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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 49 36
Rank change year-on-year -12 -13 +14
Contract jobs citing Change Management 608 643 1,046
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.29% 4.09% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.58% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 356 663
10th Percentile £348 £373 £381
25th Percentile £420 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 4
10th Percentile £29.11 £33.92 £24.65
25th Percentile £32.91 £39.54 £29.38
Median hourly rate £40.50 £54.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +21.35% +72.82%
75th Percentile £74.45 £80.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £94.06 £97.00 £79.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £55.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year -45.82% +58.21% +2.19%

All Process and 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 13,068 14,030 17,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.28% 89.29% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,592 9,056 12,811
10th Percentile £334 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -3.34% -3.56%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.56
Median hourly rate £28.50 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +3.21% -6.54%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.87 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +13 86 £500 -13.79% 138
South London +15 26 £429 -23.81% 14
West London +1 14 £475 +4.40% 21
East London +10 8 £630 +48.24% 10
North London 0 1 £600 - 3
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 53 (8.72%) Confluence
2 35 (5.76%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.64%) nginx
4 6 (0.99%) HCL Notes
4 6 (0.99%) Mattermost
4 6 (0.99%) Skype for Business
5 4 (0.66%) IIS
6 3 (0.49%) CICS
6 3 (0.49%) CMS
6 3 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Moodle
7 1 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 37 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (4.93%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (3.62%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 3 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.49%) Trello
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.16%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.16%) Notion
Business Applications
1 33 (5.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.99%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.82%) SAP APO
5 3 (0.49%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.49%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.49%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.49%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.49%) VisionPLUS
6 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.33%) Maximo
6 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.33%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 59 (9.70%) Azure
2 51 (8.39%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 34 (5.59%) AWS
5 31 (5.10%) SaaS
6 16 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 16 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.97%) Entra ID
8 11 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (1.81%) PaaS
8 11 (1.81%) Power Automate
8 11 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (1.64%) Amazon ELB
9 10 (1.64%) AWS KMS
9 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
9 10 (1.64%) PowerApps
9 10 (1.64%) Route 53
10 9 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 47 (7.73%) Firewall
2 23 (3.78%) Network Security
3 20 (3.29%) DNS
4 17 (2.80%) WAN
5 14 (2.30%) HTTP
5 14 (2.30%) LAN
6 13 (2.14%) VPN
7 12 (1.97%) SMTP
7 12 (1.97%) SSH
8 11 (1.81%) BGP
8 11 (1.81%) OSPF
9 10 (1.64%) FTP
9 10 (1.64%) IMAP
9 10 (1.64%) OpenLDAP
9 10 (1.64%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.99%) Skype
11 6 (0.99%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.99%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.10%) Power BI
2 23 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.47%) Tableau
5 8 (1.32%) Oracle Database
6 7 (1.15%) Metadata
7 4 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.66%) Redis
8 3 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.49%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.49%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (0.49%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.33%) MySQL
9 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 68 (11.18%) JIRA
2 24 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.45%) Git
4 10 (1.64%) Vagrant
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.49%) ChangeMan
6 3 (0.49%) JUnit
6 3 (0.49%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.49%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.49%) Selenium
6 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.33%) Mockito
8 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.16%) GCC
8 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
General
1 262 (43.09%) Social Skills
2 249 (40.95%) Finance
3 96 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (10.20%) Banking
5 43 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.77%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (3.45%) Legal
9 19 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.80%) Law
10 17 (2.80%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.80%) Marketing
11 16 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 16 (2.63%) Retail
11 16 (2.63%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.14%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.97%) Front Office
13 12 (1.97%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 106 (17.43%) Analyst
2 87 (14.31%) Project Manager
3 72 (11.84%) Business Analyst
4 56 (9.21%) Change Manager
4 56 (9.21%) Lead
5 41 (6.74%) Consultant
6 35 (5.76%) Senior
7 33 (5.43%) Developer
8 20 (3.29%) Architect
