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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 57 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 708 508 795
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 3.99% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 4.33% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 326 501
10th Percentile £400 £356 £359
25th Percentile £415 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -1.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £735 £750 £769
England median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.25% -4.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £27.13 - £36.81
25th Percentile £36.06 - £43.17
Median hourly rate £49.71 £28.60 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.81% -50.26% +29.94%
75th Percentile £85.98 £61.80 £65.38
90th Percentile £97.50 £81.72 £67.85
England median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -20.94% +35.29% -12.19%

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 15,557 11,724 15,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.03% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,420 7,969 11,310
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 170 331
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.66 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £23.05 £19.96
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +19.22% -25.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -9 81 £500 -4.76% 26
South London +4 23 £500 -16.67% 3
West London -12 19 £450 +40.63% 7
East London +3 6 £649 - 8
North London +4 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 43 (6.07%) Confluence
2 38 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.13%) Appian
5 5 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.71%) HCL Notes
5 5 (0.71%) IIS
6 2 (0.28%) CMS
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (3.11%) MS Visio
4 17 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.85%) Finacle
5 5 (0.71%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.71%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.71%) 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%) Aladdin
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
1 112 (15.82%) Azure
2 57 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (5.65%) Power Platform
5 36 (5.08%) SaaS
6 35 (4.94%) AWS
7 34 (4.80%) Entra ID
8 25 (3.53%) Power Automate
9 23 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (2.40%) GCP
11 15 (2.12%) PaaS
11 15 (2.12%) PowerApps
12 11 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (1.55%) GitHub
12 11 (1.55%) OCI
12 11 (1.55%) Smartsheet
13 9 (1.27%) Azure AI
13 9 (1.27%) IaaS
14 8 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.38%) Firewall
2 24 (3.39%) Network Security
3 21 (2.97%) WAN
4 18 (2.54%) SD-WAN
4 18 (2.54%) VPN
5 16 (2.26%) LAN
6 14 (1.98%) DNS
7 13 (1.84%) BGP
8 12 (1.69%) OSPF
9 9 (1.27%) DHCP
9 9 (1.27%) NetScaler
10 8 (1.13%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (1.13%) SSL
11 7 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (0.85%) Intranet
12 6 (0.85%) NX-OS
13 3 (0.42%) FTP
13 3 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.53%) Power BI
3 11 (1.55%) Metadata
4 9 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.13%) Pinecone
5 8 (1.13%) Tableau
6 7 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.56%) MySQL
10 3 (0.42%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.28%) Redis
11 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 99 (13.98%) JIRA
2 17 (2.40%) Git
3 15 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.13%) MLflow
6 4 (0.56%) Maven
6 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.42%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.42%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.42%) Snyk
8 2 (0.28%) git-flow
8 2 (0.28%) JUnit
8 2 (0.28%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.14%) Ant
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.14%) Toad
General
1 284 (40.11%) Social Skills
2 279 (39.41%) Finance
3 115 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.02%) Banking
5 46 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 38 (5.37%) Legal
6 38 (5.37%) Marketing
7 32 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.67%) Retail
10 20 (2.82%) Law
11 17 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 17 (2.40%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.41%) Local Government
13 10 (1.41%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.27%) Aviation
15 8 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (13.14%) Change Manager
2 75 (10.59%) Analyst
2 75 (10.59%) Project Manager
3 71 (10.03%) Lead
4 48 (6.78%) Business Analyst
5 45 (6.36%) Senior
6 43 (6.07%) Developer
7 41 (5.79%) Consultant
8 27 (3.81%) Architect
9 25 (3.53%) Programme Manager
10 23 (3.25%) Business Manager
10 23 (3.25%) Support Engineer
11 20 (2.82%) Business Change Manager
11 20 (2.82%) C# Developer
