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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,886 1,165 1,493
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.86% 8.52% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.15% 9.41% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,261 722 1,083
10th Percentile £363 £385 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £671 £669 £675
90th Percentile £788 £799 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 17
10th Percentile £17.00 £32.13 £23.88
25th Percentile £20.66 - £30.16
Median hourly rate £40.62 £35.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +16.04% -24.00% -31.77%
75th Percentile £60.22 £39.04 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.92 £59.88 £68.00
England median hourly rate £45.23 £56.50 £50.53
% change year-on-year -19.95% +11.82% -7.95%

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 13,329 12,378 16,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.91% 90.52% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,842 7,830 11,851
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 204 153 348
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.23 £19.34
Median hourly rate £34.38 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +18.33% -19.70%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.94
90th Percentile £71.75 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +9 266 £575 -4.17% 216
West London -3 27 £500 +19.05% 36
South London -27 6 £600 - 16
East London - 6 £720 - 22
North London +4 4 £500 +23.46%
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
1 116 (6.15%) Confluence
2 38 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.95%) CMS
4 14 (0.74%) Appian
5 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.32%) Camunda
7 5 (0.27%) Apache
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.16%) nginx
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) Kentico
10 2 (0.11%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.11%) Sitefinity
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
11 1 (0.053%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 84 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (2.39%) MS Visio
4 41 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
5 39 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.64%) Trello
7 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.21%) Sketch
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.11%) InVision
11 1 (0.053%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 67 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.17%) Aladdin
4 19 (1.01%) Endur
5 12 (0.64%) Loan IQ
6 11 (0.58%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.42%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.21%) SAP HR
11 4 (0.21%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 299 (15.85%) Azure
2 164 (8.70%) AWS
3 141 (7.48%) Power Platform
4 65 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (3.23%) SaaS
6 52 (2.76%) GCP
7 46 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (1.70%) Entra ID
9 31 (1.64%) Snowflake
10 29 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (1.48%) Power Automate
12 26 (1.38%) GitHub
13 24 (1.27%) OpenShift
14 22 (1.17%) PowerApps
14 22 (1.17%) Serverless
15 18 (0.95%) Azure AI
16 16 (0.85%) Collibra
16 16 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (0.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.17%) Firewall
2 27 (1.43%) WAN
3 19 (1.01%) LAN
4 16 (0.85%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.74%) DNS
5 14 (0.74%) Network Security
5 14 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (0.69%) VPN
7 11 (0.58%) BGP
8 10 (0.53%) MPLS
9 7 (0.37%) Broadband
9 7 (0.37%) Intranet
9 7 (0.37%) OSPF
9 7 (0.37%) VoIP
10 6 (0.32%) Internet
11 5 (0.27%) CTI
11 5 (0.27%) DHCP
11 5 (0.27%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.27%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (6.68%) Power BI
2 47 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (2.23%) Metadata
4 40 (2.12%) Tableau
5 23 (1.22%) Data Lake
6 18 (0.95%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.58%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.53%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.42%) Big Data
10 8 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.32%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.32%) Power Query
12 6 (0.32%) Redis
13 5 (0.27%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.27%) MySQL
14 4 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 219 (11.61%) JIRA
2 29 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.06%) GitLab
4 17 (0.90%) Git
5 8 (0.42%) SpecFlow
6 7 (0.37%) MLflow
7 4 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.21%) Axure RP
7 4 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.16%) Selenium
8 3 (0.16%) TestRail
9 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.11%) ERwin
9 2 (0.11%) Gradle
9 2 (0.11%) LSMW
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.053%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.053%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.053%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,013 (53.71%) Social Skills
2 738 (39.13%) Finance
3 303 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (11.88%) Banking
5 173 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 91 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
6 91 (4.83%) Retail
7 86 (4.56%) Marketing
8 77 (4.08%) Legal
9 71 (3.76%) Front Office
10 66 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
11 62 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
12 61 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
13 48 (2.55%) Investment Banking
14 45 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 44 (2.33%) Financial Institution
