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

6 months to
28 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 2,925 1,500 1,189
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.68% 11.06% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.50% 11.99% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,938 1,016 861
10th Percentile £400 £388 £369
25th Percentile £467 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +2.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £653
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £537 £538
% change year-on-year +2.42% -0.09% -2.27%
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% -6.98%
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% +32.47%

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 17,727 12,515 14,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.25% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,711 8,371 10,405
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £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 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.26 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +8 383 £600 +4.35% 167
West London +19 97 £520 -0.48% 56
South London -5 28 £595 -3.39% 21
North London +6 11 £450 -17.43% 3
East London -4 7 £638 +1.19% 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
1 156 (5.33%) Confluence
2 78 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.57%) 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%) WordPress
10 5 (0.17%) Appian
11 4 (0.14%) Kentico
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.068%) Drupal
13 2 (0.068%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.068%) JBoss
13 2 (0.068%) Moodle
13 2 (0.068%) nginx
Applications
1 130 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 62 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
4 58 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
5 43 (1.47%) 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%) Notion
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) Trello
11 2 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.068%) CPLEX
11 2 (0.068%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.034%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 84 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.44%) Finacle
4 13 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 13 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 13 (0.44%) Workday HCM
5 12 (0.41%) SAP SD
6 11 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.34%) Endur
7 10 (0.34%) Magento
8 9 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 9 (0.31%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.27%) SAP HCM
10 7 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.24%) SAP FI
11 6 (0.21%) Loan IQ
11 6 (0.21%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 515 (17.61%) Azure
2 352 (12.03%) AWS
3 186 (6.36%) Power Platform
4 126 (4.31%) SaaS
5 120 (4.10%) GCP
6 111 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 83 (2.84%) Entra ID
9 69 (2.36%) GitHub
10 62 (2.12%) Snowflake
11 41 (1.40%) Figma
12 38 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
13 37 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 37 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
14 34 (1.16%) OCI
15 33 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (1.13%) Serverless
16 32 (1.09%) PaaS
17 30 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.61%) Firewall
2 33 (1.13%) Network Security
3 31 (1.06%) WAN
4 26 (0.89%) DNS
5 22 (0.75%) LAN
6 20 (0.68%) VPN
7 14 (0.48%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.41%) DHCP
8 12 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.34%) BGP
10 9 (0.31%) Wireless
11 8 (0.27%) OSPF
12 7 (0.24%) HTTP
12 7 (0.24%) Internet
12 7 (0.24%) SAN
12 7 (0.24%) SSL
12 7 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
13 6 (0.21%) 4G
13 6 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (5.16%) Power BI
2 82 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (2.39%) Metadata
4 52 (1.78%) Tableau
5 46 (1.57%) Data Lake
6 36 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 28 (0.96%) Delta Lake
8 26 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 20 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.65%) Big Data
11 18 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (0.58%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.44%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.38%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.38%) Db2
15 11 (0.38%) Parquet
15 11 (0.38%) RDBMS
16 9 (0.31%) Power Query
17 8 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 318 (10.87%) JIRA
2 40 (1.37%) Git
2 40 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 19 (0.65%) 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
8 8 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.24%) Appium
9 7 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.24%) Maven
10 6 (0.21%) JUnit
10 6 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.17%) MLflow
11 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 1,438 (49.16%) Social Skills
2 1,136 (38.84%) Finance
3 499 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
4 377 (12.89%) Banking
5 303 (10.36%) Public Sector
6 210 (7.18%) Retail
7 179 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
8 152 (5.20%) Legal
9 151 (5.16%) Marketing
10 117 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
11 105 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
12 77 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
13 74 (2.53%) Front Office
14 65 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 59 (2.02%) Manufacturing
16 57 (1.95%) Financial Institution
17 55 (1.88%) Investment Banking
18 53 (1.81%) Local Government
19 51 (1.74%) Telecoms
20 44 (1.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 476 (16.27%) Analyst
2 378 (12.92%) Lead
3 363 (12.41%) Project Manager
4 336 (11.49%) Business Analyst
5 335 (11.45%) Architect
6 287 (9.81%) Senior
7 156 (5.33%) Consultant
