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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 22 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,065 1,173 1,398
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.79% 9.06% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.23% 9.95% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,393 787 1,025
10th Percentile £390 £387 £410
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £566
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -1.94% -1.57%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £675
90th Percentile £787 £797 £775
England median daily rate £525 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -3.06% -1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 15
10th Percentile £20.82 £35.00 £23.70
25th Percentile £39.25 £35.50 £30.16
Median hourly rate £54.46 £39.04 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.50% -11.27% -34.81%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.25 £53.13
90th Percentile £76.75 £62.90 £59.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £46.39
% change year-on-year - +29.34% -17.60%

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 14,510 11,786 16,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.86% 91.05% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,757 7,831 11,538
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 218 158 353
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.88% -16.22%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.77 £69.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +12 295 £593 -1.70% 56
West London -9 18 £635 +40.33% 18
South London -27 16 £590 -1.67% 3
East London +5 5 £675 +7.14% 13
North London +1 4 £500 +23.46% 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
1 125 (6.05%) Confluence
2 46 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.97%) 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 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.097%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.097%) Kentico
11 2 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.097%) Sitefinity
11 2 (0.097%) WordPress
12 1 (0.048%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 84 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.91%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (2.42%) MS Visio
4 37 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (1.60%) 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 (0.097%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.097%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.097%) InVision
11 1 (0.048%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 63 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (1.16%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.73%) Endur
5 14 (0.68%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.48%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.39%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
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
1 328 (15.88%) Azure
2 199 (9.64%) AWS
3 135 (6.54%) Power Platform
4 77 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (3.24%) GCP
6 57 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (2.76%) SaaS
7 41 (1.99%) Entra ID
8 40 (1.94%) Snowflake
9 31 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (1.50%) Power Automate
10 30 (1.45%) GitHub
11 27 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (1.16%) Serverless
13 22 (1.07%) OpenShift
14 21 (1.02%) Figma
15 20 (0.97%) PowerApps
16 19 (0.92%) Azure AI
17 18 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.89%) Firewall
2 30 (1.45%) WAN
3 22 (1.07%) LAN
4 21 (1.02%) Network Security
4 21 (1.02%) 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 (0.44%) 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
12 5 (0.24%) 5G
12 5 (0.24%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.57%) Power BI
2 53 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (2.03%) Metadata
4 41 (1.99%) Tableau
5 30 (1.45%) Data Lake
6 23 (1.11%) SQL Server
7 14 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 13 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.58%) Big Data
10 9 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.44%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.34%) Power Query
13 6 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.29%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.29%) Redis
14 5 (0.24%) DB2
14 5 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 232 (11.23%) JIRA
2 34 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.02%) Git
4 20 (0.97%) GitLab
5 10 (0.48%) MLflow
6 9 (0.44%) SpecFlow
7 6 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (0.24%) Axure RP
9 4 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.19%) ERwin
9 4 (0.19%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.19%) Selenium
10 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.15%) JMeter
10 3 (0.15%) JUnit
10 3 (0.15%) LSMW
10 3 (0.15%) Snyk
10 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 1,056 (51.14%) Social Skills
2 831 (40.24%) Finance
3 325 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (12.01%) Banking
5 206 (9.98%) Public Sector
6 106 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
7 95 (4.60%) Retail
8 91 (4.41%) Legal
9 83 (4.02%) Marketing
10 76 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
11 71 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
12 69 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
13 68 (3.29%) Front Office
14 61 (2.95%) Financial Institution
15 51 (2.47%) Investment Banking
16 44 (2.13%) Manufacturing
17 43 (2.08%) Telecoms
18 39 (1.89%) Law
19 28 (1.36%) Billing
20 24 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 429 (20.77%) Analyst
