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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,293 1,278 1,262
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.41% 10.50% 7.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.00% 11.38% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,527 862 933
10th Percentile £393 £390 £391
25th Percentile £469 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £777 £775 £775
England median daily rate £537 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.09% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 14
10th Percentile £23.22 £32.71 £23.61
25th Percentile £36.25 £39.66 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.75 £49.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +23.75% -30.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £76.71 £65.75 £57.75
England median hourly rate £52.25 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.92% - +6.48%

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 16,373 11,226 15,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.27% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,935 7,534 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £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 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 192 316
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% +14.29% -28.97%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £62.90 £66.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +8 330 £600 -1.64% 116
West London +6 59 £520 +31.23% 21
South London -3 23 £570 -12.31% 10
East London -6 9 £638 +1.19% 11
North London +2 6 £498 -0.50% 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
1 128 (5.58%) Confluence
2 60 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.44%) CMS
4 13 (0.57%) Appian
5 12 (0.52%) Apache
5 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.26%) SAS
6 6 (0.26%) WordPress
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.17%) Kentico
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) Camunda
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.087%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.087%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.087%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 100 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
4 49 (2.14%) MS Visio
5 43 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.17%) Revit
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
9 3 (0.13%) Trello
10 2 (0.087%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.087%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.087%) Notion
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.044%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.044%) InVision
11 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.92%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 12 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.44%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.35%) SAP HCM
8 7 (0.31%) Endur
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.22%) Finacle
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.22%) SAP BRIM
10 5 (0.22%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 357 (15.57%) Azure
2 254 (11.08%) AWS
3 113 (4.93%) Power Platform
4 88 (3.84%) GCP
5 78 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
6 76 (3.31%) SaaS
7 67 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (2.01%) Snowflake
9 45 (1.96%) Entra ID
10 40 (1.74%) GitHub
11 30 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 28 (1.22%) Serverless
13 27 (1.18%) Amazon S3
13 27 (1.18%) Figma
14 25 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
14 25 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (1.05%) OpenShift
16 22 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.44%) Firewall
2 24 (1.05%) WAN
3 22 (0.96%) Network Security
4 19 (0.83%) LAN
5 15 (0.65%) DNS
6 12 (0.52%) VPN
7 11 (0.48%) BGP
7 11 (0.48%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.35%) Intranet
8 8 (0.35%) MPLS
8 8 (0.35%) OSPF
8 8 (0.35%) VLAN
9 7 (0.31%) NGFW
10 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.22%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.22%) Wireless
12 4 (0.17%) PSTN
12 4 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (3.84%) Power BI
2 57 (2.49%) Metadata
3 54 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (1.66%) Tableau
5 33 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 30 (1.31%) Data Lake
7 19 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (0.78%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.74%) Delta Lake
10 15 (0.65%) Big Data
10 15 (0.65%) NoSQL
11 11 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.39%) Pinecone
13 8 (0.35%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.35%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
13 8 (0.35%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.31%) Looker
Development Applications
1 254 (11.08%) JIRA
2 40 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.13%) Git
4 20 (0.87%) GitLab
5 12 (0.52%) Postman
6 11 (0.48%) MLflow
7 10 (0.44%) Selenium
8 8 (0.35%) SpecFlow
8 8 (0.35%) Zephyr
9 7 (0.31%) JMeter
9 7 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.22%) ERwin
11 5 (0.22%) JUnit
11 5 (0.22%) Maven
12 4 (0.17%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.17%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.17%) Snyk
13 3 (0.13%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 1,095 (47.75%) Social Skills
2 920 (40.12%) Finance
3 339 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 291 (12.69%) Banking
5 229 (9.99%) Public Sector
6 131 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 129 (5.63%) Retail
8 122 (5.32%) Legal
9 101 (4.40%) Marketing
10 96 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
11 77 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
12 64 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (2.62%) Financial Institution
14 54 (2.35%) Front Office
15 50 (2.18%) Investment Banking
16 45 (1.96%) Manufacturing
17 42 (1.83%) Telecoms
18 37 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 35 (1.53%) Law
20 32 (1.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 392 (17.10%) Analyst
2 329 (14.35%) Project Manager
3 309 (13.48%) Lead
4 301 (13.13%) Business Analyst
5 252 (10.99%) Architect
