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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,089 1,509 1,170
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.29% 11.13% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.16% 12.05% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,037 1,025 833
10th Percentile £400 £390 £388
25th Percentile £469 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £764 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.18% -2.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 23 8
10th Percentile £27.55 £28.25 £30.13
25th Percentile £37.56 £33.00 £34.73
Median hourly rate £43.00 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +5.88% +19.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £60.31
90th Percentile £77.60 £65.00 £66.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.09 £61.60
% change year-on-year +17.74% -13.82% +34.26%

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 18,001 12,519 14,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.32% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,856 8,363 10,133
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £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 297 250 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.01
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -14.89% -14.11%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.03 £71.44
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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +10 400 £600 +4.35% 360
West London +18 104 £520 -3.26% 80
South London -4 30 £595 -3.39% 30
North London +4 10 £450 -17.43% 1
East London -6 8 £675 +3.45% 32
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 (5.15%) Confluence
2 81 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.49%) CMS
4 23 (0.74%) Apache
5 20 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.23%) SAS
10 6 (0.19%) WordPress
11 5 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.13%) Kentico
13 3 (0.097%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.097%) Palantir Foundry
14 2 (0.065%) Camunda
14 2 (0.065%) Drupal
14 2 (0.065%) JBoss
14 2 (0.065%) Mendix
14 2 (0.065%) Moodle
Applications
1 144 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 67 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
4 62 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 44 (1.42%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.32%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.32%) Revit
6 10 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.16%) Trello
8 4 (0.13%) Notion
9 3 (0.097%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.097%) Sketch
10 2 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.065%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.065%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.065%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.032%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.032%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 90 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.45%) Finacle
5 13 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 12 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (0.36%) Endur
7 11 (0.36%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.36%) SAP SD
8 10 (0.32%) Magento
8 10 (0.32%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.23%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.23%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 559 (18.10%) Azure
2 381 (12.33%) AWS
3 201 (6.51%) Power Platform
4 132 (4.27%) SaaS
5 125 (4.05%) GCP
6 121 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 94 (3.04%) Entra ID
9 76 (2.46%) GitHub
10 74 (2.40%) Snowflake
11 41 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
12 38 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
13 37 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (1.17%) Amazon S3
15 35 (1.13%) Figma
15 35 (1.13%) OCI
16 33 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
16 33 (1.07%) Serverless
17 32 (1.04%) Power Automate
18 31 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.52%) Firewall
2 37 (1.20%) Network Security
3 31 (1.00%) DNS
4 26 (0.84%) WAN
5 18 (0.58%) VPN
6 17 (0.55%) LAN
7 16 (0.52%) DHCP
8 13 (0.42%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.36%) BGP
9 11 (0.36%) Internet
10 9 (0.29%) OSPF
10 9 (0.29%) SSL
10 9 (0.29%) Wireless
11 8 (0.26%) HTTP
11 8 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
11 8 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.23%) 4G
12 7 (0.23%) 5G
12 7 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.41%) Power BI
2 95 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (2.49%) Metadata
4 56 (1.81%) Tableau
5 47 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 43 (1.39%) SQL Server
7 35 (1.13%) Delta Lake
8 28 (0.91%) Relational Database
9 22 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (0.68%) Big Data
10 21 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (0.55%) Oracle Database
13 14 (0.45%) BigQuery
13 14 (0.45%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.36%) Parquet
14 11 (0.36%) Power Query
14 11 (0.36%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.32%) Data Vault
15 10 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 324 (10.49%) JIRA
2 46 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 44 (1.42%) Git
4 28 (0.91%) GitLab
5 19 (0.62%) Selenium
6 16 (0.52%) Postman
7 13 (0.42%) Zephyr
8 10 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.29%) ERwin
9 9 (0.29%) JMeter
9 9 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
10 8 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.26%) Maven
10 8 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.23%) Appium
12 6 (0.19%) JUnit
13 5 (0.16%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.16%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.16%) Snyk
General
1 1,542 (49.92%) Social Skills
2 1,205 (39.01%) Finance
3 538 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 426 (13.79%) Banking
5 316 (10.23%) Public Sector
6 217 (7.02%) Retail
7 185 (5.99%) Influencing Skills
8 161 (5.21%) Legal
9 156 (5.05%) Marketing
10 120 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
11 108 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 82 (2.65%) Front Office
13 79 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
14 67 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 65 (2.10%) Investment Banking
16 64 (2.07%) Financial Institution
