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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,307 1,478 1,187
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.49% 11.05% 7.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.50% 11.95% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,168 1,010 822
10th Percentile £400 £387 £376
25th Percentile £469 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% +0.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £687 £675
90th Percentile £788 £763 £775
England median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 21 8
10th Percentile £26.25 - £31.59
25th Percentile £34.30 £28.25 £35.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £43.08 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +1.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £58.13 £55.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £73.50 £65.00 £66.50
England median hourly rate £59.50 £49.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -19.24% +23.30%

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 17,874 12,372 14,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.51% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,706 8,225 9,980
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 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 190
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.78% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +9 411 £600 +9.09% 346
West London +13 115 £520 - 122
South London +1 33 £550 -10.70% 23
North London +5 11 £450 -17.43% 4
East London +1 11 £638 -5.56% 37
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
1 162 (4.90%) Confluence
2 89 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 51 (1.54%) CMS
4 29 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.73%) Apache
6 17 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (0.48%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.27%) SAS
10 6 (0.18%) WordPress
11 4 (0.12%) Appian
11 4 (0.12%) Kentico
12 3 (0.091%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.091%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.091%) Moodle
12 3 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.060%) JBoss
13 2 (0.060%) MTS
Applications
1 154 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 71 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
5 40 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.30%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.30%) Revit
6 10 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.15%) Trello
8 4 (0.12%) Notion
9 3 (0.091%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.091%) Sketch
10 2 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.060%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.060%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.060%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.030%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.030%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 94 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.51%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 14 (0.42%) Finacle
6 13 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.36%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.30%) Endur
9 10 (0.30%) Magento
9 10 (0.30%) SAP SD
10 9 (0.27%) SAP ERP
10 9 (0.27%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.27%) SAP HCM
11 8 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
11 8 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.21%) Loan IQ
12 7 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 635 (19.20%) Azure
2 428 (12.94%) AWS
3 234 (7.08%) Power Platform
4 145 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
4 145 (4.38%) GCP
4 145 (4.38%) SaaS
5 110 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (3.11%) Entra ID
7 89 (2.69%) GitHub
8 87 (2.63%) Snowflake
9 52 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
10 46 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
11 45 (1.36%) Serverless
12 44 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
14 37 (1.12%) Amazon S3
15 36 (1.09%) Figma
16 35 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (1.06%) OCI
16 35 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.66%) Firewall
2 43 (1.30%) Network Security
3 33 (1.00%) DNS
4 30 (0.91%) WAN
5 20 (0.60%) VPN
6 18 (0.54%) LAN
7 17 (0.51%) DHCP
8 15 (0.45%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.39%) Internet
10 12 (0.36%) BGP
11 11 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.33%) Wireless
12 10 (0.30%) 4G
12 10 (0.30%) 5G
12 10 (0.30%) SSL
13 8 (0.24%) 3GPP
13 8 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
13 8 (0.24%) SAN
13 8 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (5.78%) Power BI
2 107 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
3 105 (3.18%) Metadata
4 62 (1.87%) Tableau
5 54 (1.63%) SQL Server
6 51 (1.54%) Data Lake
7 43 (1.30%) Delta Lake
8 37 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (0.91%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.64%) Oracle Database
12 20 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
13 19 (0.57%) Big Data
13 19 (0.57%) NoSQL
14 18 (0.54%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.51%) MongoDB
16 13 (0.39%) Data Vault
16 13 (0.39%) Redis
17 12 (0.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 337 (10.19%) JIRA
2 57 (1.72%) Git
3 54 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.97%) GitLab
5 25 (0.76%) Selenium
6 19 (0.57%) Postman
7 12 (0.36%) Zephyr
8 11 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.30%) ERwin
9 10 (0.30%) JMeter
10 7 (0.21%) Appium
10 7 (0.21%) LoadRunner
10 7 (0.21%) Maven
10 7 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.18%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.18%) JUnit
11 6 (0.18%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
13 4 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 1,678 (50.74%) Social Skills
2 1,258 (38.04%) Finance
3 583 (17.63%) Analytical Skills
4 453 (13.70%) Banking
5 341 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 231 (6.99%) Retail
7 199 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
8 170 (5.14%) Marketing
9 165 (4.99%) Legal
10 127 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
11 117 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
12 91 (2.75%) Front Office
13 86 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 71 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 71 (2.15%) Investment Banking
14 71 (2.15%) Telecoms
15 70 (2.12%) Manufacturing
16 59 (1.78%) Local Government
17 56 (1.69%) Financial Institution
