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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 21 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,105 1,185 1,386
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.65% 9.30% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.09% 10.19% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,412 798 1,014
10th Percentile £388 £400 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £780 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 16
10th Percentile £20.82 £34.85 £23.79
25th Percentile £39.25 £36.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £54.46 £43.08 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.43% -0.40% -33.55%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.25 £52.81
90th Percentile £76.75 £60.60 £58.75
England median hourly rate £53.25 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -11.25% +26.32% -15.88%

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 14,942 11,630 15,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.82% 91.27% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,020 7,810 11,431
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 164 342
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -19.47%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £71.18 £69.95
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +12 301 £595 -0.83% 203
West London -9 19 £635 +40.33% 23
South London -25 16 £590 -1.67% 5
North London +3 5 £519 +28.09% 1
East London -1 4 £675 +7.14% 14
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
1 132 (6.27%) Confluence
2 48 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.05%) CMS
4 17 (0.81%) Appian
5 13 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.43%) Apache
7 6 (0.29%) Camunda
7 6 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.24%) SAS
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.14%) nginx
11 2 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.095%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.095%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.095%) Kentico
11 2 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.095%) Sitefinity
11 2 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 86 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (2.33%) MS Visio
4 37 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.48%) Trello
7 8 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.24%) Sketch
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.095%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.095%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.095%) InVision
12 1 (0.048%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 63 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (1.19%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.71%) Endur
5 12 (0.57%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.48%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.29%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.29%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.29%) SAP FI
10 6 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.29%) SAP HR
11 5 (0.24%) Actimize
11 5 (0.24%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 340 (16.15%) Azure
2 208 (9.88%) AWS
3 129 (6.13%) Power Platform
4 82 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (3.33%) GCP
6 57 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (2.47%) SaaS
8 42 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 40 (1.90%) Snowflake
10 31 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (1.43%) GitHub
11 30 (1.43%) Power Automate
12 26 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (1.05%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.05%) Serverless
14 21 (1.00%) Figma
15 19 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (0.90%) PowerApps
16 18 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.76%) Firewall
2 31 (1.47%) WAN
3 23 (1.09%) LAN
3 23 (1.09%) Network Security
4 22 (1.05%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.71%) BGP
5 15 (0.71%) DNS
6 13 (0.62%) VPN
7 12 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.52%) OSPF
9 9 (0.43%) MPLS
10 7 (0.33%) Broadband
10 7 (0.33%) VoIP
11 6 (0.29%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.29%) Intranet
11 6 (0.29%) NX-OS
11 6 (0.29%) Wireless
12 5 (0.24%) 5G
12 5 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (5.18%) Power BI
2 56 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (2.14%) Metadata
4 42 (2.00%) Tableau
5 28 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 25 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 16 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.62%) Big Data
8 13 (0.62%) NoSQL
8 13 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.43%) Pinecone
10 8 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.38%) Power Query
11 7 (0.33%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.29%) Redis
12 6 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.24%) MySQL
13 5 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 241 (11.45%) JIRA
2 35 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.00%) Git
4 20 (0.95%) GitLab
5 10 (0.48%) MLflow
6 9 (0.43%) SpecFlow
7 8 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.33%) Selenium
9 6 (0.29%) ERwin
9 6 (0.29%) JMeter
9 6 (0.29%) REST Assured
9 6 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.24%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.24%) Postman
11 4 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.19%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.19%) Snyk
12 3 (0.14%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.14%) TestRail
12 3 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 1,075 (51.07%) Social Skills
2 842 (40.00%) Finance
3 328 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (11.97%) Banking
5 213 (10.12%) Public Sector
6 111 (5.27%) Influencing Skills
7 97 (4.61%) Retail
8 88 (4.18%) Legal
9 84 (3.99%) Marketing
10 82 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
11 76 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
12 72 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (3.09%) Front Office
14 62 (2.95%) Financial Institution
15 51 (2.42%) Investment Banking
16 42 (2.00%) Manufacturing
17 41 (1.95%) Telecoms
18 39 (1.85%) Law
19 29 (1.38%) Billing
20 24 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 421 (20.00%) Analyst
