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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 54 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 186 152 214
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.47% 3.74% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 4.34% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 85 146
10th Percentile £306 £363 £363
25th Percentile £385 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £569 £638 £575
90th Percentile £650 £651 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 17
10th Percentile - £20.30 £22.95
25th Percentile £20.79 £35.58 £43.33
Median hourly rate £37.28 £56.75 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.30% +15.81% +46.27%
75th Percentile £70.16 £59.57 £56.00
90th Percentile £71.37 £60.28 £62.93
England median hourly rate £30.00 £44.08 £43.33
% change year-on-year -31.94% +1.73% +32.31%

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 3,625 3,504 4,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.16% 86.16% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,308 2,145 3,064
10th Percentile £222 £250 £215
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £617
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 161 250
10th Percentile £14.62 £16.25 £16.49
25th Percentile £16.61 £27.00 £25.06
Median hourly rate £22.00 £56.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.23% +8.09% +20.69%
75th Percentile £40.83 £70.00 £65.96
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%

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 28 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the South East over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the South East

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 28 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
Thames Valley +15 127 £425 -17.87% 47
Berkshire +8 97 £416 -19.57% 24
Hampshire +10 29 £508 -11.74% 29
Buckinghamshire +10 17 £513 -10.87% 10
Oxfordshire - 13 £463 - 14
Surrey -6 11 £625 +19.05% 10
West Sussex -6 10 £500 +11.11%
Kent -3 6 £588 +0.43% 7
East Sussex -2 3 £550 +51.72% 4
Sussex - 1 - - 2
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 17 (9.14%) Confluence
2 10 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.61%) CMS
4 2 (1.08%) JBoss
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (3.76%) MS Visio
5 4 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.08%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 3 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.08%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.54%) Primavera
4 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.54%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.28%) Azure
2 31 (16.67%) AWS
3 29 (15.59%) GCP
4 9 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.61%) Lucidchart
7 3 (1.61%) SaaS
8 2 (1.08%) Alation
8 2 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.08%) Collibra
8 2 (1.08%) GitHub
8 2 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.54%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.54%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.54%) OCI
9 1 (0.54%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.30%) DNS
1 8 (4.30%) Firewall
2 7 (3.76%) Network Security
3 4 (2.15%) Broadband
3 4 (2.15%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.61%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (1.61%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.61%) HTTP
4 3 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (1.61%) Junos
4 3 (1.61%) NX-OS
4 3 (1.61%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.08%) VLAN
5 2 (1.08%) VoIP
5 2 (1.08%) WAN
6 1 (0.54%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (0.54%) DHCP
6 1 (0.54%) IPsec
6 1 (0.54%) VPN
6 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.84%) Power BI
2 5 (2.69%) Metadata
2 5 (2.69%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.54%) DTS
5 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 23 (12.37%) JIRA
2 3 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.54%) MSI
General
1 91 (48.92%) Social Skills
2 43 (23.12%) Finance
3 41 (22.04%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.75%) Manufacturing
5 15 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.45%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.76%) Retail
10 5 (2.69%) Legal
11 4 (2.15%) Banking
11 4 (2.15%) Marketing
12 3 (1.61%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.61%) Automotive
12 3 (1.61%) Billing
12 3 (1.61%) Law
13 2 (1.08%) Electronics
13 2 (1.08%) Local Government
13 2 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (15.05%) Lead
2 26 (13.98%) Analyst
3 25 (13.44%) Project Manager
4 17 (9.14%) Change Manager
5 11 (5.91%) Consultant
6 10 (5.38%) IT Manager
7 8 (4.30%) Business Analyst
8 7 (3.76%) Programme Manager
8 7 (3.76%) Senior
8 7 (3.76%) Support Analyst
9 6 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (3.23%) Business Manager
9 6 (3.23%) Release Manager
9 6 (3.23%) SAP Manager
10 5 (2.69%) Business Change Manager
10 5 (2.69%) IT Analyst
10 5 (2.69%) IT Support
10 5 (2.69%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (2.69%) Network Engineer
10 5 (2.69%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.15%) .NET
1 4 (2.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.08%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.08%) ADO
3 2 (1.08%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (1.08%) RESTful
4 1 (0.54%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.54%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.54%) Middleware
4 1 (0.54%) OAuth
4 1 (0.54%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.54%) OpenID
4 1 (0.54%) REST
4 1 (0.54%) SAML
4 1 (0.54%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.06%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.53%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.38%) Life Science
4 9 (4.84%) Virtual Team
5 8 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.76%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.76%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.69%) CMDB
7 5 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.69%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.15%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.61%) BYOD
9 3 (1.61%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.61%) PKI
9 3 (1.61%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.14%) Windows
2 8 (4.30%) Linux
2 8 (4.30%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.61%) Unix
4 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.54%) CentOS
5 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (29.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 54 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (28.49%) ITIL
4 52 (27.96%) Agile
5 50 (26.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (23.66%) Project Management
7 42 (22.58%) Service Management
8 37 (19.89%) ITSM
8 37 (19.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (14.52%) Performance Metrics
10 23 (12.37%) Migration
11 22 (11.83%) Project Delivery
12 18 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (9.68%) Risk Management
12 18 (9.68%) Waterfall
13 17 (9.14%) CRM
14 16 (8.60%) Roadmaps
15 14 (7.53%) Service Delivery
16 13 (6.99%) Budget Management
16 13 (6.99%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.76%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.15%) SQL
3 3 (1.61%) C#
3 3 (1.61%) PL/SQL
3 3 (1.61%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.08%) Java
4 2 (1.08%) Python
5 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.54%) Perl
5 1 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 44 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.52%) Degree
4 8 (4.30%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.76%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.76%) PMP
6 5 (2.69%) A+ Certification
6 5 (2.69%) APMG
7 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.61%) CISM
8 3 (1.61%) CISSP
9 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.54%) ACCA
10 1 (0.54%) CCNA
10 1 (0.54%) CCNP
10 1 (0.54%) CIMA
10 1 (0.54%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Server+ Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.99%) GDPR
2 11 (5.91%) PMO
2 11 (5.91%) QA
3 4 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.15%) NIST
4 3 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.61%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.54%) NCSC
6 1 (0.54%) P3O
6 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.61%) Firmware
3 3 (1.61%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (3.23%) vCenter Server
2 4 (2.15%) SCCM
3 3 (1.61%) Ansible
3 3 (1.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (1.61%) SCOM
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.54%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.98%) Google
3 19 (10.22%) Oracle
4 17 (9.14%) ServiceNow
5 14 (7.53%) Salesforce
6 10 (5.38%) SAP
7 7 (3.76%) Cisco
7 7 (3.76%) VMware
8 6 (3.23%) Remedy
9 5 (2.69%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.15%) Juniper
10 4 (2.15%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.61%) Broadcom
11 3 (1.61%) Workday
12 2 (1.08%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.08%) IFS
12 2 (1.08%) Informatica
12 2 (1.08%) Progress
13 1 (0.54%) BMC
13 1 (0.54%) Siemens