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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,672 1,434 1,229
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.68% 10.78% 6.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.40% 11.70% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,775 969 910
10th Percentile £400 £379 £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 £652
90th Percentile £779 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 11
10th Percentile £21.34 £28.25 £23.33
25th Percentile £34.53 £35.66 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.06 £49.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% +31.33% -33.73%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £45.13
90th Percentile £80.99 £65.25 £60.00
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 17,355 12,260 15,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.20% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,526 8,183 11,073
10th Percentile £359 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 229 295
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.80 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +8 356 £600 - 274
West London +14 80 £488 +0.52% 35
South London -1 23 £550 -15.38% 14
East London -2 9 £638 +1.19% 30
North London +4 7 £450 -10.00%
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
1 140 (5.24%) Confluence
2 72 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.68%) CMS
4 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.41%) Apache
6 8 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.30%) Appian
6 8 (0.30%) SAS
7 7 (0.26%) WordPress
8 6 (0.22%) 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 (0.075%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.075%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.075%) Moodle
11 2 (0.075%) nginx
11 2 (0.075%) Sitefinity
12 1 (0.037%) OpenStack
Applications
1 121 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
4 46 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.37%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.30%) Revit
7 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.11%) Notion
10 2 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.075%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.075%) Sketch
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.037%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.037%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 72 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.31%) 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 11 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 10 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.37%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.37%) SAP SD
8 9 (0.34%) Endur
9 8 (0.30%) Magento
9 8 (0.30%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
11 6 (0.22%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 453 (16.95%) Azure
2 316 (11.83%) AWS
3 155 (5.80%) Power Platform
4 112 (4.19%) SaaS
5 103 (3.85%) GCP
6 92 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 64 (2.40%) Entra ID
9 60 (2.25%) GitHub
10 53 (1.98%) Snowflake
11 34 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (1.24%) Amazon S3
12 33 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
13 31 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (1.12%) Serverless
15 29 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
15 29 (1.09%) Figma
15 29 (1.09%) OCI
16 28 (1.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.72%) Firewall
2 29 (1.09%) Network Security
3 28 (1.05%) WAN
4 21 (0.79%) DNS
4 21 (0.79%) LAN
5 18 (0.67%) VPN
6 14 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.41%) BGP
8 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.34%) OSPF
9 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.30%) DHCP
10 8 (0.30%) VLAN
11 6 (0.22%) Internet
11 6 (0.22%) Intranet
11 6 (0.22%) NAS
11 6 (0.22%) SAN
11 6 (0.22%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.22%) Wireless
12 5 (0.19%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (4.68%) Power BI
2 71 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (2.21%) Metadata
4 44 (1.65%) Tableau
5 42 (1.57%) Data Lake
6 33 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.97%) Relational Database
8 20 (0.75%) Delta Lake
9 18 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.60%) Big Data
11 16 (0.60%) Oracle Database
12 14 (0.52%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.41%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
14 8 (0.30%) Power Query
15 7 (0.26%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.26%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.26%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 284 (10.63%) JIRA
2 44 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 34 (1.27%) Git
4 18 (0.67%) 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 (0.22%) JUnit
9 6 (0.22%) Maven
9 6 (0.22%) 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 1,321 (49.44%) Social Skills
2 1,055 (39.48%) Finance
3 426 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
4 328 (12.28%) Banking
5 272 (10.18%) Public Sector
6 177 (6.62%) Retail
7 167 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 147 (5.50%) Legal
9 130 (4.87%) Marketing
10 101 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
10 101 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
11 72 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (2.47%) Front Office
13 58 (2.17%) Manufacturing
14 57 (2.13%) Financial Institution
15 55 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 53 (1.98%) Investment Banking
17 51 (1.91%) Telecoms
18 46 (1.72%) Local Government
19 38 (1.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 452 (16.92%) Analyst
2 348 (13.02%) Lead
3 345 (12.91%) Project Manager
4 328 (12.28%) Business Analyst
5 309 (11.56%) Architect
6 251 (9.39%) Senior
7 138 (5.16%) Consultant