2 333 (15.82%) Business Analyst
3 327 (15.53%) Project Manager
4 270 (12.83%) Lead
5 205 (9.74%) Architect
6 203 (9.64%) Senior
7 135 (6.41%) Consultant
8 89 (4.23%) Senior Manager
9 80 (3.80%) Programme Manager
10 74 (3.52%) Delivery Manager
11 60 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
11 60 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
12 56 (2.66%) Data Analyst
12 56 (2.66%) IT Manager
13 50 (2.38%) Change Manager
14 49 (2.33%) Senior Business Analyst
15 44 (2.09%) Developer
15 44 (2.09%) Product Manager
15 44 (2.09%) Test Manager
16 43 (2.04%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.38%) REST
2 36 (1.71%) Middleware
3 24 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.09%) Kafka
4 23 (1.09%) SOAP
5 19 (0.90%) OpenID
6 18 (0.86%) OAuth
6 18 (0.86%) Web Services
7 17 (0.81%) .NET
7 17 (0.81%) Pandas
7 17 (0.81%) RESTful
7 17 (0.81%) SAML
8 16 (0.76%) NumPy
8 16 (0.76%) PyTorch
8 16 (0.76%) TensorFlow
9 15 (0.71%) Hugging Face
10 14 (0.67%) LDAP
10 14 (0.67%) Playwright
10 14 (0.67%) scikit-learn
11 12 (0.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 149 (7.08%) Product Ownership
2 108 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 86 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
4 65 (3.09%) Cloud Native
5 54 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 52 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
7 44 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 40 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 34 (1.62%) Data Structures
10 25 (1.19%) NHS
10 25 (1.19%) PMI
11 24 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 23 (1.09%) Derivative
13 22 (1.05%) Reinsurance
14 21 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 20 (0.95%) Fixed Income
15 20 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
16 17 (0.81%) Life Science
17 16 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.23%) Windows
2 23 (1.09%) Linux
3 13 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.43%) Unix
5 8 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.33%) VMS
7 6 (0.29%) Android
7 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.048%) AIX
10 1 (0.048%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (32.92%) Agile
2 340 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
3 332 (15.77%) Project Management
4 308 (14.63%) Migration
5 289 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 262 (12.45%) Roadmaps
7 258 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 225 (10.69%) Decision-Making
9 224 (10.64%) Project Delivery
10 223 (10.59%) DevOps
11 216 (10.26%) Change Management
12 194 (9.22%) Risk Management
13 190 (9.03%) Analytics
14 187 (8.88%) User Acceptance Testing
15 184 (8.74%) AI
16 182 (8.65%) Requirements Gathering
17 178 (8.46%) Data Modelling
18 173 (8.22%) Validation
18 173 (8.22%) Workshop Facilitation
19 170 (8.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 190 (9.03%) SQL
2 135 (6.41%) Python
3 34 (1.62%) C#
3 34 (1.62%) Java
4 28 (1.33%) PowerShell
5 25 (1.19%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.86%) TypeScript
7 13 (0.62%) R
8 11 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (0.52%) Korn
9 8 (0.38%) Bash
10 5 (0.24%) C++
10 5 (0.24%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.24%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.24%) VBA
11 4 (0.19%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.19%) Bicep
12 3 (0.14%) ABAP
12 3 (0.14%) Ruby
13 2 (0.095%) C
Qualifications
1 324 (15.39%) Security Cleared
2 266 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 165 (7.84%) Degree
4 122 (5.80%) PMP
5 120 (5.70%) PMI Certification
6 43 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 35 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.33%) CISSP
9 24 (1.14%) CBAP
10 23 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (0.90%) CISM
12 18 (0.86%) DV Cleared
13 17 (0.81%) Azure Certification
14 15 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.67%) IIBA
16 12 (0.57%) APMP
16 12 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.52%) ACCA
17 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (0.48%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (7.22%) QA
2 136 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 117 (5.56%) GDPR
4 76 (3.61%) PMO
5 67 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (2.95%) NIST
7 41 (1.95%) GRC
8 33 (1.57%) SLA
9 32 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 31 (1.47%) NCSC
11 22 (1.05%) Accessibility
11 22 (1.05%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.81%) IFRS
13 12 (0.57%) COBIT
13 12 (0.57%) MiFID
14 11 (0.52%) Solvency II
15 10 (0.48%) IFRS 17
15 10 (0.48%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 8 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 41 (1.95%) Docker
2 28 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.14%) NFS
4 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.095%) Postfix
5 2 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.048%) Firmware
6 1 (0.048%) IAG
6 1 (0.048%) NLBS
6 1 (0.048%) RACF
6 1 (0.048%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.048%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 61 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.09%) Terraform
3 15 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.62%) FortiGate
5 11 (0.52%) Ansible
6 7 (0.33%) RSA Archer
7 5 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.19%) Grafana
8 4 (0.19%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.14%) SCCM
10 2 (0.095%) Consul
10 2 (0.095%) Control-M
10 2 (0.095%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.095%) Packer
10 2 (0.095%) vMotion
11 1 (0.048%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.048%) Opsview
11 1 (0.048%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 227 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 178 (8.46%) SAP
3 108 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 94 (4.47%) Oracle
5 91 (4.32%) Salesforce
6 57 (2.71%) Workday
7 46 (2.19%) Databricks
8 33 (1.57%) CyberArk
9 28 (1.33%) Google
10 23 (1.09%) Cisco
11 21 (1.00%) Splunk
12 20 (0.95%) Informatica
12 20 (0.95%) Murex
12 20 (0.95%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.86%) Ariba
14 17 (0.81%) IBM
15 16 (0.76%) Adobe
15 16 (0.76%) VMware
16 14 (0.67%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.62%) Nokia