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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,084 1,220 1,411
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.81% 9.10% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.22% 10.00% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,403 796 1,023
10th Percentile £388 £386 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year - -2.83% -1.57%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £792 £775
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 15
10th Percentile £20.24 £34.10 £23.70
25th Percentile £39.25 £35.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £54.23 £39.04 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.91% -11.27% -36.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.25 £53.13
90th Percentile £76.74 £64.88 £59.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +26.32% -15.63%

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 14,655 12,200 16,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.11% 90.98% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,838 8,002 11,621
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.41%
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 220 162 351
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £24.66 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.13 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.42 £77.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +10 295 £588 -2.08% 161
West London -9 20 £610 +34.81% 17
South London -27 15 £570 -5.00% 5
East London +6 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
1 122 (5.85%) Confluence
2 46 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.01%) CMS
4 16 (0.77%) Appian
5 13 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.38%) 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%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 83 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (2.40%) MS Visio
4 36 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.53%) Trello
7 8 (0.38%) 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 61 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (1.15%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.72%) Endur
5 14 (0.67%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.48%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.38%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
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 Receivables
11 5 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.24%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 326 (15.64%) Azure
2 200 (9.60%) AWS
3 138 (6.62%) Power Platform
4 74 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (3.26%) GCP
6 58 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (2.78%) SaaS
7 40 (1.92%) Snowflake
8 39 (1.87%) Entra ID
9 32 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (1.49%) Power Automate
11 29 (1.39%) GitHub
12 27 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
13 23 (1.10%) Serverless
14 22 (1.06%) OpenShift
15 20 (0.96%) Figma
15 20 (0.96%) PowerApps
16 19 (0.91%) Azure AI
17 18 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
18 17 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.16%) Firewall
2 29 (1.39%) WAN
3 21 (1.01%) LAN
3 21 (1.01%) Network Security
4 20 (0.96%) SD-WAN
5 16 (0.77%) DNS
6 14 (0.67%) VPN
7 13 (0.62%) BGP
7 13 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.43%) MPLS
8 9 (0.43%) OSPF
9 7 (0.34%) Broadband
9 7 (0.34%) VoIP
10 6 (0.29%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.29%) Intranet
10 6 (0.29%) NX-OS
11 5 (0.24%) 5G
11 5 (0.24%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (5.66%) Power BI
2 53 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (2.06%) Metadata
4 41 (1.97%) Tableau
5 30 (1.44%) Data Lake
6 22 (1.06%) SQL Server
7 14 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.62%) NoSQL
8 13 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.58%) Big Data
10 9 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.43%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.43%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.34%) Power Query
13 6 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.29%) DB2
13 6 (0.29%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.29%) Redis
14 5 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 229 (10.99%) JIRA
2 33 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.01%) Git
4 19 (0.91%) GitLab
5 10 (0.48%) MLflow
6 9 (0.43%) 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%) JUnit
9 4 (0.19%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.19%) Selenium
10 3 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.14%) JMeter
10 3 (0.14%) LSMW
10 3 (0.14%) Snyk
10 3 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 1,068 (51.25%) Social Skills
2 830 (39.83%) Finance
3 327 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 245 (11.76%) Banking
5 212 (10.17%) Public Sector
6 109 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
7 95 (4.56%) Retail
8 91 (4.37%) Legal
9 84 (4.03%) Marketing
10 75 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
11 73 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
12 72 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
13 68 (3.26%) Front Office
14 59 (2.83%) Financial Institution
15 48 (2.30%) Investment Banking
16 47 (2.26%) Manufacturing
17 43 (2.06%) Telecoms
18 39 (1.87%) Law
19 27 (1.30%) Billing
20 26 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 441 (21.16%) Analyst
2 341 (16.36%) Business Analyst
3 325 (15.60%) Project Manager
4 264 (12.67%) Lead
