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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,203 1,282 1,268
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.18% 10.48% 7.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.78% 11.36% 8.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 869 928
10th Percentile £391 £388 £399
25th Percentile £468 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £666
90th Percentile £776 £775 £777
England median daily rate £532 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 14
10th Percentile £28.42 £35.00 £23.61
25th Percentile £37.13 £36.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £48.00 £49.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +22.50% -24.49%
75th Percentile £68.13 £55.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £76.73 £65.00 £57.75
England median hourly rate £52.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.57% -4.17% +13.27%

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 15,989 11,284 15,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.22% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,696 7,602 11,075
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 184 305
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% +23.16% -25.52%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.90
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +7 315 £600 -1.23% 113
West London +6 53 £535 +58.52% 21
South London -10 23 £570 -12.31% 5
East London -4 9 £638 +1.19% 16
North London -1 4 £498 +13.07% 4
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 (5.99%) Confluence
2 51 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.18%) CMS
4 13 (0.59%) Appian
4 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.54%) Apache
6 7 (0.32%) SAS
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.23%) WordPress
8 4 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.14%) Camunda
9 3 (0.14%) Kentico
9 3 (0.14%) nginx
9 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.091%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.091%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.091%) Sitefinity
11 1 (0.045%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 93 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 40 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.18%) Sketch
8 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.18%) Trello
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.14%) Revit
10 2 (0.091%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.091%) Notion
11 1 (0.045%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.045%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.045%) InVision
11 1 (0.045%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (1.09%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.64%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.45%) Loan IQ
8 8 (0.36%) Endur
8 8 (0.36%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.36%) SAP HCM
9 7 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.27%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.23%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.23%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 330 (14.98%) Azure
2 233 (10.58%) AWS
3 104 (4.72%) Power Platform
4 81 (3.68%) GCP
5 73 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (3.13%) SaaS
7 57 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (1.95%) Snowflake
9 39 (1.77%) Entra ID
10 35 (1.59%) GitHub
11 29 (1.32%) Figma
12 27 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
14 25 (1.13%) Amazon S3
15 24 (1.09%) Serverless
16 23 (1.04%) OpenShift
16 23 (1.04%) Power Automate
17 21 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (0.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.36%) Firewall
2 23 (1.04%) WAN
3 21 (0.95%) Network Security
4 17 (0.77%) LAN
5 13 (0.59%) DNS
6 12 (0.54%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.54%) VPN
7 11 (0.50%) BGP
8 9 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.36%) MPLS
9 8 (0.36%) OSPF
9 8 (0.36%) VLAN
10 7 (0.32%) Intranet
11 6 (0.27%) NGFW
12 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.18%) 3GPP
13 4 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.18%) PSTN
13 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
13 4 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (3.63%) Power BI
2 55 (2.50%) Metadata
3 54 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (1.59%) Tableau
5 28 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 27 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 17 (0.77%) Delta Lake
7 17 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (0.73%) Big Data
8 16 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (0.54%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (0.41%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.41%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.36%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.32%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.32%) Power Query
13 6 (0.27%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 249 (11.30%) JIRA
2 38 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.18%) Git
4 19 (0.86%) GitLab
5 12 (0.54%) Postman
6 11 (0.50%) MLflow
7 10 (0.45%) Selenium
7 10 (0.45%) SpecFlow
8 7 (0.32%) JMeter
8 7 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.32%) Zephyr
9 6 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.23%) ERwin
10 5 (0.23%) JUnit
10 5 (0.23%) Maven
11 4 (0.18%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.18%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.18%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.18%) Snyk
General
1 1,037 (47.07%) Social Skills
2 894 (40.58%) Finance
3 328 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (12.57%) Banking
5 221 (10.03%) Public Sector
6 130 (5.90%) Influencing Skills
7 121 (5.49%) Retail
8 109 (4.95%) Legal
9 96 (4.36%) Marketing
10 88 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
11 68 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
12 62 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
13 59 (2.68%) Financial Institution
14 52 (2.36%) Front Office
15 48 (2.18%) Investment Banking
16 43 (1.95%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.91%) Manufacturing
18 33 (1.50%) Billing
19 29 (1.32%) Law
