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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,841 1,481 1,200
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.34% 10.92% 7.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.12% 11.85% 8.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,888 1,005 870
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £659
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 11
10th Percentile £25.75 £28.25 £23.33
25th Percentile £36.25 £35.31 £30.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £49.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +16.47% -19.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £80.14 £65.50 £61.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £54.01 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.73% -12.33% +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 17,625 12,495 14,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.13% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 8,354 10,656
10th Percentile £363 £330 £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 £650 £675 £680
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 277 234 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +9 374 £600 - 302
West London +22 91 £520 - 41
South London -7 26 £570 -7.45% 22
North London +5 11 £450 -17.43% 1
East London -6 7 £600 -4.76% 26
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
1 155 (5.46%) Confluence
2 76 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.58%) CMS
4 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.49%) Apache
6 11 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.28%) SAS
8 6 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.21%) Appian
8 6 (0.21%) WordPress
9 4 (0.14%) Kentico
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.070%) Drupal
11 2 (0.070%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.070%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.070%) Moodle
11 2 (0.070%) nginx
12 1 (0.035%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 123 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 46 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.35%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.28%) Revit
8 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.070%) CPLEX
11 2 (0.070%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.070%) Trello
12 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 83 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 12 (0.42%) Finacle
6 12 (0.42%) SAP SD
6 12 (0.42%) Workday HCM
7 11 (0.39%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.35%) Magento
9 9 (0.32%) Endur
10 8 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.28%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.28%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.25%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
12 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.21%) SAP BRIM
12 6 (0.21%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 496 (17.46%) Azure
2 331 (11.65%) AWS
3 174 (6.12%) Power Platform
4 117 (4.12%) SaaS
5 109 (3.84%) GCP
6 106 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
8 78 (2.75%) Entra ID
9 65 (2.29%) GitHub
10 58 (2.04%) Snowflake
11 38 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
12 37 (1.30%) Figma
13 35 (1.23%) Amazon S3
14 34 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
15 33 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (1.13%) OCI
17 31 (1.09%) PaaS
17 31 (1.09%) Serverless
18 30 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.62%) Firewall
2 31 (1.09%) Network Security
3 28 (0.99%) WAN
4 24 (0.84%) DNS
5 21 (0.74%) LAN
6 19 (0.67%) VPN
7 13 (0.46%) SD-WAN
7 13 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.35%) BGP
9 10 (0.35%) DHCP
10 9 (0.32%) Wireless
11 8 (0.28%) OSPF
12 7 (0.25%) HTTP
12 7 (0.25%) Internet
12 7 (0.25%) NAS
12 7 (0.25%) SAN
12 7 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
13 6 (0.21%) Intranet
14 5 (0.18%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (4.93%) Power BI
2 78 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (2.39%) Metadata
4 48 (1.69%) Tableau
5 43 (1.51%) Data Lake
6 35 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.92%) Relational Database
8 24 (0.84%) Delta Lake
9 19 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (0.60%) Big Data
10 17 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 16 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.39%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.35%) Parquet
15 9 (0.32%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.32%) Db2
15 9 (0.32%) Power Query
16 8 (0.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 309 (10.88%) JIRA
2 42 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 40 (1.41%) Git
4 17 (0.60%) GitLab
4 17 (0.60%) Selenium
5 16 (0.56%) Postman
6 12 (0.42%) Zephyr
7 8 (0.28%) ERwin
7 8 (0.28%) JMeter
7 8 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.25%) Appium
8 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.21%) JUnit
9 6 (0.21%) Maven
9 6 (0.21%) MLflow
9 6 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.18%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.18%) REST Assured
General
1 1,390 (48.93%) Social Skills
2 1,100 (38.72%) Finance
3 481 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 356 (12.53%) Banking
5 297 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 208 (7.32%) Retail
7 176 (6.20%) Influencing Skills
8 152 (5.35%) Legal
9 141 (4.96%) Marketing
10 114 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
11 106 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
12 72 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
13 69 (2.43%) Front Office
14 62 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 56 (1.97%) Manufacturing
16 54 (1.90%) Financial Institution
17 53 (1.87%) Investment Banking
18 51 (1.80%) Local Government
19 49 (1.72%) Telecoms
20 41 (1.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 472 (16.61%) Analyst
2 362 (12.74%) Lead
3 360 (12.67%) Project Manager
