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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 59 61
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 -22
Contract jobs citing Change Management 220 101 168
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.90% 3.38% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 3.69% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 65 106
10th Percentile £287 £304 £319
25th Percentile £355 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +3.41% -7.90%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £538
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 20
10th Percentile - £23.92 £19.60
25th Percentile £20.79 - £30.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.05 £58.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.61% -45.21% +12.51%
75th Percentile £85.00 £58.75 £61.70
90th Percentile £87.45 £75.73 £64.55
England median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £37.18
% change year-on-year -20.94% +54.65% -23.18%

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 4,632 2,734 4,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.03% 91.59% 86.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,020 1,758 2,838
10th Percentile £290 £254 £225
25th Percentile £411 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.20%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £615
90th Percentile £713 £675 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 161 433
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.38 £16.95 £18.32
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -37.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
% change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 +6 146 £515 +3.00% 47
Berkshire +11 115 £500 - 29
Hampshire -5 53 £500 - 22
Buckinghamshire -5 27 £550 +37.50% 10
West Sussex -5 12 £532 +141.82% 5
Surrey -8 7 £1,000 +135.29% 10
Oxfordshire -23 4 £500 - 8
Kent -5 3 £544 +0.23% 2
East Sussex +1 2 £725 +141.67% 3
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 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.73%) Confluence
3 2 (0.91%) CMS
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.45%) Appian
Applications
1 26 (11.82%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.36%) Primavera
3 3 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.91%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.45%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.45%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.45%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (20.91%) AWS
2 45 (20.45%) Azure
3 30 (13.64%) GCP
4 18 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.82%) Datadog
7 3 (1.36%) Canva
7 3 (1.36%) SaaS
8 2 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.91%) Google Ads
8 2 (0.91%) PaaS
8 2 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.91%) Viva Engage
9 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.45%) IaaS
9 1 (0.45%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.73%) Firewall
2 15 (6.82%) Network Security
3 11 (5.00%) SD-WAN
3 11 (5.00%) WAN
4 9 (4.09%) DNS
4 9 (4.09%) LAN
5 8 (3.64%) VPN
6 6 (2.73%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (2.73%) HTTP
6 6 (2.73%) MPLS
7 5 (2.27%) BGP
7 5 (2.27%) OSPF
8 4 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (1.82%) Junos
8 4 (1.82%) NX-OS
8 4 (1.82%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.36%) NAS
9 3 (1.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.18%) Power BI
2 5 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (6.36%) JIRA
2 3 (1.36%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
General
1 99 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 68 (30.91%) Finance
3 67 (30.45%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.36%) Retail
5 17 (7.73%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (7.27%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.91%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (5.45%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.18%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.27%) Billing
11 5 (2.27%) Marketing
12 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.91%) Automotive
13 2 (0.91%) Banking
13 2 (0.91%) Legal
13 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.91%) Publishing
14 1 (0.45%) Aviation
14 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 47 (21.36%) Lead
2 33 (15.00%) Project Manager
3 25 (11.36%) Change Manager
4 18 (8.18%) Analyst
5 17 (7.73%) Security Manager
6 16 (7.27%) Consultant
7 15 (6.82%) Security Project Manager
8 12 (5.45%) Business Manager
9 10 (4.55%) Business Change Manager
9 10 (4.55%) Senior
9 10 (4.55%) Senior Manager
10 9 (4.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 9 (4.09%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 9 (4.09%) IT Manager
11 8 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (3.64%) Transformation Manager
12 7 (3.18%) Network Engineer
12 7 (3.18%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
12 7 (3.18%) Senior Project Manager
13 6 (2.73%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.82%) Middleware
1 4 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.91%) .NET
3 1 (0.45%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (0.45%) OAuth
3 1 (0.45%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.45%) OpenID
3 1 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.82%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.36%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.91%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 9 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.64%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.73%) BYOD
8 5 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.82%) PKI
9 4 (1.82%) Replication
10 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.36%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.36%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.36%) SCADA
10 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.82%) Windows
2 12 (5.45%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.73%) Linux
4 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.45%) Unix
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (37.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 69 (31.36%) ITIL
3 63 (28.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 61 (27.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 57 (25.91%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (22.73%) Project Management
7 49 (22.27%) Agile
8 45 (20.45%) Cybersecurity
9 43 (19.55%) ITSM
10 37 (16.82%) Service Management
11 33 (15.00%) Migration
11 33 (15.00%) Project Delivery
12 30 (13.64%) Budget Management
13 29 (13.18%) User Acceptance Testing
14 27 (12.27%) Impact Assessments
15 24 (10.91%) Data Protection
15 24 (10.91%) Risk Management
16 22 (10.00%) ERP
16 22 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
16 22 (10.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.91%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.73%) Python
3 5 (2.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 88 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 70 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.73%) PMP
4 26 (11.82%) Degree
5 24 (10.91%) PMI Certification
6 17 (7.73%) DV Cleared
7 14 (6.36%) CISM
7 14 (6.36%) CISSP
8 7 (3.18%) ACCA
8 7 (3.18%) APMG
8 7 (3.18%) CIMA
9 5 (2.27%) CCNP
9 5 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.82%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.36%) CCNA
12 2 (0.91%) CCSE
12 2 (0.91%) CCSM
12 2 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.91%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.82%) GDPR
2 32 (14.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (12.27%) NIST
4 20 (9.09%) PMO
5 18 (8.18%) SOC 2
6 8 (3.64%) QA
7 6 (2.73%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.36%) NCSC
8 3 (1.36%) SLA
9 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.91%) P3O
10 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.45%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 18 (8.18%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.82%) Docker
3 4 (1.82%) Firmware
3 4 (1.82%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.45%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (4.09%) vCenter Server
2 6 (2.73%) SCCM
3 5 (2.27%) Grafana
3 5 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.27%) SCOM
3 5 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.45%) SnapMirror
5 1 (0.45%) SnapVault
5 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (10.00%) Google
1 22 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.55%) Oracle
3 17 (7.73%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.45%) SAP
5 10 (4.55%) IFS
5 10 (4.55%) VMware
6 9 (4.09%) Cisco
7 7 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.18%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.73%) Juniper
9 4 (1.82%) Adobe
9 4 (1.82%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.82%) Broadcom
9 4 (1.82%) Callidus
9 4 (1.82%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.82%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.82%) Splunk
10 3 (1.36%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.36%) Fortinet