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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 59 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing Change Management 821 568 626
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.00% 4.24% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.59% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 350 339
10th Percentile £400 £348 £358
25th Percentile £450 £414 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
England median daily rate £535 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £41.83 £29.26 £33.65
25th Percentile £52.25 £33.29 £37.27
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £49.04
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -18.43% +10.20%
75th Percentile £61.56 £73.57 £63.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £93.71 £83.00
England median hourly rate £50.50 £27.68 £56.75
% change year-on-year +82.44% -51.22% +23.72%

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 18,262 12,381 14,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.48% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,971 8,179 9,290
10th Percentile £358 £334 £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 £668 £663 £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 352 241 177
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.40
25th Percentile £18.69 £25.15 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.49 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -16.03% -6.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.13 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.13 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +51.59% -40.82% -5.56%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 88 £563 +2.27% 15
West London +1 32 £550 -0.45% 8
East London +4 9 £638 +1.19% 5
South London -23 9 £550 +29.41% 2
North London - 4 £450 -
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 41 (4.99%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.63%) Confluence
3 16 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.46%) IIS
5 6 (0.73%) Appian
6 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.61%) Camunda
6 5 (0.61%) CMS
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.37%) CICS
8 3 (0.37%) Kentico
8 3 (0.37%) nginx
8 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.12%) Documentum
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.37%) InDesign
6 3 (0.37%) 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 30 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.85%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
5 6 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.61%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.49%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.49%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.37%) iTrent
8 3 (0.37%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.37%) Summit
9 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.24%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 134 (16.32%) Azure
2 71 (8.65%) Power Platform
3 66 (8.04%) AWS
4 64 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
5 56 (6.82%) Entra ID
6 26 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (3.17%) GitHub
7 25 (3.05%) Microsoft Copilot
7 25 (3.05%) SaaS
8 24 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (2.31%) GCP
10 18 (2.19%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.07%) OCI
12 15 (1.83%) OneDrive
13 13 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.46%) Serverless
15 11 (1.34%) Google Workspace
16 10 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.22%) PowerApps
17 9 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.33%) Firewall
2 41 (4.99%) Network Security
3 32 (3.90%) DNS
4 27 (3.29%) TCP/IP
5 23 (2.80%) WAN
6 21 (2.56%) DHCP
7 20 (2.44%) VPN
8 17 (2.07%) LAN
9 9 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.97%) HTTP
10 8 (0.97%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.85%) SAN
11 7 (0.85%) VLAN
12 5 (0.61%) BGP
12 5 (0.61%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.61%) SNMP
12 5 (0.61%) SSH
12 5 (0.61%) SSL
13 4 (0.49%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.58%) Power BI
2 38 (4.63%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.92%) Metadata
4 19 (2.31%) Oracle Database
5 10 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.85%) Tableau
9 6 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (8.65%) JIRA
2 28 (3.41%) Git
3 23 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.73%) GitLab
5 4 (0.49%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.49%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.37%) Selenium
6 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.37%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
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%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 350 (42.63%) Social Skills
2 340 (41.41%) Finance
3 143 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (14.13%) Banking
5 77 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 52 (6.33%) Influencing Skills
7 49 (5.97%) Legal
8 39 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
9 34 (4.14%) Manufacturing
10 29 (3.53%) Front Office
11 27 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (3.17%) Retail
13 25 (3.05%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (2.68%) Law
16 20 (2.44%) Local Government
17 19 (2.31%) Aviation
17 19 (2.31%) Marketing
18 16 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 120 (14.62%) Project Manager
2 116 (14.13%) Analyst
3 103 (12.55%) Lead
4 69 (8.40%) Senior
5 66 (8.04%) Business Analyst
6 64 (7.80%) Consultant
