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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 51 39
Rank change year-on-year -21 -12 +12
Contract jobs citing Change Management 594 568 903
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.98% 4.16% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 4.60% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 311 563
10th Percentile £366 £356 £380
25th Percentile £415 £456 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.00% +1.49%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £749
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £29.11 £28.60 £25.70
25th Percentile £32.91 £30.20 £32.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £39.54 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% +14.51% +22.62%
75th Percentile £74.45 £53.02 £61.25
90th Percentile £94.06 £75.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -10.95%

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 13,533 12,355 16,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.77% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,013 7,845 11,870
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.90 £25.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.13 £55.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -5 77 £500 -6.76% 69
South London +10 21 £425 -33.33% 11
West London -8 15 £425 +93.18% 8
East London +2 5 £525 +23.53% 13
North London +5 2 £575 - 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 40 (6.73%) Confluence
2 31 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.18%) Appian
5 6 (1.01%) Mattermost
5 6 (1.01%) nginx
5 6 (1.01%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.84%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.51%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 32 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (4.71%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (3.87%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.51%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 25 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.67%) Finacle
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.67%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.67%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.51%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.34%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.34%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.34%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 83 (13.97%) Azure
2 52 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (6.57%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.40%) AWS
5 26 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (3.03%) Power Automate
7 16 (2.69%) SaaS
8 15 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (2.36%) Entra ID
10 13 (2.19%) GitHub
11 12 (2.02%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (1.68%) PaaS
13 10 (1.68%) Serverless
14 9 (1.52%) IaaS
14 9 (1.52%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.35%) Azure AI
16 7 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
16 7 (1.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.40%) Firewall
2 28 (4.71%) Network Security
3 20 (3.37%) WAN
4 17 (2.86%) VPN
5 16 (2.69%) DNS
5 16 (2.69%) LAN
6 13 (2.19%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.52%) HTTP
8 8 (1.35%) BGP
8 8 (1.35%) NetScaler
8 8 (1.35%) SMTP
9 7 (1.18%) OSPF
9 7 (1.18%) SSH
9 7 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.01%) FTP
10 6 (1.01%) IMAP
10 6 (1.01%) Intranet
10 6 (1.01%) OpenLDAP
10 6 (1.01%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.89%) SQL Server
2 31 (5.22%) Power BI
3 18 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.36%) Tableau
5 13 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.52%) Metadata
7 7 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.18%) Pinecone
7 7 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.84%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.67%) Redis
10 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.51%) GIS
10 3 (0.51%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.51%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (10.77%) JIRA
2 18 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.69%) Git
4 11 (1.85%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.18%) MLflow
6 6 (1.01%) Vagrant
7 3 (0.51%) JUnit
7 3 (0.51%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.34%) git-flow
8 2 (0.34%) Mockito
9 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) TestRail
General
1 277 (46.63%) Social Skills
2 257 (43.27%) Finance
3 106 (17.85%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.45%) Banking
5 41 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.38%) Legal
6 26 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (3.37%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.37%) Marketing
9 20 (3.37%) Retail
10 17 (2.86%) Law
11 13 (2.19%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 12 (2.02%) Local Government
12 12 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.02%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.85%) Front Office
13 11 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 91 (15.32%) Analyst
2 74 (12.46%) Project Manager
3 72 (12.12%) Change Manager
4 62 (10.44%) Business Analyst
5 61 (10.27%) Lead
6 38 (6.40%) Senior
7 35 (5.89%) Developer
8 31 (5.22%) Consultant
9 25 (4.21%) Architect
10 21 (3.54%) Business Manager
