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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,013 1,216 1,436
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.93% 9.01% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.32% 9.92% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,357 767 1,044
10th Percentile £383 £384 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £668 £669 £673
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 16
10th Percentile £17.22 £34.40 £23.79
25th Percentile £22.43 £35.00 £28.87
Median hourly rate £40.62 £39.00 £45.03
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% -13.39% -34.51%
75th Percentile £66.74 £55.25 £54.69
90th Percentile £76.25 £64.50 £62.50
England median hourly rate £52.50 £58.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -10.64% +17.50% -8.81%

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 14,060 12,254 16,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.32% 90.76% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,407 7,894 11,682
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% - -7.82%
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 218 155 348
10th Percentile £17.85 £21.10 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.13 £19.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £55.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.61 £72.50
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +9 280 £575 -4.17% 97
West London -6 23 £500 +19.05% 21
South London -29 13 £570 -5.00% 4
East London +8 5 £675 +7.14% 17
North London +3 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
1 119 (5.91%) Confluence
2 44 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.94%) CMS
4 16 (0.79%) 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
8 4 (0.20%) SAS
9 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.15%) nginx
9 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.099%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.099%) Kentico
10 2 (0.099%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.099%) Sitefinity
10 2 (0.099%) WordPress
11 1 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 88 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (2.33%) MS Visio
4 40 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.55%) Trello
6 8 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.25%) Sketch
8 4 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.099%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.099%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.099%) InVision
10 1 (0.050%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 61 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.09%) Aladdin
4 18 (0.89%) Endur
5 13 (0.65%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.50%) NetSuite
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%) Salesforce CRM
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
1 321 (15.95%) Azure
2 185 (9.19%) AWS
3 139 (6.91%) Power Platform
4 70 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (3.08%) GCP
6 55 (2.73%) SaaS
7 52 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (1.79%) Entra ID
9 34 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 33 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (1.54%) GitHub
12 30 (1.49%) Power Automate
13 25 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
14 24 (1.19%) Serverless
15 22 (1.09%) OpenShift
16 21 (1.04%) PowerApps
17 20 (0.99%) Figma
18 19 (0.94%) Azure AI
18 19 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.19%) Firewall
2 29 (1.44%) WAN
3 21 (1.04%) LAN
4 19 (0.94%) SD-WAN
5 18 (0.89%) Network Security
6 14 (0.70%) DNS
6 14 (0.70%) VPN
7 13 (0.65%) BGP
7 13 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.50%) MPLS
9 9 (0.45%) OSPF
10 7 (0.35%) Broadband
10 7 (0.35%) VoIP
11 6 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.30%) Intranet
12 5 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.25%) CTI
12 5 (0.25%) DHCP
12 5 (0.25%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.96%) Power BI
2 52 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (2.29%) Metadata
4 37 (1.84%) Tableau
5 27 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 21 (1.04%) SQL Server
7 13 (0.65%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 12 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (0.55%) Big Data
10 9 (0.45%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.45%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.30%) DB2
12 6 (0.30%) Power Query
12 6 (0.30%) Redis
13 5 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.25%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 224 (11.13%) JIRA
2 32 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 20 (0.99%) GitLab
4 19 (0.94%) Git
5 10 (0.50%) MLflow
6 9 (0.45%) SpecFlow
7 5 (0.25%) Axure RP
7 5 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.20%) ERwin
8 4 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.15%) JUnit
9 3 (0.15%) Selenium
9 3 (0.15%) TestRail
10 2 (0.099%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.099%) LSMW
10 2 (0.099%) Snyk
General
1 1,060 (52.66%) Social Skills
2 792 (39.34%) Finance
3 318 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
4 233 (11.57%) Banking
5 193 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 102 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
7 98 (4.87%) Retail
8 87 (4.32%) Legal
8 87 (4.32%) Marketing
9 72 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
10 70 (3.48%) Front Office
10 70 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
11 68 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (2.58%) Financial Institution
13 50 (2.48%) Investment Banking
14 45 (2.24%) Manufacturing
15 44 (2.19%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.79%) Law
