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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 19 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,149 1,197 1,333
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.69% 9.50% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.18% 10.39% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 816 977
10th Percentile £391 £400 £408
25th Percentile £463 £467 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £800 £777
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 16
10th Percentile £28.42 £34.85 £23.79
25th Percentile £38.00 £36.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £54.00 £43.08 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.36% -0.40% -31.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.25 £52.81
90th Percentile £76.73 £66.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £46.95
% change year-on-year -24.23% +27.81% -16.82%

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 15,153 11,521 15,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.47% 91.42% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,178 7,819 11,391
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £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 232 167 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.65 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.10 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £65.00 £67.90
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +11 303 £600 -0.08% 204
West London -6 25 £550 +21.55% 26
South London -24 18 £595 -0.83% 6
East London +4 6 £675 +7.14% 12
North London +4 5 £519 +28.09% 4
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
1 135 (6.28%) Confluence
2 51 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.07%) CMS
4 17 (0.79%) Appian
5 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.51%) Apache
7 6 (0.28%) Camunda
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.28%) SAS
8 5 (0.23%) nginx
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.093%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.093%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.093%) Sitefinity
11 2 (0.093%) WordPress
12 1 (0.047%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 96 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
3 51 (2.37%) MS Visio
4 44 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.47%) Trello
7 9 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.28%) Sketch
8 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.23%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.093%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.093%) InVision
11 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.047%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.047%) Revit
11 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 56 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.07%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.65%) Endur
5 12 (0.56%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.33%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.28%) SAP HCM
10 5 (0.23%) Actimize
10 5 (0.23%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 348 (16.19%) Azure
2 220 (10.24%) AWS
3 123 (5.72%) Power Platform
4 83 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (3.49%) GCP
6 56 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (2.47%) SaaS
8 41 (1.91%) Entra ID
9 38 (1.77%) Snowflake
10 31 (1.44%) Power Automate
11 29 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 29 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
12 28 (1.30%) GitHub
13 24 (1.12%) Figma
14 22 (1.02%) OpenShift
14 22 (1.02%) Serverless
15 21 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (0.93%) OCI
16 20 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
17 19 (0.88%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.58%) Firewall
2 26 (1.21%) WAN
3 22 (1.02%) Network Security
4 20 (0.93%) LAN
5 17 (0.79%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.70%) BGP
7 14 (0.65%) DNS
7 14 (0.65%) VPN
8 11 (0.51%) OSPF
8 11 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.42%) MPLS
10 7 (0.33%) Broadband
10 7 (0.33%) Intranet
10 7 (0.33%) VoIP
11 6 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.28%) NX-OS
12 5 (0.23%) 5G
12 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.84%) Power BI
2 58 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (2.42%) Metadata
4 41 (1.91%) Tableau
5 28 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 25 (1.16%) SQL Server
7 16 (0.74%) Big Data
7 16 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 13 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.42%) Pinecone
10 9 (0.42%) Power Query
11 8 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.28%) MySQL
12 6 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.28%) Redis
12 6 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 240 (11.17%) JIRA
2 33 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 20 (0.93%) Git
4 18 (0.84%) GitLab
5 10 (0.47%) MLflow
5 10 (0.47%) Selenium
6 9 (0.42%) SpecFlow
7 8 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.33%) JMeter
8 7 (0.33%) Postman
8 7 (0.33%) REST Assured
9 6 (0.28%) ERwin
9 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.23%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.23%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.19%) Snyk
11 4 (0.19%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.14%) Appium
12 3 (0.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,079 (50.21%) Social Skills
2 858 (39.93%) Finance
3 342 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (12.01%) Banking
5 210 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 115 (5.35%) Influencing Skills
7 101 (4.70%) Retail
8 96 (4.47%) Marketing
9 90 (4.19%) Legal
10 87 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
11 73 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
12 72 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
13 69 (3.21%) Financial Institution
14 61 (2.84%) Front Office
15 50 (2.33%) Investment Banking
16 42 (1.95%) Manufacturing
16 42 (1.95%) Telecoms
17 41 (1.91%) Law
18 29 (1.35%) Billing
19 28 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 426 (19.82%) Analyst
