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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,914 1,171 1,449
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.76% 8.70% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.05% 9.61% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 728 1,056
10th Percentile £371 £384 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £671 £667 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £772
England median daily rate £525 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -0.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 15
10th Percentile £17.00 £32.15 £23.70
25th Percentile £20.66 - £27.58
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -24.00% -29.24%
75th Percentile £56.24 £39.04 £55.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £63.00
England median hourly rate £42.89 £58.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -27.00% +17.50% -8.81%

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 13,620 12,187 16,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.80% 90.56% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,063 7,736 11,780
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 150 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.23 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.90 £25.48 £19.38
Median hourly rate £34.14 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.62 £55.63 £50.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.08 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +10 273 £575 -4.17% 97
West London 0 25 £500 +19.05% 24
South London -31 6 £600 - 5
East London - 5 £675 - 15
North London +4 4 £500 +23.46% 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
1 119 (6.22%) Confluence
2 39 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.89%) CMS
4 16 (0.84%) Appian
5 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.31%) Camunda
7 5 (0.26%) Apache
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.16%) nginx
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.10%) Kentico
10 2 (0.10%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.10%) Sitefinity
10 2 (0.10%) WordPress
11 1 (0.052%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 86 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (2.46%) MS Visio
4 41 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.63%) Trello
6 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.26%) Sketch
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.10%) InVision
11 1 (0.052%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 61 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.15%) Aladdin
4 18 (0.94%) Endur
5 12 (0.63%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.52%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.47%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.42%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.21%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 306 (15.99%) Azure
2 171 (8.93%) AWS
3 140 (7.31%) Power Platform
4 67 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (3.03%) GCP
6 54 (2.82%) SaaS
7 46 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (1.72%) Entra ID
9 31 (1.62%) Snowflake
10 30 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (1.57%) GitHub
10 30 (1.57%) Power Automate
11 27 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.20%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.15%) PowerApps
13 22 (1.15%) Serverless
14 20 (1.04%) Azure AI
15 19 (0.99%) Figma
16 17 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (0.84%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.19%) Firewall
2 27 (1.41%) WAN
3 19 (0.99%) LAN
4 17 (0.89%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.73%) DNS
5 14 (0.73%) Network Security
5 14 (0.73%) VPN
6 13 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.57%) BGP
8 10 (0.52%) MPLS
9 7 (0.37%) Broadband
9 7 (0.37%) OSPF
9 7 (0.37%) VoIP
10 6 (0.31%) Internet
11 5 (0.26%) CTI
11 5 (0.26%) DHCP
11 5 (0.26%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.26%) Intranet
11 5 (0.26%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (6.43%) Power BI
2 49 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (2.30%) Metadata
4 40 (2.09%) Tableau
5 24 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 20 (1.04%) SQL Server
7 13 (0.68%) NoSQL
8 12 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.47%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.42%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.37%) Big Data
13 6 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.31%) DB2
13 6 (0.31%) Power Query
13 6 (0.31%) Redis
14 5 (0.26%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 225 (11.76%) JIRA
2 29 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 19 (0.99%) GitLab
4 17 (0.89%) Git
5 10 (0.52%) MLflow
6 8 (0.42%) SpecFlow
7 5 (0.26%) Axure RP
8 4 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.21%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.16%) ERwin
9 3 (0.16%) TestRail
10 2 (0.10%) LSMW
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.10%) Selenium
11 1 (0.052%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.052%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.052%) Mockito
11 1 (0.052%) QADirector
11 1 (0.052%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,025 (53.55%) Social Skills
2 755 (39.45%) Finance
3 308 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 225 (11.76%) Banking
5 176 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 94 (4.91%) Retail
7 90 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
8 86 (4.49%) Marketing
9 79 (4.13%) Legal
10 72 (3.76%) Front Office
11 64 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
12 62 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
12 62 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (2.51%) Investment Banking
14 46 (2.40%) Financial Institution
15 45 (2.35%) Telecoms
16 43 (2.25%) Manufacturing
17 35 (1.83%) Law
