Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends in London

Stakeholder Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,983 1,213 1,427
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.77% 9.00% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.10% 9.92% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,341 763 1,037
10th Percentile £380 £389 £409
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £668 £666 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 16
10th Percentile £17.22 £32.23 £23.79
25th Percentile £22.43 £35.00 £28.87
Median hourly rate £40.62 £38.00 £45.03
Median % change year-on-year +6.88% -15.61% -33.29%
75th Percentile £66.74 £55.25 £54.69
90th Percentile £76.25 £64.13 £62.50
England median hourly rate £45.23 £57.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -20.65% +14.00% -7.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Stakeholder 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,067 12,226 16,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.56% 90.66% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 7,826 11,604
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.34% -17.37%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in London

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management in London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in London

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management in London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in London

Stakeholder Management
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Management within the London region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Central London +10 274 £575 -4.17% 101
West London -3 25 £500 +19.05% 25
South London -30 10 £556 -7.29% 4
East London +2 5 £675 +7.14% 12
North London +4 4 £500 +23.46% 3
Stakeholder Management
England

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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
1 118 (5.95%) Confluence
2 44 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.96%) CMS
4 16 (0.81%) Appian
5 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.30%) Camunda
7 5 (0.25%) Apache
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.15%) nginx
9 3 (0.15%) SAS
9 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.10%) Kentico
10 2 (0.10%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.10%) Sitefinity
10 2 (0.10%) WordPress
11 1 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 87 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.57%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (2.32%) MS Visio
4 40 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
5 39 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.55%) Trello
7 8 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.25%) Sketch
8 5 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.10%) InVision
11 1 (0.050%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 61 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.11%) Aladdin
4 17 (0.86%) Endur
5 13 (0.66%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.50%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.40%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 6 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.25%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 311 (15.68%) Azure
2 175 (8.83%) AWS
3 144 (7.26%) Power Platform
4 70 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (3.03%) GCP
6 54 (2.72%) SaaS
7 50 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (1.71%) Entra ID
9 33 (1.66%) Snowflake
10 32 (1.61%) GitHub
11 31 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 26 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
13 25 (1.26%) Serverless
14 23 (1.16%) PowerApps
15 22 (1.11%) OpenShift
16 20 (1.01%) Figma
16 20 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (0.96%) Azure AI
18 18 (0.91%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.12%) Firewall
2 27 (1.36%) WAN
3 19 (0.96%) LAN
4 17 (0.86%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.71%) DNS
5 14 (0.71%) Network Security
5 14 (0.71%) VPN
6 13 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.55%) BGP
8 10 (0.50%) MPLS
9 7 (0.35%) Broadband
9 7 (0.35%) OSPF
9 7 (0.35%) VoIP
10 6 (0.30%) Internet
10 6 (0.30%) Intranet
11 5 (0.25%) CTI
11 5 (0.25%) DHCP
11 5 (0.25%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.25%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (6.30%) Power BI
2 51 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (2.27%) Metadata
4 40 (2.02%) Tableau
5 26 (1.31%) Data Lake
6 21 (1.06%) SQL Server
7 13 (0.66%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.45%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.45%) Pinecone
10 8 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.40%) Big Data
11 6 (0.30%) DB2
11 6 (0.30%) Power Query
11 6 (0.30%) Redis
12 5 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.25%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 223 (11.25%) JIRA
2 32 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.06%) GitLab
4 17 (0.86%) Git
5 10 (0.50%) MLflow
6 9 (0.45%) SpecFlow
7 5 (0.25%) Axure RP
8 4 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.20%) ERwin
8 4 (0.20%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.20%) TestRail
9 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.10%) JMeter
10 2 (0.10%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.10%) LSMW
10 2 (0.10%) Selenium
11 1 (0.050%) JUnit
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.050%) PowerBuilder
General
1 1,056 (53.25%) Social Skills
2 777 (39.18%) Finance
3 323 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (11.65%) Banking
5 187 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 99 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
7 94 (4.74%) Retail
8 87 (4.39%) Legal
8 87 (4.39%) Marketing
9 73 (3.68%) Front Office
10 70 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
11 66 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
12 64 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
13 53 (2.67%) Investment Banking
14 47 (2.37%) Financial Institution
15 46 (2.32%) Telecoms
16 44 (2.22%) Manufacturing
17 38 (1.92%) Law
