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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 21 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,074 1,173 1,396
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.77% 9.08% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.22% 9.97% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 791 1,026
10th Percentile £388 £388 £408
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £564
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -1.64% -1.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £786 £799 £775
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 16
10th Percentile £20.82 £35.00 £23.79
25th Percentile £39.25 £36.75 £30.16
Median hourly rate £54.46 £44.02 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.72% +1.78% -35.93%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.25 £52.81
90th Percentile £76.75 £64.05 £58.75
England median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +29.93% -17.98%

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 14,581 11,761 16,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.81% 91.05% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,791 7,833 11,491
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% - -7.06%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 158 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.98% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £69.87 £77.77 £69.05
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.72%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +13 297 £589 -2.28% 242
West London -9 19 £635 +40.33% 22
South London -24 16 £590 -1.67% 5
East London +4 5 £675 +7.14% 11
North London +3 5 £519 +28.09% 5
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
1 127 (6.12%) Confluence
2 46 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.01%) CMS
4 16 (0.77%) Appian
5 13 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.39%) Apache
7 6 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.24%) SAS
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.14%) nginx
11 2 (0.096%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.096%) Kentico
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.096%) Sitefinity
11 2 (0.096%) WordPress
12 1 (0.048%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 83 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.89%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (2.36%) MS Visio
4 35 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.53%) Trello
7 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.24%) Sketch
8 5 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.096%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.096%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.096%) InVision
11 1 (0.048%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 64 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (1.16%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.72%) Endur
5 12 (0.58%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.48%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.39%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.29%) SAP FI
10 6 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.24%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 329 (15.86%) Azure
2 200 (9.64%) AWS
3 134 (6.46%) Power Platform
4 78 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (3.33%) GCP
6 57 (2.75%) SaaS
7 56 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (1.98%) Entra ID
9 40 (1.93%) Snowflake
10 31 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (1.49%) Power Automate
11 30 (1.45%) GitHub
12 28 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (1.06%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.06%) Serverless
14 21 (1.01%) Figma
15 20 (0.96%) PowerApps
16 19 (0.92%) Azure AI
17 18 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.88%) Firewall
2 31 (1.49%) WAN
3 23 (1.11%) LAN
3 23 (1.11%) Network Security
4 22 (1.06%) SD-WAN
5 16 (0.77%) DNS
6 14 (0.68%) BGP
6 14 (0.68%) VPN
7 12 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.48%) OSPF
9 9 (0.43%) MPLS
10 7 (0.34%) Broadband
10 7 (0.34%) VoIP
11 6 (0.29%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.29%) Intranet
11 6 (0.29%) NX-OS
11 6 (0.29%) Wireless
12 5 (0.24%) 5G
12 5 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.50%) Power BI
2 55 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (2.12%) Metadata
3 44 (2.12%) Tableau
4 30 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.11%) SQL Server
6 14 (0.68%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.63%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.53%) Big Data
9 9 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.43%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.43%) Pinecone
10 8 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.34%) Power Query
12 6 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.29%) Redis
12 6 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.24%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 235 (11.33%) JIRA
2 34 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.01%) Git
4 20 (0.96%) GitLab
5 10 (0.48%) MLflow
6 9 (0.43%) SpecFlow
7 7 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (0.24%) Axure RP
8 5 (0.24%) ERwin
8 5 (0.24%) Selenium
9 4 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.19%) JMeter
9 4 (0.19%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.19%) Snyk
10 3 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.14%) JUnit
10 3 (0.14%) LSMW
10 3 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.14%) TestRail
10 3 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 1,066 (51.40%) Social Skills
2 830 (40.02%) Finance
3 324 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
4 247 (11.91%) Banking
5 209 (10.08%) Public Sector
6 108 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
7 95 (4.58%) Retail
8 90 (4.34%) Legal
9 86 (4.15%) Marketing
10 76 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
11 72 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (3.18%) Front Office
14 63 (3.04%) Financial Institution
15 51 (2.46%) Investment Banking
16 43 (2.07%) Manufacturing
17 42 (2.03%) Telecoms
18 39 (1.88%) Law
