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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 52 57
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -19
Contract jobs citing Change Management 203 106 180
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.42% 3.60% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 3.94% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 70 99
10th Percentile £312 £325 £304
25th Percentile £456 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.97% +8.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £523 £532
90th Percentile £653 £625 £658
England median daily rate £502 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.35% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 32
10th Percentile £20.08 - £20.67
25th Percentile £42.13 £32.05 £52.69
Median hourly rate £82.75 £41.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +101.83% -33.44% +25.73%
75th Percentile £85.06 £58.75 £61.70
90th Percentile £87.73 £75.73 £70.00
England median hourly rate £34.87 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -30.26% - -4.43%

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 4,787 2,687 4,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.59% 91.30% 83.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 1,726 2,708
10th Percentile £280 £250 £260
25th Percentile £412 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -1.96% +0.99%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £656 £700
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 178 451
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £15.00 £18.26
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.53 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +97.89% -44.15% -9.52%
75th Percentile £82.25 £61.71 £62.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -7 114 £529 +17.62% 41
Berkshire +10 88 £574 +27.56% 22
Hampshire -2 66 £538 +7.50% 15
Buckinghamshire -22 25 £494 +23.44% 13
West Sussex -7 11 £550 +29.41% 6
Kent -5 5 £525 +9.38% 11
Surrey -22 5 £600 +41.18% 16
East Sussex -1 2 £725 - 1
Oxfordshire -31 1 - - 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 6 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.48%) Confluence
2 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.49%) Appian
3 1 (0.49%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (7.39%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (5.42%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.48%) Primavera
2 3 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.49%) BASE24
3 1 (0.49%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.49%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (0.49%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (15.27%) AWS
1 31 (15.27%) Azure
2 16 (7.88%) Power Platform
3 11 (5.42%) GCP
4 5 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (1.97%) Datadog
6 3 (1.48%) Canva
6 3 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.99%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.99%) Viva Engage
8 1 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.49%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.49%) IaaS
8 1 (0.49%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.49%) PaaS
8 1 (0.49%) SaaS
8 1 (0.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.39%) Network Security
2 12 (5.91%) Firewall
2 12 (5.91%) WAN
3 11 (5.42%) LAN
4 10 (4.93%) DNS
4 10 (4.93%) SD-WAN
5 9 (4.43%) VPN
6 8 (3.94%) MPLS
7 6 (2.96%) HTTP
8 5 (2.46%) BGP
8 5 (2.46%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.46%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (2.46%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (2.46%) OSPF
8 5 (2.46%) VSAN
9 4 (1.97%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.48%) Internet
10 3 (1.48%) NAS
10 3 (1.48%) SAN
10 3 (1.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.88%) Power BI
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.49%) QualityStage
2 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (4.93%) JIRA
2 3 (1.48%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.49%) GitLab
3 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
General
1 69 (33.99%) Social Skills
2 67 (33.00%) Finance
3 50 (24.63%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (15.27%) Retail
5 16 (7.88%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.42%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.43%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.96%) Legal
11 5 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.97%) Billing
13 3 (1.48%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.48%) Law
14 2 (0.99%) Banking
14 2 (0.99%) Local Government
14 2 (0.99%) Marketing
14 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.49%) Automotive
15 1 (0.49%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 35 (17.24%) Lead
2 33 (16.26%) Project Manager
3 23 (11.33%) Change Manager
4 16 (7.88%) Security Manager
5 15 (7.39%) Security Project Manager
6 11 (5.42%) Senior
6 11 (5.42%) Senior Manager
7 10 (4.93%) Consultant
7 10 (4.93%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.43%) Transformation Manager
9 8 (3.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (3.94%) Business Manager
9 8 (3.94%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 7 (3.45%) Analyst
10 7 (3.45%) Business Change Manager
10 7 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (3.45%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
10 7 (3.45%) Senior Project Manager
10 7 (3.45%) Storage Engineer
11 6 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.94%) Ajax
1 8 (3.94%) CSS
1 8 (3.94%) HTML
1 8 (3.94%) REST
2 5 (2.46%) Middleware
3 1 (0.49%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.36%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.93%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.43%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 7 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.96%) BYOD
5 6 (2.96%) PKI
6 5 (2.46%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.48%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.48%) Replication
9 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.99%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.99%) SCADA
9 2 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.27%) Windows
2 20 (9.85%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.45%) Linux
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.49%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.49%) Unix
5 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (44.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 58 (28.57%) ITIL
3 52 (25.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 51 (25.12%) Agile
5 46 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (21.18%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (17.24%) Project Management
9 33 (16.26%) ERP
9 33 (16.26%) Migration
10 30 (14.78%) ITSM
10 30 (14.78%) User Acceptance Testing
11 29 (14.29%) Project Delivery
12 26 (12.81%) Budget Management
13 24 (11.82%) Data Protection
13 24 (11.82%) Roadmaps
14 20 (9.85%) Risk Management
15 19 (9.36%) Impact Assessments
15 19 (9.36%) Validation
15 19 (9.36%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.39%) PowerShell
2 8 (3.94%) JavaScript
3 7 (3.45%) SQL
4 6 (2.96%) Python
5 5 (2.46%) Bash
6 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 82 (40.39%) Security Cleared
2 54 (26.60%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.32%) DV Cleared
4 24 (11.82%) PMP
5 23 (11.33%) Degree
6 19 (9.36%) PMI Certification
7 14 (6.90%) CISM
7 14 (6.90%) CISSP
8 8 (3.94%) CCNP
8 8 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.45%) ACCA
9 7 (3.45%) CIMA
10 5 (2.46%) CCSE
10 5 (2.46%) CCSM
11 3 (1.48%) APMG
12 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.99%) CCNA
12 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.99%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (20.20%) GDPR
2 34 (16.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (13.30%) NIST
4 18 (8.87%) SOC 2
5 12 (5.91%) PMO
6 9 (4.43%) SLA
7 8 (3.94%) QA
8 6 (2.96%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.48%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.99%) NCSC
11 1 (0.49%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.49%) GRC
11 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.49%) P3O
System Software
1 21 (10.34%) Active Directory
1 21 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (5.91%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (3.45%) vCloud
3 7 (3.45%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.97%) Docker
5 2 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.49%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (7.88%) vCenter Server
2 15 (7.39%) SCOM
3 6 (2.96%) Avamar
4 5 (2.46%) Grafana
4 5 (2.46%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.97%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.99%) SCCM
7 1 (0.49%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.49%) SnapMirror
7 1 (0.49%) SnapVault
7 1 (0.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.33%) ServiceNow
2 23 (11.33%) VMware
3 13 (6.40%) IFS
4 12 (5.91%) Oracle
4 12 (5.91%) SAP
5 9 (4.43%) Cisco
6 7 (3.45%) CheckPoint
6 7 (3.45%) Dell
7 6 (2.96%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.96%) Thales
8 5 (2.46%) Callidus
8 5 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.46%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.97%) Adobe
9 4 (1.97%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.97%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.97%) Google
9 4 (1.97%) Splunk
10 3 (1.48%) Juniper