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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,922 1,175 1,438
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.70% 8.70% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.00% 9.61% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 730 1,046
10th Percentile £371 £385 £410
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £671 £666 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £772
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 15
10th Percentile £17.00 £32.20 £23.70
25th Percentile £20.66 £35.00 £27.58
Median hourly rate £40.50 £37.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% -19.66% -29.24%
75th Percentile £56.24 £52.88 £55.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £63.00
England median hourly rate £42.89 £57.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -24.75% +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 13,733 12,232 16,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.75% 90.57% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,140 7,798 11,691
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 212 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.42
Median hourly rate £34.38 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.97 £55.25 £50.50
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +9 274 £575 -4.17% 96
West London +1 25 £500 +19.05% 25
South London -30 6 £600 - 5
East London - 5 £675 - 16
North London +4 4 £500 +23.46% 2
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
1 121 (6.30%) Confluence
2 39 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.94%) CMS
4 16 (0.83%) Appian
5 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.31%) Camunda
7 5 (0.26%) Apache
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.16%) nginx
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) 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 (0.052%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 85 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (2.45%) MS Visio
4 41 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.62%) Trello
6 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.26%) Sketch
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.10%) InVision
11 1 (0.052%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 61 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.14%) Aladdin
4 18 (0.94%) Endur
5 13 (0.68%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.52%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.47%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.42%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.21%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.21%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 309 (16.08%) Azure
2 172 (8.95%) AWS
3 141 (7.34%) Power Platform
4 70 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (3.07%) GCP
6 54 (2.81%) SaaS
7 46 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (1.72%) Entra ID
9 31 (1.61%) GitHub
9 31 (1.61%) Snowflake
10 30 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (1.56%) Power Automate
11 27 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.20%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.14%) PowerApps
14 21 (1.09%) Serverless
15 20 (1.04%) Azure AI
15 20 (1.04%) Figma
16 18 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (0.83%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.19%) Firewall
2 27 (1.40%) WAN
3 19 (0.99%) LAN
4 17 (0.88%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.73%) DNS
5 14 (0.73%) Network Security
5 14 (0.73%) VPN
6 13 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.57%) BGP
8 10 (0.52%) MPLS
9 7 (0.36%) Broadband
9 7 (0.36%) OSPF
9 7 (0.36%) VoIP
10 6 (0.31%) Internet
11 5 (0.26%) 5G
11 5 (0.26%) CTI
11 5 (0.26%) DHCP
11 5 (0.26%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.26%) Intranet
11 5 (0.26%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (6.45%) Power BI
2 50 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (2.34%) Metadata
4 41 (2.13%) Tableau
5 24 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 21 (1.09%) SQL Server
7 13 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.47%) Pinecone
10 8 (0.42%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.36%) Big Data
12 6 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.31%) DB2
12 6 (0.31%) Power Query
12 6 (0.31%) Redis
13 5 (0.26%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 228 (11.86%) JIRA
2 30 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.04%) GitLab
4 17 (0.88%) Git
5 10 (0.52%) MLflow
6 8 (0.42%) SpecFlow
7 5 (0.26%) Axure RP
8 4 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.21%) ERwin
8 4 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.21%) TestRail
9 3 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.10%) JMeter
10 2 (0.10%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.10%) LSMW
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.10%) Selenium
11 1 (0.052%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.052%) HP UFT
11 1 (0.052%) PowerBuilder
General
1 1,027 (53.43%) Social Skills
2 759 (39.49%) Finance
3 310 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (11.81%) Banking
5 176 (9.16%) Public Sector
6 94 (4.89%) Retail
7 90 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
8 86 (4.47%) Marketing
9 79 (4.11%) Legal
10 73 (3.80%) Front Office
11 64 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
12 62 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
12 62 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
13 49 (2.55%) Investment Banking
14 46 (2.39%) Financial Institution
14 46 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 43 (2.24%) Manufacturing
16 35 (1.82%) Law
17 33 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 27 (1.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 418 (21.75%) Analyst
2 321 (16.70%) Business Analyst
3 287 (14.93%) Project Manager
