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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 50 40
Rank change year-on-year -23 -10 +9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 594 568 874
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.91% 4.18% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 4.61% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 309 540
10th Percentile £365 £356 £381
25th Percentile £415 £463 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £566
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -4.51% +2.72%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £29.11 £28.60 £25.70
25th Percentile £32.91 £30.20 £32.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £39.54 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% +14.51% +22.62%
75th Percentile £74.45 £53.02 £61.25
90th Percentile £94.06 £75.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -10.95%

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 13,766 12,313 16,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.73% 90.57% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,152 7,857 11,594
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.49
Median hourly rate £34.75 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.62 £55.25 £51.25
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 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 12 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 12 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 -3 78 £500 -6.76% 40
South London +10 21 £425 -33.33% 5
West London -8 15 £425 +93.18% 5
East London +4 5 £525 +23.53% 12
North London +5 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 40 (6.73%) Confluence
2 31 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.35%) Appian
5 6 (1.01%) Mattermost
5 6 (1.01%) nginx
5 6 (1.01%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.84%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.51%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 31 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (4.04%) MS Visio
4 23 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (1.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 3 (0.51%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 26 (4.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.84%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.84%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.84%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.67%) Finacle
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.51%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.34%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.34%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.34%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.34%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 86 (14.48%) Azure
2 52 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (6.73%) AWS
4 39 (6.57%) Power Platform
5 27 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.20%) Power Automate
7 15 (2.53%) SaaS
8 14 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (2.36%) Entra ID
9 13 (2.19%) GitHub
10 12 (2.02%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (1.68%) Serverless
12 9 (1.52%) Azure AI
12 9 (1.52%) PaaS
12 9 (1.52%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.35%) GCP
13 8 (1.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.40%) Firewall
2 29 (4.88%) Network Security
3 20 (3.37%) WAN
4 18 (3.03%) VPN
5 17 (2.86%) DNS
6 16 (2.69%) LAN
7 13 (2.19%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.52%) BGP
8 9 (1.52%) HTTP
8 9 (1.52%) NetScaler
9 8 (1.35%) OSPF
9 8 (1.35%) SMTP
10 7 (1.18%) SSH
10 7 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.01%) FTP
11 6 (1.01%) IMAP
11 6 (1.01%) Intranet
11 6 (1.01%) TCP/IP
11 6 (1.01%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 31 (5.22%) Power BI
3 18 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.36%) Tableau
5 13 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.52%) Metadata
7 8 (1.35%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.84%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.67%) Redis
11 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.51%) GIS
11 3 (0.51%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (0.51%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (10.94%) JIRA
2 18 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.69%) Git
4 11 (1.85%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.35%) MLflow
6 6 (1.01%) Vagrant
7 3 (0.51%) JUnit
7 3 (0.51%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.34%) git-flow
8 2 (0.34%) Mockito
9 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 279 (46.97%) Social Skills
2 257 (43.27%) Finance
3 106 (17.85%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (11.28%) Banking
5 40 (6.73%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.38%) Legal
6 26 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 20 (3.37%) Marketing
8 20 (3.37%) Retail
9 17 (2.86%) Law
10 13 (2.19%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.02%) Local Government
11 12 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.85%) Front Office
12 11 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 90 (15.15%) Analyst
2 72 (12.12%) Change Manager
2 72 (12.12%) Project Manager
3 61 (10.27%) Business Analyst
3 61 (10.27%) Lead
4 40 (6.73%) Senior
5 34 (5.72%) Developer
6 31 (5.22%) Consultant
7 25 (4.21%) Architect
8 21 (3.54%) Business Manager
