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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,169 1,257 1,300
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.44% 9.89% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.99% 10.75% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,441 847 956
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -5.98%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £670
90th Percentile £788 £788 £775
England median daily rate £530 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -1.40% -0.46% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 15
10th Percentile £29.01 £34.96 £23.70
25th Percentile £38.00 £38.25 £30.16
Median hourly rate £53.25 £49.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.12% +15.88% -34.71%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.25 £56.25
90th Percentile £76.73 £70.25 £63.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -2.54%

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 15,500 11,691 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 91.95% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,370 7,941 11,223
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.56
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +7 311 £600 -0.04% 205
West London -2 32 £535 +17.58% 31
South London -23 22 £590 -1.67% 11
East London -1 6 £675 +3.45% 23
North London +2 5 £498 +13.07% 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
1 130 (5.99%) Confluence
2 52 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.06%) CMS
4 16 (0.74%) Appian
5 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.51%) Apache
7 7 (0.32%) SAS
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.23%) Camunda
9 5 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.092%) Apache Spark
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%) Documentum
12 1 (0.046%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 92 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (2.31%) MS Visio
4 47 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.32%) Trello
8 6 (0.28%) Sketch
9 5 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.18%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.092%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.092%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.092%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.092%) InVision
11 2 (0.092%) Revit
12 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 56 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.06%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.60%) Endur
6 12 (0.55%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.41%) Workday HCM
9 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.37%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
10 7 (0.32%) SAP HCM
10 7 (0.32%) SAP HR
11 6 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 6 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.28%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
12 5 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 330 (15.21%) Azure
2 222 (10.24%) AWS
3 106 (4.89%) Power Platform
4 80 (3.69%) GCP
5 75 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (2.63%) SaaS
7 56 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
8 38 (1.75%) Snowflake
9 37 (1.71%) Entra ID
10 29 (1.34%) Figma
10 29 (1.34%) Power Automate
11 28 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (1.24%) GitHub
13 23 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (1.01%) OpenShift
14 22 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
15 20 (0.92%) OCI
15 20 (0.92%) Serverless
16 18 (0.83%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.43%) Firewall
2 27 (1.24%) WAN
3 24 (1.11%) Network Security
4 20 (0.92%) LAN
5 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.69%) BGP
7 13 (0.60%) DNS
7 13 (0.60%) VPN
8 11 (0.51%) OSPF
9 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.41%) MPLS
11 7 (0.32%) Broadband
11 7 (0.32%) VoIP
12 6 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.28%) Intranet
12 6 (0.28%) NX-OS
13 5 (0.23%) 5G
13 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (4.01%) Power BI
2 54 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (2.44%) Metadata
4 32 (1.48%) Tableau
5 26 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 25 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 16 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.69%) Big Data
8 15 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (0.46%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.41%) Delta Lake
11 9 (0.41%) Pinecone
11 9 (0.41%) Power Query
12 7 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.28%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 240 (11.07%) JIRA
2 35 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 20 (0.92%) Git
4 19 (0.88%) GitLab
5 11 (0.51%) Selenium
5 11 (0.51%) SpecFlow
6 10 (0.46%) MLflow
7 9 (0.41%) Postman
8 8 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.32%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.28%) ERwin
10 6 (0.28%) JMeter
10 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.23%) Axure RP
11 5 (0.23%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.18%) JUnit
12 4 (0.18%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.18%) Snyk
13 3 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 1,060 (48.87%) Social Skills
2 875 (40.34%) Finance
3 336 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (11.94%) Banking
5 214 (9.87%) Public Sector
6 126 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
7 102 (4.70%) Retail
8 97 (4.47%) Marketing
9 93 (4.29%) Legal
10 87 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
11 75 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
12 71 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
13 64 (2.95%) Financial Institution
14 62 (2.86%) Front Office
15 46 (2.12%) Investment Banking
16 44 (2.03%) Manufacturing
17 41 (1.89%) Telecoms
18 32 (1.48%) Law
19 30 (1.38%) Billing
