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

6 months to
23 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 2,226 1,285 1,263
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.22% 10.60% 7.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.82% 11.49% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,482 874 929
10th Percentile £393 £388 £399
25th Percentile £468 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £687 £660
90th Percentile £775 £775 £776
England median daily rate £535 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 14
10th Percentile £21.61 £35.73 £23.61
25th Percentile £35.94 £39.04 £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 £65.50 £57.75
England median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +13.78%

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 16,108 11,188 15,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,765 7,537 11,061
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
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 237 180 306
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.90% -28.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.88
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +7 318 £600 -1.23% 334
West London +4 53 £535 +58.52% 26
South London -7 23 £570 -12.31% 10
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
1 132 (5.93%) Confluence
2 52 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.17%) CMS
4 13 (0.58%) Appian
4 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.54%) Apache
6 7 (0.31%) SAS
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.22%) WordPress
8 4 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.13%) Camunda
9 3 (0.13%) Kentico
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.090%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.090%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.090%) Sitefinity
11 1 (0.045%) OpenStack
Applications
1 93 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (2.20%) MS Visio
5 41 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.22%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.18%) Sketch
8 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.18%) Trello
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.13%) 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 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.44%) 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 (0.31%) 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 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.22%) SAP BRIM
10 5 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.22%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 333 (14.96%) Azure
2 235 (10.56%) AWS
3 105 (4.72%) Power Platform
4 81 (3.64%) GCP
5 75 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (3.14%) SaaS
7 59 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (1.93%) Snowflake
9 39 (1.75%) Entra ID
10 36 (1.62%) GitHub
11 29 (1.30%) Figma
12 27 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
14 25 (1.12%) Amazon S3
15 24 (1.08%) Serverless
16 23 (1.03%) OpenShift
16 23 (1.03%) Power Automate
17 22 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.39%) Firewall
2 23 (1.03%) WAN
3 21 (0.94%) Network Security
4 17 (0.76%) LAN
5 13 (0.58%) DNS
6 12 (0.54%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.54%) VPN
7 11 (0.49%) BGP
8 9 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.36%) Intranet
9 8 (0.36%) MPLS
9 8 (0.36%) OSPF
9 8 (0.36%) VLAN
10 6 (0.27%) NGFW
11 5 (0.22%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.18%) 3GPP
12 4 (0.18%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.18%) PSTN
12 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (3.64%) Power BI
2 55 (2.47%) Metadata
3 54 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (1.57%) Tableau
5 28 (1.26%) Data Lake
5 28 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.76%) Delta Lake
6 17 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 16 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (0.72%) Big Data
7 16 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (0.54%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.40%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.40%) Pinecone
10 8 (0.36%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.31%) Power Query
12 6 (0.27%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 253 (11.37%) JIRA
2 39 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.17%) Git
4 19 (0.85%) GitLab
5 12 (0.54%) Postman
6 11 (0.49%) MLflow
7 10 (0.45%) Selenium
7 10 (0.45%) SpecFlow
8 7 (0.31%) JMeter
8 7 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.31%) Zephyr
9 6 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.22%) ERwin
10 5 (0.22%) JUnit
10 5 (0.22%) Maven
11 4 (0.18%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.18%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.18%) Snyk
11 4 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 1,051 (47.21%) Social Skills
2 904 (40.61%) Finance
3 331 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (12.62%) Banking
5 224 (10.06%) Public Sector
6 131 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 123 (5.53%) Retail
8 112 (5.03%) Legal
9 96 (4.31%) Marketing
10 89 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
11 68 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
12 62 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
13 59 (2.65%) Financial Institution
14 52 (2.34%) Front Office
15 48 (2.16%) Investment Banking
16 44 (1.98%) Telecoms
17 43 (1.93%) Manufacturing
18 34 (1.53%) Billing
19 31 (1.39%) Law
20 30 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 387 (17.39%) Analyst
2 318 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 301 (13.52%) Business Analyst
4 297 (13.34%) Lead
5 233 (10.47%) Architect
6 226 (10.15%) Senior
