Change Management Contracts in the South East

Change Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 54 43
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 -7
Contract jobs citing Change Management 128 190 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.89% 3.35% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 4.04% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 98 211
10th Percentile £335 £313 £310
25th Percentile £403 £375 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £457 £530
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -13.77% +1.68%
75th Percentile £544 £525 £636
90th Percentile £625 £650 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 36 14
10th Percentile £32.05 £20.38 £16.20
25th Percentile £36.14 £40.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.83 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% +24.91% +219.33%
75th Percentile £70.83 £61.60 £59.13
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £63.22
England median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.05% +104.15%

All Process and 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 2,978 4,700 5,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.57% 82.75% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 2,737 3,584
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £623
90th Percentile £672 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 445 240
10th Percentile £13.38 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.32 £22.11
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.81 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the South East

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the South East

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the South East

Change Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the South East over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the South East

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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 6 July 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
Thames Valley -10 74 £425 -11.27% 168
Berkshire -16 54 £438 -9.23% 101
Hampshire +51 33 £500 +25.00% 60
Oxfordshire +11 12 £438 -2.78% 32
Surrey +7 9 £475 +15.15% 42
Buckinghamshire +3 8 £400 +17.65% 36
Kent 0 6 £480 -5.88% 21
East Sussex -2 2 £488 - 10
West Sussex -3 2 £538 +19.44% 15
Sussex - 2 - - 4
Home Counties - 1 - -
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.47%) Confluence
2 6 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.13%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) IIS
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.78%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.34%) Windchill
5 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (8.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 8 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
1 5 (3.91%) SaaS
2 4 (3.13%) Azure
2 4 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (3.13%) Power Platform
3 3 (2.34%) Asana
3 3 (2.34%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.56%) AWS
5 1 (0.78%) Akamai
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.78%) Datadog
5 1 (0.78%) GitHub
5 1 (0.78%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.78%) Route 53
5 1 (0.78%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.25%) Network Security
2 7 (5.47%) Firewall
3 4 (3.13%) HTTP
4 3 (2.34%) BGP
4 3 (2.34%) Broadband
4 3 (2.34%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (2.34%) DNS
5 2 (1.56%) DHCP
5 2 (1.56%) EIGRP
5 2 (1.56%) Internet
5 2 (1.56%) Intranet
5 2 (1.56%) MPLS
5 2 (1.56%) OSPF
5 2 (1.56%) VPN
5 2 (1.56%) WAN
5 2 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.56%) Wireless
6 1 (0.78%) FTP
6 1 (0.78%) LAN
6 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.13%) Power BI
2 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.78%) GIS
3 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.78%) Impala
3 1 (0.78%) MySQL
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.78%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 13 (10.16%) JIRA
2 7 (5.47%) MSI
3 2 (1.56%) Jenkins
General
1 63 (49.22%) Social Skills
2 36 (28.13%) Finance
3 22 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (15.63%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (14.06%) Telecoms
6 17 (13.28%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.69%) Retail
8 4 (3.13%) Agriculture
8 4 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.13%) Marketing
8 4 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.34%) Automotive
9 3 (2.34%) Legal
10 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.56%) Law
10 2 (1.56%) Local Government
10 2 (1.56%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.56%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.56%) Swedish Language
11 1 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (14.06%) Analyst
1 18 (14.06%) Project Manager
2 12 (9.38%) Change Manager
3 10 (7.81%) Business Analyst
4 9 (7.03%) Architect
4 9 (7.03%) Network Engineer
4 9 (7.03%) Programme Manager
5 6 (4.69%) Consultant
5 6 (4.69%) IT Manager
6 5 (3.91%) Lead
6 5 (3.91%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (3.91%) SAP Manager
6 5 (3.91%) Security Engineer
6 5 (3.91%) Systems Manager
7 4 (3.13%) Active Directory Architect
7 4 (3.13%) Configuration Manager
7 4 (3.13%) Data Analyst
7 4 (3.13%) Payroll Manager
7 4 (3.13%) Senior
7 4 (3.13%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.13%) Ajax
1 4 (3.13%) CSS
1 4 (3.13%) HTML
1 4 (3.13%) REST
1 4 (3.13%) SOAP
1 4 (3.13%) Web Services
1 4 (3.13%) XML
2 1 (0.78%) .NET
2 1 (0.78%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.78%) LAMP
2 1 (0.78%) Middleware
2 1 (0.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.06%) Life Science
2 14 (10.94%) Renewable Energy
3 11 (8.59%) CMDB
4 10 (7.81%) Data Centre
4 10 (7.81%) Onboarding
5 9 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.91%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.34%) e-Learning
8 3 (2.34%) PKI
9 2 (1.56%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.28%) Windows
2 7 (5.47%) Windows 10
2 7 (5.47%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.56%) Linux
3 2 (1.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) CentOS
4 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.81%) Agile
1 42 (32.81%) Migration
2 33 (25.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 32 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (21.88%) Project Management
5 17 (13.28%) ITIL
6 16 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (11.72%) Incident Management
7 15 (11.72%) Risk Management
8 14 (10.94%) ERP
8 14 (10.94%) Project Delivery
9 13 (10.16%) Data Migration
10 11 (8.59%) PRINCE2
10 11 (8.59%) Scrum
11 10 (7.81%) Roadmaps
11 10 (7.81%) Security Patching
11 10 (7.81%) Waterfall
12 9 (7.03%) Project Governance
12 9 (7.03%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.59%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.47%) C#
3 6 (4.69%) SQL
3 6 (4.69%) VB
4 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.78%) Perl
5 1 (0.78%) PHP
5 1 (0.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.50%) Degree
4 13 (10.16%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.69%) PMI Certification
5 6 (4.69%) PMP
6 3 (2.34%) APMG
7 2 (1.56%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.78%) ACCA
8 1 (0.78%) CCNA
8 1 (0.78%) CIMA
8 1 (0.78%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.78%) CISA
8 1 (0.78%) CISSP
8 1 (0.78%) HNC
8 1 (0.78%) ISEB
8 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.47%) QA
2 5 (3.91%) GDPR
2 5 (3.91%) PMO
3 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.34%) P3O
4 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.78%) COBIT
4 1 (0.78%) COSO
4 1 (0.78%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) ITGC
4 1 (0.78%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.78%) Docker
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.25%) SCCM
2 2 (1.56%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.78%) SCOM
3 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.84%) SAP
3 13 (10.16%) ServiceNow
4 9 (7.03%) Cisco
5 5 (3.91%) Remedy
5 5 (3.91%) VMware
6 4 (3.13%) CheckPoint
6 4 (3.13%) Oracle
7 3 (2.34%) Aruba
7 3 (2.34%) Citrix
7 3 (2.34%) F5
7 3 (2.34%) Workday
8 2 (1.56%) Cramer
8 2 (1.56%) IFS
8 2 (1.56%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.56%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.56%) Progress
8 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.78%) BT
9 1 (0.78%) ESRI