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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 47 50
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Change Management 132 186 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.78% 4.04% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 4.89% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 96 168
10th Percentile £355 £320 £360
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £537 £638 £616
90th Percentile £631 £650 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 17
10th Percentile £32.05 £32.48 £17.18
25th Percentile £36.14 £55.87 £45.63
Median hourly rate £51.75 £61.06 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +26.16% +48.92%
75th Percentile £70.16 £61.60 £56.00
90th Percentile £72.35 £70.00 £57.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £58.30 £48.40
% change year-on-year -48.54% +20.45% +77.61%

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 3,112 3,806 4,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.17% 82.60% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 2,269 3,336
10th Percentile £220 £255 £250
25th Percentile £378 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
75th Percentile £592 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 251 255
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £30.83 £23.79
Median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £78.75 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Change Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Change Management 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -8 81 £425 -15.00% 102
Berkshire -9 59 £425 -15.00% 79
Hampshire +20 26 £508 -8.76% 41
Oxfordshire +8 14 £400 -11.11% 12
Buckinghamshire +4 8 £469 +67.43% 13
Kent -1 8 £480 -17.95% 11
Surrey -9 6 £600 +14.29% 25
West Sussex -7 5 £500 +11.11% 8
East Sussex -3 2 £488 +14.71% 8
Sussex - 2 - - 7
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (11.36%) Confluence
2 5 (3.79%) CMS
3 4 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) JBoss
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.76%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.76%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (5.30%) MS Visio
4 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (2.27%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (5.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 3 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.52%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.76%) Primavera
4 1 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.58%) Azure
2 7 (5.30%) Power Platform
3 6 (4.55%) AWS
4 4 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.27%) Asana
5 3 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.27%) GCP
5 3 (2.27%) GitHub
5 3 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.27%) Lucidchart
5 3 (2.27%) SaaS
6 2 (1.52%) Alation
6 2 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.52%) Collibra
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (0.76%) Datadog
7 1 (0.76%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.79%) Network Security
2 4 (3.03%) Broadband
3 3 (2.27%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.27%) VLAN
4 2 (1.52%) DHCP
4 2 (1.52%) DNS
4 2 (1.52%) Firewall
5 1 (0.76%) BGP
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.76%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.76%) FTP
5 1 (0.76%) HTTP
5 1 (0.76%) OSPF
5 1 (0.76%) SAN
5 1 (0.76%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.76%) TACACS
5 1 (0.76%) VoIP
5 1 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.30%) Power BI
2 4 (3.03%) Metadata
3 2 (1.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.76%) DTS
4 1 (0.76%) GIS
4 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.76%) Impala
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 23 (17.42%) JIRA
2 7 (5.30%) MSI
3 2 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 60 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 36 (27.27%) Finance
3 19 (14.39%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (13.64%) Manufacturing
5 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.61%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.55%) Retail
7 5 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Legal
8 4 (3.03%) Automotive
9 3 (2.27%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.27%) Law
10 2 (1.52%) Banking
10 2 (1.52%) Electronics
10 2 (1.52%) Local Government
10 2 (1.52%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.52%) Swedish Language
11 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 19 (14.39%) Project Manager
2 17 (12.88%) Analyst
3 12 (9.09%) Change Manager
4 10 (7.58%) Business Analyst
5 7 (5.30%) Lead
5 7 (5.30%) Programme Manager
5 7 (5.30%) Release Manager
5 7 (5.30%) SAP Manager
6 5 (3.79%) IT Manager
6 5 (3.79%) Senior
6 5 (3.79%) Systems Manager
7 4 (3.03%) Architect
7 4 (3.03%) Configuration Manager
7 4 (3.03%) Consultant
7 4 (3.03%) Developer
7 4 (3.03%) Head of Digital
7 4 (3.03%) SCCM Engineer
8 3 (2.27%) Platform Manager
8 3 (2.27%) PMO Specialist
8 3 (2.27%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.52%) .NET
1 2 (1.52%) .NET Core
1 2 (1.52%) ADO
1 2 (1.52%) AngularJS
1 2 (1.52%) REST
1 2 (1.52%) RESTful
2 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.76%) Ajax
2 1 (0.76%) CSS
2 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.76%) HTML
2 1 (0.76%) Middleware
2 1 (0.76%) Node.js
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (0.76%) SOAP
2 1 (0.76%) Web Services
2 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.88%) Life Science
2 14 (10.61%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (9.85%) Renewable Energy
4 12 (9.09%) CMDB
5 11 (8.33%) Onboarding
6 9 (6.82%) Data Centre
7 6 (4.55%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.27%) PKI
9 3 (2.27%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.52%) Learning Management System
10 2 (1.52%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.52%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.12%) Windows
2 8 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.30%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.03%) Linux
5 3 (2.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) CentOS
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.12%) Agile
2 39 (29.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 36 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (23.48%) Migration
6 26 (19.70%) Project Management
7 17 (12.88%) ITIL
7 17 (12.88%) Project Delivery
8 15 (11.36%) DevOps
9 14 (10.61%) Waterfall
10 13 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (9.85%) Roadmaps
11 12 (9.09%) ERP
12 11 (8.33%) Change Control
12 11 (8.33%) Risk Management
13 10 (7.58%) Configuration Management
13 10 (7.58%) Data Management
13 10 (7.58%) Incident Management
13 10 (7.58%) Process Improvement
13 10 (7.58%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.58%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.82%) C#
3 6 (4.55%) SQL
3 6 (4.55%) VB
4 3 (2.27%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.52%) Python
6 1 (0.76%) Java
6 1 (0.76%) Perl
6 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.36%) Degree
4 11 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.27%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.27%) PMP
6 1 (0.76%) ACCA
6 1 (0.76%) CCNA
6 1 (0.76%) CIMA
6 1 (0.76%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.76%) HNC
6 1 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.76%) NVQ Level 5
6 1 (0.76%) PgMP
6 1 (0.76%) Server+ Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (0.76%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.33%) QA
2 8 (6.06%) GDPR
3 5 (3.79%) PMO
4 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.27%) P3O
6 2 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.76%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.76%) NIST
7 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.30%) SCCM
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.88%) ServiceNow
3 12 (9.09%) SAP
4 9 (6.82%) Oracle
4 9 (6.82%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.30%) Remedy
5 7 (5.30%) VMware
6 4 (3.03%) Citrix
7 3 (2.27%) Informatica
8 2 (1.52%) Cisco
8 2 (1.52%) IFS
8 2 (1.52%) Progress
9 1 (0.76%) BMC
9 1 (0.76%) BT
9 1 (0.76%) Dell
9 1 (0.76%) ESRI
9 1 (0.76%) HP
9 1 (0.76%) Niku
9 1 (0.76%) Siemens
9 1 (0.76%) Workday