18 49 (1.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 527 (15.94%) Analyst
2 434 (13.12%) Lead
3 420 (12.70%) Architect
4 358 (10.83%) Project Manager
5 355 (10.73%) Business Analyst
6 344 (10.40%) Senior
7 208 (6.29%) Consultant
8 148 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 122 (3.69%) Senior Manager
10 115 (3.48%) Programme Manager
11 91 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
12 85 (2.57%) Developer
13 80 (2.42%) IT Manager
14 77 (2.33%) Product Manager
15 72 (2.18%) Technical Manager
16 69 (2.09%) Product Owner
17 67 (2.03%) Data Analyst
18 62 (1.87%) Senior Analyst
19 61 (1.84%) Data Architect
20 56 (1.69%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (4.26%) Terraform
2 106 (3.21%) REST
3 76 (2.30%) Middleware
4 49 (1.48%) Kafka
5 46 (1.39%) SOAP
6 39 (1.18%) .NET
7 35 (1.06%) PySpark
8 32 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
9 29 (0.88%) HTML
10 28 (0.85%) XML
11 26 (0.79%) CSS
11 26 (0.79%) JSON
12 25 (0.76%) OAuth
13 22 (0.67%) Web Services
14 20 (0.60%) SailPoint
15 17 (0.51%) React
16 16 (0.48%) Node.js
16 16 (0.48%) Playwright
16 16 (0.48%) Spring
16 16 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 285 (8.62%) Product Ownership
2 214 (6.47%) Onboarding
3 138 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 89 (2.69%) Management Information System
5 71 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 69 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 68 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 67 (2.03%) Data Centre
9 66 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 59 (1.78%) AI Agents
10 59 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 57 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 52 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 45 (1.36%) FMCG
14 43 (1.30%) NHS
15 39 (1.18%) CMDB
16 38 (1.15%) Operational Technology
16 38 (1.15%) Security Posture
17 33 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 32 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 107 (3.24%) Windows
2 63 (1.91%) Linux
3 27 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.60%) Unix
5 15 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.36%) Android
8 9 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.24%) VMS
10 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.060%) AIX
14 2 (0.060%) CentOS
14 2 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.030%) Solaris
15 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,054 (31.87%) Agile
2 559 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
3 530 (16.03%) Roadmaps
4 513 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 470 (14.21%) AI
6 469 (14.18%) Migration
7 441 (13.34%) Decision-Making
8 429 (12.97%) DevOps
9 427 (12.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 423 (12.79%) Analytics
11 394 (11.91%) Project Management
12 368 (11.13%) Project Delivery
13 342 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
14 324 (9.80%) CI/CD
15 319 (9.65%) Workshop Facilitation
16 309 (9.34%) Change Management
17 293 (8.86%) Risk Management
18 283 (8.56%) Data Modelling
19 277 (8.38%) Validation
20 272 (8.22%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 362 (10.95%) SQL
2 227 (6.86%) Python
3 78 (2.36%) Java
4 66 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 56 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.18%) C#
7 28 (0.85%) Bash
8 26 (0.79%) Bicep
9 22 (0.67%) TypeScript
10 21 (0.64%) Korn
11 18 (0.54%) R
12 14 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.30%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.27%) Perl
14 9 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.27%) VBA
15 7 (0.21%) C++
16 6 (0.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 511 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 430 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 200 (6.05%) Degree
4 163 (4.93%) PMP
5 139 (4.20%) PMI Certification
6 58 (1.75%) CISSP
7 55 (1.66%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 50 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 41 (1.24%) CISM
11 40 (1.21%) AWS Certification
12 38 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
13 32 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.60%) ISTQB
15 20 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
16 17 (0.51%) ACCA
16 17 (0.51%) CIMA
17 16 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 15 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (8.01%) Data Quality
2 210 (6.35%) QA
3 151 (4.57%) PMO
4 103 (3.11%) GDPR
5 74 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 73 (2.21%) NIST
7 65 (1.97%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.66%) GRC
9 43 (1.30%) SLA
10 24 (0.73%) NCSC
11 19 (0.57%) WCAG
12 17 (0.51%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.45%) COBIT
13 15 (0.45%) SEPA
14 14 (0.42%) IFRS
15 13 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.39%) PCI DSS
16 12 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.36%) PSD2
16 12 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 87 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 77 (2.33%) Docker
3 24 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.24%) NFS
7 7 (0.21%) vSphere
8 5 (0.15%) Postfix
9 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.12%) Varnish
9 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.091%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.030%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.030%) oVirt
12 1 (0.030%) RACF
12 1 (0.030%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 92 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 41 (1.24%) Ansible
3 33 (1.00%) Grafana
4 18 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.45%) SCCM
7 8 (0.24%) Argo
7 8 (0.24%) Control-M
8 7 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.15%) Puppet
10 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.091%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.091%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.091%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.060%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.060%) Kibana
13 2 (0.060%) QRadar
Vendors
1 489 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 230 (6.95%) SAP
3 179 (5.41%) Oracle
4 150 (4.54%) Salesforce
5 149 (4.51%) ServiceNow
6 119 (3.60%) Databricks
7 68 (2.06%) Google
8 54 (1.63%) Workday
9 38 (1.15%) IBM
10 36 (1.09%) Adobe
11 34 (1.03%) Cisco
12 33 (1.00%) Splunk
12 33 (1.00%) VMware
13 30 (0.91%) CyberArk
14 26 (0.79%) Bloomberg
14 26 (0.79%) Informatica
15 20 (0.60%) Ariba
15 20 (0.60%) Guidewire
16 18 (0.54%) MuleSoft
16 18 (0.54%) Zscaler