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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,176 1,258 1,309
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.43% 9.88% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.99% 10.74% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 846 963
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £469 £464 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -5.17%
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 26 20 15
10th Percentile £24.04 £34.96 £23.70
25th Percentile £38.00 £38.25 £30.16
Median hourly rate £50.25 £49.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +15.88% -34.71%
75th Percentile £71.88 £55.25 £56.25
90th Percentile £76.71 £70.25 £63.00
England median hourly rate £48.00 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +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 15,550 11,711 15,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 91.99% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,406 7,955 11,321
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 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £806 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 168 333
10th Percentile £18.66 £16.48 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.57 £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 £50.75 £47.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £63.75 £66.70
England median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +9 312 £600 - 101
West London -1 34 £535 +17.58% 24
South London -21 22 £590 -1.67% 6
East London 0 6 £675 +3.45% 16
North London +2 5 £498 +13.07% 3
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
1 133 (6.11%) Confluence
2 51 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.97%) CMS
4 15 (0.69%) Appian
4 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.51%) Apache
6 7 (0.32%) SAS
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.23%) nginx
9 4 (0.18%) Camunda
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%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
3 51 (2.34%) MS Visio
4 48 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.56%) 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 58 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.06%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.64%) 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
1 333 (15.30%) Azure
2 222 (10.20%) AWS
3 108 (4.96%) Power Platform
4 82 (3.77%) GCP
5 77 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (2.67%) SaaS
7 40 (1.84%) Snowflake
8 37 (1.70%) Entra ID
9 30 (1.38%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (1.33%) Figma
11 28 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (1.29%) GitHub
12 25 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (1.01%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
14 20 (0.92%) OCI
14 20 (0.92%) Serverless
15 18 (0.83%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.42%) Firewall
2 27 (1.24%) WAN
3 25 (1.15%) Network Security
4 20 (0.92%) LAN
5 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.69%) BGP
7 14 (0.64%) VPN
8 13 (0.60%) DNS
9 11 (0.51%) OSPF
10 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.41%) MPLS
12 7 (0.32%) Broadband
12 7 (0.32%) VoIP
13 6 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.28%) Intranet
13 6 (0.28%) NX-OS
14 5 (0.23%) 5G
14 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (4.04%) Power BI
2 53 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (2.39%) Metadata
4 31 (1.42%) Tableau
5 28 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 27 (1.24%) Data Lake
7 18 (0.83%) 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 11 (0.51%) Delta Lake
11 10 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.46%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.41%) Pinecone
12 9 (0.41%) Power Query
13 7 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (0.28%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 246 (11.31%) JIRA
2 35 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 21 (0.97%) Git
4 19 (0.87%) GitLab
5 12 (0.55%) MLflow
5 12 (0.55%) Selenium
6 11 (0.51%) SpecFlow
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%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.18%) JUnit
12 4 (0.18%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 1,064 (48.90%) Social Skills
2 881 (40.49%) Finance
3 339 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (12.13%) Banking
5 217 (9.97%) Public Sector
6 126 (5.79%) Influencing Skills
7 102 (4.69%) Retail
8 96 (4.41%) Legal
8 96 (4.41%) Marketing
9 87 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
10 75 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
11 71 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
12 64 (2.94%) Financial Institution
13 62 (2.85%) Front Office
14 46 (2.11%) Investment Banking
15 44 (2.02%) Manufacturing
16 42 (1.93%) Telecoms
17 32 (1.47%) Law
18 29 (1.33%) Billing
19 26 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 409 (18.80%) Analyst
