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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,777 1,475 1,212
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.05% 10.88% 6.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.80% 11.81% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,847 1,005 889
10th Percentile £400 £388 £363
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +4.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £533
% change year-on-year +2.33% +0.84% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 12
10th Percentile £21.34 £28.25 £24.01
25th Percentile £34.53 £35.66 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.06 £49.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% +23.13% -29.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £49.88
90th Percentile £80.99 £65.25 £61.13
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.33
% change year-on-year +16.82% -12.77% +14.28%

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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +9 369 £600 - 134
West London +19 87 £504 +3.87% 35
South London -6 25 £550 -10.70% 17
North London +4 11 £450 -10.00% 1
East London -4 8 £600 -4.76% 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
1 147 (5.29%) Confluence
2 73 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.58%) CMS
4 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.50%) Apache
6 11 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.29%) SAS
8 7 (0.25%) Appian
8 7 (0.25%) WordPress
9 6 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.18%) Kentico
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.072%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.072%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.072%) Moodle
13 2 (0.072%) nginx
14 1 (0.036%) Drupal
14 1 (0.036%) WebSphere
Applications
1 125 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
5 43 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 8 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.072%) CPLEX
11 2 (0.072%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.036%) Trello
12 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 82 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 16 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.43%) Finacle
5 12 (0.43%) SAP SD
6 11 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 10 (0.36%) Magento
8 9 (0.32%) Endur
9 8 (0.29%) Loan IQ
9 8 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.29%) SAP HCM
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.22%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 482 (17.36%) Azure
2 329 (11.85%) AWS
3 167 (6.01%) Power Platform
4 115 (4.14%) SaaS
5 108 (3.89%) GCP
6 102 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (2.52%) Entra ID
9 61 (2.20%) GitHub
10 56 (2.02%) Snowflake
11 35 (1.26%) Amazon S3
11 35 (1.26%) Figma
11 35 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
12 32 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
12 32 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
12 32 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (1.12%) OCI
13 31 (1.12%) Serverless
14 30 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.66%) Firewall
2 29 (1.04%) Network Security
3 26 (0.94%) WAN
4 23 (0.83%) DNS
5 21 (0.76%) LAN
6 19 (0.68%) VPN
7 12 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.40%) BGP
8 11 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.32%) DHCP
10 9 (0.32%) OSPF
11 7 (0.25%) NAS
11 7 (0.25%) SAN
11 7 (0.25%) VLAN
12 6 (0.22%) HTTP
12 6 (0.22%) Internet
12 6 (0.22%) Intranet
12 6 (0.22%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (4.86%) Power BI
2 78 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (2.27%) Metadata
4 47 (1.69%) Tableau
5 45 (1.62%) Data Lake
6 33 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 25 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.76%) Delta Lake
9 18 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.61%) Big Data
11 16 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.58%) Oracle Database
12 13 (0.47%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.40%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.32%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.32%) Db2
14 9 (0.32%) Parquet
14 9 (0.32%) Power Query
15 8 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 296 (10.66%) JIRA
2 48 (1.73%) Jenkins
3 40 (1.44%) Git
4 19 (0.68%) GitLab
5 17 (0.61%) Selenium
6 16 (0.58%) Postman
7 9 (0.32%) Zephyr
8 8 (0.29%) JMeter
8 8 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.25%) Appium
9 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.25%) MLflow
10 6 (0.22%) ERwin
10 6 (0.22%) JUnit
10 6 (0.22%) Maven
10 6 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.18%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.18%) REST Assured
General
1 1,359 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 1,083 (39.00%) Finance
3 458 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 338 (12.17%) Banking
5 287 (10.33%) Public Sector
6 195 (7.02%) Retail
7 174 (6.27%) Influencing Skills
8 153 (5.51%) Legal
9 137 (4.93%) Marketing
10 109 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
11 107 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
12 74 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (2.34%) Front Office
14 61 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 54 (1.94%) Manufacturing
16 53 (1.91%) Financial Institution
17 52 (1.87%) Investment Banking
18 51 (1.84%) Telecoms
19 48 (1.73%) Local Government
20 39 (1.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 462 (16.64%) Analyst
2 358 (12.89%) Lead
3 357 (12.86%) Project Manager
4 333 (11.99%) Business Analyst
5 319 (11.49%) Architect
6 265 (9.54%) Senior
7 146 (5.26%) Consultant
8 118 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
