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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 61 65
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -27
Contract jobs citing Change Management 831 571 585
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.14% 4.31% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.66% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 360 347
10th Percentile £398 £343 £350
25th Percentile £428 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £643 £688 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
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% +20.09%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.57 £74.50
90th Percentile £58.00 £93.71 £89.80
England median hourly rate £48.84 £30.00 £58.17
% change year-on-year +62.80% -48.43% +20.19%

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 17,877 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
10th Percentile £360 £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 £688
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 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 84 £525 -8.70% 65
West London -6 23 £538 +13.16% 42
South London -20 14 £563 +7.14% 8
East London +8 12 £750 +19.05% 13
North London +4 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 52 (6.26%) SharePoint
2 34 (4.09%) Confluence
3 18 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.56%) IIS
5 6 (0.72%) Appian
5 6 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.60%) Camunda
7 4 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.48%) CMS
7 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 24 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.36%) 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 29 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.84%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
3 7 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.60%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.48%) Front Arena
5 4 (0.48%) SAP QM
6 3 (0.36%) iTrent
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.36%) Summit
6 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 137 (16.49%) Azure
2 67 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (7.58%) Power Platform
4 62 (7.46%) Entra ID
5 61 (7.34%) AWS
6 40 (4.81%) SaaS
7 33 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (3.01%) GitHub
10 21 (2.53%) GCP
11 20 (2.41%) OCI
12 19 (2.29%) Power Automate
13 16 (1.93%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.68%) Google Workspace
14 14 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
14 14 (1.68%) OneDrive
15 13 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (1.08%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.66%) Firewall
2 33 (3.97%) Network Security
3 30 (3.61%) DNS
4 22 (2.65%) TCP/IP
5 21 (2.53%) DHCP
5 21 (2.53%) WAN
6 18 (2.17%) VPN
7 14 (1.68%) LAN
8 9 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.08%) SSL
9 8 (0.96%) HTTP
9 8 (0.96%) HTTPS
9 8 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.72%) VLAN
11 5 (0.60%) FTP
11 5 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.60%) SNMP
11 5 (0.60%) SSH
12 4 (0.48%) 5G
12 4 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.90%) Power BI
2 41 (4.93%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.89%) Metadata
4 17 (2.05%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.84%) Tableau
7 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.48%) Data Mart
9 4 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.48%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 88 (10.59%) JIRA
2 27 (3.25%) Git
3 24 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.72%) 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%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.12%) Flyway
8 1 (0.12%) Maven
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 337 (40.55%) Social Skills
2 335 (40.31%) Finance
3 141 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (13.60%) Banking
5 68 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.90%) Legal
7 38 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (4.09%) Marketing
9 32 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.85%) Retail
10 24 (2.89%) Law
10 24 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (2.89%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.53%) Front Office
12 19 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (2.05%) Local Government
13 17 (2.05%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 112 (13.48%) Analyst
2 107 (12.88%) Project Manager
3 106 (12.76%) Lead
4 66 (7.94%) Consultant
5 64 (7.70%) Change Manager
6 61 (7.34%) Senior
7 58 (6.98%) Business Analyst
8 31 (3.73%) Senior Manager
9 27 (3.25%) Business Manager
10 26 (3.13%) Developer
11 23 (2.77%) Programme Manager
12 22 (2.65%) Administrator
12 22 (2.65%) Business Change Manager
13 20 (2.41%) Applications Support
13 20 (2.41%) Financial Analyst
14 19 (2.29%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (2.17%) Data Engineer
15 18 (2.17%) Delivery Manager
15 18 (2.17%) Finance Business Analyst
15 18 (2.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.66%) Terraform
