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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,336 1,277 1,258
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.58% 10.52% 7.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.18% 11.40% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,545 856 927
10th Percentile £400 £397 £388
25th Percentile £469 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £540 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +0.47% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 19 14
10th Percentile £22.64 £28.25 £23.61
25th Percentile £35.00 £37.52 £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 £76.69 £65.50 £57.75
England median hourly rate £53.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.83% - +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 16,474 11,204 15,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 92.30% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,987 7,490 11,076
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £683 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 196 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +15.18% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.50 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +9 339 £600 - 303
West London +15 61 £520 +31.23% 25
South London -1 24 £550 -15.38% 11
East London -4 9 £638 +1.19% 19
North London +1 5 £495 -1.00% 3
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 (5.44%) Confluence
2 60 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.54%) CMS
4 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.51%) Apache
6 11 (0.47%) Appian
7 8 (0.34%) SAS
8 6 (0.26%) WordPress
9 5 (0.21%) Kentico
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.086%) Camunda
12 2 (0.086%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.086%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.086%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 106 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 54 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
4 46 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 40 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.21%) Revit
8 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.086%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.086%) Notion
9 2 (0.086%) Sketch
9 2 (0.086%) Trello
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.043%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.043%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.043%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 61 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.90%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 12 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.43%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.39%) SAP HCM
8 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.30%) Endur
9 7 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.26%) Finacle
10 6 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.21%) Actimize
11 5 (0.21%) Magento
11 5 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.21%) SAP HR
11 5 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 370 (15.84%) Azure
2 260 (11.13%) AWS
3 123 (5.27%) Power Platform
4 89 (3.81%) GCP
5 81 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (3.47%) SaaS
6 71 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (2.10%) Entra ID
8 46 (1.97%) Snowflake
9 42 (1.80%) GitHub
10 29 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (1.20%) Amazon S3
11 28 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (1.20%) Serverless
12 26 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (1.07%) Figma
13 25 (1.07%) OpenShift
13 25 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
14 24 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
15 23 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.50%) Firewall
2 24 (1.03%) WAN
3 22 (0.94%) Network Security
4 19 (0.81%) LAN
5 15 (0.64%) DNS
6 13 (0.56%) VPN
7 12 (0.51%) BGP
8 11 (0.47%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.34%) Intranet
9 8 (0.34%) MPLS
9 8 (0.34%) OSPF
9 8 (0.34%) VLAN
10 7 (0.30%) NGFW
10 7 (0.30%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.21%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.21%) Wireless
12 4 (0.17%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.20%) Power BI
2 56 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (2.31%) Metadata
4 38 (1.63%) Tableau
5 34 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 30 (1.28%) Data Lake
7 19 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.73%) Delta Lake
10 15 (0.64%) Big Data
10 15 (0.64%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.43%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (0.39%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.39%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.34%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
14 8 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 253 (10.83%) JIRA
2 40 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.11%) Git
4 20 (0.86%) GitLab
5 13 (0.56%) Postman
6 11 (0.47%) MLflow
6 11 (0.47%) Selenium
7 8 (0.34%) SpecFlow
7 8 (0.34%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.30%) JMeter
8 7 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.21%) ERwin
10 5 (0.21%) JUnit
10 5 (0.21%) Maven
11 4 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.17%) Snyk
12 3 (0.13%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 1,126 (48.20%) Social Skills
2 932 (39.90%) Finance
3 356 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 295 (12.63%) Banking
5 230 (9.85%) Public Sector
6 137 (5.86%) Retail
7 133 (5.69%) Influencing Skills
8 121 (5.18%) Legal
9 101 (4.32%) Marketing
10 100 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
11 81 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (2.48%) Financial Institution
14 56 (2.40%) Front Office
15 50 (2.14%) Investment Banking
16 47 (2.01%) Telecoms
17 44 (1.88%) Manufacturing
18 39 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 35 (1.50%) Law
