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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,260 1,278 1,257
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.32% 10.58% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.92% 11.47% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 862 926
10th Percentile £397 £388 £393
25th Percentile £475 £464 £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 £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £537 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +0.37% -2.73% -
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% -24.49%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £76.71 £65.75 £57.75
England median hourly rate £52.00 £60.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.40% +1.25% +9.43%

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 16,241 11,146 15,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 92.25% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,846 7,494 11,093
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 £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 187 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.60 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +21.73% +10.33% -29.54%
75th Percentile £58.84 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.73 £63.10 £66.98
England median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +7 323 £600 -3.23% 294
West London +7 58 £520 +69.80% 25
South London -4 23 £570 -12.31% 11
East London -5 9 £638 +1.19% 12
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 (5.66%) Confluence
2 55 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.28%) CMS
4 13 (0.58%) Appian
5 12 (0.53%) Apache
5 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.27%) SAS
6 6 (0.27%) WordPress
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.18%) Kentico
9 3 (0.13%) Camunda
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.088%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.088%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.088%) Sitefinity
11 1 (0.044%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 100 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 56 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
4 51 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 41 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.18%) Revit
7 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.18%) Trello
8 3 (0.13%) Sketch
9 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.088%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.088%) Notion
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.044%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.044%) InVision
10 1 (0.044%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.02%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 12 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.44%) Loan IQ
8 8 (0.35%) Endur
8 8 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.35%) SAP HCM
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.22%) SAP BRIM
11 5 (0.22%) SAP HR
12 4 (0.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 350 (15.49%) Azure
2 246 (10.88%) AWS
3 110 (4.87%) Power Platform
4 86 (3.81%) GCP
5 76 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (3.36%) SaaS
6 63 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
7 45 (1.99%) Snowflake
8 42 (1.86%) Entra ID
9 38 (1.68%) GitHub
10 29 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (1.24%) Figma
11 28 (1.24%) Serverless
12 27 (1.19%) Amazon S3
13 25 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
14 23 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (1.02%) OpenShift
15 22 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (0.93%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.46%) Firewall
2 24 (1.06%) WAN
3 21 (0.93%) Network Security
4 19 (0.84%) LAN
5 14 (0.62%) DNS
6 12 (0.53%) VPN
7 11 (0.49%) BGP
7 11 (0.49%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.49%) 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 5 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.22%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.22%) Wireless
11 4 (0.18%) PSTN
11 4 (0.18%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (3.81%) Power BI
2 56 (2.48%) Metadata
3 55 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.64%) Tableau
5 31 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 31 (1.37%) SQL Server
6 18 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (0.75%) Delta Lake
7 17 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (0.75%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.66%) Big Data
9 14 (0.62%) NoSQL
10 12 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (0.40%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.40%) Pinecone
12 8 (0.35%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
13 7 (0.31%) Looker
13 7 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 251 (11.11%) JIRA
2 39 (1.73%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.15%) Git
4 19 (0.84%) GitLab
5 12 (0.53%) Postman
6 11 (0.49%) MLflow
7 10 (0.44%) Selenium
8 9 (0.40%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.31%) JMeter
9 7 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.31%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.22%) ERwin
11 5 (0.22%) JUnit
11 5 (0.22%) Maven
12 4 (0.18%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.18%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.18%) Snyk
13 3 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 1,078 (47.70%) Social Skills
2 911 (40.31%) Finance
3 339 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (12.52%) Banking
5 227 (10.04%) Public Sector
6 131 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
7 127 (5.62%) Retail
8 119 (5.27%) Legal
9 97 (4.29%) Marketing
10 94 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
11 74 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
12 63 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (2.70%) Financial Institution
14 53 (2.35%) Front Office
15 50 (2.21%) Investment Banking
16 45 (1.99%) Manufacturing
17 42 (1.86%) Telecoms
18 34 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 33 (1.46%) Billing
20 30 (1.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 388 (17.17%) Analyst
2 326 (14.42%) Project Manager