5 203 (9.74%) Architect
6 199 (9.55%) Senior
7 132 (6.33%) Consultant
8 88 (4.22%) Senior Manager
9 73 (3.50%) Delivery Manager
10 71 (3.41%) Programme Manager
11 63 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
12 61 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
13 57 (2.74%) Data Analyst
14 56 (2.69%) IT Manager
15 50 (2.40%) Senior Business Analyst
16 49 (2.35%) Change Manager
17 45 (2.16%) Product Manager
17 45 (2.16%) Senior Project Manager
18 44 (2.11%) Developer
19 39 (1.87%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.30%) REST
2 31 (1.49%) Middleware
3 24 (1.15%) Kafka
4 21 (1.01%) SOAP
5 20 (0.96%) .NET
5 20 (0.96%) OpenID
5 20 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (0.91%) OAuth
6 19 (0.91%) RESTful
7 18 (0.86%) SAML
7 18 (0.86%) Web Services
8 17 (0.82%) Pandas
8 17 (0.82%) PyTorch
8 17 (0.82%) TensorFlow
9 16 (0.77%) LDAP
9 16 (0.77%) NumPy
10 15 (0.72%) Hugging Face
11 14 (0.67%) scikit-learn
12 13 (0.62%) AngularJS
13 12 (0.58%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 151 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 106 (5.09%) Onboarding
3 75 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 57 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 55 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
7 42 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 39 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 32 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.25%) NHS
11 25 (1.20%) PMI
12 23 (1.10%) Derivative
12 23 (1.10%) Reinsurance
13 22 (1.06%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (0.91%) Fixed Income
16 19 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (0.86%) Life Science
18 16 (0.77%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.35%) Windows
2 24 (1.15%) Linux
3 14 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.43%) Unix
5 8 (0.38%) 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
1 687 (32.97%) Agile
2 349 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
3 330 (15.83%) Project Management
4 298 (14.30%) Migration
5 276 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 260 (12.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 255 (12.24%) Roadmaps
8 217 (10.41%) Decision-Making
9 213 (10.22%) Change Management
9 213 (10.22%) Project Delivery
10 211 (10.12%) DevOps
11 195 (9.36%) Risk Management
12 193 (9.26%) Analytics
13 188 (9.02%) Requirements Gathering
14 179 (8.59%) AI
15 176 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
16 174 (8.35%) Workshop Facilitation
17 169 (8.11%) Scrum
18 168 (8.06%) Data Modelling
19 167 (8.01%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 195 (9.36%) SQL
2 138 (6.62%) Python
3 37 (1.78%) C#
4 34 (1.63%) Java
5 29 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.34%) PowerShell
7 19 (0.91%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.58%) Korn
8 12 (0.58%) R
9 9 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.34%) 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 (0.14%) ABAP
13 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.14%) Ruby
14 2 (0.096%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 312 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 253 (12.14%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.25%) Degree
4 115 (5.52%) PMI Certification
4 115 (5.52%) PMP
5 41 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.49%) CISSP
8 24 (1.15%) CBAP
9 23 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (1.01%) CISM
11 16 (0.77%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.77%) DV Cleared
12 14 (0.67%) IIBA
12 14 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.58%) APMP
13 12 (0.58%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.53%) ACCA
15 10 (0.48%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (7.29%) QA
2 131 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 116 (5.57%) GDPR
4 75 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 75 (3.60%) PMO
5 67 (3.21%) NIST
6 47 (2.26%) GRC
7 40 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 32 (1.54%) NCSC
9 30 (1.44%) SLA
10 29 (1.39%) PCI DSS
11 23 (1.10%) Accessibility
12 17 (0.82%) IFRS
13 12 (0.58%) COBIT
13 12 (0.58%) MiFID
14 10 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.48%) IFRS 17
14 10 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 9 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 40 (1.92%) Docker
2 27 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.14%) NFS
4 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.096%) Postfix
5 2 (0.096%) 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
Systems Management
1 59 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 40 (1.92%) Terraform
3 16 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.67%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.38%) Ansible
6 6 (0.29%) RSA Archer
6 6 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.14%) Grafana
8 3 (0.14%) HP ALM
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%) Opsview
10 1 (0.048%) QRadar
10 1 (0.048%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 233 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 174 (8.35%) SAP
3 102 (4.89%) ServiceNow
4 87 (4.17%) Oracle
5 85 (4.08%) Salesforce
6 55 (2.64%) Workday
7 46 (2.21%) Databricks
8 32 (1.54%) CyberArk
9 31 (1.49%) Google
10 24 (1.15%) Cisco
11 21 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 20 (0.96%) Murex
12 20 (0.96%) Splunk
13 18 (0.86%) Informatica
14 17 (0.82%) Ariba
15 16 (0.77%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.72%) Adobe
16 15 (0.72%) Guidewire
16 15 (0.72%) IBM
17 13 (0.62%) Conga