Change Management Contract Job Trends in the South East

Change Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Change Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 51 53
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Change Management 188 119 200
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.97% 3.78% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 4.19% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 69 140
10th Percentile £274 £338 £350
25th Percentile £317 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 20
10th Percentile - £37.19 £24.68
25th Percentile - £55.87 £40.10
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £56.28
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +0.83% +6.20%
75th Percentile - £58.47 £61.67
90th Percentile - £72.90 £62.25
England median hourly rate £45.46 £56.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.89% +52.62% -10.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,965 2,838 4,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.70% 90.12% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,612 1,743 2,923
10th Percentile £256 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £614
90th Percentile £693 £675 £694
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 105 355
10th Percentile £13.98 £18.32 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £42.88 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.52% -9.73% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £80.18 £75.30 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Change Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Change Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Change Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Change Management

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the South East over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the South East

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Change Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Change Management

Change Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
Thames Valley +8 114 £400 -27.27% 21
Berkshire +6 90 £331 -39.82% 15
Hampshire -1 47 £500 -4.76% 15
Buckinghamshire +1 19 £589 +2.43% 3
West Sussex -5 14 £500 +143.90% 1
Surrey -8 6 £1,000 +100.00% 12
Kent -10 5 £506 -13.46% 9
Oxfordshire -10 5 £425 -24.44% 4
East Sussex +1 4 £575 +91.67% 5
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (6.38%) Confluence
1 12 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.06%) JBoss
3 1 (0.53%) Appian
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (13.30%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (2.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.06%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.53%) Primavera
4 1 (0.53%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.53%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.00%) Azure
2 46 (24.47%) AWS
3 42 (22.34%) GCP
4 7 (3.72%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.13%) Datadog
7 3 (1.60%) Canva
7 3 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.06%) Google Ads
8 2 (1.06%) PaaS
8 2 (1.06%) SaaS
8 2 (1.06%) Viva Engage
9 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.53%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.53%) IaaS
9 1 (0.53%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.53%) OCI
9 1 (0.53%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.85%) Firewall
2 10 (5.32%) DNS
3 7 (3.72%) Network Security
4 5 (2.66%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (2.13%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (2.13%) Junos
5 4 (2.13%) NX-OS
5 4 (2.13%) WAN
6 3 (1.60%) HTTP
6 3 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (1.60%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.06%) LAN
7 2 (1.06%) VLAN
7 2 (1.06%) VoIP
7 2 (1.06%) VPN
7 2 (1.06%) Wireless
8 1 (0.53%) Broadband
8 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.72%) Power BI
2 5 (2.66%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.53%) Metadata
4 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (9.57%) JIRA
2 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
General
1 99 (52.66%) Social Skills
2 54 (28.72%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (25.00%) Finance
4 16 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.45%) Manufacturing
6 12 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.32%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.19%) Retail
10 4 (2.13%) Marketing
10 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.60%) Automotive
11 3 (1.60%) Billing
12 2 (1.06%) Banking
12 2 (1.06%) Electronics
12 2 (1.06%) Legal
12 2 (1.06%) Military
12 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 34 (18.09%) Lead
2 25 (13.30%) Analyst
3 18 (9.57%) Project Manager
4 17 (9.04%) Change Manager
5 12 (6.38%) Consultant
6 11 (5.85%) Business Manager
7 9 (4.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 9 (4.79%) Business Change Manager
7 9 (4.79%) Senior
8 7 (3.72%) Engagement Manager
8 7 (3.72%) Senior Manager
8 7 (3.72%) Support Analyst
8 7 (3.72%) Transformation Manager
9 6 (3.19%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.19%) Cloud Consultant
9 6 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.19%) Network Engineer
9 6 (3.19%) SAP Engagement Manager
9 6 (3.19%) SAP Manager
9 6 (3.19%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.66%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.13%) .NET
2 4 (2.13%) Middleware
3 3 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.06%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.06%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.06%) RESTful
5 1 (0.53%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.53%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.53%) OAuth
5 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.53%) OpenID
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.53%) REST
5 1 (0.53%) SAML
5 1 (0.53%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.45%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.91%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.26%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.66%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.13%) PKI
8 3 (1.60%) BYOD
8 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.60%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.60%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.60%) SCADA
9 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.06%) FMCG
9 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.11%) Windows
2 9 (4.79%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.19%) Linux
4 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (34.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 64 (34.04%) ITIL
3 51 (27.13%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (25.53%) ITSM
4 48 (25.53%) Service Management
4 48 (25.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (25.00%) Agile
5 47 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 43 (22.87%) Project Management
7 31 (16.49%) Performance Metrics
8 21 (11.17%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (11.17%) Waterfall
9 19 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (9.57%) PRINCE2
11 17 (9.04%) Budget Management
11 17 (9.04%) Project Delivery
12 16 (8.51%) Impact Assessments
13 15 (7.98%) CRM
13 15 (7.98%) DevOps
13 15 (7.98%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.38%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.72%) Python
3 5 (2.66%) Bash
4 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.06%) C#
5 2 (1.06%) Java
5 2 (1.06%) SQL
6 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (40.96%) Security Cleared
2 63 (33.51%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.17%) Degree
4 12 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.79%) PMP
6 8 (4.26%) PMI Certification
7 7 (3.72%) ACCA
7 7 (3.72%) APMG
7 7 (3.72%) CIMA
8 5 (2.66%) A+ Certification
9 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.60%) CISM
10 3 (1.60%) CISSP
11 2 (1.06%) CCNA
11 2 (1.06%) CCNP
11 2 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.06%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.53%) CIPD
12 1 (0.53%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.51%) PMO
2 11 (5.85%) QA
3 5 (2.66%) GDPR
4 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.60%) NCSC
4 3 (1.60%) NIST
4 3 (1.60%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.06%) P3O
5 2 (1.06%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.13%) Docker
3 4 (2.13%) Firmware
3 4 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.13%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.53%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (4.79%) vCenter Server
2 6 (3.19%) SCCM
3 5 (2.66%) Grafana
3 5 (2.66%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.66%) SCOM
4 4 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.60%) Ansible
6 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.53%) SnapMirror
6 1 (0.53%) SnapVault
6 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (16.49%) Google
2 27 (14.36%) Microsoft
3 26 (13.83%) Oracle
4 15 (7.98%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.85%) SAP
6 9 (4.79%) Cisco
6 9 (4.79%) Salesforce
6 9 (4.79%) VMware
7 6 (3.19%) Juniper
7 6 (3.19%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.66%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.66%) Remedy
9 4 (2.13%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.13%) Broadcom
9 4 (2.13%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.13%) Splunk
10 3 (1.60%) Adobe
11 2 (1.06%) BMC
11 2 (1.06%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.06%) Workday