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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 58 43
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 +2
Contract jobs citing Change Management 714 507 801
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 4.00% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 4.36% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 318 501
10th Percentile £400 £356 £363
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% -2.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £769
England median daily rate £500 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -1.67% -3.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £36.70 - £36.81
25th Percentile £39.25 - £43.17
Median hourly rate £58.92 £28.60 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +106.01% -50.26% +29.94%
75th Percentile £95.00 £61.80 £65.38
90th Percentile £98.00 £81.72 £67.85
England median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £37.18
% change year-on-year -20.94% +54.65% -23.18%

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 15,428 11,636 15,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.09% 91.87% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,331 7,886 11,336
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 168 334
10th Percentile £18.37 £16.48 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.75 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.00 £50.56 £49.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £63.40 £66.93
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -10 79 £500 -4.76% 48
South London +1 24 £500 -16.67% 5
West London -13 19 £463 +44.53% 13
East London +1 6 £649 +29.75% 4
North London +3 2 £575 +30.68% 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 44 (6.16%) Confluence
2 39 (5.46%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.12%) Appian
5 5 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.70%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.56%) IIS
7 2 (0.28%) CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
1 25 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.94%) MS Visio
4 18 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.42%) Trello
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 21 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.84%) Finacle
5 5 (0.70%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.70%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.70%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.42%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.28%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.28%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.28%) Global One
8 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.28%) Primavera
8 2 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 121 (16.95%) Azure
2 58 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (5.74%) Power Platform
5 38 (5.32%) AWS
6 36 (5.04%) SaaS
7 35 (4.90%) Entra ID
8 25 (3.50%) Power Automate
9 23 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (2.38%) GCP
11 16 (2.24%) PaaS
12 15 (2.10%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (1.68%) IaaS
13 12 (1.68%) OCI
14 11 (1.54%) GitHub
15 10 (1.40%) Smartsheet
16 9 (1.26%) Azure AI
17 8 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
17 8 (1.12%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.48%) Firewall
2 27 (3.78%) Network Security
3 22 (3.08%) WAN
4 18 (2.52%) SD-WAN
4 18 (2.52%) VPN
5 17 (2.38%) LAN
6 15 (2.10%) DNS
7 13 (1.82%) BGP
8 12 (1.68%) OSPF
9 9 (1.26%) DHCP
9 9 (1.26%) NetScaler
10 8 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (1.12%) SSL
11 7 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (0.84%) Intranet
12 6 (0.84%) NX-OS
13 3 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 3 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.64%) Power BI
3 11 (1.54%) Metadata
3 11 (1.54%) Tableau
4 9 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.12%) Pinecone
6 7 (0.98%) Oracle Database
6 7 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.84%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.56%) MySQL
8 4 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.42%) GIS
9 3 (0.42%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 97 (13.59%) JIRA
2 18 (2.52%) Git
3 15 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.54%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.12%) MLflow
6 4 (0.56%) Liquibase
6 4 (0.56%) Maven
6 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.42%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.42%) JUnit
7 3 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.42%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.42%) Snyk
8 2 (0.28%) git-flow
8 2 (0.28%) Mockito
9 1 (0.14%) Ant
9 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.14%) Hudson
9 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 291 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 289 (40.48%) Finance
3 119 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.34%) Banking
5 47 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 38 (5.32%) Legal
7 37 (5.18%) Marketing
8 33 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (3.64%) Retail
11 22 (3.08%) Law
12 19 (2.66%) Investment Banking
13 17 (2.38%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.82%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.26%) Aviation
16 9 (1.26%) Front Office
16 9 (1.26%) Local Government
17 8 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (13.03%) Change Manager
