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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,855 1,189 1,475
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.68% 8.52% 8.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.92% 9.42% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,238 742 1,066
10th Percentile £375 £393 £407
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -3.91% -
75th Percentile £675 £669 £675
90th Percentile £782 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 14
10th Percentile £17.44 £31.40 £26.55
25th Percentile £26.91 - £33.16
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -30.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £56.48 £39.04 £59.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £59.10 £70.25
England median hourly rate £42.64 £56.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -24.53% +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 13,327 12,620 16,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.12% 90.43% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,848 8,052 11,585
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
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 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 158 302
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.53 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.73 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +15.40% -15.16%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.44
90th Percentile £70.20 £80.23 £73.56
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -26.03% -9.93% +8.51%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +10 273 £563 -6.25% 102
West London +3 28 £500 +11.11% 30
East London - 7 £720 - 24
South London -25 6 £600 - 22
North London +7 4 £600 +48.15%
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 (5.71%) Confluence
2 36 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.92%) CMS
4 13 (0.70%) Appian
5 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.32%) 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%) 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
Applications
1 89 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (2.37%) MS Visio
5 43 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.65%) Trello
7 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.22%) Sketch
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.11%) InVision
11 1 (0.054%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 72 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.13%) Aladdin
4 19 (1.02%) Endur
5 11 (0.59%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.54%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.43%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.43%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.32%) 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
1 282 (15.20%) Azure
2 166 (8.95%) AWS
3 140 (7.55%) Power Platform
4 59 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (3.13%) GCP
6 55 (2.96%) SaaS
7 42 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (1.62%) Snowflake
9 28 (1.51%) Power Automate
10 27 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.46%) Entra ID
11 25 (1.35%) GitHub
12 23 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (1.19%) OpenShift
14 20 (1.08%) Serverless
15 19 (1.02%) PowerApps
16 16 (0.86%) OCI
17 15 (0.81%) Azure AI
17 15 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.26%) Firewall
2 22 (1.19%) WAN
3 16 (0.86%) SD-WAN
4 14 (0.75%) LAN
4 14 (0.75%) Network Security
5 13 (0.70%) DNS
6 11 (0.59%) BGP
6 11 (0.59%) VPN
7 10 (0.54%) MPLS
8 8 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.38%) Broadband
9 7 (0.38%) OSPF
9 7 (0.38%) VoIP
10 6 (0.32%) Internet
11 5 (0.27%) 5G
11 5 (0.27%) CTI
11 5 (0.27%) DHCP
11 5 (0.27%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.27%) Intranet
11 5 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (7.01%) Power BI
2 43 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (2.21%) Metadata
4 38 (2.05%) Tableau
5 20 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 16 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.59%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (0.49%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.43%) Big Data
9 8 (0.43%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (0.32%) Power Query
10 6 (0.32%) Redis
11 5 (0.27%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.27%) MySQL
11 5 (0.27%) Pinecone
11 5 (0.27%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 211 (11.37%) JIRA
2 26 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.13%) GitLab
4 15 (0.81%) Git
5 7 (0.38%) 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 (0.054%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.054%) JMeter
General
1 998 (53.80%) Social Skills
2 729 (39.30%) Finance
3 307 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (11.86%) Banking
5 165 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 94 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
7 88 (4.74%) Marketing
8 85 (4.58%) Retail
9 78 (4.20%) Legal
10 72 (3.88%) Front Office
11 63 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
12 59 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
13 58 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (2.75%) Investment Banking
15 45 (2.43%) Financial Institution
16 44 (2.37%) Manufacturing
17 43 (2.32%) Telecoms
18 32 (1.73%) Law
19 31 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 28 (1.51%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 411 (22.16%) Analyst
2 311 (16.77%) Business Analyst
3 280 (15.09%) Project Manager
4 219 (11.81%) Lead
5 177 (9.54%) Architect
6 176 (9.49%) Senior
