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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,156 1,261 1,270
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.20% 10.03% 7.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.80% 10.88% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 849 934
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £469 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.58%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £669
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 14
10th Percentile £22.11 £34.96 £23.61
25th Percentile £36.50 £38.25 £30.16
Median hourly rate £52.50 £49.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% +23.13% -35.84%
75th Percentile £71.25 £55.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £76.73 £70.25 £57.75
England median hourly rate £51.00 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.07% +2.49% +6.57%

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 15,622 11,589 15,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,456 7,858 11,248
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 £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +6 311 £600 -0.04% 246
West London +4 40 £520 +6.67% 29
South London -11 22 £590 -5.60% 13
East London -4 6 £675 +7.14% 22
North London +3 5 £498 +13.07% 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
1 138 (6.40%) Confluence
2 50 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.97%) CMS
4 14 (0.65%) Appian
4 14 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.56%) Apache
6 8 (0.37%) SAS
7 5 (0.23%) nginx
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.19%) Camunda
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.093%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.093%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.093%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.093%) Sitefinity
11 1 (0.046%) Documentum
11 1 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 97 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
3 51 (2.37%) MS Visio
4 50 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (1.72%) 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 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.093%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.093%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.093%) InVision
10 2 (0.093%) Notion
11 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.02%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.56%) Endur
5 12 (0.56%) Loan IQ
5 12 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.37%) SAP HCM
7 8 (0.37%) Workday 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%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.23%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 334 (15.49%) Azure
2 233 (10.81%) AWS
3 105 (4.87%) Power Platform
4 87 (4.04%) GCP
5 73 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (3.06%) SaaS
7 59 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (1.90%) Snowflake
9 36 (1.67%) Entra ID
10 31 (1.44%) Figma
11 30 (1.39%) GitHub
12 29 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
13 27 (1.25%) Power Automate
14 26 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (1.02%) Serverless
16 21 (0.97%) OpenShift
17 20 (0.93%) Amazon S3
17 20 (0.93%) Azure AI
17 20 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.39%) Firewall
2 24 (1.11%) Network Security
2 24 (1.11%) WAN
3 18 (0.83%) LAN
4 15 (0.70%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.65%) DNS
6 13 (0.60%) BGP
6 13 (0.60%) VPN
7 10 (0.46%) OSPF
7 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.37%) MPLS
9 7 (0.32%) Intranet
9 7 (0.32%) VLAN
10 5 (0.23%) Broadband
10 5 (0.23%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.23%) NGFW
10 5 (0.23%) NX-OS
10 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (3.85%) Power BI
2 54 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (2.41%) Metadata
4 33 (1.53%) Tableau
5 28 (1.30%) Data Lake
5 28 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 19 (0.88%) Relational Database
7 15 (0.70%) Big Data
7 15 (0.70%) 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 (0.42%) 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%) Looker
Development Applications
1 251 (11.64%) JIRA
2 36 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 24 (1.11%) Git
4 20 (0.93%) GitLab
5 12 (0.56%) MLflow
6 10 (0.46%) Postman
6 10 (0.46%) Selenium
6 10 (0.46%) SpecFlow
7 7 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
7 7 (0.32%) Zephyr
8 6 (0.28%) JMeter
8 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.23%) Axure RP
9 5 (0.23%) ERwin
9 5 (0.23%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.19%) JUnit
10 4 (0.19%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.19%) Snyk
10 4 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 1,040 (48.24%) Social Skills
2 878 (40.72%) Finance
3 322 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (12.20%) Banking
5 214 (9.93%) Public Sector
6 127 (5.89%) Influencing Skills
7 113 (5.24%) Retail
8 96 (4.45%) Marketing
9 93 (4.31%) Legal
10 88 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
11 72 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
12 66 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
13 62 (2.88%) Financial Institution
14 55 (2.55%) Front Office
15 43 (1.99%) Manufacturing
16 42 (1.95%) Investment Banking
17 41 (1.90%) Telecoms
18 31 (1.44%) Billing
18 31 (1.44%) Law
19 27 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 396 (18.37%) Analyst
2 316 (14.66%) Business Analyst
2 316 (14.66%) Project Manager
3 288 (13.36%) Lead
4 220 (10.20%) Senior
5 217 (10.06%) Architect
6 115 (5.33%) Consultant
7 94 (4.36%) Senior Manager
8 89 (4.13%) Programme Manager
9 79 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
10 66 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
11 61 (2.83%) IT Manager
