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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,918 1,496 1,192
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.61% 11.02% 7.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.41% 11.95% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,932 1,012 865
10th Percentile £400 £388 £378
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £665
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 21 10
10th Percentile £26.50 £28.25 £23.23
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £49.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +22.50% -24.49%
75th Percentile £63.25 £55.25 £55.94
90th Percentile £78.44 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +16.82% -13.15% +16.29%

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 17,780 12,524 14,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.22% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,742 8,379 10,498
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £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 281 240 232
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -14.29% -20.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%

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 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 25 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 25 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 +8 381 £600 +3.23% 162
West London +19 94 £520 -0.48% 50
South London -8 27 £590 -4.20% 21
North London +5 11 £450 -17.43% 1
East London -4 6 £600 -4.76% 29
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
1 159 (5.45%) Confluence
2 78 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.58%) CMS
4 18 (0.62%) Apache
5 16 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.24%) SAS
9 6 (0.21%) Appian
9 6 (0.21%) WordPress
10 4 (0.14%) Kentico
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.069%) Drupal
12 2 (0.069%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.069%) JBoss
12 2 (0.069%) Moodle
12 2 (0.069%) nginx
Applications
1 130 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 44 (1.51%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.31%) Revit
8 7 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.069%) CPLEX
11 2 (0.069%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.069%) Trello
12 1 (0.034%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 85 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 13 (0.45%) Finacle
5 13 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.41%) SAP SD
6 12 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 11 (0.38%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.34%) Magento
9 9 (0.31%) Endur
9 9 (0.31%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.27%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.24%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 6 (0.21%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 511 (17.51%) Azure
2 346 (11.86%) AWS
3 183 (6.27%) Power Platform
4 124 (4.25%) SaaS
5 118 (4.04%) GCP
6 110 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 80 (2.74%) Entra ID
9 67 (2.30%) GitHub
10 61 (2.09%) Snowflake
11 39 (1.34%) Figma
12 38 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
13 37 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
14 36 (1.23%) Amazon S3
15 34 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (1.13%) OCI
17 32 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.10%) PaaS
17 32 (1.10%) Power Automate
17 32 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.58%) Firewall
2 32 (1.10%) Network Security
3 30 (1.03%) WAN
4 25 (0.86%) DNS
5 22 (0.75%) LAN
6 21 (0.72%) VPN
7 14 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.38%) DHCP
11 10 (0.34%) BGP
12 9 (0.31%) Wireless
13 8 (0.27%) OSPF
14 7 (0.24%) HTTP
14 7 (0.24%) Internet
14 7 (0.24%) SAN
14 7 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
15 6 (0.21%) 4G
15 6 (0.21%) 5G
15 6 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (5.04%) Power BI
2 82 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (2.40%) Metadata
4 50 (1.71%) Tableau
5 45 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 37 (1.27%) SQL Server
7 27 (0.93%) Delta Lake
8 26 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 19 (0.65%) Big Data
9 19 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (0.58%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (0.45%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.38%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.38%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.34%) Parquet
16 9 (0.31%) Db2
16 9 (0.31%) Power Query
17 8 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 315 (10.80%) JIRA
2 40 (1.37%) Git
3 38 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.62%) GitLab
4 18 (0.62%) Selenium
5 16 (0.55%) Postman
6 12 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 9 (0.31%) JMeter
8 8 (0.27%) ERwin
8 8 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.24%) Appium
9 7 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.21%) JUnit
10 6 (0.21%) Maven
10 6 (0.21%) MLflow
10 6 (0.21%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 1,436 (49.21%) Social Skills
2 1,134 (38.86%) Finance
3 495 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 374 (12.82%) Banking
5 303 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 210 (7.20%) Retail
7 176 (6.03%) Influencing Skills
8 154 (5.28%) Legal
9 148 (5.07%) Marketing
10 116 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
11 104 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
12 75 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
13 71 (2.43%) Front Office
14 63 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 58 (1.99%) Manufacturing
16 57 (1.95%) Financial Institution
17 53 (1.82%) Investment Banking
17 53 (1.82%) Local Government
17 53 (1.82%) Telecoms
18 43 (1.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 482 (16.52%) Analyst
2 377 (12.92%) Lead
3 366 (12.54%) Project Manager
4 345 (11.82%) Business Analyst
5 330 (11.31%) Architect
