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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 49 41
Rank change year-on-year -18 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 647 568 846
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.98% 4.24% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.66% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 325 514
10th Percentile £400 £356 £389
25th Percentile £421 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £45.15 - £38.93
25th Percentile £54.00 £28.60 £48.46
Median hourly rate £74.46 £35.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +112.74% -44.22% +59.87%
75th Percentile £96.25 £56.00 £74.63
90th Percentile £98.50 £79.40 £83.85
England median hourly rate £43.86 £55.37 £37.18
% change year-on-year -20.80% +48.93% -20.98%

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 14,655 12,200 16,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.11% 90.98% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,838 8,002 11,621
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% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 162 351
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £24.66 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.13 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.42 £77.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 82 £491 -8.39% 59
South London +4 21 £500 -21.57% 2
West London -11 15 £500 +127.27% 15
East London +3 4 £525 +23.53% 13
North London - 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 39 (6.03%) Confluence
2 30 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.24%) Appian
5 5 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.77%) HCL Notes
6 3 (0.46%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) CMS
7 2 (0.31%) Mattermost
7 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) Moodle
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.15%) Traefik
Applications
1 27 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 27 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (3.86%) MS Visio
3 24 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.46%) Trello
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.15%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 22 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.77%) Finacle
4 5 (0.77%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.77%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.46%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.31%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 103 (15.92%) Azure
2 54 (8.35%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (5.72%) AWS
4 36 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (5.10%) Power Platform
6 26 (4.02%) Entra ID
7 22 (3.40%) SaaS
8 19 (2.94%) Power Automate
9 13 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (2.01%) PaaS
10 12 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (1.70%) GitHub
11 11 (1.70%) IaaS
12 9 (1.39%) Azure AI
12 9 (1.39%) GCP
12 9 (1.39%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.39%) Serverless
13 8 (1.24%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.24%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.87%) Firewall
2 31 (4.79%) Network Security
3 24 (3.71%) WAN
4 20 (3.09%) LAN
5 19 (2.94%) VPN
6 17 (2.63%) SD-WAN
7 13 (2.01%) BGP
7 13 (2.01%) DNS
8 12 (1.85%) OSPF
9 9 (1.39%) NetScaler
10 8 (1.24%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (1.24%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (1.08%) Intranet
11 7 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (0.93%) DHCP
12 6 (0.93%) NX-OS
13 5 (0.77%) Internet
13 5 (0.77%) TCP/IP
14 4 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.72%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.71%) Power BI
3 10 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (1.39%) Metadata
4 9 (1.39%) Tableau
5 8 (1.24%) Pinecone
6 7 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.93%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (0.77%) MySQL
9 3 (0.46%) GIS
9 3 (0.46%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (0.46%) Redis
10 2 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (11.75%) JIRA
2 16 (2.47%) Git
3 13 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.70%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.24%) MLflow
6 4 (0.62%) Maven
7 3 (0.46%) JUnit
7 3 (0.46%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.31%) git-flow
8 2 (0.31%) Mockito
9 1 (0.15%) Ant
9 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.15%) GCC
9 1 (0.15%) Hudson
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.15%) Toad
General
1 278 (42.97%) Social Skills
2 260 (40.19%) Finance
3 107 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (10.97%) Banking
5 41 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 34 (5.26%) Legal
7 30 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
7 30 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (3.40%) Retail
9 21 (3.25%) Law
10 19 (2.94%) Investment Banking
10 19 (2.94%) Marketing
11 17 (2.63%) Financial Institution
12 16 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.70%) Local Government
13 11 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.70%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (13.14%) Analyst
1 85 (13.14%) Project Manager
2 82 (12.67%) Change Manager
3 61 (9.43%) Business Analyst
4 58 (8.96%) Lead
5 41 (6.34%) Senior
6 38 (5.87%) Consultant
6 38 (5.87%) Developer
7 25 (3.86%) Architect
8 24 (3.71%) Business Manager
9 19 (2.94%) Business Change Manager
9 19 (2.94%) C# Developer
