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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,213 1,289 1,255
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.19% 10.56% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.79% 11.45% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,477 881 923
10th Percentile £393 £388 £395
25th Percentile £472 £471 £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 £535 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 14
10th Percentile £21.61 £35.45 £23.61
25th Percentile £35.94 £41.54 £30.16
Median hourly rate £45.25 £49.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% +23.75% -24.49%
75th Percentile £65.94 £55.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £76.73 £66.00 £57.75
England median hourly rate £52.00 £60.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.40% +1.25% +11.32%

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 16,044 11,254 15,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,716 7,590 11,078
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £432 £432 £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 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £31.17 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +18.69% +11.65% -28.79%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +7 317 £600 -1.23% 297
West London +4 53 £535 +58.52% 27
South London -7 23 £570 -12.31% 9
East London -5 9 £638 +1.19% 19
North London -1 4 £498 +13.07% 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
1 130 (5.87%) Confluence
2 52 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.17%) CMS
4 13 (0.59%) Appian
5 12 (0.54%) Apache
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.27%) SAS
8 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.23%) WordPress
9 4 (0.18%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.14%) Camunda
10 3 (0.14%) Kentico
10 3 (0.14%) nginx
10 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.090%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.090%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.090%) Sitefinity
12 1 (0.045%) OpenStack
Applications
1 93 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (2.17%) MS Visio
5 41 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.18%) Sketch
8 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.18%) Trello
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.14%) Revit
10 2 (0.090%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.090%) Notion
11 1 (0.045%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.045%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.045%) InVision
11 1 (0.045%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (1.08%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 14 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 12 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.45%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.36%) Endur
7 8 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.36%) SAP HCM
8 7 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.27%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.23%) SAP BRIM
10 5 (0.23%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.23%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 333 (15.05%) Azure
2 234 (10.57%) AWS
3 106 (4.79%) Power Platform
4 81 (3.66%) GCP
5 76 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (3.16%) SaaS
7 59 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (1.94%) Snowflake
9 38 (1.72%) Entra ID
10 35 (1.58%) GitHub
11 29 (1.31%) Figma
12 27 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
14 25 (1.13%) Amazon S3
15 24 (1.08%) Serverless
16 23 (1.04%) OpenShift
16 23 (1.04%) Power Automate
17 22 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
18 21 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.36%) Firewall
2 22 (0.99%) WAN
3 21 (0.95%) Network Security
4 17 (0.77%) LAN
5 13 (0.59%) DNS
6 11 (0.50%) BGP
6 11 (0.50%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.50%) VPN
7 9 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.36%) Intranet
8 8 (0.36%) MPLS
8 8 (0.36%) OSPF
8 8 (0.36%) VLAN
9 6 (0.27%) NGFW
10 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.18%) 3GPP
11 4 (0.18%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.18%) PSTN
11 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (3.71%) Power BI
2 55 (2.49%) Metadata
3 53 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (1.58%) Tableau
5 28 (1.27%) Data Lake
5 28 (1.27%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.77%) Delta Lake
6 17 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 16 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (0.68%) Big Data
9 12 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (0.54%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (0.41%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.41%) Pinecone
11 8 (0.36%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.32%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.32%) Power Query
13 6 (0.27%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 251 (11.34%) JIRA
2 39 (1.76%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.17%) Git
4 19 (0.86%) GitLab
5 12 (0.54%) Postman
6 11 (0.50%) MLflow
7 10 (0.45%) Selenium
7 10 (0.45%) SpecFlow
8 7 (0.32%) JMeter
8 7 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.32%) Zephyr
9 6 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.23%) ERwin
10 5 (0.23%) JUnit
10 5 (0.23%) Maven
11 4 (0.18%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.18%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.18%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.18%) Snyk
General
1 1,039 (46.95%) Social Skills
2 899 (40.62%) Finance
3 326 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 280 (12.65%) Banking
5 223 (10.08%) Public Sector
6 131 (5.92%) Influencing Skills
7 122 (5.51%) Retail
8 110 (4.97%) Legal
9 95 (4.29%) Marketing
10 89 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
11 68 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
12 62 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 59 (2.67%) Financial Institution
14 51 (2.30%) Front Office
15 48 (2.17%) Investment Banking
16 44 (1.99%) Telecoms
17 43 (1.94%) Manufacturing
18 34 (1.54%) Billing
