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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 22 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,119 1,176 1,378
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.72% 9.29% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.18% 10.16% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,417 796 1,008
10th Percentile £388 £400 £409
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £777 £794 £775
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 16
10th Percentile £22.11 £34.81 £23.79
25th Percentile £38.00 £35.75 £30.16
Median hourly rate £54.00 £41.06 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.52% -5.07% -33.55%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.25 £52.81
90th Percentile £76.73 £61.38 £58.75
England median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -24.23% +23.08% -13.56%

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 14,942 11,579 15,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.72% 91.43% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,023 7,821 11,436
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
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 229 165 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.08 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +14.75% -21.79%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £70.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +12 299 £600 -0.04% 204
West London -8 20 £635 +40.33% 26
South London -24 17 £590 -1.67% 6
North London +4 5 £519 +28.09% 4
East London -2 4 £675 +7.14% 12
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
1 134 (6.32%) Confluence
2 49 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.04%) CMS
4 17 (0.80%) Appian
5 13 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.42%) Apache
7 6 (0.28%) Camunda
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.24%) SAS
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.14%) nginx
11 2 (0.094%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.094%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.094%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.094%) Kentico
11 2 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.094%) Sitefinity
11 2 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.97%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (2.31%) MS Visio
4 39 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.47%) Trello
7 8 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.24%) Sketch
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.094%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.094%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.094%) InVision
12 1 (0.047%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 60 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (1.18%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.71%) Endur
5 12 (0.57%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.33%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.28%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.28%) SAP HCM
11 5 (0.24%) Actimize
11 5 (0.24%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.24%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 345 (16.28%) Azure
2 212 (10.00%) AWS
3 127 (5.99%) Power Platform
4 86 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (3.49%) GCP
6 55 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (2.41%) SaaS
8 40 (1.89%) Entra ID
8 40 (1.89%) Snowflake
9 30 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 30 (1.42%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.37%) GitHub
11 28 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.04%) Figma
12 22 (1.04%) OpenShift
12 22 (1.04%) Serverless
13 21 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (0.90%) PowerApps
15 18 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.70%) Firewall
2 29 (1.37%) WAN
3 22 (1.04%) LAN
3 22 (1.04%) Network Security
4 20 (0.94%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.71%) BGP
6 14 (0.66%) DNS
7 13 (0.61%) VPN
8 12 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.52%) OSPF
10 9 (0.42%) MPLS
11 7 (0.33%) Broadband
11 7 (0.33%) VoIP
12 6 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.28%) Intranet
12 6 (0.28%) NX-OS
13 5 (0.24%) 5G
13 5 (0.24%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (5.05%) Power BI
2 57 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (2.22%) Metadata
4 41 (1.93%) Tableau
5 28 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 25 (1.18%) SQL Server
7 16 (0.76%) Big Data
8 15 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 13 (0.61%) NoSQL
9 13 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.42%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.38%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.38%) Power Query
12 6 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.28%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.24%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 245 (11.56%) JIRA
2 37 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 21 (0.99%) Git
3 21 (0.99%) GitLab
4 10 (0.47%) MLflow
5 9 (0.42%) SpecFlow
6 8 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
6 8 (0.38%) Selenium
7 6 (0.28%) ERwin
7 6 (0.28%) JMeter
7 6 (0.28%) REST Assured
7 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.24%) Axure RP
8 5 (0.24%) Postman
9 4 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.19%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.19%) Snyk
10 3 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.14%) TestRail
10 3 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 1,072 (50.59%) Social Skills
2 844 (39.83%) Finance
3 331 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (11.94%) Banking
5 215 (10.15%) Public Sector
6 113 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
7 97 (4.58%) Retail
8 91 (4.29%) Marketing
9 87 (4.11%) Legal
10 82 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
11 76 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
12 73 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
13 64 (3.02%) Front Office
14 63 (2.97%) Financial Institution
15 50 (2.36%) Investment Banking
16 42 (1.98%) Manufacturing
16 42 (1.98%) Telecoms
17 39 (1.84%) Law
18 28 (1.32%) Billing