6 282 (9.66%) Senior
7 155 (5.31%) Consultant
8 128 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
9 119 (4.08%) Senior Manager
10 105 (3.60%) Programme Manager
11 95 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
12 78 (2.67%) IT Manager
13 66 (2.26%) Product Manager
13 66 (2.26%) Product Owner
13 66 (2.26%) Technical Manager
14 61 (2.09%) Developer
15 60 (2.06%) Data Analyst
16 58 (1.99%) Senior Project Manager
17 49 (1.68%) Designer
18 48 (1.64%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.74%) REST
2 64 (2.19%) Middleware
3 44 (1.51%) SOAP
4 31 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
5 27 (0.93%) Kafka
6 26 (0.89%) .NET
6 26 (0.89%) PySpark
7 25 (0.86%) SailPoint
8 23 (0.79%) HTML
9 22 (0.75%) CSS
10 21 (0.72%) JSON
10 21 (0.72%) Web Services
10 21 (0.72%) XML
11 18 (0.62%) OAuth
12 15 (0.51%) RESTful
13 14 (0.48%) Playwright
14 13 (0.45%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.45%) React
15 12 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
16 11 (0.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 248 (8.50%) Product Ownership
2 180 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 94 (3.22%) Cloud Native
4 78 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 62 (2.12%) Data Structures
7 61 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 55 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 55 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 52 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 43 (1.47%) FMCG
11 42 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 41 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
13 38 (1.30%) AI Agents
14 37 (1.27%) NHS
15 33 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 32 (1.10%) CMDB
17 28 (0.96%) Operational Technology
17 28 (0.96%) Security Posture
18 25 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 94 (3.22%) Windows
2 46 (1.58%) Linux
3 19 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.45%) Unix
5 12 (0.41%) Android
6 8 (0.27%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.14%) VMS
9 3 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.069%) AIX
11 1 (0.034%) CentOS
11 1 (0.034%) Solaris
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (32.49%) Agile
2 459 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
3 449 (15.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 431 (14.77%) Roadmaps
5 419 (14.36%) Migration
6 385 (13.19%) Decision-Making
7 381 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 362 (12.41%) AI
9 353 (12.10%) Project Management
10 349 (11.96%) DevOps
11 337 (11.55%) Analytics
12 315 (10.80%) User Acceptance Testing
13 313 (10.73%) Project Delivery
14 279 (9.56%) Change Management
15 263 (9.01%) Validation
16 254 (8.70%) Risk Management
17 245 (8.40%) Workshop Facilitation
18 238 (8.16%) CI/CD
19 237 (8.12%) User Stories
20 229 (7.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 277 (9.49%) SQL
2 190 (6.51%) Python
3 50 (1.71%) Java
4 45 (1.54%) PowerShell
5 39 (1.34%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.03%) C#
7 21 (0.72%) Bash
8 16 (0.55%) Bicep
8 16 (0.55%) Korn
8 16 (0.55%) TypeScript
9 14 (0.48%) R
10 11 (0.38%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.34%) VBA
12 9 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.21%) Perl
14 6 (0.21%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.17%) ABAP
15 5 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 414 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 347 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 168 (5.76%) Degree
4 148 (5.07%) PMP
5 131 (4.49%) PMI Certification
6 58 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (1.82%) CISSP
8 47 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 40 (1.37%) DV Cleared
10 33 (1.13%) CISM
11 28 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 23 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (0.72%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.45%) ACCA
16 13 (0.45%) ISTQB
17 12 (0.41%) CIMA
17 12 (0.41%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 172 (5.89%) QA
3 137 (4.69%) PMO
4 102 (3.50%) GDPR
5 60 (2.06%) NIST
6 59 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 50 (1.71%) GRC
8 48 (1.64%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.64%) SLA
9 20 (0.69%) COBIT
10 18 (0.62%) NCSC
11 17 (0.58%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.51%) WCAG
13 14 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.45%) MiFID
14 13 (0.45%) SEPA
14 13 (0.45%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.45%) Solvency II
15 12 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 72 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 62 (2.12%) Docker
3 18 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.31%) NFS
7 6 (0.21%) Postfix
8 4 (0.14%) Varnish
8 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.10%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.069%) vSphere
11 1 (0.034%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.034%) RACF
Systems Management
1 99 (3.39%) Terraform
2 66 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.13%) Ansible
4 24 (0.82%) Grafana
5 15 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.34%) SCCM
8 7 (0.24%) Argo
8 7 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.21%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.17%) Control-M
10 5 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.14%) Puppet
12 3 (0.10%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.069%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.069%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 369 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 222 (7.61%) SAP
3 156 (5.35%) Oracle
4 143 (4.90%) ServiceNow
5 140 (4.80%) Salesforce
6 70 (2.40%) Databricks
7 59 (2.02%) Google
8 52 (1.78%) Workday
9 31 (1.06%) CyberArk
10 30 (1.03%) Adobe
11 26 (0.89%) Cisco
11 26 (0.89%) IBM
12 25 (0.86%) Splunk
13 23 (0.79%) Ariba
13 23 (0.79%) VMware
14 20 (0.69%) Informatica
14 20 (0.69%) OpenAI
15 19 (0.65%) Guidewire
16 18 (0.62%) MuleSoft
16 18 (0.62%) Okta