6 227 (9.90%) Senior
7 111 (4.84%) Consultant
8 100 (4.36%) Senior Manager
9 89 (3.88%) Delivery Manager
10 84 (3.66%) Programme Manager
11 80 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
12 66 (2.88%) IT Manager
13 54 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
14 52 (2.27%) Change Manager
15 50 (2.18%) Data Analyst
16 49 (2.14%) Senior Project Manager
16 49 (2.14%) Technical Manager
17 47 (2.05%) Product Manager
18 45 (1.96%) Product Owner
19 43 (1.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.44%) REST
2 45 (1.96%) Middleware
3 30 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
4 29 (1.26%) SOAP
5 21 (0.92%) OAuth
5 21 (0.92%) Web Services
6 20 (0.87%) .NET
7 19 (0.83%) OpenID
7 19 (0.83%) RESTful
8 17 (0.74%) Kafka
8 17 (0.74%) XML
9 15 (0.65%) Pandas
9 15 (0.65%) PySpark
9 15 (0.65%) PyTorch
9 15 (0.65%) SAML
9 15 (0.65%) TensorFlow
10 14 (0.61%) Hugging Face
10 14 (0.61%) LDAP
11 13 (0.57%) NumPy
12 12 (0.52%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 170 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 124 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 93 (4.06%) Cloud Native
4 81 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 58 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 55 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 46 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 45 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 41 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 39 (1.70%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.13%) NHS
12 25 (1.09%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (0.96%) FMCG
15 21 (0.92%) Fixed Income
16 20 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
17 19 (0.83%) Derivative
17 19 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
18 18 (0.78%) Equities
18 18 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 62 (2.70%) Windows
2 34 (1.48%) Linux
3 18 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.31%) Android
6 7 (0.31%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.22%) Unix
7 5 (0.22%) VMS
8 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.087%) AIX
10 2 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Solaris
11 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 741 (32.32%) Agile
2 337 (14.70%) Project Management
3 333 (14.52%) Migration
4 323 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
5 315 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 293 (12.78%) Roadmaps
7 275 (11.99%) Decision-Making
8 264 (11.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 252 (10.99%) DevOps
10 235 (10.25%) AI
11 232 (10.12%) Project Delivery
12 231 (10.07%) Analytics
13 212 (9.25%) User Acceptance Testing
14 211 (9.20%) Change Management
15 206 (8.98%) Validation
16 196 (8.55%) Risk Management
17 182 (7.94%) Scrum
18 180 (7.85%) User Stories
19 178 (7.76%) Data Modelling
20 176 (7.68%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 208 (9.07%) SQL
2 140 (6.11%) Python
3 35 (1.53%) Java
4 26 (1.13%) C#
5 24 (1.05%) PowerShell
6 19 (0.83%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.61%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.52%) Bash
9 11 (0.48%) Korn
9 11 (0.48%) R
10 8 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.31%) Bicep
11 7 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.22%) ABAP
12 5 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.22%) VBA
13 3 (0.13%) Perl
14 2 (0.087%) C
14 2 (0.087%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 371 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 310 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 137 (5.97%) Degree
4 117 (5.10%) PMP
5 104 (4.54%) PMI Certification
6 48 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (1.70%) CISSP
8 26 (1.13%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.05%) CISM
10 23 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.92%) CBAP
12 20 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.74%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.70%) IIBA
14 16 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.65%) APMP
16 14 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
17 13 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 10 (0.44%) ACCA
18 10 (0.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (6.93%) QA
2 158 (6.89%) Data Quality
3 110 (4.80%) PMO
4 97 (4.23%) GDPR
5 73 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (3.18%) NIST
6 41 (1.79%) GRC
6 41 (1.79%) SLA
7 30 (1.31%) NCSC
8 28 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 22 (0.96%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.78%) COBIT
11 16 (0.70%) IFRS
11 16 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.48%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.48%) MiFID
13 9 (0.39%) HL7
13 9 (0.39%) Solvency II
14 8 (0.35%) COREP
System Software
1 52 (2.27%) Docker
2 32 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.26%) NFS
5 6 (0.26%) Postfix
6 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.17%) Varnish
8 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) NLBS
10 1 (0.044%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.044%) RACF
10 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 65 (2.83%) Terraform
3 17 (0.74%) Ansible
4 12 (0.52%) Grafana
5 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.26%) RSA Archer
8 6 (0.26%) SCCM
9 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.13%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.087%) Argo
12 2 (0.087%) Control-M
12 2 (0.087%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.087%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.087%) vMotion
13 1 (0.044%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 241 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 175 (7.63%) SAP
3 126 (5.49%) Oracle
4 113 (4.93%) Salesforce
5 105 (4.58%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.18%) Databricks
7 46 (2.01%) Workday
8 38 (1.66%) Google
9 31 (1.35%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.09%) Splunk
11 22 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.78%) Ariba
12 18 (0.78%) Informatica
13 17 (0.74%) VMware
14 16 (0.70%) Adobe
14 16 (0.70%) Cisco
15 15 (0.65%) Tenable
16 14 (0.61%) IBM
16 14 (0.61%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.61%) Murex