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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,827 1,175 1,474
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.67% 8.52% 8.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.89% 9.42% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 726 1,056
10th Percentile £382 £392 £410
25th Percentile £463 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -3.26% -
75th Percentile £675 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 13
10th Percentile £17.66 £31.40 £26.03
25th Percentile £22.08 - £30.38
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -30.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £56.24 £39.04 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £59.10 £71.00
England median hourly rate £40.78 £56.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -27.82% +13.00% -4.09%

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 13,151 12,474 16,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.19% 90.40% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 7,941 11,571
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 290
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.63
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.29% -14.93%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.60 £73.66
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +10 270 £556 -7.33% 113
West London +2 27 £500 +10.50% 23
South London -25 6 £600 - 16
East London - 6 £720 - 21
North London +6 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
1 106 (5.80%) Confluence
2 36 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.82%) CMS
4 13 (0.71%) Appian
5 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.33%) Camunda
7 5 (0.27%) Apache
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.16%) nginx
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.11%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
11 1 (0.055%) Documentum
Applications
1 87 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (2.41%) MS Visio
3 41 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.71%) Trello
5 8 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.22%) Sketch
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.11%) InVision
9 1 (0.055%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 72 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.15%) Aladdin
4 19 (1.04%) Endur
5 10 (0.55%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.49%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.44%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.33%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.27%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.22%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.22%) SAP HR
11 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 280 (15.33%) Azure
2 167 (9.14%) AWS
3 142 (7.77%) Power Platform
4 57 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (3.12%) GCP
5 56 (3.07%) SaaS
6 43 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (1.59%) Power Automate
7 29 (1.59%) Snowflake
8 27 (1.48%) Entra ID
9 26 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (1.31%) GitHub
11 23 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (1.09%) PowerApps
12 20 (1.09%) Serverless
13 16 (0.88%) OpenShift
14 15 (0.82%) Azure AI
14 15 (0.82%) OCI
14 15 (0.82%) SuccessFactors
15 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.19%) Firewall
2 21 (1.15%) WAN
3 15 (0.82%) SD-WAN
4 13 (0.71%) LAN
5 12 (0.66%) DNS
5 12 (0.66%) Network Security
6 11 (0.60%) VPN
7 10 (0.55%) BGP
8 9 (0.49%) MPLS
9 8 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.38%) Broadband
10 7 (0.38%) VoIP
11 6 (0.33%) Internet
11 6 (0.33%) OSPF
12 5 (0.27%) 5G
12 5 (0.27%) CTI
12 5 (0.27%) DHCP
12 5 (0.27%) Intranet
13 4 (0.22%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (7.22%) Power BI
2 42 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (2.19%) Metadata
4 37 (2.03%) Tableau
5 19 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 16 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 12 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.55%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.44%) Big Data
10 8 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.33%) Power Query
11 6 (0.33%) Redis
12 5 (0.27%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.27%) MySQL
12 5 (0.27%) Pinecone
12 5 (0.27%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 211 (11.55%) JIRA
2 21 (1.15%) GitLab
2 21 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 16 (0.88%) Git
4 8 (0.44%) MLflow
5 7 (0.38%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.22%) Axure RP
6 4 (0.22%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.22%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) Gradle
7 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.16%) TestRail
8 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.11%) ERwin
8 2 (0.11%) LSMW
8 2 (0.11%) Maven
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.055%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.055%) JMeter
General
1 973 (53.26%) Social Skills
2 709 (38.81%) Finance
3 302 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (11.55%) Banking
5 164 (8.98%) Public Sector
6 90 (4.93%) Marketing
7 86 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
8 84 (4.60%) Retail
9 73 (4.00%) Legal
10 70 (3.83%) Front Office
11 60 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
12 59 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
13 51 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
14 48 (2.63%) Investment Banking
15 46 (2.52%) Financial Institution
16 44 (2.41%) Manufacturing
17 40 (2.19%) Telecoms
18 31 (1.70%) Law
19 29 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 27 (1.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 402 (22.00%) Analyst
2 305 (16.69%) Business Analyst
