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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 57 53
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 -10
Contract jobs citing Change Management 741 512 719
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.93% 4.16% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.51% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 315 462
10th Percentile £400 £352 £337
25th Percentile £422 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £670
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
England median daily rate £520 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £28.70 - £32.35
25th Percentile £43.25 - £32.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.60 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +101.05% -17.17% -37.22%
75th Percentile £76.96 £34.30 £52.99
90th Percentile £97.00 £37.72 £62.90
England median hourly rate £34.87 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -30.26% - -0.49%

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 16,752 11,363 15,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.32% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,163 7,612 11,136
10th Percentile £360 £345 £343
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £516 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.77% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 204 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +13.33% -23.90%
75th Percentile £58.88 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +70.72% -26.59% +5.63%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 83 £525 -4.55% 52
South London +6 21 £500 -14.89% 4
West London -9 20 £500 +26.98% 11
East London -1 6 £649 +10.90% 6
North London +2 2 £500 +13.64% 3
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 (5.94%) SharePoint
2 38 (5.13%) Confluence
3 15 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.62%) Appian
4 12 (1.62%) IIS
5 5 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.67%) CMS
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.40%) Camunda
6 3 (0.40%) Kentico
6 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.13%) MTS
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.81%) Finacle
3 6 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.40%) OpenText MBPM
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.27%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.27%) Global One
6 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.27%) Primavera
6 2 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.27%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 121 (16.33%) Azure
2 58 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (6.07%) Entra ID
4 42 (5.67%) AWS
5 41 (5.53%) Power Platform
6 39 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (4.99%) SaaS
8 25 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (2.83%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.29%) GCP
11 13 (1.75%) OCI
11 13 (1.75%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.62%) Google Workspace
12 12 (1.62%) Smartsheet
13 11 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (1.35%) GitHub
14 10 (1.35%) PaaS
15 9 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (1.21%) Azure AI
16 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.37%) Firewall
2 16 (2.16%) Network Security
2 16 (2.16%) WAN
3 15 (2.02%) DNS
4 11 (1.48%) LAN
4 11 (1.48%) SD-WAN
4 11 (1.48%) VPN
5 9 (1.21%) BGP
5 9 (1.21%) DHCP
6 8 (1.08%) OSPF
6 8 (1.08%) SSL
7 7 (0.94%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (0.81%) Intranet
8 6 (0.81%) NetScaler
9 5 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.67%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.40%) FTP
10 3 (0.40%) MPLS
10 3 (0.40%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.07%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.37%) Power BI
3 18 (2.43%) Metadata
4 10 (1.35%) Oracle Database
5 8 (1.08%) Pinecone
5 8 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.54%) MySQL
9 4 (0.54%) Tableau
10 3 (0.40%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.40%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.40%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.27%) KDB
Development Applications
1 97 (13.09%) JIRA
2 20 (2.70%) Git
3 19 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.08%) MLflow
4 8 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.54%) Maven
6 3 (0.40%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.40%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (0.40%) Snyk
6 3 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.27%) git-flow
8 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.13%) Hudson
8 1 (0.13%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 292 (39.41%) Finance
2 284 (38.33%) Social Skills
3 104 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (11.07%) Banking
5 51 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 46 (6.21%) Legal
7 41 (5.53%) Marketing
8 34 (4.59%) Retail
9 24 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.97%) Law
12 19 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.43%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.89%) Local Government
15 12 (1.62%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.48%) Aviation
16 11 (1.48%) Front Office
16 11 (1.48%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (11.74%) Project Manager
2 80 (10.80%) Change Manager
2 80 (10.80%) Lead
3 76 (10.26%) Analyst
4 56 (7.56%) Consultant
5 49 (6.61%) Senior
6 47 (6.34%) Business Analyst
7 36 (4.86%) Developer
8 27 (3.64%) Programme Manager
9 25 (3.37%) Support Engineer
10 24 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