2 337 (16.32%) Business Analyst
3 317 (15.35%) Project Manager
4 262 (12.69%) Lead
5 202 (9.78%) Architect
6 201 (9.73%) Senior
7 134 (6.49%) Consultant
8 87 (4.21%) Senior Manager
9 75 (3.63%) Programme Manager
10 74 (3.58%) Delivery Manager
11 63 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
13 56 (2.71%) Data Analyst
14 53 (2.57%) IT Manager
15 51 (2.47%) Change Manager
16 50 (2.42%) Senior Business Analyst
17 44 (2.13%) Developer
18 43 (2.08%) Product Manager
18 43 (2.08%) Senior Project Manager
19 40 (1.94%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.28%) REST
2 32 (1.55%) Middleware
3 23 (1.11%) Kafka
4 21 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (1.02%) SOAP
5 20 (0.97%) .NET
6 19 (0.92%) OpenID
6 19 (0.92%) RESTful
7 18 (0.87%) OAuth
7 18 (0.87%) Web Services
8 17 (0.82%) Pandas
8 17 (0.82%) PyTorch
8 17 (0.82%) SAML
8 17 (0.82%) TensorFlow
9 16 (0.77%) NumPy
10 15 (0.73%) Hugging Face
10 15 (0.73%) LDAP
11 14 (0.68%) scikit-learn
12 13 (0.63%) AngularJS
13 12 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 144 (6.97%) Product Ownership
2 105 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
4 57 (2.76%) Cloud Native
5 55 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 52 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
7 41 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 39 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 33 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.26%) NHS
11 25 (1.21%) PMI
12 24 (1.16%) Reinsurance
13 23 (1.11%) Derivative
13 23 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 20 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
14 20 (0.97%) Virtual Team
15 19 (0.92%) Fixed Income
15 19 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (0.77%) e-Learning
16 16 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.32%) Windows
2 24 (1.16%) Linux
3 14 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.44%) 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 (0.097%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.048%) AIX
10 1 (0.048%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (33.08%) Agile
2 342 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
3 322 (15.59%) Project Management
4 302 (14.62%) Migration
5 276 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 254 (12.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 250 (12.11%) Roadmaps
8 219 (10.61%) Decision-Making
9 217 (10.51%) Project Delivery
10 214 (10.36%) DevOps
11 212 (10.27%) Change Management
12 195 (9.44%) Risk Management
13 185 (8.96%) Analytics
13 185 (8.96%) Requirements Gathering
14 177 (8.57%) AI
14 177 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
15 170 (8.23%) Data Modelling
15 170 (8.23%) Workshop Facilitation
16 167 (8.09%) Validation
17 165 (7.99%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 192 (9.30%) SQL
2 136 (6.59%) Python
3 36 (1.74%) C#
4 33 (1.60%) 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 9 (0.44%) Bash
11 6 (0.29%) C++
11 6 (0.29%) VBA
12 5 (0.24%) Bicep
12 5 (0.24%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.15%) ABAP
13 3 (0.15%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.15%) Ruby
14 2 (0.097%) X++
Qualifications
1 312 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 255 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 168 (8.14%) Degree
4 116 (5.62%) PMI Certification
5 115 (5.57%) PMP
6 42 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (1.84%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.36%) CISSP
9 24 (1.16%) CBAP
10 23 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (0.97%) CISM
12 19 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 17 (0.82%) DV Cleared
14 14 (0.68%) IIBA
14 14 (0.68%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.58%) APMP
15 12 (0.58%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.53%) ACCA
16 11 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (7.41%) QA
2 131 (6.34%) Data Quality
3 117 (5.67%) GDPR
4 75 (3.63%) PMO
5 68 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 61 (2.95%) NIST
7 41 (1.99%) GRC
8 35 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 33 (1.60%) SLA
10 31 (1.50%) NCSC
11 25 (1.21%) PCI DSS
12 23 (1.11%) Accessibility
13 17 (0.82%) IFRS
14 12 (0.58%) COBIT
14 12 (0.58%) MiFID
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
16 9 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (1.99%) Docker
2 29 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.15%) NFS
4 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.097%) Postfix
5 2 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
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
6 1 (0.048%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 42 (2.03%) Terraform
3 16 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.44%) Ansible
6 6 (0.29%) RSA Archer
7 5 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.15%) Grafana
8 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.15%) SCCM
9 2 (0.097%) Consul
9 2 (0.097%) Control-M
9 2 (0.097%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.097%) Packer
9 2 (0.097%) vMotion
10 1 (0.048%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.048%) Opsview
10 1 (0.048%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 233 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 176 (8.52%) SAP
3 103 (4.99%) ServiceNow
4 87 (4.21%) Salesforce
5 86 (4.16%) Oracle
6 55 (2.66%) Workday
7 45 (2.18%) Databricks
8 32 (1.55%) CyberArk
9 30 (1.45%) Google
10 24 (1.16%) Cisco
11 21 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 20 (0.97%) Murex
13 19 (0.92%) Informatica
13 19 (0.92%) Splunk
14 17 (0.82%) Ariba
15 16 (0.77%) Adobe
15 16 (0.77%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.73%) IBM
16 15 (0.73%) VMware
17 14 (0.68%) Guidewire