3 279 (15.27%) Project Manager
4 213 (11.66%) Lead
5 172 (9.41%) Senior
6 170 (9.30%) Architect
7 130 (7.12%) Consultant
8 72 (3.94%) Senior Manager
9 67 (3.67%) Programme Manager
10 60 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
12 53 (2.90%) Data Analyst
13 50 (2.74%) Senior Business Analyst
14 49 (2.68%) IT Manager
15 47 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
15 47 (2.57%) Developer
16 41 (2.24%) Change Manager
17 40 (2.19%) Product Manager
18 36 (1.97%) Senior Project Manager
18 36 (1.97%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.92%) REST
2 22 (1.20%) Kafka
2 22 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
3 21 (1.15%) .NET
4 18 (0.99%) Middleware
5 15 (0.82%) OAuth
5 15 (0.82%) Pandas
6 14 (0.77%) RESTful
6 14 (0.77%) Web Services
7 13 (0.71%) HTML
7 13 (0.71%) NumPy
8 12 (0.66%) scikit-learn
8 12 (0.66%) SOAP
9 11 (0.60%) PyTorch
9 11 (0.60%) TensorFlow
10 10 (0.55%) Hugging Face
10 10 (0.55%) OpenID
10 10 (0.55%) XML
11 9 (0.49%) Playwright
12 8 (0.44%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.12%) Product Ownership
2 77 (4.21%) Onboarding
3 55 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 53 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 51 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
6 50 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 47 (2.57%) Cloud Native
8 38 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 32 (1.75%) PMI
10 24 (1.31%) Reinsurance
11 23 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 22 (1.20%) Derivative
12 22 (1.20%) Fixed Income
13 21 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (1.04%) Life Science
14 19 (1.04%) NHS
15 17 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
15 17 (0.93%) Virtual Team
16 16 (0.88%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.03%) Windows
2 16 (0.88%) Linux
3 15 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.49%) Unix
5 6 (0.33%) VMS
6 2 (0.11%) Android
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.055%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 597 (32.68%) Agile
2 337 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
3 313 (17.13%) Project Management
4 240 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 230 (12.59%) Migration
6 224 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 212 (11.60%) Roadmaps
8 195 (10.67%) Project Delivery
9 192 (10.51%) Change Management
10 177 (9.69%) Analytics
11 171 (9.36%) Decision-Making
12 170 (9.30%) Risk Management
13 163 (8.92%) Requirements Gathering
14 160 (8.76%) Workshop Facilitation
15 159 (8.70%) AI
16 156 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
17 151 (8.26%) Data Modelling
18 149 (8.16%) DevOps
19 143 (7.83%) Scrum
20 139 (7.61%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 180 (9.85%) SQL
2 134 (7.33%) Python
3 39 (2.13%) Java
4 31 (1.70%) C#
5 27 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 24 (1.31%) PowerShell
7 15 (0.82%) R
8 14 (0.77%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (0.49%) Korn
11 8 (0.44%) Bash
12 7 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.33%) C++
13 6 (0.33%) VBA
14 5 (0.27%) Bicep
15 3 (0.16%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.16%) VB
16 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.11%) Perl
16 2 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 230 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 181 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 169 (9.25%) Degree
4 115 (6.29%) PMI Certification
5 102 (5.58%) PMP
6 38 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 28 (1.53%) CISSP
8 26 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.37%) CBAP
10 24 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.77%) CISM
11 14 (0.77%) ISTQB
12 13 (0.71%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.71%) DV Cleared
13 11 (0.60%) CIMA
14 10 (0.55%) ACCA
14 10 (0.55%) AWS Certification
14 10 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.49%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (7.12%) QA
2 110 (6.02%) GDPR
3 94 (5.15%) Data Quality
4 64 (3.50%) PMO
5 62 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (2.52%) NIST
7 35 (1.92%) GRC
8 34 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 24 (1.31%) Accessibility
9 24 (1.31%) PCI DSS
10 19 (1.04%) NCSC
11 17 (0.93%) SLA
12 16 (0.88%) IFRS
13 11 (0.60%) MiFID
14 10 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 8 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.44%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.44%) IFRS 17
15 8 (0.44%) ISO 20022
16 7 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (1.70%) Docker
2 20 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.055%) Firmware
5 1 (0.055%) IAG
5 1 (0.055%) NLBS
5 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.92%) Terraform
3 9 (0.49%) FortiGate
4 8 (0.44%) Ansible
4 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.22%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.11%) Argo
8 2 (0.11%) Consul
8 2 (0.11%) Control-M
8 2 (0.11%) Packer
9 1 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.055%) Grafana
9 1 (0.055%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.055%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.055%) Opsview
9 1 (0.055%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.055%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 220 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 161 (8.81%) SAP
3 80 (4.38%) Oracle
4 77 (4.21%) Salesforce
5 67 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 52 (2.85%) Workday
7 45 (2.46%) Databricks
8 31 (1.70%) Google
9 19 (1.04%) Ariba
9 19 (1.04%) Cisco
10 18 (0.99%) CyberArk
10 18 (0.99%) OpenAI
11 17 (0.93%) Adobe
12 16 (0.88%) Bloomberg
13 15 (0.82%) Fortinet
13 15 (0.82%) Informatica
14 14 (0.77%) IBM
15 13 (0.71%) Guidewire
15 13 (0.71%) Murex
15 13 (0.71%) Planview