18 33 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 27 (1.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 416 (21.73%) Analyst
2 319 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 284 (14.84%) Project Manager
4 242 (12.64%) Lead
5 189 (9.87%) Architect
6 183 (9.56%) Senior
7 126 (6.58%) Consultant
8 77 (4.02%) Senior Manager
9 64 (3.34%) Programme Manager
10 59 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
12 57 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
13 53 (2.77%) Data Analyst
14 50 (2.61%) Senior Business Analyst
15 49 (2.56%) IT Manager
16 45 (2.35%) Change Manager
17 44 (2.30%) Developer
18 41 (2.14%) Senior Project Manager
19 39 (2.04%) Product Manager
20 35 (1.83%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.14%) REST
2 22 (1.15%) Kafka
2 22 (1.15%) Middleware
3 20 (1.04%) .NET
4 19 (0.99%) OpenID
5 18 (0.94%) OAuth
5 18 (0.94%) RESTful
6 17 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (0.89%) Pandas
6 17 (0.89%) PyTorch
6 17 (0.89%) SAML
6 17 (0.89%) TensorFlow
6 17 (0.89%) Web Services
7 16 (0.84%) Hugging Face
7 16 (0.84%) NumPy
8 15 (0.78%) LDAP
9 14 (0.73%) scikit-learn
9 14 (0.73%) SOAP
10 12 (0.63%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (7.05%) Product Ownership
2 86 (4.49%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 57 (2.98%) Cloud Native
5 55 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 53 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
7 48 (2.51%) Management Information System
8 37 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 26 (1.36%) PMI
10 23 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.20%) Reinsurance
11 22 (1.15%) Derivative
11 22 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
12 21 (1.10%) Fixed Income
12 21 (1.10%) NHS
13 20 (1.04%) Data Structures
14 19 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.94%) Life Science
16 16 (0.84%) Virtual Team
17 15 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.30%) Windows
2 19 (0.99%) Linux
3 16 (0.84%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.47%) Unix
5 7 (0.37%) VMS
6 6 (0.31%) Android
7 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.052%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 630 (32.92%) Agile
2 334 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
3 313 (16.35%) Project Management
4 260 (13.58%) Migration
5 251 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 241 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 220 (11.49%) Roadmaps
8 203 (10.61%) Change Management
9 201 (10.50%) Project Delivery
10 189 (9.87%) Analytics
11 186 (9.72%) Risk Management
12 185 (9.67%) Decision-Making
13 182 (9.51%) Requirements Gathering
14 174 (9.09%) AI
14 174 (9.09%) DevOps
15 166 (8.67%) Workshop Facilitation
16 164 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
17 160 (8.36%) Data Modelling
18 156 (8.15%) Scrum
19 146 (7.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 193 (10.08%) SQL
2 138 (7.21%) Python
3 34 (1.78%) C#
4 32 (1.67%) Java
5 29 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 17 (0.89%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.63%) R
9 10 (0.52%) Korn
10 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.37%) Bash
12 6 (0.31%) C++
12 6 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.31%) VBA
13 5 (0.26%) Bicep
14 3 (0.16%) ABAP
15 2 (0.10%) Ruby
15 2 (0.10%) VB
16 1 (0.052%) ProC
16 1 (0.052%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 253 (13.22%) Security Cleared
2 205 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 170 (8.88%) Degree
4 111 (5.80%) PMI Certification
5 102 (5.33%) PMP
6 40 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (1.46%) CBAP
9 24 (1.25%) CISSP
9 24 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (0.78%) CISM
10 15 (0.78%) ISTQB
11 14 (0.73%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.68%) IIBA
13 12 (0.63%) DV Cleared
14 11 (0.57%) APMP
14 11 (0.57%) AWS Certification
14 11 (0.57%) CIMA
15 10 (0.52%) ACCA
15 10 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (7.58%) QA
2 112 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 112 (5.85%) GDPR
3 70 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (3.08%) PMO
5 53 (2.77%) NIST
6 36 (1.88%) GRC
7 34 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 28 (1.46%) NCSC
9 27 (1.41%) Accessibility
10 25 (1.31%) PCI DSS
11 21 (1.10%) SLA
12 16 (0.84%) IFRS
13 11 (0.57%) MiFID
14 10 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.52%) IFRS 17
14 10 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 9 (0.47%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.42%) HIPAA
16 8 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (1.72%) Docker
2 22 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) NFS
6 1 (0.052%) Firmware
6 1 (0.052%) IAG
6 1 (0.052%) NLBS
6 1 (0.052%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (2.87%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.83%) Terraform
3 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.57%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.42%) Ansible
6 7 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.26%) RSA Archer
8 4 (0.21%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.10%) Consul
9 2 (0.10%) Control-M
9 2 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.10%) Packer
9 2 (0.10%) SCCM
9 2 (0.10%) vMotion
10 1 (0.052%) Grafana
10 1 (0.052%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.052%) Opsview
10 1 (0.052%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.052%) QRadar
Vendors
1 228 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 164 (8.57%) SAP
3 83 (4.34%) ServiceNow
4 80 (4.18%) Oracle
5 77 (4.02%) Salesforce
6 47 (2.46%) Databricks
7 46 (2.40%) Workday
8 28 (1.46%) Google
9 27 (1.41%) CyberArk
10 24 (1.25%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.04%) Cisco
12 19 (0.99%) Informatica
13 18 (0.94%) Ariba
14 17 (0.89%) Fortinet
15 16 (0.84%) Murex
15 16 (0.84%) Splunk
16 15 (0.78%) Adobe
17 14 (0.73%) Guidewire
18 13 (0.68%) IBM
18 13 (0.68%) Planview