Change Management Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Change Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Change Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 88 64
Rank change year-on-year +30 -24 +31
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 152 119 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.27% 2.77% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 3.29% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 38 37 93
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,150 £26,100
25th Percentile £47,396 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £45,196
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +27.23% -16.07%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £87,875 £83,000 £64,771
South East median annual salary £57,250 £57,500 £45,196
% change year-on-year -0.43% +27.23% -13.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Change Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,118 3,620 3,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.51% 84.19% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,589 1,738 2,180
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,500 £32,338
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,106 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £56,763 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.96% +3.20% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Change Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Change Management job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Change Management
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Change Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Change Management

Change Management
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Change Management in the Thames Valley

Change Management
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +33 108 £58,750 -0.84% 30
Buckinghamshire +12 40 £80,000 +36.17% 16
Oxfordshire +9 5 £67,500 +107.69% 16
Change Management
South East

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (2.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (1.97%) Windchill
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.66%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (7.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 6 (3.95%) Oracle Assets
2 6 (3.95%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (3.95%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.97%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (21.71%) AWS
2 32 (21.05%) Azure
3 29 (19.08%) GCP
4 15 (9.87%) Azure AI
4 15 (9.87%) Vertex AI
5 13 (8.55%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (2.63%) Boomi
7 3 (1.97%) Miro
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.32%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.32%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Workato
9 1 (0.66%) SaaS
9 1 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) DNS
1 2 (1.32%) Firewall
1 2 (1.32%) FTP
1 2 (1.32%) HTTP
1 2 (1.32%) SMTP
1 2 (1.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.32%) Metadata
1 2 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.66%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (21.05%) JIRA
2 28 (18.42%) Git
2 28 (18.42%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.32%) Vagrant
General
1 106 (69.74%) Social Skills
2 74 (48.68%) Finance
3 43 (28.29%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (23.68%) Law
5 35 (23.03%) Legal
6 27 (17.76%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (11.84%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.97%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.97%) Marketing
10 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.97%) Retail
11 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Electronics
11 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (41.45%) Lead
2 56 (36.84%) Senior
3 24 (15.79%) Senior Manager
4 15 (9.87%) Product Delivery Manager
4 15 (9.87%) Product Manager
5 11 (7.24%) Support Specialist
6 9 (5.92%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.61%) Analyst
7 7 (4.61%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (4.61%) Workstream Lead
8 6 (3.95%) IT Manager
8 6 (3.95%) Software Analyst
8 6 (3.95%) Software Support Analyst
8 6 (3.95%) Support Analyst
9 5 (3.29%) Applications Specialist
9 5 (3.29%) Applications Support
9 5 (3.29%) Applications Support Specialist
9 5 (3.29%) Technical Specialist
9 5 (3.29%) Technical Support
9 5 (3.29%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.55%) Hugging Face
1 13 (8.55%) LangChain
1 13 (8.55%) PyTorch
1 13 (8.55%) TensorFlow
2 6 (3.95%) EDI
3 1 (0.66%) CSS
3 1 (0.66%) HTML
3 1 (0.66%) JSON
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.66%) REST
3 1 (0.66%) RESTful
3 1 (0.66%) SOAP
3 1 (0.66%) Web Services
3 1 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.76%) Analytical Mindset
1 27 (17.76%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.87%) AI Agents
3 9 (5.92%) FMCG
3 9 (5.92%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.29%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (3.29%) Life Science
4 5 (3.29%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Replication
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.66%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.66%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.92%) Windows
2 5 (3.29%) Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.32%) VMS
4 1 (0.66%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (71.05%) Continuous Improvement
2 81 (53.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 45 (29.61%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (29.61%) Project Management
4 44 (28.95%) Use Case
5 43 (28.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (27.63%) Analytics
6 42 (27.63%) ERP
7 39 (25.66%) Agile
8 36 (23.68%) Strategic Thinking
9 31 (20.39%) Configuration Management
10 30 (19.74%) AI
10 30 (19.74%) Business Strategy
10 30 (19.74%) Data Science
10 30 (19.74%) Digital Enablement
11 29 (19.08%) Change Control
11 29 (19.08%) Enterprise Architecture
11 29 (19.08%) Machine Learning
11 29 (19.08%) Process Improvement
11 29 (19.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.92%) SQL
2 3 (1.97%) Java
2 3 (1.97%) Python
3 2 (1.32%) Groovy
3 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.32%) Perl
3 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.66%) C#
4 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (36.84%) Degree
2 30 (19.74%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.87%) Master's Degree
4 13 (8.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.92%) PMI Certification
5 9 (5.92%) PMP
5 9 (5.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (3.95%) A+ Certification
6 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.66%) MBA
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.11%) Def Stans
1 26 (17.11%) QA
2 9 (5.92%) SLA
3 3 (1.97%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.66%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (1.97%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (9.87%) Grafana
1 15 (9.87%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.32%) Terraform
3 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.66%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (10.53%) Google
2 15 (9.87%) Foundry
2 15 (9.87%) Oracle
3 13 (8.55%) OpenAI
4 11 (7.24%) JD Edwards
5 10 (6.58%) SAP
6 4 (2.63%) Dell
6 4 (2.63%) IBM
6 4 (2.63%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.97%) Infor
8 2 (1.32%) Epicor
8 2 (1.32%) IFS
8 2 (1.32%) Informatica
8 2 (1.32%) Jitterbit
8 2 (1.32%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.32%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.32%) Software AG
8 2 (1.32%) Splunk
8 2 (1.32%) Talend