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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 45 48
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Change Management 277 150 186
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.20% 4.15% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.18% 4.67% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 108 96
10th Percentile £406 £313 £339
25th Percentile £463 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.47% -2.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £616 £562 £638
90th Percentile £674 £638 £650
England median daily rate £534 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.75% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 23
10th Percentile £20.69 £20.79 £31.45
25th Percentile £60.44 £36.14 £55.87
Median hourly rate £75.25 £51.75 £60.60
Median % change year-on-year +45.41% -14.60% +25.21%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.16 £61.60
90th Percentile £87.92 £72.35 £70.00
England median hourly rate £50.50 £27.68 £56.75
% change year-on-year +82.44% -51.22% +23.72%

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 5,352 3,211 3,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.21% 88.87% 83.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,088 2,015 2,165
10th Percentile £275 £213 £259
25th Percentile £417 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £620 £588 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 703 330 181
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.33 £16.17 £30.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £20.79 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +116.45% -64.46% +7.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £69.65 £75.00
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -6 155 £537 +26.35% 86
Berkshire +4 121 £550 +30.95% 49
Hampshire +15 78 £600 +18.23% 32
Buckinghamshire -9 28 £505 -0.25% 24
Surrey -5 19 £525 -12.50% 32
West Sussex -24 9 £550 +11.79% 6
Kent -5 6 £550 +14.58% 4
Oxfordshire -31 6 £540 +35.00% 13
Middlesex - 6 - -
East Sussex -2 1 - - 3
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 9 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) CICS
3 1 (0.36%) CMS
3 1 (0.36%) IIS
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.72%) Houdini
5 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.72%) NUKE
6 1 (0.36%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.36%) BASE24
4 1 (0.36%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.36%) Primavera
4 1 (0.36%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Convergent Charging
4 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.64%) Azure
2 14 (5.05%) AWS
3 8 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (2.89%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (2.17%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.81%) IaaS
6 4 (1.44%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.08%) GitHub
7 3 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.08%) SaaS
7 3 (1.08%) Smartsheet
7 3 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.72%) Azure App Service
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.72%) Lucidchart
8 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.94%) DNS
2 12 (4.33%) Firewall
2 12 (4.33%) Network Security
3 11 (3.97%) DHCP
4 10 (3.61%) VPN
5 9 (3.25%) WAN
6 7 (2.53%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.81%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (1.81%) LAN
7 5 (1.81%) SSL
7 5 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.81%) Wireless
8 4 (1.44%) Broadband
8 4 (1.44%) MPLS
8 4 (1.44%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.08%) DMVPN
9 3 (1.08%) IPsec
9 3 (1.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.53%) Metadata
2 4 (1.44%) Power BI
3 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.36%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 19 (6.86%) JIRA
2 3 (1.08%) Git
2 3 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.72%) Selenium
3 2 (0.72%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 104 (37.55%) Social Skills
2 60 (21.66%) Finance
3 50 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.75%) Aerospace
5 20 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.50%) Manufacturing
6 18 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (6.14%) Telecoms
8 16 (5.78%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (4.33%) Retail
10 10 (3.61%) Legal
11 9 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.17%) Billing
13 5 (1.81%) Aviation
13 5 (1.81%) Banking
13 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.44%) Automotive
14 4 (1.44%) Local Government
15 3 (1.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (10.47%) Delivery Manager
1 29 (10.47%) Lead
2 26 (9.39%) Change Manager
3 23 (8.30%) Analyst
4 16 (5.78%) Project Manager
4 16 (5.78%) Senior
5 12 (4.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 12 (4.33%) Storage Engineer
6 11 (3.97%) Business Manager
6 11 (3.97%) Service Manager
7 10 (3.61%) Business Analyst
8 9 (3.25%) IT Manager
8 9 (3.25%) Network Engineer
8 9 (3.25%) Product Delivery Manager
8 9 (3.25%) Product Manager