12 19 (2.68%) IT Engineer
12 19 (2.68%) IT Support
12 19 (2.68%) IT Support Engineer
13 18 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
13 18 (2.54%) Senior Manager
14 17 (2.40%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.38%) .NET
2 29 (4.10%) REST
3 23 (3.25%) .NET Framework
4 19 (2.68%) OAuth
5 14 (1.98%) Web Services
6 11 (1.55%) CSS
7 10 (1.41%) OpenID
7 10 (1.41%) RESTful
7 10 (1.41%) SAML
8 9 (1.27%) Middleware
8 9 (1.27%) NumPy
8 9 (1.27%) Pandas
8 9 (1.27%) pytest
8 9 (1.27%) React
9 8 (1.13%) Django
9 8 (1.13%) Flask
9 8 (1.13%) HTML
9 8 (1.13%) scikit-learn
9 8 (1.13%) SOAP
9 8 (1.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.24%) Onboarding
2 26 (3.67%) CMDB
2 26 (3.67%) PMI
3 24 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.84%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.69%) PKI
10 11 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.13%) FMCG
12 6 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.85%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.85%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.85%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.71%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 78 (11.02%) Windows
2 20 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 14 (1.98%) Linux
4 13 (1.84%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.55%) Unix
6 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.14%) AIX
9 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (30.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 172 (24.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 165 (23.31%) Agile
4 122 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 113 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (15.82%) Project Management
7 110 (15.54%) ITIL
8 99 (13.98%) DevOps
9 92 (12.99%) Migration
10 88 (12.43%) Roadmaps
11 86 (12.15%) Decision-Making
12 78 (11.02%) Project Delivery
13 70 (9.89%) AI
14 63 (8.90%) CI/CD
15 61 (8.62%) Workshop Facilitation
16 60 (8.47%) User Acceptance Testing
17 56 (7.91%) Risk Management
18 55 (7.77%) ERP
19 53 (7.49%) Analytics
20 51 (7.20%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 96 (13.56%) SQL
2 47 (6.64%) C#
3 37 (5.23%) Python
4 30 (4.24%) PL/SQL
5 25 (3.53%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.39%) T-SQL
7 18 (2.54%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.40%) Java
9 8 (1.13%) Korn
10 6 (0.85%) Groovy
11 5 (0.71%) Bash
11 5 (0.71%) Perl
12 4 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.42%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.14%) ABAP
14 1 (0.14%) C
14 1 (0.14%) C++
14 1 (0.14%) R
14 1 (0.14%) SOQL
14 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 95 (13.42%) Degree
2 78 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 52 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 50 (7.06%) PMI Certification
5 43 (6.07%) PMP
6 23 (3.25%) CISSP
7 20 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (2.40%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (2.26%) CISM
9 16 (2.26%) Master's Degree
10 15 (2.12%) APMG
11 14 (1.98%) DV Cleared
12 11 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.27%) CCNP
14 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.13%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.99%) CISA
16 7 (0.99%) Citrix Certification
16 7 (0.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.91%) QA
2 42 (5.93%) PMO
3 40 (5.65%) Data Quality
4 31 (4.38%) SLA
5 29 (4.10%) GDPR
6 23 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.41%) NIST
9 8 (1.13%) IFRS
10 7 (0.99%) COBIT
10 7 (0.99%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.99%) ITGC
11 6 (0.85%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.42%) GRC
14 3 (0.42%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.28%) Basel III
15 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 44 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.98%) Docker
3 8 (1.13%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.71%) XenApp
5 5 (0.71%) XenDesktop
6 4 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.28%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.68%) Terraform
3 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.55%) Ansible
5 9 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.99%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.99%) SCCM
7 6 (0.85%) CASB
8 5 (0.71%) 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
1 122 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 98 (13.84%) ServiceNow
3 71 (10.03%) Oracle
4 48 (6.78%) SAP
5 39 (5.51%) Salesforce
6 31 (4.38%) Citrix
7 22 (3.11%) Cisco
8 20 (2.82%) Workday
9 16 (2.26%) VMware
10 12 (1.69%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.55%) Google
12 10 (1.41%) Zscaler
13 9 (1.27%) F5
13 9 (1.27%) Fortinet
14 8 (1.13%) Automation Anywhere
14 8 (1.13%) Juniper
14 8 (1.13%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.13%) UiPath
15 7 (0.99%) Meraki
16 6 (0.85%) Avaloq