17 30 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 28 (1.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 432 (21.46%) Analyst
2 331 (16.44%) Business Analyst
3 304 (15.10%) Project Manager
4 251 (12.47%) Lead
5 199 (9.89%) Architect
6 194 (9.64%) Senior
7 125 (6.21%) Consultant
8 86 (4.27%) Senior Manager
9 69 (3.43%) Programme Manager
10 68 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
11 64 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
12 59 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
13 57 (2.83%) Data Analyst
14 52 (2.58%) IT Manager
15 48 (2.38%) Senior Business Analyst
16 47 (2.33%) Change Manager
17 45 (2.24%) Developer
17 45 (2.24%) Senior Project Manager
18 40 (1.99%) Product Manager
19 36 (1.79%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.24%) REST
2 28 (1.39%) Middleware
3 24 (1.19%) Kafka
4 20 (0.99%) .NET
4 20 (0.99%) OpenID
5 18 (0.89%) OAuth
5 18 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (0.89%) RESTful
6 17 (0.84%) Pandas
6 17 (0.84%) PyTorch
6 17 (0.84%) SAML
6 17 (0.84%) SOAP
6 17 (0.84%) TensorFlow
6 17 (0.84%) Web Services
7 16 (0.79%) Hugging Face
7 16 (0.79%) NumPy
8 15 (0.75%) LDAP
9 14 (0.70%) scikit-learn
10 12 (0.60%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 144 (7.15%) Product Ownership
2 92 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 56 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 54 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 54 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 46 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 40 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 28 (1.39%) NHS
9 25 (1.24%) Data Structures
9 25 (1.24%) PMI
10 24 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (1.14%) Derivative
11 23 (1.14%) Reinsurance
11 23 (1.14%) Virtual Team
12 21 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (0.99%) Fixed Income
14 18 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (0.89%) Life Science
15 16 (0.79%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.38%) Windows
2 21 (1.04%) Linux
3 15 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.45%) Unix
5 7 (0.35%) VMS
6 6 (0.30%) Android
6 6 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.050%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.050%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (32.74%) Agile
2 337 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
3 324 (16.10%) Project Management
4 278 (13.81%) Migration
5 261 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 247 (12.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 235 (11.67%) Roadmaps
8 209 (10.38%) Change Management
9 208 (10.33%) Project Delivery
10 202 (10.03%) Decision-Making
11 194 (9.64%) Risk Management
12 193 (9.59%) Analytics
13 188 (9.34%) DevOps
14 186 (9.24%) Requirements Gathering
15 174 (8.64%) AI
16 168 (8.35%) User Acceptance Testing
17 165 (8.20%) Workshop Facilitation
18 161 (8.00%) Validation
19 160 (7.95%) Data Modelling
20 159 (7.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 195 (9.69%) SQL
2 142 (7.05%) Python
3 36 (1.79%) C#
4 33 (1.64%) Java
5 30 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.34%) PowerShell
7 19 (0.94%) 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 (0.099%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.099%) Ruby
15 2 (0.099%) VB
Qualifications
1 284 (14.11%) Security Cleared
2 231 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 169 (8.40%) Degree
4 109 (5.41%) PMI Certification
5 104 (5.17%) PMP
6 41 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.34%) CISSP
9 26 (1.29%) CBAP
10 21 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (0.99%) CISM
12 15 (0.75%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.70%) IIBA
13 14 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.65%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.55%) ACCA
16 11 (0.55%) APMP
16 11 (0.55%) AWS Certification
17 10 (0.50%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (7.20%) QA
2 121 (6.01%) Data Quality
3 116 (5.76%) GDPR
4 78 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 65 (3.23%) PMO
6 61 (3.03%) NIST
7 43 (2.14%) GRC
8 36 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 31 (1.54%) NCSC
10 29 (1.44%) PCI DSS
11 28 (1.39%) Accessibility
12 27 (1.34%) SLA
13 16 (0.79%) IFRS
14 12 (0.60%) MiFID
15 11 (0.55%) COBIT
16 10 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 10 (0.50%) IFRS 17
16 10 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 8 (0.40%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.40%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 38 (1.89%) Docker
2 25 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.099%) 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 59 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.94%) Terraform
3 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.65%) 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 2 (0.099%) Consul
9 2 (0.099%) Control-M
9 2 (0.099%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.099%) Grafana
9 2 (0.099%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.099%) Packer
9 2 (0.099%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.099%) SCCM
9 2 (0.099%) vMotion
10 1 (0.050%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.050%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.050%) QRadar
Vendors
1 232 (11.53%) Microsoft
2 169 (8.40%) SAP
3 94 (4.67%) ServiceNow
4 83 (4.12%) Oracle
5 80 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.43%) Workday
7 48 (2.38%) Databricks
8 29 (1.44%) CyberArk
9 28 (1.39%) Google
10 23 (1.14%) Cisco
10 23 (1.14%) OpenAI
11 19 (0.94%) Informatica
11 19 (0.94%) Murex
11 19 (0.94%) Splunk
12 18 (0.89%) Ariba
12 18 (0.89%) Fortinet
13 15 (0.75%) Adobe
13 15 (0.75%) Guidewire
13 15 (0.75%) IBM
14 13 (0.65%) Nokia