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

6 months to
26 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 2,560 1,380 1,260
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.39% 10.87% 7.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.05% 11.76% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,703 930 934
10th Percentile £400 £375 £388
25th Percentile £467 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £543 £530 £540
% change year-on-year +2.50% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 20 14
10th Percentile £20.91 £28.25 £23.61
25th Percentile £34.06 £35.66 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £49.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% +23.13% -24.49%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £81.83 £65.25 £57.75
England median hourly rate £58.75 £54.01 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.79% -9.99% +12.53%

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 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +8 352 £600 - 107
West London +11 74 £480 +6.67% 20
South London +2 22 £550 -15.38% 10
East London 0 10 £638 +1.19% 19
North London +4 7 £450 -10.00% 1
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
1 129 (5.04%) Confluence
2 68 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.64%) CMS
4 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.55%) Apache
6 9 (0.35%) Appian
7 8 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.31%) SAS
8 7 (0.27%) WordPress
9 6 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.20%) Kentico
10 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.078%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.078%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.078%) nginx
12 2 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.078%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 116 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 57 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
4 51 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
5 44 (1.72%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.31%) Revit
8 7 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.12%) Notion
11 2 (0.078%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.078%) Sketch
12 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.039%) Trello
12 1 (0.039%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.74%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
5 14 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.39%) Finacle
6 10 (0.39%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.31%) Endur
8 8 (0.31%) SAP HCM
8 8 (0.31%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.27%) Magento
9 7 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.23%) SAP PM
10 6 (0.23%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 425 (16.60%) Azure
2 301 (11.76%) AWS
3 142 (5.55%) Power Platform
4 101 (3.95%) GCP
4 101 (3.95%) SaaS
5 93 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 59 (2.30%) Entra ID
8 51 (1.99%) Snowflake
9 47 (1.84%) GitHub
10 33 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (1.25%) Serverless
12 31 (1.21%) Amazon S3
12 31 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
13 29 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (1.05%) Figma
15 26 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (0.98%) OCI
16 25 (0.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.64%) Firewall
2 27 (1.05%) Network Security
2 27 (1.05%) WAN
3 21 (0.82%) DNS
4 20 (0.78%) LAN
5 17 (0.66%) VPN
6 14 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 13 (0.51%) BGP
8 11 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.39%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.35%) OSPF
11 8 (0.31%) MPLS
11 8 (0.31%) VLAN
12 7 (0.27%) Intranet
13 6 (0.23%) DHCP
13 6 (0.23%) Internet
13 6 (0.23%) NGFW
13 6 (0.23%) Wireless
14 5 (0.20%) 5G
14 5 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.57%) Power BI
2 67 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (2.19%) Metadata
4 41 (1.60%) Data Lake
5 39 (1.52%) Tableau
6 36 (1.41%) SQL Server
7 26 (1.02%) Relational Database
8 19 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (0.74%) Delta Lake
8 19 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (0.70%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (0.63%) Big Data
12 15 (0.59%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.43%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.39%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
16 8 (0.31%) Power Query
17 7 (0.27%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 279 (10.90%) JIRA
2 40 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.21%) Git
4 19 (0.74%) GitLab
5 15 (0.59%) Postman
6 12 (0.47%) Selenium
7 9 (0.35%) MLflow
8 8 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (0.31%) Zephyr
9 7 (0.27%) JMeter
10 6 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.23%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.20%) JUnit
11 5 (0.20%) Maven
11 5 (0.20%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.16%) Appium
12 4 (0.16%) ERwin
12 4 (0.16%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.16%) Snyk
General
1 1,269 (49.57%) Social Skills
2 1,015 (39.65%) Finance
3 394 (15.39%) Analytical Skills
4 316 (12.34%) Banking
5 257 (10.04%) Public Sector
6 170 (6.64%) Retail
7 148 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
8 140 (5.47%) Legal
9 122 (4.77%) Marketing
10 101 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
11 99 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
12 78 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
13 67 (2.62%) Front Office
14 61 (2.38%) Financial Institution
15 55 (2.15%) Manufacturing
16 54 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 49 (1.91%) Investment Banking
17 49 (1.91%) Telecoms
18 40 (1.56%) Local Government
19 36 (1.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 431 (16.84%) Analyst
2 346 (13.52%) Lead
3 344 (13.44%) Project Manager
