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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,907 1,507 1,188
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.61% 11.02% 7.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.42% 11.95% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,927 1,020 860
10th Percentile £400 £388 £368
25th Percentile £466 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +2.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £653
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £537 £538
% change year-on-year +2.42% -0.09% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 21 10
10th Percentile £26.50 £28.25 £23.23
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £49.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +22.50% -14.89%
75th Percentile £63.25 £55.25 £55.94
90th Percentile £78.44 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +16.82% -13.15% +31.06%

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 17,699 12,607 14,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.22% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,437 10,407
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £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 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.69 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -20.35%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +9 377 £600 +4.35% 166
West London +19 94 £520 -0.48% 52
South London -2 28 £595 -3.39% 22
North London +5 11 £450 -17.43% 1
East London -4 6 £600 -4.76% 29
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
1 159 (5.47%) Confluence
2 78 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.58%) CMS
4 18 (0.62%) Apache
5 16 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.24%) SAS
9 6 (0.21%) WordPress
10 5 (0.17%) Appian
11 4 (0.14%) Kentico
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.069%) Drupal
13 2 (0.069%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.069%) JBoss
13 2 (0.069%) Moodle
13 2 (0.069%) nginx
Applications
1 128 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 62 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
5 43 (1.48%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.31%) Revit
8 7 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.14%) Notion
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.069%) CPLEX
11 2 (0.069%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.069%) Trello
12 1 (0.034%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 83 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.48%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.45%) Finacle
5 13 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 12 (0.41%) SAP SD
6 12 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 11 (0.38%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.34%) Magento
9 9 (0.31%) Endur
9 9 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (0.31%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.28%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 6 (0.21%) Loan IQ
12 6 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.21%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 510 (17.54%) Azure
2 345 (11.87%) AWS
3 184 (6.33%) Power Platform
4 124 (4.27%) SaaS
5 117 (4.02%) GCP
6 111 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
8 81 (2.79%) Entra ID
9 68 (2.34%) GitHub
10 61 (2.10%) Snowflake
11 39 (1.34%) Figma
12 38 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
13 37 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
14 36 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 34 (1.17%) OCI
16 33 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
17 32 (1.10%) PaaS
17 32 (1.10%) Serverless
18 31 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
18 31 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.58%) Firewall
2 32 (1.10%) Network Security
3 30 (1.03%) WAN
4 25 (0.86%) DNS
5 22 (0.76%) LAN
6 21 (0.72%) VPN
7 14 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.38%) DHCP
11 10 (0.34%) BGP
12 9 (0.31%) Wireless
13 8 (0.28%) OSPF
14 7 (0.24%) HTTP
14 7 (0.24%) Internet
14 7 (0.24%) SAN
14 7 (0.24%) SSL
14 7 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
15 6 (0.21%) Kerberos
15 6 (0.21%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (5.09%) Power BI
2 82 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (2.37%) Metadata
4 50 (1.72%) Tableau
5 45 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 36 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 27 (0.93%) Delta Lake
8 26 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 19 (0.65%) Big Data
9 19 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (0.58%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (0.45%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.38%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.38%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.34%) Db2
15 10 (0.34%) Parquet
16 9 (0.31%) Power Query
17 8 (0.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 315 (10.84%) JIRA
2 40 (1.38%) Git
3 39 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.62%) GitLab
4 18 (0.62%) Selenium
5 16 (0.55%) Postman
6 12 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 9 (0.31%) JMeter
8 8 (0.28%) ERwin
8 8 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.24%) Appium
9 7 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.24%) Maven
9 7 (0.24%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.21%) JUnit
10 6 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.17%) MLflow
11 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 1,432 (49.26%) Social Skills
2 1,126 (38.73%) Finance
3 495 (17.03%) Analytical Skills
4 371 (12.76%) Banking
5 303 (10.42%) Public Sector
6 208 (7.16%) Retail
7 177 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
8 153 (5.26%) Legal
9 148 (5.09%) Marketing
10 117 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
11 105 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
12 75 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
13 71 (2.44%) Front Office
14 64 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 58 (2.00%) Manufacturing
16 56 (1.93%) Financial Institution
17 53 (1.82%) Investment Banking
