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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 57 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -22
Contract jobs citing Change Management 832 583 623
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.11% 4.34% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 4.68% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 362 340
10th Percentile £400 £348 £350
25th Percentile £450 £421 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £680 £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 6
10th Percentile £28.70 £29.26 £33.65
25th Percentile £43.25 £33.29 £37.27
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £49.04
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -18.43% -10.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.57 £63.50
90th Percentile £58.00 £93.71 £83.00
England median hourly rate £53.00 £30.00 £58.17
% change year-on-year +76.67% -48.43% +20.19%

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 17,955 12,445 14,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.75% 92.54% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,216 9,548
10th Percentile £358 £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 £669 £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 316 243 183
10th Percentile £16.18 £17.26 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -17 88 £538 -8.51% 84
West London 0 32 £450 -18.55% 36
East London +7 11 £649 +2.98% 9
South London -19 11 £550 +28.28% 8
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 49 (5.89%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.93%) Confluence
3 18 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.56%) IIS
5 6 (0.72%) Appian
6 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.60%) Camunda
6 5 (0.60%) 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%) Documentum
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.36%) InDesign
6 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (3.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.84%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.60%) 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%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.36%) Summit
7 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.24%) Eikon
8 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 134 (16.11%) Azure
2 71 (8.53%) Power Platform
3 70 (8.41%) AWS
4 67 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (7.33%) Entra ID
6 36 (4.33%) SaaS
7 27 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (3.00%) GitHub
9 24 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
11 22 (2.64%) GCP
12 20 (2.40%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.16%) OCI
14 14 (1.68%) Google Workspace
14 14 (1.68%) OneDrive
15 13 (1.56%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.44%) Serverless
17 11 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
18 10 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 9 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.01%) Firewall
2 37 (4.45%) Network Security
3 35 (4.21%) DNS
4 26 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 23 (2.76%) DHCP
5 23 (2.76%) WAN
6 19 (2.28%) VPN
7 16 (1.92%) LAN
8 9 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.08%) SSL
9 8 (0.96%) HTTP
9 8 (0.96%) HTTPS
9 8 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.72%) SAN
10 6 (0.72%) VLAN
11 5 (0.60%) FTP
11 5 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.60%) SNMP
11 5 (0.60%) SSH
12 4 (0.48%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.25%) Power BI
2 39 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.13%) Metadata
4 18 (2.16%) Oracle Database
5 11 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (0.96%) Tableau
7 7 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.84%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.60%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 84 (10.10%) JIRA
2 29 (3.49%) Git
3 24 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.60%) GitLab
4 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.48%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.36%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.36%) Selenium
6 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.24%) Postman
7 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.12%) Snyk
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 345 (41.47%) Social Skills
2 343 (41.23%) Finance
3 145 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (14.30%) Banking
5 69 (8.29%) Public Sector
6 52 (6.25%) Legal
7 51 (6.13%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (3.61%) Manufacturing
9 30 (3.61%) Marketing
10 28 (3.37%) Retail
11 27 (3.25%) Front Office
12 26 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (3.13%) Telecoms
13 24 (2.88%) Law
14 23 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (2.28%) Local Government
16 17 (2.04%) Aviation
17 16 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 118 (14.18%) Project Manager
2 117 (14.06%) Analyst
3 103 (12.38%) Lead