4 315 (12.30%) Business Analyst
5 286 (11.17%) Architect
6 245 (9.57%) Senior
7 132 (5.16%) Consultant
8 108 (4.22%) Senior Manager
9 99 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
11 89 (3.48%) Programme Manager
12 69 (2.70%) IT Manager
13 54 (2.11%) Product Owner
14 53 (2.07%) Change Manager
14 53 (2.07%) Senior Project Manager
15 51 (1.99%) Data Analyst
15 51 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
15 51 (1.99%) Technical Manager
16 50 (1.95%) Product Manager
17 43 (1.68%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (2.54%) REST
2 50 (1.95%) Middleware
3 39 (1.52%) SOAP
4 31 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (0.94%) OAuth
6 23 (0.90%) PySpark
6 23 (0.90%) XML
7 22 (0.86%) .NET
8 19 (0.74%) Kafka
8 19 (0.74%) OpenID
8 19 (0.74%) SAML
8 19 (0.74%) Web Services
9 18 (0.70%) JSON
9 18 (0.70%) RESTful
10 17 (0.66%) HTML
10 17 (0.66%) SailPoint
11 16 (0.63%) CSS
12 15 (0.59%) LDAP
13 13 (0.51%) AngularJS
14 12 (0.47%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 190 (7.42%) Product Ownership
2 145 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 104 (4.06%) Cloud Native
4 77 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 61 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 53 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 52 (2.03%) Data Structures
9 49 (1.91%) Data Centre
10 42 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 36 (1.41%) NHS
12 33 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
12 33 (1.29%) FMCG
13 28 (1.09%) AI Agents
13 28 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (0.94%) CMDB
16 23 (0.90%) Fixed Income
16 23 (0.90%) Security Posture
17 21 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 78 (3.05%) Windows
2 37 (1.45%) Linux
3 19 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.31%) Android
7 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 7 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) VMS
11 2 (0.078%) AIX
11 2 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.039%) CentOS
12 1 (0.039%) Solaris
12 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (32.34%) Agile
2 375 (14.65%) Migration
2 375 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
3 361 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 340 (13.28%) Roadmaps
5 331 (12.93%) Project Management
6 320 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 315 (12.30%) Decision-Making
8 307 (11.99%) DevOps
9 292 (11.41%) AI
10 273 (10.66%) Analytics
11 265 (10.35%) User Acceptance Testing
12 264 (10.31%) Project Delivery
13 235 (9.18%) Change Management
13 235 (9.18%) Validation
14 223 (8.71%) Risk Management
15 207 (8.09%) CI/CD
16 202 (7.89%) Workshop Facilitation
17 198 (7.73%) User Stories
18 196 (7.66%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 242 (9.45%) SQL
2 159 (6.21%) Python
3 39 (1.52%) Java
4 33 (1.29%) PowerShell
5 26 (1.02%) JavaScript
6 25 (0.98%) C#
7 14 (0.55%) Korn
7 14 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.47%) Bash
9 11 (0.43%) Bicep
10 10 (0.39%) R
11 9 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.31%) VBA
13 6 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.20%) ABAP
14 5 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.20%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.20%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 391 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 328 (12.81%) SC Cleared
3 158 (6.17%) Degree
4 135 (5.27%) PMP
5 122 (4.77%) PMI Certification
6 54 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 49 (1.91%) CISSP
8 36 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 29 (1.13%) CISM
11 23 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.74%) CBAP
12 19 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
12 19 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.59%) IIBA
13 15 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (6.84%) Data Quality
2 159 (6.21%) QA
3 117 (4.57%) PMO
4 104 (4.06%) GDPR
5 79 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (3.05%) NIST
7 47 (1.84%) GRC
8 46 (1.80%) SLA
9 33 (1.29%) Accessibility
10 29 (1.13%) NCSC
11 25 (0.98%) PCI DSS
12 22 (0.86%) COBIT
13 17 (0.66%) IFRS
14 16 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.55%) Solvency II
16 12 (0.47%) MiFID
17 11 (0.43%) SOC 2
18 10 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
19 9 (0.35%) ISO 20022
19 9 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 56 (2.19%) Docker
2 45 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.27%) NFS
7 6 (0.23%) Postfix
8 4 (0.16%) Varnish
8 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.12%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.039%) NLBS
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.039%) RACF
11 1 (0.039%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (3.09%) Terraform
2 77 (3.01%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.09%) Ansible
4 15 (0.59%) Grafana
5 13 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.31%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.27%) RSA Archer
9 7 (0.27%) SCCM
9 7 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.16%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.12%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.078%) Argo
13 2 (0.078%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.078%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.078%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.078%) Puppet
13 2 (0.078%) vMotion
Vendors
1 293 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 195 (7.62%) SAP
3 143 (5.59%) Oracle
4 129 (5.04%) Salesforce
5 128 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 60 (2.34%) Databricks
7 48 (1.88%) Workday
8 47 (1.84%) Google
9 40 (1.56%) CyberArk
10 28 (1.09%) Splunk
11 27 (1.05%) Adobe
12 23 (0.90%) Cisco
13 22 (0.86%) OpenAI
14 21 (0.82%) Informatica
15 19 (0.74%) VMware
16 18 (0.70%) Ariba
16 18 (0.70%) MuleSoft
17 17 (0.66%) IBM
17 17 (0.66%) Murex
18 16 (0.63%) Conga