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.47%) Puppet
8 3 (0.47%) Rancher
8 3 (0.47%) SCOM
9 2 (0.32%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.16%) Argo
10 1 (0.16%) Avamar
10 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 113 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 81 (12.78%) ServiceNow
3 48 (7.57%) Oracle
4 47 (7.41%) SAP
5 28 (4.42%) Citrix
6 26 (4.10%) Cisco
7 25 (3.94%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.52%) VMware
8 16 (2.52%) Workday
9 12 (1.89%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.89%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.74%) F5
11 9 (1.42%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.42%) Remedy
11 9 (1.42%) Zscaler
12 8 (1.26%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (1.26%) CheckPoint
12 8 (1.26%) UiPath
13 7 (1.10%) Juniper
14 6 (0.95%) Adobe