9 19 (3.20%) Programme Manager
10 17 (2.86%) C# Developer
11 16 (2.69%) Business Change Manager
12 15 (2.53%) Senior Manager
13 13 (2.19%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (2.19%) IT Manager
14 12 (2.02%) SAP Manager
14 12 (2.02%) Transformation Manager
15 11 (1.85%) Administrator
16 10 (1.68%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.21%) .NET
2 19 (3.20%) .NET Framework
3 18 (3.03%) REST
4 15 (2.53%) OAuth
5 12 (2.02%) RESTful
6 11 (1.85%) Web Services
7 9 (1.52%) NumPy
7 9 (1.52%) Pandas
7 9 (1.52%) pytest
8 8 (1.35%) Django
8 8 (1.35%) Flask
8 8 (1.35%) HTML
8 8 (1.35%) Hugging Face
8 8 (1.35%) JWT
8 8 (1.35%) LDAP
8 8 (1.35%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.35%) SAML
8 8 (1.35%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.35%) Swagger
8 8 (1.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.71%) Onboarding
1 28 (4.71%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.21%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.87%) CMDB
4 19 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (2.53%) PKI
7 12 (2.02%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.02%) PMI
8 10 (1.68%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.68%) Replication
9 9 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.52%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.35%) Life Science
11 7 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.01%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.76%) Windows
2 21 (3.54%) Linux
3 14 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.35%) Unix
6 7 (1.18%) VMS
7 6 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.34%) Android
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (34.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 160 (26.94%) Agile
3 153 (25.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 116 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (17.34%) Project Management
6 85 (14.31%) ITIL
7 74 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 73 (12.29%) Migration
8 73 (12.29%) Project Delivery
9 65 (10.94%) Decision-Making
9 65 (10.94%) DevOps
10 64 (10.77%) Roadmaps
11 59 (9.93%) User Acceptance Testing
12 57 (9.60%) PRINCE2
12 57 (9.60%) Risk Management
12 57 (9.60%) Workshop Facilitation
13 52 (8.75%) AI
13 52 (8.75%) Requirements Gathering
14 51 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
14 51 (8.59%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 96 (16.16%) SQL
2 51 (8.59%) Python
3 31 (5.22%) PowerShell
4 29 (4.88%) C#
5 19 (3.20%) PL/SQL
6 14 (2.36%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.85%) Groovy
7 11 (1.85%) Java
7 11 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.18%) Bash
9 5 (0.84%) Korn
10 4 (0.67%) Go
10 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.67%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.51%) Perl
12 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.34%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.17%) ABAP
13 1 (0.17%) C
13 1 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 116 (19.53%) Degree
2 62 (10.44%) Security Cleared
3 47 (7.91%) PMI Certification
4 39 (6.57%) PMP
5 37 (6.23%) SC Cleared
6 22 (3.70%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.68%) APMG
9 10 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (1.52%) CISSP
11 8 (1.35%) CCNP
12 7 (1.18%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.01%) CBAP
13 6 (1.01%) CFA
13 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (9.09%) QA
2 40 (6.73%) Data Quality
3 34 (5.72%) PMO
4 28 (4.71%) GDPR
5 19 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (3.03%) SLA
7 10 (1.68%) NIST
8 8 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.35%) IFRS
8 8 (1.35%) MiFID
9 7 (1.18%) IFRS 17
9 7 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.01%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.84%) EMIR
12 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.67%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.51%) GMP
13 3 (0.51%) GRC
14 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.21%) Docker
3 6 (1.01%) DFS Replication
3 6 (1.01%) Dovecot
3 6 (1.01%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.01%) Postfix
3 6 (1.01%) Squid
4 5 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.84%) XenApp
4 5 (0.84%) XenDesktop
5 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.34%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (4.55%) Terraform
2 23 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.85%) Grafana
4 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.18%) SCCM
5 7 (1.18%) SCOM
6 6 (1.01%) Ansible
6 6 (1.01%) HP SiteScope
6 6 (1.01%) Nessus
6 6 (1.01%) Proxmox
7 5 (0.84%) SCVMM
8 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.67%) Rancher
9 3 (0.51%) Puppet
10 2 (0.34%) Argo
10 2 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.17%) Istio
11 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 104 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 67 (11.28%) ServiceNow
3 50 (8.42%) SAP
4 48 (8.08%) Oracle
5 26 (4.38%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.87%) Citrix
7 21 (3.54%) Cisco
8 12 (2.02%) Fortinet
8 12 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.02%) Workday
9 9 (1.52%) Remedy
9 9 (1.52%) UiPath
9 9 (1.52%) VMware
10 8 (1.35%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.35%) CheckPoint
10 8 (1.35%) F5
10 8 (1.35%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.18%) Splunk
11 7 (1.18%) Zscaler
12 6 (1.01%) Jaspersoft