2 329 (15.12%) Business Analyst
3 315 (14.48%) Project Manager
4 292 (13.42%) Lead
5 222 (10.20%) Senior
6 214 (9.83%) Architect
7 121 (5.56%) Consultant
8 93 (4.27%) Senior Manager
9 90 (4.14%) Programme Manager
10 77 (3.54%) Delivery Manager
11 68 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
13 62 (2.85%) IT Manager
14 52 (2.39%) Senior Business Analyst
15 51 (2.34%) Change Manager
15 51 (2.34%) Data Analyst
16 47 (2.16%) Product Manager
16 47 (2.16%) Test Manager
17 45 (2.07%) Senior Project Manager
18 41 (1.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.39%) REST
2 46 (2.11%) Middleware
3 26 (1.19%) SOAP
4 25 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (0.97%) Kafka
6 19 (0.87%) .NET
7 18 (0.83%) OAuth
7 18 (0.83%) OpenID
7 18 (0.83%) Web Services
8 17 (0.78%) Playwright
8 17 (0.78%) PyTorch
8 17 (0.78%) RESTful
8 17 (0.78%) TensorFlow
9 16 (0.74%) SAML
9 16 (0.74%) XML
10 15 (0.69%) Hugging Face
10 15 (0.69%) Pandas
11 14 (0.64%) LDAP
11 14 (0.64%) NumPy
12 11 (0.51%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 160 (7.35%) Product Ownership
2 119 (5.47%) Onboarding
3 87 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 72 (3.31%) Cloud Native
5 59 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
6 47 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 44 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 42 (1.93%) Data Structures
9 38 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.19%) NHS
12 25 (1.15%) PMI
13 21 (0.97%) FMCG
14 20 (0.92%) Derivative
14 20 (0.92%) Fixed Income
15 19 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 18 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (0.83%) Reinsurance
17 17 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (2.44%) Windows
2 22 (1.01%) Linux
3 15 (0.69%) 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
1 712 (32.72%) Agile
2 337 (15.49%) Project Management
3 327 (15.03%) Migration
3 327 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
4 306 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 282 (12.96%) Roadmaps
6 253 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 252 (11.58%) Decision-Making
8 233 (10.71%) DevOps
9 220 (10.11%) Change Management
10 217 (9.97%) Project Delivery
11 210 (9.65%) User Acceptance Testing
12 205 (9.42%) AI
13 195 (8.96%) Analytics
14 193 (8.87%) Risk Management
15 186 (8.55%) Validation
16 178 (8.18%) Data Modelling
17 177 (8.13%) Scrum
18 174 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
19 169 (7.77%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 193 (8.87%) SQL
2 124 (5.70%) Python
3 40 (1.84%) Java
4 36 (1.65%) C#
5 24 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 19 (0.87%) PowerShell
7 18 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 13 (0.60%) R
9 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (0.51%) Korn
10 8 (0.37%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.28%) Bash
11 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.23%) ABAP
12 5 (0.23%) VBA
13 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.18%) C++
14 2 (0.092%) C
14 2 (0.092%) Ruby
14 2 (0.092%) X++
Qualifications
1 343 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 287 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 153 (7.03%) Degree
4 115 (5.28%) PMP
5 111 (5.10%) PMI Certification
6 44 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (1.33%) CISSP
7 29 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.06%) CBAP
10 20 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 19 (0.87%) DV Cleared
12 17 (0.78%) CISM
13 16 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.74%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.64%) IIBA
15 13 (0.60%) ACCA
16 12 (0.55%) APMP
16 12 (0.55%) CIMA
16 12 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (7.77%) QA
2 144 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 112 (5.15%) GDPR
4 90 (4.14%) PMO
5 63 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (2.85%) NIST
7 38 (1.75%) GRC
8 37 (1.70%) SLA
9 27 (1.24%) NCSC
10 25 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (1.10%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.92%) Accessibility
13 19 (0.87%) 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 47 (2.16%) Docker
2 27 (1.24%) 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 63 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.11%) 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
7 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.23%) RSA Archer
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
1 223 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 184 (8.46%) SAP
3 116 (5.33%) Oracle
4 111 (5.10%) Salesforce
5 108 (4.96%) ServiceNow
6 59 (2.71%) Workday
7 49 (2.25%) Databricks
8 38 (1.75%) Google
9 35 (1.61%) CyberArk
10 24 (1.10%) Ariba
11 21 (0.97%) Splunk
12 20 (0.92%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.83%) Adobe
13 18 (0.83%) Cisco
13 18 (0.83%) IBM
13 18 (0.83%) Informatica
14 16 (0.74%) Murex
15 15 (0.69%) VMware
16 14 (0.64%) Conga
16 14 (0.64%) Guidewire