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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,927 1,192 1,437
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.64% 8.77% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.93% 9.67% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,293 742 1,046
10th Percentile £375 £385 £408
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £666 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £769
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 15
10th Percentile £17.00 £32.20 £23.70
25th Percentile £20.66 £35.00 £27.58
Median hourly rate £40.50 £37.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% -19.66% -29.24%
75th Percentile £56.24 £52.88 £55.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £63.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -7.24%

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 13,833 12,324 16,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.73% 90.63% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,202 7,872 11,677
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 211 152 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.03 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.56 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.38 £51.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.88 £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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +9 271 £575 -4.17% 90
West London -2 25 £500 +19.05% 23
South London -31 7 £600 - 3
East London +7 5 £675 +7.14% 15
North London +4 4 £500 +23.46% 4
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
1 115 (5.97%) Confluence
2 41 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.93%) CMS
4 16 (0.83%) Appian
5 12 (0.62%) 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 87 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (2.34%) MS Visio
4 41 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 40 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.62%) Trello
7 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.26%) Sketch
8 5 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
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 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.09%) Aladdin
4 17 (0.88%) Endur
5 13 (0.67%) 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 General Ledger
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.21%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 304 (15.78%) Azure
2 172 (8.93%) AWS
3 141 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 70 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (3.01%) GCP
6 54 (2.80%) SaaS
7 48 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (1.76%) Entra ID
9 32 (1.66%) GitHub
10 31 (1.61%) Snowflake
11 30 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
12 29 (1.50%) Power Automate
13 26 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
14 23 (1.19%) Serverless
15 22 (1.14%) OpenShift
16 21 (1.09%) PowerApps
17 20 (1.04%) Figma
18 19 (0.99%) Azure AI
18 19 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
19 16 (0.83%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.18%) Firewall
2 27 (1.40%) WAN
3 19 (0.99%) LAN
4 17 (0.88%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.73%) DNS
5 14 (0.73%) Network Security
5 14 (0.73%) VPN
6 13 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.57%) BGP
8 10 (0.52%) MPLS
9 7 (0.36%) Broadband
9 7 (0.36%) OSPF
9 7 (0.36%) VoIP
10 6 (0.31%) Internet
10 6 (0.31%) Intranet
11 5 (0.26%) CTI
11 5 (0.26%) DHCP
11 5 (0.26%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.26%) NGFW
11 5 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (6.43%) Power BI
2 49 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (2.34%) Metadata
4 39 (2.02%) Tableau
5 24 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 21 (1.09%) SQL Server
7 13 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.47%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.42%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.36%) 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
1 219 (11.36%) JIRA
2 31 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.09%) GitLab
4 17 (0.88%) 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%) ERwin
8 4 (0.21%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.16%) TestRail
10 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.10%) JMeter
10 2 (0.10%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.10%) LSMW
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.10%) Selenium
11 1 (0.052%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.052%) PowerBuilder
General
1 1,032 (53.55%) Social Skills
2 765 (39.70%) Finance
3 312 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (11.57%) Banking
5 178 (9.24%) Public Sector
6 95 (4.93%) Retail
7 91 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
8 85 (4.41%) Marketing
9 81 (4.20%) Legal
10 70 (3.63%) Front Office
11 66 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
12 64 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
13 63 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (2.54%) Investment Banking
15 47 (2.44%) Financial Institution
16 46 (2.39%) Telecoms
17 43 (2.23%) Manufacturing
18 36 (1.87%) Law
19 33 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 27 (1.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 417 (21.64%) Analyst
2 319 (16.55%) Business Analyst
3 291 (15.10%) Project Manager
4 244 (12.66%) Lead
5 187 (9.70%) Architect
6 185 (9.60%) Senior
7 125 (6.49%) Consultant
8 82 (4.26%) Senior Manager
9 67 (3.48%) Programme Manager
10 60 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
