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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,128 1,519 1,175
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.52% 11.19% 7.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.42% 12.12% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,058 1,032 834
10th Percentile £400 £388 £383
25th Percentile £469 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £574 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +4.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £763 £775
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 21 8
10th Percentile £28.00 £28.25 £30.13
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.00 £34.73
Median hourly rate £42.50 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +4.71% +19.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £60.31
90th Percentile £76.75 £65.00 £66.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.09 £61.60
% change year-on-year +17.74% -13.82% +34.26%

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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +9 402 £600 +4.35% 375
West London +20 110 £520 -0.95% 80
South London +6 35 £550 -10.70% 31
North London +4 10 £450 -17.43% 1
East London -4 8 £675 +3.45% 37
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
1 158 (5.05%) Confluence
2 84 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.47%) CMS
4 24 (0.77%) Apache
5 23 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.22%) SAS
10 6 (0.19%) WordPress
11 4 (0.13%) Appian
11 4 (0.13%) Kentico
12 3 (0.096%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.096%) Moodle
12 3 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.064%) Drupal
13 2 (0.064%) JBoss
13 2 (0.064%) nginx
13 2 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 142 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 67 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
4 62 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
5 42 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.32%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.32%) Revit
6 10 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.16%) Trello
8 4 (0.13%) Notion
9 3 (0.096%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.096%) Sketch
10 2 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.064%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.064%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.064%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.032%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.032%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 90 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.45%) Finacle
5 13 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 12 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (0.35%) Endur
7 11 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.32%) Magento
8 10 (0.32%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.32%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (0.29%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.22%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 567 (18.13%) Azure
2 393 (12.56%) AWS
3 204 (6.52%) Power Platform
4 136 (4.35%) SaaS
5 125 (4.00%) GCP
6 119 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
8 96 (3.07%) Entra ID
9 78 (2.49%) Snowflake
10 74 (2.37%) GitHub
11 44 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 37 (1.18%) Amazon S3
12 37 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
13 36 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
14 34 (1.09%) Figma
14 34 (1.09%) OCI
14 34 (1.09%) Serverless
15 32 (1.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.60%) Firewall
2 39 (1.25%) Network Security
3 32 (1.02%) DNS
4 26 (0.83%) WAN
5 19 (0.61%) VPN
6 17 (0.54%) LAN
7 16 (0.51%) DHCP
8 13 (0.42%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.35%) BGP
9 11 (0.35%) Internet
10 9 (0.29%) OSPF
10 9 (0.29%) SSL
10 9 (0.29%) Wireless
11 8 (0.26%) HTTP
11 8 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
11 8 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.22%) 4G
12 7 (0.22%) 5G
12 7 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.34%) Power BI
2 96 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (2.49%) Metadata
4 56 (1.79%) Tableau
5 48 (1.53%) Data Lake
6 46 (1.47%) SQL Server
7 36 (1.15%) Delta Lake
8 28 (0.90%) Relational Database
9 26 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
11 23 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.67%) Big Data
13 19 (0.61%) Oracle Database
14 15 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (0.48%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.38%) NoSQL
16 11 (0.35%) Data Vault
16 11 (0.35%) MongoDB
16 11 (0.35%) Parquet
16 11 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 323 (10.33%) JIRA
2 48 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 47 (1.50%) Git
4 28 (0.90%) GitLab
5 19 (0.61%) Selenium
6 17 (0.54%) Postman
7 12 (0.38%) Zephyr
8 11 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.32%) JMeter
10 8 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.26%) Maven
10 8 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.22%) Appium
11 7 (0.22%) ERwin
11 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.19%) JUnit
12 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.16%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.16%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.16%) Snyk
General
1 1,573 (50.29%) Social Skills
2 1,206 (38.55%) Finance
3 542 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 426 (13.62%) Banking
5 331 (10.58%) Public Sector
6 220 (7.03%) Retail
7 186 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
8 166 (5.31%) Legal
9 160 (5.12%) Marketing
10 122 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
11 113 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
12 82 (2.62%) Front Office
13 80 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
14 68 (2.17%) Manufacturing
15 67 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 64 (2.05%) Investment Banking
17 61 (1.95%) Financial Institution
18 58 (1.85%) Local Government
18 58 (1.85%) Telecoms
19 47 (1.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 513 (16.40%) Analyst
2 400 (12.79%) Lead
3 371 (11.86%) Architect
