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

6 months to
10 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 2,361 1,304 1,268
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.67% 10.65% 7.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 11.54% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 878 936
10th Percentile £400 £388 £381
25th Percentile £472 £465 £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 £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 29 19 14
10th Percentile £19.15 £28.25 £23.61
25th Percentile £33.12 £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 £58.75 £55.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £65.50 £57.75
England median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +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 16,527 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £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 248 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.38 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 - 251
West London +13 65 £504 +27.13% 17
South London -2 24 £550 -15.38% 9
East London -2 9 £638 +1.19% 17
North London +3 5 £495 -1.00% 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
1 125 (5.29%) Confluence
2 61 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.61%) CMS
4 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.51%) Apache
6 11 (0.47%) Appian
7 8 (0.34%) SAS
8 6 (0.25%) 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%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.085%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.085%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.085%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 108 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 39 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.38%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.30%) Revit
8 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.085%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.085%) Notion
10 2 (0.085%) Sketch
10 2 (0.085%) Trello
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.042%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.042%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.85%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.42%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.38%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.34%) SAP HCM
9 7 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.25%) Endur
10 6 (0.25%) Finacle
10 6 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.25%) Magento
10 6 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.25%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.21%) Actimize
11 5 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 377 (15.97%) Azure
2 261 (11.05%) AWS
3 125 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 92 (3.90%) GCP
5 83 (3.52%) SaaS
6 79 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
8 51 (2.16%) Entra ID
9 44 (1.86%) Snowflake
10 40 (1.69%) GitHub
11 29 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 28 (1.19%) Amazon S3
12 28 (1.19%) Serverless
12 28 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
13 26 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (1.10%) OCI
14 25 (1.06%) Figma
15 24 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
16 23 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.44%) Firewall
2 24 (1.02%) WAN
3 22 (0.93%) Network Security
4 19 (0.80%) LAN
5 15 (0.64%) DNS
6 12 (0.51%) BGP
6 12 (0.51%) VPN
7 11 (0.47%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.34%) Intranet
8 8 (0.34%) MPLS
8 8 (0.34%) OSPF
8 8 (0.34%) VLAN
9 7 (0.30%) NGFW
9 7 (0.30%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.21%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.21%) Wireless
11 4 (0.17%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (4.28%) Power BI
2 54 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (2.29%) Metadata
3 36 (1.52%) Tableau
4 35 (1.48%) SQL Server
5 32 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 21 (0.89%) Relational Database
7 18 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (0.72%) Delta Lake
8 17 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (0.68%) NoSQL
10 15 (0.64%) Big Data
11 11 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (0.38%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.38%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
14 8 (0.34%) Power Query
15 7 (0.30%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 256 (10.84%) JIRA
2 39 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.10%) Git
4 20 (0.85%) GitLab
5 14 (0.59%) Postman
6 11 (0.47%) MLflow
6 11 (0.47%) Selenium
7 8 (0.34%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.30%) JMeter
8 7 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.30%) SpecFlow
9 6 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.21%) JUnit
10 5 (0.21%) Maven
10 5 (0.21%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.17%) ERwin
11 4 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.17%) Snyk
12 3 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 1,144 (48.45%) Social Skills
2 944 (39.98%) Finance
3 363 (15.37%) Analytical Skills
4 296 (12.54%) Banking
5 235 (9.95%) Public Sector
6 142 (6.01%) Retail
7 137 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
8 125 (5.29%) Legal
9 102 (4.32%) Marketing
10 98 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
11 87 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (2.54%) Financial Institution
14 58 (2.46%) Front Office
15 52 (2.20%) Investment Banking
16 46 (1.95%) Telecoms
17 44 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 44 (1.86%) Manufacturing
18 35 (1.48%) Law
19 34 (1.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 402 (17.03%) Analyst
2 339 (14.36%) Project Manager
3 319 (13.51%) Lead
4 303 (12.83%) Business Analyst
5 248 (10.50%) Architect