19 30 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 29 (1.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 383 (17.31%) Analyst
2 315 (14.23%) Project Manager
3 298 (13.47%) Business Analyst
3 298 (13.47%) Lead
4 234 (10.57%) Architect
5 221 (9.99%) Senior
6 116 (5.24%) Consultant
7 98 (4.43%) Senior Manager
8 86 (3.89%) Delivery Manager
9 81 (3.66%) Programme Manager
10 73 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
11 62 (2.80%) IT Manager
12 54 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
13 52 (2.35%) Product Manager
14 50 (2.26%) Data Analyst
14 50 (2.26%) Technical Manager
15 47 (2.12%) Senior Project Manager
16 45 (2.03%) Change Manager
17 43 (1.94%) Product Owner
18 42 (1.90%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.44%) REST
2 42 (1.90%) Middleware
3 30 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 28 (1.27%) SOAP
5 20 (0.90%) Web Services
6 19 (0.86%) OAuth
6 19 (0.86%) OpenID
6 19 (0.86%) RESTful
7 17 (0.77%) PyTorch
7 17 (0.77%) TensorFlow
8 16 (0.72%) .NET
8 16 (0.72%) Kafka
9 15 (0.68%) Hugging Face
9 15 (0.68%) Pandas
9 15 (0.68%) SAML
9 15 (0.68%) XML
10 14 (0.63%) LDAP
10 14 (0.63%) NumPy
10 14 (0.63%) Playwright
11 13 (0.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 164 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 119 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 84 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 80 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
5 61 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
6 50 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 48 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 44 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 38 (1.72%) Data Centre
10 33 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.13%) NHS
12 24 (1.08%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
14 20 (0.90%) Derivative
14 20 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (0.90%) Fixed Income
14 20 (0.90%) FMCG
14 20 (0.90%) PMI
15 17 (0.77%) Taxonomies
16 16 (0.72%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 53 (2.39%) Windows
2 25 (1.13%) Linux
3 11 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.32%) Android
5 7 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.23%) Unix
6 5 (0.23%) VMS
7 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.090%) AIX
8 2 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.045%) Solaris
9 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (32.58%) Agile
2 327 (14.78%) Project Management
3 318 (14.37%) Migration
4 308 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
5 292 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 284 (12.83%) Roadmaps
7 268 (12.11%) Decision-Making
8 245 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 239 (10.80%) DevOps
10 222 (10.03%) AI
10 222 (10.03%) Project Delivery
11 215 (9.72%) Analytics
12 200 (9.04%) Change Management
12 200 (9.04%) User Acceptance Testing
13 198 (8.95%) Validation
14 187 (8.45%) Risk Management
15 181 (8.18%) Data Modelling
16 180 (8.13%) Scrum
17 174 (7.86%) User Stories
18 169 (7.64%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 198 (8.95%) SQL
2 126 (5.69%) Python
3 33 (1.49%) Java
4 28 (1.27%) C#
5 21 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 17 (0.77%) PowerShell
6 17 (0.77%) TypeScript
7 11 (0.50%) Korn
7 11 (0.50%) R
8 9 (0.41%) Bash
9 8 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.32%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.23%) ABAP
11 5 (0.23%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.23%) VBA
12 3 (0.14%) Perl
13 2 (0.090%) C
13 2 (0.090%) Groovy
13 2 (0.090%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 362 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 304 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 133 (6.01%) Degree
4 113 (5.11%) PMP
5 102 (4.61%) PMI Certification
6 46 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (1.45%) CISSP
8 23 (1.04%) CBAP
8 23 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 21 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.86%) CISM
10 19 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 18 (0.81%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.72%) IIBA
13 15 (0.68%) APMP
13 15 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.50%) ISEB
16 10 (0.45%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 152 (6.87%) QA
3 104 (4.70%) PMO
4 97 (4.38%) GDPR
5 69 (3.12%) NIST
6 68 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (1.81%) GRC
8 39 (1.76%) SLA
9 31 (1.40%) NCSC
10 27 (1.22%) Accessibility
11 23 (1.04%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 16 (0.72%) COBIT
14 15 (0.68%) IFRS
15 11 (0.50%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.41%) HL7
17 9 (0.41%) MiFID
17 9 (0.41%) Solvency II
18 7 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (2.26%) Docker
2 29 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.27%) NFS
5 6 (0.27%) Postfix
6 4 (0.18%) Varnish
6 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.14%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.090%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.045%) NLBS
9 1 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.045%) RACF
9 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 55 (2.49%) Terraform
3 11 (0.50%) Ansible
3 11 (0.50%) Grafana
4 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.27%) RSA Archer
7 6 (0.27%) SCCM
8 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.14%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.090%) Argo
11 2 (0.090%) Control-M
11 2 (0.090%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.090%) vMotion
12 1 (0.045%) Nagios
12 1 (0.045%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.045%) SCOM
Vendors
1 220 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 174 (7.86%) SAP
3 121 (5.47%) Oracle
4 113 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 104 (4.70%) ServiceNow
6 48 (2.17%) Databricks
7 47 (2.12%) Workday
8 33 (1.49%) CyberArk
8 33 (1.49%) Google
9 22 (0.99%) Splunk
10 20 (0.90%) OpenAI
11 18 (0.81%) Ariba
11 18 (0.81%) Informatica
12 15 (0.68%) IBM
12 15 (0.68%) Murex
12 15 (0.68%) VMware
13 14 (0.63%) Cisco
14 13 (0.59%) Adobe
14 13 (0.59%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.54%) Conga