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

6 months to
17 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 3,197 1,500 1,166
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.92% 11.06% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.86% 11.98% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,088 1,022 819
10th Percentile £400 £385 £374
25th Percentile £475 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £780 £763 £775
England median daily rate £550 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 21 7
10th Percentile £27.55 £28.25 £33.77
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £41.81 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +4.71% +33.15%
75th Percentile £61.25 £55.25 £60.63
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £68.25
England median hourly rate £60.50 £52.67 £61.60
% change year-on-year +14.87% -14.50% +36.89%

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 17,904 12,525 14,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.35% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,336 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £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 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 255 197
10th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +9 407 £600 +4.35% 346
West London +17 110 £520 -0.95% 76
South London +5 34 £550 -10.70% 24
East London -3 11 £638 -5.56% 30
North London +4 10 £450 -17.43% 1
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
1 161 (5.04%) Confluence
2 82 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.44%) CMS
4 24 (0.75%) Apache
4 24 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.28%) SAS
9 6 (0.19%) WordPress
10 4 (0.13%) Appian
10 4 (0.13%) Kentico
11 3 (0.094%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.094%) Moodle
11 3 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.094%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.063%) Drupal
12 2 (0.063%) JBoss
12 2 (0.063%) nginx
12 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 146 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
4 64 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
5 41 (1.28%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.31%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.31%) Revit
6 10 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.16%) Trello
8 4 (0.13%) Notion
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.094%) 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 (0.031%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.031%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.031%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 92 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.44%) Finacle
5 13 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 12 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (0.34%) Endur
7 11 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.31%) Magento
8 10 (0.31%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.25%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 598 (18.71%) Azure
2 415 (12.98%) AWS
3 216 (6.76%) Power Platform
4 139 (4.35%) SaaS
5 134 (4.19%) GCP
6 128 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
8 99 (3.10%) Entra ID
9 81 (2.53%) Snowflake
10 79 (2.47%) GitHub
11 46 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 39 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
14 37 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
15 35 (1.09%) Amazon S3
15 35 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (1.06%) Figma
16 34 (1.06%) OCI
17 33 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
18 32 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 54 (1.69%) Firewall
2 44 (1.38%) Network Security
3 32 (1.00%) DNS
4 28 (0.88%) WAN
5 20 (0.63%) LAN
6 19 (0.59%) VPN
7 16 (0.50%) DHCP
8 15 (0.47%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.34%) BGP
10 11 (0.34%) Internet
10 11 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.34%) Wireless
11 10 (0.31%) SSL
12 9 (0.28%) OSPF
13 8 (0.25%) 4G
13 8 (0.25%) 5G
13 8 (0.25%) SAN
13 8 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
14 7 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (5.51%) Power BI
2 100 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 88 (2.75%) Metadata
4 57 (1.78%) Tableau
5 50 (1.56%) SQL Server
6 49 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 37 (1.16%) Delta Lake
8 35 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (0.88%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.66%) Big Data
13 20 (0.63%) Oracle Database
14 18 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (0.53%) NoSQL
16 15 (0.47%) MongoDB
17 14 (0.44%) BigQuery
18 13 (0.41%) Data Vault
19 12 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
19 12 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 328 (10.26%) JIRA
2 50 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 49 (1.53%) Git
4 29 (0.91%) GitLab
5 22 (0.69%) Selenium
6 17 (0.53%) Postman
7 12 (0.38%) Zephyr
8 11 (0.34%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.31%) JMeter
10 9 (0.28%) ERwin
11 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.25%) Maven
12 7 (0.22%) Appium
12 7 (0.22%) JUnit
12 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.16%) ER Studio
14 5 (0.16%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.16%) Snyk
General
1 1,608 (50.30%) Social Skills
2 1,228 (38.41%) Finance
3 555 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 432 (13.51%) Banking
5 331 (10.35%) Public Sector
6 225 (7.04%) Retail
7 188 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
8 164 (5.13%) Legal
8 164 (5.13%) Marketing
9 125 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
10 116 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
11 83 (2.60%) Front Office
12 80 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
13 70 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 69 (2.16%) Manufacturing
15 66 (2.06%) Telecoms
16 63 (1.97%) Investment Banking
17 59 (1.85%) Financial Institution
18 57 (1.78%) Local Government
19 47 (1.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 517 (16.17%) Analyst
2 412 (12.89%) Lead
3 386 (12.07%) Architect
