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

6 months to
3 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 3,013 1,525 1,169
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.99% 11.11% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.84% 12.05% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,985 1,032 841
10th Percentile £400 £390 £381
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 £675
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% -1.16%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £60.31
90th Percentile £76.75 £65.00 £66.50
England median hourly rate £61.75 £53.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.42% -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 17,889 12,658 14,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.21% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,794 8,473 10,216
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 £658 £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 301 250 195
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.15
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.54 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £29.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -16.90% -12.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.31 £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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +9 396 £600 +4.35% 361
West London +20 98 £520 -0.95% 77
South London 0 29 £600 -2.58% 25
North London +4 10 £450 -17.43% 4
East London -4 8 £675 +7.14% 28
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
1 154 (5.11%) Confluence
2 78 (2.59%) 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 (0.37%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.23%) SAS
9 6 (0.20%) WordPress
10 5 (0.17%) Appian
11 4 (0.13%) Kentico
12 3 (0.100%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.100%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.100%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.066%) Camunda
13 2 (0.066%) Drupal
13 2 (0.066%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.066%) JBoss
13 2 (0.066%) Moodle
Applications
1 136 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
5 43 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.33%) Revit
6 10 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.13%) Notion
8 4 (0.13%) Sketch
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.100%) 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 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.46%) Finacle
3 14 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.46%) Workday HCM
4 13 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 12 (0.40%) SAP SD
6 11 (0.37%) Endur
6 11 (0.37%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.33%) Magento
7 10 (0.33%) SAP ERP
8 9 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.27%) SAP HCM
10 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.20%) Loan IQ
11 6 (0.20%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.20%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 542 (17.99%) Azure
2 373 (12.38%) AWS
3 195 (6.47%) Power Platform
4 127 (4.22%) SaaS
5 123 (4.08%) GCP
6 115 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
7 94 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
8 87 (2.89%) Entra ID
9 73 (2.42%) GitHub
10 71 (2.36%) Snowflake
11 39 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
11 39 (1.29%) Figma
11 39 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
12 37 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 36 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (1.13%) OCI
15 33 (1.10%) Serverless
16 31 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
16 31 (1.03%) Power Automate
17 30 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.56%) Firewall
2 34 (1.13%) Network Security
3 29 (0.96%) DNS
4 26 (0.86%) WAN
5 18 (0.60%) 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 (0.37%) BGP
11 9 (0.30%) Internet
11 9 (0.30%) OSPF
11 9 (0.30%) Wireless
12 8 (0.27%) HTTP
12 8 (0.27%) SSL
12 8 (0.27%) 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 (5.31%) Power BI
2 92 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (2.42%) Metadata
4 54 (1.79%) Tableau
5 46 (1.53%) Data Lake
6 40 (1.33%) SQL Server
7 33 (1.10%) 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 (0.37%) Db2
14 11 (0.37%) Parquet
14 11 (0.37%) Power Query
14 11 (0.37%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.33%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 317 (10.52%) 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%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 1,499 (49.75%) Social Skills
2 1,174 (38.96%) Finance
3 521 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 405 (13.44%) Banking
5 305 (10.12%) Public Sector
6 215 (7.14%) Retail
7 184 (6.11%) Influencing Skills
8 155 (5.14%) Legal
9 152 (5.04%) Marketing
10 116 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
11 104 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
12 81 (2.69%) Front Office
13 76 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
14 66 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 63 (2.09%) Investment Banking
16 62 (2.06%) Financial Institution
17 61 (2.02%) Manufacturing
18 55 (1.83%) Local Government
19 53 (1.76%) Telecoms
20 46 (1.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 503 (16.69%) Analyst