11 59 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
12 57 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
13 53 (2.75%) Data Analyst
14 50 (2.59%) IT Manager
14 50 (2.59%) Senior Business Analyst
15 45 (2.34%) Change Manager
16 44 (2.28%) Senior Project Manager
17 41 (2.13%) Developer
18 39 (2.02%) Product Manager
19 35 (1.82%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.18%) REST
2 25 (1.30%) Middleware
3 23 (1.19%) Kafka
4 20 (1.04%) .NET
5 19 (0.99%) OpenID
6 18 (0.93%) RESTful
7 17 (0.88%) OAuth
7 17 (0.88%) Pandas
7 17 (0.88%) PyTorch
7 17 (0.88%) SAML
7 17 (0.88%) TensorFlow
7 17 (0.88%) Web Services
8 16 (0.83%) Hugging Face
8 16 (0.83%) NumPy
8 16 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (0.78%) LDAP
10 14 (0.73%) scikit-learn
10 14 (0.73%) SOAP
11 12 (0.62%) AngularJS
11 12 (0.62%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 88 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 60 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 54 (2.80%) Cloud Native
6 51 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
7 45 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 37 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 23 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (1.19%) PMI
9 23 (1.19%) Reinsurance
10 22 (1.14%) NHS
11 21 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.09%) Derivative
11 21 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (1.04%) Fixed Income
13 19 (0.99%) Virtual Team
14 18 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (0.93%) Life Science
15 15 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.34%) Windows
2 19 (0.99%) Linux
3 16 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.47%) Unix
5 7 (0.36%) VMS
6 6 (0.31%) Android
7 5 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.052%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (32.75%) Agile
2 330 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
3 315 (16.35%) Project Management
4 261 (13.54%) Migration
5 250 (12.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 248 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 222 (11.52%) Roadmaps
8 204 (10.59%) Change Management
9 199 (10.33%) Project Delivery
10 191 (9.91%) Decision-Making
11 189 (9.81%) Analytics
11 189 (9.81%) Risk Management
12 180 (9.34%) Requirements Gathering
13 178 (9.24%) DevOps
14 173 (8.98%) AI
15 164 (8.51%) Workshop Facilitation
16 163 (8.46%) User Acceptance Testing
17 158 (8.20%) Data Modelling
17 158 (8.20%) Scrum
18 150 (7.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 193 (10.02%) SQL
2 136 (7.06%) Python
3 35 (1.82%) C#
4 30 (1.56%) Java
5 29 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 18 (0.93%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.52%) Korn
8 10 (0.52%) R
9 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.36%) Bash
11 6 (0.31%) C++
11 6 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.31%) VBA
12 5 (0.26%) Bicep
13 3 (0.16%) ABAP
14 2 (0.10%) Ruby
14 2 (0.10%) VB
15 1 (0.052%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.052%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 257 (13.34%) Security Cleared
2 209 (10.85%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.93%) Degree
4 110 (5.71%) PMI Certification
5 104 (5.40%) PMP
6 41 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.35%) CBAP
9 25 (1.30%) CISSP
10 21 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (0.83%) CISM
12 15 (0.78%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.73%) Azure Certification
14 13 (0.67%) DV Cleared
14 13 (0.67%) IIBA
15 11 (0.57%) APMP
15 11 (0.57%) AWS Certification
15 11 (0.57%) CIMA
16 10 (0.52%) ACCA
16 10 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (7.58%) QA
2 118 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 114 (5.92%) GDPR
4 73 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (3.27%) PMO
6 57 (2.96%) NIST
7 40 (2.08%) GRC
8 34 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 29 (1.50%) NCSC
10 27 (1.40%) Accessibility
10 27 (1.40%) PCI DSS
11 24 (1.25%) SLA
12 16 (0.83%) IFRS
13 12 (0.62%) MiFID
14 10 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.52%) COBIT
14 10 (0.52%) IFRS 17
14 10 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 8 (0.42%) EMIR
15 8 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 36 (1.87%) Docker
2 24 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.36%) 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 56 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 37 (1.92%) Terraform
3 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.57%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.42%) Ansible
6 7 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.26%) RSA Archer
8 4 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.10%) Consul
10 2 (0.10%) Control-M
10 2 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.10%) Packer
10 2 (0.10%) SCCM
10 2 (0.10%) vMotion
11 1 (0.052%) Grafana
11 1 (0.052%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.052%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.052%) QRadar
11 1 (0.052%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 227 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 166 (8.61%) SAP
3 84 (4.36%) ServiceNow
4 80 (4.15%) Oracle
5 78 (4.05%) Salesforce
6 47 (2.44%) Workday
7 46 (2.39%) Databricks
8 27 (1.40%) CyberArk
8 27 (1.40%) Google
9 23 (1.19%) OpenAI
10 21 (1.09%) Cisco
11 19 (0.99%) Informatica
12 18 (0.93%) Ariba
12 18 (0.93%) Fortinet
12 18 (0.93%) Murex
13 16 (0.83%) Splunk
14 15 (0.78%) Adobe
15 14 (0.73%) Guidewire
15 14 (0.73%) VMware
16 13 (0.67%) Avaloq