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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 58 64
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -26
Contract jobs citing Change Management 842 589 596
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.14% 4.37% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 4.72% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 369 338
10th Percentile £398 £348 £332
25th Percentile £434 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £551 £556
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% -0.94% -3.26%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £766
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £28.70 £29.26 £35.83
25th Percentile £43.25 £33.29 £41.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £54.04
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -25.98% -1.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.57 £74.50
90th Percentile £58.00 £93.71 £89.80
England median hourly rate £50.50 £30.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +68.33% -48.54% +20.45%

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 18,084 12,490 14,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.58% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,262 9,757
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 257 180
10th Percentile £16.71 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.38 £48.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -14 88 £520 -9.57% 105
West London -5 27 £538 -2.71% 31
South London -22 14 £563 +23.97% 7
East London +7 12 £750 +19.05% 11
North London +1 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 55 (6.53%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.63%) Confluence
3 18 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.54%) IIS
5 6 (0.71%) Appian
5 6 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.59%) Camunda
7 4 (0.48%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
9 2 (0.24%) CICS
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%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) InDesign
7 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 32 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.83%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (0.83%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.59%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.48%) Front Arena
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.48%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.36%) iTrent
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.36%) Summit
7 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 138 (16.39%) Azure
2 70 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
3 68 (8.08%) Power Platform
4 65 (7.72%) AWS
5 61 (7.24%) Entra ID
6 40 (4.75%) SaaS
7 32 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (2.85%) GitHub
10 22 (2.61%) GCP
11 20 (2.38%) OCI
12 19 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (2.26%) Power Automate
13 16 (1.90%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.66%) Google Workspace
14 14 (1.66%) OneDrive
15 11 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.31%) Serverless
16 10 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.58%) Firewall
2 34 (4.04%) Network Security
3 30 (3.56%) DNS
4 23 (2.73%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.61%) WAN
6 21 (2.49%) DHCP
7 17 (2.02%) VPN
8 15 (1.78%) LAN
9 9 (1.07%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (1.07%) SSL
10 8 (0.95%) HTTP
10 8 (0.95%) HTTPS
10 8 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.71%) VLAN
12 5 (0.59%) FTP
12 5 (0.59%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.59%) SNMP
12 5 (0.59%) SSH
13 4 (0.48%) 5G
13 4 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.94%) Power BI
2 41 (4.87%) SQL Server
3 23 (2.73%) Metadata
4 18 (2.14%) Oracle Database
5 10 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.07%) Tableau
7 7 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.71%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.59%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (0.48%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.48%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 90 (10.69%) JIRA
2 31 (3.68%) Git
3 25 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.83%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.48%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.48%) GitLab
6 3 (0.36%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (0.36%) Selenium
6 3 (0.36%) Snyk
6 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.24%) Postman
7 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.12%) Flyway
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 347 (41.21%) Social Skills
2 341 (40.50%) Finance
3 144 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (14.13%) Banking
5 69 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 50 (5.94%) Legal
7 42 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
8 36 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
9 34 (4.04%) Marketing
10 31 (3.68%) Retail
11 26 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (2.97%) Front Office
12 25 (2.97%) Telecoms
13 23 (2.73%) Law
13 23 (2.73%) Manufacturing
14 21 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (2.02%) Local Government
17 15 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (1.54%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 116 (13.78%) Analyst
2 112 (13.30%) Project Manager
3 108 (12.83%) Lead
4 65 (7.72%) Consultant
5 64 (7.60%) Change Manager
6 63 (7.48%) Senior
7 61 (7.24%) Business Analyst
8 30 (3.56%) Senior Manager
