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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,750 1,471 1,223
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.85% 10.88% 6.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.55% 11.80% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,832 998 901
10th Percentile £400 £388 £363
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +4.55% -7.37%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £653
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £548 £541 £538
% change year-on-year +1.25% +0.60% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 11
10th Percentile £21.34 £28.25 £23.33
25th Percentile £34.53 £35.66 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.06 £49.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% +31.33% -33.73%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £45.13
90th Percentile £80.99 £65.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 £54.01 £61.60
% change year-on-year +14.80% -12.33% +15.53%

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 17,684 12,469 15,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.20% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,337 11,045
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 233 283
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.73 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +6.24% -27.42%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.65 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +6 364 £600 - 269
West London +18 83 £520 - 39
South London -3 25 £550 -10.70% 17
North London +4 10 £450 -10.00% 1
East London -2 9 £638 +1.19% 34
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
1 149 (5.42%) Confluence
2 73 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.64%) CMS
4 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.47%) Apache
6 10 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.29%) SAS
8 7 (0.25%) Appian
8 7 (0.25%) WordPress
9 6 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.18%) Kentico
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.073%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.073%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.073%) Moodle
12 2 (0.073%) nginx
12 2 (0.073%) Sitefinity
13 1 (0.036%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 125 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 59 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
5 46 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.29%) Revit
8 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
10 3 (0.11%) Sketch
11 2 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.073%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.073%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.036%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 76 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.62%) Aladdin
3 17 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.44%) Finacle
5 12 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 10 (0.36%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.36%) SAP SD
8 9 (0.33%) Endur
8 9 (0.33%) Loan IQ
8 9 (0.33%) Magento
9 8 (0.29%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.25%) SAP HCM
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
11 6 (0.22%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 466 (16.95%) Azure
2 323 (11.75%) AWS
3 166 (6.04%) Power Platform
4 114 (4.15%) SaaS
5 105 (3.82%) GCP
6 96 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
8 66 (2.40%) Entra ID
9 62 (2.25%) GitHub
10 55 (2.00%) Snowflake
11 34 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (1.20%) Amazon S3
12 33 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
13 32 (1.16%) Figma
14 31 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (1.09%) OCI
16 29 (1.05%) PaaS
16 29 (1.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.67%) Firewall
2 30 (1.09%) Network Security
3 28 (1.02%) WAN
4 21 (0.76%) LAN
5 20 (0.73%) DNS
6 18 (0.65%) VPN
7 14 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.40%) BGP
9 10 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.33%) OSPF
10 9 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.29%) DHCP
11 8 (0.29%) VLAN
12 6 (0.22%) Internet
12 6 (0.22%) Intranet
12 6 (0.22%) NAS
12 6 (0.22%) SAN
12 6 (0.22%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.22%) Wireless
13 5 (0.18%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (4.87%) Power BI
2 75 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (2.22%) Metadata
4 47 (1.71%) Tableau
5 43 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 32 (1.16%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.76%) Delta Lake
9 18 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (0.62%) Big Data
11 16 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.58%) Oracle Database
12 13 (0.47%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.40%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.33%) Parquet
15 8 (0.29%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (0.29%) Power Query
16 7 (0.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 298 (10.84%) JIRA
2 46 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 38 (1.38%) Git
4 19 (0.69%) GitLab
5 16 (0.58%) Postman
6 13 (0.47%) Selenium
7 9 (0.33%) Zephyr
8 8 (0.29%) JMeter
8 8 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.25%) MLflow
10 6 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.22%) JUnit
10 6 (0.22%) Maven
10 6 (0.22%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.18%) ERwin
11 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.18%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.18%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.15%) Snyk
General
1 1,350 (49.09%) Social Skills
2 1,080 (39.27%) Finance
3 445 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 336 (12.22%) Banking
5 282 (10.25%) Public Sector
6 184 (6.69%) Retail
7 170 (6.18%) Influencing Skills
8 150 (5.45%) Legal
9 132 (4.80%) Marketing
10 108 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
11 106 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
12 74 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (2.40%) Front Office
14 57 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 57 (2.07%) Manufacturing
15 55 (2.00%) Financial Institution
16 53 (1.93%) Investment Banking
17 50 (1.82%) Telecoms
