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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,645 1,411 1,249
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.69% 10.77% 7.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.40% 11.68% 8.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,762 948 927
10th Percentile £399 £378 £363
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £540
% change year-on-year +2.33% -0.46% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 12
10th Percentile £21.34 £28.25 £24.01
25th Percentile £34.53 £35.66 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.06 £49.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% +23.13% -32.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £48.00
90th Percentile £80.99 £65.25 £59.25
England median hourly rate £60.50 £54.01 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.03% -9.99% +13.27%

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 17,177 12,084 15,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.22% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 8,065 11,124
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 227 298
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +8 355 £600 - 305
West London +15 79 £488 +8.33% 34
South London 0 23 £550 -15.38% 13
East London -3 9 £638 +1.19% 25
North London +4 7 £450 -10.00% 1
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
1 137 (5.18%) Confluence
2 72 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.66%) CMS
4 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.45%) Apache
6 8 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.30%) Appian
6 8 (0.30%) SAS
7 7 (0.26%) WordPress
8 6 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.19%) Kentico
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.076%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.076%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.076%) nginx
11 2 (0.076%) Sitefinity
12 1 (0.038%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.038%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 119 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 57 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
4 54 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
5 46 (1.74%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.38%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.30%) Revit
8 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.076%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.076%) Sketch
12 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.038%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.038%) Trello
12 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 71 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.64%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.45%) Finacle
5 12 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.38%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.34%) Endur
7 9 (0.34%) SAP SD
7 9 (0.34%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.30%) Magento
8 8 (0.30%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.26%) SAP HCM
10 6 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.23%) SAP PM
10 6 (0.23%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 445 (16.82%) Azure
2 311 (11.76%) AWS
3 152 (5.75%) Power Platform
4 109 (4.12%) SaaS
5 102 (3.86%) GCP
6 94 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
8 64 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 56 (2.12%) GitHub
10 52 (1.97%) Snowflake
11 33 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (1.21%) Amazon S3
12 32 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 31 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
14 30 (1.13%) Serverless
15 28 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
15 28 (1.06%) Figma
16 27 (1.02%) OCI
17 26 (0.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.63%) Firewall
2 29 (1.10%) Network Security
3 28 (1.06%) WAN
4 21 (0.79%) LAN
5 19 (0.72%) DNS
6 17 (0.64%) VPN
7 14 (0.53%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.42%) BGP
9 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.30%) OSPF
12 7 (0.26%) DHCP
12 7 (0.26%) VLAN
13 6 (0.23%) Internet
13 6 (0.23%) Intranet
13 6 (0.23%) MPLS
13 6 (0.23%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.19%) 5G
14 5 (0.19%) HTTP
14 5 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (4.61%) Power BI
2 72 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (2.19%) Metadata
4 42 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 42 (1.59%) Tableau
5 33 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 26 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 20 (0.76%) Delta Lake
8 17 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (0.60%) Big Data
9 16 (0.60%) Oracle Database
10 15 (0.57%) NoSQL
11 11 (0.42%) RDBMS
12 8 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
12 8 (0.30%) Power Query
13 7 (0.26%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.26%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.26%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 285 (10.78%) JIRA
2 43 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 35 (1.32%) Git
4 17 (0.64%) GitLab
5 16 (0.60%) Postman
6 13 (0.49%) Selenium
7 9 (0.34%) Zephyr
8 8 (0.30%) JMeter
8 8 (0.30%) MLflow
8 8 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.23%) JUnit
9 6 (0.23%) Maven
9 6 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.19%) ERwin
10 5 (0.19%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.19%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.19%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.19%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.15%) Snyk
General
1 1,308 (49.45%) Social Skills
2 1,045 (39.51%) Finance
3 421 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 324 (12.25%) Banking
5 268 (10.13%) Public Sector
6 174 (6.58%) Retail
7 161 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
8 145 (5.48%) Legal
9 130 (4.91%) Marketing
10 103 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
11 100 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
12 75 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (2.50%) Front Office
14 59 (2.23%) Financial Institution
15 57 (2.16%) Manufacturing
