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

6 months to
2 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 3,023 1,525 1,170
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.99% 11.11% 7.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.83% 12.05% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,991 1,032 843
10th Percentile £400 £390 £376
25th Percentile £469 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +3.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £668
90th Percentile £775 £765 £775
England median daily rate £550 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 23 8
10th Percentile £27.25 £28.25 £30.13
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.00 £34.73
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +8.97%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £60.31
90th Percentile £76.75 £65.00 £66.50
England median hourly rate £62.25 £53.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +16.36% -13.15% +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 17,962 12,654 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.20% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,849 8,470 10,231
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £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 300 249 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.18
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -15.71% -14.72%
75th Percentile £57.13 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +9 398 £600 +4.35% 341
West London +20 98 £520 -0.95% 81
South London -2 29 £600 -2.58% 26
North London +4 10 £450 -17.43% 4
East London -4 8 £675 +7.14% 27
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
1 153 (5.06%) Confluence
2 78 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.49%) CMS
4 22 (0.73%) Apache
5 18 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.23%) SAS
9 6 (0.20%) Appian
9 6 (0.20%) WordPress
10 4 (0.13%) Kentico
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.099%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.099%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.066%) Camunda
12 2 (0.066%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.066%) JBoss
12 2 (0.066%) Moodle
12 2 (0.066%) nginx
Applications
1 136 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
5 43 (1.42%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.33%) Revit
6 10 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.13%) Notion
8 4 (0.13%) Sketch
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.099%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.066%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.066%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.066%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.033%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 88 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.46%) Finacle
4 14 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.43%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 12 (0.40%) SAP SD
7 11 (0.36%) Endur
7 11 (0.36%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.33%) Magento
8 10 (0.33%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
12 6 (0.20%) Loan IQ
12 6 (0.20%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.20%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 545 (18.03%) Azure
2 374 (12.37%) AWS
3 194 (6.42%) Power Platform
4 127 (4.20%) SaaS
5 125 (4.13%) GCP
6 115 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
7 94 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 88 (2.91%) Entra ID
9 73 (2.41%) GitHub
10 71 (2.35%) Snowflake
11 39 (1.29%) Figma
11 39 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
12 38 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
13 37 (1.22%) Amazon S3
14 36 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (1.12%) OCI
16 33 (1.09%) Serverless
17 32 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.06%) Power Automate
18 30 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.59%) Firewall
2 34 (1.12%) Network Security
3 29 (0.96%) DNS
4 26 (0.86%) WAN
5 19 (0.63%) VPN
6 17 (0.56%) LAN
7 15 (0.50%) DHCP
8 14 (0.46%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.43%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.36%) BGP
11 9 (0.30%) Internet
11 9 (0.30%) OSPF
11 9 (0.30%) Wireless
12 8 (0.26%) HTTP
12 8 (0.26%) SSL
12 8 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.23%) 4G
13 7 (0.23%) 5G
13 7 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
14 6 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (5.29%) Power BI
2 92 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (2.45%) Metadata
4 54 (1.79%) Tableau
5 46 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 41 (1.36%) SQL Server
7 33 (1.09%) Delta Lake
8 28 (0.93%) Relational Database
9 22 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (0.66%) Big Data
10 20 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (0.56%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 14 (0.46%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.36%) Db2
14 11 (0.36%) Parquet
14 11 (0.36%) Power Query
14 11 (0.36%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.33%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 316 (10.45%) JIRA
2 45 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 42 (1.39%) Git
4 25 (0.83%) GitLab
5 18 (0.60%) Selenium
6 16 (0.53%) Postman
7 12 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 9 (0.30%) ERwin
8 9 (0.30%) JMeter
8 9 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
8 9 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.23%) Appium
9 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.23%) Maven
9 7 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.20%) JUnit
11 5 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.17%) MLflow
11 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 1,501 (49.65%) Social Skills
2 1,181 (39.07%) Finance
3 522 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 405 (13.40%) Banking
5 308 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 215 (7.11%) Retail
7 183 (6.05%) Influencing Skills
8 156 (5.16%) Legal
9 152 (5.03%) Marketing
10 116 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
11 105 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
12 81 (2.68%) Front Office
13 76 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
14 67 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 63 (2.08%) Investment Banking
16 62 (2.05%) Financial Institution
17 61 (2.02%) Manufacturing
18 55 (1.82%) Local Government