18 49 (1.78%) Local Government
19 39 (1.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 465 (16.91%) Analyst
2 359 (13.05%) Project Manager
3 351 (12.76%) Lead
4 337 (12.25%) Business Analyst
5 315 (11.45%) Architect
6 265 (9.64%) Senior
7 146 (5.31%) Consultant
8 117 (4.25%) Senior Manager
9 116 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 93 (3.38%) Programme Manager
11 92 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
12 75 (2.73%) IT Manager
13 60 (2.18%) Product Manager
14 59 (2.15%) Product Owner
15 57 (2.07%) Senior Project Manager
16 56 (2.04%) Data Analyst
17 52 (1.89%) Change Manager
17 52 (1.89%) Technical Manager
18 46 (1.67%) Senior Analyst
19 45 (1.64%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (2.22%) REST
2 60 (2.18%) Middleware
3 36 (1.31%) SOAP
4 30 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.84%) .NET
5 23 (0.84%) PySpark
6 21 (0.76%) JSON
6 21 (0.76%) Kafka
6 21 (0.76%) XML
7 20 (0.73%) HTML
8 19 (0.69%) CSS
8 19 (0.69%) OAuth
8 19 (0.69%) SAML
9 18 (0.65%) SailPoint
9 18 (0.65%) Web Services
10 16 (0.58%) LDAP
10 16 (0.58%) OpenID
11 13 (0.47%) AngularJS
11 13 (0.47%) Playwright
11 13 (0.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 207 (7.53%) Product Ownership
2 165 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 103 (3.75%) Cloud Native
4 78 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
5 67 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 58 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 55 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 47 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 47 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 37 (1.35%) NHS
11 35 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
12 32 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.16%) FMCG
12 32 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (1.09%) AI Agents
14 27 (0.98%) Security Posture
15 26 (0.95%) CMDB
16 24 (0.87%) Derivative
16 24 (0.87%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 85 (3.09%) Windows
2 39 (1.42%) Linux
3 18 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.36%) Android
5 10 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.36%) Unix
6 7 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.11%) VMS
10 2 (0.073%) AIX
11 1 (0.036%) CentOS
11 1 (0.036%) Solaris
11 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 896 (32.58%) Agile
2 413 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
3 410 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 403 (14.65%) Migration
5 387 (14.07%) Roadmaps
6 368 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 343 (12.47%) Decision-Making
8 331 (12.04%) Project Management
9 326 (11.85%) DevOps
10 322 (11.71%) AI
11 301 (10.95%) Analytics
12 299 (10.87%) User Acceptance Testing
13 286 (10.40%) Project Delivery
14 254 (9.24%) Change Management
15 245 (8.91%) Validation
16 238 (8.65%) Risk Management
17 225 (8.18%) Workshop Facilitation
18 223 (8.11%) CI/CD
19 216 (7.85%) Requirements Gathering
20 212 (7.71%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 249 (9.05%) SQL
2 178 (6.47%) Python
3 41 (1.49%) PowerShell
4 36 (1.31%) Java
5 29 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 26 (0.95%) C#
7 19 (0.69%) Bash
8 15 (0.55%) Korn
8 15 (0.55%) TypeScript
9 13 (0.47%) Bicep
10 12 (0.44%) R
11 10 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.36%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.33%) VBA
13 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.22%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.18%) ABAP
14 5 (0.18%) Perl
14 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 413 (15.02%) Security Cleared
2 346 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 164 (5.96%) Degree
4 136 (4.95%) PMP
5 118 (4.29%) PMI Certification
6 61 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 50 (1.82%) CISSP
8 42 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.09%) CISM
11 27 (0.98%) AWS Certification
12 22 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 21 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
14 20 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.55%) CBAP
16 15 (0.55%) ISTQB
17 14 (0.51%) IIBA
18 13 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
18 13 (0.47%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (6.80%) Data Quality
2 163 (5.93%) QA
3 131 (4.76%) PMO
4 105 (3.82%) GDPR
5 73 (2.65%) NIST
6 72 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 50 (1.82%) GRC
8 47 (1.71%) SLA
9 42 (1.53%) Accessibility
10 26 (0.95%) NCSC
11 21 (0.76%) COBIT
12 20 (0.73%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.55%) IFRS
14 14 (0.51%) Solvency II
15 13 (0.47%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 13 (0.47%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.44%) MiFID
16 12 (0.44%) SEPA
17 11 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 58 (2.11%) Docker
2 53 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.33%) NFS
6 8 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) Postfix
8 4 (0.15%) Varnish
8 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.036%) NLBS
11 1 (0.036%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.036%) RACF
11 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 94 (3.42%) Terraform
2 74 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 31 (1.13%) Ansible
4 22 (0.80%) Grafana
5 14 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.29%) SCCM
9 7 (0.25%) RSA Archer
9 7 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.22%) Argo
11 5 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.15%) Control-M
12 4 (0.15%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.11%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.11%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.073%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.073%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.073%) vMotion
Vendors
1 338 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 206 (7.49%) SAP
3 155 (5.64%) Oracle
4 133 (4.84%) ServiceNow
5 132 (4.80%) Salesforce
6 62 (2.25%) Databricks
7 52 (1.89%) Google
7 52 (1.89%) Workday
8 41 (1.49%) CyberArk
9 33 (1.20%) Splunk
10 29 (1.05%) Adobe
11 23 (0.84%) Cisco
12 22 (0.80%) Ariba
13 21 (0.76%) OpenAI
13 21 (0.76%) VMware
14 20 (0.73%) IBM
15 19 (0.69%) Informatica
16 18 (0.65%) MuleSoft
17 17 (0.62%) Okta
18 16 (0.58%) Tenable