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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,177 1,260 1,287
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.27% 10.02% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.86% 10.87% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 845 942
10th Percentile £396 £400 £400
25th Percentile £468 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £669
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 13
10th Percentile £22.11 £34.96 £23.51
25th Percentile £36.50 £38.25 £30.16
Median hourly rate £52.50 £49.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% +31.33% -39.52%
75th Percentile £71.25 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £76.73 £70.25 £58.50
England median hourly rate £51.00 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.07% +2.49% +6.48%

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 15,708 11,595 15,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.55% 92.16% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,519 7,858 11,305
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 168 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +19.30% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.77
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +8 314 £600 - 254
West London +3 40 £520 +6.67% 22
South London -17 22 £590 -1.67% 9
East London -3 6 £675 +7.14% 19
North London +3 5 £498 +13.07% 3
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
1 138 (6.34%) Confluence
2 52 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.92%) CMS
4 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.64%) Appian
6 12 (0.55%) Apache
7 8 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.23%) nginx
10 4 (0.18%) Camunda
11 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.092%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.092%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.092%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.092%) Sitefinity
13 1 (0.046%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.046%) CICS
Applications
1 96 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.85%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (2.39%) MS Visio
4 49 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.28%) Sketch
7 6 (0.28%) Trello
8 5 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.14%) Revit
10 2 (0.092%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.092%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.092%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.092%) InVision
10 2 (0.092%) Notion
11 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.01%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.55%) Endur
5 12 (0.55%) Loan IQ
5 12 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.37%) SAP HCM
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.23%) Actimize
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.23%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 336 (15.43%) Azure
2 234 (10.75%) AWS
3 107 (4.92%) Power Platform
4 87 (4.00%) GCP
5 74 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (3.03%) SaaS
7 61 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (1.88%) Snowflake
9 37 (1.70%) Entra ID
10 31 (1.42%) Figma
11 30 (1.38%) GitHub
11 30 (1.38%) Power Automate
12 29 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
14 26 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (1.01%) Serverless
16 21 (0.96%) OpenShift
17 20 (0.92%) Amazon S3
17 20 (0.92%) Azure AI
17 20 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.47%) Firewall
2 26 (1.19%) WAN
3 25 (1.15%) Network Security
4 19 (0.87%) LAN
5 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 14 (0.64%) BGP
6 14 (0.64%) DNS
6 14 (0.64%) VPN
7 11 (0.51%) OSPF
8 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.37%) MPLS
10 7 (0.32%) Intranet
10 7 (0.32%) VLAN
11 6 (0.28%) Broadband
11 6 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.28%) NX-OS
12 5 (0.23%) NGFW
12 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (3.90%) Power BI
2 55 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (2.43%) Metadata
4 33 (1.52%) Tableau
5 28 (1.29%) Data Lake
5 28 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 19 (0.87%) Relational Database
7 15 (0.69%) Big Data
7 15 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (0.60%) Delta Lake
9 11 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (0.51%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.46%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.41%) Pinecone
12 8 (0.37%) Power Query
13 7 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.32%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 251 (11.53%) JIRA
2 36 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 24 (1.10%) Git
4 20 (0.92%) GitLab
5 12 (0.55%) MLflow
6 10 (0.46%) Selenium
6 10 (0.46%) SpecFlow
7 9 (0.41%) Postman
8 7 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.32%) Zephyr
9 6 (0.28%) JMeter
9 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.23%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.23%) ERwin
10 5 (0.23%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.18%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.18%) JUnit
11 4 (0.18%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.18%) Snyk
11 4 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 1,054 (48.42%) Social Skills
2 886 (40.70%) Finance
3 329 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (12.13%) Banking
5 215 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 129 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
7 110 (5.05%) Retail
8 95 (4.36%) Legal
8 95 (4.36%) Marketing
9 90 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
10 72 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
11 67 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
12 63 (2.89%) Financial Institution
13 54 (2.48%) Front Office
14 43 (1.98%) Manufacturing
15 41 (1.88%) Investment Banking
15 41 (1.88%) Telecoms
16 32 (1.47%) Law
17 31 (1.42%) Billing
18 27 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 399 (18.33%) Analyst
2 319 (14.65%) Business Analyst
3 318 (14.61%) Project Manager
