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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 54 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -15
Contract jobs citing Change Management 215 100 178
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.93% 3.38% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 3.68% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 69 119
10th Percentile £286 £308 £312
25th Percentile £352 £400 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +3.73% -8.19%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £540
90th Percentile £675 £650 £678
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 19
10th Percentile - £29.71 £19.20
25th Percentile £20.79 £46.53 £30.21
Median hourly rate £42.25 £57.12 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% -1.51% +19.83%
75th Percentile £84.13 £65.83 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.73 £78.56 £62.50
England median hourly rate £41.86 £56.75 £35.86
% change year-on-year -26.24% +58.26% -25.30%

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 4,518 2,714 4,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.60% 91.69% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,951 1,747 2,868
10th Percentile £281 £254 £213
25th Percentile £410 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +2.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £615
90th Percentile £700 £675 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 158 412
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.85 £18.20
Median hourly rate £37.16 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.34% -23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £80.80 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.83
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -1.05% -12.00%

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 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +10 139 £500 - 47
Berkshire +10 108 £445 -11.00% 29
Hampshire -7 53 £503 +0.50% 22
Buckinghamshire -2 28 £575 +26.03% 10
West Sussex +1 13 £514 +133.64% 5
Surrey -15 5 £1,000 +135.29% 10
East Sussex +3 4 £575 +91.67% 3
Kent -7 4 £550 +1.38% 2
Oxfordshire -15 3 £500 - 8
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 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.79%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.47%) Appian
4 1 (0.47%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (12.09%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (1.86%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.40%) Primavera
3 3 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.93%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.47%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.47%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.47%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (20.93%) AWS
2 43 (20.00%) Azure
3 31 (14.42%) GCP
4 15 (6.98%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.86%) Datadog
7 3 (1.40%) Canva
7 3 (1.40%) SaaS
8 2 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.93%) Google Ads
8 2 (0.93%) PaaS
8 2 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.93%) Viva Engage
9 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.47%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.47%) IaaS
9 1 (0.47%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.44%) Firewall
2 13 (6.05%) Network Security
3 10 (4.65%) SD-WAN
3 10 (4.65%) WAN
4 9 (4.19%) DNS
5 8 (3.72%) LAN
6 7 (3.26%) HTTP
6 7 (3.26%) VPN
7 6 (2.79%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (2.79%) MPLS
8 5 (2.33%) BGP
8 5 (2.33%) OSPF
9 4 (1.86%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (1.86%) Cisco ISE
9 4 (1.86%) Junos
9 4 (1.86%) NX-OS
9 4 (1.86%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.40%) NAS
10 3 (1.40%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.98%) Power BI
2 4 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (1.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.47%) Metadata
3 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.51%) JIRA
2 3 (1.40%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.40%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.47%) GitLab
General
1 98 (45.58%) Social Skills
2 66 (30.70%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (30.23%) Finance
4 21 (9.77%) Retail
5 17 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.51%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (6.05%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (6.05%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.26%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.33%) Billing
9 5 (2.33%) Marketing
10 4 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.40%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.93%) Automotive
12 2 (0.93%) Banking
12 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Publishing
13 1 (0.47%) Aviation
13 1 (0.47%) Local Government
13 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (19.53%) Lead
2 31 (14.42%) Project Manager
3 24 (11.16%) Change Manager
4 20 (9.30%) Analyst
5 16 (7.44%) Consultant
6 15 (6.98%) Security Manager
7 13 (6.05%) Security Project Manager
8 12 (5.58%) Business Manager
9 11 (5.12%) Senior
10 10 (4.65%) Business Change Manager
10 10 (4.65%) Senior Manager
11 9 (4.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 8 (3.72%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 8 (3.72%) Transformation Manager
13 7 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
13 7 (3.26%) Network Engineer
13 7 (3.26%) Senior Project Manager
14 6 (2.79%) IT Manager
14 6 (2.79%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
14 6 (2.79%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.86%) Middleware
1 4 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.93%) .NET
2 2 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.47%) OAuth
3 1 (0.47%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.47%) OpenID
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (0.47%) SAML
3 1 (0.47%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.91%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.05%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.58%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.19%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.72%) Operational Technology
6 7 (3.26%) BYOD
7 6 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.33%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.86%) PKI
9 4 (1.86%) Replication
9 4 (1.86%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.40%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.40%) SCADA
10 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.63%) Windows
2 11 (5.12%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.26%) Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (34.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 68 (31.63%) ITIL
3 63 (29.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 59 (27.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 54 (25.12%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (23.26%) Agile
7 49 (22.79%) Project Management
8 43 (20.00%) ITSM
9 40 (18.60%) Service Management
10 38 (17.67%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (13.49%) Migration
12 28 (13.02%) Project Delivery
13 27 (12.56%) Impact Assessments
14 26 (12.09%) User Acceptance Testing
15 24 (11.16%) Budget Management
16 23 (10.70%) Performance Metrics
17 21 (9.77%) PRINCE2
17 21 (9.77%) Risk Management
18 20 (9.30%) Data Protection
18 20 (9.30%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.58%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.79%) Python
3 5 (2.33%) Bash
4 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.47%) Java
5 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (40.47%) Security Cleared
2 69 (32.09%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.56%) Degree
4 25 (11.63%) PMP
5 21 (9.77%) PMI Certification
6 17 (7.91%) DV Cleared
7 14 (6.51%) CISM
7 14 (6.51%) CISSP
8 7 (3.26%) ACCA
8 7 (3.26%) APMG
8 7 (3.26%) CIMA
9 5 (2.33%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.86%) CCNP
10 4 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.93%) CCNA
11 2 (0.93%) CCSE
11 2 (0.93%) CCSM
11 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.93%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.95%) GDPR
2 24 (11.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (9.77%) NIST
4 20 (9.30%) PMO
5 13 (6.05%) SOC 2
6 8 (3.72%) QA
7 7 (3.26%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.40%) NCSC
8 3 (1.40%) SLA
9 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.93%) P3O
10 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 15 (6.98%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.86%) Docker
3 4 (1.86%) Firmware
3 4 (1.86%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.47%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (4.19%) vCenter Server
2 6 (2.79%) SCCM
3 5 (2.33%) Grafana
3 5 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.33%) SCOM
4 4 (1.86%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.93%) Ansible
7 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.47%) SnapMirror
7 1 (0.47%) SnapVault
7 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (10.70%) Google
1 23 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.23%) Oracle
3 17 (7.91%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.65%) SAP
4 10 (4.65%) VMware
5 9 (4.19%) Cisco
6 8 (3.72%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.26%) IFS
8 6 (2.79%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.33%) Juniper
10 4 (1.86%) Adobe
10 4 (1.86%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.86%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.86%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.86%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.86%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.86%) Splunk
11 3 (1.40%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.93%) BMC