19 24 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 421 (19.87%) Analyst
2 334 (15.76%) Business Analyst
3 326 (15.38%) Project Manager
4 274 (12.93%) Lead
5 209 (9.86%) Senior
6 207 (9.77%) Architect
7 130 (6.13%) Consultant
8 91 (4.29%) Senior Manager
9 81 (3.82%) Programme Manager
10 75 (3.54%) Delivery Manager
11 62 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
11 62 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
12 58 (2.74%) IT Manager
13 55 (2.60%) Data Analyst
14 50 (2.36%) Change Manager
14 50 (2.36%) Senior Business Analyst
15 46 (2.17%) Test Manager
16 45 (2.12%) Developer
17 44 (2.08%) Product Manager
18 43 (2.03%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.41%) REST
2 38 (1.79%) Middleware
3 25 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.13%) SOAP
5 23 (1.09%) Kafka
6 19 (0.90%) OpenID
6 19 (0.90%) Web Services
7 18 (0.85%) OAuth
7 18 (0.85%) Pandas
8 17 (0.80%) .NET
8 17 (0.80%) RESTful
8 17 (0.80%) SAML
9 16 (0.76%) NumPy
9 16 (0.76%) PyTorch
9 16 (0.76%) TensorFlow
10 15 (0.71%) Hugging Face
11 14 (0.66%) LDAP
11 14 (0.66%) Playwright
11 14 (0.66%) scikit-learn
12 13 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 150 (7.08%) Product Ownership
2 109 (5.14%) Onboarding
3 84 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
4 67 (3.16%) Cloud Native
5 54 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
6 52 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 44 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 39 (1.84%) Management Information System
9 35 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 25 (1.18%) NHS
10 25 (1.18%) PMI
11 23 (1.09%) Derivative
12 22 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.04%) Reinsurance
12 22 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 21 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 20 (0.94%) Fixed Income
14 20 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
15 17 (0.80%) FMCG
16 16 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.22%) Windows
2 23 (1.09%) Linux
3 13 (0.61%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.42%) Unix
5 8 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.33%) VMS
7 6 (0.28%) Android
7 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.047%) AIX
10 1 (0.047%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (33.13%) Agile
2 339 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
3 333 (15.71%) Project Management
4 310 (14.63%) Migration
5 293 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 258 (12.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 256 (12.08%) Roadmaps
8 228 (10.76%) DevOps
9 227 (10.71%) Decision-Making
9 227 (10.71%) Project Delivery
10 215 (10.15%) Change Management
11 196 (9.25%) Analytics
12 193 (9.11%) Risk Management
13 192 (9.06%) User Acceptance Testing
14 186 (8.78%) AI
15 183 (8.64%) Requirements Gathering
16 177 (8.35%) Data Modelling
17 175 (8.26%) Scrum
17 175 (8.26%) Validation
18 172 (8.12%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 191 (9.01%) SQL
2 137 (6.47%) Python
3 35 (1.65%) Java
4 34 (1.60%) C#
5 27 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 25 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 18 (0.85%) TypeScript
8 13 (0.61%) R
9 11 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.47%) Korn
11 8 (0.38%) Bash
12 5 (0.24%) C++
12 5 (0.24%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.24%) VBA
13 4 (0.19%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.19%) Bicep
14 3 (0.14%) ABAP
14 3 (0.14%) Ruby
15 2 (0.094%) C
Qualifications
1 327 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 270 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 164 (7.74%) Degree
4 121 (5.71%) PMP
5 119 (5.62%) PMI Certification
6 42 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.37%) CISSP
9 24 (1.13%) CBAP
10 23 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (0.90%) CISM
12 18 (0.85%) DV Cleared
13 17 (0.80%) Azure Certification
14 15 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.66%) IIBA
16 13 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.57%) APMP
18 11 (0.52%) ACCA
18 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
19 10 (0.47%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (7.31%) QA
2 141 (6.65%) Data Quality
3 115 (5.43%) GDPR
4 79 (3.73%) PMO
5 66 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (2.93%) NIST
7 41 (1.93%) GRC
8 33 (1.56%) SLA
9 32 (1.51%) NCSC
9 32 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 24 (1.13%) PCI DSS
11 22 (1.04%) Accessibility
12 17 (0.80%) IFRS
13 12 (0.57%) COBIT
13 12 (0.57%) MiFID
14 11 (0.52%) Solvency II
15 10 (0.47%) IFRS 17
15 10 (0.47%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 8 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 42 (1.98%) Docker
2 26 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.14%) NFS
4 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.094%) Postfix
5 2 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.094%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.047%) Firmware
6 1 (0.047%) IAG
6 1 (0.047%) NLBS
6 1 (0.047%) RACF
6 1 (0.047%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.047%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 63 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.17%) Terraform
3 13 (0.61%) FortiGate
3 13 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.47%) Ansible
5 7 (0.33%) RSA Archer
6 5 (0.24%) Grafana
6 5 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.19%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.14%) SCCM
9 2 (0.094%) Consul
9 2 (0.094%) Control-M
9 2 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.094%) Packer
9 2 (0.094%) vMotion
10 1 (0.047%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.047%) Opsview
10 1 (0.047%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 228 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 174 (8.21%) SAP
3 110 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 96 (4.53%) Oracle
4 96 (4.53%) Salesforce
5 56 (2.64%) Workday
6 46 (2.17%) Databricks
7 33 (1.56%) CyberArk
8 31 (1.46%) Google
9 22 (1.04%) Cisco
10 21 (0.99%) Splunk
11 20 (0.94%) Informatica
11 20 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 19 (0.90%) Ariba
12 19 (0.90%) Murex
13 17 (0.80%) IBM
14 16 (0.76%) Adobe
14 16 (0.76%) VMware
15 13 (0.61%) Bloomberg
15 13 (0.61%) Conga