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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,163 1,243 1,292
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.25% 9.90% 7.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.83% 10.74% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,440 835 950
10th Percentile £393 £400 £400
25th Percentile £468 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £669
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £530 £538 £548
% change year-on-year -1.40% -1.83% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 14
10th Percentile £22.75 £34.96 £23.61
25th Percentile £37.25 £38.25 £30.16
Median hourly rate £53.25 £49.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.12% +23.13% -35.48%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £76.73 £70.25 £63.50
England median hourly rate £51.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +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 15,645 11,571 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 92.12% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,478 7,850 11,229
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +8 312 £600 - 93
West London +3 36 £520 +14.29% 25
South London -18 22 £590 -1.67% 9
East London -2 6 £675 +7.14% 21
North London +2 5 £498 +13.07% 2
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
1 139 (6.43%) Confluence
2 51 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.92%) CMS
4 15 (0.69%) Appian
4 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.46%) Apache
6 8 (0.37%) SAS
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.23%) nginx
9 4 (0.18%) Camunda
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.092%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.092%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.092%) Sitefinity
12 1 (0.046%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.046%) Documentum
12 1 (0.046%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 95 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (2.40%) MS Visio
4 47 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.28%) Sketch
7 6 (0.28%) Trello
8 5 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.18%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.092%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.092%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.092%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.092%) InVision
10 2 (0.092%) Notion
10 2 (0.092%) Revit
11 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 56 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.02%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.55%) Endur
5 12 (0.55%) Loan IQ
5 12 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.42%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.37%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.32%) SAP HCM
9 6 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.23%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 332 (15.35%) Azure
2 230 (10.63%) AWS
3 105 (4.85%) Power Platform
4 85 (3.93%) GCP
5 75 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (2.87%) SaaS
7 59 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (1.80%) Snowflake
9 37 (1.71%) Entra ID
10 31 (1.43%) Figma
11 30 (1.39%) Power Automate
12 29 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 29 (1.34%) GitHub
13 28 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
14 26 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (1.02%) Serverless
16 21 (0.97%) OpenShift
17 20 (0.92%) Amazon S3
17 20 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
18 19 (0.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.48%) Firewall
2 26 (1.20%) WAN
3 25 (1.16%) Network Security
4 19 (0.88%) LAN
5 17 (0.79%) SD-WAN
6 14 (0.65%) BGP
6 14 (0.65%) DNS
6 14 (0.65%) VPN
7 11 (0.51%) OSPF
8 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.37%) MPLS
10 7 (0.32%) Broadband
10 7 (0.32%) VLAN
10 7 (0.32%) VoIP
11 6 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.28%) Intranet
11 6 (0.28%) NX-OS
12 5 (0.23%) CTI
12 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (3.98%) Power BI
2 54 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (2.45%) Metadata
4 33 (1.53%) Tableau
5 28 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 27 (1.25%) SQL Server
7 18 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 14 (0.65%) Big Data
8 14 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (0.55%) Delta Lake
11 11 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (0.51%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.42%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.37%) Power Query
15 7 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (0.32%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
16 6 (0.28%) Looker
Development Applications
1 253 (11.70%) JIRA
2 36 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 21 (0.97%) Git
3 21 (0.97%) GitLab
4 12 (0.55%) MLflow
4 12 (0.55%) Selenium
5 10 (0.46%) SpecFlow
6 9 (0.42%) Postman
7 7 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
7 7 (0.32%) REST Assured
8 6 (0.28%) JMeter
8 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 5 (0.23%) Axure RP
9 5 (0.23%) ERwin
10 4 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.18%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.18%) JUnit
10 4 (0.18%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 1,043 (48.22%) Social Skills
2 882 (40.78%) Finance
3 333 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (12.16%) Banking
5 214 (9.89%) Public Sector
6 127 (5.87%) Influencing Skills
7 106 (4.90%) Retail
8 96 (4.44%) Legal
9 93 (4.30%) Marketing
10 86 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
11 73 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
12 68 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
13 64 (2.96%) Financial Institution
14 55 (2.54%) Front Office
15 43 (1.99%) Manufacturing
16 41 (1.90%) Investment Banking
16 41 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 32 (1.48%) Law
18 30 (1.39%) Billing
19 25 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 399 (18.45%) Analyst
2 321 (14.84%) Business Analyst
3 315 (14.56%) Project Manager
4 292 (13.50%) Lead
5 220 (10.17%) Senior
6 210 (9.71%) Architect
