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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,693 1,443 1,227
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.77% 10.80% 7.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.48% 11.72% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,788 975 909
10th Percentile £400 £379 £363
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £653
90th Percentile £777 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 11
10th Percentile £21.34 £28.25 £23.33
25th Percentile £34.53 £35.66 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.06 £49.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% +31.33% -33.73%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £45.13
90th Percentile £80.99 £65.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £60.50 £54.01 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.03% -9.99% +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 17,398 12,312 15,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.16% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 8,218 11,064
10th Percentile £358 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 230 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +7.50% -27.31%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +8 358 £600 - 255
West London +17 81 £504 +3.87% 37
South London 0 24 £550 -15.38% 16
East London -4 9 £638 +1.19% 30
North London +4 7 £450 -10.00% 1
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
1 142 (5.27%) Confluence
2 71 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.67%) CMS
4 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.45%) Apache
6 9 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.30%) Appian
7 8 (0.30%) SAS
8 7 (0.26%) WordPress
9 6 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.19%) Kentico
11 3 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.074%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.074%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.074%) Moodle
12 2 (0.074%) nginx
12 2 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.074%) Sitefinity
13 1 (0.037%) CICS
Applications
1 123 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 57 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
4 56 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
5 46 (1.71%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.30%) Revit
8 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
10 3 (0.11%) Sketch
11 2 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.074%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.074%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.037%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.037%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 73 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.45%) Finacle
5 12 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 10 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.37%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.37%) SAP SD
8 9 (0.33%) Endur
9 8 (0.30%) Magento
9 8 (0.30%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
11 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.22%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 457 (16.97%) Azure
2 320 (11.88%) AWS
3 156 (5.79%) Power Platform
4 112 (4.16%) SaaS
5 104 (3.86%) GCP
6 93 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 65 (2.41%) Entra ID
9 62 (2.30%) GitHub
10 53 (1.97%) Snowflake
11 34 (1.26%) Amazon S3
11 34 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
13 31 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (1.11%) Figma
14 30 (1.11%) Serverless
15 29 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
16 28 (1.04%) PaaS
16 28 (1.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.67%) Firewall
2 30 (1.11%) Network Security
3 27 (1.00%) WAN
4 21 (0.78%) DNS
4 21 (0.78%) LAN
5 18 (0.67%) VPN
6 13 (0.48%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.41%) BGP
8 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.33%) OSPF
9 9 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.30%) DHCP
10 8 (0.30%) VLAN
11 6 (0.22%) Internet
11 6 (0.22%) Intranet
11 6 (0.22%) NAS
11 6 (0.22%) SAN
11 6 (0.22%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.22%) Wireless
12 5 (0.19%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (4.68%) Power BI
2 72 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (2.23%) Metadata
4 45 (1.67%) Tableau
5 42 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 33 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.97%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.78%) Delta Lake
9 19 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (0.63%) Big Data
11 16 (0.59%) Oracle Database
12 14 (0.52%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.41%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
14 8 (0.30%) Parquet
14 8 (0.30%) Power Query
15 7 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (0.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 286 (10.62%) JIRA
2 45 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 35 (1.30%) Git
4 18 (0.67%) GitLab
5 16 (0.59%) Postman
6 13 (0.48%) Selenium
7 9 (0.33%) Zephyr
8 8 (0.30%) JMeter
8 8 (0.30%) MLflow
8 8 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.22%) JUnit
9 6 (0.22%) Maven
9 6 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.19%) ERwin
10 5 (0.19%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.19%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.19%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.19%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.15%) Snyk
General
1 1,332 (49.46%) Social Skills
2 1,060 (39.36%) Finance
3 431 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 332 (12.33%) Banking
5 278 (10.32%) Public Sector
6 178 (6.61%) Retail
7 167 (6.20%) Influencing Skills
8 147 (5.46%) Legal
9 129 (4.79%) Marketing
10 103 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
11 101 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
12 73 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (2.41%) Front Office
14 58 (2.15%) Manufacturing
15 56 (2.08%) Financial Institution
