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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 17 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,461 1,347 1,266
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.00% 10.84% 7.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.63% 11.75% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 908 939
10th Percentile £400 £377 £381
25th Percentile £469 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £540 £535 £538
% change year-on-year +0.93% -0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 14
10th Percentile £20.05 £28.25 £23.61
25th Percentile £33.12 £35.66 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £49.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% +23.13% -30.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £76.15 £65.25 £57.75
England median hourly rate £53.50 £58.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.94% -2.08% +11.80%

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 16,816 11,468 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.31% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,190 7,694 11,171
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £436 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 206 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +11.48% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +8 353 £600 - 129
West London +13 71 £484 +22.86% 27
South London 0 22 £550 -15.38% 12
East London -3 9 £638 +1.19% 19
North London +4 5 £495 -1.00% 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
1 126 (5.12%) Confluence
2 64 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.71%) CMS
4 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.49%) Apache
5 12 (0.49%) Appian
6 8 (0.33%) SAS
7 7 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.28%) WordPress
8 5 (0.20%) Kentico
8 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.081%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.081%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.081%) nginx
11 2 (0.081%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.081%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 111 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 54 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 41 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.41%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.33%) Revit
8 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.12%) Notion
11 2 (0.081%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.081%) Sketch
12 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.041%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.041%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.041%) Trello
12 1 (0.041%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.85%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 14 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.41%) Loan IQ
8 9 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.37%) SAP ERP
8 9 (0.37%) SAP HCM
9 7 (0.28%) Endur
9 7 (0.28%) Finacle
10 6 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.24%) Magento
10 6 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.24%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 403 (16.38%) Azure
2 288 (11.70%) AWS
3 132 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 98 (3.98%) GCP
5 96 (3.90%) SaaS
6 87 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (2.28%) Entra ID
9 48 (1.95%) Snowflake
10 45 (1.83%) GitHub
11 33 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 30 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (1.22%) Serverless
12 30 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
13 29 (1.18%) Amazon S3
14 27 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (1.10%) OCI
15 26 (1.06%) Power Automate
16 24 (0.98%) Figma
16 24 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.50%) Firewall
2 25 (1.02%) WAN
3 24 (0.98%) Network Security
4 19 (0.77%) LAN
5 16 (0.65%) DNS
6 14 (0.57%) VPN
7 13 (0.53%) BGP
7 13 (0.53%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.37%) OSPF
11 8 (0.33%) Intranet
11 8 (0.33%) MPLS
11 8 (0.33%) VLAN
12 7 (0.28%) NGFW
12 7 (0.28%) Wireless
13 5 (0.20%) HTTP
13 5 (0.20%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
14 4 (0.16%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (4.39%) Power BI
2 59 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (2.32%) Metadata
4 39 (1.58%) Tableau
5 38 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 37 (1.50%) SQL Server
7 23 (0.93%) Relational Database
8 19 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (0.73%) Delta Lake
9 18 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 16 (0.65%) Big Data
11 14 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (0.37%) Pinecone
15 8 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (0.33%) Power Query
15 8 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 268 (10.89%) JIRA
2 38 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.22%) Git
4 20 (0.81%) GitLab
5 15 (0.61%) Postman
6 11 (0.45%) MLflow
6 11 (0.45%) Selenium
7 8 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (0.33%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.28%) JMeter
8 7 (0.28%) SpecFlow
9 6 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.20%) JUnit
10 5 (0.20%) Maven
10 5 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.16%) ERwin
11 4 (0.16%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.16%) Snyk
12 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 1,210 (49.17%) Social Skills
2 980 (39.82%) Finance
3 376 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 307 (12.47%) Banking
5 247 (10.04%) Public Sector
6 153 (6.22%) Retail
7 143 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
8 133 (5.40%) Legal
9 110 (4.47%) Marketing
10 103 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
11 94 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
12 72 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (2.56%) Front Office
14 62 (2.52%) Financial Institution
15 51 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 48 (1.95%) Investment Banking
17 46 (1.87%) Telecoms
18 44 (1.79%) Manufacturing
19 38 (1.54%) Local Government
20 37 (1.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 410 (16.66%) Analyst