2 338 (15.73%) Business Analyst
3 322 (14.98%) Project Manager
4 280 (13.03%) Lead
5 214 (9.96%) Senior
6 208 (9.68%) Architect
7 123 (5.72%) Consultant
8 92 (4.28%) Senior Manager
9 80 (3.72%) Programme Manager
10 78 (3.63%) Delivery Manager
11 64 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
12 62 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
13 60 (2.79%) Data Analyst
14 58 (2.70%) IT Manager
15 50 (2.33%) Senior Business Analyst
16 49 (2.28%) Change Manager
17 47 (2.19%) Developer
18 46 (2.14%) Test Manager
19 45 (2.09%) Product Manager
20 44 (2.05%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (2.47%) REST
2 42 (1.95%) Middleware
3 25 (1.16%) SOAP
4 24 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (1.07%) Kafka
6 21 (0.98%) Web Services
7 19 (0.88%) OpenID
8 18 (0.84%) OAuth
8 18 (0.84%) RESTful
9 17 (0.79%) .NET
9 17 (0.79%) Pandas
9 17 (0.79%) SAML
10 16 (0.74%) NumPy
10 16 (0.74%) PyTorch
10 16 (0.74%) TensorFlow
11 15 (0.70%) Hugging Face
11 15 (0.70%) Playwright
12 14 (0.65%) LDAP
12 14 (0.65%) scikit-learn
13 13 (0.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 157 (7.31%) Product Ownership
2 113 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 84 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 66 (3.07%) Cloud Native
5 54 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
6 52 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 43 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 41 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 37 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.21%) NHS
10 26 (1.21%) PMI
11 24 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 21 (0.98%) Derivative
12 21 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (0.93%) Reinsurance
14 19 (0.88%) Fixed Income
14 19 (0.88%) FMCG
14 19 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
15 17 (0.79%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 51 (2.37%) Windows
2 22 (1.02%) Linux
3 14 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.37%) Unix
4 8 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.33%) VMS
6 6 (0.28%) Android
6 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.093%) Solaris
9 1 (0.047%) AIX
9 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (33.04%) Agile
2 336 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
2 336 (15.64%) Project Management
3 312 (14.52%) Migration
4 299 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 264 (12.28%) Roadmaps
6 258 (12.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 234 (10.89%) Decision-Making
8 229 (10.66%) DevOps
8 229 (10.66%) Project Delivery
9 220 (10.24%) Change Management
10 198 (9.21%) AI
10 198 (9.21%) Analytics
11 196 (9.12%) User Acceptance Testing
12 192 (8.93%) Risk Management
13 182 (8.47%) Data Modelling
14 181 (8.42%) Scrum
15 180 (8.38%) Requirements Gathering
16 175 (8.14%) Validation
17 171 (7.96%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 199 (9.26%) SQL
2 137 (6.38%) Python
3 36 (1.68%) Java
4 33 (1.54%) C#
5 25 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 24 (1.12%) PowerShell
7 19 (0.88%) TypeScript
8 14 (0.65%) R
9 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (0.42%) Bash
11 8 (0.37%) Korn
12 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.28%) VBA
14 5 (0.23%) C++
15 4 (0.19%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.19%) Bicep
16 3 (0.14%) ABAP
16 3 (0.14%) Ruby
17 2 (0.093%) PHP
Qualifications
1 330 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 278 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 164 (7.63%) Degree
4 120 (5.58%) PMP
5 118 (5.49%) PMI Certification
6 42 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (1.49%) CISSP
8 30 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.12%) CBAP
9 24 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (0.93%) CISM
11 18 (0.84%) DV Cleared
12 17 (0.79%) Azure Certification
13 16 (0.74%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.70%) IIBA
15 13 (0.60%) ACCA
16 12 (0.56%) APMP
16 12 (0.56%) CIMA
16 12 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (7.31%) QA
2 150 (6.98%) Data Quality
3 117 (5.44%) GDPR
4 82 (3.82%) PMO
5 68 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (2.98%) NIST
7 41 (1.91%) GRC
8 34 (1.58%) SLA
9 32 (1.49%) NCSC
10 30 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (1.16%) PCI DSS
12 24 (1.12%) Accessibility
13 18 (0.84%) IFRS
14 13 (0.60%) MiFID
15 12 (0.56%) COBIT
16 10 (0.47%) IFRS 17
16 10 (0.47%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 10 (0.47%) Solvency II
17 8 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 45 (2.09%) Docker
2 26 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.23%) NFS
5 3 (0.14%) Postfix
5 3 (0.14%) Varnish
5 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.093%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.093%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.047%) Firmware
7 1 (0.047%) NLBS
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.047%) RACF
7 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (2.98%) Kubernetes
2 45 (2.09%) Terraform
3 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.56%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.37%) Ansible
6 7 (0.33%) RSA Archer
7 6 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.23%) Grafana
8 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.19%) SCCM
9 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.093%) Consul
10 2 (0.093%) Control-M
10 2 (0.093%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.093%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.093%) Packer
10 2 (0.093%) vMotion
11 1 (0.047%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.047%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 223 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 172 (8.00%) SAP
3 109 (5.07%) ServiceNow
4 104 (4.84%) Salesforce
5 103 (4.79%) Oracle
6 55 (2.56%) Workday
7 46 (2.14%) Databricks
8 35 (1.63%) CyberArk
9 34 (1.58%) Google
10 21 (0.98%) Ariba
10 21 (0.98%) Cisco
10 21 (0.98%) Splunk
11 20 (0.93%) OpenAI
12 19 (0.88%) Adobe
13 18 (0.84%) IBM
13 18 (0.84%) Informatica
14 17 (0.79%) Murex
15 16 (0.74%) VMware
16 14 (0.65%) Bloomberg
16 14 (0.65%) Conga