20 28 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 384 (17.43%) Analyst
2 313 (14.21%) Project Manager
3 298 (13.53%) Business Analyst
4 295 (13.39%) Lead
5 228 (10.35%) Architect
6 226 (10.26%) Senior
7 115 (5.22%) Consultant
8 98 (4.45%) Senior Manager
9 86 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
10 81 (3.68%) Programme Manager
11 69 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
12 62 (2.81%) IT Manager
13 56 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
14 52 (2.36%) Product Manager
15 50 (2.27%) Data Analyst
16 49 (2.22%) Technical Manager
17 47 (2.13%) Senior Project Manager
18 45 (2.04%) Test Manager
19 44 (2.00%) Product Owner
20 43 (1.95%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (2.41%) REST
2 41 (1.86%) Middleware
3 29 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
4 27 (1.23%) SOAP
5 20 (0.91%) Web Services
6 19 (0.86%) OAuth
6 19 (0.86%) OpenID
6 19 (0.86%) RESTful
7 17 (0.77%) .NET
7 17 (0.77%) PyTorch
7 17 (0.77%) TensorFlow
8 16 (0.73%) Kafka
9 15 (0.68%) Hugging Face
9 15 (0.68%) Pandas
9 15 (0.68%) SAML
9 15 (0.68%) XML
10 14 (0.64%) LDAP
10 14 (0.64%) NumPy
10 14 (0.64%) Playwright
11 12 (0.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 165 (7.49%) Product Ownership
2 119 (5.40%) Onboarding
3 84 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 80 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
5 62 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 49 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 48 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 44 (2.00%) Data Structures
9 37 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 33 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.09%) NHS
12 23 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.00%) AI Agents
14 20 (0.91%) Derivative
14 20 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (0.91%) Fixed Income
14 20 (0.91%) FMCG
14 20 (0.91%) PMI
15 17 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 17 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.36%) Windows
2 24 (1.09%) Linux
3 10 (0.45%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.32%) Android
5 7 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.23%) Unix
6 5 (0.23%) VMS
7 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.091%) AIX
8 2 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.045%) Solaris
9 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (32.64%) Agile
2 326 (14.80%) Project Management
3 322 (14.62%) Migration
4 304 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
5 291 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 284 (12.89%) Roadmaps
7 272 (12.35%) Decision-Making
8 242 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 235 (10.67%) DevOps
10 220 (9.99%) AI
10 220 (9.99%) Project Delivery
11 213 (9.67%) Analytics
12 202 (9.17%) Change Management
13 200 (9.08%) User Acceptance Testing
14 197 (8.94%) Validation
15 187 (8.49%) Risk Management
16 180 (8.17%) Scrum
17 179 (8.13%) Data Modelling
18 172 (7.81%) User Stories
19 170 (7.72%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 199 (9.03%) SQL
2 126 (5.72%) Python
3 34 (1.54%) Java
4 29 (1.32%) C#
5 21 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 17 (0.77%) PowerShell
6 17 (0.77%) TypeScript
7 11 (0.50%) Korn
7 11 (0.50%) R
8 8 (0.36%) Bash
8 8 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.32%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.23%) ABAP
10 5 (0.23%) VBA
11 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.14%) Perl
13 2 (0.091%) C
13 2 (0.091%) Groovy
13 2 (0.091%) X++
Qualifications
1 359 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 302 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 137 (6.22%) Degree
4 113 (5.13%) PMP
5 102 (4.63%) PMI Certification
6 45 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (1.45%) CISSP
8 23 (1.04%) CBAP
9 22 (1.00%) DV Cleared
10 21 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 21 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.86%) CISM
12 18 (0.82%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.73%) IIBA
14 15 (0.68%) APMP
14 15 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
14 15 (0.68%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.50%) ISEB
17 10 (0.45%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 153 (6.95%) QA
3 101 (4.58%) PMO
4 96 (4.36%) GDPR
5 70 (3.18%) NIST
6 66 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (1.82%) GRC
8 38 (1.72%) SLA
9 30 (1.36%) NCSC
10 27 (1.23%) Accessibility
11 22 (1.00%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 18 (0.82%) IFRS
14 15 (0.68%) COBIT
15 11 (0.50%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.41%) HL7
17 9 (0.41%) IFRS 17
17 9 (0.41%) MiFID
17 9 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 50 (2.27%) Docker
2 30 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.27%) NFS
5 6 (0.27%) Postfix
6 4 (0.18%) Varnish
6 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.14%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.091%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.045%) NLBS
9 1 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.045%) RACF
9 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 54 (2.45%) Terraform
3 11 (0.50%) Ansible
4 10 (0.45%) Grafana
4 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
5 7 (0.32%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.27%) RSA Archer
6 6 (0.27%) SCCM
7 5 (0.23%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.14%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.091%) Argo
9 2 (0.091%) Control-M
9 2 (0.091%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.091%) vMotion
10 1 (0.045%) Nagios
10 1 (0.045%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.045%) WMI
Vendors
1 219 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 171 (7.76%) SAP
3 120 (5.45%) Oracle
4 113 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 102 (4.63%) ServiceNow
6 48 (2.18%) Databricks
7 47 (2.13%) Workday
8 33 (1.50%) CyberArk
8 33 (1.50%) Google
9 22 (1.00%) Splunk
10 20 (0.91%) OpenAI
11 18 (0.82%) Ariba
11 18 (0.82%) Informatica
12 15 (0.68%) Cisco
12 15 (0.68%) IBM
12 15 (0.68%) Murex
12 15 (0.68%) VMware
13 13 (0.59%) Adobe
14 12 (0.54%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.54%) Guidewire