7 116 (5.36%) Consultant
8 92 (4.25%) Senior Manager
9 91 (4.21%) Programme Manager
10 78 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
11 68 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
12 62 (2.87%) IT Manager
13 59 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
14 50 (2.31%) Change Manager
15 49 (2.27%) Data Analyst
16 48 (2.22%) Test Manager
17 47 (2.17%) Product Manager
17 47 (2.17%) Senior Business Analyst
18 44 (2.03%) Senior Project Manager
19 42 (1.94%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.40%) REST
2 44 (2.03%) Middleware
3 26 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.16%) SOAP
5 22 (1.02%) Kafka
6 19 (0.88%) .NET
7 18 (0.83%) OAuth
7 18 (0.83%) OpenID
7 18 (0.83%) Web Services
8 17 (0.79%) PyTorch
8 17 (0.79%) RESTful
8 17 (0.79%) TensorFlow
9 16 (0.74%) Playwright
9 16 (0.74%) SAML
9 16 (0.74%) XML
10 15 (0.69%) Hugging Face
10 15 (0.69%) Pandas
11 14 (0.65%) LDAP
11 14 (0.65%) NumPy
12 11 (0.51%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 161 (7.44%) Product Ownership
2 120 (5.55%) Onboarding
3 84 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
4 76 (3.51%) Cloud Native
5 59 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 46 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 45 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 42 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 38 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 28 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.16%) NHS
12 24 (1.11%) PMI
13 21 (0.97%) FMCG
14 19 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.83%) Derivative
15 18 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
15 18 (0.83%) Fixed Income
15 18 (0.83%) Reinsurance
16 17 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (2.50%) Windows
2 23 (1.06%) Linux
3 15 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.28%) Android
5 6 (0.28%) Unix
6 4 (0.18%) VMS
7 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.046%) AIX
8 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.046%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.046%) Solaris
8 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (32.87%) Agile
2 335 (15.49%) Project Management
3 326 (15.07%) Migration
4 323 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
5 306 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 280 (12.94%) Roadmaps
7 257 (11.88%) Decision-Making
8 247 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 234 (10.82%) DevOps
10 222 (10.26%) Project Delivery
11 214 (9.89%) Change Management
12 208 (9.62%) AI
13 205 (9.48%) User Acceptance Testing
14 196 (9.06%) Risk Management
15 192 (8.88%) Analytics
16 185 (8.55%) Validation
17 178 (8.23%) Data Modelling
18 176 (8.14%) Scrum
19 170 (7.86%) Requirements Gathering
20 165 (7.63%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 191 (8.83%) SQL
2 127 (5.87%) Python
3 40 (1.85%) Java
4 35 (1.62%) C#
5 23 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 20 (0.92%) PowerShell
7 18 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 14 (0.65%) R
9 11 (0.51%) Korn
10 10 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.32%) Bash
13 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.23%) ABAP
14 5 (0.23%) VBA
15 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.18%) C++
16 2 (0.092%) C
16 2 (0.092%) Ruby
16 2 (0.092%) X++
Qualifications
1 344 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 286 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 152 (7.03%) Degree
4 117 (5.41%) PMP
5 112 (5.18%) PMI Certification
6 41 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (1.39%) CISSP
8 28 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.11%) CBAP
9 24 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (0.97%) Azure Certification
11 20 (0.92%) DV Cleared
12 18 (0.83%) CISM
13 17 (0.79%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.74%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.69%) IIBA
16 13 (0.60%) ACCA
16 13 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.55%) APMP
17 12 (0.55%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (7.81%) QA
2 149 (6.89%) Data Quality
3 107 (4.95%) GDPR
4 93 (4.30%) PMO
5 63 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (2.87%) NIST
7 37 (1.71%) SLA
8 36 (1.66%) GRC
9 28 (1.29%) NCSC
10 24 (1.11%) PCI DSS
10 24 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.97%) Accessibility
12 18 (0.83%) IFRS
13 12 (0.55%) COBIT
14 10 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.46%) MiFID
15 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.42%) HL7
15 9 (0.42%) IFRS 17
15 9 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 48 (2.22%) Docker
2 28 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.23%) NFS
4 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.18%) Postfix
6 3 (0.14%) Varnish
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.092%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.092%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.046%) NLBS
8 1 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.046%) RACF
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.27%) Terraform
3 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.42%) Grafana
6 7 (0.32%) Ansible
6 7 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.23%) RSA Archer
8 5 (0.23%) SCCM
9 4 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.092%) Consul
10 2 (0.092%) Control-M
10 2 (0.092%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.092%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.092%) Packer
10 2 (0.092%) vMotion
11 1 (0.046%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.046%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 219 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 178 (8.23%) SAP
3 116 (5.36%) Oracle
4 111 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 107 (4.95%) ServiceNow
6 53 (2.45%) Workday
7 48 (2.22%) Databricks
8 38 (1.76%) Google
9 34 (1.57%) CyberArk
10 24 (1.11%) Ariba
11 22 (1.02%) Splunk
12 20 (0.92%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.88%) Informatica
14 18 (0.83%) Adobe
15 17 (0.79%) IBM
16 16 (0.74%) Murex
17 15 (0.69%) Cisco
17 15 (0.69%) VMware
18 13 (0.60%) Conga
18 13 (0.60%) Guidewire