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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 23 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,792 1,207 1,473
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.50% 8.47% 8.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.68% 9.38% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 752 1,047
10th Percentile £389 £400 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £674 £669 £678
90th Percentile £775 £780 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 12
10th Percentile £17.64 £31.40 £25.54
25th Percentile £27.75 - £39.86
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -31.71% -18.24%
75th Percentile £56.48 £39.04 £61.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £62.25 £71.75
England median hourly rate £47.48 £60.00 £50.53
% change year-on-year -20.88% +18.75% -3.38%

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 13,101 12,867 15,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.42% 90.25% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,660 8,239 11,384
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.30%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 159 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.58 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.48 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.28 £54.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £69.18 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +10 265 £550 -8.33% 145
West London +5 28 £500 +10.50% 23
East London +7 6 £675 +26.17% 23
South London -29 6 £600 - 16
North London +5 4 £600 +48.15% 1
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
1 104 (5.80%) Confluence
2 38 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.78%) CMS
4 11 (0.61%) Appian
5 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.33%) Camunda
7 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.28%) Apache
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.17%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
11 1 (0.056%) Documentum
Applications
1 88 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 45 (2.51%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.29%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.78%) Trello
6 8 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.22%) Sketch
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.11%) InVision
10 1 (0.056%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.056%) Notion
Business Applications
1 75 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.23%) Endur
4 17 (0.95%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.39%) Loan IQ
7 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.33%) SAP FI
8 6 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.33%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.28%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 268 (14.96%) Azure
2 158 (8.82%) AWS
3 145 (8.09%) Power Platform
4 58 (3.24%) GCP
4 58 (3.24%) SaaS
5 55 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (1.56%) Snowflake
9 27 (1.51%) Power Automate
10 24 (1.34%) Entra ID
11 21 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (1.12%) GitHub
12 20 (1.12%) PowerApps
13 19 (1.06%) Serverless
14 17 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
15 16 (0.89%) OCI
16 14 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 14 (0.78%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.34%) Firewall
2 19 (1.06%) WAN
3 13 (0.73%) LAN
3 13 (0.73%) Network Security
3 13 (0.73%) SD-WAN
4 12 (0.67%) VPN
5 11 (0.61%) DNS
6 9 (0.50%) BGP
7 8 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (0.39%) Broadband
8 7 (0.39%) VoIP
9 6 (0.33%) Internet
9 6 (0.33%) MPLS
9 6 (0.33%) OSPF
10 5 (0.28%) CTI
10 5 (0.28%) DHCP
10 5 (0.28%) Intranet
11 4 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.31%) Power BI
2 41 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (2.23%) Metadata
4 39 (2.18%) Tableau
5 21 (1.17%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.73%) SQL Server
7 10 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.50%) BigQuery
8 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.45%) Big Data
10 7 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.28%) Power Query
12 5 (0.28%) Redis
12 5 (0.28%) SAP BW
13 4 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.22%) DB2
13 4 (0.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 206 (11.50%) JIRA
2 19 (1.06%) GitLab
3 17 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.89%) Git
5 6 (0.33%) MLflow
5 6 (0.33%) SpecFlow
6 5 (0.28%) Selenium
7 4 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.22%) Axure RP
7 4 (0.22%) Gradle
7 4 (0.22%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.17%) Maven
8 3 (0.17%) TestRail
9 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.11%) ERwin
9 2 (0.11%) GCC
9 2 (0.11%) LSMW
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.056%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 956 (53.35%) Social Skills
2 694 (38.73%) Finance
3 294 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (11.33%) Banking
5 161 (8.98%) Public Sector
6 90 (5.02%) Marketing
7 87 (4.85%) Retail
8 79 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
9 75 (4.19%) Legal
10 70 (3.91%) Front Office
11 58 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 57 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (2.68%) Investment Banking
14 46 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
15 45 (2.51%) Financial Institution
16 38 (2.12%) Manufacturing
17 36 (2.01%) Telecoms
18 30 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 30 (1.67%) Law
19 26 (1.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 385 (21.48%) Analyst
2 293 (16.35%) Business Analyst
3 276 (15.40%) Project Manager
4 204 (11.38%) Lead
5 163 (9.10%) Architect
