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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 50 41
Rank change year-on-year -16 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Change Management 634 567 851
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.99% 4.22% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.65% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 314 520
10th Percentile £393 £356 £387
25th Percentile £420 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £659 £675
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £541
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.00% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £47.12 - £36.81
25th Percentile £58.92 £28.60 £43.17
Median hourly rate £90.00 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +157.14% -39.13% +38.55%
75th Percentile £100.00 £56.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £104.28 £79.40 £84.25
England median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -20.98%

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 14,339 12,191 16,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.30% 90.76% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,629 7,896 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 158 346
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +22.50% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 82 £491 -6.43% 35
South London +6 24 £500 -21.57% 1
West London -9 15 £463 +110.23% 4
East London +3 5 £525 +23.53% 6
North London - 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 43 (6.78%) Confluence
2 32 (5.05%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.26%) Appian
5 5 (0.79%) HCL Notes
6 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.47%) Mattermost
6 3 (0.47%) nginx
6 3 (0.47%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.32%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.16%) Moodle
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 28 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 28 (4.42%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (4.10%) MS Visio
3 24 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.47%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.16%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 26 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.79%) Finacle
4 5 (0.79%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.79%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.47%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.32%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.16%) SAP FI-GL
8 1 (0.16%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 99 (15.62%) Azure
2 54 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (6.15%) AWS
4 34 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 32 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (3.63%) Entra ID
7 20 (3.15%) SaaS
8 18 (2.84%) Power Automate
9 13 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (1.89%) PaaS
11 11 (1.74%) GitHub
11 11 (1.74%) IaaS
12 10 (1.58%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.42%) Azure AI
13 9 (1.42%) GCP
13 9 (1.42%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.42%) Serverless
14 8 (1.26%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.15%) Firewall
2 30 (4.73%) Network Security
3 22 (3.47%) WAN
4 19 (3.00%) VPN
5 18 (2.84%) LAN
6 16 (2.52%) SD-WAN
7 15 (2.37%) DNS
8 12 (1.89%) BGP
9 11 (1.74%) OSPF
10 9 (1.42%) NetScaler
11 7 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (1.10%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (1.10%) Intranet
11 7 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (0.95%) DHCP
12 6 (0.95%) HTTP
13 5 (0.79%) NX-OS
13 5 (0.79%) SMTP
13 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.94%) Power BI
3 12 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.58%) Tableau
6 9 (1.42%) Metadata
7 8 (1.26%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.79%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.47%) GIS
11 3 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (0.47%) MySQL
11 3 (0.47%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (0.47%) Redis
12 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 75 (11.83%) JIRA
2 17 (2.68%) Git
3 16 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.74%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.26%) MLflow
6 3 (0.47%) JUnit
6 3 (0.47%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.47%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.32%) git-flow
7 2 (0.32%) Maven
7 2 (0.32%) Mockito
8 1 (0.16%) Ant
8 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.16%) MSI
8 1 (0.16%) Selenium
8 1 (0.16%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.16%) Toad
General
1 284 (44.79%) Social Skills
2 257 (40.54%) Finance
3 106 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.88%) Banking
5 42 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 34 (5.36%) Legal
7 32 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
8 30 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
9 27 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (3.63%) Retail
11 20 (3.15%) Law
11 20 (3.15%) Marketing
12 19 (3.00%) Investment Banking
13 15 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (2.21%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.89%) Local Government
15 12 (1.89%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.89%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (14.20%) Analyst
2 81 (12.78%) Project Manager
3 79 (12.46%) Change Manager
4 63 (9.94%) Business Analyst
5 59 (9.31%) Lead
6 42 (6.62%) Senior
7 37 (5.84%) Developer
8 36 (5.68%) Consultant