2 388 (12.88%) Lead
3 358 (11.88%) Business Analyst
4 356 (11.82%) Project Manager
5 355 (11.78%) Architect
6 304 (10.09%) Senior
7 173 (5.74%) Consultant
8 144 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
9 118 (3.92%) Senior Manager
10 106 (3.52%) Programme Manager
11 95 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
12 77 (2.56%) IT Manager
13 71 (2.36%) Developer
14 69 (2.29%) Product Manager
15 68 (2.26%) Product Owner
16 67 (2.22%) Technical Manager
17 62 (2.06%) Data Analyst
18 55 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
19 54 (1.79%) Senior Project Manager
20 50 (1.66%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (2.82%) REST
2 66 (2.19%) 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 (0.80%) CSS
8 23 (0.76%) JSON
8 23 (0.76%) SailPoint
8 23 (0.76%) XML
9 21 (0.70%) Web Services
10 19 (0.63%) OAuth
11 16 (0.53%) React
12 15 (0.50%) AngularJS
13 13 (0.43%) Playwright
13 13 (0.43%) RESTful
13 13 (0.43%) Spring
14 12 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 262 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 191 (6.34%) Onboarding
3 109 (3.62%) Cloud Native
4 78 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 77 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 63 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 60 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 58 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 56 (1.86%) Virtual Team
10 55 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 46 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
13 44 (1.46%) FMCG
14 43 (1.43%) AI Agents
15 39 (1.29%) NHS
16 34 (1.13%) CMDB
17 31 (1.03%) Operational Technology
17 31 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
18 29 (0.96%) Security Posture
19 26 (0.86%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 98 (3.25%) Windows
2 49 (1.63%) 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 (0.100%) 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
1 979 (32.49%) Agile
2 490 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
3 466 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 457 (15.17%) Roadmaps
5 425 (14.11%) Migration
6 407 (13.51%) Decision-Making
7 398 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 394 (13.08%) AI
9 366 (12.15%) Analytics
10 363 (12.05%) DevOps
11 361 (11.98%) Project Management
12 322 (10.69%) Project Delivery
13 318 (10.55%) User Acceptance Testing
14 280 (9.29%) Change Management
15 267 (8.86%) Risk Management
16 266 (8.83%) Workshop Facilitation
17 261 (8.66%) CI/CD
18 258 (8.56%) Validation
19 245 (8.13%) User Stories
20 239 (7.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 300 (9.96%) SQL
2 195 (6.47%) Python
3 56 (1.86%) Java
4 47 (1.56%) PowerShell
5 43 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.00%) C#
7 22 (0.73%) Bash
8 17 (0.56%) Bicep
8 17 (0.56%) Korn
9 15 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.46%) R
11 12 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.33%) VBA
14 9 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.27%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.20%) Perl
17 5 (0.17%) C++
17 5 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 430 (14.27%) Security Cleared
2 362 (12.01%) SC Cleared
3 178 (5.91%) Degree
4 154 (5.11%) PMP
5 135 (4.48%) PMI Certification
6 60 (1.99%) CISSP
7 53 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 42 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.33%) CISM
11 28 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 27 (0.90%) 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 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 175 (5.81%) QA
3 143 (4.75%) PMO
4 100 (3.32%) GDPR
5 70 (2.32%) NIST
6 69 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 56 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 54 (1.79%) GRC
9 49 (1.63%) 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 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 68 (2.26%) Docker
3 19 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.27%) NFS
7 6 (0.20%) Postfix
8 4 (0.13%) Varnish
8 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.13%) vSphere
9 3 (0.100%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.100%) 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 (3.65%) Terraform
2 74 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.16%) Ansible
4 24 (0.80%) Grafana
5 17 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.43%) SCCM
9 8 (0.27%) Argo
10 7 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.20%) Control-M
11 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.17%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.13%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.13%) Puppet
14 3 (0.100%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.066%) ITRS Geneos
15 2 (0.066%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.066%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 404 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 223 (7.40%) SAP
3 157 (5.21%) Oracle
4 143 (4.75%) Salesforce
4 143 (4.75%) ServiceNow
5 85 (2.82%) Databricks
6 60 (1.99%) Google
7 53 (1.76%) Workday
8 32 (1.06%) Adobe
8 32 (1.06%) IBM
9 30 (1.00%) CyberArk
10 27 (0.90%) Cisco
10 27 (0.90%) Splunk
11 26 (0.86%) VMware
12 22 (0.73%) Ariba
13 20 (0.66%) Guidewire
14 19 (0.63%) MuleSoft
14 19 (0.63%) Okta
15 18 (0.60%) Informatica
15 18 (0.60%) Zscaler