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

6 months to
3 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 2,293 1,278 1,262
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.50% 10.59% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.09% 11.47% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,519 861 928
10th Percentile £399 £400 £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 £541 £540
% change year-on-year -0.69% +0.14% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 14
10th Percentile £21.34 £32.71 £23.61
25th Percentile £35.31 £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 £76.71 £65.75 £57.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +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 16,273 11,140 15,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.30% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,862 7,463 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £430 £449
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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 193 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +14.29% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.20 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +8 326 £593 -1.33% 323
West London +11 60 £520 +31.23% 27
South London -1 24 £550 -15.38% 12
East London -4 9 £638 +1.19% 19
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 (5.54%) Confluence
2 60 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.48%) CMS
4 12 (0.52%) Apache
4 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.48%) Appian
6 7 (0.31%) SAS
7 6 (0.26%) WordPress
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.17%) Kentico
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 99 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 52 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
4 48 (2.09%) MS Visio
5 41 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.31%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.22%) Revit
8 5 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
9 3 (0.13%) Trello
10 2 (0.087%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.087%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.087%) Notion
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.044%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.044%) InVision
11 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.92%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 12 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.44%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.35%) SAP HCM
8 7 (0.31%) Endur
8 7 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.22%) Finacle
10 5 (0.22%) Magento
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.22%) SAP BRIM
10 5 (0.22%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 362 (15.79%) Azure
2 258 (11.25%) AWS
3 115 (5.02%) Power Platform
4 89 (3.88%) GCP
5 79 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 79 (3.45%) SaaS
6 67 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (2.01%) Snowflake
8 44 (1.92%) Entra ID
9 41 (1.79%) GitHub
10 29 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (1.26%) Serverless
11 28 (1.22%) Amazon S3
11 28 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 26 (1.13%) Figma
13 25 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 25 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (1.09%) OpenShift
14 23 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
15 22 (0.96%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.48%) Firewall
2 24 (1.05%) WAN
3 22 (0.96%) Network Security
4 19 (0.83%) LAN
5 15 (0.65%) DNS
6 12 (0.52%) BGP
6 12 (0.52%) VPN
7 11 (0.48%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.35%) Intranet
8 8 (0.35%) MPLS
8 8 (0.35%) OSPF
8 8 (0.35%) VLAN
9 7 (0.31%) NGFW
9 7 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.22%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.22%) Wireless
11 4 (0.17%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.17%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (3.92%) Power BI
2 55 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (2.35%) Metadata
4 38 (1.66%) Tableau
5 33 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.35%) Data Lake
7 19 (0.83%) 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 (0.31%) Looker
Development Applications
1 252 (10.99%) JIRA
2 40 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.13%) Git
4 20 (0.87%) GitLab
5 13 (0.57%) Postman
6 11 (0.48%) MLflow
7 10 (0.44%) Selenium
8 8 (0.35%) SpecFlow
8 8 (0.35%) Zephyr
9 7 (0.31%) JMeter
9 7 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.22%) ERwin
11 5 (0.22%) JUnit
11 5 (0.22%) Maven
12 4 (0.17%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.17%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.17%) Snyk
13 3 (0.13%) jMock
General
1 1,100 (47.97%) Social Skills
2 920 (40.12%) Finance
3 344 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 294 (12.82%) Banking
5 231 (10.07%) Public Sector
6 132 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
7 128 (5.58%) Retail
8 121 (5.28%) Legal
9 101 (4.40%) Marketing
10 96 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
11 78 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
12 65 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
13 57 (2.49%) Financial Institution
14 55 (2.40%) Front Office
15 51 (2.22%) Investment Banking
16 43 (1.88%) Manufacturing
16 43 (1.88%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 35 (1.53%) Law
19 31 (1.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 392 (17.10%) Analyst
2 329 (14.35%) Project Manager
3 309 (13.48%) Lead
4 302 (13.17%) Business Analyst
5 253 (11.03%) Architect
6 224 (9.77%) Senior
7 107 (4.67%) Consultant
8 101 (4.40%) Senior Manager
9 92 (4.01%) Delivery Manager