2 80 (11.20%) Analyst
3 75 (10.50%) Project Manager
4 69 (9.66%) Lead
5 52 (7.28%) Business Analyst
6 46 (6.44%) Senior
7 44 (6.16%) Developer
8 43 (6.02%) Consultant
9 26 (3.64%) Architect
10 25 (3.50%) Programme Manager
11 24 (3.36%) Business Manager
12 23 (3.22%) Support Engineer
13 20 (2.80%) Business Change Manager
13 20 (2.80%) C# Developer
14 19 (2.66%) IT Engineer
14 19 (2.66%) IT Support
14 19 (2.66%) IT Support Engineer
15 18 (2.52%) Administrator
16 17 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
16 17 (2.38%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.34%) .NET
2 28 (3.92%) REST
3 23 (3.22%) .NET Framework
4 19 (2.66%) OAuth
5 15 (2.10%) Web Services
6 12 (1.68%) RESTful
7 11 (1.54%) CSS
8 10 (1.40%) OpenID
8 10 (1.40%) SAML
9 9 (1.26%) Middleware
9 9 (1.26%) NumPy
9 9 (1.26%) Pandas
9 9 (1.26%) pytest
9 9 (1.26%) React
10 8 (1.12%) Django
10 8 (1.12%) Flask
10 8 (1.12%) HTML
10 8 (1.12%) scikit-learn
10 8 (1.12%) Swagger
10 8 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.20%) Onboarding
2 26 (3.64%) CMDB
2 26 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
3 24 (3.36%) PMI
4 22 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.82%) Low-Code
7 13 (1.82%) PKI
8 11 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.12%) FMCG
10 7 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.84%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.84%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.70%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 79 (11.06%) Windows
2 19 (2.66%) Windows Server
3 14 (1.96%) Linux
3 14 (1.96%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.54%) Unix
5 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) AIX
8 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (30.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 174 (24.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 169 (23.67%) Agile
4 120 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 120 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
5 112 (15.69%) Project Management
6 111 (15.55%) ITIL
7 103 (14.43%) DevOps
8 95 (13.31%) Migration
9 84 (11.76%) Decision-Making
9 84 (11.76%) Roadmaps
10 81 (11.34%) Project Delivery
11 69 (9.66%) AI
12 66 (9.24%) CI/CD
13 61 (8.54%) User Acceptance Testing
14 58 (8.12%) Workshop Facilitation
15 56 (7.84%) Risk Management
16 54 (7.56%) Analytics
17 52 (7.28%) ERP
18 51 (7.14%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 104 (14.57%) SQL
2 47 (6.58%) C#
3 38 (5.32%) Python
4 31 (4.34%) PL/SQL
5 24 (3.36%) PowerShell
5 24 (3.36%) T-SQL
6 19 (2.66%) Java
6 19 (2.66%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.12%) Korn
8 6 (0.84%) Groovy
9 5 (0.70%) Bash
9 5 (0.70%) Perl
10 4 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.14%) ABAP
12 1 (0.14%) C
12 1 (0.14%) C++
12 1 (0.14%) R
12 1 (0.14%) SOQL
12 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 99 (13.87%) Degree
2 79 (11.06%) Security Cleared
3 53 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 49 (6.86%) PMI Certification
5 43 (6.02%) PMP
6 23 (3.22%) CISSP
7 20 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (2.24%) APMG
8 16 (2.24%) CISM
8 16 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (2.24%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.10%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 10 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.26%) CCNP
12 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.98%) CISA
13 7 (0.98%) Citrix Certification
13 7 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.26%) QA
2 43 (6.02%) PMO
3 41 (5.74%) Data Quality
4 31 (4.34%) SLA
5 28 (3.92%) GDPR
6 24 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.54%) NIST
9 8 (1.12%) IFRS
10 7 (0.98%) COBIT
10 7 (0.98%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.98%) ITGC
11 6 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.84%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.42%) GRC
13 3 (0.42%) MiFID
13 3 (0.42%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.28%) Basel III
System Software
1 45 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.10%) Docker
3 9 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.70%) XenApp
6 5 (0.70%) XenDesktop
7 4 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.28%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.94%) Terraform
3 14 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.54%) Ansible
5 8 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.98%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.98%) SCCM
7 6 (0.84%) CASB
8 5 (0.70%) SCVMM
9 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.56%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.56%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.42%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.42%) Grafana
10 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.28%) Control-M
11 2 (0.28%) Puppet
11 2 (0.28%) SCOM
11 2 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 125 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 98 (13.73%) ServiceNow
3 71 (9.94%) Oracle
4 50 (7.00%) SAP
5 40 (5.60%) Salesforce
6 31 (4.34%) Citrix
7 23 (3.22%) Cisco
8 21 (2.94%) Workday
9 17 (2.38%) VMware
10 12 (1.68%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.54%) Google
12 10 (1.40%) F5
13 9 (1.26%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.26%) Zscaler
14 8 (1.12%) Automation Anywhere
14 8 (1.12%) Juniper
14 8 (1.12%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.12%) UiPath
15 7 (0.98%) Meraki
16 6 (0.84%) Avaloq