18 31 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 27 (1.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 427 (21.53%) Analyst
2 329 (16.59%) Business Analyst
3 305 (15.38%) Project Manager
4 248 (12.51%) Lead
5 192 (9.68%) Architect
6 191 (9.63%) Senior
7 125 (6.30%) Consultant
8 85 (4.29%) Senior Manager
9 66 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
9 66 (3.33%) Programme Manager
10 62 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
11 57 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
12 55 (2.77%) Data Analyst
13 52 (2.62%) IT Manager
14 51 (2.57%) Senior Business Analyst
15 46 (2.32%) Change Manager
16 44 (2.22%) Senior Project Manager
17 42 (2.12%) Developer
18 39 (1.97%) Product Manager
19 35 (1.77%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (2.17%) REST
2 27 (1.36%) Middleware
3 24 (1.21%) Kafka
4 20 (1.01%) .NET
4 20 (1.01%) OpenID
5 18 (0.91%) OAuth
5 18 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (0.91%) RESTful
6 17 (0.86%) Pandas
6 17 (0.86%) PyTorch
6 17 (0.86%) SAML
6 17 (0.86%) TensorFlow
6 17 (0.86%) Web Services
7 16 (0.81%) Hugging Face
7 16 (0.81%) NumPy
8 15 (0.76%) LDAP
8 15 (0.76%) SOAP
9 14 (0.71%) scikit-learn
10 12 (0.61%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.61%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 141 (7.11%) Product Ownership
2 89 (4.49%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 55 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
5 54 (2.72%) Cloud Native
6 43 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 37 (1.87%) Data Centre
8 26 (1.31%) NHS
9 25 (1.26%) PMI
10 23 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.16%) Reinsurance
11 22 (1.11%) Data Structures
11 22 (1.11%) Derivative
12 21 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.01%) Fixed Income
13 20 (1.01%) Virtual Team
14 19 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.91%) Life Science
16 15 (0.76%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.37%) Windows
2 19 (0.96%) Linux
3 16 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.45%) Unix
5 7 (0.35%) VMS
6 6 (0.30%) Android
7 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.050%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.050%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (32.73%) Agile
2 335 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
3 322 (16.24%) Project Management
4 272 (13.72%) Migration
5 257 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 252 (12.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 226 (11.40%) Roadmaps
8 207 (10.44%) Change Management
9 204 (10.29%) Project Delivery
10 199 (10.04%) Decision-Making
11 192 (9.68%) Analytics
12 189 (9.53%) Risk Management
13 186 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
14 180 (9.08%) DevOps
15 172 (8.67%) AI
16 168 (8.47%) User Acceptance Testing
17 164 (8.27%) Workshop Facilitation
18 161 (8.12%) Data Modelling
18 161 (8.12%) Scrum
19 154 (7.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 195 (9.83%) SQL
2 142 (7.16%) Python
3 36 (1.82%) C#
4 31 (1.56%) Java
5 30 (1.51%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.36%) PowerShell
7 19 (0.96%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.50%) Korn
8 10 (0.50%) R
9 8 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.35%) Bash
10 7 (0.35%) VBA
11 6 (0.30%) C++
12 5 (0.25%) Bicep
12 5 (0.25%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.15%) ABAP
14 2 (0.10%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.10%) Ruby
14 2 (0.10%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 276 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 225 (11.35%) SC Cleared
3 171 (8.62%) Degree
4 110 (5.55%) PMI Certification
5 104 (5.24%) PMP
6 41 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 37 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.31%) CBAP
9 22 (1.11%) CISSP
10 21 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (0.81%) CISM
12 15 (0.76%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.76%) DV Cleared
12 15 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.71%) IIBA
14 11 (0.55%) APMP
14 11 (0.55%) AWS Certification
14 11 (0.55%) CIMA
14 11 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.50%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (7.46%) QA
2 118 (5.95%) Data Quality
3 112 (5.65%) GDPR
4 74 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (3.18%) PMO
6 57 (2.87%) NIST
7 41 (2.07%) GRC
8 35 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 29 (1.46%) NCSC
10 28 (1.41%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.41%) PCI DSS
11 24 (1.21%) SLA
12 16 (0.81%) IFRS
13 13 (0.66%) MiFID
14 10 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.50%) COBIT
14 10 (0.50%) IFRS 17
14 10 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 8 (0.40%) EMIR
15 8 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (1.87%) Docker
2 25 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) NFS
6 1 (0.050%) Firmware
6 1 (0.050%) IAG
6 1 (0.050%) NLBS
6 1 (0.050%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.97%) Terraform
3 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.55%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.40%) Ansible
6 7 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.25%) RSA Archer
8 4 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.10%) Consul
10 2 (0.10%) Control-M
10 2 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.10%) Packer
10 2 (0.10%) SCCM
10 2 (0.10%) vMotion
11 1 (0.050%) Grafana
11 1 (0.050%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.050%) Opsview
11 1 (0.050%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.050%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 233 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 170 (8.57%) SAP
3 89 (4.49%) ServiceNow
4 83 (4.19%) Oracle
5 78 (3.93%) Salesforce
6 50 (2.52%) Workday
7 48 (2.42%) Databricks
8 28 (1.41%) Google
9 27 (1.36%) CyberArk
10 23 (1.16%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.06%) Cisco
12 19 (0.96%) Informatica
13 18 (0.91%) Ariba
13 18 (0.91%) Fortinet
13 18 (0.91%) Murex
14 16 (0.81%) Splunk
15 15 (0.76%) Adobe
16 14 (0.71%) Guidewire
16 14 (0.71%) VMware
17 13 (0.66%) Avaloq