6 158 (8.82%) Senior
7 132 (7.37%) Consultant
8 66 (3.68%) Senior Manager
9 64 (3.57%) Programme Manager
10 61 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
11 53 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
12 51 (2.85%) Developer
13 50 (2.79%) Data Analyst
14 46 (2.57%) Senior Business Analyst
15 45 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
16 42 (2.34%) IT Manager
17 38 (2.12%) Product Manager
17 38 (2.12%) Technical Analyst
18 37 (2.06%) Change Manager
19 34 (1.90%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.67%) REST
2 23 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
3 21 (1.17%) Kafka
4 19 (1.06%) .NET
5 18 (1.00%) Middleware
6 13 (0.73%) HTML
7 12 (0.67%) OAuth
7 12 (0.67%) Pandas
7 12 (0.67%) Web Services
8 11 (0.61%) RESTful
9 10 (0.56%) NumPy
9 10 (0.56%) scikit-learn
9 10 (0.56%) SOAP
10 9 (0.50%) XML
11 8 (0.45%) ADO
11 8 (0.45%) CSS
11 8 (0.45%) Playwright
11 8 (0.45%) PyTorch
11 8 (0.45%) TensorFlow
12 7 (0.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 131 (7.31%) Product Ownership
2 74 (4.13%) Onboarding
3 49 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 49 (2.73%) Management Information System
4 48 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
5 47 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.46%) Cloud Native
7 37 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 33 (1.84%) PMI
9 26 (1.45%) Reinsurance
10 23 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 22 (1.23%) Fixed Income
11 22 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
12 21 (1.17%) Derivative
13 20 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (1.06%) Life Science
15 18 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 17 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
17 16 (0.89%) Equities
17 16 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.90%) Windows
2 15 (0.84%) Linux
3 14 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.50%) Unix
5 5 (0.28%) VMS
6 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.056%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (32.65%) Agile
2 334 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
3 308 (17.19%) Project Management
4 238 (13.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 228 (12.72%) Migration
6 222 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 212 (11.83%) Roadmaps
8 198 (11.05%) Project Delivery
9 192 (10.71%) Change Management
10 175 (9.77%) Analytics
11 169 (9.43%) Decision-Making
12 166 (9.26%) Risk Management
13 159 (8.87%) Workshop Facilitation
14 155 (8.65%) Requirements Gathering
15 152 (8.48%) Business Intelligence
16 151 (8.43%) AI
17 146 (8.15%) Scrum
18 144 (8.04%) Data Modelling
19 138 (7.70%) DevOps
20 136 (7.59%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 174 (9.71%) SQL
2 129 (7.20%) Python
3 39 (2.18%) Java
4 30 (1.67%) C#
5 26 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.28%) PowerShell
7 15 (0.84%) R
8 14 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 9 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (0.50%) Korn
10 8 (0.45%) Bash
11 6 (0.33%) C++
11 6 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.33%) VBA
12 5 (0.28%) Bicep
13 3 (0.17%) ABAP
13 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.17%) VB
14 2 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 215 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 169 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 167 (9.32%) Degree
4 116 (6.47%) PMI Certification
5 99 (5.52%) PMP
6 37 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.62%) CISSP
8 25 (1.40%) CBAP
8 25 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (0.84%) CISM
11 14 (0.78%) DV Cleared
12 13 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 12 (0.67%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.61%) CIMA
15 10 (0.56%) AWS Certification
15 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.50%) ACCA
17 8 (0.45%) CFA
17 8 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (7.09%) QA
2 107 (5.97%) GDPR
3 88 (4.91%) Data Quality
4 66 (3.68%) PMO
5 50 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (2.18%) NIST
7 31 (1.73%) GRC
7 31 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 22 (1.23%) Accessibility
9 20 (1.12%) PCI DSS
10 18 (1.00%) SLA
11 15 (0.84%) NCSC
12 14 (0.78%) IFRS
12 14 (0.78%) MiFID
13 10 (0.56%) EMIR
13 10 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.45%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.45%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.39%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 27 (1.51%) Docker
2 19 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.056%) Firmware
4 1 (0.056%) IAG
4 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.84%) Terraform
3 8 (0.45%) Ansible
3 8 (0.45%) FortiGate
3 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.22%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.17%) Argo
6 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) Consul
7 2 (0.11%) Control-M
7 2 (0.11%) Packer
8 1 (0.056%) Grafana
8 1 (0.056%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.056%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.056%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.056%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 220 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 163 (9.10%) SAP
3 81 (4.52%) Oracle
4 79 (4.41%) Salesforce
5 64 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 52 (2.90%) Workday
7 46 (2.57%) Databricks
8 33 (1.84%) Google
9 20 (1.12%) Ariba
10 17 (0.95%) Adobe
11 16 (0.89%) Bloomberg
11 16 (0.89%) Cisco
12 15 (0.84%) Informatica
13 14 (0.78%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.78%) IBM
13 14 (0.78%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.78%) Planview
14 12 (0.67%) CyberArk
14 12 (0.67%) Guidewire