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

6 months to
11 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 2,391 1,304 1,268
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.72% 10.65% 7.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.33% 11.54% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,579 878 936
10th Percentile £400 £388 £381
25th Percentile £469 £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 30 19 14
10th Percentile £19.17 £28.25 £23.61
25th Percentile £33.59 £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 £62.50 £55.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £74.05 £65.50 £57.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +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 16,682 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,119 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 250 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.88 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +9 345 £600 - 269
West London +13 65 £504 +27.13% 17
South London -2 24 £550 -15.38% 11
East London -4 9 £638 +1.19% 19
North London +3 5 £495 -1.00% 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
1 128 (5.35%) Confluence
2 61 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.59%) CMS
4 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.50%) Apache
6 11 (0.46%) Appian
7 8 (0.33%) 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 (0.084%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.084%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.084%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 110 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (1.88%) MS Visio
5 39 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.38%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.29%) Revit
8 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.084%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.084%) Notion
10 2 (0.084%) Sketch
10 2 (0.084%) 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 65 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.84%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.42%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.38%) SAP HCM
8 7 (0.29%) Endur
8 7 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.25%) Finacle
9 6 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.25%) Magento
9 6 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.25%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.21%) Actimize
10 5 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 383 (16.02%) Azure
2 269 (11.25%) AWS
3 126 (5.27%) Power Platform
4 92 (3.85%) GCP
5 86 (3.60%) SaaS
6 81 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
8 53 (2.22%) Entra ID
9 44 (1.84%) Snowflake
10 42 (1.76%) GitHub
11 30 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 29 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
13 28 (1.17%) Amazon S3
13 28 (1.17%) Serverless
14 26 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (1.09%) OCI
15 25 (1.05%) Figma
16 24 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (1.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.51%) Firewall
2 24 (1.00%) WAN
3 22 (0.92%) Network Security
4 19 (0.79%) LAN
5 15 (0.63%) DNS
6 14 (0.59%) VPN
7 12 (0.50%) BGP
8 11 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.38%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.33%) Intranet
10 8 (0.33%) MPLS
10 8 (0.33%) OSPF
10 8 (0.33%) VLAN
11 7 (0.29%) NGFW
11 7 (0.29%) Wireless
12 5 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.21%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.17%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (4.27%) Power BI
2 54 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (2.26%) Metadata
3 37 (1.55%) Tableau
4 36 (1.51%) SQL Server
5 33 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 21 (0.88%) Relational Database
7 18 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (0.71%) Delta Lake
8 17 (0.71%) NoSQL
9 16 (0.67%) Big Data
10 11 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.42%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.38%) DynamoDB
12 9 (0.38%) Pinecone
12 9 (0.38%) Power Query
13 8 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
14 7 (0.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 261 (10.92%) JIRA
2 39 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 27 (1.13%) Git
4 20 (0.84%) GitLab
5 14 (0.59%) Postman
6 11 (0.46%) MLflow
6 11 (0.46%) Selenium
7 8 (0.33%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.29%) JMeter
8 7 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.29%) 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%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 1,162 (48.60%) Social Skills
2 951 (39.77%) Finance
3 366 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 299 (12.51%) Banking
5 236 (9.87%) Public Sector
6 145 (6.06%) Retail
7 140 (5.86%) Influencing Skills
8 127 (5.31%) Legal
9 105 (4.39%) Marketing
10 99 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
11 88 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (2.51%) Financial Institution
14 58 (2.43%) Front Office
15 53 (2.22%) Investment Banking
16 46 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 46 (1.92%) Telecoms
17 44 (1.84%) Manufacturing
18 37 (1.55%) Law
19 34 (1.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 409 (17.11%) Analyst
2 340 (14.22%) Project Manager
3 321 (13.43%) Lead
4 308 (12.88%) Business Analyst
5 253 (10.58%) Architect
6 229 (9.58%) Senior
