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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 59 58
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -19
Contract jobs citing Change Management 815 579 643
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.10% 4.26% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 4.62% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 363 402
10th Percentile £400 £346 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% - -5.29%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £771 £774
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 - £32.38
25th Percentile £51.50 - £32.51
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £49.27
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -18.81% -10.43%
75th Percentile £58.92 - £66.88
90th Percentile £96.00 - £68.45
England median hourly rate £41.00 £32.05 £52.50
% change year-on-year +27.93% -38.95% +13.87%

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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £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 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -23 79 £600 +4.35% 28
West London -3 24 £556 +17.11% 10
South London -6 20 £525 -9.17% 5
East London +5 8 £750 +19.05% 7
North London 0 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 50 (6.13%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.66%) Confluence
3 16 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.72%) IIS
5 9 (1.10%) Appian
6 7 (0.86%) 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%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 28 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.74%) OpenText MBPM
3 6 (0.74%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.74%) 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 CO
5 4 (0.49%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.49%) SAP QM
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.25%) HFM
7 2 (0.25%) Primavera
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 142 (17.42%) Azure
2 63 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (7.24%) Entra ID
4 55 (6.75%) AWS
5 50 (6.13%) Power Platform
6 47 (5.77%) SaaS
7 41 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (2.45%) GCP
9 20 (2.45%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.09%) OCI
11 15 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (1.60%) GitHub
12 13 (1.60%) Google Workspace
12 13 (1.60%) OneDrive
12 13 (1.60%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.47%) Smartsheet
14 11 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (1.10%) Google Drive
15 9 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.79%) Firewall
2 24 (2.94%) Network Security
3 23 (2.82%) DNS
4 18 (2.21%) WAN
5 16 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.84%) DHCP
7 14 (1.72%) VPN
8 13 (1.60%) LAN
9 8 (0.98%) BGP
9 8 (0.98%) SSL
10 7 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
10 7 (0.86%) HTTPS
10 7 (0.86%) OSPF
11 6 (0.74%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (0.61%) SNMP
12 5 (0.61%) VLAN
13 4 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.42%) SQL Server
2 34 (4.17%) Power BI
3 22 (2.70%) Metadata
4 13 (1.60%) Oracle Database
5 7 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
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%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.37%) Pinecone
8 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.37%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 104 (12.76%) JIRA
2 27 (3.31%) Git
3 22 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
4 4 (0.49%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.49%) Maven
4 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.37%) MLflow
5 3 (0.37%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (0.37%) Snyk
5 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.37%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.25%) Selenium
7 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.12%) GitLab
7 1 (0.12%) Hudson
7 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 315 (38.65%) Finance
2 303 (37.18%) Social Skills
3 120 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (11.29%) Banking
5 68 (8.34%) Public Sector
6 47 (5.77%) Legal
7 42 (5.15%) Marketing
8 36 (4.42%) Retail
9 33 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (2.82%) Law
14 21 (2.58%) Telecoms
15 19 (2.33%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.96%) Local Government
17 15 (1.84%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.72%) Aviation
19 13 (1.60%) Front Office
19 13 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 102 (12.52%) Project Manager
2 98 (12.02%) Analyst
3 81 (9.94%) Lead
4 74 (9.08%) Change Manager
5 65 (7.98%) Consultant
6 55 (6.75%) Senior
7 53 (6.50%) Business Analyst
8 32 (3.93%) Developer
9 29 (3.56%) Programme Manager
10 26 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
11 25 (3.07%) Senior Manager
11 25 (3.07%) Support Engineer
12 24 (2.94%) Business Manager