7 131 (7.06%) Consultant
8 73 (3.94%) Senior Manager
9 67 (3.61%) Programme Manager
10 61 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
11 59 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
12 52 (2.80%) Data Analyst
13 51 (2.75%) Senior Business Analyst
14 50 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
15 49 (2.64%) IT Manager
16 48 (2.59%) Developer
17 44 (2.37%) Change Manager
18 39 (2.10%) Product Manager
19 36 (1.94%) Senior Project Manager
19 36 (1.94%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.89%) REST
2 22 (1.19%) .NET
2 22 (1.19%) Kafka
2 22 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (1.08%) Middleware
4 16 (0.86%) OpenID
5 15 (0.81%) OAuth
5 15 (0.81%) Pandas
6 14 (0.75%) RESTful
6 14 (0.75%) SAML
6 14 (0.75%) Web Services
7 13 (0.70%) NumPy
8 12 (0.65%) HTML
8 12 (0.65%) LDAP
8 12 (0.65%) scikit-learn
8 12 (0.65%) SOAP
9 11 (0.59%) PyTorch
9 11 (0.59%) TensorFlow
10 10 (0.54%) Hugging Face
10 10 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.01%) Product Ownership
2 83 (4.47%) Onboarding
3 55 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 55 (2.96%) Cloud Native
4 53 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 53 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 53 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.05%) Data Centre
6 30 (1.62%) PMI
7 25 (1.35%) Reinsurance
8 23 (1.24%) Derivative
8 23 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.19%) Fixed Income
9 22 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 19 (1.02%) Life Science
11 19 (1.02%) NHS
12 17 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 16 (0.86%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.05%) Windows
2 16 (0.86%) Linux
3 15 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.49%) Unix
5 6 (0.32%) VMS
6 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.054%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.054%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (32.94%) Agile
2 340 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
3 323 (17.41%) Project Management
4 242 (13.05%) Migration
5 240 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 229 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 210 (11.32%) Roadmaps
8 204 (11.00%) Project Delivery
9 196 (10.57%) Change Management
10 180 (9.70%) Analytics
11 175 (9.43%) Decision-Making
12 174 (9.38%) Risk Management
13 172 (9.27%) Requirements Gathering
14 162 (8.73%) Workshop Facilitation
15 160 (8.63%) AI
16 158 (8.52%) DevOps
17 156 (8.41%) Data Modelling
18 154 (8.30%) Business Intelligence
19 150 (8.09%) Scrum
20 146 (7.87%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 181 (9.76%) SQL
2 132 (7.12%) Python
3 37 (1.99%) Java
4 32 (1.73%) C#
5 26 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 24 (1.29%) PowerShell
7 15 (0.81%) TypeScript
8 14 (0.75%) R
9 9 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.43%) Bash
10 8 (0.43%) Korn
11 6 (0.32%) C++
11 6 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.27%) Bicep
12 5 (0.27%) VBA
13 3 (0.16%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.11%) Perl
14 2 (0.11%) Ruby
14 2 (0.11%) VB
15 1 (0.054%) X++
Qualifications
1 244 (13.15%) Security Cleared
2 194 (10.46%) SC Cleared
3 174 (9.38%) Degree
4 114 (6.15%) PMI Certification
5 102 (5.50%) PMP
6 40 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (1.56%) CBAP
8 28 (1.51%) CISSP
9 25 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (0.81%) CISM
11 14 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 13 (0.70%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.70%) DV Cleared
12 13 (0.70%) IIBA
13 11 (0.59%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.59%) CIMA
14 10 (0.54%) ACCA
14 10 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (7.28%) QA
2 110 (5.93%) GDPR
3 95 (5.12%) Data Quality
4 68 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (3.40%) PMO
6 50 (2.70%) NIST
7 36 (1.94%) GRC
8 35 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 25 (1.35%) Accessibility
9 25 (1.35%) NCSC
9 25 (1.35%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.97%) SLA
11 16 (0.86%) IFRS
12 11 (0.59%) MiFID
13 10 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 9 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.49%) IFRS 17
15 8 (0.43%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.43%) ISO 20022
16 7 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (1.67%) Docker
2 20 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.054%) Firmware
5 1 (0.054%) IAG
5 1 (0.054%) NLBS
5 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (2.64%) Kubernetes
2 36 (1.94%) Terraform
3 10 (0.54%) FortiGate
4 8 (0.43%) Ansible
4 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.22%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) Argo
7 2 (0.11%) Consul
7 2 (0.11%) Control-M
7 2 (0.11%) Packer
8 1 (0.054%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.054%) Grafana
8 1 (0.054%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.054%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.054%) Opsview
8 1 (0.054%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.054%) SCCM
8 1 (0.054%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 226 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 165 (8.89%) SAP
3 83 (4.47%) Oracle
4 74 (3.99%) Salesforce
5 70 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 52 (2.80%) Workday
7 43 (2.32%) Databricks
8 31 (1.67%) Google
9 24 (1.29%) CyberArk
10 19 (1.02%) Ariba
10 19 (1.02%) Cisco
11 18 (0.97%) OpenAI
12 17 (0.92%) Fortinet
13 16 (0.86%) Adobe
13 16 (0.86%) Bloomberg
13 16 (0.86%) Informatica
14 14 (0.75%) Guidewire
14 14 (0.75%) IBM
14 14 (0.75%) Murex
15 13 (0.70%) Nokia