4 366 (11.70%) Project Manager
5 361 (11.54%) Business Analyst
6 323 (10.33%) Senior
7 191 (6.11%) Consultant
8 149 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 123 (3.93%) Senior Manager
10 111 (3.55%) Programme Manager
11 91 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
12 77 (2.46%) Developer
12 77 (2.46%) IT Manager
13 72 (2.30%) Technical Manager
14 71 (2.27%) Product Manager
15 67 (2.14%) Product Owner
16 65 (2.08%) Data Analyst
17 57 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
18 56 (1.79%) Senior Project Manager
19 48 (1.53%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (2.88%) REST
2 70 (2.24%) Middleware
3 45 (1.44%) SOAP
4 36 (1.15%) Kafka
5 34 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
6 32 (1.02%) PySpark
7 31 (0.99%) .NET
8 27 (0.86%) HTML
9 25 (0.80%) XML
10 24 (0.77%) CSS
10 24 (0.77%) JSON
11 23 (0.74%) SailPoint
12 21 (0.67%) Web Services
13 20 (0.64%) OAuth
14 13 (0.42%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.42%) Playwright
14 13 (0.42%) React
14 13 (0.42%) Spring
15 12 (0.38%) Node.js
15 12 (0.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 271 (8.66%) Product Ownership
2 202 (6.46%) Onboarding
3 116 (3.71%) Cloud Native
4 83 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 78 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 64 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 63 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
8 61 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 57 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 52 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
11 51 (1.63%) AI Agents
11 51 (1.63%) Virtual Team
12 46 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
13 44 (1.41%) FMCG
14 40 (1.28%) NHS
15 35 (1.12%) CMDB
16 34 (1.09%) Operational Technology
16 34 (1.09%) Security Posture
17 33 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
18 28 (0.90%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 99 (3.16%) Windows
2 53 (1.69%) Linux
3 23 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.48%) Unix
5 14 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.29%) Android
7 9 (0.29%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.13%) VMS
11 2 (0.064%) AIX
11 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.032%) CentOS
12 1 (0.032%) Solaris
12 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,013 (32.38%) Agile
2 511 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
3 483 (15.44%) Roadmaps
4 476 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 439 (14.03%) Migration
6 425 (13.59%) Decision-Making
7 415 (13.27%) AI
8 399 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 381 (12.18%) Project Management
10 380 (12.15%) DevOps
11 379 (12.12%) Analytics
12 340 (10.87%) Project Delivery
13 326 (10.42%) User Acceptance Testing
14 291 (9.30%) Change Management
15 285 (9.11%) Workshop Facilitation
16 279 (8.92%) CI/CD
17 276 (8.82%) Risk Management
18 264 (8.44%) Validation
19 251 (8.02%) Data Modelling
20 249 (7.96%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 319 (10.20%) SQL
2 202 (6.46%) Python
3 62 (1.98%) Java
4 54 (1.73%) PowerShell
5 49 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 30 (0.96%) C#
7 22 (0.70%) Bash
8 19 (0.61%) Bicep
9 17 (0.54%) Korn
10 16 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 15 (0.48%) R
12 13 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.29%) VBA
15 8 (0.26%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.26%) Perl
15 8 (0.26%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.19%) C++
17 5 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 466 (14.90%) Security Cleared
2 391 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 184 (5.88%) Degree
4 162 (5.18%) PMP
5 138 (4.41%) PMI Certification
6 64 (2.05%) CISSP
7 53 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 48 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.37%) CISM
11 35 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 30 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.51%) CRISC
17 15 (0.48%) ACCA
17 15 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
18 14 (0.45%) CIMA
19 13 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (7.54%) Data Quality
2 186 (5.95%) QA
3 148 (4.73%) PMO
4 101 (3.23%) GDPR
5 75 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 73 (2.33%) NIST
7 61 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 54 (1.73%) GRC
9 48 (1.53%) SLA
10 24 (0.77%) NCSC
11 19 (0.61%) COBIT
12 18 (0.58%) WCAG
13 17 (0.54%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.51%) ISO 20022
14 16 (0.51%) SEPA
15 14 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
16 13 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.38%) MiFID
18 11 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 83 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 72 (2.30%) Docker
3 22 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.26%) NFS
7 6 (0.19%) Postfix
7 6 (0.19%) vSphere
8 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.13%) Varnish
8 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.096%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.032%) oVirt
11 1 (0.032%) RACF
11 1 (0.032%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 122 (3.90%) Terraform
2 77 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.15%) Ansible
4 26 (0.83%) Grafana
5 18 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.42%) SCCM
8 8 (0.26%) Argo
9 7 (0.22%) Control-M
9 7 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.13%) Puppet
12 3 (0.096%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.096%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.064%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.064%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 429 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 226 (7.23%) SAP
3 164 (5.24%) Oracle
4 148 (4.73%) ServiceNow
5 145 (4.64%) Salesforce
6 95 (3.04%) Databricks
7 61 (1.95%) Google
8 53 (1.69%) Workday
9 36 (1.15%) IBM
10 34 (1.09%) Adobe
11 30 (0.96%) CyberArk
11 30 (0.96%) Splunk
12 29 (0.93%) VMware
13 28 (0.90%) Cisco
14 21 (0.67%) Ariba
14 21 (0.67%) Okta
15 20 (0.64%) Guidewire
15 20 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.61%) Informatica
16 19 (0.61%) Zscaler