16 64 (2.07%) Manufacturing
17 59 (1.91%) Telecoms
18 58 (1.88%) Local Government
19 47 (1.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 512 (16.57%) Analyst
2 398 (12.88%) Lead
3 368 (11.91%) Project Manager
4 364 (11.78%) Architect
5 361 (11.69%) Business Analyst
6 315 (10.20%) Senior
7 184 (5.96%) Consultant
8 147 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 123 (3.98%) Senior Manager
10 111 (3.59%) Programme Manager
11 91 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
12 79 (2.56%) IT Manager
13 73 (2.36%) Developer
14 71 (2.30%) Technical Manager
15 70 (2.27%) Product Manager
16 67 (2.17%) Product Owner
17 65 (2.10%) Data Analyst
18 57 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
19 56 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
20 47 (1.52%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (2.88%) REST
2 69 (2.23%) Middleware
3 44 (1.42%) SOAP
4 33 (1.07%) Kafka
4 33 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
5 30 (0.97%) .NET
5 30 (0.97%) PySpark
6 26 (0.84%) HTML
7 24 (0.78%) CSS
8 23 (0.74%) JSON
8 23 (0.74%) SailPoint
8 23 (0.74%) XML
9 21 (0.68%) Web Services
10 20 (0.65%) OAuth
11 15 (0.49%) React
12 14 (0.45%) AngularJS
12 14 (0.45%) Playwright
13 13 (0.42%) Spring
14 12 (0.39%) Node.js
14 12 (0.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 268 (8.68%) Product Ownership
2 201 (6.51%) Onboarding
3 110 (3.56%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 78 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.10%) Data Structures
7 61 (1.97%) Data Centre
7 61 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
8 56 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 54 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 49 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 47 (1.52%) AI Agents
12 45 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
13 44 (1.42%) FMCG
14 39 (1.26%) NHS
15 34 (1.10%) CMDB
16 33 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
17 32 (1.04%) Operational Technology
17 32 (1.04%) Security Posture
18 27 (0.87%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 99 (3.20%) Windows
2 49 (1.59%) Linux
3 22 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.45%) Unix
5 13 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.36%) Android
7 9 (0.29%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.097%) VMS
12 2 (0.065%) AIX
12 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.032%) CentOS
13 1 (0.032%) Solaris
13 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,004 (32.50%) Agile
2 503 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
3 475 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 471 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 431 (13.95%) Migration
6 419 (13.56%) Decision-Making
7 409 (13.24%) AI
8 404 (13.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 380 (12.30%) Analytics
10 379 (12.27%) Project Management
11 374 (12.11%) DevOps
12 336 (10.88%) Project Delivery
13 322 (10.42%) User Acceptance Testing
14 291 (9.42%) Change Management
15 276 (8.93%) Workshop Facilitation
16 272 (8.81%) Risk Management
17 268 (8.68%) CI/CD
18 262 (8.48%) Validation
19 247 (8.00%) User Stories
20 244 (7.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 316 (10.23%) SQL
2 199 (6.44%) Python
3 58 (1.88%) Java
4 52 (1.68%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 31 (1.00%) C#
7 22 (0.71%) Bash
8 19 (0.62%) Bicep
9 17 (0.55%) Korn
9 17 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.45%) R
11 13 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.29%) VBA
14 8 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.26%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.23%) Perl
16 5 (0.16%) C++
16 5 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 449 (14.54%) Security Cleared
2 376 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 186 (6.02%) Degree
4 163 (5.28%) PMP
5 140 (4.53%) PMI Certification
6 64 (2.07%) CISSP
7 55 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 50 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.39%) CISM
11 30 (0.97%) AWS Certification
12 28 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.74%) Master's Degree
14 19 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.52%) CRISC
16 15 (0.49%) ACCA
16 15 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
17 14 (0.45%) CIMA
18 13 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 183 (5.92%) QA
3 146 (4.73%) PMO
4 100 (3.24%) GDPR
5 74 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 71 (2.30%) NIST
7 59 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.78%) GRC
9 49 (1.59%) SLA
10 24 (0.78%) NCSC
11 19 (0.62%) COBIT
12 18 (0.58%) WCAG
13 17 (0.55%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.52%) ISO 20022
14 16 (0.52%) SEPA
15 14 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.42%) MiFID
16 13 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 13 (0.42%) Solvency II
17 12 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 80 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 72 (2.33%) Docker
3 21 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.26%) NFS
7 6 (0.19%) Postfix
8 5 (0.16%) vSphere
9 4 (0.13%) Varnish
9 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.097%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.097%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.032%) RACF
Systems Management
1 113 (3.66%) Terraform
2 76 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.13%) Ansible
4 24 (0.78%) Grafana
5 18 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.39%) SCCM
9 8 (0.26%) Argo
10 7 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.19%) Control-M
12 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.13%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.13%) Puppet
14 3 (0.097%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.065%) ITRS Geneos
15 2 (0.065%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.065%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 418 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 226 (7.32%) SAP
3 160 (5.18%) Oracle
4 147 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 144 (4.66%) Salesforce
6 90 (2.91%) Databricks
7 60 (1.94%) Google
8 53 (1.72%) Workday
9 33 (1.07%) Adobe
10 32 (1.04%) IBM
11 30 (0.97%) CyberArk
12 28 (0.91%) Cisco
12 28 (0.91%) Splunk
12 28 (0.91%) VMware
13 21 (0.68%) Ariba
14 20 (0.65%) Guidewire
14 20 (0.65%) MuleSoft
14 20 (0.65%) Okta
15 19 (0.62%) Zscaler
16 18 (0.58%) Informatica