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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,312 1,273 1,250
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.57% 10.54% 7.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.18% 11.42% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 856 919
10th Percentile £400 £397 £390
25th Percentile £469 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £537 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -0.09% -0.46% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 14
10th Percentile £21.78 £32.71 £23.61
25th Percentile £34.06 £39.66 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £49.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.17% +23.75% -30.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £76.70 £65.75 £57.75
England median hourly rate £53.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 16,309 11,148 15,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 92.30% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,878 7,454 11,015
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £430 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 194 318
10th Percentile £18.14 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.98 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.73 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

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 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 4 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 4 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 +8 331 £600 -0.08% 317
West London +12 60 £520 +31.23% 24
South London -2 24 £550 -15.38% 11
East London -4 9 £638 +1.19% 16
North London +2 6 £498 -0.50% 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
1 127 (5.49%) Confluence
2 60 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.51%) CMS
4 12 (0.52%) Apache
4 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.48%) Appian
6 7 (0.30%) SAS
7 6 (0.26%) WordPress
8 5 (0.22%) Kentico
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.13%) nginx
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.087%) Camunda
11 2 (0.087%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.087%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.087%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 100 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 52 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
4 48 (2.08%) MS Visio
5 41 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.22%) Revit
8 5 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.087%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.087%) Notion
9 2 (0.087%) Sketch
9 2 (0.087%) Trello
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.043%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.043%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.043%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 59 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.91%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 12 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.43%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.39%) SAP HCM
8 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.35%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.30%) Endur
9 7 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.22%) Magento
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.22%) SAP BRIM
11 5 (0.22%) SAP HR
11 5 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 365 (15.79%) Azure
2 257 (11.12%) AWS
3 120 (5.19%) Power Platform
4 88 (3.81%) GCP
5 80 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (3.46%) SaaS
6 69 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (1.99%) Entra ID
7 46 (1.99%) Snowflake
8 42 (1.82%) GitHub
9 29 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 29 (1.25%) Serverless
10 28 (1.21%) Amazon S3
10 28 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 26 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (1.08%) Figma
12 25 (1.08%) OpenShift
12 25 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
13 23 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.51%) Firewall
2 24 (1.04%) WAN
3 22 (0.95%) Network Security
4 19 (0.82%) LAN
5 15 (0.65%) DNS
6 13 (0.56%) VPN
7 12 (0.52%) BGP
8 11 (0.48%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.35%) Intranet
9 8 (0.35%) MPLS
9 8 (0.35%) OSPF
9 8 (0.35%) VLAN
10 7 (0.30%) NGFW
10 7 (0.30%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.22%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.22%) Wireless
12 4 (0.17%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (4.11%) Power BI
2 55 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (2.34%) Metadata
4 38 (1.64%) Tableau
5 33 (1.43%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.34%) Data Lake
7 19 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (0.74%) Delta Lake
9 17 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.65%) Big Data
10 15 (0.65%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.39%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.39%) Pinecone
13 8 (0.35%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.35%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
14 7 (0.30%) Looker
Development Applications
1 252 (10.90%) JIRA
2 40 (1.73%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.12%) Git
4 20 (0.87%) GitLab
5 13 (0.56%) Postman
6 11 (0.48%) MLflow
6 11 (0.48%) Selenium
7 8 (0.35%) SpecFlow
7 8 (0.35%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.30%) JMeter
8 7 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.22%) ERwin
10 5 (0.22%) JUnit
10 5 (0.22%) Maven
11 4 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.17%) Snyk
12 3 (0.13%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 1,118 (48.36%) Social Skills
2 928 (40.14%) Finance
3 347 (15.01%) Analytical Skills
4 294 (12.72%) Banking
5 230 (9.95%) Public Sector
6 133 (5.75%) Influencing Skills
7 132 (5.71%) Retail
8 119 (5.15%) Legal
9 101 (4.37%) Marketing
10 97 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
11 81 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
12 66 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (2.51%) Financial Institution
14 55 (2.38%) Front Office
15 51 (2.21%) Investment Banking