9 25 (3.94%) Architect
10 23 (3.63%) Business Manager
11 20 (3.15%) Programme Manager
12 18 (2.84%) Business Change Manager
13 17 (2.68%) C# Developer
14 16 (2.52%) Senior Manager
15 13 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
15 13 (2.05%) IT Manager
15 13 (2.05%) Network Engineer
15 13 (2.05%) Support Engineer
16 12 (1.89%) SAP Manager
17 11 (1.74%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.79%) .NET
2 21 (3.31%) REST
3 19 (3.00%) .NET Framework
4 15 (2.37%) OAuth
5 13 (2.05%) Web Services
6 12 (1.89%) RESTful
7 9 (1.42%) NumPy
7 9 (1.42%) Pandas
7 9 (1.42%) pytest
8 8 (1.26%) Django
8 8 (1.26%) Faiss
8 8 (1.26%) Flask
8 8 (1.26%) HTML
8 8 (1.26%) Hugging Face
8 8 (1.26%) JWT
8 8 (1.26%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.26%) SAML
8 8 (1.26%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.26%) Swagger
8 8 (1.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.89%) Product Ownership
2 29 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 27 (4.26%) CMDB
4 24 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.37%) PKI
7 15 (2.37%) PMI
8 14 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.05%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.58%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.26%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.95%) e-Learning
14 6 (0.95%) Life Science
14 6 (0.95%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (11.04%) Windows
2 16 (2.52%) Linux
2 16 (2.52%) Windows 10
3 15 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.58%) Unix
5 6 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.63%) VMS
7 3 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.32%) Android
8 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (33.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 165 (26.03%) Agile
3 155 (24.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 114 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (16.40%) Project Management
6 94 (14.83%) ITIL
7 89 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (12.78%) Migration
9 77 (12.15%) Project Delivery
10 75 (11.83%) DevOps
11 67 (10.57%) Decision-Making
11 67 (10.57%) Roadmaps
12 58 (9.15%) PRINCE2
12 58 (9.15%) Workshop Facilitation
13 56 (8.83%) AI
13 56 (8.83%) Risk Management
13 56 (8.83%) User Acceptance Testing
14 53 (8.36%) CI/CD
15 50 (7.89%) ITSM
16 49 (7.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 88 (13.88%) SQL
2 43 (6.78%) Python
3 33 (5.21%) C#
4 27 (4.26%) PowerShell
5 19 (3.00%) PL/SQL
6 14 (2.21%) Java
6 14 (2.21%) T-SQL
7 13 (2.05%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.10%) Groovy
9 6 (0.95%) Bash
9 6 (0.95%) Korn
10 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.47%) Perl
11 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.32%) Go
12 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.32%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.16%) ABAP
13 1 (0.16%) C
13 1 (0.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 108 (17.03%) Degree
2 73 (11.51%) Security Cleared
3 49 (7.73%) PMI Certification
4 46 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 40 (6.31%) PMP
6 21 (3.31%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (2.05%) CISSP
10 11 (1.74%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.42%) CCNP
11 9 (1.42%) CISM
11 9 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.26%) APMG
12 8 (1.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.95%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.89%) QA
2 42 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 31 (4.89%) GDPR
3 31 (4.89%) PMO
4 24 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (3.79%) SLA
5 10 (1.58%) NIST
6 8 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.26%) IFRS
6 8 (1.26%) MiFID
6 8 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.10%) IFRS 17
8 6 (0.95%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.79%) EMIR
10 4 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.63%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.47%) GRC
12 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 33 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.31%) Docker
3 7 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.79%) XenApp
5 5 (0.79%) XenDesktop
6 3 (0.47%) DFS Replication
6 3 (0.47%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.47%) Postfix
6 3 (0.47%) Squid
6 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) etcd
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (3.63%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.47%) Terraform
3 14 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.26%) Ansible
5 7 (1.10%) Grafana
5 7 (1.10%) SCCM
6 6 (0.95%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.79%) SCOM
7 5 (0.79%) SCVMM
8 3 (0.47%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.47%) HP SiteScope
8 3 (0.47%) Nessus
8 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.47%) Puppet
8 3 (0.47%) Rancher
9 2 (0.32%) Argo
10 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 111 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 79 (12.46%) ServiceNow
3 51 (8.04%) SAP
4 45 (7.10%) Oracle
5 28 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 27 (4.26%) Citrix
7 24 (3.79%) Cisco
8 14 (2.21%) VMware
8 14 (2.21%) Workday
9 12 (1.89%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.89%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.58%) F5
11 9 (1.42%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.42%) Remedy
12 8 (1.26%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (1.26%) CheckPoint
12 8 (1.26%) UiPath
12 8 (1.26%) Zscaler
13 7 (1.10%) Juniper
14 6 (0.95%) Adobe