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

6 months to
1 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 2,051 1,204 1,424
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.96% 9.02% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.35% 9.93% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,382 771 1,038
10th Percentile £384 £388 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £571
Median % change year-on-year - -3.68% -0.70%
75th Percentile £666 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 15
10th Percentile £20.24 £34.10 £23.70
25th Percentile £34.56 £35.00 £27.58
Median hourly rate £53.25 £39.02 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.47% -11.32% -36.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.25 £53.13
90th Percentile £76.74 £64.88 £59.00
England median hourly rate £59.75 £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -0.42% +23.08% -7.14%

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 14,289 12,129 16,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.26% 90.86% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,589 7,891 11,637
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% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 217 157 349
10th Percentile £18.04 £20.63 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.75 £19.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +18.33% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £78.54 £72.10
England median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -18.43% +2.31% -2.92%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +12 291 £575 -4.60% 170
West London -10 21 £575 +27.07% 21
South London -28 15 £570 -5.00% 5
East London +6 5 £675 +7.14% 18
North London +2 4 £500 +23.46% 3
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
1 124 (6.05%) Confluence
2 46 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.98%) CMS
4 16 (0.78%) Appian
5 12 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.29%) Apache
6 6 (0.29%) Camunda
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.24%) SAS
8 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.15%) nginx
9 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.098%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.098%) Kentico
10 2 (0.098%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.098%) Sitefinity
10 2 (0.098%) WordPress
11 1 (0.049%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.049%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 82 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (2.24%) MS Visio
4 37 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
5 36 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.54%) Trello
7 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.24%) Sketch
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.098%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.098%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.098%) InVision
11 1 (0.049%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 61 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.07%) Aladdin
4 18 (0.88%) Endur
5 13 (0.63%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.49%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.24%) SAP IBP
12 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 323 (15.75%) Azure
2 189 (9.22%) AWS
3 137 (6.68%) Power Platform
4 75 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (3.12%) GCP
6 57 (2.78%) SaaS
7 55 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (1.90%) Entra ID
9 36 (1.76%) Snowflake
10 33 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (1.46%) GitHub
11 30 (1.46%) Power Automate
12 27 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
13 23 (1.12%) Serverless
14 22 (1.07%) OpenShift
15 21 (1.02%) PowerApps
16 20 (0.98%) Figma
17 19 (0.93%) Azure AI
18 18 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (0.83%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.15%) Firewall
2 28 (1.37%) WAN
3 20 (0.98%) LAN
4 19 (0.93%) Network Security
4 19 (0.93%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.68%) DNS
6 13 (0.63%) VPN
6 13 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.59%) BGP
8 9 (0.44%) MPLS
9 8 (0.39%) OSPF
10 7 (0.34%) Broadband
10 7 (0.34%) VoIP
11 6 (0.29%) Intranet
12 5 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.24%) CTI
12 5 (0.24%) DHCP
12 5 (0.24%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (5.70%) Power BI
2 52 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (2.29%) Metadata
4 36 (1.76%) Tableau
5 27 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 21 (1.02%) SQL Server
7 13 (0.63%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (0.63%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.54%) Big Data
9 9 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.44%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.44%) Pinecone
10 6 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.29%) DB2
10 6 (0.29%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.29%) Power Query
10 6 (0.29%) Redis
11 5 (0.24%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 230 (11.21%) JIRA
2 33 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 20 (0.98%) Git
4 19 (0.93%) GitLab
5 10 (0.49%) MLflow
6 9 (0.44%) SpecFlow
7 5 (0.24%) Axure RP
7 5 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.20%) ERwin
8 4 (0.20%) JUnit
8 4 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.15%) LSMW
9 3 (0.15%) Selenium
9 3 (0.15%) Snyk
9 3 (0.15%) TestRail
10 2 (0.098%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,071 (52.22%) Social Skills
2 813 (39.64%) Finance
3 324 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (11.60%) Banking
5 205 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 102 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
7 96 (4.68%) Retail
8 91 (4.44%) Legal
9 85 (4.14%) Marketing
10 75 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
11 72 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
12 71 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
13 69 (3.36%) Front Office
14 55 (2.68%) Financial Institution
15 49 (2.39%) Investment Banking
16 48 (2.34%) Manufacturing