16 55 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 53 (1.97%) Investment Banking
18 51 (1.89%) Telecoms
19 47 (1.75%) Local Government
20 38 (1.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 457 (16.97%) Analyst
2 347 (12.89%) Lead
2 347 (12.89%) Project Manager
3 332 (12.33%) Business Analyst
4 313 (11.62%) Architect
5 254 (9.43%) Senior
6 138 (5.12%) Consultant
7 114 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
8 112 (4.16%) Senior Manager
9 92 (3.42%) Programme Manager
10 90 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
11 75 (2.78%) IT Manager
12 58 (2.15%) Product Manager
13 57 (2.12%) Product Owner
14 54 (2.01%) Senior Project Manager
15 53 (1.97%) Change Manager
15 53 (1.97%) Data Analyst
16 51 (1.89%) Technical Manager
17 45 (1.67%) Senior Analyst
18 44 (1.63%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (2.34%) REST
2 59 (2.19%) Middleware
3 37 (1.37%) SOAP
4 29 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.85%) .NET
5 23 (0.85%) PySpark
6 21 (0.78%) Kafka
6 21 (0.78%) OAuth
7 20 (0.74%) SAML
8 19 (0.71%) JSON
8 19 (0.71%) Web Services
8 19 (0.71%) XML
9 18 (0.67%) OpenID
9 18 (0.67%) SailPoint
10 17 (0.63%) HTML
10 17 (0.63%) LDAP
11 16 (0.59%) CSS
12 15 (0.56%) RESTful
13 13 (0.48%) AngularJS
14 12 (0.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 199 (7.39%) Product Ownership
2 162 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 104 (3.86%) Cloud Native
4 79 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 56 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 55 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 55 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 47 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 46 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 37 (1.37%) NHS
11 36 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
12 32 (1.19%) FMCG
13 30 (1.11%) AI Agents
13 30 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.00%) Security Posture
15 24 (0.89%) CMDB
16 23 (0.85%) Derivative
16 23 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 83 (3.08%) Windows
2 38 (1.41%) Linux
3 18 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.33%) Android
5 9 (0.33%) Unix
6 7 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.11%) VMS
10 2 (0.074%) AIX
11 1 (0.037%) CentOS
11 1 (0.037%) Solaris
11 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (32.45%) Agile
2 404 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 401 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 389 (14.44%) Migration
5 374 (13.89%) Roadmaps
6 361 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 334 (12.40%) Decision-Making
8 323 (11.99%) Project Management
9 321 (11.92%) DevOps
10 317 (11.77%) AI
11 292 (10.84%) Analytics
12 285 (10.58%) User Acceptance Testing
13 274 (10.17%) Project Delivery
14 250 (9.28%) Change Management
15 241 (8.95%) Validation
16 237 (8.80%) Risk Management
17 221 (8.21%) CI/CD
18 218 (8.10%) Workshop Facilitation
19 208 (7.72%) Requirements Gathering
20 206 (7.65%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 245 (9.10%) SQL
2 177 (6.57%) Python
3 40 (1.49%) PowerShell
4 37 (1.37%) Java
5 26 (0.97%) C#
5 26 (0.97%) JavaScript
6 19 (0.71%) Bash
7 15 (0.56%) Korn
8 14 (0.52%) TypeScript
9 13 (0.48%) Bicep
10 12 (0.45%) R
11 9 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.33%) VBA
12 6 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.19%) ABAP
13 5 (0.19%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.19%) Perl
13 5 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 406 (15.08%) Security Cleared
2 340 (12.63%) SC Cleared
3 159 (5.90%) Degree
4 134 (4.98%) PMP
5 115 (4.27%) PMI Certification
6 60 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 50 (1.86%) CISSP
8 42 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.19%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.11%) CISM
11 26 (0.97%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.56%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.52%) CBAP
15 14 (0.52%) IIBA
16 13 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.48%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 161 (5.98%) QA
3 124 (4.60%) PMO
4 104 (3.86%) GDPR
5 75 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (2.78%) NIST
6 51 (1.89%) GRC
7 46 (1.71%) SLA
8 38 (1.41%) Accessibility
9 26 (0.97%) NCSC
10 22 (0.82%) COBIT
10 22 (0.82%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.56%) IFRS
12 14 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.52%) Solvency II
13 12 (0.45%) MiFID
13 12 (0.45%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.41%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 60 (2.23%) Docker
2 53 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.33%) NFS
6 8 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) Postfix
8 4 (0.15%) Varnish
8 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.037%) NLBS
11 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.037%) RACF
11 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 94 (3.49%) Terraform
2 77 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 31 (1.15%) Ansible
4 22 (0.82%) Grafana
5 14 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.26%) RSA Archer
9 7 (0.26%) SCCM
9 7 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.22%) Argo
11 5 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.15%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.11%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.11%) Control-M
13 3 (0.11%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.074%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.074%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.074%) vMotion
Vendors
1 328 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 204 (7.58%) SAP
3 152 (5.64%) Oracle
4 132 (4.90%) ServiceNow
5 129 (4.79%) Salesforce
6 62 (2.30%) Databricks
7 51 (1.89%) Google
8 49 (1.82%) Workday
9 41 (1.52%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.23%) Splunk
11 29 (1.08%) Adobe
12 25 (0.93%) Cisco
13 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
14 21 (0.78%) VMware
15 20 (0.74%) Ariba
16 19 (0.71%) IBM
16 19 (0.71%) Informatica
17 18 (0.67%) MuleSoft
18 17 (0.63%) Murex
18 17 (0.63%) Okta