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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 53 57
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -14
Contract jobs citing Change Management 278 136 176
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.11% 3.84% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.09% 4.26% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 86 93
10th Percentile £413 £350 £313
25th Percentile £463 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.79% +1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £535 £550
90th Percentile £725 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 30
10th Percentile £27.43 £32.05 £19.85
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.14 £35.87
Median hourly rate £83.00 £51.75 £60.83
Median % change year-on-year +60.39% -14.93% +25.68%
75th Percentile £87.00 £70.16 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £72.35 £70.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £30.00 £58.17
% change year-on-year +39.03% -48.43% +20.19%

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 5,467 3,189 4,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.86% 89.93% 82.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,367 1,990 2,483
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £418 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.39% -0.09%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £703 £670 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 296 323
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +155.78% -62.51% +14.70%
75th Percentile £78.75 £50.00 £70.09
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.71 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 15 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Change Management in the South East over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

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 15 August 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 +4 163 £575 +35.29% 55
Berkshire +12 124 £575 +35.29% 33
Hampshire +14 82 £575 +15.00% 33
Buckinghamshire -13 33 £536 +26.18% 14
Surrey -14 14 £500 +11.11% 17
West Sussex -19 9 £575 +35.29% 3
Oxfordshire -37 6 £540 +39.35% 12
Kent -3 4 £550 +14.58% 5
Middlesex - 3 - - 4
East Sussex 0 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 9 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.52%) Confluence
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (5.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (4.32%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.72%) Houdini
5 2 (0.72%) NUKE
6 1 (0.36%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Primavera
1 4 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.72%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.36%) BASE24
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) ENOVIA
3 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.36%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.36%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (0.36%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 36 (12.95%) Azure
2 23 (8.27%) AWS
3 15 (5.40%) Power Platform
4 7 (2.52%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (1.80%) IaaS
7 4 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.08%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.72%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.72%) Azure App Service
9 2 (0.72%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (0.72%) GitHub
9 2 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.72%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.91%) Network Security
2 18 (6.47%) DNS
3 17 (6.12%) Firewall
4 15 (5.40%) WAN
5 14 (5.04%) VPN
6 12 (4.32%) LAN
6 12 (4.32%) SD-WAN
7 9 (3.24%) MPLS
8 8 (2.88%) DHCP
8 8 (2.88%) HTTP
9 7 (2.52%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (2.52%) TCP/IP
10 6 (2.16%) BGP
10 6 (2.16%) OSPF
11 5 (1.80%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.80%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (1.80%) VSAN
11 5 (1.80%) Wireless
12 4 (1.44%) Internet
12 4 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.40%) Power BI
2 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.36%) QualityStage
2 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (7.55%) JIRA
2 3 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.72%) Git
3 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.72%) Selenium
3 2 (0.72%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
General
1 91 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 80 (28.78%) Finance
3 63 (22.66%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.79%) Retail
5 25 (8.99%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (8.63%) Public Sector
7 18 (6.47%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.60%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.88%) Legal
11 7 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.16%) Aerospace
12 6 (2.16%) Aviation
12 6 (2.16%) Billing
13 4 (1.44%) Local Government
14 3 (1.08%) Banking
14 3 (1.08%) Law
14 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.72%) Marketing
16 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (16.55%) Lead
2 37 (13.31%) Project Manager