8 9 (3.25%) Service Delivery Manager
9 8 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (2.53%) Business Change Manager
10 7 (2.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (2.53%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.14%) REST
2 13 (4.69%) HTML
3 12 (4.33%) Ajax
4 9 (3.25%) CSS
5 5 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.81%) Terraform
6 4 (1.44%) Middleware
7 3 (1.08%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.08%) LDAP
7 3 (1.08%) SOAP
8 2 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 2 (0.72%) Playwright
8 2 (0.72%) RESTful
8 2 (0.72%) Swagger
8 2 (0.72%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (0.72%) YAML
9 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.36%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.78%) Management Information System
2 13 (4.69%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.33%) PKI
4 8 (2.89%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.53%) CMDB
6 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.44%) PMI
8 4 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.44%) Social Media
9 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.08%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.08%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.08%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.72%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 52 (18.77%) Windows
2 34 (12.27%) Windows Server
3 16 (5.78%) Linux
4 4 (1.44%) macOS
4 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.72%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (43.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 104 (37.55%) ITIL
3 91 (32.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 81 (29.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 77 (27.80%) Service Management
6 74 (26.71%) Agile
7 69 (24.91%) ITSM
8 56 (20.22%) Roadmaps
9 53 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (17.69%) Project Delivery
11 41 (14.80%) Service Delivery
12 37 (13.36%) Project Management
13 35 (12.64%) PRINCE2
14 34 (12.27%) Decision-Making
15 27 (9.75%) Computer Science
16 26 (9.39%) Impact Assessments
17 25 (9.03%) ERP
17 25 (9.03%) Root Cause Analysis
18 24 (8.66%) Digital Engineering
18 24 (8.66%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (10.47%) PowerShell
2 15 (5.42%) JavaScript
3 12 (4.33%) SQL
4 11 (3.97%) Python
5 7 (2.53%) Bash
6 4 (1.44%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.72%) C#
8 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.36%) COBOL
9 1 (0.36%) Java
9 1 (0.36%) JCL
Qualifications
1 156 (56.32%) Security Cleared
2 104 (37.55%) SC Cleared
3 52 (18.77%) DV Cleared
4 51 (18.41%) Degree
5 24 (8.66%) PMI Certification
6 23 (8.30%) PMP
7 10 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.53%) CCNP
8 7 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 6 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.81%) APMG
10 5 (1.81%) CCNA
11 4 (1.44%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (1.08%) CCSE
12 3 (1.08%) CCSM
12 3 (1.08%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.78%) SLA
2 14 (5.05%) QA
3 13 (4.69%) PMO
4 11 (3.97%) GDPR
5 9 (3.25%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.89%) ISO 9001
7 6 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.44%) GRC
9 3 (1.08%) NIST
10 2 (0.72%) COBIT
10 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.36%) GAAP
11 1 (0.36%) IFRS
11 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.36%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.36%) ITGC
System Software
1 40 (14.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (7.58%) Active Directory
3 18 (6.50%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (5.05%) vCloud
4 14 (5.05%) VMware NSX
5 9 (3.25%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.44%) Docker
7 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.72%) vSphere
8 1 (0.36%) RACF
8 1 (0.36%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (10.83%) vCenter Server
2 27 (9.75%) SCOM
3 12 (4.33%) Avamar
4 8 (2.89%) Kubernetes
5 6 (2.17%) Ansible
6 3 (1.08%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (1.08%) Grafana
6 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.72%) Kibana
7 2 (0.72%) logstash
7 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.72%) MOM
7 2 (0.72%) Nagios
7 2 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.36%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.36%) BladeLogic
8 1 (0.36%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.36%) SCCM
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (25.63%) Microsoft
2 58 (20.94%) ServiceNow
3 49 (17.69%) VMware
4 19 (6.86%) SAP
5 18 (6.50%) Cisco
6 15 (5.42%) Dell
7 12 (4.33%) Thales
8 10 (3.61%) CheckPoint
8 10 (3.61%) Oracle
9 9 (3.25%) Juniper
10 7 (2.53%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.53%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.17%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.81%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.81%) F5
12 5 (1.81%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.44%) Remedy
14 3 (1.08%) Blue Coat
14 3 (1.08%) Meraki
14 3 (1.08%) Workday