19 53 (1.75%) Telecoms
20 46 (1.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 503 (16.64%) Analyst
2 389 (12.87%) Lead
3 359 (11.88%) Project Manager
4 358 (11.84%) Business Analyst
5 356 (11.78%) Architect
6 305 (10.09%) Senior
7 173 (5.72%) Consultant
8 145 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
9 119 (3.94%) Senior Manager
10 108 (3.57%) Programme Manager
11 95 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
12 77 (2.55%) IT Manager
13 71 (2.35%) Developer
14 69 (2.28%) Product Manager
15 68 (2.25%) Technical Manager
16 67 (2.22%) Product Owner
17 62 (2.05%) Data Analyst
18 55 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
18 55 (1.82%) Senior Project Manager
19 50 (1.65%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (2.84%) REST
2 66 (2.18%) Middleware
3 45 (1.49%) SOAP
4 32 (1.06%) Kafka
4 32 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
5 29 (0.96%) .NET
5 29 (0.96%) PySpark
6 26 (0.86%) HTML
7 24 (0.79%) CSS
7 24 (0.79%) SailPoint
8 23 (0.76%) JSON
8 23 (0.76%) XML
9 22 (0.73%) Web Services
10 20 (0.66%) OAuth
11 16 (0.53%) React
12 15 (0.50%) AngularJS
13 14 (0.46%) RESTful
14 13 (0.43%) Playwright
14 13 (0.43%) Spring
15 12 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 261 (8.63%) Product Ownership
2 191 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 109 (3.61%) Cloud Native
4 78 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
4 78 (2.58%) Management Information System
5 63 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 59 (1.95%) Data Centre
6 59 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (1.85%) Virtual Team
8 55 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 46 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 45 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
11 44 (1.46%) FMCG
12 43 (1.42%) AI Agents
13 39 (1.29%) NHS
14 34 (1.12%) CMDB
15 33 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (1.03%) Operational Technology
17 29 (0.96%) Security Posture
18 26 (0.86%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 98 (3.24%) Windows
2 49 (1.62%) Linux
3 22 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.43%) Android
5 13 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.43%) Unix
6 9 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.13%) VMS
10 3 (0.099%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.066%) AIX
11 2 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.033%) CentOS
12 1 (0.033%) Solaris
12 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 980 (32.42%) Agile
2 493 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
3 467 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 457 (15.12%) Roadmaps
5 428 (14.16%) Migration
6 407 (13.46%) Decision-Making
7 399 (13.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 395 (13.07%) AI
9 367 (12.14%) Analytics
10 364 (12.04%) DevOps
11 361 (11.94%) Project Management
12 323 (10.68%) Project Delivery
13 320 (10.59%) User Acceptance Testing
14 284 (9.39%) Change Management
15 269 (8.90%) Risk Management
16 266 (8.80%) Workshop Facilitation
17 264 (8.73%) CI/CD
18 260 (8.60%) Validation
19 244 (8.07%) User Stories
20 240 (7.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 301 (9.96%) SQL
2 196 (6.48%) Python
3 56 (1.85%) Java
4 47 (1.55%) PowerShell
5 43 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 30 (0.99%) C#
7 22 (0.73%) Bash
8 18 (0.60%) Korn
9 17 (0.56%) Bicep
10 15 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.46%) R
12 12 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.33%) VBA
15 9 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.26%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.26%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.20%) Perl
18 5 (0.17%) C++
18 5 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 431 (14.26%) Security Cleared
2 362 (11.97%) SC Cleared
3 178 (5.89%) Degree
4 154 (5.09%) PMP
5 135 (4.47%) PMI Certification
6 60 (1.98%) CISSP
7 53 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 42 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.32%) CISM
11 28 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 27 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.50%) CRISC
17 14 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
18 13 (0.43%) ACCA
19 12 (0.40%) CIMA
19 12 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 177 (5.86%) QA
3 143 (4.73%) PMO
4 101 (3.34%) GDPR
5 70 (2.32%) NIST
6 69 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 56 (1.85%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.82%) GRC
9 49 (1.62%) SLA
10 22 (0.73%) NCSC
11 20 (0.66%) COBIT
12 17 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.56%) WCAG
13 15 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.50%) SEPA
14 14 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.43%) MiFID
15 13 (0.43%) Solvency II
16 12 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 78 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 69 (2.28%) Docker
3 19 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.26%) NFS
7 6 (0.20%) Postfix
8 4 (0.13%) Varnish
8 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.13%) vSphere
9 3 (0.099%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.099%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.033%) RACF
Systems Management
1 110 (3.64%) Terraform
2 75 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.16%) Ansible
4 24 (0.79%) Grafana
5 17 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 15 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.43%) SCCM
8 8 (0.26%) Argo
9 7 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.20%) Control-M
10 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.20%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.13%) Puppet
12 3 (0.099%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.066%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.066%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.066%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 403 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 224 (7.41%) SAP
3 159 (5.26%) Oracle
4 144 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 143 (4.73%) Salesforce
6 85 (2.81%) Databricks
7 60 (1.98%) Google
8 53 (1.75%) Workday
9 32 (1.06%) Adobe
10 31 (1.03%) CyberArk
10 31 (1.03%) IBM
11 28 (0.93%) Splunk
12 27 (0.89%) Cisco
13 26 (0.86%) VMware
14 22 (0.73%) Ariba
15 20 (0.66%) Guidewire
16 19 (0.63%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.63%) Okta
17 18 (0.60%) Informatica
17 18 (0.60%) Zscaler