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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 48 37
Rank change year-on-year -20 -11 +13
Contract jobs citing Change Management 587 577 886
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 4.16% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.60% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 320 534
10th Percentile £375 £360 £377
25th Percentile £420 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £724 £738 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £29.11 £38.63 £24.65
25th Percentile £32.91 £44.08 £29.38
Median hourly rate £40.50 £54.00 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +18.03% +62.46%
75th Percentile £74.45 £95.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £94.06 £98.00 £81.38
England median hourly rate £45.46 £55.37 £45.87
% change year-on-year -17.90% +20.73% +31.04%

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 13,291 12,555 16,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.17% 90.44% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,813 8,005 11,559
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.43% -7.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 154 294
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.23 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £32.98 £35.00 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +12.45% -12.32%
75th Percentile £55.25 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.53 £73.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -2 80 £479 -12.84% 30
South London +14 23 £425 -33.33% 8
West London -11 13 £425 +93.18% 11
East London +1 5 £525 +23.53% 5
North London +6 2 £575 -
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 (7.33%) Confluence
2 36 (6.13%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.53%) nginx
4 6 (1.02%) Mattermost
4 6 (1.02%) Skype for Business
5 5 (0.85%) Appian
5 5 (0.85%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.68%) IIS
7 3 (0.51%) CICS
7 3 (0.51%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Moodle
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 39 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (4.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (4.60%) MS Visio
4 26 (4.43%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.68%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (4.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.68%) Finacle
5 3 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.51%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.51%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.51%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.51%) VisionPLUS
6 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.34%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 75 (12.78%) Azure
2 51 (8.69%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (6.47%) AWS
3 38 (6.47%) Power Platform
4 22 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (3.24%) SaaS
6 16 (2.73%) Power Automate
7 15 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 15 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 12 (2.04%) GitHub
8 12 (2.04%) PaaS
9 10 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (1.53%) Amazon ELB
10 9 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (1.53%) IaaS
10 9 (1.53%) Route 53
10 9 (1.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.33%) Firewall
2 29 (4.94%) Network Security
3 21 (3.58%) WAN
4 19 (3.24%) DNS
5 18 (3.07%) VPN
6 17 (2.90%) LAN
7 14 (2.39%) SD-WAN
8 12 (2.04%) HTTP
9 11 (1.87%) SMTP
9 11 (1.87%) SSH
10 9 (1.53%) BGP
10 9 (1.53%) FTP
10 9 (1.53%) IMAP
10 9 (1.53%) OpenLDAP
11 8 (1.36%) NetScaler
11 8 (1.36%) OSPF
12 7 (1.19%) Intranet
12 7 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.02%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.45%) Power BI
2 31 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (2.56%) Tableau
6 10 (1.70%) Metadata
7 7 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.85%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.85%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.68%) Redis
11 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.51%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (0.51%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 63 (10.73%) JIRA
2 21 (3.58%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.24%) Git
4 10 (1.70%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.53%) Vagrant
6 5 (0.85%) MLflow
7 3 (0.51%) ChangeMan
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
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
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%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 280 (47.70%) Social Skills
2 247 (42.08%) Finance
3 107 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.07%) Banking
5 43 (7.33%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.60%) Legal
6 27 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (3.24%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.07%) Retail
11 16 (2.73%) Law
11 16 (2.73%) Marketing
12 14 (2.39%) Manufacturing
13 13 (2.21%) Local Government
13 13 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 12 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.87%) Front Office
16 10 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 89 (15.16%) Analyst
2 72 (12.27%) Change Manager
2 72 (12.27%) Project Manager
3 61 (10.39%) Business Analyst
4 59 (10.05%) Lead
5 37 (6.30%) Senior
6 35 (5.96%) Developer
7 29 (4.94%) Consultant
8 25 (4.26%) Architect
9 21 (3.58%) Programme Manager
10 20 (3.41%) Business Manager
11 19 (3.24%) Senior Manager
12 16 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (2.73%) IT Manager
12 16 (2.73%) Transformation Manager
13 15 (2.56%) Business Change Manager
