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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 54 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -19
Contract jobs citing Change Management 212 109 165
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.62% 3.63% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 3.97% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 72 98
10th Percentile £291 £313 £310
25th Percentile £366 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% +1.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £540
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 25
10th Percentile £42.13 £23.92 £19.10
25th Percentile £48.56 - £36.75
Median hourly rate £83.00 £32.05 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +158.97% -47.97% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85.13 £58.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.73 £69.00
England median hourly rate £42.25 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.52% +15.00% +2.67%

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 4,759 2,747 4,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.21% 91.54% 84.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,102 1,755 2,737
10th Percentile £280 £254 £250
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.48%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £623
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 173 434
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.85 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.79 £15.25 £18.20
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £81.76 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +1 129 £500 +10.99% 38
Berkshire +12 105 £500 +9.53% 21
Hampshire -5 59 £518 +3.50% 20
Buckinghamshire -19 22 £510 +27.50% 13
West Sussex -10 10 £532 +141.82% 3
Surrey -13 8 £800 +88.24% 12
Kent -6 5 £525 -3.23% 4
East Sussex +2 2 £725 - 5
Oxfordshire -29 2 £425 -15.00% 5
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 7 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.42%) Confluence
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.47%) Appian
Applications
1 21 (9.91%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.42%) Primavera
2 3 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.47%) BASE24
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.47%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (21.70%) AWS
2 45 (21.23%) Azure
3 28 (13.21%) GCP
4 15 (7.08%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.89%) Datadog
6 3 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (1.42%) Canva
6 3 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.42%) SaaS
7 2 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.94%) Google Ads
7 2 (0.94%) IaaS
7 2 (0.94%) PaaS
7 2 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.94%) Viva Engage
8 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.47%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.47%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.55%) Firewall
1 16 (7.55%) Network Security
2 12 (5.66%) WAN
3 11 (5.19%) SD-WAN
4 9 (4.25%) LAN
5 8 (3.77%) DNS
5 8 (3.77%) VPN
6 7 (3.30%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (3.30%) MPLS
7 6 (2.83%) HTTP
8 5 (2.36%) BGP
8 5 (2.36%) OSPF
9 4 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
9 4 (1.89%) Junos
9 4 (1.89%) NX-OS
9 4 (1.89%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (1.42%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.42%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.08%) Power BI
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.47%) QualityStage
3 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (4.72%) JIRA
2 3 (1.42%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.47%) GitLab
3 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
General
1 89 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 67 (31.60%) Finance
3 59 (27.83%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (13.21%) Retail
5 16 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.08%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.77%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.42%) Billing
10 3 (1.42%) Legal
11 2 (0.94%) Automotive
11 2 (0.94%) Banking
11 2 (0.94%) Local Government
11 2 (0.94%) Marketing
11 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Aviation
12 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 47 (22.17%) Lead
2 35 (16.51%) Project Manager
3 21 (9.91%) Change Manager
4 16 (7.55%) Security Manager
5 15 (7.08%) Security Project Manager
6 12 (5.66%) Consultant
7 11 (5.19%) IT Manager
7 11 (5.19%) Senior
7 11 (5.19%) Senior Manager
8 10 (4.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 9 (4.25%) Analyst
10 8 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 8 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (3.77%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.77%) Transformation Manager
11 7 (3.30%) Business Manager
11 7 (3.30%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
11 7 (3.30%) Senior Project Manager
12 6 (2.83%) Network Manager
13 5 (2.36%) Business Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.89%) Ajax
1 4 (1.89%) CSS
1 4 (1.89%) HTML
1 4 (1.89%) Middleware
1 4 (1.89%) REST
2 2 (0.94%) .NET
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.47%) A2A Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.08%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.72%) Virtual Team
4 9 (4.25%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.30%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.83%) BYOD
7 5 (2.36%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.36%) PKI
8 3 (1.42%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.42%) Replication
8 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.94%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.94%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.94%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.32%) Windows
2 12 (5.66%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.30%) Linux
4 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (40.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 75 (35.38%) ITIL
3 57 (26.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (25.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 54 (25.47%) Agile
6 51 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (20.75%) Project Management
8 42 (19.81%) Cybersecurity
8 42 (19.81%) ITSM
9 34 (16.04%) Migration
10 32 (15.09%) Service Management
11 31 (14.62%) Project Delivery
12 30 (14.15%) ERP
13 29 (13.68%) User Acceptance Testing
14 28 (13.21%) Budget Management
15 21 (9.91%) Data Protection
15 21 (9.91%) Performance Metrics
16 20 (9.43%) PRINCE2
16 20 (9.43%) Risk Management
16 20 (9.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.66%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.83%) Python
3 5 (2.36%) Bash
4 4 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (41.51%) Security Cleared
2 67 (31.60%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.68%) PMP
4 24 (11.32%) Degree
4 24 (11.32%) PMI Certification
5 19 (8.96%) DV Cleared
6 14 (6.60%) CISM
6 14 (6.60%) CISSP
7 7 (3.30%) ACCA
7 7 (3.30%) CIMA
8 6 (2.83%) CCNP
8 6 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.42%) CCNA
9 3 (1.42%) CCSE
9 3 (1.42%) CCSM
10 2 (0.94%) APMG
10 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (17.92%) GDPR
2 33 (15.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (12.74%) NIST
4 18 (8.49%) SOC 2
5 17 (8.02%) PMO
6 10 (4.72%) QA
7 7 (3.30%) SLA
8 6 (2.83%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.94%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.94%) NCSC
11 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.47%) P3O
System Software
1 19 (8.96%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.36%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.89%) Docker
4 4 (1.89%) Firmware
4 4 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.47%) NFS
5 1 (0.47%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 12 (5.66%) vCenter Server
2 7 (3.30%) SCOM
3 6 (2.83%) SCCM
4 5 (2.36%) Grafana
4 5 (2.36%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.47%) Avamar
6 1 (0.47%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.47%) SnapMirror
6 1 (0.47%) SnapVault
6 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.43%) Google
2 20 (9.43%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.08%) Oracle
4 13 (6.13%) SAP
4 13 (6.13%) VMware
5 12 (5.66%) IFS
6 11 (5.19%) Cisco
7 7 (3.30%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.83%) Juniper
9 5 (2.36%) Callidus
9 5 (2.36%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.89%) Adobe
10 4 (1.89%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.89%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.89%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.89%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.89%) Splunk
11 3 (1.42%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.42%) Salesforce