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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 51 37
Rank change year-on-year -18 -14 +14
Contract jobs citing Change Management 582 579 892
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.94% 4.19% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.63% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 319 544
10th Percentile £375 £350 £380
25th Percentile £420 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.33%
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 £44.08 £40.26
% change year-on-year +3.13% +9.50% -3.00%

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 13,441 12,496 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.45% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,906 7,945 11,669
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 155 323
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.11 £24.66 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £56.13 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.50 £72.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 79 £496 -9.91% 33
South London +13 22 £425 -33.33% 8
West London -10 14 £463 +110.23% 6
East London +3 5 £525 +23.53% 7
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 41 (7.04%) Confluence
2 32 (5.50%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.37%) nginx
5 6 (1.03%) Appian
5 6 (1.03%) Mattermost
5 6 (1.03%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.86%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.69%) CMS
8 3 (0.52%) CICS
8 3 (0.52%) IIS
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 33 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.47%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (4.12%) MS Visio
4 23 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.69%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
7 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (4.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.69%) Finacle
4 4 (0.69%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.69%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.52%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.52%) VisionPLUS
6 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.34%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.34%) OpenText VIM for SAP
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%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 78 (13.40%) Azure
2 52 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (6.53%) AWS
4 37 (6.36%) Power Platform
5 23 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.26%) SaaS
7 17 (2.92%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (2.41%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.23%) Entra ID
10 13 (2.23%) PaaS
11 12 (2.06%) GitHub
12 10 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (1.72%) IaaS
13 9 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.55%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.55%) Serverless
13 9 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.37%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.87%) Firewall
2 28 (4.81%) Network Security
3 20 (3.44%) WAN
4 17 (2.92%) DNS
5 16 (2.75%) LAN
5 16 (2.75%) VPN
6 13 (2.23%) SD-WAN
7 11 (1.89%) HTTP
8 10 (1.72%) SMTP
8 10 (1.72%) SSH
9 8 (1.37%) BGP
9 8 (1.37%) FTP
9 8 (1.37%) IMAP
9 8 (1.37%) NetScaler
9 8 (1.37%) OpenLDAP
10 7 (1.20%) Intranet
10 7 (1.20%) OSPF
10 7 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.03%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.84%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.15%) Power BI
3 20 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (2.41%) Tableau
6 8 (1.37%) Metadata
7 7 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.03%) Pinecone
9 5 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.69%) Redis
11 3 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.52%) GIS
11 3 (0.52%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (0.52%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (10.65%) JIRA
2 20 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 18 (3.09%) Git
4 11 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.37%) Vagrant
6 6 (1.03%) MLflow
7 3 (0.52%) ChangeMan
7 3 (0.52%) JUnit
7 3 (0.52%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.34%) git-flow
8 2 (0.34%) Mockito
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.17%) MSI
9 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.17%) TestRail
9 1 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 281 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 248 (42.61%) Finance
3 104 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.17%) Banking
5 39 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.64%) Legal
6 27 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (3.44%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.09%) Retail
11 17 (2.92%) Law
12 15 (2.58%) Marketing
13 14 (2.41%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.23%) Local Government
15 12 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (2.06%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.89%) Front Office
17 9 (1.55%) Financial Institution
18 8 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (15.12%) Analyst
2 73 (12.54%) Project Manager
3 71 (12.20%) Change Manager
4 61 (10.48%) Business Analyst
5 60 (10.31%) Lead
6 37 (6.36%) Senior
7 36 (6.19%) Developer
8 28 (4.81%) Consultant
9 23 (3.95%) Architect