6 229 (9.70%) Senior
7 116 (4.91%) Consultant
8 103 (4.36%) Senior Manager
9 92 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
10 85 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
11 84 (3.56%) Programme Manager
12 67 (2.84%) IT Manager
13 51 (2.16%) Change Manager
13 51 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
13 51 (2.16%) Senior Project Manager
14 49 (2.08%) Technical Manager
15 48 (2.03%) Product Manager
16 47 (1.99%) Product Owner
17 46 (1.95%) Data Analyst
18 44 (1.86%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (2.50%) REST
2 46 (1.95%) Middleware
3 32 (1.36%) SOAP
4 31 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.97%) OAuth
6 22 (0.93%) Web Services
7 20 (0.85%) .NET
7 20 (0.85%) XML
8 19 (0.80%) OpenID
8 19 (0.80%) RESTful
9 17 (0.72%) SAML
10 16 (0.68%) Kafka
11 15 (0.64%) SailPoint
12 14 (0.59%) LDAP
12 14 (0.59%) Pandas
12 14 (0.59%) PyTorch
12 14 (0.59%) TensorFlow
13 13 (0.55%) Hugging Face
13 13 (0.55%) JWT
13 13 (0.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 178 (7.54%) Product Ownership
2 129 (5.46%) Onboarding
3 99 (4.19%) Cloud Native
4 81 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
5 59 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 56 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 49 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 46 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 42 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 41 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.19%) AI Agents
11 28 (1.19%) NHS
12 27 (1.14%) FMCG
13 26 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (0.97%) Fixed Income
14 23 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (0.89%) Derivative
17 20 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 19 (0.80%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 67 (2.84%) Windows
2 35 (1.48%) Linux
3 18 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.38%) 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 (0.085%) AIX
10 2 (0.085%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.042%) Solaris
11 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (32.23%) Agile
2 347 (14.70%) Migration
3 335 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
4 334 (14.15%) Project Management
5 320 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 301 (12.75%) Roadmaps
7 287 (12.16%) Decision-Making
8 280 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 266 (11.27%) DevOps
10 248 (10.50%) Project Delivery
11 247 (10.46%) AI
12 236 (10.00%) Analytics
13 235 (9.95%) User Acceptance Testing
14 218 (9.23%) Change Management
15 216 (9.15%) Validation
16 200 (8.47%) Risk Management
17 191 (8.09%) User Stories
18 184 (7.79%) Scrum
19 180 (7.62%) CI/CD
20 178 (7.54%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 217 (9.19%) SQL
2 143 (6.06%) Python
3 36 (1.52%) Java
4 27 (1.14%) C#
5 26 (1.10%) PowerShell
6 20 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.59%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.51%) Bash
8 12 (0.51%) Korn
9 10 (0.42%) R
10 8 (0.34%) Bicep
10 8 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.21%) ABAP
11 5 (0.21%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.21%) VBA
12 3 (0.13%) Groovy
12 3 (0.13%) Perl
12 3 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 376 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 316 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 136 (5.76%) Degree
4 126 (5.34%) PMP
5 112 (4.74%) PMI Certification
6 50 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (1.82%) CISSP
8 27 (1.14%) CISM
8 27 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 20 (0.85%) AWS Certification
10 20 (0.85%) CBAP
11 17 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (0.68%) IIBA
12 16 (0.68%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.64%) APMP
13 15 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (0.55%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.51%) CISA
15 12 (0.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 155 (6.57%) QA
3 120 (5.08%) PMO
4 92 (3.90%) GDPR
5 77 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (3.18%) NIST
7 42 (1.78%) GRC
8 41 (1.74%) SLA
9 30 (1.27%) NCSC
10 28 (1.19%) Accessibility
11 23 (0.97%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.85%) COBIT
13 16 (0.68%) IFRS
13 16 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.51%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.42%) MiFID
16 9 (0.38%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.38%) Solvency II
17 8 (0.34%) COREP
System Software
1 52 (2.20%) Docker
2 38 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.25%) NFS
6 6 (0.25%) Postfix
7 4 (0.17%) Varnish
8 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.042%) NLBS
10 1 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.042%) RACF
10 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 66 (2.80%) Terraform
3 19 (0.80%) Ansible
4 13 (0.55%) Grafana
5 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.25%) RSA Archer
8 6 (0.25%) SCCM
9 5 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.13%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.085%) Argo
12 2 (0.085%) Control-M
12 2 (0.085%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.085%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.085%) vMotion
13 1 (0.042%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 258 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 184 (7.79%) SAP
3 137 (5.80%) Oracle
4 123 (5.21%) Salesforce
5 104 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.12%) Databricks
7 47 (1.99%) Workday
8 42 (1.78%) Google
9 35 (1.48%) CyberArk
10 26 (1.10%) Splunk
11 21 (0.89%) Adobe
11 21 (0.89%) OpenAI
12 19 (0.80%) Ariba
13 18 (0.76%) Informatica
14 17 (0.72%) Cisco
15 16 (0.68%) Conga
15 16 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 16 (0.68%) VMware
16 15 (0.64%) Tenable
17 14 (0.59%) Murex