20 28 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 412 (18.99%) Analyst
2 331 (15.26%) Business Analyst
3 313 (14.43%) Project Manager
4 288 (13.28%) Lead
5 221 (10.19%) Senior
6 215 (9.91%) Architect
7 122 (5.62%) Consultant
8 92 (4.24%) Senior Manager
9 90 (4.15%) Programme Manager
10 77 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
11 68 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
13 60 (2.77%) IT Manager
14 53 (2.44%) Data Analyst
15 52 (2.40%) Change Manager
15 52 (2.40%) Senior Business Analyst
16 47 (2.17%) Product Manager
17 46 (2.12%) Test Manager
18 44 (2.03%) Senior Project Manager
19 41 (1.89%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.40%) REST
2 47 (2.17%) Middleware
3 26 (1.20%) SOAP
4 25 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
5 22 (1.01%) Kafka
6 18 (0.83%) OpenID
6 18 (0.83%) Web Services
7 17 (0.78%) .NET
7 17 (0.78%) OAuth
7 17 (0.78%) Playwright
7 17 (0.78%) PyTorch
7 17 (0.78%) RESTful
7 17 (0.78%) TensorFlow
8 16 (0.74%) SAML
9 15 (0.69%) Hugging Face
9 15 (0.69%) Pandas
9 15 (0.69%) XML
10 14 (0.65%) LDAP
10 14 (0.65%) NumPy
11 11 (0.51%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 160 (7.38%) Product Ownership
2 120 (5.53%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
4 70 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 59 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 48 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 44 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 42 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 38 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.34%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.15%) NHS
11 25 (1.15%) PMI
12 22 (1.01%) FMCG
13 20 (0.92%) Derivative
13 20 (0.92%) Fixed Income
13 20 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (0.88%) Reinsurance
15 18 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
15 18 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (2.31%) Windows
2 22 (1.01%) Linux
3 13 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.28%) Unix
6 5 (0.23%) Android
6 5 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.23%) 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
1 707 (32.60%) Agile
2 334 (15.40%) Project Management
3 322 (14.85%) Migration
4 320 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
5 303 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 278 (12.82%) Roadmaps
7 249 (11.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 248 (11.43%) Decision-Making
9 228 (10.51%) DevOps
10 218 (10.05%) Change Management
10 218 (10.05%) Project Delivery
11 208 (9.59%) User Acceptance Testing
12 205 (9.45%) AI
13 194 (8.94%) Analytics
14 191 (8.81%) Risk Management
15 186 (8.58%) Validation
16 180 (8.30%) Data Modelling
17 177 (8.16%) Scrum
18 174 (8.02%) Requirements Gathering
19 168 (7.75%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 187 (8.62%) SQL
2 125 (5.76%) Python
3 40 (1.84%) Java
4 34 (1.57%) C#
5 24 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 19 (0.88%) PowerShell
7 18 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 13 (0.60%) R
9 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.46%) Korn
11 8 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.28%) Bash
12 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.23%) ABAP
14 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.18%) C++
14 4 (0.18%) VBA
15 2 (0.092%) C
15 2 (0.092%) Ruby
15 2 (0.092%) X++
Qualifications
1 343 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 287 (13.23%) SC Cleared
3 152 (7.01%) Degree
4 114 (5.26%) PMP
5 111 (5.12%) PMI Certification
6 45 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (1.34%) CISSP
7 29 (1.34%) Master's Degree
8 23 (1.06%) CBAP
8 23 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 19 (0.88%) DV Cleared
10 17 (0.78%) CISM
11 15 (0.69%) ISTQB
12 14 (0.65%) IIBA
13 13 (0.60%) ACCA
13 13 (0.60%) AWS Certification
14 12 (0.55%) APMP
14 12 (0.55%) CIMA
15 11 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (7.61%) QA
2 147 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 113 (5.21%) GDPR
4 90 (4.15%) PMO
5 64 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (2.86%) NIST
7 39 (1.80%) GRC
8 37 (1.71%) SLA
9 28 (1.29%) NCSC
10 27 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (1.11%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.92%) Accessibility
13 19 (0.88%) IFRS
14 12 (0.55%) COBIT
15 11 (0.51%) MiFID
16 10 (0.46%) IFRS 17
16 10 (0.46%) Solvency II
17 9 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.41%) HL7
17 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 45 (2.07%) Docker
2 26 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.23%) NFS
5 4 (0.18%) Postfix
6 3 (0.14%) Varnish
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
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 61 (2.81%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.03%) Terraform
3 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.51%) FortiGate
5 7 (0.32%) Ansible
5 7 (0.32%) Grafana
6 6 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 6 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.28%) RSA Archer
7 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.18%) SCCM
8 4 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.092%) Consul
9 2 (0.092%) Control-M
9 2 (0.092%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.092%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.092%) Packer
9 2 (0.092%) vMotion
10 1 (0.046%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.046%) Puppet
Vendors
1 219 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 183 (8.44%) SAP
3 115 (5.30%) Oracle
4 113 (5.21%) Salesforce
5 109 (5.03%) ServiceNow
6 59 (2.72%) Workday
7 45 (2.07%) Databricks
8 38 (1.75%) Google
9 35 (1.61%) CyberArk
10 24 (1.11%) Ariba
11 21 (0.97%) Splunk
12 20 (0.92%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.88%) Adobe
13 19 (0.88%) IBM
14 18 (0.83%) Cisco
14 18 (0.83%) Informatica
15 16 (0.74%) Murex
16 15 (0.69%) VMware
17 14 (0.65%) Conga
17 14 (0.65%) Guidewire