19 28 (1.35%) Billing
20 23 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 424 (20.44%) Analyst
2 336 (16.20%) Business Analyst
3 322 (15.53%) Project Manager
4 268 (12.92%) Lead
5 204 (9.84%) Architect
6 200 (9.64%) Senior
7 134 (6.46%) Consultant
8 89 (4.29%) Senior Manager
9 77 (3.71%) Programme Manager
10 75 (3.62%) Delivery Manager
11 62 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
12 59 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
13 55 (2.65%) Data Analyst
14 53 (2.56%) IT Manager
15 49 (2.36%) Change Manager
15 49 (2.36%) Senior Business Analyst
16 43 (2.07%) Developer
16 43 (2.07%) Product Manager
16 43 (2.07%) Senior Project Manager
17 40 (1.93%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.36%) REST
2 34 (1.64%) Middleware
3 23 (1.11%) Kafka
3 23 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 23 (1.11%) SOAP
4 20 (0.96%) .NET
5 19 (0.92%) OpenID
5 19 (0.92%) RESTful
5 19 (0.92%) Web Services
6 18 (0.87%) OAuth
7 17 (0.82%) Pandas
7 17 (0.82%) PyTorch
7 17 (0.82%) SAML
7 17 (0.82%) TensorFlow
8 16 (0.77%) NumPy
9 15 (0.72%) Hugging Face
9 15 (0.72%) LDAP
10 14 (0.68%) scikit-learn
11 13 (0.63%) AngularJS
12 12 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 146 (7.04%) Product Ownership
2 108 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 83 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 54 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 51 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 41 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 40 (1.93%) Management Information System
9 35 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.30%) NHS
11 25 (1.21%) PMI
12 24 (1.16%) Reinsurance
13 23 (1.11%) Derivative
13 23 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 20 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 19 (0.92%) Fixed Income
15 19 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
16 17 (0.82%) Life Science
17 16 (0.77%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.27%) Windows
2 24 (1.16%) Linux
3 13 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.43%) Unix
5 8 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.34%) VMS
7 6 (0.29%) Android
8 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.096%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.048%) AIX
10 1 (0.048%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (33.22%) Agile
2 341 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
3 325 (15.67%) Project Management
4 305 (14.71%) Migration
5 280 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 255 (12.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 254 (12.25%) Roadmaps
8 222 (10.70%) Project Delivery
9 218 (10.51%) Decision-Making
10 215 (10.37%) DevOps
11 210 (10.13%) Change Management
12 194 (9.35%) Risk Management
13 185 (8.92%) Analytics
14 184 (8.87%) Requirements Gathering
15 178 (8.58%) User Acceptance Testing
16 176 (8.49%) AI
17 172 (8.29%) Data Modelling
18 171 (8.24%) Workshop Facilitation
19 170 (8.20%) Validation
20 166 (8.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 195 (9.40%) SQL
2 136 (6.56%) Python
3 36 (1.74%) C#
4 32 (1.54%) Java
5 29 (1.40%) JavaScript
5 29 (1.40%) PowerShell
6 19 (0.92%) TypeScript
7 12 (0.58%) R
8 11 (0.53%) Korn
9 10 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.39%) Bash
11 6 (0.29%) C++
12 5 (0.24%) Bicep
12 5 (0.24%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.24%) VBA
13 3 (0.14%) ABAP
13 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.14%) Ruby
14 2 (0.096%) X++
Qualifications
1 317 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 259 (12.49%) SC Cleared
3 168 (8.10%) Degree
4 118 (5.69%) PMI Certification
4 118 (5.69%) PMP
5 42 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.30%) CISSP
8 24 (1.16%) CBAP
8 24 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 19 (0.92%) CISM
10 18 (0.87%) DV Cleared
11 15 (0.72%) ISTQB
12 14 (0.68%) IIBA
13 12 (0.58%) APMP
13 12 (0.58%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.53%) ACCA
14 11 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (7.38%) QA
2 134 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 117 (5.64%) GDPR
4 77 (3.71%) PMO
5 66 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (2.84%) NIST
7 42 (2.03%) GRC
8 34 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 33 (1.59%) SLA
10 31 (1.49%) NCSC
11 23 (1.11%) Accessibility
11 23 (1.11%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.82%) IFRS
13 12 (0.58%) MiFID
14 11 (0.53%) COBIT
15 10 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.48%) IFRS 17
15 10 (0.48%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 10 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (1.98%) Docker
2 28 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.14%) NFS
4 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.096%) Postfix
5 2 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.096%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.048%) Firmware
6 1 (0.048%) IAG
6 1 (0.048%) NLBS
6 1 (0.048%) RACF
6 1 (0.048%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 60 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 42 (2.03%) Terraform
3 16 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.43%) Ansible
6 5 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.24%) RSA Archer
7 4 (0.19%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.14%) Grafana
8 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.14%) SCCM
9 2 (0.096%) Consul
9 2 (0.096%) Control-M
9 2 (0.096%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.096%) Packer
9 2 (0.096%) vMotion
10 1 (0.048%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.048%) Opsview
10 1 (0.048%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 229 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 176 (8.49%) SAP
3 105 (5.06%) ServiceNow
4 89 (4.29%) Oracle
4 89 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 55 (2.65%) Workday
6 45 (2.17%) Databricks
7 31 (1.49%) CyberArk
7 31 (1.49%) Google
8 24 (1.16%) Cisco
9 20 (0.96%) Informatica
9 20 (0.96%) Murex
9 20 (0.96%) OpenAI
9 20 (0.96%) Splunk
10 16 (0.77%) Adobe
10 16 (0.77%) Ariba
10 16 (0.77%) Fortinet
10 16 (0.77%) VMware
11 15 (0.72%) IBM
12 14 (0.68%) Guidewire