13 22 (2.70%) Business Change Manager
14 20 (2.45%) Technical Manager
15 19 (2.33%) Administrator
15 19 (2.33%) Applications Support
15 19 (2.33%) IT Support
15 19 (2.33%) IT Support Engineer
15 19 (2.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.29%) REST
2 28 (3.44%) .NET
3 15 (1.84%) .NET Framework
4 14 (1.72%) CSS
4 14 (1.72%) Web Services
5 12 (1.47%) Middleware
5 12 (1.47%) OAuth
5 12 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (1.23%) HTML
6 10 (1.23%) SOAP
7 9 (1.10%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.10%) RESTful
8 8 (0.98%) Jakarta EE
8 8 (0.98%) React
8 8 (0.98%) SPFx
8 8 (0.98%) Spring
9 7 (0.86%) JSON
9 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (0.74%) jQuery
10 6 (0.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.75%) Onboarding
2 27 (3.31%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.19%) Data Centre
3 26 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.94%) PMI
5 18 (2.21%) CMDB
6 17 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.84%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.72%) FMCG
9 12 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.35%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.23%) Operational Technology
12 9 (1.10%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.98%) PKI
13 8 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.86%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 83 (10.18%) Windows
2 26 (3.19%) Windows Server
3 25 (3.07%) Linux
4 13 (1.60%) Unix
5 10 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.86%) 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 (0.25%) AIX
10 2 (0.25%) Android
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.12%) HPUX
11 1 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (33.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 206 (25.28%) Agile
3 199 (24.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 172 (21.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 139 (17.06%) Migration
6 131 (16.07%) ITIL
7 126 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (15.46%) Project Management
8 125 (15.34%) DevOps
9 120 (14.72%) Project Delivery
10 113 (13.87%) Roadmaps
11 110 (13.50%) Decision-Making
12 104 (12.76%) AI
13 78 (9.57%) PRINCE2
13 78 (9.57%) User Acceptance Testing
14 73 (8.96%) Analytics
15 71 (8.71%) CI/CD
16 66 (8.10%) ERP
17 65 (7.98%) Service Management
18 62 (7.61%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 86 (10.55%) SQL
2 47 (5.77%) Python
3 41 (5.03%) C#
4 32 (3.93%) PL/SQL
4 32 (3.93%) PowerShell
5 26 (3.19%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.70%) T-SQL
7 21 (2.58%) Java
8 10 (1.23%) Bash
8 10 (1.23%) Korn
9 7 (0.86%) Groovy
10 5 (0.61%) Bicep
11 2 (0.25%) C++
11 2 (0.25%) Perl
11 2 (0.25%) SHACL
11 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.25%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.25%) VBA
12 1 (0.12%) ABAP
12 1 (0.12%) RPG
Qualifications
1 88 (10.80%) Security Cleared
2 84 (10.31%) Degree
3 70 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 69 (8.47%) PMI Certification
5 66 (8.10%) PMP
6 26 (3.19%) CISSP
7 23 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (2.33%) CISM
9 14 (1.72%) APMG
9 14 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.47%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 11 (1.35%) CCNP
12 10 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.74%) CISA
14 6 (0.74%) SSCP
15 5 (0.61%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.99%) QA
2 52 (6.38%) PMO
3 41 (5.03%) SLA
4 33 (4.05%) Data Quality
5 24 (2.94%) GDPR
6 21 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.84%) GRC
7 15 (1.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.10%) ITGC
10 8 (0.98%) 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
14 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 58 (7.12%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.23%) Docker
4 9 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.25%) 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 36 (4.42%) Terraform
2 22 (2.70%) Ansible
3 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (1.96%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.74%) CASB
6 6 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
6 6 (0.74%) SCCM
6 6 (0.74%) 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%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.37%) Puppet
9 3 (0.37%) systemd
9 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 142 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 100 (12.27%) ServiceNow
3 78 (9.57%) Oracle
4 53 (6.50%) SAP
5 49 (6.01%) Salesforce
6 26 (3.19%) VMware
7 24 (2.94%) Cisco
8 22 (2.70%) Google
9 20 (2.45%) Citrix
10 18 (2.21%) Zscaler
11 15 (1.84%) Splunk
12 12 (1.47%) Workday
13 8 (0.98%) Apple
13 8 (0.98%) Databricks
13 8 (0.98%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.98%) IBM
13 8 (0.98%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.86%) Juniper
15 6 (0.74%) New Relic
15 6 (0.74%) OpenText