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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,354 1,481 1,195
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.68% 11.07% 7.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.74% 11.96% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,188 1,010 825
10th Percentile £400 £385 £378
25th Percentile £469 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +1.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £675
90th Percentile £788 £763 £775
England median daily rate £550 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +2.61% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 22 9
10th Percentile £26.25 £23.08 £31.81
25th Percentile £33.60 £28.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £40.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -5.79% +19.85%
75th Percentile £57.50 £53.94 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £64.75
England median hourly rate £58.50 £49.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -19.64% +23.30%

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 17,897 12,384 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,242 9,970
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 255 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +9 418 £600 +5.73% 339
West London +16 121 £520 +7.22% 115
South London +1 33 £550 -10.70% 15
East London +2 12 £638 -5.56% 40
North London +5 11 £450 -17.43% 1
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
1 164 (4.89%) Confluence
2 91 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 51 (1.52%) CMS
4 31 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.75%) Apache
6 18 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.30%) SAS
10 6 (0.18%) WordPress
11 4 (0.12%) Appian
11 4 (0.12%) Kentico
12 3 (0.089%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.089%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.089%) Moodle
12 3 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.060%) JBoss
13 2 (0.060%) MTS
Applications
1 157 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 74 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
5 42 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.30%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.30%) Revit
6 10 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.15%) Trello
8 4 (0.12%) Notion
9 3 (0.089%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.089%) Sketch
10 2 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.060%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.060%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.060%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.060%) Windchill
11 1 (0.030%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.030%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 98 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 17 (0.51%) Workday HCM
5 15 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.42%) Finacle
7 13 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 13 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 11 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
10 10 (0.30%) Endur
10 10 (0.30%) Magento
10 10 (0.30%) SAP SD
11 9 (0.27%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.27%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.27%) SAP HCM
12 8 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
12 8 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
13 7 (0.21%) Loan IQ
13 7 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 656 (19.56%) Azure
2 437 (13.03%) AWS
3 241 (7.19%) Power Platform
4 150 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
5 145 (4.32%) SaaS
6 144 (4.29%) GCP
7 115 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
8 105 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 91 (2.71%) GitHub
10 89 (2.65%) Snowflake
11 54 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
12 48 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
12 48 (1.43%) Serverless
13 44 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (1.16%) Amazon S3
15 38 (1.13%) Power Automate
15 38 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
16 37 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
17 36 (1.07%) dbt
17 36 (1.07%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.76%) Firewall
2 49 (1.46%) Network Security
3 33 (0.98%) DNS
3 33 (0.98%) WAN
4 20 (0.60%) VPN
5 19 (0.57%) LAN
6 17 (0.51%) DHCP
7 16 (0.48%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.45%) BGP
8 15 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.39%) Internet
10 13 (0.39%) Wireless
11 12 (0.36%) 4G
11 12 (0.36%) 5G
12 10 (0.30%) SAN
12 10 (0.30%) SSL
13 9 (0.27%) 3GPP
13 9 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
13 9 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (5.81%) Power BI
2 112 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
3 107 (3.19%) Metadata
4 62 (1.85%) Tableau
5 54 (1.61%) SQL Server
6 51 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 44 (1.31%) Delta Lake
8 37 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (0.92%) Relational Database
10 30 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.63%) Oracle Database
13 20 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
14 19 (0.57%) Big Data
14 19 (0.57%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.54%) BigQuery
16 17 (0.51%) MongoDB
17 14 (0.42%) Data Vault
18 13 (0.39%) Redis
19 12 (0.36%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 339 (10.11%) JIRA
2 58 (1.73%) Git
3 55 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.01%) GitLab
5 25 (0.75%) Selenium
6 19 (0.57%) Postman
7 12 (0.36%) Zephyr
8 11 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.30%) ERwin
9 10 (0.30%) JMeter
10 7 (0.21%) Appium
10 7 (0.21%) LoadRunner
10 7 (0.21%) Maven
11 6 (0.18%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.18%) JUnit
11 6 (0.18%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
13 4 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 1,714 (51.10%) Social Skills
2 1,273 (37.95%) Finance
3 591 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
4 460 (13.71%) Banking
5 343 (10.23%) Public Sector
6 233 (6.95%) Retail
7 202 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
8 170 (5.07%) Marketing
9 160 (4.77%) Legal
10 127 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
11 118 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
12 92 (2.74%) Front Office
13 87 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 74 (2.21%) Telecoms
15 72 (2.15%) Investment Banking
16 70 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 70 (2.09%) Manufacturing
17 61 (1.82%) Local Government
18 56 (1.67%) Financial Institution
19 48 (1.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 538 (16.04%) Analyst