16 45 (1.95%) Telecoms
17 43 (1.86%) Manufacturing
18 38 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 35 (1.51%) Law
20 31 (1.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 397 (17.17%) Analyst
2 332 (14.36%) Project Manager
3 308 (13.32%) Lead
4 305 (13.19%) Business Analyst
5 253 (10.94%) Architect
6 226 (9.78%) Senior
7 107 (4.63%) Consultant
8 103 (4.46%) Senior Manager
9 93 (4.02%) Delivery Manager
10 84 (3.63%) Programme Manager
11 81 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
12 67 (2.90%) IT Manager
13 53 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
14 51 (2.21%) Change Manager
15 50 (2.16%) Senior Project Manager
16 49 (2.12%) Technical Manager
17 48 (2.08%) Product Manager
18 47 (2.03%) Data Analyst
19 45 (1.95%) Product Owner
20 44 (1.90%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.42%) REST
2 46 (1.99%) Middleware
3 29 (1.25%) SOAP
4 28 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (0.91%) OAuth
5 21 (0.91%) Web Services
6 20 (0.87%) .NET
7 19 (0.82%) OpenID
7 19 (0.82%) RESTful
8 17 (0.74%) Kafka
8 17 (0.74%) XML
9 15 (0.65%) PySpark
9 15 (0.65%) SAML
10 14 (0.61%) LDAP
10 14 (0.61%) Pandas
10 14 (0.61%) PyTorch
10 14 (0.61%) TensorFlow
11 13 (0.56%) Hugging Face
11 13 (0.56%) SailPoint
12 12 (0.52%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 172 (7.44%) Product Ownership
2 127 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 99 (4.28%) Cloud Native
4 80 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
5 60 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
6 56 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 49 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 45 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 41 (1.77%) Data Centre
10 40 (1.73%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.12%) NHS
13 25 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
14 24 (1.04%) FMCG
15 21 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
15 21 (0.91%) Fixed Income
16 20 (0.87%) Derivative
16 20 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
17 18 (0.78%) Equities
17 18 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 64 (2.77%) Windows
2 34 (1.47%) Linux
3 18 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.30%) Android
7 5 (0.22%) Unix
7 5 (0.22%) VMS
8 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.087%) AIX
10 2 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.043%) Solaris
11 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (32.53%) Agile
2 341 (14.75%) Migration
3 330 (14.27%) Project Management
4 328 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
5 316 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 291 (12.59%) Roadmaps
7 278 (12.02%) Decision-Making
8 273 (11.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 261 (11.29%) DevOps
10 240 (10.38%) AI
11 236 (10.21%) Project Delivery
12 229 (9.90%) Analytics
13 222 (9.60%) User Acceptance Testing
14 213 (9.21%) Change Management
15 212 (9.17%) Validation
16 199 (8.61%) Risk Management
17 185 (8.00%) User Stories
18 180 (7.79%) Scrum
19 176 (7.61%) CI/CD
19 176 (7.61%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 211 (9.13%) SQL
2 139 (6.01%) Python
3 36 (1.56%) Java
4 27 (1.17%) C#
5 25 (1.08%) PowerShell
6 20 (0.87%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.61%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.52%) Bash
9 11 (0.48%) Korn
9 11 (0.48%) R
10 8 (0.35%) Bicep
10 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.22%) ABAP
12 5 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.22%) VBA
13 3 (0.13%) Groovy
13 3 (0.13%) Perl
14 2 (0.087%) C
Qualifications
1 374 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 314 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 133 (5.75%) Degree
4 120 (5.19%) PMP
5 107 (4.63%) PMI Certification
6 48 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 42 (1.82%) CISSP
8 27 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.12%) CISM
10 24 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.91%) CBAP
12 20 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.69%) IIBA
14 16 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.65%) APMP
15 15 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (0.52%) CISA
16 12 (0.52%) CRISC
16 12 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (6.75%) QA
2 155 (6.70%) Data Quality
3 112 (4.84%) PMO
4 93 (4.02%) GDPR
5 75 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 73 (3.16%) NIST
7 44 (1.90%) GRC
7 44 (1.90%) SLA
8 30 (1.30%) NCSC
9 26 (1.12%) Accessibility
10 22 (0.95%) PCI DSS
11 20 (0.87%) COBIT
12 16 (0.69%) IFRS
12 16 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.48%) MiFID
14 9 (0.39%) HL7
14 9 (0.39%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.35%) COREP
System Software
1 52 (2.25%) Docker
2 35 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.26%) NFS
5 6 (0.26%) Postfix
5 6 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.17%) Varnish
7 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
7 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.043%) NLBS
9 1 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.043%) RACF
9 1 (0.043%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 67 (2.90%) Terraform
3 19 (0.82%) Ansible
4 13 (0.56%) Grafana
5 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.26%) RSA Archer
8 6 (0.26%) SCCM
9 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.13%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.087%) Argo
12 2 (0.087%) Control-M
12 2 (0.087%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.087%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.087%) vMotion
13 1 (0.043%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 248 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 174 (7.53%) SAP
3 130 (5.62%) Oracle
4 117 (5.06%) Salesforce
5 108 (4.67%) ServiceNow
6 49 (2.12%) Databricks
7 45 (1.95%) Workday
8 38 (1.64%) Google
9 33 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 26 (1.12%) Splunk
11 22 (0.95%) OpenAI
12 19 (0.82%) Ariba
13 17 (0.74%) Cisco
13 17 (0.74%) Informatica
14 16 (0.69%) Adobe
14 16 (0.69%) VMware
15 15 (0.65%) IBM
15 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 15 (0.65%) Murex
15 15 (0.65%) Tenable