10 18 (2.78%) Programme Manager
11 17 (2.63%) Support Engineer
12 15 (2.32%) Delivery Manager
12 15 (2.32%) Senior Manager
13 14 (2.16%) Network Engineer
14 13 (2.01%) IT Engineer
14 13 (2.01%) IT Support
14 13 (2.01%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.02%) .NET
2 23 (3.55%) REST
3 21 (3.25%) .NET Framework
4 15 (2.32%) OAuth
4 15 (2.32%) Web Services
5 12 (1.85%) RESTful
6 9 (1.39%) CSS
6 9 (1.39%) NumPy
6 9 (1.39%) Pandas
6 9 (1.39%) pytest
7 8 (1.24%) Faiss
7 8 (1.24%) FastAPI
7 8 (1.24%) Flask
7 8 (1.24%) HTML
7 8 (1.24%) Hugging Face
7 8 (1.24%) OpenAPI
7 8 (1.24%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.24%) scikit-learn
7 8 (1.24%) Swagger
7 8 (1.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.64%) Onboarding
2 29 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.17%) CMDB
4 24 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.32%) Data Centre
8 14 (2.16%) PKI
8 14 (2.16%) PMI
9 13 (2.01%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.70%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (0.93%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.93%) Life Science
13 6 (0.93%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 75 (11.59%) Windows
2 17 (2.63%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.47%) Linux
3 16 (2.47%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.70%) Unix
5 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.31%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.31%) VMS
7 1 (0.15%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (32.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 159 (24.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 158 (24.42%) Agile
4 113 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (16.38%) Project Management
6 98 (15.15%) ITIL
7 92 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (12.67%) Migration
9 80 (12.36%) DevOps
10 77 (11.90%) Project Delivery
11 74 (11.44%) Roadmaps
12 70 (10.82%) Decision-Making
13 61 (9.43%) AI
13 61 (9.43%) PRINCE2
14 58 (8.96%) Risk Management
15 57 (8.81%) User Acceptance Testing
16 54 (8.35%) Workshop Facilitation
17 52 (8.04%) CI/CD
17 52 (8.04%) ITSM
18 50 (7.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 89 (13.76%) SQL
2 40 (6.18%) Python
3 39 (6.03%) C#
4 26 (4.02%) PowerShell
5 21 (3.25%) PL/SQL
6 16 (2.47%) Java
6 16 (2.47%) T-SQL
7 15 (2.32%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.93%) Bash
9 5 (0.77%) Groovy
9 5 (0.77%) Korn
10 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.46%) Perl
11 3 (0.46%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.31%) Go
12 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.31%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.15%) Formula Language
13 1 (0.15%) LotusScript
13 1 (0.15%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 106 (16.38%) Degree
2 75 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 49 (7.57%) PMI Certification
4 47 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 42 (6.49%) PMP
6 20 (3.09%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.47%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.01%) CISSP
11 9 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.39%) CCNP
11 9 (1.39%) CISM
12 8 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.08%) APMG
13 7 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.93%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.04%) QA
2 42 (6.49%) Data Quality
3 32 (4.95%) PMO
4 31 (4.79%) GDPR
5 28 (4.33%) SLA
6 24 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.55%) NIST
8 8 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.24%) IFRS
8 8 (1.24%) MiFID
8 8 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.08%) IFRS 17
10 6 (0.93%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.77%) EMIR
12 4 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.62%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.46%) GRC
14 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.94%) Docker
3 8 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.77%) XenApp
5 5 (0.77%) XenDesktop
6 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.31%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.15%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.15%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.15%) etcd
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.15%) Postfix
8 1 (0.15%) Squid
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.09%) Terraform
3 16 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.24%) Ansible
5 7 (1.08%) FortiGate
5 7 (1.08%) SCCM
6 5 (0.77%) Grafana
6 5 (0.77%) SCVMM
7 4 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.62%) SCOM
8 3 (0.46%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.46%) Puppet
8 3 (0.46%) Rancher
9 2 (0.31%) Argo
9 2 (0.31%) HP SiteScope
9 2 (0.31%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.31%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.15%) Avamar
10 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 114 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 82 (12.67%) ServiceNow
3 48 (7.42%) Oracle
4 47 (7.26%) SAP
5 28 (4.33%) Citrix
6 26 (4.02%) Cisco
7 25 (3.86%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.47%) VMware
8 16 (2.47%) Workday
9 12 (1.85%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.85%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.70%) F5
11 9 (1.39%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.39%) Remedy
11 9 (1.39%) Zscaler
12 8 (1.24%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (1.24%) CheckPoint
12 8 (1.24%) UiPath
13 7 (1.08%) Juniper
14 6 (0.93%) Adobe