2 435 (12.97%) Lead
3 432 (12.88%) Architect
4 364 (10.85%) Business Analyst
4 364 (10.85%) Project Manager
5 350 (10.44%) Senior
6 208 (6.20%) Consultant
7 152 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
8 122 (3.64%) Senior Manager
9 115 (3.43%) Programme Manager
10 91 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
11 86 (2.56%) Developer
12 80 (2.39%) IT Manager
13 78 (2.33%) Product Manager
14 75 (2.24%) Technical Manager
15 70 (2.09%) Product Owner
16 69 (2.06%) Data Analyst
17 63 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
18 62 (1.85%) Data Architect
19 57 (1.70%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (4.26%) Terraform
2 105 (3.13%) REST
3 76 (2.27%) Middleware
4 48 (1.43%) Kafka
5 45 (1.34%) SOAP
6 40 (1.19%) .NET
7 37 (1.10%) PySpark
8 33 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
9 29 (0.86%) HTML
9 29 (0.86%) XML
10 27 (0.81%) JSON
11 26 (0.78%) CSS
11 26 (0.78%) OAuth
12 22 (0.66%) Web Services
13 19 (0.57%) SailPoint
14 17 (0.51%) React
15 16 (0.48%) Node.js
15 16 (0.48%) Playwright
15 16 (0.48%) Spring
15 16 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 287 (8.56%) Product Ownership
2 215 (6.41%) Onboarding
3 141 (4.20%) Cloud Native
4 93 (2.77%) Management Information System
5 72 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
5 72 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 68 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 66 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
9 59 (1.76%) AI Agents
9 59 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 57 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
11 53 (1.58%) Virtual Team
12 46 (1.37%) FMCG
13 43 (1.28%) NHS
14 40 (1.19%) CMDB
15 38 (1.13%) Operational Technology
15 38 (1.13%) Security Posture
16 33 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
16 33 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 112 (3.34%) Windows
2 66 (1.97%) Linux
3 30 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.60%) Unix
5 15 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.36%) Android
8 9 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.24%) VMS
10 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.060%) AIX
13 2 (0.060%) CentOS
13 2 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.030%) Solaris
14 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.030%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,063 (31.69%) Agile
2 563 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
3 537 (16.01%) Roadmaps
4 525 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 482 (14.37%) AI
6 481 (14.34%) Migration
7 452 (13.48%) Decision-Making
8 439 (13.09%) DevOps
8 439 (13.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 434 (12.94%) Analytics
10 401 (11.96%) Project Management
11 372 (11.09%) Project Delivery
12 349 (10.41%) User Acceptance Testing
13 330 (9.84%) Workshop Facilitation
14 329 (9.81%) CI/CD
15 321 (9.57%) Change Management
16 301 (8.97%) Risk Management
17 284 (8.47%) Data Modelling
18 281 (8.38%) Validation
19 277 (8.26%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 366 (10.91%) SQL
2 237 (7.07%) Python
3 79 (2.36%) Java
4 67 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 56 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.19%) C#
7 31 (0.92%) Bash
8 26 (0.78%) Bicep
9 22 (0.66%) TypeScript
10 21 (0.63%) Korn
11 20 (0.60%) R
12 15 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.30%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.27%) Perl
14 9 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.27%) VBA
15 7 (0.21%) C++
16 6 (0.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 517 (15.41%) Security Cleared
2 436 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 203 (6.05%) Degree
4 169 (5.04%) PMP
5 148 (4.41%) PMI Certification
6 58 (1.73%) Azure Certification
6 58 (1.73%) CISSP
7 57 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 51 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 43 (1.28%) AWS Certification
10 42 (1.25%) CISM
11 40 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 35 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.72%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.60%) ISTQB
14 20 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
15 19 (0.57%) ACCA
16 18 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 18 (0.54%) CIMA
17 16 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (8.08%) Data Quality
2 209 (6.23%) QA
3 153 (4.56%) PMO
4 103 (3.07%) GDPR
5 75 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (2.15%) NIST
7 65 (1.94%) Accessibility
8 54 (1.61%) GRC
9 43 (1.28%) SLA
10 23 (0.69%) NCSC
11 20 (0.60%) WCAG
12 15 (0.45%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.42%) COBIT
13 14 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 14 (0.42%) IFRS
13 14 (0.42%) PCI DSS
14 13 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.39%) SEPA
15 12 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 89 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 79 (2.36%) Docker
3 26 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.24%) NFS
7 7 (0.21%) vSphere
8 5 (0.15%) Postfix
9 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.12%) Varnish
9 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.089%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.030%) Firmware
12 1 (0.030%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.030%) oVirt
12 1 (0.030%) RACF
12 1 (0.030%) RHEV
12 1 (0.030%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 95 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 42 (1.25%) Ansible
3 34 (1.01%) Grafana
4 19 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.45%) SCCM
8 8 (0.24%) Argo
8 8 (0.24%) Control-M
9 7 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.15%) Puppet
12 4 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.12%) Kibana
12 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.089%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.089%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.089%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.089%) Nagios
14 2 (0.060%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 512 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 235 (7.01%) SAP
3 184 (5.49%) Oracle
4 151 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 149 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 126 (3.76%) Databricks
7 67 (2.00%) Google
8 54 (1.61%) Workday
9 39 (1.16%) IBM
10 38 (1.13%) Cisco
11 37 (1.10%) Adobe
11 37 (1.10%) VMware
12 35 (1.04%) Splunk
13 29 (0.86%) CyberArk
14 26 (0.78%) Bloomberg
14 26 (0.78%) Informatica
15 22 (0.66%) Ariba
16 20 (0.60%) Guidewire
17 18 (0.54%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.54%) Zscaler