9 19 (3.13%) IT Manager
9 19 (3.13%) Programme Manager
10 15 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (2.30%) Business Manager
11 14 (2.30%) Transformation Manager
12 13 (2.14%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (2.14%) SAP Manager
12 13 (2.14%) Service Manager
13 12 (1.97%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (1.97%) Senior Manager
13 12 (1.97%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.80%) .NET
2 12 (1.97%) LDAP
3 9 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (1.32%) .NET Framework
5 7 (1.15%) Kafka
6 6 (0.99%) HTML
6 6 (0.99%) SAML
7 5 (0.82%) Node.js
7 5 (0.82%) REST
8 4 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.66%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (0.66%) Keycloak
8 4 (0.66%) OAuth
8 4 (0.66%) OpenID
8 4 (0.66%) Playwright
8 4 (0.66%) RESTful
8 4 (0.66%) SOAP
8 4 (0.66%) XMPP
8 4 (0.66%) YAML
9 3 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.61%) Product Ownership
2 26 (4.28%) Management Information System
3 21 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.47%) Replication
6 12 (1.97%) PMI
6 12 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.64%) Life Science
7 10 (1.64%) PKI
8 9 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.32%) CMDB
10 7 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.99%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (0.99%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.73%) Windows
2 29 (4.77%) Linux
3 12 (1.97%) Ubuntu
3 12 (1.97%) VMS
4 10 (1.64%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (1.48%) Unix
5 9 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.49%) zOS
9 2 (0.33%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Android
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 175 (28.78%) Agile
3 144 (23.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 129 (21.22%) Project Management
5 115 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (13.49%) Migration
7 80 (13.16%) Project Delivery
8 72 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 71 (11.68%) ITIL
10 63 (10.36%) Risk Management
11 59 (9.70%) PRINCE2
11 59 (9.70%) User Acceptance Testing
12 58 (9.54%) ERP
13 57 (9.38%) Decision-Making
14 54 (8.88%) DevOps
15 48 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
16 47 (7.73%) Roadmaps
17 46 (7.57%) Process Improvement
17 46 (7.57%) Scrum
17 46 (7.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 81 (13.32%) SQL
2 43 (7.07%) Python
3 29 (4.77%) PowerShell
4 26 (4.28%) C#
5 15 (2.47%) Java
5 15 (2.47%) PL/SQL
6 14 (2.30%) Groovy
7 13 (2.14%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.32%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.15%) Bash
9 7 (1.15%) Korn
10 4 (0.66%) Formula Language
10 4 (0.66%) Go
10 4 (0.66%) LotusScript
11 3 (0.49%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.49%) Perl
11 3 (0.49%) SOQL
11 3 (0.49%) SOSL
12 2 (0.33%) C
12 2 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 120 (19.74%) Degree
2 67 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 52 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 49 (8.06%) PMI Certification
5 39 (6.41%) PMP
6 14 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.64%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.32%) APMG
11 8 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.15%) CBAP
12 7 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.15%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.99%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 5 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.82%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.82%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.09%) QA
2 32 (5.26%) PMO
3 20 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.63%) GDPR
4 16 (2.63%) SLA
5 13 (2.14%) MiFID
6 11 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.64%) EMIR
8 7 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.15%) NIST
9 6 (0.99%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.66%) GMP
11 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.49%) ITGC
13 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.33%) IFRS
13 2 (0.33%) NCSC
14 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 31 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.96%) Docker
3 10 (1.64%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.64%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.64%) Postfix
3 10 (1.64%) Squid
4 4 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) etcd
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.16%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.16%) XenApp
6 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (4.77%) Terraform
2 16 (2.63%) Grafana
3 15 (2.47%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.81%) Nessus
5 10 (1.64%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.64%) Proxmox
6 8 (1.32%) Ansible
6 8 (1.32%) SCOM
7 6 (0.99%) HP SiteScope
8 4 (0.66%) Rancher
8 4 (0.66%) SCCM
9 3 (0.49%) CA Endevor
9 3 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.33%) Argo
10 2 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.33%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.33%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.16%) Istio
11 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 105 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 57 (9.38%) SAP
3 49 (8.06%) Oracle
4 45 (7.40%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.45%) Cisco
7 11 (1.81%) Workday
8 10 (1.64%) Citrix
8 10 (1.64%) Fortinet
8 10 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.32%) F5
9 8 (1.32%) Remedy
9 8 (1.32%) Splunk
9 8 (1.32%) VMware
10 7 (1.15%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.15%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.99%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.99%) CheckPoint
11 6 (0.99%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.99%) Lotus