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

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 60 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 -23 +15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 578 620 1,118
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.31% 3.87% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 4.33% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 336 713
10th Percentile £350 £350 £381
25th Percentile £420 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.45%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £785
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile £29.26 £33.65 £24.65
25th Percentile £33.29 £37.27 £29.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £49.04 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +10.20% +53.45%
75th Percentile £73.57 £63.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £93.71 £83.00 £79.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £58.17 £48.40
% change year-on-year -48.43% +20.19% +66.90%

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 12,405 14,308 19,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.57% 89.32% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,173 9,340 13,832
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 182 230
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.28 £18.48
25th Percentile £25.01 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -7.51% +9.31%
75th Percentile £47.50 £56.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £64.75 £78.72 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +26 88 £550 -8.14% 30
South London +16 24 £429 -14.34% 4
East London +14 9 £630 +48.24% 8
West London -5 9 £553 +70.00% 10
North London -2 1 £440 - 2
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 48 (8.30%) Confluence
2 32 (5.54%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.73%) nginx
4 7 (1.21%) CMS
5 6 (1.04%) Mattermost
5 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.04%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.87%) HCL Notes
6 5 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.52%) CICS
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle UPK
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 33 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.50%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (4.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.94%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.52%) Trello
7 2 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.35%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 29 (5.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.87%) SAP APO
4 5 (0.87%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.69%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.52%) OpenText MBPM
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle BPM
6 3 (0.52%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.52%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.52%) VisionPLUS
7 2 (0.35%) Endur
7 2 (0.35%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.35%) SAP PLM
7 2 (0.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 56 (9.69%) Azure
2 36 (6.23%) Power Platform
3 35 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (5.19%) AWS
5 25 (4.33%) SaaS
6 16 (2.77%) Amazon S3
7 12 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (1.73%) Amazon ELB
9 10 (1.73%) AWS KMS
9 10 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.73%) Entra ID
9 10 (1.73%) Power Automate
9 10 (1.73%) Route 53
10 9 (1.56%) GitHub
10 9 (1.56%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.21%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 42 (7.27%) Firewall
2 18 (3.11%) DNS
3 15 (2.60%) WAN
4 14 (2.42%) VPN
5 13 (2.25%) HTTP
6 12 (2.08%) LAN
6 12 (2.08%) Network Security
6 12 (2.08%) SMTP
6 12 (2.08%) SSH
7 11 (1.90%) BGP
7 11 (1.90%) OSPF
8 10 (1.73%) FTP
8 10 (1.73%) IMAP
8 10 (1.73%) OpenLDAP
9 9 (1.56%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.38%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.21%) MPLS
12 6 (1.04%) Skype
13 5 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (0.87%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.02%) Power BI
2 17 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.08%) Tableau
5 11 (1.90%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.56%) Metadata
7 5 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.69%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.35%) MySQL
10 2 (0.35%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (10.90%) JIRA
2 20 (3.46%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.94%) Git
4 10 (1.73%) Vagrant
5 4 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.52%) ChangeMan
6 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.52%) Selenium
7 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) GCC
8 1 (0.17%) MSI
8 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 244 (42.21%) Finance
2 233 (40.31%) Social Skills
3 81 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (12.63%) Banking
5 42 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 34 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (3.98%) Legal
8 22 (3.81%) Marketing
9 20 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (3.46%) Law
10 19 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (2.60%) Retail
13 14 (2.42%) Front Office
13 14 (2.42%) Manufacturing
13 14 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (2.08%) Financial Institution
14 12 (2.08%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 103 (17.82%) Analyst
2 87 (15.05%) Project Manager
3 69 (11.94%) Business Analyst
3 69 (11.94%) Lead
4 43 (7.44%) Consultant
5 40 (6.92%) Change Manager