4 243 (12.64%) Lead
5 188 (9.78%) Architect
6 185 (9.63%) Senior
7 125 (6.50%) Consultant
8 79 (4.11%) Senior Manager
9 65 (3.38%) Programme Manager
10 58 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
10 58 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
11 57 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
12 53 (2.76%) Data Analyst
13 50 (2.60%) IT Manager
13 50 (2.60%) Senior Business Analyst
14 45 (2.34%) Change Manager
15 44 (2.29%) Developer
16 42 (2.19%) Senior Project Manager
17 39 (2.03%) Product Manager
18 35 (1.82%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.19%) REST
2 22 (1.14%) Kafka
2 22 (1.14%) Middleware
3 20 (1.04%) .NET
4 19 (0.99%) OpenID
5 18 (0.94%) OAuth
5 18 (0.94%) RESTful
6 17 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (0.88%) Pandas
6 17 (0.88%) PyTorch
6 17 (0.88%) SAML
6 17 (0.88%) TensorFlow
6 17 (0.88%) Web Services
7 16 (0.83%) Hugging Face
7 16 (0.83%) NumPy
8 15 (0.78%) LDAP
9 14 (0.73%) scikit-learn
9 14 (0.73%) SOAP
10 12 (0.62%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.62%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
4 57 (2.97%) Cloud Native
5 55 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 53 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
7 48 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 37 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 26 (1.35%) PMI
10 23 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.20%) Reinsurance
11 22 (1.14%) Derivative
11 22 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
12 21 (1.09%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.09%) Fixed Income
12 21 (1.09%) NHS
13 19 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (0.99%) Virtual Team
14 18 (0.94%) Life Science
15 15 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.29%) Windows
2 19 (0.99%) Linux
3 16 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.47%) Unix
5 7 (0.36%) VMS
6 6 (0.31%) Android
7 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.052%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (33.04%) Agile
2 334 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
3 314 (16.34%) Project Management
4 260 (13.53%) Migration
5 252 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 243 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 221 (11.50%) Roadmaps
8 203 (10.56%) Change Management
9 201 (10.46%) Project Delivery
10 191 (9.94%) Analytics
11 186 (9.68%) Risk Management
12 185 (9.63%) Decision-Making
13 182 (9.47%) Requirements Gathering
14 177 (9.21%) DevOps
15 174 (9.05%) AI
16 167 (8.69%) Workshop Facilitation
17 164 (8.53%) User Acceptance Testing
18 161 (8.38%) Data Modelling
19 159 (8.27%) Scrum
20 146 (7.60%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 194 (10.09%) SQL
2 139 (7.23%) Python
3 35 (1.82%) C#
4 32 (1.66%) Java
5 29 (1.51%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 18 (0.94%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.62%) R
9 10 (0.52%) Korn
10 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.36%) Bash
12 6 (0.31%) C++
12 6 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.31%) VBA
13 5 (0.26%) Bicep
14 3 (0.16%) ABAP
15 2 (0.10%) Ruby
15 2 (0.10%) VB
16 1 (0.052%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.052%) X++
Qualifications
1 253 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 205 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 173 (9.00%) Degree
4 113 (5.88%) PMI Certification
5 104 (5.41%) PMP
6 40 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (1.46%) CBAP
9 24 (1.25%) CISSP
9 24 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (0.83%) ISTQB
11 15 (0.78%) CISM
12 14 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.68%) IIBA
14 12 (0.62%) DV Cleared
15 11 (0.57%) APMP
15 11 (0.57%) AWS Certification
15 11 (0.57%) CIMA
16 10 (0.52%) ACCA
16 10 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (7.60%) QA
2 113 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 113 (5.88%) GDPR
3 70 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (3.07%) PMO
5 53 (2.76%) NIST
6 37 (1.93%) GRC
7 34 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 28 (1.46%) NCSC
9 27 (1.40%) Accessibility
10 25 (1.30%) PCI DSS
11 21 (1.09%) SLA
12 16 (0.83%) IFRS
13 12 (0.62%) MiFID
14 10 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.52%) IFRS 17
14 10 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 9 (0.47%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.42%) EMIR
16 8 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (1.77%) Docker
2 22 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) NFS
6 1 (0.052%) Firmware
6 1 (0.052%) IAG
6 1 (0.052%) NLBS
6 1 (0.052%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.82%) Terraform
3 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.57%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.42%) Ansible
6 7 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.26%) RSA Archer
8 4 (0.21%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.10%) Consul
9 2 (0.10%) Control-M
9 2 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.10%) Packer
9 2 (0.10%) SCCM
9 2 (0.10%) vMotion
10 1 (0.052%) Grafana
10 1 (0.052%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.052%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.052%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.052%) QRadar
Vendors
1 228 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 164 (8.53%) SAP
3 83 (4.32%) ServiceNow
4 81 (4.21%) Oracle
5 77 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 47 (2.45%) Databricks
7 46 (2.39%) Workday
8 28 (1.46%) Google
9 27 (1.40%) CyberArk
10 24 (1.25%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.04%) Cisco
12 19 (0.99%) Informatica
13 18 (0.94%) Ariba
14 17 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 17 (0.88%) Murex
15 16 (0.83%) Splunk
16 15 (0.78%) Adobe
17 14 (0.73%) Guidewire
18 13 (0.68%) IBM
18 13 (0.68%) Planview