8 131 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 118 (4.03%) Senior Manager
10 107 (3.66%) Programme Manager
11 96 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
12 79 (2.70%) IT Manager
13 66 (2.26%) Product Manager
13 66 (2.26%) Product Owner
14 65 (2.22%) Technical Manager
15 64 (2.19%) Developer
16 61 (2.09%) Data Analyst
17 57 (1.95%) Senior Project Manager
18 52 (1.78%) Designer
19 48 (1.64%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (2.77%) REST
2 64 (2.19%) Middleware
3 45 (1.54%) SOAP
4 31 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
5 29 (0.99%) Kafka
6 27 (0.92%) .NET
7 26 (0.89%) PySpark
8 24 (0.82%) HTML
8 24 (0.82%) SailPoint
9 22 (0.75%) CSS
9 22 (0.75%) JSON
9 22 (0.75%) Web Services
9 22 (0.75%) XML
10 18 (0.62%) OAuth
11 15 (0.51%) AngularJS
12 14 (0.48%) React
12 14 (0.48%) RESTful
13 13 (0.44%) Playwright
14 12 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
14 12 (0.41%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 247 (8.44%) Product Ownership
2 180 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 96 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 77 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 75 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 61 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 60 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 57 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 53 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 52 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 44 (1.50%) FMCG
12 43 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
14 38 (1.30%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.30%) NHS
15 34 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
16 33 (1.13%) CMDB
17 29 (0.99%) Operational Technology
17 29 (0.99%) Security Posture
18 25 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 96 (3.28%) Windows
2 47 (1.61%) Linux
3 20 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.44%) 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 (0.068%) 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 (32.41%) Agile
2 462 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 451 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 434 (14.84%) Roadmaps
5 418 (14.29%) Migration
6 387 (13.23%) Decision-Making
7 380 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 369 (12.62%) AI
9 356 (12.17%) Project Management
10 350 (11.97%) DevOps
11 340 (11.62%) Analytics
12 315 (10.77%) Project Delivery
13 308 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
14 279 (9.54%) Change Management
15 259 (8.85%) Validation
16 252 (8.62%) Risk Management
17 248 (8.48%) Workshop Facilitation
18 242 (8.27%) CI/CD
19 233 (7.97%) User Stories
20 229 (7.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 280 (9.57%) SQL
2 191 (6.53%) Python
3 51 (1.74%) Java
4 46 (1.57%) PowerShell
5 39 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.03%) C#
7 21 (0.72%) Bash
8 16 (0.55%) Bicep
8 16 (0.55%) Korn
9 15 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.48%) R
11 11 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.34%) VBA
13 9 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.27%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.21%) Perl
15 6 (0.21%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.17%) ABAP
16 5 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 419 (14.32%) Security Cleared
2 351 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 170 (5.81%) Degree
4 149 (5.09%) PMP
5 132 (4.51%) PMI Certification
6 55 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 54 (1.85%) CISSP
8 47 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 34 (1.16%) CISM
11 28 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 25 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.44%) ACCA
18 12 (0.41%) CIMA
18 12 (0.41%) CRISC
18 12 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (6.97%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.81%) QA
3 140 (4.79%) PMO
4 103 (3.52%) GDPR
5 61 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (2.09%) NIST
6 51 (1.74%) GRC
7 49 (1.68%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.64%) SLA
9 20 (0.68%) COBIT
10 19 (0.65%) NCSC
11 17 (0.58%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.55%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.51%) SEPA
13 15 (0.51%) WCAG
14 13 (0.44%) MiFID
14 13 (0.44%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.44%) Solvency II
15 12 (0.41%) PSD2
15 12 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 73 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 61 (2.09%) Docker
3 19 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.31%) NFS
6 6 (0.21%) Postfix
7 4 (0.14%) Varnish
7 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.10%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.10%) vSphere
9 2 (0.068%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.034%) RACF
10 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 104 (3.56%) Terraform
2 67 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.13%) Ansible
4 24 (0.82%) Grafana
5 16 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.38%) SCCM
9 8 (0.27%) Argo
10 7 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.21%) Control-M
11 6 (0.21%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.21%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.14%) Puppet
14 3 (0.10%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.068%) ITRS Geneos
15 2 (0.068%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 376 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 219 (7.49%) SAP
3 156 (5.33%) Oracle
4 142 (4.85%) ServiceNow
5 138 (4.72%) Salesforce
6 71 (2.43%) Databricks
7 59 (2.02%) Google
8 52 (1.78%) Workday
9 31 (1.06%) CyberArk
10 30 (1.03%) Adobe
11 27 (0.92%) Cisco
11 27 (0.92%) IBM
12 26 (0.89%) Splunk
13 24 (0.82%) VMware
14 23 (0.79%) Ariba
15 20 (0.68%) Guidewire
16 19 (0.65%) OpenAI
17 18 (0.62%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.62%) Okta
17 18 (0.62%) Zscaler