17 43 (2.10%) Telecoms
18 38 (1.85%) Law
19 29 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 27 (1.32%) Billing
Job Titles
1 436 (21.26%) Analyst
2 334 (16.28%) Business Analyst
3 317 (15.46%) Project Manager
4 255 (12.43%) Lead
5 198 (9.65%) Architect
6 196 (9.56%) Senior
7 130 (6.34%) Consultant
8 88 (4.29%) Senior Manager
9 71 (3.46%) Programme Manager
10 68 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
11 62 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
13 57 (2.78%) Data Analyst
14 54 (2.63%) IT Manager
15 49 (2.39%) Senior Business Analyst
16 47 (2.29%) Change Manager
17 46 (2.24%) Senior Project Manager
18 45 (2.19%) Developer
19 43 (2.10%) Product Manager
20 37 (1.80%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.34%) REST
2 30 (1.46%) Middleware
3 24 (1.17%) Kafka
4 20 (0.98%) .NET
4 20 (0.98%) OpenID
4 20 (0.98%) SOAP
5 19 (0.93%) RESTful
6 18 (0.88%) OAuth
6 18 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 18 (0.88%) Web Services
7 17 (0.83%) Pandas
7 17 (0.83%) PyTorch
7 17 (0.83%) SAML
7 17 (0.83%) TensorFlow
8 16 (0.78%) NumPy
9 15 (0.73%) Hugging Face
9 15 (0.73%) LDAP
10 14 (0.68%) scikit-learn
11 13 (0.63%) AngularJS
12 12 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 148 (7.22%) Product Ownership
2 99 (4.83%) Onboarding
3 69 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
4 57 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 56 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 55 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 43 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 40 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 28 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.32%) NHS
11 24 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (1.17%) PMI
12 23 (1.12%) Derivative
12 23 (1.12%) Virtual Team
13 22 (1.07%) Reinsurance
14 19 (0.93%) Fixed Income
14 19 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
15 18 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.88%) Life Science
16 16 (0.78%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.29%) Windows
2 22 (1.07%) Linux
3 14 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.44%) Unix
5 7 (0.34%) VMS
6 6 (0.29%) Android
6 6 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.049%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.049%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (33.11%) Agile
2 342 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 331 (16.14%) Project Management
4 288 (14.04%) Migration
5 265 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 251 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 243 (11.85%) Roadmaps
8 211 (10.29%) Change Management
8 211 (10.29%) Decision-Making
9 209 (10.19%) Project Delivery
10 200 (9.75%) DevOps
11 193 (9.41%) Analytics
12 192 (9.36%) Risk Management
13 188 (9.17%) Requirements Gathering
14 176 (8.58%) AI
15 172 (8.39%) Workshop Facilitation
16 171 (8.34%) User Acceptance Testing
17 169 (8.24%) Scrum
18 165 (8.04%) Validation
19 164 (8.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 194 (9.46%) SQL
2 138 (6.73%) Python
3 37 (1.80%) C#
4 34 (1.66%) Java
5 30 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 19 (0.93%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.54%) Korn
8 11 (0.54%) R
9 8 (0.39%) 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
13 4 (0.20%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.15%) ABAP
14 3 (0.15%) Ruby
15 2 (0.098%) VB
15 2 (0.098%) X++
Qualifications
1 299 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 241 (11.75%) SC Cleared
3 167 (8.14%) Degree
4 112 (5.46%) PMI Certification
5 110 (5.36%) PMP
6 41 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.51%) CISSP
9 24 (1.17%) CBAP
10 22 (1.07%) CISM
11 21 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (0.73%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.73%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.68%) IIBA
13 14 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.59%) APMP
15 11 (0.54%) ACCA
15 11 (0.54%) AWS Certification
15 11 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.49%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (7.22%) QA
2 129 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 115 (5.61%) GDPR
4 79 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (3.66%) PMO
6 66 (3.22%) NIST
7 45 (2.19%) GRC
8 39 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 32 (1.56%) NCSC
10 28 (1.37%) PCI DSS
10 28 (1.37%) SLA
11 23 (1.12%) Accessibility
12 17 (0.83%) IFRS
13 12 (0.59%) COBIT
13 12 (0.59%) MiFID
14 10 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.49%) IFRS 17
14 10 (0.49%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 8 (0.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 39 (1.90%) Docker
2 26 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.098%) NFS
6 1 (0.049%) Firmware
6 1 (0.049%) IAG
6 1 (0.049%) NLBS
6 1 (0.049%) Postfix
6 1 (0.049%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 38 (1.85%) Terraform
3 16 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.63%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.39%) Ansible
6 6 (0.29%) RSA Archer
6 6 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.15%) Grafana
8 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.098%) Consul
9 2 (0.098%) Control-M
9 2 (0.098%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.098%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.098%) Packer
9 2 (0.098%) SCCM
9 2 (0.098%) vMotion
10 1 (0.049%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.049%) Opsview
10 1 (0.049%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 234 (11.41%) Microsoft
2 172 (8.39%) SAP
3 99 (4.83%) ServiceNow
4 82 (4.00%) Oracle
5 78 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 53 (2.58%) Workday
7 48 (2.34%) Databricks
8 31 (1.51%) CyberArk
9 30 (1.46%) Google
10 23 (1.12%) Cisco
11 21 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 20 (0.98%) Splunk
13 19 (0.93%) Murex
14 18 (0.88%) Ariba
14 18 (0.88%) Informatica
15 17 (0.83%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.73%) Adobe
16 15 (0.73%) Guidewire
16 15 (0.73%) IBM
17 13 (0.63%) Conga