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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,980 1,508 1,187
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.85% 11.09% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.68% 12.03% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,969 1,020 856
10th Percentile £400 £388 £372
25th Percentile £469 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £666
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £537 £540
% change year-on-year +2.42% -0.56% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 23 11
10th Percentile £26.50 £28.25 £23.33
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.00 £30.10
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £63.25 £55.25 £51.88
90th Percentile £78.44 £65.00 £61.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.33
% change year-on-year +16.82% -12.77% +33.67%

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 17,865 12,538 14,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,797 8,407 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £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 295 245 209
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -11.76% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +9 396 £600 +4.35% 187
West London +21 98 £520 -0.95% 69
South London -3 29 £600 -2.58% 23
North London +5 10 £450 -17.43% 4
East London -4 8 £675 +7.14% 27
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
1 150 (5.03%) Confluence
2 77 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.51%) CMS
4 20 (0.67%) Apache
5 16 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.23%) SAS
9 6 (0.20%) Appian
9 6 (0.20%) WordPress
10 4 (0.13%) Kentico
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.067%) Camunda
12 2 (0.067%) Drupal
12 2 (0.067%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.067%) Moodle
12 2 (0.067%) nginx
Applications
1 133 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 43 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.30%) Revit
8 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.13%) Notion
9 4 (0.13%) Sketch
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) Trello
11 2 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.067%) CPLEX
11 2 (0.067%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.034%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 87 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.47%) Finacle
5 13 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 13 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 12 (0.40%) SAP SD
7 11 (0.37%) Endur
7 11 (0.37%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.34%) Magento
8 10 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.27%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
12 6 (0.20%) Loan IQ
12 6 (0.20%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.20%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 532 (17.85%) Azure
2 368 (12.35%) AWS
3 190 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 126 (4.23%) SaaS
5 122 (4.09%) GCP
6 113 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
8 87 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 73 (2.45%) GitHub
10 68 (2.28%) Snowflake
11 39 (1.31%) Figma
12 38 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
13 37 (1.24%) Amazon S3
13 37 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
14 36 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (1.14%) OCI
16 33 (1.11%) Serverless
17 32 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.07%) Power Automate
18 30 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.58%) Firewall
2 34 (1.14%) Network Security
3 27 (0.91%) DNS
4 26 (0.87%) WAN
5 19 (0.64%) VPN
6 17 (0.57%) LAN
7 14 (0.47%) DHCP
7 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.34%) BGP
10 9 (0.30%) Wireless
11 8 (0.27%) Internet
11 8 (0.27%) OSPF
11 8 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.23%) HTTP
12 7 (0.23%) SSL
12 7 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
13 6 (0.20%) 5G
13 6 (0.20%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (5.30%) Power BI
2 90 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (2.48%) Metadata
4 53 (1.78%) Tableau
5 46 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 39 (1.31%) SQL Server
7 31 (1.04%) Delta Lake
8 28 (0.94%) Relational Database
9 21 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (0.67%) Big Data
10 20 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (0.57%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 13 (0.44%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.37%) Db2
14 11 (0.37%) Parquet
14 11 (0.37%) Power Query
14 11 (0.37%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.34%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 311 (10.44%) JIRA
2 45 (1.51%) Jenkins
3 42 (1.41%) Git
4 24 (0.81%) GitLab
5 18 (0.60%) Selenium
6 16 (0.54%) 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
10 6 (0.20%) JUnit
10 6 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.17%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.17%) MLflow
11 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 1,478 (49.60%) Social Skills
2 1,161 (38.96%) Finance
3 511 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
4 391 (13.12%) Banking
5 305 (10.23%) Public Sector
6 216 (7.25%) Retail
7 181 (6.07%) Influencing Skills
8 156 (5.23%) Legal
9 150 (5.03%) Marketing
10 116 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
11 104 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
12 76 (2.55%) Front Office
12 76 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 60 (2.01%) Financial Institution
14 60 (2.01%) Investment Banking
14 60 (2.01%) Manufacturing
15 55 (1.85%) Local Government
16 52 (1.74%) Telecoms
17 45 (1.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 495 (16.61%) Analyst
2 380 (12.75%) Lead
3 358 (12.01%) Project Manager
4 352 (11.81%) Architect
4 352 (11.81%) Business Analyst
5 297 (9.97%) Senior
6 165 (5.54%) Consultant
7 142 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
