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

6 months to
28 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 3,369 1,478 1,197
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.72% 11.06% 7.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.77% 11.96% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,201 1,011 827
10th Percentile £400 £385 £373
25th Percentile £469 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £763 £775
England median daily rate £550 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 22 9
10th Percentile £26.25 £23.08 £31.81
25th Percentile £33.60 £28.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £40.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -5.79% +19.85%
75th Percentile £57.50 £53.94 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £64.75
England median hourly rate £59.50 £49.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.20% -19.64% +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 17,945 12,360 14,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.46% 88.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,728 8,229 9,956
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 253 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.60 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +9 423 £600 +5.73% 364
West London +15 123 £520 +15.56% 126
South London +3 33 £550 -10.70% 25
East London +3 13 £638 -5.56% 41
North London +6 12 £450 -17.43% 2
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
1 166 (4.93%) Confluence
2 92 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 51 (1.51%) CMS
4 33 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.74%) Apache
6 19 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.30%) SAS
10 6 (0.18%) WordPress
11 4 (0.12%) Appian
11 4 (0.12%) Kentico
12 3 (0.089%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.089%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.089%) Moodle
12 3 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.059%) JBoss
13 2 (0.059%) MTS
Applications
1 159 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 74 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
5 41 (1.22%) 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 (0.089%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.089%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.089%) Sketch
10 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.059%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.059%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.059%) Windchill
11 1 (0.030%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.030%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 97 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.53%) Aladdin
4 17 (0.50%) Workday HCM
5 15 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.42%) Finacle
7 13 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 13 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 11 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
10 10 (0.30%) Endur
10 10 (0.30%) Magento
11 9 (0.27%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.27%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.27%) SAP HCM
11 9 (0.27%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
12 8 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
13 7 (0.21%) Loan IQ
13 7 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 658 (19.53%) Azure
2 441 (13.09%) AWS
3 245 (7.27%) Power Platform
4 148 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
5 146 (4.33%) GCP
5 146 (4.33%) SaaS
6 117 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
7 108 (3.21%) Entra ID
8 96 (2.85%) GitHub
9 90 (2.67%) Snowflake
10 52 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
11 49 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
11 49 (1.45%) Serverless
12 45 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (1.19%) Amazon S3
14 39 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 39 (1.16%) Power Automate
15 38 (1.13%) dbt
15 38 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
16 36 (1.07%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.81%) Firewall
2 49 (1.45%) Network Security
3 33 (0.98%) DNS
3 33 (0.98%) WAN
4 20 (0.59%) VPN
5 19 (0.56%) LAN
6 17 (0.50%) DHCP
7 16 (0.47%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.45%) BGP
8 15 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.39%) Internet
10 13 (0.39%) Wireless
11 12 (0.36%) 4G
11 12 (0.36%) 5G
12 10 (0.30%) SAN
12 10 (0.30%) SSL
13 9 (0.27%) 3GPP
13 9 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
13 9 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (5.91%) Power BI
2 113 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (3.21%) Metadata
4 63 (1.87%) Tableau
5 55 (1.63%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.57%) Data Lake
7 45 (1.34%) Delta Lake
8 37 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (0.92%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.62%) Oracle Database
12 20 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
13 19 (0.56%) Big Data
13 19 (0.56%) NoSQL
14 18 (0.53%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.50%) MongoDB
16 14 (0.42%) Data Vault
16 14 (0.42%) Redis
17 12 (0.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 341 (10.12%) JIRA
2 58 (1.72%) Git
3 57 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.04%) GitLab
5 25 (0.74%) Selenium
6 19 (0.56%) 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
11 6 (0.18%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.18%) JUnit
11 6 (0.18%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
13 4 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 1,727 (51.26%) Social Skills
2 1,274 (37.82%) Finance
3 595 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
4 461 (13.68%) Banking
5 347 (10.30%) Public Sector
6 235 (6.98%) Retail
7 203 (6.03%) Influencing Skills
8 170 (5.05%) Marketing
9 160 (4.75%) Legal
10 127 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
11 118 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 93 (2.76%) Front Office
13 87 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
14 74 (2.20%) Telecoms
15 73 (2.17%) Investment Banking
16 70 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 70 (2.08%) Manufacturing
17 61 (1.81%) Local Government
18 55 (1.63%) Financial Institution
19 47 (1.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 546 (16.21%) Analyst
2 440 (13.06%) Lead
3 434 (12.88%) Architect
4 364 (10.80%) Business Analyst
5 361 (10.72%) Project Manager