8 113 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
9 110 (4.12%) Senior Manager
10 92 (3.44%) Programme Manager
11 91 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
12 76 (2.84%) IT Manager
13 57 (2.13%) Product Manager
14 56 (2.10%) Product Owner
15 54 (2.02%) Senior Project Manager
16 52 (1.95%) Change Manager
16 52 (1.95%) Data Analyst
17 51 (1.91%) Technical Manager
18 44 (1.65%) Senior Analyst
18 44 (1.65%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (2.32%) REST
2 59 (2.21%) Middleware
3 37 (1.38%) SOAP
4 30 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.86%) .NET
5 23 (0.86%) PySpark
6 20 (0.75%) Kafka
6 20 (0.75%) OAuth
6 20 (0.75%) SAML
7 19 (0.71%) Web Services
7 19 (0.71%) XML
8 18 (0.67%) JSON
8 18 (0.67%) SailPoint
9 17 (0.64%) HTML
9 17 (0.64%) LDAP
9 17 (0.64%) OpenID
10 16 (0.60%) CSS
11 15 (0.56%) RESTful
12 13 (0.49%) AngularJS
13 12 (0.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 196 (7.34%) Product Ownership
2 161 (6.03%) Onboarding
3 103 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 79 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 56 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
7 55 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 55 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 47 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 46 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 37 (1.38%) NHS
11 36 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 32 (1.20%) FMCG
13 30 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 29 (1.09%) AI Agents
15 26 (0.97%) Security Posture
16 24 (0.90%) CMDB
17 23 (0.86%) Derivative
17 23 (0.86%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 85 (3.18%) Windows
2 38 (1.42%) Linux
3 19 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.34%) Android
5 9 (0.34%) Unix
6 7 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.11%) VMS
10 2 (0.075%) AIX
10 2 (0.075%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.037%) CentOS
11 1 (0.037%) Solaris
11 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (32.37%) Agile
2 401 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
3 396 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 386 (14.45%) Migration
5 372 (13.92%) Roadmaps
6 356 (13.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 331 (12.39%) Decision-Making
8 319 (11.94%) Project Management
9 316 (11.83%) AI
9 316 (11.83%) DevOps
10 290 (10.85%) Analytics
11 281 (10.52%) User Acceptance Testing
12 272 (10.18%) Project Delivery
13 244 (9.13%) Change Management
14 239 (8.94%) Validation
15 238 (8.91%) Risk Management
16 217 (8.12%) CI/CD
17 216 (8.08%) Workshop Facilitation
18 207 (7.75%) Requirements Gathering
19 201 (7.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 243 (9.09%) SQL
2 174 (6.51%) Python
3 38 (1.42%) PowerShell
4 36 (1.35%) Java
5 26 (0.97%) C#
5 26 (0.97%) JavaScript
6 19 (0.71%) Bash
7 15 (0.56%) Korn
8 14 (0.52%) TypeScript
9 12 (0.45%) Bicep
9 12 (0.45%) R
10 9 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.34%) Shell Script
10 9 (0.34%) VBA
11 6 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.22%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.19%) ABAP
12 5 (0.19%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.19%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 401 (15.01%) Security Cleared
2 333 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 159 (5.95%) Degree
4 134 (5.01%) PMP
5 116 (4.34%) PMI Certification
6 60 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 50 (1.87%) CISSP
8 41 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.12%) CISM
11 25 (0.94%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 20 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.67%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.56%) ISTQB
15 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 14 (0.52%) IIBA
17 13 (0.49%) CBAP
17 13 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.49%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (6.66%) Data Quality
2 161 (6.03%) QA
3 123 (4.60%) PMO
4 105 (3.93%) GDPR
5 77 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (2.81%) NIST
7 51 (1.91%) GRC
8 47 (1.76%) SLA
9 37 (1.38%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.05%) NCSC
11 22 (0.82%) COBIT
11 22 (0.82%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.56%) IFRS
13 14 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.52%) Solvency II
14 12 (0.45%) MiFID
14 12 (0.45%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.37%) ISO 20022
17 9 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 58 (2.17%) Docker
2 53 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.34%) NFS
6 8 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) Postfix
8 4 (0.15%) Varnish
8 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.037%) NLBS
11 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.037%) RACF
11 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (3.41%) Terraform
2 76 (2.84%) Kubernetes
3 31 (1.16%) Ansible
4 21 (0.79%) Grafana
5 13 (0.49%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.41%) 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 6 (0.22%) Argo
10 5 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.11%) CA Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.11%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.075%) Control-M
13 2 (0.075%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.075%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.075%) vMotion
Vendors
1 323 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 203 (7.60%) SAP
3 153 (5.73%) Oracle
4 132 (4.94%) ServiceNow
5 127 (4.75%) Salesforce
6 61 (2.28%) Databricks
7 50 (1.87%) Google
8 49 (1.83%) Workday
9 40 (1.50%) CyberArk
10 32 (1.20%) Splunk
11 28 (1.05%) Adobe
12 26 (0.97%) Cisco
13 22 (0.82%) OpenAI
14 21 (0.79%) VMware
15 20 (0.75%) Ariba
16 19 (0.71%) Informatica
17 18 (0.67%) MuleSoft
18 17 (0.64%) IBM
18 17 (0.64%) Murex
18 17 (0.64%) Okta