3 29 (10.43%) Change Manager
4 16 (5.76%) Analyst
5 15 (5.40%) Security Manager
5 15 (5.40%) Security Project Manager
6 14 (5.04%) IT Manager
6 14 (5.04%) Senior
7 12 (4.32%) Delivery Manager
8 11 (3.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 11 (3.96%) Consultant
8 11 (3.96%) Storage Engineer
9 10 (3.60%) Head of IT
9 10 (3.60%) Network Engineer
9 10 (3.60%) Senior Manager
10 9 (3.24%) Business Manager
11 7 (2.52%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 7 (2.52%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
11 7 (2.52%) Senior Project Manager
11 7 (2.52%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.40%) REST
2 13 (4.68%) HTML
3 12 (4.32%) Ajax
4 9 (3.24%) CSS
5 4 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.08%) SOAP
7 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.72%) Playwright
7 2 (0.72%) RESTful
7 2 (0.72%) Swagger
7 2 (0.72%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (0.72%) YAML
8 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.36%) A2A Protocol
8 1 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.36%) OAuth
8 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.36%) OpenID
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.36%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.19%) Data Centre
2 14 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.68%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.96%) PKI
5 7 (2.52%) CMDB
5 7 (2.52%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.16%) BYOD
6 6 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.44%) PMI
8 4 (1.44%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.08%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.08%) Social Media
10 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.27%) Windows
2 33 (11.87%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.68%) Linux
4 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (44.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 94 (33.81%) ITIL
3 82 (29.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 64 (23.02%) Agile
5 63 (22.66%) ITSM
6 62 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (19.06%) Project Delivery
8 53 (19.06%) Project Management
9 51 (18.35%) Service Management
10 42 (15.11%) Service Delivery
11 41 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
12 35 (12.59%) Migration
13 31 (11.15%) Roadmaps
14 30 (10.79%) ERP
15 29 (10.43%) Budget Management
16 27 (9.71%) Impact Assessments
16 27 (9.71%) Validation
17 26 (9.35%) Data Protection
18 25 (8.99%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.91%) PowerShell
2 14 (5.04%) JavaScript
3 9 (3.24%) Python
4 8 (2.88%) SQL
5 5 (1.80%) Bash
6 2 (0.72%) C#
6 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.36%) Java
7 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (48.92%) Security Cleared
2 83 (29.86%) SC Cleared
3 48 (17.27%) DV Cleared
4 40 (14.39%) Degree
4 40 (14.39%) PMP
5 37 (13.31%) PMI Certification
6 15 (5.40%) CISM
6 15 (5.40%) CISSP
7 13 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.60%) CCNP
9 7 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.16%) CCNA
11 5 (1.80%) CCSE
11 5 (1.80%) CCSM
11 5 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (1.08%) MCSA
13 3 (1.08%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (15.83%) GDPR
2 37 (13.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (10.43%) NIST
4 20 (7.19%) PMO
5 18 (6.47%) SOC 2
6 15 (5.40%) SLA
7 11 (3.96%) QA
8 8 (2.88%) Data Quality
8 8 (2.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (2.52%) ISO 9001
9 7 (2.52%) PCI DSS
10 3 (1.08%) GRC
10 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.72%) COBIT
11 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.36%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.36%) GAAP
12 1 (0.36%) IFRS
12 1 (0.36%) ITGC
12 1 (0.36%) PERC
System Software
1 36 (12.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (9.35%) Active Directory
3 18 (6.47%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (4.32%) vCloud
4 12 (4.32%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.80%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.72%) Docker
6 2 (0.72%) vSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (9.71%) vCenter Server
2 24 (8.63%) SCOM
3 11 (3.96%) Avamar
4 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.44%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.44%) Terraform
6 3 (1.08%) Ansible
6 3 (1.08%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.72%) Grafana
7 2 (0.72%) Nagios
7 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.36%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.36%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) logstash
8 1 (0.36%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (21.22%) Microsoft
2 56 (20.14%) ServiceNow
3 43 (15.47%) VMware
4 19 (6.83%) Cisco
5 17 (6.12%) SAP
6 14 (5.04%) Dell
7 13 (4.68%) IFS
8 11 (3.96%) Thales
9 10 (3.60%) CheckPoint
10 9 (3.24%) Fortinet
10 9 (3.24%) Oracle
11 8 (2.88%) Juniper
12 7 (2.52%) Salesforce
13 6 (2.16%) Palo Alto
13 6 (2.16%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.80%) Callidus
15 4 (1.44%) Remedy
16 3 (1.08%) Adobe
16 3 (1.08%) CyberArk
16 3 (1.08%) Meraki