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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,232 1,276 1,255
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.26% 10.54% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.87% 11.44% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 872 923
10th Percentile £400 £388 £395
25th Percentile £475 £474 £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 £780 £775 £775
England median daily rate £537 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.09% -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 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.44% +2.49% +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 16,097 11,157 15,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.20% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,758 7,514 11,083
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £431 £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 £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 181 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% +10.33% -29.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.84 £63.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +7 321 £600 -1.64% 302
West London +5 54 £520 +54.07% 26
South London -3 23 £570 -12.31% 11
East London -4 9 £638 +1.19% 18
North London 0 4 £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
1 130 (5.82%) Confluence
2 53 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.16%) CMS
4 13 (0.58%) Appian
5 12 (0.54%) Apache
6 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.27%) SAS
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.22%) WordPress
9 4 (0.18%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.13%) Camunda
10 3 (0.13%) Kentico
10 3 (0.13%) nginx
10 3 (0.13%) 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 96 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
3 53 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (2.24%) 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 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.03%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 12 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.45%) Loan IQ
8 8 (0.36%) Endur
8 8 (0.36%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.36%) SAP HCM
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.27%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.22%) SAP BRIM
11 5 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.22%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 338 (15.14%) Azure
2 234 (10.48%) AWS
3 106 (4.75%) Power Platform
4 81 (3.63%) GCP
5 75 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (3.23%) SaaS
7 60 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (1.93%) Snowflake
9 40 (1.79%) Entra ID
10 35 (1.57%) GitHub
11 29 (1.30%) Figma
12 27 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 25 (1.12%) Amazon S3
14 24 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
14 24 (1.08%) Serverless
15 23 (1.03%) OpenShift
16 22 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
17 21 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (0.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.39%) Firewall
2 22 (0.99%) WAN
3 21 (0.94%) Network Security
4 17 (0.76%) LAN
5 13 (0.58%) DNS
6 11 (0.49%) BGP
6 11 (0.49%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.49%) VPN
7 9 (0.40%) 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 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.22%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.18%) 3GPP
11 4 (0.18%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (3.67%) Power BI
2 59 (2.64%) Metadata
3 53 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (1.61%) Tableau
5 30 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 28 (1.25%) SQL Server
7 17 (0.76%) Delta Lake
7 17 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (0.67%) Big Data
10 13 (0.58%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.40%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.40%) Pinecone
13 8 (0.36%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
14 7 (0.31%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.31%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 251 (11.25%) JIRA
2 39 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.16%) Git
4 19 (0.85%) GitLab
5 12 (0.54%) Postman
6 11 (0.49%) MLflow
7 10 (0.45%) Selenium
8 9 (0.40%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.31%) JMeter
9 7 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.31%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.22%) ERwin
11 5 (0.22%) JUnit
11 5 (0.22%) Maven
12 4 (0.18%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.18%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.18%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.18%) Snyk
General
1 1,051 (47.09%) Social Skills
2 909 (40.73%) Finance
3 331 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
4 285 (12.77%) Banking
5 224 (10.04%) Public Sector
6 134 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
7 125 (5.60%) Retail
8 116 (5.20%) Legal
9 95 (4.26%) Marketing
10 91 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
11 70 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 62 (2.78%) Financial Institution
12 62 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
13 54 (2.42%) Front Office
14 50 (2.24%) Investment Banking
15 43 (1.93%) Manufacturing
16 42 (1.88%) Telecoms
17 34 (1.52%) Billing
18 31 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 29 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 384 (17.20%) Analyst
