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

6 months to
12 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 3,161 1,524 1,175
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.69% 11.21% 7.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.61% 12.14% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,079 1,038 834
10th Percentile £400 £385 £383
25th Percentile £469 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +3.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £765 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
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 £62.25 £51.84 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.09% -15.85% +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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
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 £660 £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 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +8 402 £600 +4.35% 261
West London +20 110 £520 -0.95% 89
South London +6 36 £550 -10.70% 37
North London +4 10 £450 -17.43% 2
East London -1 9 £675 - 34
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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 84 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.46%) CMS
4 24 (0.76%) Apache
5 23 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.25%) SAS
10 6 (0.19%) WordPress
11 4 (0.13%) Appian
11 4 (0.13%) Kentico
12 3 (0.095%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.095%) Moodle
12 3 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.095%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.063%) Drupal
13 2 (0.063%) JBoss
13 2 (0.063%) nginx
13 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 143 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 67 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
4 63 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
5 42 (1.33%) 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 (0.095%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.095%) Sketch
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.063%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.063%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.063%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.032%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.032%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 91 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.44%) Finacle
5 13 (0.41%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.41%) 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
7 11 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.32%) Magento
8 10 (0.32%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.25%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 579 (18.32%) Azure
2 402 (12.72%) AWS
3 206 (6.52%) Power Platform
4 136 (4.30%) SaaS
5 129 (4.08%) GCP
6 122 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
8 97 (3.07%) Entra ID
9 79 (2.50%) Snowflake
10 75 (2.37%) GitHub
11 44 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
12 38 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (1.17%) Amazon S3
13 37 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
14 36 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
15 34 (1.08%) Figma
15 34 (1.08%) OCI
15 34 (1.08%) Serverless
16 32 (1.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.58%) Firewall
2 40 (1.27%) Network Security
3 32 (1.01%) DNS
4 26 (0.82%) WAN
5 19 (0.60%) VPN
6 17 (0.54%) LAN
7 16 (0.51%) DHCP
8 13 (0.41%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.35%) BGP
9 11 (0.35%) Internet
10 9 (0.28%) OSPF
10 9 (0.28%) SSL
10 9 (0.28%) Wireless
11 8 (0.25%) 4G
11 8 (0.25%) 5G
11 8 (0.25%) HTTP
11 8 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
11 8 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.22%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (5.35%) Power BI
2 97 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (2.56%) Metadata
4 56 (1.77%) Tableau
5 48 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 47 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 36 (1.14%) Delta Lake
8 30 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (0.89%) Relational Database
10 26 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 23 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (0.70%) Big Data
13 19 (0.60%) Oracle Database
14 17 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (0.47%) BigQuery
16 14 (0.44%) NoSQL
17 13 (0.41%) MongoDB
18 11 (0.35%) Parquet
18 11 (0.35%) RDBMS
18 11 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 325 (10.28%) JIRA
2 51 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 48 (1.52%) Git
4 29 (0.92%) GitLab
5 20 (0.63%) Selenium
6 17 (0.54%) Postman
7 12 (0.38%) Zephyr
8 11 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.32%) JMeter
10 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.25%) ERwin
10 8 (0.25%) Maven
10 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.22%) Appium
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 1,587 (50.21%) Social Skills
2 1,217 (38.50%) Finance
3 547 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
4 432 (13.67%) Banking
5 337 (10.66%) Public Sector
6 223 (7.05%) Retail
7 188 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
8 166 (5.25%) Legal
9 161 (5.09%) Marketing
10 123 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
11 115 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
12 83 (2.63%) Front Office
13 80 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
14 69 (2.18%) Manufacturing
15 67 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 64 (2.02%) Investment Banking
17 61 (1.93%) Financial Institution
18 60 (1.90%) Telecoms
19 59 (1.87%) Local Government
20 47 (1.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 514 (16.26%) Analyst
