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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 22 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,998 1,215 1,419
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.82% 8.97% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.16% 9.90% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,350 767 1,031
10th Percentile £381 £387 £410
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £668 £666 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 16
10th Percentile £17.22 £32.23 £23.79
25th Percentile £22.43 £35.00 £28.87
Median hourly rate £40.62 £38.00 £45.03
Median % change year-on-year +6.88% -15.61% -33.29%
75th Percentile £66.74 £55.25 £54.69
90th Percentile £76.25 £64.13 £62.50
England median hourly rate £47.48 £57.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -16.71% +14.00% -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 14,107 12,276 16,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.50% 90.65% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,418 7,891 11,536
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 221 153 342
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.49% - -

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 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 19 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 19 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 +9 275 £575 -4.17% 102
West London -5 25 £500 +19.05% 24
South London -31 12 £590 -1.67% 5
East London +2 5 £675 +7.14% 15
North London +4 4 £500 +23.46% 2
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
1 120 (6.01%) Confluence
2 44 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.95%) CMS
4 16 (0.80%) Appian
5 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.30%) Apache
6 6 (0.30%) Camunda
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.15%) nginx
9 3 (0.15%) SAS
9 3 (0.15%) 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 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 87 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (2.35%) MS Visio
4 40 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
5 39 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.55%) Trello
7 8 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.25%) Sketch
8 5 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.10%) InVision
11 1 (0.050%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 60 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.10%) Aladdin
4 17 (0.85%) Endur
5 13 (0.65%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.50%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 9 (0.45%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.40%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.30%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.25%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 315 (15.77%) Azure
2 179 (8.96%) AWS
3 144 (7.21%) Power Platform
4 70 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (3.15%) GCP
6 54 (2.70%) SaaS
7 50 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (1.75%) Entra ID
9 33 (1.65%) Snowflake
10 32 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 32 (1.60%) GitHub
11 31 (1.55%) Power Automate
12 26 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
13 25 (1.25%) Serverless
14 23 (1.15%) PowerApps
15 22 (1.10%) OpenShift
16 20 (1.00%) Figma
16 20 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (0.95%) Azure AI
18 18 (0.90%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.10%) Firewall
2 27 (1.35%) WAN
3 19 (0.95%) LAN
4 17 (0.85%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.70%) DNS
5 14 (0.70%) Network Security
5 14 (0.70%) VPN
6 13 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.55%) BGP
8 10 (0.50%) MPLS
9 7 (0.35%) Broadband
9 7 (0.35%) OSPF
9 7 (0.35%) VoIP
10 6 (0.30%) Intranet
11 5 (0.25%) CTI
11 5 (0.25%) DHCP
11 5 (0.25%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.25%) Internet
11 5 (0.25%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (6.26%) Power BI
2 51 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (2.25%) Metadata
4 40 (2.00%) Tableau
5 28 (1.40%) Data Lake
6 21 (1.05%) SQL Server
7 13 (0.65%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 12 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.45%) Big Data
9 9 (0.45%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.45%) Pinecone
10 8 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.30%) DB2
11 6 (0.30%) Power Query
11 6 (0.30%) Redis
12 5 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.25%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 226 (11.31%) JIRA
2 32 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.05%) GitLab
4 19 (0.95%) Git
5 10 (0.50%) MLflow
6 9 (0.45%) SpecFlow
7 5 (0.25%) Axure RP
8 4 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.20%) ERwin
8 4 (0.20%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.20%) TestRail
9 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.15%) JUnit
9 3 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.15%) Selenium
10 2 (0.10%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.10%) LSMW
11 1 (0.050%) HP UFT
General
1 1,064 (53.25%) Social Skills
2 780 (39.04%) Finance
3 322 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 235 (11.76%) Banking
5 190 (9.51%) Public Sector
6 100 (5.01%) Influencing Skills
7 97 (4.85%) Retail
8 88 (4.40%) Marketing
9 87 (4.35%) Legal
10 74 (3.70%) Front Office
11 70 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 67 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
13 54 (2.70%) Investment Banking
14 46 (2.30%) Financial Institution
14 46 (2.30%) Telecoms
15 45 (2.25%) Manufacturing
16 37 (1.85%) Law
17 32 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 28 (1.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 429 (21.47%) Analyst
2 332 (16.62%) Business Analyst
3 306 (15.32%) Project Manager
4 249 (12.46%) Lead
5 196 (9.81%) Senior
6 192 (9.61%) Architect
7 125 (6.26%) Consultant