9 117 (4.21%) Senior Manager
10 94 (3.38%) Programme Manager
11 93 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
12 73 (2.63%) IT Manager
13 62 (2.23%) Product Owner
14 61 (2.20%) Product Manager
15 58 (2.09%) Senior Project Manager
16 57 (2.05%) Data Analyst
17 56 (2.02%) Technical Manager
18 50 (1.80%) Developer
19 49 (1.76%) Change Manager
20 45 (1.62%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (2.27%) REST
2 61 (2.20%) Middleware
3 36 (1.30%) SOAP
4 31 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.83%) Kafka
5 23 (0.83%) PySpark
6 22 (0.79%) .NET
7 21 (0.76%) JSON
7 21 (0.76%) XML
8 20 (0.72%) HTML
8 20 (0.72%) OAuth
8 20 (0.72%) Web Services
9 19 (0.68%) CSS
9 19 (0.68%) SailPoint
9 19 (0.68%) SAML
10 17 (0.61%) LDAP
11 16 (0.58%) OpenID
12 14 (0.50%) AngularJS
13 13 (0.47%) Playwright
13 13 (0.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 216 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 171 (6.16%) Onboarding
3 102 (3.67%) Cloud Native
4 79 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
5 68 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 60 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 59 (2.12%) Data Structures
8 52 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 49 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 49 (1.76%) Virtual Team
10 38 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
11 36 (1.30%) FMCG
11 36 (1.30%) NHS
12 35 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
13 34 (1.22%) AI Agents
14 32 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
15 28 (1.01%) CMDB
16 27 (0.97%) Security Posture
17 25 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
17 25 (0.90%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 85 (3.06%) Windows
2 40 (1.44%) Linux
3 17 (0.61%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.43%) Android
6 11 (0.40%) Unix
7 10 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.072%) AIX
13 1 (0.036%) CentOS
13 1 (0.036%) Solaris
13 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 899 (32.37%) Agile
2 428 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
3 422 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 404 (14.55%) Migration
5 394 (14.19%) Roadmaps
6 365 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 363 (13.07%) Decision-Making
8 336 (12.10%) AI
9 334 (12.03%) DevOps
10 329 (11.85%) Project Management
11 316 (11.38%) Analytics
12 300 (10.80%) User Acceptance Testing
13 296 (10.66%) Project Delivery
14 258 (9.29%) Change Management
15 252 (9.07%) Validation
16 234 (8.43%) Risk Management
17 232 (8.35%) Workshop Facilitation
18 230 (8.28%) CI/CD
19 219 (7.89%) User Stories
20 218 (7.85%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 252 (9.07%) SQL
2 181 (6.52%) Python
3 41 (1.48%) PowerShell
4 40 (1.44%) Java
5 32 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 25 (0.90%) C#
7 19 (0.68%) Bash
8 15 (0.54%) Korn
9 14 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 13 (0.47%) Bicep
11 12 (0.43%) R
12 11 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.32%) VBA
14 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.22%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.18%) ABAP
15 5 (0.18%) Perl
15 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 406 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 341 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 164 (5.91%) Degree
4 135 (4.86%) PMP
5 116 (4.18%) PMI Certification
6 58 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 51 (1.84%) CISSP
8 43 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.22%) DV Cleared
10 31 (1.12%) CISM
11 28 (1.01%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.50%) CBAP
16 13 (0.47%) ACCA
16 13 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.47%) CRISC
16 13 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (6.84%) Data Quality
2 164 (5.91%) QA
3 131 (4.72%) PMO
4 105 (3.78%) GDPR
5 70 (2.52%) NIST
6 67 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (1.76%) GRC
8 47 (1.69%) SLA
9 44 (1.58%) Accessibility
10 27 (0.97%) NCSC
11 20 (0.72%) COBIT
12 18 (0.65%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.50%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.50%) Solvency II
14 13 (0.47%) SEPA
15 12 (0.43%) MiFID
16 11 (0.40%) IFRS
16 11 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 10 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 57 (2.05%) Docker
3 16 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.36%) NFS
7 6 (0.22%) Postfix
8 4 (0.14%) Varnish
8 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.036%) NLBS
11 1 (0.036%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.036%) RACF
11 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (3.35%) Terraform
2 74 (2.66%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.15%) Ansible
4 22 (0.79%) Grafana
5 14 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.29%) SCCM
9 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.25%) RSA Archer
9 7 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.22%) Argo
11 5 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.14%) Control-M
12 4 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.11%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.072%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (0.072%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.072%) vMotion
Vendors
1 347 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 210 (7.56%) SAP
3 152 (5.47%) Oracle
4 135 (4.86%) Salesforce
5 134 (4.83%) ServiceNow
6 62 (2.23%) Databricks
7 54 (1.94%) Google
8 48 (1.73%) Workday
9 39 (1.40%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.19%) Splunk
11 30 (1.08%) Adobe
12 24 (0.86%) Cisco
13 23 (0.83%) Ariba
14 22 (0.79%) IBM
15 21 (0.76%) OpenAI
15 21 (0.76%) VMware
16 20 (0.72%) Informatica
17 18 (0.65%) MuleSoft
18 17 (0.61%) Guidewire
18 17 (0.61%) Okta