2 342 (13.90%) Project Manager
3 333 (13.53%) Lead
4 305 (12.39%) Business Analyst
5 270 (10.97%) Architect
6 232 (9.43%) Senior
7 124 (5.04%) Consultant
8 104 (4.23%) Senior Manager
9 95 (3.86%) Delivery Manager
9 95 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (3.49%) Programme Manager
11 70 (2.84%) IT Manager
12 52 (2.11%) Change Manager
12 52 (2.11%) Product Owner
12 52 (2.11%) Senior Project Manager
13 50 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
14 49 (1.99%) Data Analyst
14 49 (1.99%) Product Manager
15 47 (1.91%) Technical Manager
16 44 (1.79%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (2.68%) REST
2 46 (1.87%) Middleware
3 37 (1.50%) SOAP
4 33 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
5 26 (1.06%) OAuth
6 22 (0.89%) Web Services
7 21 (0.85%) XML
8 20 (0.81%) .NET
8 20 (0.81%) RESTful
9 19 (0.77%) OpenID
9 19 (0.77%) SAML
10 18 (0.73%) Kafka
11 17 (0.69%) JSON
11 17 (0.69%) PySpark
11 17 (0.69%) SailPoint
12 15 (0.61%) CSS
12 15 (0.61%) HTML
13 14 (0.57%) LDAP
14 13 (0.53%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.53%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 190 (7.72%) Product Ownership
2 138 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 106 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 79 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 61 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 60 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 50 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 49 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 44 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 43 (1.75%) Data Centre
11 33 (1.34%) NHS
12 30 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
13 29 (1.18%) FMCG
14 28 (1.14%) AI Agents
15 24 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (0.93%) Fixed Income
17 22 (0.89%) CMDB
18 20 (0.81%) Taxonomies
19 19 (0.77%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 69 (2.80%) Windows
2 37 (1.50%) Linux
3 18 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.33%) Android
7 7 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.24%) Unix
9 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.12%) VMS
12 2 (0.081%) AIX
12 2 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.041%) CentOS
13 1 (0.041%) Solaris
13 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (32.59%) Agile
2 369 (14.99%) Migration
3 351 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
4 338 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 327 (13.29%) Project Management
6 320 (13.00%) Roadmaps
7 304 (12.35%) Decision-Making
7 304 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 288 (11.70%) DevOps
9 266 (10.81%) AI
10 255 (10.36%) User Acceptance Testing
11 253 (10.28%) Analytics
11 253 (10.28%) Project Delivery
12 229 (9.31%) Change Management
13 226 (9.18%) Validation
14 216 (8.78%) Risk Management
15 199 (8.09%) CI/CD
16 195 (7.92%) User Stories
17 189 (7.68%) Scrum
18 185 (7.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 230 (9.35%) SQL
2 153 (6.22%) Python
3 39 (1.58%) Java
4 31 (1.26%) PowerShell
5 26 (1.06%) C#
6 25 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 15 (0.61%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.49%) Bash
8 12 (0.49%) Korn
9 11 (0.45%) Bicep
10 10 (0.41%) R
11 9 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.28%) VBA
14 5 (0.20%) ABAP
14 5 (0.20%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.16%) Go
15 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 381 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 320 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 146 (5.93%) Degree
4 129 (5.24%) PMP
5 115 (4.67%) PMI Certification
6 51 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 46 (1.87%) CISSP
8 34 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 28 (1.14%) CISM
9 28 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 23 (0.93%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.73%) CBAP
11 18 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.61%) APMP
13 15 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (0.61%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.57%) IIBA
14 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.53%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 156 (6.34%) QA
3 120 (4.88%) PMO
4 98 (3.98%) GDPR
5 78 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 76 (3.09%) NIST
7 44 (1.79%) GRC
8 43 (1.75%) SLA
9 31 (1.26%) Accessibility
10 29 (1.18%) NCSC
11 25 (1.02%) PCI DSS
12 22 (0.89%) COBIT
13 17 (0.69%) IFRS
14 16 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 13 (0.53%) Solvency II
16 12 (0.49%) MiFID
17 10 (0.41%) ISO 20022
17 10 (0.41%) PSD2
17 10 (0.41%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 55 (2.23%) Docker
2 42 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.24%) NFS
6 6 (0.24%) Postfix
7 4 (0.16%) Varnish
7 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.041%) NLBS
10 1 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.041%) RACF
10 1 (0.041%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (3.09%) Terraform
2 75 (3.05%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.06%) Ansible
4 13 (0.53%) Grafana
5 12 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.28%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.28%) RSA Archer
9 6 (0.24%) SCCM
9 6 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.16%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.12%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.081%) Argo
13 2 (0.081%) Control-M
13 2 (0.081%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.081%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.081%) vMotion
14 1 (0.041%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 277 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.72%) SAP
3 142 (5.77%) Oracle
4 127 (5.16%) Salesforce
5 120 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 54 (2.19%) Databricks
7 46 (1.87%) Workday
8 45 (1.83%) Google
9 39 (1.58%) CyberArk
10 26 (1.06%) Splunk
11 24 (0.98%) Adobe
12 22 (0.89%) Cisco
12 22 (0.89%) OpenAI
13 20 (0.81%) Informatica
14 19 (0.77%) Ariba
15 18 (0.73%) MuleSoft
16 17 (0.69%) VMware
17 16 (0.65%) Conga
17 16 (0.65%) Murex
17 16 (0.65%) Okta