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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 23 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,808 1,180 1,477
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.66% 8.50% 8.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.88% 9.40% 9.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 731 1,058
10th Percentile £379 £393 £409
25th Percentile £463 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -3.04% -
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% -4.24%

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 13,030 12,548 16,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.21% 90.40% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,606 7,991 11,538
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 221 154 286
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.54 £19.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.45% -14.98%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.53 £73.70
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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +11 266 £556 -7.33% 114
West London +4 27 £500 +10.50% 23
South London -24 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 (5.86%) Confluence
2 36 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.77%) CMS
4 12 (0.66%) Appian
5 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.33%) Camunda
7 5 (0.28%) Apache
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.17%) 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%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 87 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (2.43%) MS Visio
3 43 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 41 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.72%) Trello
6 8 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.22%) Sketch
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.11%) InVision
10 1 (0.055%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 72 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.11%) Aladdin
4 19 (1.05%) Endur
5 10 (0.55%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.50%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.44%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.33%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.28%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.22%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 277 (15.32%) Azure
2 166 (9.18%) AWS
3 142 (7.85%) Power Platform
4 58 (3.21%) GCP
5 56 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (3.04%) SaaS
7 43 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (1.66%) Snowflake
9 28 (1.55%) Power Automate
10 26 (1.44%) Entra ID
11 25 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (1.33%) GitHub
13 22 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (1.11%) PowerApps
14 20 (1.11%) Serverless
15 15 (0.83%) OCI
15 15 (0.83%) OpenShift
15 15 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
16 14 (0.77%) Azure AI
16 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.21%) Firewall
2 21 (1.16%) WAN
3 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
4 13 (0.72%) LAN
5 12 (0.66%) DNS
5 12 (0.66%) Network Security
6 11 (0.61%) VPN
7 10 (0.55%) BGP
8 9 (0.50%) MPLS
9 8 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.39%) Broadband
10 7 (0.39%) VoIP
11 6 (0.33%) Internet
11 6 (0.33%) OSPF
12 5 (0.28%) 5G
12 5 (0.28%) CTI
12 5 (0.28%) DHCP
12 5 (0.28%) Intranet
13 4 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (0.22%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (7.30%) Power BI
2 42 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (2.21%) Metadata
4 37 (2.05%) Tableau
5 19 (1.05%) Data Lake
6 15 (0.83%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.55%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.50%) 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 (0.28%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.28%) MySQL
12 5 (0.28%) SAP BW
13 4 (0.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 210 (11.62%) JIRA
2 21 (1.16%) GitLab
3 20 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.88%) Git
5 7 (0.39%) MLflow
5 7 (0.39%) 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 (0.17%) Gradle
7 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.17%) 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%) HP UFT
General
1 964 (53.32%) Social Skills
2 701 (38.77%) Finance
3 301 (16.65%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (11.56%) Banking
5 163 (9.02%) Public Sector
6 90 (4.98%) Marketing
7 84 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
7 84 (4.65%) Retail
8 72 (3.98%) Legal
9 70 (3.87%) Front Office
10 60 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
11 58 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
12 50 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
13 48 (2.65%) Investment Banking
14 46 (2.54%) Financial Institution
15 43 (2.38%) Manufacturing
16 39 (2.16%) Telecoms
17 31 (1.71%) Law
18 30 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 27 (1.49%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 400 (22.12%) Analyst
2 303 (16.76%) Business Analyst
3 273 (15.10%) Project Manager
4 209 (11.56%) Lead
5 170 (9.40%) Senior
