Change Management Contracts in the South East

Change Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Change Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Management over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 53 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing Change Management 133 176 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.81% 3.55% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 4.29% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 92 185
10th Percentile £338 £313 £350
25th Percentile £403 £375 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £477 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.99% -9.14% -
75th Percentile £529 £543 £638
90th Percentile £625 £650 £750
England median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.72% -6.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 30 15
10th Percentile £32.05 £19.85 £16.53
25th Percentile £36.14 £35.87 £24.00
Median hourly rate £51.75 £60.83 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -14.93% +25.68% +217.38%
75th Percentile £70.16 £61.60 £54.19
90th Percentile £72.35 £70.00 £56.32
England median hourly rate £30.00 £58.17 £48.40
% change year-on-year -48.43% +20.19% +120.00%

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 3,135 4,100 5,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.91% 82.81% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,960 2,495 3,385
10th Percentile £250 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.66% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 325 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.23
Median hourly rate £21.41 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.67% +14.70% +105.25%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £71.50 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Change Management in the South East

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 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Management in the South East

Change Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Change Management in the South East

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 8 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Change Management in the South East

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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 8 August 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 -3 80 £425 -11.83% 47
Berkshire -11 55 £423 -14.69% 22
Hampshire +40 29 £500 -2.44% 45
Oxfordshire +8 16 £388 -13.89% 8
Buckinghamshire 0 9 £425 +51.80% 19
Surrey +2 8 £450 -14.29% 15
Kent -5 7 £480 -9.86% 14
West Sussex -8 3 £425 -5.56% 17
East Sussex -3 2 £488 +14.71% 3
Sussex - 2 - - 10
Home Counties - 1 - -
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 9 (6.77%) Confluence
2 4 (3.01%) CMS
2 4 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.75%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.76%) MS Visio
4 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.26%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (7.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 6 (4.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.75%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.02%) Power Platform
2 5 (3.76%) Azure
2 5 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (3.76%) SaaS
3 4 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.26%) Asana
4 3 (2.26%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.26%) GitHub
4 3 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (2.26%) Lucidchart
5 2 (1.50%) AWS
5 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.75%) Akamai
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.75%) Datadog
6 1 (0.75%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.75%) Route 53
6 1 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.77%) Network Security
2 6 (4.51%) Firewall
3 4 (3.01%) Broadband
4 3 (2.26%) BGP
4 3 (2.26%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (2.26%) DNS
4 3 (2.26%) HTTP
4 3 (2.26%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.50%) DHCP
5 2 (1.50%) EIGRP
5 2 (1.50%) Internet
5 2 (1.50%) MPLS
5 2 (1.50%) OSPF
5 2 (1.50%) VPN
5 2 (1.50%) WAN
5 2 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.50%) Wireless
6 1 (0.75%) DMZ
6 1 (0.75%) FTP
6 1 (0.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.02%) Power BI
2 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.50%) Metadata
3 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.75%) DTS
3 1 (0.75%) GIS
3 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.75%) Impala
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.75%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (12.03%) JIRA
2 7 (5.26%) MSI
3 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
General
1 58 (43.61%) Social Skills
2 33 (24.81%) Finance
3 22 (16.54%) Organisational Skills
4 19 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 19 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 18 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.26%) Retail
7 4 (3.01%) Law
7 4 (3.01%) Legal
7 4 (3.01%) Marketing
8 3 (2.26%) Automotive
8 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.50%) Banking
9 2 (1.50%) Local Government
9 2 (1.50%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.50%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 17 (12.78%) Project Manager
2 16 (12.03%) Analyst
3 12 (9.02%) Change Manager
4 10 (7.52%) Business Analyst
5 9 (6.77%) Network Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) Programme Manager
6 8 (6.02%) Architect
7 7 (5.26%) Release Manager
8 6 (4.51%) SAP Manager
9 5 (3.76%) IT Manager
9 5 (3.76%) Lead
9 5 (3.76%) Network Security Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Systems Manager
10 4 (3.01%) Configuration Manager
10 4 (3.01%) Consultant
10 4 (3.01%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.01%) Head of Digital
10 4 (3.01%) SCCM Engineer
10 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.26%) Ajax
1 3 (2.26%) CSS
1 3 (2.26%) HTML
1 3 (2.26%) REST
1 3 (2.26%) SOAP
1 3 (2.26%) Web Services
1 3 (2.26%) XML
2 2 (1.50%) ADO
3 1 (0.75%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.75%) Middleware
3 1 (0.75%) Node.js
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.29%) Life Science
2 16 (12.03%) Renewable Energy
3 14 (10.53%) CMDB
4 10 (7.52%) Data Centre
4 10 (7.52%) Onboarding
4 10 (7.52%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.26%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.26%) PKI
7 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.50%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.50%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.03%) Windows
2 7 (5.26%) Windows 10
2 7 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.26%) Unix
4 2 (1.50%) Linux
5 1 (0.75%) CentOS
5 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.08%) Agile
2 41 (30.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 36 (27.07%) Migration
4 33 (24.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (17.29%) ITIL
6 23 (17.29%) Project Management
7 16 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (12.03%) Project Delivery
8 14 (10.53%) Incident Management
8 14 (10.53%) Risk Management
9 13 (9.77%) ERP
10 12 (9.02%) PRINCE2
10 12 (9.02%) Roadmaps
11 11 (8.27%) Configuration Management
11 11 (8.27%) DevOps
11 11 (8.27%) Process Improvement
12 10 (7.52%) CRM
12 10 (7.52%) Project Governance
12 10 (7.52%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.27%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.26%) C#
3 6 (4.51%) SQL
3 6 (4.51%) VB
4 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.75%) Perl
5 1 (0.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.28%) Degree
4 13 (9.77%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.76%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.76%) PMP
6 2 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.75%) ACCA
7 1 (0.75%) APMP
7 1 (0.75%) CCNA
7 1 (0.75%) CIMA
7 1 (0.75%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.75%) HNC
7 1 (0.75%) ISEB
7 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.75%) PgMP
7 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.75%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.77%) QA
2 6 (4.51%) GDPR
3 5 (3.76%) PMO
4 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.26%) P3O
5 2 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.02%) SCCM
2 2 (1.50%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.75%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.75%) SCOM
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.53%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.27%) SAP
4 9 (6.77%) Cisco
5 8 (6.02%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.76%) Remedy
6 5 (3.76%) VMware
7 4 (3.01%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.01%) Oracle
8 3 (2.26%) Aruba
8 3 (2.26%) Citrix
8 3 (2.26%) F5
9 2 (1.50%) Cramer
9 2 (1.50%) IFS
9 2 (1.50%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.50%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.50%) Progress
9 2 (1.50%) Workday
10 1 (0.75%) BT
10 1 (0.75%) ESRI