10 20 (3.44%) Business Manager
11 18 (3.09%) Programme Manager
11 18 (3.09%) Senior Manager
12 17 (2.92%) C# Developer
13 15 (2.58%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (2.58%) Business Change Manager
13 15 (2.58%) IT Manager
13 15 (2.58%) Transformation Manager
14 12 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (1.72%) SAP Manager
15 10 (1.72%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.12%) .NET
2 17 (2.92%) .NET Framework
2 17 (2.92%) REST
3 12 (2.06%) OAuth
4 9 (1.55%) LDAP
4 9 (1.55%) RESTful
5 8 (1.37%) HTML
5 8 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (1.37%) Web Services
6 7 (1.20%) Kafka
6 7 (1.20%) NumPy
6 7 (1.20%) OpenID
6 7 (1.20%) Pandas
6 7 (1.20%) pytest
6 7 (1.20%) SAML
7 6 (1.03%) JWT
7 6 (1.03%) PyTorch
7 6 (1.03%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.03%) Swagger
7 6 (1.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.47%) Onboarding
1 26 (4.47%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.12%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.78%) CMDB
4 16 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.41%) PKI
7 12 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.06%) PMI
7 12 (2.06%) Replication
8 9 (1.55%) Life Science
8 9 (1.55%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.37%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.86%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.86%) e-Learning
11 5 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (10.31%) Windows
2 24 (4.12%) Linux
3 16 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.06%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.55%) Unix
5 9 (1.55%) VMS
6 8 (1.37%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.52%) 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
1 196 (33.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 159 (27.32%) Agile
3 155 (26.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 111 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (17.87%) Project Management
6 84 (14.43%) ITIL
7 74 (12.71%) Project Delivery
8 71 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (11.68%) Migration
10 67 (11.51%) Decision-Making
11 64 (11.00%) DevOps
12 61 (10.48%) Roadmaps
13 58 (9.97%) Risk Management
14 57 (9.79%) Workshop Facilitation
15 56 (9.62%) PRINCE2
16 55 (9.45%) User Acceptance Testing
17 50 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
18 49 (8.42%) CI/CD
19 48 (8.25%) Data Analysis
19 48 (8.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 90 (15.46%) SQL
2 50 (8.59%) Python
3 29 (4.98%) PowerShell
4 26 (4.47%) C#
5 20 (3.44%) PL/SQL
6 14 (2.41%) T-SQL
7 12 (2.06%) Groovy
7 12 (2.06%) Java
8 10 (1.72%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.20%) Bash
10 6 (1.03%) Korn
11 4 (0.69%) Go
11 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.69%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.52%) Perl
13 2 (0.34%) C
13 2 (0.34%) C++
13 2 (0.34%) COBOL
13 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 122 (20.96%) Degree
2 64 (11.00%) Security Cleared
3 48 (8.25%) PMI Certification
4 40 (6.87%) PMP
5 39 (6.70%) SC Cleared
6 22 (3.78%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.89%) APMG
10 10 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.55%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.20%) CCNP
13 7 (1.20%) CISSP
14 6 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.03%) CFA
14 6 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.86%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.59%) QA
2 38 (6.53%) Data Quality
3 34 (5.84%) PMO
4 27 (4.64%) GDPR
5 20 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (2.92%) SLA
7 9 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.55%) NIST
8 8 (1.37%) IFRS
8 8 (1.37%) MiFID
9 7 (1.20%) IFRS 17
9 7 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.03%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.86%) EMIR
12 4 (0.69%) GMP
12 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.69%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.52%) GRC
14 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (4.98%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.30%) Docker
3 8 (1.37%) DFS Replication
3 8 (1.37%) Dovecot
3 8 (1.37%) Postfix
3 8 (1.37%) Squid
4 5 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.69%) XenApp
5 4 (0.69%) 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 28 (4.81%) Terraform
2 21 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.23%) Grafana
4 12 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.37%) Nessus
5 8 (1.37%) Proxmox
5 8 (1.37%) SCOM
6 6 (1.03%) HP SiteScope
6 6 (1.03%) SCCM
7 5 (0.86%) Ansible
8 4 (0.69%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.69%) Rancher
8 4 (0.69%) SCVMM
9 3 (0.52%) CA Endevor
9 3 (0.52%) Puppet
10 2 (0.34%) Argo
10 2 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 102 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 59 (10.14%) ServiceNow
3 53 (9.11%) Oracle
4 51 (8.76%) SAP
5 21 (3.61%) Cisco
5 21 (3.61%) Citrix
5 21 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.06%) Fortinet
6 12 (2.06%) Workday
7 9 (1.55%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.37%) CheckPoint
8 8 (1.37%) F5
8 8 (1.37%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (1.37%) Remedy
8 8 (1.37%) VMware
9 7 (1.20%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.20%) UiPath
9 7 (1.20%) Zscaler
10 6 (1.03%) Automation Anywhere
10 6 (1.03%) Dynatrace