2 31 (3.73%) REST
3 27 (3.25%) .NET
4 14 (1.68%) Middleware
5 13 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (1.44%) CSS
7 11 (1.32%) HTML
8 10 (1.20%) .NET Framework
9 9 (1.08%) OAuth
9 9 (1.08%) SOAP
10 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (0.96%) React
10 8 (0.96%) SPFx
10 8 (0.96%) Web Services
11 7 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (0.72%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.72%) JSON
12 6 (0.72%) Spring
13 5 (0.60%) Kafka
13 5 (0.60%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.54%) Onboarding
2 30 (3.61%) Data Centre
3 29 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.41%) PMI
7 17 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.81%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.81%) FMCG
10 14 (1.68%) CMDB
10 14 (1.68%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.44%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.32%) Clustering
12 11 (1.32%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.20%) PKI
13 10 (1.20%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.08%) Derivative
14 9 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (10.35%) Windows
2 30 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.25%) Linux
4 11 (1.32%) Unix
5 10 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.96%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.24%) AIX
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.24%) zOS
10 1 (0.12%) HPUX
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (39.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 219 (26.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 214 (25.75%) Agile
4 183 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 144 (17.33%) Migration
6 139 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (16.49%) Project Delivery
8 132 (15.88%) ITIL
9 129 (15.52%) Project Management
10 122 (14.68%) Decision-Making
11 120 (14.44%) Roadmaps
12 110 (13.24%) AI
12 110 (13.24%) DevOps
13 97 (11.67%) Analytics
14 86 (10.35%) PRINCE2
14 86 (10.35%) User Acceptance Testing
15 78 (9.39%) Workshop Facilitation
16 74 (8.90%) Service Management
17 73 (8.78%) CI/CD
18 70 (8.42%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (11.43%) SQL
2 59 (7.10%) Python
3 49 (5.90%) PowerShell
4 32 (3.85%) PL/SQL
5 29 (3.49%) C#
6 23 (2.77%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.65%) T-SQL
8 18 (2.17%) Java
9 17 (2.05%) Bash
10 12 (1.44%) Korn
11 10 (1.20%) Bicep
12 9 (1.08%) Groovy
13 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.36%) VBScript
15 2 (0.24%) C++
15 2 (0.24%) JCL
15 2 (0.24%) Perl
15 2 (0.24%) SHACL
15 2 (0.24%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (11.07%) Degree
2 89 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 72 (8.66%) PMI Certification
3 72 (8.66%) PMP
3 72 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 22 (2.65%) CISSP
4 22 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (1.93%) APMG
6 16 (1.93%) CISM
7 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.20%) CCNP
9 9 (1.08%) ACCA
9 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.96%) CIMA
11 7 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (0.84%) CISA
12 6 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.86%) QA
2 53 (6.38%) PMO
3 40 (4.81%) Data Quality
4 36 (4.33%) SLA
5 23 (2.77%) GDPR
6 18 (2.17%) GRC
7 15 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.20%) ITGC
10 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.84%) NIST
12 6 (0.72%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.60%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.60%) COBIT
14 4 (0.48%) IFRS
14 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 56 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (1.44%) Docker
5 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) Squid
6 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) Postfix
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (2.65%) Ansible
1 22 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (1.68%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.32%) SCCM
5 9 (1.08%) Grafana
6 8 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.72%) CASB
8 6 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
8 6 (0.72%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.60%) vRealize
10 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.48%) Control-M
10 4 (0.48%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.48%) systemd
11 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.36%) Packer
11 3 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 158 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 86 (10.35%) Oracle
3 84 (10.11%) ServiceNow
4 56 (6.74%) SAP
5 45 (5.42%) Salesforce
6 30 (3.61%) VMware
7 22 (2.65%) Cisco
7 22 (2.65%) Google
8 20 (2.41%) Zscaler
9 16 (1.93%) Splunk
10 15 (1.81%) Citrix
11 14 (1.68%) Workday
12 10 (1.20%) Databricks
12 10 (1.20%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.20%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.08%) Apple
13 9 (1.08%) IBM
14 7 (0.84%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.84%) Remedy
15 6 (0.72%) New Relic