4 363 (11.35%) Project Manager
5 360 (11.26%) Business Analyst
6 334 (10.45%) Senior
7 195 (6.10%) Consultant
8 147 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 122 (3.82%) Senior Manager
10 114 (3.57%) Programme Manager
11 88 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
12 83 (2.60%) Developer
13 79 (2.47%) IT Manager
14 75 (2.35%) Product Manager
15 73 (2.28%) Technical Manager
16 68 (2.13%) Product Owner
17 65 (2.03%) Data Analyst
18 60 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
19 55 (1.72%) Senior Project Manager
20 52 (1.63%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (3.13%) REST
2 71 (2.22%) Middleware
3 47 (1.47%) SOAP
4 44 (1.38%) Kafka
5 34 (1.06%) .NET
5 34 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
6 32 (1.00%) PySpark
7 28 (0.88%) HTML
8 26 (0.81%) JSON
8 26 (0.81%) XML
9 25 (0.78%) CSS
10 23 (0.72%) SailPoint
11 22 (0.69%) OAuth
11 22 (0.69%) Web Services
12 16 (0.50%) React
12 16 (0.50%) Spring
13 15 (0.47%) Node.js
13 15 (0.47%) Spring Boot
14 14 (0.44%) Playwright
15 13 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 271 (8.48%) Product Ownership
2 210 (6.57%) Onboarding
3 129 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 85 (2.66%) Management Information System
5 75 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 69 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 66 (2.06%) Data Centre
7 66 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 60 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 60 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (1.69%) AI Agents
10 53 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
11 52 (1.63%) Virtual Team
12 44 (1.38%) FMCG
13 37 (1.16%) CMDB
13 37 (1.16%) NHS
13 37 (1.16%) Security Posture
14 34 (1.06%) Operational Technology
15 33 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 105 (3.28%) Windows
2 57 (1.78%) Linux
3 23 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.56%) Unix
5 14 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.38%) Android
7 9 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.16%) VMS
10 4 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.063%) AIX
11 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.031%) CentOS
12 1 (0.031%) Solaris
12 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,035 (32.37%) Agile
2 532 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
3 502 (15.70%) Roadmaps
4 486 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 455 (14.23%) Migration
6 442 (13.83%) AI
7 422 (13.20%) Decision-Making
8 410 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 400 (12.51%) DevOps
10 391 (12.23%) Project Management
11 390 (12.20%) Analytics
12 348 (10.89%) Project Delivery
13 331 (10.35%) User Acceptance Testing
14 303 (9.48%) Change Management
15 302 (9.45%) Workshop Facilitation
16 295 (9.23%) CI/CD
17 280 (8.76%) Risk Management
18 266 (8.32%) Validation
19 264 (8.26%) Data Modelling
20 256 (8.01%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 330 (10.32%) SQL
2 205 (6.41%) Python
3 72 (2.25%) Java
4 58 (1.81%) PowerShell
5 54 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 32 (1.00%) C#
7 23 (0.72%) Bash
8 21 (0.66%) Bicep
9 20 (0.63%) TypeScript
10 19 (0.59%) Korn
11 16 (0.50%) R
12 13 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.31%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.28%) VBA
16 8 (0.25%) Perl
16 8 (0.25%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.22%) C++
18 5 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 485 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 405 (12.67%) SC Cleared
3 190 (5.94%) Degree
4 166 (5.19%) PMP
5 140 (4.38%) PMI Certification
6 63 (1.97%) CISSP
7 53 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 48 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 44 (1.38%) CISM
11 37 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 34 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.56%) ISTQB
17 16 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.47%) ACCA
19 14 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 14 (0.44%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (7.48%) Data Quality
2 196 (6.13%) QA
3 148 (4.63%) PMO
4 101 (3.16%) GDPR
5 77 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (2.25%) NIST
7 63 (1.97%) Accessibility
8 52 (1.63%) GRC
9 45 (1.41%) SLA
10 25 (0.78%) NCSC
11 18 (0.56%) WCAG
12 17 (0.53%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.50%) COBIT
13 16 (0.50%) SEPA
14 15 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 13 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 13 (0.41%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.38%) IFRS
16 12 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 82 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 69 (2.16%) Docker
3 24 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.25%) NFS
6 6 (0.19%) Postfix
6 6 (0.19%) vSphere
7 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.13%) Varnish
7 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.094%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.031%) oVirt
10 1 (0.031%) RACF
10 1 (0.031%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 127 (3.97%) Terraform
2 84 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.19%) Ansible
4 29 (0.91%) Grafana
5 19 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.41%) SCCM
9 8 (0.25%) Argo
9 8 (0.25%) Control-M
10 7 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.19%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.13%) Puppet
14 3 (0.094%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.094%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.063%) ITRS Geneos
15 2 (0.063%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 455 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 227 (7.10%) SAP
3 174 (5.44%) Oracle
4 152 (4.75%) ServiceNow
5 145 (4.54%) Salesforce
6 102 (3.19%) Databricks
7 62 (1.94%) Google
8 53 (1.66%) Workday
9 37 (1.16%) IBM
10 36 (1.13%) Splunk
11 35 (1.09%) Adobe
12 33 (1.03%) Cisco
13 32 (1.00%) CyberArk
14 29 (0.91%) VMware
15 22 (0.69%) Informatica
15 22 (0.69%) Okta
16 21 (0.66%) Guidewire
17 20 (0.63%) Ariba
18 19 (0.59%) Bloomberg
18 19 (0.59%) Zscaler