4 67 (8.05%) Consultant
5 65 (7.81%) Senior
6 64 (7.69%) Business Analyst
7 58 (6.97%) Change Manager
8 29 (3.49%) Senior Manager
9 28 (3.37%) Programme Manager
10 25 (3.00%) Business Manager
11 24 (2.88%) IT Manager
12 23 (2.76%) Developer
13 21 (2.52%) Business Change Manager
13 21 (2.52%) Financial Analyst
13 21 (2.52%) Technical Manager
14 20 (2.40%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.16%) Administrator
15 18 (2.16%) Applications Support
15 18 (2.16%) Finance Business Analyst
15 18 (2.16%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.17%) Terraform
2 28 (3.37%) REST
3 25 (3.00%) .NET
4 15 (1.80%) Middleware
5 13 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (1.56%) SOAP
6 11 (1.32%) Web Services
7 10 (1.20%) .NET Framework
8 9 (1.08%) CSS
8 9 (1.08%) HTML
8 9 (1.08%) OAuth
9 8 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.84%) Kafka
10 7 (0.84%) LDAP
11 6 (0.72%) JSON
11 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.72%) SAML
12 5 (0.60%) SPFx
12 5 (0.60%) Spring
12 5 (0.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (9.25%) Onboarding
2 40 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.73%) Data Centre
3 31 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.28%) Operational Technology
6 19 (2.28%) PMI
7 17 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.68%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.68%) CMDB
8 14 (1.68%) Security Posture
9 13 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.44%) Clustering
10 12 (1.44%) PKI
11 11 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.32%) FMCG
11 11 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 93 (11.18%) Windows
2 36 (4.33%) Windows Server
3 30 (3.61%) Linux
4 14 (1.68%) Unix
5 12 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.20%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.84%) 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
1 367 (44.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 214 (25.72%) Agile
3 213 (25.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 178 (21.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 146 (17.55%) Migration
6 145 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (16.47%) Project Delivery
8 136 (16.35%) Roadmaps
9 131 (15.75%) Project Management
10 129 (15.50%) ITIL
11 123 (14.78%) Decision-Making
12 116 (13.94%) AI
13 102 (12.26%) DevOps
14 100 (12.02%) Analytics
15 92 (11.06%) PRINCE2
16 91 (10.94%) User Acceptance Testing
17 86 (10.34%) Workshop Facilitation
18 79 (9.50%) Process Improvement
19 77 (9.25%) Risk Management
20 73 (8.77%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (11.54%) SQL
2 62 (7.45%) Python
3 48 (5.77%) PowerShell
4 28 (3.37%) PL/SQL
5 25 (3.00%) C#
6 19 (2.28%) Bash
6 19 (2.28%) Java
6 19 (2.28%) JavaScript
6 19 (2.28%) T-SQL
7 12 (1.44%) Korn
8 10 (1.20%) Bicep
9 8 (0.96%) Groovy
10 4 (0.48%) JCL
10 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.36%) COBOL
11 3 (0.36%) VBScript
12 2 (0.24%) C++
12 2 (0.24%) SHACL
12 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 101 (12.14%) Degree
2 91 (10.94%) Security Cleared
3 81 (9.74%) PMI Certification
4 80 (9.62%) PMP
5 74 (8.89%) SC Cleared
6 23 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.68%) CISSP
8 13 (1.56%) APMG
8 13 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.20%) ACCA
11 10 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.20%) CCNP
11 10 (1.20%) CISM
12 9 (1.08%) CIMA
13 7 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.60%) CISA
14 5 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.37%) QA
2 48 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 42 (5.05%) PMO
4 35 (4.21%) SLA
5 28 (3.37%) GDPR
6 18 (2.16%) GRC
7 17 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.96%) ITGC
11 7 (0.84%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.72%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.72%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.60%) IFRS
13 5 (0.60%) NIST
14 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 56 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.68%) Docker
4 12 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.60%) 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 (3.00%) Ansible
2 23 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (2.04%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.56%) SCCM
6 10 (1.20%) Grafana
7 9 (1.08%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.72%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (0.60%) 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%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.36%) SCOM
Vendors
1 167 (20.07%) Microsoft
2 81 (9.74%) ServiceNow
3 80 (9.62%) Oracle
4 57 (6.85%) SAP
5 35 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 33 (3.97%) VMware
7 24 (2.88%) Zscaler
8 21 (2.52%) Cisco
9 20 (2.40%) Google
10 18 (2.16%) Splunk
11 15 (1.80%) Databricks
12 14 (1.68%) Citrix
13 12 (1.44%) Dynatrace
13 12 (1.44%) IBM
14 11 (1.32%) Bloomberg
14 11 (1.32%) Red Hat
15 10 (1.20%) Workday
16 9 (1.08%) Apple
16 9 (1.08%) Remedy
17 8 (0.96%) Planview