2 319 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 301 (13.49%) Lead
4 298 (13.35%) Business Analyst
5 238 (10.66%) Architect
6 222 (9.95%) Senior
7 117 (5.24%) Consultant
8 99 (4.44%) Senior Manager
9 87 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
10 83 (3.72%) Programme Manager
11 75 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (2.82%) IT Manager
13 54 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
14 50 (2.24%) Data Analyst
14 50 (2.24%) Product Manager
15 49 (2.20%) Senior Project Manager
15 49 (2.20%) Technical Manager
16 46 (2.06%) Change Manager
17 44 (1.97%) Product Owner
18 43 (1.93%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.42%) REST
2 42 (1.88%) Middleware
3 30 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
4 28 (1.25%) 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%) PyTorch
7 17 (0.76%) TensorFlow
8 16 (0.72%) .NET
8 16 (0.72%) Kafka
8 16 (0.72%) XML
9 15 (0.67%) Hugging Face
9 15 (0.67%) Pandas
9 15 (0.67%) SAML
10 14 (0.63%) LDAP
10 14 (0.63%) NumPy
11 13 (0.58%) Playwright
11 13 (0.58%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 169 (7.57%) Product Ownership
2 121 (5.42%) Onboarding
3 84 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 81 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
5 61 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 52 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 47 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 44 (1.97%) Data Structures
9 39 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 36 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.21%) NHS
12 24 (1.08%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (0.99%) Fixed Income
14 22 (0.99%) FMCG
15 21 (0.94%) Derivative
15 21 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
16 20 (0.90%) PMI
17 17 (0.76%) Equities
17 17 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 53 (2.37%) 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
1 728 (32.62%) Agile
2 330 (14.78%) Project Management
3 320 (14.34%) Migration
4 309 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
5 300 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 285 (12.77%) Roadmaps
7 270 (12.10%) Decision-Making
8 246 (11.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 238 (10.66%) DevOps
10 229 (10.26%) Project Delivery
11 225 (10.08%) AI
12 221 (9.90%) Analytics
13 205 (9.18%) User Acceptance Testing
14 200 (8.96%) Change Management
14 200 (8.96%) Validation
15 188 (8.42%) Risk Management
16 181 (8.11%) Data Modelling
17 178 (7.97%) Scrum
18 175 (7.84%) User Stories
19 174 (7.80%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 200 (8.96%) SQL
2 127 (5.69%) Python
3 33 (1.48%) Java
4 27 (1.21%) C#
5 20 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 17 (0.76%) PowerShell
7 16 (0.72%) 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%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.22%) VBA
13 3 (0.13%) Perl
14 2 (0.090%) C
14 2 (0.090%) Groovy
14 2 (0.090%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 363 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 305 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.00%) Degree
4 115 (5.15%) PMP
5 104 (4.66%) PMI Certification
6 46 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (1.52%) CISSP
8 24 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 23 (1.03%) CBAP
10 22 (0.99%) Azure Certification
11 20 (0.90%) CISM
12 18 (0.81%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.72%) IIBA
14 15 (0.67%) APMP
14 15 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
14 15 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.54%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.45%) ACCA
16 10 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 152 (6.81%) QA
3 107 (4.79%) PMO
4 98 (4.39%) GDPR
5 68 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 68 (3.05%) NIST
6 41 (1.84%) GRC
7 40 (1.79%) SLA
8 30 (1.34%) NCSC
9 27 (1.21%) Accessibility
10 24 (1.08%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.76%) COBIT
13 16 (0.72%) IFRS
14 11 (0.49%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.49%) MiFID
15 10 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.40%) HL7
16 9 (0.40%) Solvency II
17 7 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (2.24%) Docker
2 30 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.27%) NFS
5 6 (0.27%) Postfix
6 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.18%) Varnish
8 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.090%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.045%) NLBS
10 1 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.045%) RACF
10 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 55 (2.46%) 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
7 6 (0.27%) RSA Archer
7 6 (0.27%) SCCM
7 6 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.13%) 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
1 222 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 175 (7.84%) SAP
3 122 (5.47%) Oracle
4 113 (5.06%) Salesforce
5 105 (4.70%) ServiceNow
6 48 (2.15%) Databricks
7 47 (2.11%) Workday
8 33 (1.48%) Google
9 32 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 22 (0.99%) Splunk
11 20 (0.90%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.81%) Ariba
12 18 (0.81%) Informatica
13 15 (0.67%) Murex
13 15 (0.67%) VMware
14 14 (0.63%) Cisco
14 14 (0.63%) IBM
15 13 (0.58%) Adobe
15 13 (0.58%) MuleSoft
16 12 (0.54%) Conga