17 53 (1.82%) Local Government
18 51 (1.75%) Telecoms
19 44 (1.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 478 (16.44%) Analyst
2 377 (12.97%) Lead
3 362 (12.45%) Project Manager
4 341 (11.73%) Business Analyst
5 331 (11.39%) Architect
6 282 (9.70%) Senior
7 156 (5.37%) Consultant
8 129 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 118 (4.06%) Senior Manager
10 106 (3.65%) Programme Manager
11 96 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
12 78 (2.68%) IT Manager
13 66 (2.27%) Product Manager
14 65 (2.24%) Technical Manager
15 64 (2.20%) Product Owner
16 62 (2.13%) Developer
17 61 (2.10%) Data Analyst
18 57 (1.96%) Senior Project Manager
19 50 (1.72%) Designer
20 47 (1.62%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (2.79%) REST
2 64 (2.20%) Middleware
3 45 (1.55%) SOAP
4 31 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
5 28 (0.96%) Kafka
6 27 (0.93%) .NET
7 26 (0.89%) PySpark
8 24 (0.83%) SailPoint
9 23 (0.79%) HTML
10 22 (0.76%) CSS
10 22 (0.76%) JSON
10 22 (0.76%) Web Services
10 22 (0.76%) XML
11 18 (0.62%) OAuth
12 14 (0.48%) AngularJS
12 14 (0.48%) Playwright
12 14 (0.48%) RESTful
13 13 (0.45%) React
14 12 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
15 11 (0.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 246 (8.46%) Product Ownership
2 179 (6.16%) Onboarding
3 95 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 76 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 62 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 61 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
8 55 (1.89%) Data Centre
9 52 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 52 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 43 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 43 (1.48%) FMCG
11 41 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
12 38 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 37 (1.27%) NHS
14 33 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 32 (1.10%) CMDB
16 28 (0.96%) Operational Technology
16 28 (0.96%) Security Posture
17 25 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 94 (3.23%) Windows
2 46 (1.58%) Linux
3 19 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.45%) Unix
5 12 (0.41%) Android
6 8 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.14%) VMS
9 3 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.069%) AIX
11 1 (0.034%) CentOS
11 1 (0.034%) Solaris
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (32.47%) Agile
2 460 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
3 448 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 432 (14.86%) Roadmaps
5 413 (14.21%) Migration
6 385 (13.24%) Decision-Making
7 380 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 362 (12.45%) AI
9 351 (12.07%) Project Management
10 348 (11.97%) DevOps
11 335 (11.52%) Analytics
12 311 (10.70%) Project Delivery
12 311 (10.70%) User Acceptance Testing
13 276 (9.49%) Change Management
14 257 (8.84%) Validation
15 253 (8.70%) Risk Management
16 246 (8.46%) Workshop Facilitation
17 236 (8.12%) CI/CD
17 236 (8.12%) User Stories
18 229 (7.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 275 (9.46%) SQL
2 188 (6.47%) Python
3 50 (1.72%) Java
4 45 (1.55%) PowerShell
5 40 (1.38%) JavaScript
6 31 (1.07%) C#
7 21 (0.72%) Bash
8 16 (0.55%) Bicep
8 16 (0.55%) Korn
8 16 (0.55%) TypeScript
9 14 (0.48%) R
10 11 (0.38%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.34%) VBA
12 9 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.21%) Perl
14 6 (0.21%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.17%) ABAP
15 5 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 417 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 349 (12.01%) SC Cleared
3 167 (5.74%) Degree
4 148 (5.09%) PMP
5 131 (4.51%) PMI Certification
6 56 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 54 (1.86%) CISSP
8 47 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 34 (1.17%) CISM
11 28 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 23 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
13 20 (0.69%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.45%) ACCA
15 13 (0.45%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.41%) CIMA
16 12 (0.41%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (6.91%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.85%) QA
3 137 (4.71%) PMO
4 101 (3.47%) GDPR
5 61 (2.10%) NIST
6 60 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 50 (1.72%) GRC
8 49 (1.69%) SLA
9 48 (1.65%) Accessibility
10 20 (0.69%) COBIT
11 19 (0.65%) NCSC
12 17 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.52%) SEPA
13 15 (0.52%) WCAG
14 13 (0.45%) MiFID
14 13 (0.45%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.41%) PSD2
15 12 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 72 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 61 (2.10%) Docker
3 18 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.31%) NFS
7 6 (0.21%) Postfix
8 4 (0.14%) Varnish
8 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.10%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.069%) vSphere
11 1 (0.034%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.034%) RACF
Systems Management
1 101 (3.47%) Terraform
2 65 (2.24%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.14%) Ansible
4 24 (0.83%) Grafana
5 15 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.34%) SCCM
9 8 (0.28%) Argo
10 7 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.21%) Control-M
11 6 (0.21%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.21%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.14%) Puppet
14 3 (0.10%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.069%) ITRS Geneos
15 2 (0.069%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 370 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 218 (7.50%) SAP
3 155 (5.33%) Oracle
4 142 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 139 (4.78%) Salesforce
6 71 (2.44%) Databricks
7 58 (2.00%) Google
8 51 (1.75%) Workday
9 31 (1.07%) CyberArk
10 30 (1.03%) Adobe
11 27 (0.93%) IBM
12 26 (0.89%) Cisco
12 26 (0.89%) Splunk
13 23 (0.79%) Ariba
13 23 (0.79%) VMware
14 19 (0.65%) Guidewire
14 19 (0.65%) OpenAI
15 18 (0.62%) MuleSoft
15 18 (0.62%) Okta
15 18 (0.62%) Zscaler