6 168 (9.29%) Architect
7 130 (7.19%) Consultant
8 72 (3.98%) Senior Manager
9 67 (3.71%) Programme Manager
10 59 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
11 57 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
12 53 (2.93%) Data Analyst
13 49 (2.71%) Senior Business Analyst
14 48 (2.65%) IT Manager
15 47 (2.60%) Developer
16 46 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
17 41 (2.27%) Change Manager
18 40 (2.21%) Product Manager
19 36 (1.99%) Senior Project Manager
19 36 (1.99%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.88%) REST
2 22 (1.22%) Kafka
2 22 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 21 (1.16%) .NET
4 18 (1.00%) Middleware
5 14 (0.77%) OAuth
5 14 (0.77%) Pandas
6 13 (0.72%) HTML
6 13 (0.72%) RESTful
6 13 (0.72%) Web Services
7 12 (0.66%) NumPy
7 12 (0.66%) SOAP
8 11 (0.61%) scikit-learn
9 10 (0.55%) PyTorch
9 10 (0.55%) TensorFlow
9 10 (0.55%) XML
10 9 (0.50%) Hugging Face
10 9 (0.50%) OpenID
10 9 (0.50%) Playwright
11 8 (0.44%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.19%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.20%) Onboarding
3 55 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 51 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
5 50 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 49 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 47 (2.60%) Cloud Native
8 38 (2.10%) Data Centre
9 32 (1.77%) PMI
10 24 (1.33%) Reinsurance
11 23 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
12 22 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
13 21 (1.16%) Derivative
13 21 (1.16%) Fixed Income
13 21 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (1.05%) Life Science
15 17 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
15 17 (0.94%) NHS
15 17 (0.94%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.77%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.05%) Windows
2 16 (0.88%) Linux
3 15 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.50%) 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
1 588 (32.52%) Agile
2 334 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
3 310 (17.15%) Project Management
4 239 (13.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 226 (12.50%) Migration
6 219 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 211 (11.67%) Roadmaps
8 190 (10.51%) Change Management
8 190 (10.51%) Project Delivery
9 177 (9.79%) Analytics
10 172 (9.51%) Decision-Making
11 167 (9.24%) Risk Management
12 160 (8.85%) Requirements Gathering
12 160 (8.85%) Workshop Facilitation
13 158 (8.74%) AI
14 156 (8.63%) Business Intelligence
15 149 (8.24%) Data Modelling
16 147 (8.13%) DevOps
17 143 (7.91%) Scrum
18 137 (7.58%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 178 (9.85%) SQL
2 133 (7.36%) Python
3 39 (2.16%) Java
4 31 (1.71%) C#
5 27 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 24 (1.33%) PowerShell
7 15 (0.83%) R
8 14 (0.77%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (0.50%) Korn
11 8 (0.44%) Bash
12 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.33%) C++
13 6 (0.33%) VBA
14 5 (0.28%) Bicep
15 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.17%) VB
16 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.11%) Perl
16 2 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 228 (12.61%) Security Cleared
2 179 (9.90%) SC Cleared
3 168 (9.29%) Degree
4 114 (6.31%) PMI Certification
5 100 (5.53%) PMP
6 38 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 28 (1.55%) CISSP
8 26 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.38%) CBAP
10 24 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.77%) CISM
11 14 (0.77%) ISTQB
12 13 (0.72%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.72%) DV Cleared
13 11 (0.61%) 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 (0.50%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (7.13%) QA
2 110 (6.08%) GDPR
3 92 (5.09%) Data Quality
4 63 (3.48%) PMO
5 60 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.43%) NIST
7 34 (1.88%) GRC
7 34 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 24 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.27%) Accessibility
10 18 (1.00%) NCSC
11 16 (0.88%) SLA
12 15 (0.83%) IFRS
13 11 (0.61%) 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 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (1.66%) Docker
2 20 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) 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 40 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.94%) Terraform
3 9 (0.50%) FortiGate
4 8 (0.44%) Ansible
4 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.22%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.17%) 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
1 218 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 160 (8.85%) SAP
3 80 (4.42%) Oracle
4 77 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 66 (3.65%) ServiceNow
6 51 (2.82%) Workday
7 46 (2.54%) Databricks
8 31 (1.71%) Google
9 19 (1.05%) Ariba
9 19 (1.05%) Cisco
10 17 (0.94%) Adobe
10 17 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 16 (0.88%) Bloomberg
11 16 (0.88%) CyberArk
12 15 (0.83%) Fortinet
12 15 (0.83%) Informatica
13 14 (0.77%) IBM
14 13 (0.72%) Guidewire
14 13 (0.72%) Murex
14 13 (0.72%) Planview