8 86 (4.30%) Senior Manager
9 66 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
9 66 (3.30%) Programme Manager
10 62 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
12 55 (2.75%) Data Analyst
13 53 (2.65%) IT Manager
14 51 (2.55%) Senior Business Analyst
15 46 (2.30%) Change Manager
16 45 (2.25%) Developer
17 44 (2.20%) Senior Project Manager
18 39 (1.95%) Product Manager
19 35 (1.75%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.25%) REST
2 27 (1.35%) Middleware
3 25 (1.25%) Kafka
4 20 (1.00%) .NET
4 20 (1.00%) OpenID
5 18 (0.90%) OAuth
5 18 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (0.90%) RESTful
6 17 (0.85%) Pandas
6 17 (0.85%) PyTorch
6 17 (0.85%) SAML
6 17 (0.85%) SOAP
6 17 (0.85%) TensorFlow
6 17 (0.85%) Web Services
7 16 (0.80%) Hugging Face
7 16 (0.80%) NumPy
8 15 (0.75%) LDAP
9 14 (0.70%) scikit-learn
10 12 (0.60%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.60%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 144 (7.21%) Product Ownership
2 89 (4.45%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 56 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 54 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 54 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 39 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 26 (1.30%) NHS
9 25 (1.25%) PMI
10 24 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 24 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (1.15%) Reinsurance
12 22 (1.10%) Derivative
12 22 (1.10%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.05%) Fixed Income
13 21 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
14 19 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.90%) Life Science
16 15 (0.75%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.35%) Windows
2 21 (1.05%) Linux
3 16 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.45%) Unix
5 7 (0.35%) VMS
6 6 (0.30%) Android
7 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.050%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.050%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (32.68%) Agile
2 336 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
3 325 (16.27%) Project Management
4 275 (13.76%) Migration
5 259 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 252 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 227 (11.36%) Roadmaps
8 207 (10.36%) Change Management
9 206 (10.31%) Project Delivery
10 200 (10.01%) Decision-Making
11 192 (9.61%) Analytics
12 190 (9.51%) Risk Management
13 188 (9.41%) Requirements Gathering
14 181 (9.06%) DevOps
15 173 (8.66%) AI
16 169 (8.46%) User Acceptance Testing
17 168 (8.41%) Workshop Facilitation
18 163 (8.16%) Data Modelling
19 161 (8.06%) Validation
20 160 (8.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 196 (9.81%) SQL
2 143 (7.16%) Python
3 36 (1.80%) C#
4 33 (1.65%) Java
5 30 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.35%) PowerShell
7 19 (0.95%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.50%) Korn
8 10 (0.50%) R
9 8 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.35%) Bash
10 7 (0.35%) VBA
11 6 (0.30%) C++
12 5 (0.25%) Bicep
12 5 (0.25%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.20%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.15%) ABAP
15 2 (0.10%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.10%) Ruby
15 2 (0.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 281 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 229 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 173 (8.66%) Degree
4 112 (5.61%) PMI Certification
5 106 (5.31%) PMP
6 41 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 37 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.30%) CBAP
9 23 (1.15%) CISSP
10 21 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (0.85%) CISM
12 15 (0.75%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.70%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.70%) IIBA
14 11 (0.55%) ACCA
14 11 (0.55%) APMP
14 11 (0.55%) AWS Certification
14 11 (0.55%) CIMA
14 11 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.36%) QA
2 118 (5.91%) Data Quality
3 112 (5.61%) GDPR
4 75 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 64 (3.20%) PMO
6 58 (2.90%) NIST
7 41 (2.05%) GRC
8 35 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 29 (1.45%) NCSC
10 28 (1.40%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.40%) PCI DSS
11 24 (1.20%) SLA
12 16 (0.80%) IFRS
13 13 (0.65%) MiFID
14 10 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.50%) COBIT
14 10 (0.50%) IFRS 17
14 10 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 8 (0.40%) EMIR
15 8 (0.40%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 38 (1.90%) Docker
2 25 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) NFS
6 1 (0.050%) Firmware
6 1 (0.050%) IAG
6 1 (0.050%) NLBS
6 1 (0.050%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.95%) Terraform
3 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.55%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.40%) Ansible
6 7 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.25%) RSA Archer
8 4 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.10%) Consul
10 2 (0.10%) Control-M
10 2 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.10%) Grafana
10 2 (0.10%) Packer
10 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.10%) SCCM
10 2 (0.10%) vMotion
11 1 (0.050%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.050%) Opsview
11 1 (0.050%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 233 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 169 (8.46%) SAP
3 94 (4.70%) ServiceNow
4 83 (4.15%) Oracle
5 79 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.45%) Workday
7 48 (2.40%) Databricks
8 28 (1.40%) CyberArk
8 28 (1.40%) Google
9 23 (1.15%) OpenAI
10 21 (1.05%) Cisco
11 19 (0.95%) Informatica
12 18 (0.90%) Ariba
12 18 (0.90%) Fortinet
12 18 (0.90%) Murex
13 17 (0.85%) Splunk
14 15 (0.75%) Adobe
14 15 (0.75%) Guidewire
15 14 (0.70%) VMware
16 13 (0.65%) IBM