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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,413 1,316 1,266
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.81% 10.74% 7.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.44% 11.64% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,595 883 936
10th Percentile £400 £388 £384
25th Percentile £469 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £540 £535 £540
% change year-on-year +0.93% -0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 14
10th Percentile £19.62 £28.25 £23.61
25th Percentile £34.53 £37.52 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.06 £49.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +23.75% -30.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £65.50 £57.75
England median hourly rate £53.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.83% - +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 16,716 11,308 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.32% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,135 7,565 11,176
10th Percentile £359 £346 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 198 317
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +9 349 £600 - 239
West London +14 65 £504 +27.13% 20
South London +2 25 £550 -15.38% 8
East London -4 9 £638 +1.19% 19
North London +3 5 £495 -1.00% 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
1 129 (5.35%) Confluence
2 63 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.57%) CMS
4 14 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.50%) Apache
5 12 (0.50%) Appian
6 8 (0.33%) SAS
7 6 (0.25%) WordPress
8 5 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.21%) Kentico
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.12%) nginx
10 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.083%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.083%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.083%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 109 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
4 46 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 39 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.37%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.29%) Revit
8 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.12%) Notion
11 2 (0.083%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.083%) Sketch
11 2 (0.083%) Trello
12 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.041%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.041%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.87%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 12 (0.50%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.41%) Loan IQ
8 9 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.37%) SAP ERP
8 9 (0.37%) SAP HCM
9 7 (0.29%) Endur
9 7 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.29%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.25%) Finacle
10 6 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.25%) Magento
10 6 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.21%) Actimize
11 5 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 392 (16.25%) Azure
2 271 (11.23%) AWS
3 128 (5.30%) Power Platform
4 94 (3.90%) GCP
5 88 (3.65%) SaaS
6 82 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (2.28%) Entra ID
9 47 (1.95%) Snowflake
10 42 (1.74%) GitHub
11 33 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 29 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
13 27 (1.12%) Amazon S3
13 27 (1.12%) Serverless
14 26 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (1.08%) OCI
15 25 (1.04%) Figma
16 24 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (0.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.53%) Firewall
2 25 (1.04%) WAN
3 22 (0.91%) Network Security
4 19 (0.79%) LAN
5 14 (0.58%) DNS
5 14 (0.58%) VPN
6 12 (0.50%) BGP
6 12 (0.50%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.33%) Intranet
9 8 (0.33%) MPLS
9 8 (0.33%) OSPF
9 8 (0.33%) VLAN
10 7 (0.29%) NGFW
10 7 (0.29%) Wireless
11 5 (0.21%) HTTP
11 5 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.21%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.31%) Power BI
2 58 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (2.32%) Metadata
4 39 (1.62%) Tableau
5 38 (1.57%) Data Lake
6 36 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 22 (0.91%) Relational Database
8 18 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (0.70%) Delta Lake
9 17 (0.70%) NoSQL
10 16 (0.66%) Big Data
11 10 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.41%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.37%) DynamoDB
12 9 (0.37%) Pinecone
13 8 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
13 8 (0.33%) Power Query
14 7 (0.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 263 (10.90%) JIRA
2 39 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.20%) Git
4 20 (0.83%) GitLab
5 14 (0.58%) Postman
6 11 (0.46%) MLflow
6 11 (0.46%) Selenium
7 8 (0.33%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.29%) JMeter
8 7 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 6 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.21%) JUnit
10 5 (0.21%) Maven
10 5 (0.21%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.17%) ERwin
11 4 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.17%) Snyk
12 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 1,173 (48.61%) Social Skills
2 963 (39.91%) Finance
3 366 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 304 (12.60%) Banking
5 238 (9.86%) Public Sector
6 148 (6.13%) Retail
7 141 (5.84%) Influencing Skills
8 127 (5.26%) Legal
9 107 (4.43%) Marketing
10 99 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
11 89 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 62 (2.57%) Financial Institution
14 59 (2.45%) Front Office
15 53 (2.20%) Investment Banking
16 47 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 45 (1.86%) Telecoms
18 43 (1.78%) Manufacturing
19 37 (1.53%) Law
20 35 (1.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 410 (16.99%) Analyst
2 338 (14.01%) Project Manager
3 327 (13.55%) Lead
4 309 (12.81%) Business Analyst
5 258 (10.69%) Architect
6 230 (9.53%) Senior
7 120 (4.97%) Consultant