16 42 (2.23%) Manufacturing
17 35 (1.86%) Law
18 31 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 27 (1.43%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 416 (22.06%) Analyst
2 317 (16.81%) Business Analyst
3 280 (14.85%) Project Manager
4 235 (12.46%) Lead
5 186 (9.86%) Architect
6 179 (9.49%) Senior
7 126 (6.68%) Consultant
8 75 (3.98%) Senior Manager
9 63 (3.34%) Programme Manager
10 59 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
12 54 (2.86%) Data Analyst
13 52 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
14 49 (2.60%) Senior Business Analyst
15 48 (2.55%) IT Manager
16 45 (2.39%) Developer
17 43 (2.28%) Change Manager
18 40 (2.12%) Product Manager
19 39 (2.07%) Senior Project Manager
20 36 (1.91%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.01%) REST
2 22 (1.17%) .NET
2 22 (1.17%) Kafka
2 22 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 21 (1.11%) Middleware
4 19 (1.01%) OpenID
5 17 (0.90%) SAML
6 16 (0.85%) OAuth
7 15 (0.80%) LDAP
7 15 (0.80%) Pandas
7 15 (0.80%) RESTful
7 15 (0.80%) Web Services
8 14 (0.74%) NumPy
9 13 (0.69%) SOAP
10 12 (0.64%) HTML
10 12 (0.64%) PyTorch
10 12 (0.64%) scikit-learn
10 12 (0.64%) TensorFlow
11 11 (0.58%) Hugging Face
11 11 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (7.16%) Product Ownership
2 86 (4.56%) Onboarding
3 56 (2.97%) Cloud Native
3 56 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 55 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
5 50 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 37 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 29 (1.54%) PMI
8 23 (1.22%) Reinsurance
9 22 (1.17%) Derivative
9 22 (1.17%) Fixed Income
9 22 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 19 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.01%) NHS
13 18 (0.95%) Life Science
14 17 (0.90%) Virtual Team
15 16 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.12%) Windows
2 17 (0.90%) Linux
3 15 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.48%) Unix
5 6 (0.32%) VMS
6 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.053%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (33.24%) Agile
2 333 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
3 316 (16.76%) Project Management
4 256 (13.57%) Migration
5 247 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 234 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 217 (11.51%) Roadmaps
8 202 (10.71%) Project Delivery
9 194 (10.29%) Change Management
10 183 (9.70%) Analytics
11 181 (9.60%) Risk Management
12 178 (9.44%) Decision-Making
12 178 (9.44%) Requirements Gathering
13 173 (9.17%) DevOps
14 165 (8.75%) Workshop Facilitation
15 164 (8.70%) AI
16 160 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
17 157 (8.32%) Data Modelling
18 151 (8.01%) Scrum
19 148 (7.85%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 186 (9.86%) SQL
2 135 (7.16%) Python
3 36 (1.91%) C#
4 33 (1.75%) Java
5 29 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.43%) PowerShell
7 17 (0.90%) TypeScript
8 13 (0.69%) R
9 8 (0.42%) Bash
9 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.42%) Korn
10 6 (0.32%) C++
10 6 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.27%) Bicep
11 5 (0.27%) VBA
12 3 (0.16%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.11%) Perl
13 2 (0.11%) Ruby
13 2 (0.11%) VB
14 1 (0.053%) PHP
Qualifications
1 255 (13.52%) Security Cleared
2 206 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 170 (9.01%) Degree
4 112 (5.94%) PMI Certification
5 102 (5.41%) PMP
6 40 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.54%) CBAP
9 25 (1.33%) CISSP
10 24 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.80%) CISM
11 15 (0.80%) ISTQB
12 13 (0.69%) IIBA
13 12 (0.64%) DV Cleared
14 11 (0.58%) APMP
14 11 (0.58%) AWS Certification
14 11 (0.58%) CIMA
15 10 (0.53%) ACCA
15 10 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (7.42%) QA
2 109 (5.78%) GDPR
3 105 (5.57%) Data Quality
4 71 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (3.29%) PMO
6 54 (2.86%) NIST
7 35 (1.86%) GRC
8 34 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 28 (1.48%) NCSC
10 26 (1.38%) Accessibility
11 25 (1.33%) PCI DSS
12 19 (1.01%) SLA
13 16 (0.85%) IFRS
14 11 (0.58%) MiFID
15 10 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.53%) IFRS 17
15 10 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 9 (0.48%) ISO 20022
17 8 (0.42%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (1.70%) Docker
2 22 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.11%) NFS
6 1 (0.053%) Firmware
6 1 (0.053%) IAG
6 1 (0.053%) NLBS
6 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.86%) Terraform
3 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.53%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.42%) Ansible
6 7 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.21%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.21%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.11%) Consul
8 2 (0.11%) Control-M
8 2 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.11%) Packer
8 2 (0.11%) vMotion
9 1 (0.053%) Argo
9 1 (0.053%) Grafana
9 1 (0.053%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.053%) Opsview
9 1 (0.053%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.053%) SCCM
Vendors
1 225 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 162 (8.59%) SAP
3 82 (4.35%) Oracle
4 78 (4.14%) Salesforce
5 75 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 51 (2.70%) Workday
7 48 (2.55%) Databricks
8 28 (1.48%) Google
9 27 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 21 (1.11%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.06%) Cisco
12 19 (1.01%) Informatica
13 18 (0.95%) Ariba
14 17 (0.90%) Fortinet
15 16 (0.85%) Murex
16 15 (0.80%) Adobe
16 15 (0.80%) Splunk
17 14 (0.74%) Guidewire
18 13 (0.69%) Nokia
18 13 (0.69%) Planview