8 115 (3.86%) Senior Manager
9 106 (3.56%) Programme Manager
10 95 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
11 77 (2.58%) IT Manager
12 70 (2.35%) Developer
13 68 (2.28%) Technical Manager
14 67 (2.25%) Product Manager
14 67 (2.25%) Product Owner
15 60 (2.01%) Data Analyst
16 55 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
17 54 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
18 50 (1.68%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (2.85%) REST
2 66 (2.21%) Middleware
3 45 (1.51%) SOAP
4 32 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
5 30 (1.01%) Kafka
6 28 (0.94%) .NET
7 27 (0.91%) PySpark
8 26 (0.87%) HTML
9 24 (0.81%) CSS
9 24 (0.81%) SailPoint
10 23 (0.77%) XML
11 22 (0.74%) JSON
11 22 (0.74%) Web Services
12 20 (0.67%) OAuth
13 16 (0.54%) React
14 15 (0.50%) AngularJS
15 14 (0.47%) RESTful
16 13 (0.44%) Playwright
17 12 (0.40%) Spring
18 11 (0.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 253 (8.49%) Product Ownership
2 182 (6.11%) Onboarding
3 108 (3.62%) Cloud Native
4 78 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 77 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 62 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 59 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 58 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 56 (1.88%) Virtual Team
10 53 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 45 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.48%) FMCG
13 43 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
14 41 (1.38%) AI Agents
15 39 (1.31%) NHS
16 33 (1.11%) CMDB
16 33 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
17 30 (1.01%) Operational Technology
18 29 (0.97%) Security Posture
19 26 (0.87%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 97 (3.26%) Windows
2 48 (1.61%) Linux
3 22 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.44%) Android
5 13 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.44%) 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 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.067%) AIX
11 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.034%) CentOS
12 1 (0.034%) Solaris
12 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 966 (32.42%) Agile
2 483 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
3 464 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 446 (14.97%) Roadmaps
5 422 (14.16%) Migration
6 404 (13.56%) Decision-Making
7 395 (13.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 388 (13.02%) AI
9 361 (12.11%) Analytics
10 358 (12.01%) DevOps
10 358 (12.01%) Project Management
11 317 (10.64%) Project Delivery
12 315 (10.57%) User Acceptance Testing
13 278 (9.33%) Change Management
14 261 (8.76%) Workshop Facilitation
15 259 (8.69%) CI/CD
15 259 (8.69%) Risk Management
16 258 (8.66%) Validation
17 239 (8.02%) User Stories
18 235 (7.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 295 (9.90%) SQL
2 192 (6.44%) Python
3 54 (1.81%) Java
4 46 (1.54%) PowerShell
5 42 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 29 (0.97%) C#
7 22 (0.74%) Bash
8 18 (0.60%) Korn
9 17 (0.57%) Bicep
10 15 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.47%) R
12 12 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.34%) VBA
15 9 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.27%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.27%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.20%) Perl
18 5 (0.17%) C++
18 5 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 426 (14.30%) Security Cleared
2 358 (12.01%) SC Cleared
3 176 (5.91%) Degree
4 154 (5.17%) PMP
5 135 (4.53%) PMI Certification
6 56 (1.88%) CISSP
7 53 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 42 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 36 (1.21%) CISM
11 28 (0.94%) AWS Certification
12 27 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (0.70%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.44%) ACCA
18 12 (0.40%) CIMA
18 12 (0.40%) CRISC
18 12 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (7.15%) Data Quality
2 174 (5.84%) QA
3 143 (4.80%) PMO
4 101 (3.39%) GDPR
5 65 (2.18%) NIST
6 63 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 56 (1.88%) Accessibility
8 53 (1.78%) GRC
9 48 (1.61%) SLA
10 22 (0.74%) NCSC
11 19 (0.64%) COBIT
12 17 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.57%) WCAG
13 15 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.50%) SEPA
14 13 (0.44%) MiFID
14 13 (0.44%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.44%) Solvency II
15 12 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 77 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.21%) Docker
3 19 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.44%) 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 (0.10%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.034%) RACF
Systems Management
1 110 (3.69%) Terraform
2 73 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.17%) Ansible
4 24 (0.81%) Grafana
5 16 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 15 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.40%) SCCM
8 8 (0.27%) Argo
9 7 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.20%) Control-M
10 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.20%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.13%) Puppet
12 3 (0.10%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.067%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.067%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.067%) QRadar
Vendors
1 393 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 222 (7.45%) SAP
3 158 (5.30%) Oracle
4 143 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 141 (4.73%) Salesforce
6 82 (2.75%) Databricks
7 60 (2.01%) Google
8 52 (1.74%) Workday
9 32 (1.07%) Adobe
10 31 (1.04%) CyberArk
11 30 (1.01%) IBM
12 26 (0.87%) Cisco
12 26 (0.87%) Splunk
13 25 (0.84%) VMware
14 22 (0.74%) Ariba
15 20 (0.67%) Guidewire
16 19 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.64%) Okta
17 18 (0.60%) Informatica
17 18 (0.60%) Zscaler