6 351 (10.42%) Senior
7 211 (6.26%) Consultant
8 152 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
9 120 (3.56%) Senior Manager
10 114 (3.38%) Programme Manager
11 92 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
12 86 (2.55%) Developer
13 83 (2.46%) IT Manager
14 78 (2.32%) Product Manager
15 74 (2.20%) Technical Manager
16 70 (2.08%) Data Analyst
16 70 (2.08%) Product Owner
17 64 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
18 62 (1.84%) Data Architect
19 58 (1.72%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (4.33%) Terraform
2 105 (3.12%) REST
3 75 (2.23%) Middleware
4 50 (1.48%) Kafka
5 44 (1.31%) SOAP
6 41 (1.22%) .NET
7 38 (1.13%) PySpark
8 33 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
9 29 (0.86%) HTML
9 29 (0.86%) XML
10 28 (0.83%) JSON
11 27 (0.80%) OAuth
12 26 (0.77%) CSS
13 22 (0.65%) Web Services
14 19 (0.56%) SailPoint
15 17 (0.50%) React
16 16 (0.47%) Node.js
16 16 (0.47%) Playwright
16 16 (0.47%) Spring
16 16 (0.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 288 (8.55%) Product Ownership
2 216 (6.41%) Onboarding
3 144 (4.27%) Cloud Native
4 95 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 72 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 72 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
5 72 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 70 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 66 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 60 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 60 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 58 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 54 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 46 (1.37%) FMCG
12 44 (1.31%) NHS
13 40 (1.19%) CMDB
14 39 (1.16%) Operational Technology
14 39 (1.16%) Security Posture
15 34 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
16 33 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 114 (3.38%) Windows
2 66 (1.96%) Linux
3 30 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.59%) 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
12 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.059%) AIX
13 2 (0.059%) CentOS
13 2 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.030%) Solaris
14 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.030%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,070 (31.76%) Agile
2 571 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
3 543 (16.12%) Roadmaps
4 526 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 485 (14.40%) AI
6 480 (14.25%) Migration
7 458 (13.59%) Decision-Making
8 441 (13.09%) DevOps
8 441 (13.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 436 (12.94%) Analytics
10 403 (11.96%) Project Management
11 372 (11.04%) Project Delivery
12 351 (10.42%) User Acceptance Testing
13 332 (9.85%) CI/CD
14 331 (9.82%) Workshop Facilitation
15 323 (9.59%) Change Management
16 306 (9.08%) Risk Management
17 286 (8.49%) Data Modelling
18 282 (8.37%) Validation
19 278 (8.25%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 372 (11.04%) SQL
2 243 (7.21%) Python
3 81 (2.40%) Java
4 71 (2.11%) PowerShell
5 56 (1.66%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.16%) C#
7 34 (1.01%) Bash
8 26 (0.77%) Bicep
9 22 (0.65%) Korn
9 22 (0.65%) TypeScript
10 20 (0.59%) R
11 15 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.30%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.27%) Perl
14 9 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.27%) VBA
15 7 (0.21%) C++
15 7 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 524 (15.55%) Security Cleared
2 441 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 204 (6.06%) Degree
4 170 (5.05%) PMP
5 149 (4.42%) PMI Certification
6 60 (1.78%) CISSP
7 59 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 57 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 52 (1.54%) DV Cleared
10 44 (1.31%) AWS Certification
10 44 (1.31%) CISM
11 40 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 36 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 20 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
15 19 (0.56%) ACCA
16 18 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 18 (0.53%) CIMA
17 17 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (8.10%) Data Quality
2 211 (6.26%) QA
3 151 (4.48%) PMO
4 103 (3.06%) GDPR
5 76 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 73 (2.17%) NIST
7 65 (1.93%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.66%) GRC
9 45 (1.34%) SLA
10 24 (0.71%) NCSC
11 20 (0.59%) WCAG
12 15 (0.45%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.42%) COBIT
13 14 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 14 (0.42%) IFRS
13 14 (0.42%) PCI DSS
14 13 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.39%) SEPA
14 13 (0.39%) Solvency II
15 12 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.40%) Docker
3 27 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.24%) NFS
7 7 (0.21%) vSphere
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) Postfix
9 4 (0.12%) Varnish
9 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.089%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.030%) Firmware
12 1 (0.030%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.030%) oVirt
12 1 (0.030%) RACF
12 1 (0.030%) RHEV
12 1 (0.030%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 96 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 43 (1.28%) Ansible
3 34 (1.01%) Grafana
4 20 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.45%) SCCM
8 8 (0.24%) Argo
8 8 (0.24%) Control-M
9 7 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.15%) Puppet
12 4 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.12%) Kibana
12 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.089%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.089%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.089%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.089%) Nagios
14 2 (0.059%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 518 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 234 (6.95%) SAP
3 184 (5.46%) Oracle
4 150 (4.45%) Salesforce
5 148 (4.39%) ServiceNow
6 127 (3.77%) Databricks
7 68 (2.02%) Google
8 54 (1.60%) Workday
9 39 (1.16%) IBM
10 38 (1.13%) Cisco
10 38 (1.13%) VMware
11 37 (1.10%) Adobe
11 37 (1.10%) Splunk
12 28 (0.83%) CyberArk
13 27 (0.80%) Informatica
14 26 (0.77%) Bloomberg
15 22 (0.65%) Ariba
16 20 (0.59%) Guidewire
17 18 (0.53%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.53%) Zscaler