11 19 (3.20%) Programme Manager
12 17 (2.86%) C# Developer
13 16 (2.69%) Business Change Manager
14 15 (2.53%) Senior Manager
15 14 (2.36%) IT Manager
16 13 (2.19%) AWS Engineer
16 13 (2.19%) Transformation Manager
17 11 (1.85%) SAP Manager
18 10 (1.68%) Administrator
18 10 (1.68%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.04%) .NET
2 18 (3.03%) .NET Framework
2 18 (3.03%) REST
3 14 (2.36%) OAuth
4 11 (1.85%) RESTful
5 10 (1.68%) Web Services
6 8 (1.35%) HTML
6 8 (1.35%) LDAP
6 8 (1.35%) NumPy
6 8 (1.35%) Pandas
6 8 (1.35%) pytest
6 8 (1.35%) SAML
7 7 (1.18%) Flask
7 7 (1.18%) JWT
7 7 (1.18%) Kafka
7 7 (1.18%) OpenID
7 7 (1.18%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.18%) scikit-learn
7 7 (1.18%) Swagger
7 7 (1.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.71%) Onboarding
1 28 (4.71%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.04%) CMDB
2 24 (4.04%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (2.53%) PKI
6 12 (2.02%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.02%) PMI
7 10 (1.68%) Replication
8 9 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.35%) Life Science
9 8 (1.35%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.84%) Cloud Native
12 5 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.76%) Windows
2 22 (3.70%) Linux
3 15 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.02%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.35%) Unix
6 7 (1.18%) VMS
7 6 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (1.01%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.34%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (34.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 160 (26.94%) Agile
3 155 (26.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 117 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (17.51%) Project Management
6 84 (14.14%) ITIL
7 73 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 73 (12.29%) Migration
7 73 (12.29%) Project Delivery
8 66 (11.11%) Decision-Making
9 64 (10.77%) Roadmaps
10 63 (10.61%) DevOps
11 59 (9.93%) Risk Management
11 59 (9.93%) Workshop Facilitation
12 58 (9.76%) PRINCE2
12 58 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
13 51 (8.59%) AI
13 51 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
13 51 (8.59%) Requirements Gathering
14 50 (8.42%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 93 (15.66%) SQL
2 49 (8.25%) Python
3 30 (5.05%) PowerShell
4 29 (4.88%) C#
5 19 (3.20%) PL/SQL
6 14 (2.36%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.85%) Groovy
7 11 (1.85%) Java
7 11 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.18%) Bash
9 6 (1.01%) Korn
10 4 (0.67%) Go
10 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.67%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.51%) Perl
12 2 (0.34%) C
12 2 (0.34%) C++
12 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.34%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 116 (19.53%) Degree
2 62 (10.44%) Security Cleared
3 48 (8.08%) PMI Certification
4 40 (6.73%) PMP
5 36 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.54%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (1.68%) APMG
9 10 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.18%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.18%) CCNP
11 7 (1.18%) CISSP
11 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.01%) CBAP
12 6 (1.01%) CFA
12 6 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.26%) QA
2 39 (6.57%) Data Quality
3 35 (5.89%) PMO
4 28 (4.71%) GDPR
5 19 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (3.03%) SLA
7 9 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.52%) NIST
8 8 (1.35%) IFRS
8 8 (1.35%) MiFID
9 7 (1.18%) IFRS 17
9 7 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.01%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.84%) EMIR
12 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.67%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.51%) GMP
13 3 (0.51%) GRC
14 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.04%) Docker
3 6 (1.01%) DFS Replication
3 6 (1.01%) Dovecot
3 6 (1.01%) Postfix
3 6 (1.01%) Squid
4 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.67%) XenApp
5 4 (0.67%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.34%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (4.38%) Terraform
2 22 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.85%) Grafana
3 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.35%) SCOM
6 6 (1.01%) HP SiteScope
6 6 (1.01%) Nessus
6 6 (1.01%) Proxmox
6 6 (1.01%) SCCM
7 5 (0.84%) Ansible
8 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.67%) Rancher
8 4 (0.67%) SCVMM
9 3 (0.51%) Puppet
10 2 (0.34%) Argo
10 2 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) Istio
11 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 106 (17.85%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.77%) ServiceNow
3 50 (8.42%) Oracle
4 49 (8.25%) SAP
5 26 (4.38%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.70%) Citrix
7 21 (3.54%) Cisco
8 12 (2.02%) Fortinet
8 12 (2.02%) Workday
9 11 (1.85%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.52%) VMware
11 8 (1.35%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.35%) F5
11 8 (1.35%) Remedy
11 8 (1.35%) UiPath
12 7 (1.18%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (1.18%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.18%) Zscaler
13 6 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
13 6 (1.01%) Splunk