12 58 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
13 50 (2.32%) Change Manager
14 48 (2.23%) Data Analyst
14 48 (2.23%) Product Manager
15 46 (2.13%) Senior Project Manager
15 46 (2.13%) Test Manager
16 45 (2.09%) Senior Business Analyst
17 43 (1.99%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.41%) REST
2 43 (1.99%) Middleware
3 27 (1.25%) SOAP
4 26 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (0.93%) Kafka
6 18 (0.83%) OpenID
6 18 (0.83%) Web Services
7 17 (0.79%) .NET
7 17 (0.79%) OAuth
7 17 (0.79%) PyTorch
7 17 (0.79%) RESTful
7 17 (0.79%) TensorFlow
8 16 (0.74%) Playwright
8 16 (0.74%) SAML
8 16 (0.74%) XML
9 15 (0.70%) Hugging Face
9 15 (0.70%) Pandas
10 14 (0.65%) LDAP
10 14 (0.65%) NumPy
11 11 (0.51%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 155 (7.19%) Product Ownership
2 116 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 82 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 77 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 59 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
6 48 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 46 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 42 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 38 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.35%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.11%) PMI
12 23 (1.07%) NHS
13 22 (1.02%) FMCG
14 20 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (0.88%) AI Agents
15 19 (0.88%) Derivative
15 19 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
15 19 (0.88%) Fixed Income
16 18 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
17 17 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 54 (2.50%) Windows
2 24 (1.11%) Linux
3 15 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.28%) Android
6 5 (0.23%) Unix
7 4 (0.19%) VMS
8 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.046%) AIX
9 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.046%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.046%) Solaris
9 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (32.56%) Agile
2 335 (15.54%) Project Management
3 323 (14.98%) Migration
4 315 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
5 300 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 283 (13.13%) Roadmaps
7 249 (11.55%) Decision-Making
8 248 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 234 (10.85%) DevOps
10 224 (10.39%) Project Delivery
11 212 (9.83%) AI
12 209 (9.69%) Change Management
13 205 (9.51%) User Acceptance Testing
14 196 (9.09%) Risk Management
15 194 (9.00%) Analytics
16 185 (8.58%) Validation
17 175 (8.12%) Data Modelling
17 175 (8.12%) Scrum
18 169 (7.84%) Requirements Gathering
19 163 (7.56%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 193 (8.95%) SQL
2 123 (5.71%) Python
3 39 (1.81%) Java
4 32 (1.48%) C#
5 23 (1.07%) JavaScript
6 19 (0.88%) PowerShell
7 18 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 13 (0.60%) R
9 11 (0.51%) Korn
10 9 (0.42%) 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 (0.19%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.19%) C++
16 2 (0.093%) C
16 2 (0.093%) PHP
16 2 (0.093%) X++
Qualifications
1 346 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 288 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 147 (6.82%) Degree
4 120 (5.57%) PMP
5 114 (5.29%) PMI Certification
6 41 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (1.35%) CISSP
8 24 (1.11%) CBAP
9 23 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 21 (0.97%) DV Cleared
11 20 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 20 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (0.79%) CISM
13 16 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.74%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.70%) IIBA
15 12 (0.56%) APMP
15 12 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.51%) ACCA
17 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (7.56%) QA
2 148 (6.86%) Data Quality
3 105 (4.87%) GDPR
4 94 (4.36%) PMO
5 64 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 64 (2.97%) NIST
6 38 (1.76%) GRC
6 38 (1.76%) SLA
7 29 (1.35%) NCSC
8 24 (1.11%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (1.02%) Accessibility
11 18 (0.83%) IFRS
12 13 (0.60%) COBIT
13 11 (0.51%) MiFID
14 10 (0.46%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.42%) HL7
15 9 (0.42%) IFRS 17
15 9 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (2.27%) Docker
2 27 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.23%) NFS
4 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.19%) Postfix
6 3 (0.14%) Varnish
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.093%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.093%) 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 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 51 (2.37%) Terraform
3 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.42%) FortiGate
4 9 (0.42%) Grafana
5 7 (0.32%) Ansible
5 7 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.28%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.23%) RSA Archer
7 5 (0.23%) SCCM
7 5 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.093%) Consul
8 2 (0.093%) Control-M
8 2 (0.093%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.093%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.093%) Packer
8 2 (0.093%) vMotion
9 1 (0.046%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.046%) QRadar
Vendors
1 218 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 176 (8.16%) SAP
3 115 (5.33%) Oracle
4 112 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 107 (4.96%) ServiceNow
6 52 (2.41%) Workday
7 49 (2.27%) Databricks
8 37 (1.72%) Google
9 34 (1.58%) CyberArk
10 24 (1.11%) Ariba
11 22 (1.02%) Splunk
12 21 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.83%) Adobe
13 18 (0.83%) Informatica
13 18 (0.83%) Murex
14 16 (0.74%) IBM
15 15 (0.70%) Guidewire
15 15 (0.70%) VMware
16 13 (0.60%) Conga
16 13 (0.60%) MuleSoft