7 117 (5.26%) Consultant
8 98 (4.40%) Senior Manager
9 86 (3.86%) Delivery Manager
10 81 (3.64%) Programme Manager
11 73 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (2.83%) IT Manager
13 56 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
14 52 (2.34%) Product Manager
15 50 (2.25%) Data Analyst
15 50 (2.25%) Technical Manager
16 47 (2.11%) Senior Project Manager
17 45 (2.02%) Test Manager
18 44 (1.98%) Change Manager
18 44 (1.98%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (2.38%) REST
2 41 (1.84%) Middleware
3 30 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 27 (1.21%) SOAP
5 20 (0.90%) Web Services
6 19 (0.85%) OAuth
6 19 (0.85%) OpenID
6 19 (0.85%) RESTful
7 17 (0.76%) .NET
7 17 (0.76%) PyTorch
7 17 (0.76%) TensorFlow
8 16 (0.72%) Kafka
9 15 (0.67%) Hugging Face
9 15 (0.67%) Pandas
9 15 (0.67%) SAML
9 15 (0.67%) XML
10 14 (0.63%) LDAP
10 14 (0.63%) NumPy
10 14 (0.63%) Playwright
11 12 (0.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 165 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 120 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 84 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 80 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 62 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
6 50 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 48 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 44 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 38 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 33 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.12%) NHS
12 23 (1.03%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
13 20 (0.90%) Derivative
13 20 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (0.90%) Fixed Income
13 20 (0.90%) FMCG
13 20 (0.90%) PMI
14 17 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 17 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 53 (2.38%) Windows
2 25 (1.12%) Linux
3 11 (0.49%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.31%) Android
5 7 (0.31%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.22%) Unix
6 5 (0.22%) VMS
7 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.13%) 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
1 722 (32.43%) Agile
2 328 (14.73%) Project Management
3 322 (14.47%) Migration
4 308 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
5 292 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 285 (12.80%) Roadmaps
7 272 (12.22%) Decision-Making
8 246 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 238 (10.69%) DevOps
10 224 (10.06%) Project Delivery
11 221 (9.93%) AI
12 215 (9.66%) Analytics
13 205 (9.21%) Change Management
14 203 (9.12%) User Acceptance Testing
15 200 (8.98%) Validation
16 190 (8.54%) Risk Management
17 180 (8.09%) Data Modelling
17 180 (8.09%) Scrum
18 174 (7.82%) User Stories
19 171 (7.68%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 201 (9.03%) SQL
2 127 (5.71%) Python
3 34 (1.53%) Java
4 29 (1.30%) C#
5 21 (0.94%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.81%) PowerShell
7 17 (0.76%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.49%) Korn
8 11 (0.49%) R
9 9 (0.40%) Bash
10 8 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.22%) ABAP
12 5 (0.22%) VBA
13 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.13%) Perl
15 2 (0.090%) C
15 2 (0.090%) Groovy
15 2 (0.090%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 361 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 303 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 138 (6.20%) Degree
4 113 (5.08%) PMP
5 102 (4.58%) PMI Certification
6 46 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (1.48%) CISSP
8 23 (1.03%) CBAP
8 23 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 21 (0.94%) Azure Certification
9 21 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 20 (0.90%) CISM
11 18 (0.81%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.72%) IIBA
13 15 (0.67%) APMP
13 15 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.49%) ISEB
15 10 (0.45%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (6.96%) Data Quality
1 155 (6.96%) QA
2 104 (4.67%) PMO
3 97 (4.36%) GDPR
4 70 (3.14%) NIST
5 68 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.80%) GRC
7 39 (1.75%) SLA
8 31 (1.39%) NCSC
9 27 (1.21%) Accessibility
10 23 (1.03%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.81%) IFRS
13 16 (0.72%) COBIT
14 11 (0.49%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.40%) HL7
16 9 (0.40%) IFRS 17
16 9 (0.40%) MiFID
16 9 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (2.29%) Docker
2 30 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.31%) 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 (0.13%) 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 69 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 55 (2.47%) Terraform
3 11 (0.49%) Ansible
3 11 (0.49%) Grafana
4 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.27%) RSA Archer
7 6 (0.27%) SCCM
8 5 (0.22%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.13%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.090%) Argo
10 2 (0.090%) Control-M
10 2 (0.090%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.090%) vMotion
11 1 (0.045%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.045%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.045%) Nagios
Vendors
1 223 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 174 (7.82%) SAP
3 121 (5.44%) Oracle
4 114 (5.12%) Salesforce
5 104 (4.67%) ServiceNow
6 48 (2.16%) Databricks
7 47 (2.11%) Workday
8 33 (1.48%) CyberArk
8 33 (1.48%) Google
9 22 (0.99%) Splunk
10 20 (0.90%) OpenAI
11 18 (0.81%) Ariba
11 18 (0.81%) Informatica
12 15 (0.67%) Cisco
12 15 (0.67%) IBM
12 15 (0.67%) Murex
12 15 (0.67%) VMware
13 13 (0.58%) Adobe
14 12 (0.54%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.54%) Guidewire