7 118 (4.94%) Consultant
8 103 (4.31%) Senior Manager
9 92 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
10 87 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
11 85 (3.55%) Programme Manager
12 68 (2.84%) IT Manager
13 51 (2.13%) Change Manager
13 51 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
13 51 (2.13%) Senior Project Manager
14 49 (2.05%) Product Owner
14 49 (2.05%) Technical Manager
15 48 (2.01%) Product Manager
16 47 (1.97%) Data Analyst
17 44 (1.84%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (2.55%) REST
2 47 (1.97%) Middleware
3 34 (1.42%) SOAP
4 31 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.96%) OAuth
6 22 (0.92%) Web Services
7 21 (0.88%) .NET
7 21 (0.88%) XML
8 19 (0.79%) OpenID
8 19 (0.79%) RESTful
8 19 (0.79%) SAML
9 17 (0.71%) Kafka
10 15 (0.63%) SailPoint
11 14 (0.59%) JSON
11 14 (0.59%) LDAP
11 14 (0.59%) Pandas
11 14 (0.59%) PyTorch
11 14 (0.59%) TensorFlow
12 13 (0.54%) Hugging Face
12 13 (0.54%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 180 (7.53%) Product Ownership
2 131 (5.48%) Onboarding
3 100 (4.18%) Cloud Native
4 81 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 60 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
6 56 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 50 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 46 (1.92%) Data Structures
9 43 (1.80%) Data Centre
9 43 (1.80%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 28 (1.17%) FMCG
10 28 (1.17%) NHS
11 27 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
12 23 (0.96%) Fixed Income
12 23 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (0.88%) Derivative
15 20 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 19 (0.79%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 68 (2.84%) Windows
2 36 (1.51%) Linux
3 18 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.29%) 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 (0.084%) AIX
10 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.042%) Solaris
11 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (32.25%) Agile
2 350 (14.64%) Migration
3 339 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
4 335 (14.01%) Project Management
5 325 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 302 (12.63%) Roadmaps
7 293 (12.25%) Decision-Making
8 286 (11.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 270 (11.29%) DevOps
10 250 (10.46%) Project Delivery
11 249 (10.41%) AI
12 239 (10.00%) Analytics
12 239 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
13 221 (9.24%) Change Management
14 217 (9.08%) Validation
15 203 (8.49%) Risk Management
16 194 (8.11%) User Stories
17 186 (7.78%) Scrum
18 185 (7.74%) CI/CD
19 180 (7.53%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 222 (9.28%) SQL
2 145 (6.06%) Python
3 38 (1.59%) Java
4 27 (1.13%) C#
5 26 (1.09%) PowerShell
6 21 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.59%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.50%) Bash
8 12 (0.50%) Korn
9 10 (0.42%) R
10 8 (0.33%) Bicep
10 8 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.33%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.33%) 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
1 379 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 318 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 142 (5.94%) Degree
4 126 (5.27%) PMP
5 113 (4.73%) PMI Certification
6 50 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (1.80%) CISSP
8 27 (1.13%) CISM
8 27 (1.13%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 21 (0.88%) CBAP
11 20 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.67%) IIBA
14 15 (0.63%) APMP
14 15 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
15 13 (0.54%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.50%) CISA
16 12 (0.50%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 156 (6.52%) QA
3 121 (5.06%) PMO
4 93 (3.89%) GDPR
5 77 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (3.14%) NIST
7 42 (1.76%) GRC
8 41 (1.71%) SLA
9 30 (1.25%) NCSC
10 29 (1.21%) Accessibility
11 23 (0.96%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.84%) COBIT
13 16 (0.67%) IFRS
13 16 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.50%) 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 (0.33%) COREP
System Software
1 52 (2.17%) Docker
2 39 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.33%) 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 (0.084%) 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 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 69 (2.89%) Terraform
3 22 (0.92%) Ansible
4 13 (0.54%) Grafana
5 11 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.29%) 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 (0.084%) Argo
12 2 (0.084%) Control-M
12 2 (0.084%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.084%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.084%) vMotion
13 1 (0.042%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 265 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 186 (7.78%) SAP
3 138 (5.77%) Oracle
4 124 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 107 (4.48%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.09%) Databricks
7 47 (1.97%) Workday
8 43 (1.80%) Google
9 37 (1.55%) CyberArk
10 26 (1.09%) Splunk
11 21 (0.88%) Adobe
11 21 (0.88%) OpenAI
12 20 (0.84%) Cisco
13 19 (0.79%) Ariba
14 18 (0.75%) Informatica
15 16 (0.67%) Conga
15 16 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 16 (0.67%) VMware
16 15 (0.63%) Tenable
17 14 (0.59%) Okta