10 81 (3.53%) Programme Manager
10 81 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
11 66 (2.88%) IT Manager
12 53 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
13 52 (2.27%) Change Manager
14 49 (2.14%) Senior Project Manager
14 49 (2.14%) Technical Manager
15 48 (2.09%) Product Manager
16 47 (2.05%) Data Analyst
17 44 (1.92%) Product Owner
17 44 (1.92%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.44%) REST
2 46 (2.01%) Middleware
3 29 (1.26%) SOAP
4 28 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (0.92%) OAuth
5 21 (0.92%) Web Services
6 20 (0.87%) .NET
7 19 (0.83%) OpenID
7 19 (0.83%) RESTful
8 17 (0.74%) Kafka
8 17 (0.74%) XML
9 15 (0.65%) Pandas
9 15 (0.65%) PySpark
9 15 (0.65%) PyTorch
9 15 (0.65%) SAML
9 15 (0.65%) TensorFlow
10 14 (0.61%) Hugging Face
10 14 (0.61%) LDAP
11 13 (0.57%) NumPy
12 12 (0.52%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 170 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 125 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 97 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 80 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 57 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
6 56 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 47 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 45 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 41 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 39 (1.70%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.13%) NHS
13 24 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (0.96%) FMCG
15 21 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
15 21 (0.92%) Fixed Income
16 20 (0.87%) Derivative
16 20 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
17 18 (0.78%) Equities
17 18 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 63 (2.75%) Windows
2 34 (1.48%) 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 (0.31%) 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 (0.044%) Solaris
11 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (32.40%) Agile
2 335 (14.61%) Migration
3 329 (14.35%) Project Management
4 324 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
5 313 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 293 (12.78%) Roadmaps
7 277 (12.08%) Decision-Making
8 269 (11.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 258 (11.25%) DevOps
10 239 (10.42%) AI
11 234 (10.20%) Project Delivery
12 229 (9.99%) Analytics
13 215 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
14 210 (9.16%) Change Management
15 208 (9.07%) Validation
16 198 (8.63%) Risk Management
17 182 (7.94%) Scrum
17 182 (7.94%) User Stories
18 175 (7.63%) Data Modelling
19 173 (7.54%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 210 (9.16%) SQL
2 140 (6.11%) Python
3 35 (1.53%) Java
4 27 (1.18%) C#
5 25 (1.09%) PowerShell
6 19 (0.83%) 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 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.31%) 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%) X++
Qualifications
1 373 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 312 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.84%) Degree
4 116 (5.06%) PMP
5 104 (4.54%) PMI Certification
6 48 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 41 (1.79%) CISSP
8 27 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.13%) CISM
10 24 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.92%) CBAP
12 20 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.74%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.70%) IIBA
14 16 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.65%) APMP
16 14 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
17 13 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 11 (0.48%) CISA
18 11 (0.48%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (6.80%) Data Quality
1 156 (6.80%) QA
2 112 (4.88%) PMO
3 94 (4.10%) GDPR
4 74 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (3.23%) NIST
5 43 (1.88%) GRC
5 43 (1.88%) SLA
6 30 (1.31%) NCSC
7 27 (1.18%) Accessibility
8 22 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.83%) COBIT
10 16 (0.70%) IFRS
10 16 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.48%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.48%) MiFID
12 9 (0.39%) HL7
12 9 (0.39%) Solvency II
13 8 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (2.27%) Docker
2 33 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.26%) NFS
5 6 (0.26%) Postfix
6 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.17%) Varnish
8 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) NLBS
10 1 (0.044%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.044%) RACF
10 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 66 (2.88%) Terraform
3 19 (0.83%) Ansible
4 12 (0.52%) Grafana
5 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.26%) RSA Archer
9 6 (0.26%) SCCM
10 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.13%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.087%) Argo
13 2 (0.087%) Control-M
13 2 (0.087%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.087%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.087%) vMotion
14 1 (0.044%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 245 (10.68%) Microsoft
2 170 (7.41%) SAP
3 125 (5.45%) Oracle
4 116 (5.06%) Salesforce
5 107 (4.67%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.18%) Databricks
7 44 (1.92%) Workday
8 39 (1.70%) Google
9 32 (1.40%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.09%) Splunk
11 22 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 17 (0.74%) Adobe
12 17 (0.74%) Ariba
12 17 (0.74%) Cisco
12 17 (0.74%) Informatica
12 17 (0.74%) VMware
13 15 (0.65%) IBM
13 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
13 15 (0.65%) Murex
13 15 (0.65%) Tenable