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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 52 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Change Management 187 122 205
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.07% 3.86% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 4.31% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 74 142
10th Percentile £274 £341 £350
25th Percentile £317 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £560
90th Percentile £639 £650 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 21
10th Percentile - £29.71 £25.25
25th Percentile - £46.53 £43.33
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +4.00% +2.95%
75th Percentile - £57.62 £61.60
90th Percentile - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £49.04 £37.18
% change year-on-year -7.30% +31.90% -10.95%

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 3,832 2,831 4,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.50% 89.50% 87.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,532 1,728 2,989
10th Percentile £250 £250 £213
25th Percentile £391 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 105 354
10th Percentile £14.05 £18.58 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £63.29
90th Percentile £79.99 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 3 February 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
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 3 February 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 +10 118 £413 -25.00% 23
Berkshire +10 93 £345 -37.27% 15
Hampshire 0 46 £500 -9.09% 19
Buckinghamshire 0 20 £521 -9.35% 4
West Sussex -6 11 £500 +49.25% 2
Surrey -7 6 £1,000 +105.13% 18
Oxfordshire -6 5 £425 -24.44% 4
East Sussex +1 4 £575 +58.62% 4
Kent -10 4 £550 -5.98% 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 (6.42%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.88%) Confluence
3 2 (1.07%) CMS
3 2 (1.07%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) Appian
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (11.76%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (7.49%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (2.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.07%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.53%) Primavera
4 1 (0.53%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.53%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.06%) Azure
2 41 (21.93%) AWS
3 39 (20.86%) GCP
4 9 (4.81%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.14%) Datadog
7 3 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.60%) Canva
7 3 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.07%) Alation
8 2 (1.07%) Collibra
8 2 (1.07%) Google Ads
8 2 (1.07%) SaaS
8 2 (1.07%) Viva Engage
9 1 (0.53%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.53%) IaaS
9 1 (0.53%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.53%) OCI
9 1 (0.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.35%) DNS
1 10 (5.35%) Firewall
2 6 (3.21%) Network Security
3 5 (2.67%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (2.14%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (2.14%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (2.14%) Junos
4 4 (2.14%) NX-OS
4 4 (2.14%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.60%) HTTP
5 3 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.60%) WAN
6 2 (1.07%) VLAN
6 2 (1.07%) VoIP
6 2 (1.07%) VPN
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.53%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.53%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.53%) NAS
7 1 (0.53%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.81%) Power BI
2 5 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.60%) Metadata
3 3 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (9.09%) JIRA
2 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
General
1 103 (55.08%) Social Skills
2 54 (28.88%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (24.60%) Finance
4 16 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.02%) Manufacturing
6 12 (6.42%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.35%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.21%) Retail
10 4 (2.14%) Marketing
10 4 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.60%) Automotive
11 3 (1.60%) Billing
12 2 (1.07%) Banking
12 2 (1.07%) Electronics
12 2 (1.07%) Legal
12 2 (1.07%) Military
12 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 36 (19.25%) Lead
2 25 (13.37%) Analyst
3 20 (10.70%) Project Manager
4 18 (9.63%) Change Manager
5 12 (6.42%) Consultant
6 10 (5.35%) Business Manager
7 9 (4.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 9 (4.81%) Business Change Manager
8 8 (4.28%) Senior
9 7 (3.74%) Support Analyst
9 7 (3.74%) Transformation Manager
10 6 (3.21%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.21%) Cloud Consultant
10 6 (3.21%) IT Manager
10 6 (3.21%) Network Engineer
10 6 (3.21%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.21%) Technology Consultant
11 5 (2.67%) IT Analyst
11 5 (2.67%) IT Support
11 5 (2.67%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.14%) .NET
2 4 (2.14%) Middleware
3 3 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.07%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.07%) ADO
4 2 (1.07%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.07%) RESTful
5 1 (0.53%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.53%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.53%) OAuth
5 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.53%) OpenID
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.53%) REST
5 1 (0.53%) SAML
5 1 (0.53%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.95%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.28%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.74%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.67%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.14%) PKI
8 3 (1.60%) BYOD
8 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.60%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.60%) SCADA
9 2 (1.07%) CMDB
9 2 (1.07%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.07%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.07%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.16%) Windows
2 9 (4.81%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.21%) Linux
4 2 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (33.69%) Continuous Improvement
2 62 (33.16%) ITIL
3 51 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (26.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 48 (25.67%) ITSM
5 48 (25.67%) Service Management
6 45 (24.06%) Agile
6 45 (24.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 42 (22.46%) Project Management
8 31 (16.58%) Performance Metrics
9 19 (10.16%) Waterfall
10 18 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (9.63%) Project Delivery
10 18 (9.63%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (9.09%) PRINCE2
12 16 (8.56%) Impact Assessments
13 15 (8.02%) CRM
13 15 (8.02%) ERP
14 14 (7.49%) Budget Management
14 14 (7.49%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.42%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.21%) Python
3 4 (2.14%) Bash
4 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.07%) C#
5 2 (1.07%) Java
5 2 (1.07%) SQL
6 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (37.97%) Security Cleared
2 57 (30.48%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.23%) Degree
4 12 (6.42%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.28%) PMP
6 7 (3.74%) ACCA
6 7 (3.74%) APMG
6 7 (3.74%) CIMA
6 7 (3.74%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.67%) A+ Certification
8 4 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.60%) CISM
9 3 (1.60%) CISSP
10 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.53%) CCNA
11 1 (0.53%) CCNP
11 1 (0.53%) CIPD
11 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.56%) PMO
2 8 (4.28%) QA
3 7 (3.74%) GDPR
4 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.60%) NCSC
4 3 (1.60%) NIST
4 3 (1.60%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.07%) P3O
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (6.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.14%) Docker
3 4 (2.14%) Firmware
3 4 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.14%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.53%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (4.81%) vCenter Server
2 6 (3.21%) SCCM
3 5 (2.67%) SCOM
4 4 (2.14%) Grafana
4 4 (2.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.60%) Ansible
6 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.53%) SnapMirror
6 1 (0.53%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 31 (16.58%) Google
2 26 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.90%) Oracle
3 12 (6.42%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.81%) Salesforce
4 9 (4.81%) VMware
5 8 (4.28%) Cisco
5 8 (4.28%) SAP
6 5 (2.67%) CyberArk
6 5 (2.67%) Juniper
6 5 (2.67%) Remedy
6 5 (2.67%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.14%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.14%) Broadcom
7 4 (2.14%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.14%) Splunk
8 3 (1.60%) Adobe
9 2 (1.07%) BMC
9 2 (1.07%) Informatica
9 2 (1.07%) Workday