4 339 (11.93%) Business Analyst
5 327 (11.51%) Architect
6 270 (9.50%) Senior
7 148 (5.21%) Consultant
8 124 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
9 114 (4.01%) Senior Manager
10 102 (3.59%) Programme Manager
11 93 (3.27%) Delivery Manager
12 77 (2.71%) IT Manager
13 64 (2.25%) Product Manager
13 64 (2.25%) Product Owner
14 62 (2.18%) Technical Manager
15 58 (2.04%) Developer
16 57 (2.01%) Data Analyst
17 56 (1.97%) Senior Project Manager
18 47 (1.65%) Change Manager
18 47 (1.65%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (2.57%) REST
2 62 (2.18%) Middleware
3 42 (1.48%) SOAP
4 31 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (0.84%) .NET
5 24 (0.84%) PySpark
5 24 (0.84%) SailPoint
6 23 (0.81%) Kafka
7 21 (0.74%) HTML
7 21 (0.74%) JSON
7 21 (0.74%) Web Services
7 21 (0.74%) XML
8 20 (0.70%) CSS
9 18 (0.63%) OAuth
10 14 (0.49%) AngularJS
10 14 (0.49%) RESTful
11 13 (0.46%) Playwright
12 12 (0.42%) LDAP
12 12 (0.42%) React
12 12 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 238 (8.38%) Product Ownership
2 176 (6.20%) Onboarding
3 96 (3.38%) Cloud Native
4 79 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 65 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 59 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 59 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 55 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 53 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 51 (1.80%) Virtual Team
10 42 (1.48%) FMCG
11 38 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 38 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
12 37 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 36 (1.27%) NHS
14 32 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
15 30 (1.06%) CMDB
16 28 (0.99%) Operational Technology
17 27 (0.95%) Security Posture
18 25 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 92 (3.24%) Windows
2 43 (1.51%) Linux
3 19 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.42%) Android
5 12 (0.42%) Unix
6 11 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.14%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.070%) AIX
12 1 (0.035%) CentOS
12 1 (0.035%) Solaris
12 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 925 (32.56%) Agile
2 445 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
3 438 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 415 (14.61%) Roadmaps
5 406 (14.29%) Migration
6 373 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 368 (12.95%) Decision-Making
8 348 (12.25%) AI
9 341 (12.00%) DevOps
10 334 (11.76%) Project Management
11 325 (11.44%) Analytics
12 310 (10.91%) User Acceptance Testing
13 298 (10.49%) Project Delivery
14 269 (9.47%) Change Management
15 259 (9.12%) Validation
16 242 (8.52%) Risk Management
16 242 (8.52%) Workshop Facilitation
17 232 (8.17%) CI/CD
18 227 (7.99%) User Stories
19 225 (7.92%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 261 (9.19%) SQL
2 180 (6.34%) Python
3 43 (1.51%) PowerShell
4 42 (1.48%) Java
5 35 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 29 (1.02%) C#
7 21 (0.74%) Bash
8 16 (0.56%) Korn
9 15 (0.53%) Bicep
10 14 (0.49%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.42%) R
12 11 (0.39%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.35%) VBA
14 9 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.21%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.18%) ABAP
17 5 (0.18%) Perl
17 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 407 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 342 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 162 (5.70%) Degree
4 145 (5.10%) PMP
5 127 (4.47%) PMI Certification
6 57 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (1.87%) CISSP
8 47 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 36 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 33 (1.16%) CISM
11 28 (0.99%) AWS Certification
12 22 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
13 20 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 19 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.46%) ACCA
16 13 (0.46%) ISTQB
17 12 (0.42%) CIMA
17 12 (0.42%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.98%) QA
3 134 (4.72%) PMO
4 101 (3.56%) GDPR
5 65 (2.29%) NIST
6 64 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (1.72%) GRC
8 48 (1.69%) SLA
9 46 (1.62%) Accessibility
10 23 (0.81%) NCSC
11 20 (0.70%) COBIT
12 17 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.49%) Solvency II
14 13 (0.46%) MiFID
14 13 (0.46%) SEPA
14 13 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.42%) WCAG
16 11 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 10 (0.35%) IFRS
System Software
1 69 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 57 (2.01%) Docker
3 18 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.35%) NFS
7 6 (0.21%) Postfix
8 4 (0.14%) Varnish
8 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.070%) vSphere
11 1 (0.035%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.035%) RACF
Systems Management
1 97 (3.41%) Terraform
2 66 (2.32%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.16%) Ansible
4 24 (0.84%) Grafana
5 15 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.32%) SCCM
8 7 (0.25%) Argo
8 7 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.21%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.18%) Control-M
10 5 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.11%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.11%) Puppet
13 2 (0.070%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.070%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 361 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 217 (7.64%) SAP
3 154 (5.42%) Oracle
4 139 (4.89%) Salesforce
5 138 (4.86%) ServiceNow
6 65 (2.29%) Databricks
7 56 (1.97%) Google
8 52 (1.83%) Workday
9 35 (1.23%) CyberArk
10 29 (1.02%) Adobe
10 29 (1.02%) Splunk
11 26 (0.92%) IBM
12 25 (0.88%) Cisco
13 23 (0.81%) Ariba
13 23 (0.81%) VMware
14 20 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 19 (0.67%) Informatica
16 18 (0.63%) MuleSoft
16 18 (0.63%) Okta
17 17 (0.60%) Zscaler