4 293 (13.46%) Lead
5 224 (10.29%) Senior
6 218 (10.01%) Architect
7 118 (5.42%) Consultant
8 95 (4.36%) Senior Manager
9 89 (4.09%) Programme Manager
10 79 (3.63%) Delivery Manager
11 67 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
12 62 (2.85%) IT Manager
13 58 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
14 50 (2.30%) Change Manager
15 48 (2.20%) Data Analyst
15 48 (2.20%) Product Manager
16 46 (2.11%) Senior Project Manager
16 46 (2.11%) Test Manager
17 45 (2.07%) Senior Business Analyst
18 43 (1.98%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (2.43%) REST
2 44 (2.02%) Middleware
3 27 (1.24%) SOAP
4 26 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (0.92%) Kafka
6 18 (0.83%) .NET
6 18 (0.83%) OpenID
6 18 (0.83%) Web Services
7 17 (0.78%) OAuth
7 17 (0.78%) PyTorch
7 17 (0.78%) RESTful
7 17 (0.78%) TensorFlow
8 16 (0.73%) Playwright
8 16 (0.73%) SAML
8 16 (0.73%) XML
9 15 (0.69%) Hugging Face
9 15 (0.69%) Pandas
10 14 (0.64%) LDAP
10 14 (0.64%) NumPy
11 11 (0.51%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 158 (7.26%) Product Ownership
2 117 (5.37%) Onboarding
3 82 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 77 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 59 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
6 48 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 46 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 43 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 38 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.15%) NHS
12 24 (1.10%) PMI
13 22 (1.01%) FMCG
14 19 (0.87%) AI Agents
14 19 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.83%) Derivative
15 18 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (0.83%) Fixed Income
16 17 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 55 (2.53%) Windows
2 24 (1.10%) Linux
3 15 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.28%) Android
5 6 (0.28%) Unix
6 4 (0.18%) VMS
7 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.046%) AIX
8 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.046%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.046%) Solaris
8 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (32.48%) Agile
2 337 (15.48%) Project Management
3 326 (14.97%) Migration
4 322 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
5 305 (14.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 286 (13.14%) Roadmaps
7 251 (11.53%) Decision-Making
8 247 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 235 (10.79%) DevOps
10 224 (10.29%) Project Delivery
11 212 (9.74%) Change Management
12 211 (9.69%) AI
13 205 (9.42%) User Acceptance Testing
14 197 (9.05%) Risk Management
15 196 (9.00%) Analytics
16 186 (8.54%) Validation
17 175 (8.04%) Data Modelling
17 175 (8.04%) Scrum
18 168 (7.72%) Requirements Gathering
19 165 (7.58%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 194 (8.91%) SQL
2 124 (5.70%) Python
3 39 (1.79%) Java
4 33 (1.52%) C#
5 23 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 20 (0.92%) PowerShell
7 18 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 13 (0.60%) R
9 11 (0.51%) Korn
10 9 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.32%) Bash
13 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.23%) ABAP
14 5 (0.23%) VBA
15 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.18%) C++
16 2 (0.092%) Go
16 2 (0.092%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.092%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 347 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 289 (13.28%) SC Cleared
3 151 (6.94%) Degree
4 120 (5.51%) PMP
5 114 (5.24%) PMI Certification
6 41 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (1.33%) CISSP
8 25 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.10%) CBAP
10 22 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (0.96%) DV Cleared
12 20 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 17 (0.78%) CISM
14 16 (0.73%) AWS Certification
14 16 (0.73%) ISTQB
15 15 (0.69%) IIBA
16 13 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.55%) ACCA
17 12 (0.55%) APMP
18 10 (0.46%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (7.58%) QA
2 149 (6.84%) Data Quality
3 107 (4.92%) GDPR
4 93 (4.27%) PMO
5 64 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 64 (2.94%) NIST
6 39 (1.79%) SLA
7 38 (1.75%) GRC
8 29 (1.33%) NCSC
9 24 (1.10%) PCI DSS
10 23 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (1.01%) Accessibility
12 19 (0.87%) IFRS
13 13 (0.60%) COBIT
14 10 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.46%) MiFID
15 9 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.41%) HL7
15 9 (0.41%) IFRS 17
15 9 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (2.25%) Docker
2 28 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.23%) NFS
4 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.18%) Postfix
6 3 (0.14%) Varnish
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.092%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.092%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.046%) NLBS
8 1 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.046%) RACF
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 51 (2.34%) Terraform
3 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.41%) Grafana
6 7 (0.32%) Ansible
6 7 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.23%) RSA Archer
8 5 (0.23%) SCCM
8 5 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.092%) Consul
9 2 (0.092%) Control-M
9 2 (0.092%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.092%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.092%) Packer
9 2 (0.092%) vMotion
10 1 (0.046%) Argo
10 1 (0.046%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 222 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 178 (8.18%) SAP
3 117 (5.37%) Oracle
4 112 (5.14%) Salesforce
5 109 (5.01%) ServiceNow
6 53 (2.43%) Workday
7 49 (2.25%) Databricks
8 38 (1.75%) Google
9 34 (1.56%) CyberArk
10 24 (1.10%) Ariba
11 22 (1.01%) Splunk
12 21 (0.96%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.87%) Informatica
14 18 (0.83%) Adobe
15 17 (0.78%) Murex
16 16 (0.73%) IBM
17 15 (0.69%) Cisco
17 15 (0.69%) Guidewire
17 15 (0.69%) VMware
18 14 (0.64%) Conga