9 26 (3.09%) Business Manager
9 26 (3.09%) Developer
10 24 (2.85%) Programme Manager
11 22 (2.61%) Administrator
11 22 (2.61%) Business Change Manager
12 21 (2.49%) Financial Analyst
13 20 (2.38%) Applications Support
13 20 (2.38%) IT Manager
14 19 (2.26%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (2.26%) Data Engineer
14 19 (2.26%) Technical Manager
15 18 (2.14%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.46%) Terraform
2 32 (3.80%) REST
3 27 (3.21%) .NET
4 15 (1.78%) Middleware
5 13 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (1.31%) CSS
6 11 (1.31%) HTML
7 10 (1.19%) .NET Framework
8 9 (1.07%) OAuth
8 9 (1.07%) SOAP
9 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (0.95%) React
9 8 (0.95%) SPFx
10 7 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.83%) Web Services
11 6 (0.71%) JSON
11 6 (0.71%) Kafka
12 5 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.59%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.31%) Onboarding
2 33 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 30 (3.56%) Data Centre
4 29 (3.44%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.38%) PMI
7 18 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.78%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.66%) FMCG
9 14 (1.66%) Operational Technology
9 14 (1.66%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.54%) CMDB
11 12 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.31%) Clustering
12 11 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.19%) PKI
14 9 (1.07%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 85 (10.10%) Windows
2 30 (3.56%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.21%) Linux
4 13 (1.54%) Unix
5 10 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.59%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.36%) AIX
9 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.36%) zOS
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Solaris
10 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.12%) HPUX
11 1 (0.12%) MVS
11 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (41.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 220 (26.13%) Agile
3 218 (25.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 182 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 146 (17.34%) Migration
6 144 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (16.27%) Project Delivery
8 133 (15.80%) ITIL
8 133 (15.80%) Project Management
9 128 (15.20%) Decision-Making
10 124 (14.73%) Roadmaps
11 113 (13.42%) AI
12 111 (13.18%) DevOps
13 94 (11.16%) Analytics
14 89 (10.57%) PRINCE2
15 88 (10.45%) User Acceptance Testing
16 82 (9.74%) Workshop Facilitation
17 73 (8.67%) CI/CD
17 73 (8.67%) Process Improvement
18 72 (8.55%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (11.64%) SQL
2 61 (7.24%) Python
3 46 (5.46%) PowerShell
4 32 (3.80%) PL/SQL
5 29 (3.44%) C#
6 24 (2.85%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.61%) T-SQL
8 19 (2.26%) Java
9 17 (2.02%) Bash
10 13 (1.54%) Korn
11 10 (1.19%) Bicep
11 10 (1.19%) Groovy
12 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.36%) JCL
13 3 (0.36%) VBScript
14 2 (0.24%) C++
14 2 (0.24%) COBOL
14 2 (0.24%) Perl
14 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 95 (11.28%) Degree
2 89 (10.57%) Security Cleared
3 76 (9.03%) PMI Certification
3 76 (9.03%) PMP
4 73 (8.67%) SC Cleared
5 23 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.61%) CISSP
7 19 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (2.02%) APMG
9 16 (1.90%) CISM
10 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.19%) CCNP
11 10 (1.19%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.07%) ACCA
13 8 (0.95%) CIMA
13 8 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.83%) CISA
15 6 (0.71%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.65%) QA
2 54 (6.41%) PMO
3 40 (4.75%) Data Quality
4 34 (4.04%) SLA
5 25 (2.97%) GDPR
6 18 (2.14%) GRC
7 15 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.19%) ITGC
10 9 (1.07%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.83%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.83%) NIST
12 6 (0.71%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.71%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.59%) COBIT
14 4 (0.48%) IFRS
14 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 55 (6.53%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.54%) Docker
3 13 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.36%) Squid
5 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.24%) Postfix
6 2 (0.24%) RACF
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (2.73%) Ansible
2 21 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (1.78%) Kubernetes
5 11 (1.31%) SCCM
6 9 (1.07%) Grafana
7 8 (0.95%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.71%) CASB
9 6 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (0.71%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.59%) vRealize
11 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.48%) Control-M
11 4 (0.48%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.48%) systemd
12 3 (0.36%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 163 (19.36%) Microsoft
2 88 (10.45%) Oracle
3 85 (10.10%) ServiceNow
4 59 (7.01%) SAP
5 45 (5.34%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.44%) VMware
7 22 (2.61%) Google
8 21 (2.49%) Cisco
8 21 (2.49%) Zscaler
9 17 (2.02%) Splunk
10 15 (1.78%) Citrix
11 14 (1.66%) Workday
12 12 (1.43%) Databricks
13 11 (1.31%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.31%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.07%) Apple
14 9 (1.07%) IBM
15 8 (0.95%) Remedy
16 7 (0.83%) Bloomberg
16 7 (0.83%) OpenText