16 55 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 51 (1.93%) Investment Banking
18 50 (1.89%) Telecoms
19 45 (1.70%) Local Government
20 37 (1.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 449 (16.98%) Analyst
2 347 (13.12%) Project Manager
3 346 (13.08%) Lead
4 326 (12.33%) Business Analyst
5 300 (11.34%) Architect
6 251 (9.49%) Senior
7 138 (5.22%) Consultant
8 110 (4.16%) Senior Manager
9 109 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
10 91 (3.44%) Programme Manager
11 73 (2.76%) IT Manager
12 56 (2.12%) Product Owner
13 55 (2.08%) Product Manager
14 54 (2.04%) Senior Project Manager
15 53 (2.00%) Data Analyst
16 52 (1.97%) Change Manager
17 51 (1.93%) Technical Manager
18 49 (1.85%) Senior Analyst
19 44 (1.66%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (2.31%) REST
2 57 (2.16%) Middleware
3 37 (1.40%) SOAP
4 28 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.87%) PySpark
6 22 (0.83%) .NET
7 20 (0.76%) OAuth
7 20 (0.76%) SAML
7 20 (0.76%) XML
8 19 (0.72%) Kafka
9 18 (0.68%) JSON
9 18 (0.68%) SailPoint
10 17 (0.64%) HTML
10 17 (0.64%) OpenID
10 17 (0.64%) Web Services
11 16 (0.60%) CSS
11 16 (0.60%) LDAP
12 14 (0.53%) RESTful
13 13 (0.49%) AngularJS
14 12 (0.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 194 (7.33%) Product Ownership
2 158 (5.97%) Onboarding
3 103 (3.89%) Cloud Native
4 77 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 67 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 57 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 55 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 55 (2.08%) Data Structures
8 48 (1.81%) Data Centre
9 46 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 37 (1.40%) NHS
11 34 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
12 32 (1.21%) FMCG
13 30 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
14 29 (1.10%) AI Agents
14 29 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (0.98%) Security Posture
16 23 (0.87%) CMDB
16 23 (0.87%) Derivative
16 23 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 81 (3.06%) Windows
2 37 (1.40%) Linux
3 19 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.34%) Android
6 8 (0.30%) Unix
7 7 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.11%) VMS
11 2 (0.076%) AIX
11 2 (0.076%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.038%) CentOS
12 1 (0.038%) Solaris
12 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 858 (32.44%) Agile
2 394 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
3 385 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 383 (14.48%) Migration
5 368 (13.91%) Roadmaps
6 351 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 326 (12.33%) Decision-Making
8 325 (12.29%) Project Management
9 316 (11.95%) DevOps
10 311 (11.76%) AI
11 286 (10.81%) Analytics
12 278 (10.51%) User Acceptance Testing
13 273 (10.32%) Project Delivery
14 245 (9.26%) Change Management
15 238 (9.00%) Validation
16 236 (8.92%) Risk Management
17 214 (8.09%) CI/CD
18 213 (8.05%) Workshop Facilitation
19 204 (7.71%) Requirements Gathering
20 200 (7.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 243 (9.19%) SQL
2 169 (6.39%) Python
3 38 (1.44%) PowerShell
4 36 (1.36%) Java
5 25 (0.95%) C#
5 25 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.68%) Bash
7 14 (0.53%) Korn
7 14 (0.53%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.45%) Bicep
9 11 (0.42%) R
10 9 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 8 (0.30%) VBA
12 6 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.19%) ABAP
13 5 (0.19%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.19%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 398 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 332 (12.55%) SC Cleared
3 163 (6.16%) Degree
4 135 (5.10%) PMP
5 119 (4.50%) PMI Certification
6 58 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 50 (1.89%) CISSP
8 38 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.13%) CISM
11 24 (0.91%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.68%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.60%) CBAP
16 15 (0.57%) IIBA
16 15 (0.57%) ISTQB
16 15 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.49%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (6.81%) Data Quality
2 160 (6.05%) QA
3 122 (4.61%) PMO
4 107 (4.05%) GDPR
5 79 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (2.91%) NIST
7 50 (1.89%) GRC
8 48 (1.81%) SLA
9 36 (1.36%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.06%) NCSC
11 22 (0.83%) COBIT
11 22 (0.83%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.57%) IFRS
13 14 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.53%) Solvency II
14 12 (0.45%) MiFID
14 12 (0.45%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.38%) ISO 20022
17 9 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 57 (2.16%) Docker
2 51 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.30%) NFS
5 8 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.23%) Postfix
7 4 (0.15%) Varnish
7 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.038%) NLBS
10 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.038%) RACF
10 1 (0.038%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (3.29%) Terraform
2 75 (2.84%) Kubernetes
3 30 (1.13%) Ansible
4 20 (0.76%) Grafana
5 13 (0.49%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.26%) RSA Archer
8 7 (0.26%) SCCM
8 7 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.19%) Argo
9 5 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.11%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.076%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.076%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.076%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.076%) Puppet
12 2 (0.076%) vMotion
Vendors
1 314 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 201 (7.60%) SAP
3 149 (5.63%) Oracle
4 131 (4.95%) ServiceNow
5 125 (4.73%) Salesforce
6 61 (2.31%) Databricks
7 49 (1.85%) Google
8 47 (1.78%) Workday
9 41 (1.55%) CyberArk
10 31 (1.17%) Splunk
11 27 (1.02%) Adobe
12 25 (0.95%) Cisco
13 22 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 21 (0.79%) VMware
15 20 (0.76%) Ariba
16 19 (0.72%) Informatica
17 18 (0.68%) MuleSoft
18 17 (0.64%) IBM
18 17 (0.64%) Murex
18 17 (0.64%) Okta