13 15 (2.56%) C# Developer
14 13 (2.21%) DevOps Engineer
15 11 (1.87%) AWS DevOps
15 11 (1.87%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.58%) .NET
2 16 (2.73%) REST
3 15 (2.56%) .NET Framework
4 11 (1.87%) LDAP
5 10 (1.70%) OAuth
6 8 (1.36%) HTML
6 8 (1.36%) RESTful
7 7 (1.19%) Kafka
7 7 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.19%) SAML
7 7 (1.19%) Web Services
8 6 (1.02%) NumPy
8 6 (1.02%) OpenID
8 6 (1.02%) Pandas
8 6 (1.02%) pytest
9 5 (0.85%) Flask
9 5 (0.85%) Node.js
9 5 (0.85%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.85%) Swagger
9 5 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.43%) Management Information System
1 26 (4.43%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.75%) CMDB
4 14 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (2.39%) PKI
5 13 (2.21%) Replication
6 12 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.04%) PMI
7 11 (1.87%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.53%) Life Science
9 8 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.19%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.02%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.85%) Cloud Native
12 5 (0.85%) Credit Risk
12 5 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.39%) Windows
2 25 (4.26%) Linux
3 14 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.04%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.87%) VMS
6 9 (1.53%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (1.53%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.53%) Unix
7 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.51%) zOS
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) Android
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (33.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 159 (27.09%) Agile
3 153 (26.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 112 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (18.06%) Project Management
6 85 (14.48%) ITIL
7 75 (12.78%) Project Delivery
8 72 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (11.58%) Migration
10 66 (11.24%) Decision-Making
11 64 (10.90%) DevOps
12 61 (10.39%) Roadmaps
13 60 (10.22%) Workshop Facilitation
14 56 (9.54%) PRINCE2
14 56 (9.54%) Risk Management
15 53 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
16 52 (8.86%) User Acceptance Testing
17 48 (8.18%) CI/CD
18 47 (8.01%) Data Analysis
18 47 (8.01%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 89 (15.16%) SQL
2 53 (9.03%) Python
3 31 (5.28%) PowerShell
4 25 (4.26%) C#
5 18 (3.07%) PL/SQL
6 13 (2.21%) Groovy
6 13 (2.21%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.87%) Java
8 10 (1.70%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.19%) Bash
9 7 (1.19%) Korn
10 4 (0.68%) Go
11 3 (0.51%) C
11 3 (0.51%) C++
11 3 (0.51%) Perl
11 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.34%) COBOL
12 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 121 (20.61%) Degree
2 71 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 48 (8.18%) PMI Certification
4 43 (7.33%) SC Cleared
5 40 (6.81%) PMP
6 20 (3.41%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.39%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (2.21%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.04%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.87%) APMG
11 10 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.53%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.53%) CCNP
13 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (1.02%) CCIE
14 6 (1.02%) CFA
14 6 (1.02%) CISSP
14 6 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.84%) QA
2 36 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 34 (5.79%) PMO
4 25 (4.26%) GDPR
5 20 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (3.07%) SLA
7 9 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.53%) NIST
8 8 (1.36%) MiFID
9 7 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.02%) IFRS
11 5 (0.85%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.85%) EMIR
11 5 (0.85%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.68%) GMP
12 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.51%) GRC
14 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.09%) Docker
3 9 (1.53%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.53%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.53%) Postfix
3 9 (1.53%) Squid
4 5 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.68%) XenApp
5 4 (0.68%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.34%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
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 31 (5.28%) Terraform
2 18 (3.07%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.39%) Grafana
4 13 (2.21%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.70%) Nessus
7 9 (1.53%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.36%) SCOM
9 7 (1.19%) Ansible
10 6 (1.02%) HP SiteScope
10 6 (1.02%) SCCM
11 4 (0.68%) Rancher
11 4 (0.68%) SCVMM
12 3 (0.51%) CA Endevor
12 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.51%) Puppet
13 2 (0.34%) Argo
13 2 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (0.34%) RSA Archer
14 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 101 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.90%) ServiceNow
3 50 (8.52%) Oracle
3 50 (8.52%) SAP
4 23 (3.92%) Cisco
5 22 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.24%) Citrix
7 12 (2.04%) Workday
8 11 (1.87%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.70%) CheckPoint
9 10 (1.70%) F5
9 10 (1.70%) Remedy
10 9 (1.53%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (1.53%) VMware
10 9 (1.53%) Zscaler
11 7 (1.19%) Juniper
11 7 (1.19%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.19%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.19%) Splunk
12 6 (1.02%) CyberArk