2 406 (12.84%) Lead
3 376 (11.89%) Architect
4 371 (11.74%) Project Manager
5 362 (11.45%) Business Analyst
6 329 (10.41%) Senior
7 192 (6.07%) Consultant
8 148 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
9 125 (3.95%) Senior Manager
10 111 (3.51%) Programme Manager
11 91 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
12 78 (2.47%) Developer
13 76 (2.40%) IT Manager
14 73 (2.31%) Product Manager
14 73 (2.31%) Technical Manager
15 67 (2.12%) Product Owner
16 65 (2.06%) Data Analyst
17 58 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
18 56 (1.77%) Senior Project Manager
19 49 (1.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (2.94%) REST
2 69 (2.18%) Middleware
3 46 (1.46%) SOAP
4 40 (1.27%) Kafka
5 34 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
6 32 (1.01%) PySpark
7 31 (0.98%) .NET
8 28 (0.89%) HTML
9 25 (0.79%) CSS
9 25 (0.79%) JSON
9 25 (0.79%) XML
10 23 (0.73%) SailPoint
11 22 (0.70%) OAuth
12 21 (0.66%) Web Services
13 14 (0.44%) Playwright
13 14 (0.44%) React
13 14 (0.44%) Spring
14 13 (0.41%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.41%) Node.js
14 13 (0.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 272 (8.60%) Product Ownership
2 202 (6.39%) Onboarding
3 121 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 78 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 65 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 62 (1.96%) Data Centre
8 58 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 53 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 51 (1.61%) AI Agents
11 48 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
12 45 (1.42%) FMCG
13 39 (1.23%) NHS
14 36 (1.14%) CMDB
15 34 (1.08%) Operational Technology
15 34 (1.08%) Security Posture
16 33 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
17 28 (0.89%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 101 (3.20%) Windows
2 54 (1.71%) Linux
3 23 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.51%) Unix
5 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.28%) Android
9 6 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.13%) VMS
12 2 (0.063%) AIX
12 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.032%) CentOS
13 1 (0.032%) Solaris
13 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,030 (32.58%) Agile
2 517 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
3 488 (15.44%) Roadmaps
4 481 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 442 (13.98%) Migration
6 427 (13.51%) Decision-Making
7 422 (13.35%) AI
8 401 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 389 (12.31%) DevOps
10 387 (12.24%) Project Management
11 383 (12.12%) Analytics
12 343 (10.85%) Project Delivery
13 327 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
14 295 (9.33%) Change Management
15 289 (9.14%) Workshop Facilitation
16 287 (9.08%) CI/CD
17 277 (8.76%) Risk Management
18 266 (8.42%) Validation
19 257 (8.13%) Data Modelling
20 251 (7.94%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 321 (10.16%) SQL
2 205 (6.49%) Python
3 66 (2.09%) Java
4 55 (1.74%) PowerShell
5 51 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 30 (0.95%) C#
7 22 (0.70%) Bash
8 19 (0.60%) Bicep
9 17 (0.54%) Korn
9 17 (0.54%) TypeScript
10 15 (0.47%) R
11 13 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.35%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.28%) VBA
14 8 (0.25%) Perl
14 8 (0.25%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.19%) C++
16 5 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 474 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 398 (12.59%) SC Cleared
3 187 (5.92%) Degree
4 164 (5.19%) PMP
5 140 (4.43%) PMI Certification
6 64 (2.02%) CISSP
7 53 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.36%) CISM
11 36 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 31 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.51%) CRISC
17 15 (0.47%) ACCA
17 15 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
18 14 (0.44%) CIMA
18 14 (0.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 188 (5.95%) QA
3 150 (4.75%) PMO
4 103 (3.26%) GDPR
5 76 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (2.34%) NIST
7 62 (1.96%) Accessibility
8 54 (1.71%) GRC
9 48 (1.52%) SLA
10 24 (0.76%) NCSC
11 19 (0.60%) COBIT
12 18 (0.57%) WCAG
13 17 (0.54%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.54%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.51%) SEPA
15 15 (0.47%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
18 12 (0.38%) MiFID
19 11 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 83 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 72 (2.28%) Docker
3 22 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.25%) 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 (0.095%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.063%) 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
1 124 (3.92%) Terraform
2 80 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.14%) Ansible
4 28 (0.89%) Grafana
5 19 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.41%) SCCM
8 8 (0.25%) Argo
8 8 (0.25%) 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 (0.095%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.095%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.063%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.063%) QRadar
Vendors
1 436 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 226 (7.15%) SAP
3 166 (5.25%) Oracle
4 149 (4.71%) ServiceNow
5 146 (4.62%) Salesforce
6 96 (3.04%) Databricks
7 62 (1.96%) Google
8 53 (1.68%) Workday
9 36 (1.14%) IBM
10 34 (1.08%) Adobe
11 32 (1.01%) CyberArk
11 32 (1.01%) Splunk
12 29 (0.92%) VMware
13 27 (0.85%) Cisco
14 21 (0.66%) Ariba
14 21 (0.66%) Guidewire
14 21 (0.66%) Informatica
14 21 (0.66%) Okta
15 20 (0.63%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.60%) Zscaler