20 31 (1.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 397 (16.99%) Analyst
2 335 (14.34%) Project Manager
3 312 (13.36%) Lead
4 307 (13.14%) Business Analyst
5 253 (10.83%) Architect
6 226 (9.67%) Senior
7 112 (4.79%) Consultant
8 102 (4.37%) Senior Manager
9 92 (3.94%) Delivery Manager
10 84 (3.60%) Programme Manager
11 81 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
12 67 (2.87%) IT Manager
13 52 (2.23%) Change Manager
13 52 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
14 51 (2.18%) Senior Project Manager
15 49 (2.10%) Technical Manager
16 47 (2.01%) Data Analyst
16 47 (2.01%) Product Manager
17 46 (1.97%) Product Owner
18 44 (1.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (2.44%) REST
2 46 (1.97%) Middleware
3 30 (1.28%) SOAP
4 29 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
5 22 (0.94%) OAuth
6 21 (0.90%) Web Services
7 20 (0.86%) .NET
8 19 (0.81%) OpenID
8 19 (0.81%) RESTful
9 18 (0.77%) XML
10 17 (0.73%) Kafka
11 16 (0.68%) SAML
12 15 (0.64%) PySpark
13 14 (0.60%) LDAP
13 14 (0.60%) Pandas
13 14 (0.60%) PyTorch
13 14 (0.60%) SailPoint
13 14 (0.60%) TensorFlow
14 13 (0.56%) Hugging Face
15 12 (0.51%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 172 (7.36%) Product Ownership
2 127 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 99 (4.24%) Cloud Native
4 80 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 60 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
6 56 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 50 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 45 (1.93%) Data Structures
9 41 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 41 (1.76%) Virtual Team
10 27 (1.16%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.16%) FMCG
11 26 (1.11%) NHS
12 25 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (0.90%) Fixed Income
14 21 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (0.86%) Derivative
16 18 (0.77%) Equities
16 18 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 67 (2.87%) Windows
2 35 (1.50%) Linux
3 18 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.30%) Android
7 5 (0.21%) Unix
7 5 (0.21%) VMS
8 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.086%) AIX
10 2 (0.086%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.043%) Solaris
11 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (32.15%) Agile
2 345 (14.77%) Migration
3 332 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
4 331 (14.17%) Project Management
5 318 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 296 (12.67%) Roadmaps
7 283 (12.11%) Decision-Making
8 277 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 263 (11.26%) DevOps
10 240 (10.27%) Project Delivery
11 239 (10.23%) AI
12 229 (9.80%) Analytics
12 229 (9.80%) User Acceptance Testing
13 220 (9.42%) Change Management
14 214 (9.16%) Validation
15 198 (8.48%) Risk Management
16 187 (8.01%) User Stories
17 181 (7.75%) Scrum
18 177 (7.58%) CI/CD
18 177 (7.58%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 214 (9.16%) SQL
2 141 (6.04%) Python
3 36 (1.54%) Java
4 27 (1.16%) C#
5 26 (1.11%) PowerShell
6 20 (0.86%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.60%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.51%) Bash
8 12 (0.51%) Korn
9 11 (0.47%) R
10 9 (0.39%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.34%) Bicep
11 8 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.21%) ABAP
13 5 (0.21%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.21%) VBA
14 3 (0.13%) Groovy
14 3 (0.13%) Perl
15 2 (0.086%) C
Qualifications
1 375 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 315 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 135 (5.78%) Degree
4 122 (5.22%) PMP
5 109 (4.67%) PMI Certification
6 48 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (1.84%) CISSP
8 27 (1.16%) CISM
8 27 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 21 (0.90%) AWS Certification
11 20 (0.86%) CBAP
12 17 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.68%) IIBA
13 16 (0.68%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.64%) APMP
14 15 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
15 12 (0.51%) CISA
15 12 (0.51%) CRISC
15 12 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (6.72%) QA
2 153 (6.55%) Data Quality
3 116 (4.97%) PMO
4 93 (3.98%) GDPR
5 77 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (3.21%) NIST
7 46 (1.97%) SLA
8 44 (1.88%) GRC
9 30 (1.28%) NCSC
10 27 (1.16%) Accessibility
11 23 (0.98%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.86%) COBIT
13 16 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.64%) IFRS
15 11 (0.47%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.47%) MiFID
16 10 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.39%) HL7
17 9 (0.39%) SOC 2
17 9 (0.39%) Solvency II
System Software
1 52 (2.23%) Docker
2 39 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.26%) NFS
6 6 (0.26%) Postfix
7 4 (0.17%) Varnish
8 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.043%) NLBS
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.043%) RACF
10 1 (0.043%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 67 (2.87%) Terraform
3 19 (0.81%) Ansible
4 13 (0.56%) Grafana
5 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.26%) RSA Archer
8 6 (0.26%) SCCM
9 5 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.13%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.086%) Argo
12 2 (0.086%) Control-M
12 2 (0.086%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.086%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.086%) vMotion
13 1 (0.043%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 255 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 178 (7.62%) SAP
3 133 (5.69%) Oracle
4 120 (5.14%) Salesforce
5 108 (4.62%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.14%) Databricks
7 45 (1.93%) Workday
8 41 (1.76%) Google
9 33 (1.41%) CyberArk
10 26 (1.11%) Splunk
11 22 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 19 (0.81%) Ariba
13 18 (0.77%) Informatica
14 17 (0.73%) Cisco
15 16 (0.68%) Adobe
15 16 (0.68%) VMware
16 15 (0.64%) IBM
16 15 (0.64%) Murex
16 15 (0.64%) Tenable
17 14 (0.60%) Conga