7 61 (7.43%) Change Manager
8 30 (3.65%) Business Manager
9 28 (3.41%) Senior Manager
10 26 (3.17%) Programme Manager
11 25 (3.05%) Business Change Manager
12 24 (2.92%) IT Manager
13 21 (2.56%) Financial Analyst
13 21 (2.56%) Technical Manager
14 20 (2.44%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.19%) Developer
15 18 (2.19%) Finance Business Analyst
15 18 (2.19%) IT Project Manager
16 17 (2.07%) Cloud Engineer
16 17 (2.07%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.48%) Terraform
2 26 (3.17%) REST
3 20 (2.44%) .NET
4 18 (2.19%) Middleware
5 16 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (1.34%) SOAP
6 11 (1.34%) Web Services
7 8 (0.97%) .NET Framework
7 8 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (0.97%) Kafka
8 7 (0.85%) JSON
9 6 (0.73%) CSS
9 6 (0.73%) HTML
9 6 (0.73%) Software Packaging
10 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.61%) RESTful
10 5 (0.61%) Spring
10 5 (0.61%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.61%) XML
11 4 (0.49%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 78 (9.50%) Onboarding
2 43 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 32 (3.90%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.65%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.44%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.44%) Operational Technology
8 17 (2.07%) CMDB
8 17 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.71%) Cloud Native
11 13 (1.58%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.58%) Replication
11 13 (1.58%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.34%) PKI
12 11 (1.34%) PMI
13 10 (1.22%) FMCG
14 9 (1.10%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.57%) Windows
2 39 (4.75%) Windows Server
3 35 (4.26%) Linux
4 17 (2.07%) Unix
5 13 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.34%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.85%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.49%) AIX
8 4 (0.49%) macOS
8 4 (0.49%) zOS
9 3 (0.37%) Solaris
9 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE
11 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (47.99%) Stakeholder Management
2 217 (26.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 212 (25.82%) Agile
4 172 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 142 (17.30%) Migration
6 138 (16.81%) Project Delivery
6 138 (16.81%) Roadmaps
7 135 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
8 130 (15.83%) AI
9 129 (15.71%) ITIL
10 119 (14.49%) Project Management
11 113 (13.76%) Decision-Making
12 99 (12.06%) Analytics
13 94 (11.45%) DevOps
13 94 (11.45%) PRINCE2
14 91 (11.08%) User Acceptance Testing
15 89 (10.84%) Workshop Facilitation
16 83 (10.11%) Risk Management
17 79 (9.62%) Service Management
18 76 (9.26%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 88 (10.72%) SQL
2 65 (7.92%) Python
3 53 (6.46%) PowerShell
4 22 (2.68%) PL/SQL
5 20 (2.44%) Bash
5 20 (2.44%) C#
6 17 (2.07%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.71%) Java
7 14 (1.71%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.34%) Bicep
9 10 (1.22%) Korn
10 8 (0.97%) Groovy
11 4 (0.49%) JCL
11 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.37%) COBOL
12 3 (0.37%) VBScript
13 2 (0.24%) C++
13 2 (0.24%) SHACL
13 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 97 (11.81%) Degree
1 97 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 79 (9.62%) PMI Certification
3 78 (9.50%) SC Cleared
4 77 (9.38%) PMP
5 23 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.83%) APMG
7 13 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.22%) CISSP
11 9 (1.10%) CCNP
12 8 (0.97%) CISM
13 7 (0.85%) ACCA
13 7 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.73%) CIMA
14 6 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.94%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.46%) QA
3 36 (4.38%) PMO
4 34 (4.14%) SLA
5 23 (2.80%) GDPR
6 17 (2.07%) GRC
7 15 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.85%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.73%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.49%) IFRS
13 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.49%) NIST
14 3 (0.37%) ITGC
15 2 (0.24%) SOC 1
System Software
1 49 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.83%) Docker
4 13 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.37%) RACF
7 3 (0.37%) Squid
8 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.24%) Firmware
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.24%) Postfix
8 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.24%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 26 (3.17%) Ansible
2 24 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (2.07%) Kubernetes
4 13 (1.58%) Grafana
5 12 (1.46%) SCCM
6 11 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.73%) vRealize
9 6 (0.73%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.49%) Data Guard
10 4 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.49%) Puppet
10 4 (0.49%) systemd
11 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.37%) Packer
11 3 (0.37%) Rancher
11 3 (0.37%) SCOM
11 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 169 (20.58%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.14%) Oracle
3 71 (8.65%) ServiceNow
4 62 (7.55%) SAP
5 34 (4.14%) Salesforce
5 34 (4.14%) VMware
6 23 (2.80%) Zscaler
7 22 (2.68%) Cisco
8 19 (2.31%) Splunk
9 17 (2.07%) Databricks
9 17 (2.07%) Google
10 13 (1.58%) Citrix
10 13 (1.58%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.58%) IBM
11 12 (1.46%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.46%) Workday
12 11 (1.34%) Apple
12 11 (1.34%) Bloomberg
13 9 (1.10%) Remedy
14 7 (0.85%) OpenText