3 308 (13.63%) Lead
4 302 (13.36%) Business Analyst
5 247 (10.93%) Architect
6 227 (10.04%) Senior
7 113 (5.00%) Consultant
8 102 (4.51%) Senior Manager
9 87 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
10 83 (3.67%) Programme Manager
11 80 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
12 65 (2.88%) IT Manager
13 54 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
14 51 (2.26%) Change Manager
14 51 (2.26%) Senior Project Manager
15 49 (2.17%) Data Analyst
15 49 (2.17%) Technical Manager
16 47 (2.08%) Product Manager
17 45 (1.99%) Product Owner
18 43 (1.90%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (2.43%) REST
2 44 (1.95%) Middleware
3 30 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 29 (1.28%) SOAP
5 21 (0.93%) Web Services
6 20 (0.88%) OAuth
7 19 (0.84%) .NET
7 19 (0.84%) OpenID
7 19 (0.84%) RESTful
8 17 (0.75%) Kafka
8 17 (0.75%) XML
9 15 (0.66%) Pandas
9 15 (0.66%) PySpark
9 15 (0.66%) PyTorch
9 15 (0.66%) SAML
9 15 (0.66%) TensorFlow
10 14 (0.62%) Hugging Face
10 14 (0.62%) LDAP
11 13 (0.58%) NumPy
11 13 (0.58%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 169 (7.48%) Product Ownership
2 123 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 89 (3.94%) Cloud Native
4 82 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
5 60 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
6 56 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 47 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 45 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 41 (1.81%) Data Centre
10 37 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.15%) NHS
12 24 (1.06%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (0.97%) Fixed Income
14 22 (0.97%) FMCG
15 20 (0.88%) Derivative
15 20 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (0.84%) PMI
17 17 (0.75%) Equities
17 17 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 57 (2.52%) Windows
2 30 (1.33%) Linux
3 14 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.31%) Android
5 7 (0.31%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.22%) Unix
7 5 (0.22%) VMS
8 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.088%) AIX
9 2 (0.088%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.088%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.088%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.044%) Solaris
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (32.65%) Agile
2 335 (14.82%) Project Management
3 322 (14.25%) Migration
4 319 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
5 309 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 290 (12.83%) Roadmaps
7 274 (12.12%) Decision-Making
8 255 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 246 (10.88%) DevOps
10 235 (10.40%) Project Delivery
11 229 (10.13%) Analytics
12 228 (10.09%) AI
13 207 (9.16%) Change Management
14 205 (9.07%) User Acceptance Testing
15 201 (8.89%) Validation
16 192 (8.50%) Risk Management
17 180 (7.96%) Scrum
17 180 (7.96%) User Stories
18 179 (7.92%) Data Modelling
19 177 (7.83%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 205 (9.07%) SQL
2 133 (5.88%) Python
3 35 (1.55%) Java
4 27 (1.19%) C#
5 20 (0.88%) JavaScript
5 20 (0.88%) PowerShell
6 15 (0.66%) TypeScript
7 11 (0.49%) Korn
7 11 (0.49%) R
8 10 (0.44%) Bash
9 8 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.22%) ABAP
11 5 (0.22%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.22%) VBA
12 4 (0.18%) Bicep
13 3 (0.13%) Perl
14 2 (0.088%) C
14 2 (0.088%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 368 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 309 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 136 (6.02%) Degree
4 117 (5.18%) PMP
5 105 (4.65%) PMI Certification
6 47 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 37 (1.64%) CISSP
8 25 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 23 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 23 (1.02%) CBAP
9 23 (1.02%) CISM
10 20 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 16 (0.71%) IIBA
12 16 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.66%) APMP
13 15 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (0.53%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.44%) ACCA
15 10 (0.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 154 (6.81%) QA
3 108 (4.78%) PMO
4 98 (4.34%) GDPR
5 73 (3.23%) NIST
6 72 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (1.81%) GRC
7 41 (1.81%) SLA
8 30 (1.33%) NCSC
9 27 (1.19%) Accessibility
10 24 (1.06%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.80%) COBIT
12 17 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 16 (0.71%) IFRS
14 11 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.49%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.49%) MiFID
15 9 (0.40%) HL7
15 9 (0.40%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.35%) COREP
System Software
1 51 (2.26%) Docker
2 31 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.27%) NFS
5 6 (0.27%) Postfix
6 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.18%) Varnish
8 3 (0.13%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.088%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.044%) NLBS
10 1 (0.044%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.044%) RACF
10 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 59 (2.61%) Terraform
3 13 (0.58%) Ansible
4 11 (0.49%) Grafana
5 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.27%) RSA Archer
8 6 (0.27%) SCCM
9 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.13%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.088%) Argo
12 2 (0.088%) Control-M
12 2 (0.088%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.088%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.088%) vMotion
13 1 (0.044%) Nagios
13 1 (0.044%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 230 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 173 (7.65%) SAP
3 124 (5.49%) Oracle
4 114 (5.04%) Salesforce
5 107 (4.73%) ServiceNow
6 47 (2.08%) Databricks
6 47 (2.08%) Workday
7 35 (1.55%) Google
8 31 (1.37%) CyberArk
9 23 (1.02%) Splunk
10 22 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 19 (0.84%) Informatica
12 18 (0.80%) Ariba
13 15 (0.66%) Cisco
13 15 (0.66%) Murex
13 15 (0.66%) VMware
14 14 (0.62%) IBM
14 14 (0.62%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.58%) Adobe
15 13 (0.58%) Conga