6 37 (6.40%) Senior
7 28 (4.84%) Developer
8 25 (4.33%) IT Manager
9 20 (3.46%) Programme Manager
10 19 (3.29%) Architect
11 16 (2.77%) Senior Manager
11 16 (2.77%) Transformation Manager
12 15 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (2.42%) Delivery Manager
14 13 (2.25%) Business Manager
14 13 (2.25%) Service Manager
15 12 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (2.08%) Service Analyst
16 11 (1.90%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.08%) LDAP
2 11 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (1.73%) .NET
4 6 (1.04%) HTML
5 5 (0.87%) REST
6 4 (0.69%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (0.69%) JSON
6 4 (0.69%) Playwright
6 4 (0.69%) XMPP
7 3 (0.52%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.52%) ADO
7 3 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.52%) CSS
7 3 (0.52%) Kafka
7 3 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.52%) Middleware
7 3 (0.52%) OAuth
7 3 (0.52%) React
7 3 (0.52%) SOAP
7 3 (0.52%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.67%) Product Ownership
2 23 (3.98%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.11%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.08%) Replication
6 10 (1.73%) Life Science
6 10 (1.73%) Security Posture
6 10 (1.73%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.56%) e-Learning
7 9 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.21%) CMDB
8 7 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.04%) PMI
10 5 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.69%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.69%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.69%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.40%) Windows
2 29 (5.02%) Linux
3 12 (2.08%) Ubuntu
3 12 (2.08%) VMS
4 10 (1.73%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (1.73%) Unix
5 6 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.52%) zOS
7 2 (0.35%) CentOS
8 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (27.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 157 (27.16%) Agile
3 130 (22.49%) Project Management
4 122 (21.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 104 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (14.53%) Migration
7 76 (13.15%) Project Delivery
8 72 (12.46%) Risk Management
9 65 (11.25%) ERP
10 63 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (10.38%) ITIL
12 59 (10.21%) User Acceptance Testing
13 53 (9.17%) Decision-Making
14 51 (8.82%) PRINCE2
15 47 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
16 43 (7.44%) Scrum
17 42 (7.27%) Data Analysis
17 42 (7.27%) Roadmaps
17 42 (7.27%) Waterfall
18 41 (7.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 71 (12.28%) SQL
2 44 (7.61%) Python
3 28 (4.84%) PowerShell
4 20 (3.46%) C#
5 13 (2.25%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.90%) Groovy
6 11 (1.90%) Java
7 9 (1.56%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.69%) Go
8 4 (0.69%) Korn
9 3 (0.52%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.52%) Formula Language
9 3 (0.52%) LotusScript
9 3 (0.52%) SOQL
9 3 (0.52%) SOSL
9 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.35%) ABAP
10 2 (0.35%) C
10 2 (0.35%) C++
10 2 (0.35%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 105 (18.17%) Degree
2 58 (10.03%) Security Cleared
3 49 (8.48%) SC Cleared
4 45 (7.79%) PMI Certification
5 41 (7.09%) PMP
6 13 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.56%) APMG
8 9 (1.56%) CBAP
9 8 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.04%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 5 (0.87%) CCIE
11 5 (0.87%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 4 (0.69%) CCNP
12 4 (0.69%) CISSP
12 4 (0.69%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.54%) QA
2 28 (4.84%) PMO
3 18 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.11%) GDPR
4 16 (2.77%) SLA
5 13 (2.25%) MiFID
6 12 (2.08%) EMIR
6 12 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.73%) NIST
8 7 (1.21%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.04%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.69%) GMP
11 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.52%) IFRS
11 3 (0.52%) ITGC
11 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.35%) NCSC
13 1 (0.17%) COBIT
System Software
1 28 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.25%) Docker
3 10 (1.73%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.73%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.73%) Postfix
3 10 (1.73%) Squid
4 5 (0.87%) vSphere
5 4 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.35%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (3.98%) Terraform
2 13 (2.25%) Grafana
3 12 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.90%) Ansible
4 11 (1.90%) Nessus
5 10 (1.73%) Proxmox
6 9 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.38%) SCOM
8 6 (1.04%) HP SiteScope
9 5 (0.87%) Kubernetes
10 3 (0.52%) CA Endevor
10 3 (0.52%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.52%) SCCM
11 2 (0.35%) Argo
11 2 (0.35%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.17%) Rancher
12 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 104 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.65%) SAP
3 38 (6.57%) Oracle
4 36 (6.23%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.46%) Cisco
7 10 (1.73%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.56%) Fortinet
8 9 (1.56%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.56%) Splunk
8 9 (1.56%) Workday
9 8 (1.38%) Google
9 8 (1.38%) VMware
10 7 (1.21%) Adobe
10 7 (1.21%) Remedy
11 5 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.87%) CheckPoint
11 5 (0.87%) Juniper
11 5 (0.87%) Lotus
11 5 (0.87%) SolarWinds