8 103 (4.27%) Senior Manager
9 92 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
10 88 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
11 85 (3.52%) Programme Manager
12 68 (2.82%) IT Manager
13 52 (2.15%) Change Manager
13 52 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
14 51 (2.11%) Product Owner
14 51 (2.11%) Senior Project Manager
15 48 (1.99%) Product Manager
15 48 (1.99%) Technical Manager
16 46 (1.91%) Data Analyst
17 44 (1.82%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (2.65%) REST
2 47 (1.95%) Middleware
3 36 (1.49%) SOAP
4 31 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (0.99%) OAuth
6 22 (0.91%) Web Services
7 21 (0.87%) .NET
7 21 (0.87%) XML
8 20 (0.83%) OpenID
8 20 (0.83%) SAML
9 19 (0.79%) RESTful
10 18 (0.75%) Kafka
11 16 (0.66%) JSON
11 16 (0.66%) SailPoint
12 15 (0.62%) LDAP
13 14 (0.58%) CSS
13 14 (0.58%) HTML
13 14 (0.58%) PySpark
14 13 (0.54%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.54%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 182 (7.54%) Product Ownership
2 133 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 102 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 82 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
5 60 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
6 56 (2.32%) Management Information System
7 50 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 47 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 43 (1.78%) Data Centre
9 43 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 30 (1.24%) NHS
11 29 (1.20%) FMCG
12 28 (1.16%) AI Agents
13 27 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (0.95%) Fixed Income
14 23 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (0.87%) Derivative
17 20 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 19 (0.79%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 69 (2.86%) Windows
2 37 (1.53%) Linux
3 19 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.29%) Android
7 6 (0.25%) Unix
8 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.21%) VMS
9 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.083%) AIX
11 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.041%) CentOS
12 1 (0.041%) Solaris
12 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 780 (32.32%) Agile
2 360 (14.92%) Migration
3 343 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
4 336 (13.92%) Project Management
5 328 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 305 (12.64%) Roadmaps
7 293 (12.14%) Decision-Making
8 289 (11.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 272 (11.27%) DevOps
10 259 (10.73%) AI
11 249 (10.32%) Project Delivery
12 246 (10.19%) Analytics
13 244 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
14 225 (9.32%) Change Management
15 220 (9.12%) Validation
16 205 (8.50%) Risk Management
17 196 (8.12%) User Stories
18 188 (7.79%) CI/CD
19 186 (7.71%) Scrum
20 183 (7.58%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 222 (9.20%) SQL
2 146 (6.05%) Python
3 38 (1.57%) Java
4 28 (1.16%) PowerShell
5 27 (1.12%) C#
6 22 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.58%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.50%) Bash
8 12 (0.50%) Korn
9 10 (0.41%) R
10 8 (0.33%) Bicep
10 8 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.33%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.25%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.21%) ABAP
12 5 (0.21%) VBA
13 3 (0.12%) Groovy
13 3 (0.12%) Perl
13 3 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 379 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 317 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 142 (5.88%) Degree
4 126 (5.22%) PMP
5 113 (4.68%) PMI Certification
6 51 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (1.82%) CISSP
8 30 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 28 (1.16%) CISM
10 27 (1.12%) DV Cleared
11 21 (0.87%) AWS Certification
11 21 (0.87%) CBAP
12 17 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.66%) IIBA
13 16 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.62%) APMP
14 15 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
15 13 (0.54%) CRISC
15 13 (0.54%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.50%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (6.84%) Data Quality
2 155 (6.42%) QA
3 121 (5.01%) PMO
4 97 (4.02%) GDPR
5 79 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (3.19%) NIST
7 43 (1.78%) GRC
8 41 (1.70%) SLA
9 30 (1.24%) NCSC
10 29 (1.20%) Accessibility
11 24 (0.99%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.83%) COBIT
13 17 (0.70%) IFRS
13 17 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.54%) Solvency II
15 12 (0.50%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.50%) MiFID
16 10 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.41%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.33%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 53 (2.20%) Docker
2 41 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.25%) NFS
6 6 (0.25%) Postfix
7 4 (0.17%) Varnish
8 3 (0.12%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.041%) NLBS
10 1 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.041%) RACF
10 1 (0.041%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 71 (2.94%) Terraform
3 23 (0.95%) Ansible
4 13 (0.54%) Grafana
5 11 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.25%) RSA Archer
8 6 (0.25%) SCCM
9 5 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.12%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.083%) Argo
12 2 (0.083%) Control-M
12 2 (0.083%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.083%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.083%) vMotion
13 1 (0.041%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 270 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 188 (7.79%) SAP
3 139 (5.76%) Oracle
4 128 (5.30%) Salesforce
5 112 (4.64%) ServiceNow
6 53 (2.20%) Databricks
7 47 (1.95%) Workday
8 44 (1.82%) Google
9 38 (1.57%) CyberArk
10 27 (1.12%) Splunk
11 21 (0.87%) Adobe
11 21 (0.87%) OpenAI
12 20 (0.83%) Cisco
13 19 (0.79%) Ariba
13 19 (0.79%) Informatica
14 17 (0.70%) MuleSoft
15 16 (0.66%) Conga
15 16 (0.66%) VMware
16 15 (0.62%) Okta
16 15 (0.62%) Tenable