11 23 (3.10%) Senior Manager
12 22 (2.97%) Architect
13 20 (2.70%) Business Manager
14 19 (2.56%) IT Engineer
14 19 (2.56%) IT Support
14 19 (2.56%) IT Support Engineer
15 18 (2.43%) Administrator
15 18 (2.43%) Business Change Manager
16 17 (2.29%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.99%) REST
2 29 (3.91%) .NET
3 20 (2.70%) .NET Framework
4 19 (2.56%) OAuth
5 15 (2.02%) Web Services
6 13 (1.75%) CSS
7 12 (1.62%) Middleware
7 12 (1.62%) RESTful
8 11 (1.48%) React
9 10 (1.35%) HTML
10 9 (1.21%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
11 8 (1.08%) Django
11 8 (1.08%) Flask
11 8 (1.08%) NumPy
11 8 (1.08%) Pandas
11 8 (1.08%) pytest
11 8 (1.08%) scikit-learn
11 8 (1.08%) Swagger
11 8 (1.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
1 34 (4.59%) Onboarding
2 27 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 23 (3.10%) PMI
4 21 (2.83%) Data Centre
5 20 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.56%) CMDB
7 13 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.75%) Low-Code
8 12 (1.62%) FMCG
9 11 (1.48%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.21%) PKI
10 9 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.21%) Security Posture
11 7 (0.94%) Operational Technology
11 7 (0.94%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 87 (11.74%) Windows
2 23 (3.10%) Linux
2 23 (3.10%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.75%) Unix
4 10 (1.35%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.27%) AIX
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) HPUX
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) SUSE
11 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (30.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 183 (24.70%) Agile
3 176 (23.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 142 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 118 (15.92%) Project Management
6 115 (15.52%) ITIL
7 114 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 111 (14.98%) DevOps
8 111 (14.98%) Migration
9 96 (12.96%) Roadmaps
10 93 (12.55%) Decision-Making
11 86 (11.61%) Project Delivery
12 77 (10.39%) AI
13 73 (9.85%) User Acceptance Testing
14 69 (9.31%) CI/CD
15 63 (8.50%) Risk Management
15 63 (8.50%) Workshop Facilitation
16 62 (8.37%) Analytics
17 59 (7.96%) PRINCE2
18 56 (7.56%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 100 (13.50%) SQL
2 47 (6.34%) Python
3 41 (5.53%) C#
4 33 (4.45%) PL/SQL
5 30 (4.05%) PowerShell
6 23 (3.10%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.10%) T-SQL
7 21 (2.83%) Java
8 7 (0.94%) Groovy
8 7 (0.94%) Korn
9 6 (0.81%) Bash
10 4 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.40%) C++
11 3 (0.40%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.27%) C
12 2 (0.27%) Perl
13 1 (0.13%) ABAP
13 1 (0.13%) Bicep
13 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 84 (11.34%) Degree
1 84 (11.34%) Security Cleared
2 59 (7.96%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.69%) PMI Certification
4 54 (7.29%) PMP
5 29 (3.91%) CISSP
6 21 (2.83%) CISM
7 17 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (2.02%) APMG
9 14 (1.89%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
11 12 (1.62%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (1.35%) Azure Certification
13 10 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.08%) CISA
15 7 (0.94%) CRISC
15 7 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 6 (0.81%) Citrix Certification
16 6 (0.81%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.96%) QA
2 46 (6.21%) PMO
3 37 (4.99%) Data Quality
4 34 (4.59%) SLA
5 29 (3.91%) GDPR
6 25 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (2.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.62%) GRC
9 11 (1.48%) PCI DSS
10 10 (1.35%) NIST
11 8 (1.08%) ITGC
12 7 (0.94%) COBIT
13 6 (0.81%) IFRS
14 5 (0.67%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.67%) IFRS 17
15 4 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
16 3 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.40%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 50 (6.75%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.16%) Docker
3 10 (1.35%) Hyper-V
3 10 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.54%) XenApp
5 4 (0.54%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.13%) Squid
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (3.64%) Terraform
2 21 (2.83%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.43%) Ansible
4 13 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.08%) SCCM
7 6 (0.81%) CASB
7 6 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.67%) vRealize
9 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.54%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.54%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.54%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.54%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.40%) Grafana
10 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.40%) Puppet
11 2 (0.27%) Packer
11 2 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 126 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 90 (12.15%) ServiceNow
3 77 (10.39%) Oracle
4 47 (6.34%) SAP
5 43 (5.80%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.64%) Citrix
7 22 (2.97%) VMware
8 19 (2.56%) Google
9 15 (2.02%) Workday
10 14 (1.89%) Cisco
11 12 (1.62%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.62%) Zscaler
12 10 (1.35%) Splunk
13 8 (1.08%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.08%) Databricks
13 8 (1.08%) UiPath
14 7 (0.94%) Palo Alto
15 6 (0.81%) Avaloq
15 6 (0.81%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.81%) Temenos