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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,823 1,476 1,200
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.27% 10.89% 7.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.05% 11.82% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,872 1,003 870
10th Percentile £400 £388 £363
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +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 36 19 11
10th Percentile £25.38 £28.25 £23.33
25th Percentile £35.94 £35.31 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.81 £49.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% +16.47% -19.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £80.99 £65.50 £61.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +16.82% -13.15% +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 17,589 12,488 14,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,618 8,349 10,661
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -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 276 238 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.40 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -9.38% -19.16%
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% -6.43%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +9 372 £600 - 310
West London +24 92 £520 - 35
South London -6 26 £570 -7.45% 19
North London +5 11 £450 -10.00% 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 (5.49%) Confluence
2 76 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.59%) CMS
4 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.50%) 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 (0.071%) Drupal
11 2 (0.071%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.071%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.071%) Moodle
11 2 (0.071%) nginx
12 1 (0.035%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 128 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 62 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
5 45 (1.59%) 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 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.071%) CPLEX
11 2 (0.071%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.071%) Trello
12 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 83 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.53%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.43%) Finacle
6 12 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 12 (0.43%) SAP SD
6 12 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 10 (0.35%) Magento
8 9 (0.32%) Endur
9 8 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 8 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.28%) SAP HCM
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.21%) SAP PM
10 6 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 491 (17.39%) Azure
2 333 (11.80%) AWS
3 174 (6.16%) Power Platform
4 117 (4.14%) SaaS
5 110 (3.90%) GCP
6 106 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
7 87 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 76 (2.69%) Entra ID
9 65 (2.30%) GitHub
10 58 (2.05%) Snowflake
11 37 (1.31%) SuccessFactors
12 36 (1.28%) Amazon S3
12 36 (1.28%) Figma
13 34 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
13 34 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 32 (1.13%) OCI
15 31 (1.10%) PaaS
15 31 (1.10%) Serverless
16 30 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.66%) Firewall
2 31 (1.10%) Network Security
3 29 (1.03%) WAN
4 25 (0.89%) DNS
5 22 (0.78%) LAN
6 19 (0.67%) VPN
7 14 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.39%) BGP
9 11 (0.39%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.35%) DHCP
11 9 (0.32%) OSPF
12 8 (0.28%) Wireless
13 7 (0.25%) HTTP
13 7 (0.25%) Internet
13 7 (0.25%) NAS
13 7 (0.25%) SAN
14 6 (0.21%) Intranet
14 6 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
15 5 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (4.99%) Power BI
2 79 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (2.34%) Metadata
4 49 (1.74%) Tableau
5 44 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 33 (1.17%) SQL Server
7 25 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 22 (0.78%) Delta Lake
9 19 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (0.60%) Big Data
12 16 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (0.57%) Oracle Database
13 12 (0.43%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.39%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.35%) Parquet
16 9 (0.32%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.32%) Db2
16 9 (0.32%) Power Query
17 8 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 309 (10.95%) JIRA
2 44 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 40 (1.42%) Git
4 17 (0.60%) GitLab
4 17 (0.60%) Selenium
5 16 (0.57%) Postman
6 11 (0.39%) Zephyr
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%) ERwin
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 1,378 (48.81%) Social Skills
2 1,096 (38.82%) Finance
3 470 (16.65%) Analytical Skills
4 353 (12.50%) Banking
5 295 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 203 (7.19%) Retail
7 176 (6.23%) Influencing Skills
8 151 (5.35%) Legal
9 141 (4.99%) Marketing
10 115 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
11 108 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
12 72 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (2.34%) Front Office
14 63 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 55 (1.95%) Manufacturing
16 54 (1.91%) Financial Institution
17 52 (1.84%) Investment Banking
18 51 (1.81%) Local Government
19 50 (1.77%) Telecoms
20 39 (1.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 471 (16.68%) Analyst
2 360 (12.75%) Lead
3 356 (12.61%) Project Manager
4 337 (11.94%) Business Analyst
5 322 (11.41%) Architect
6 268 (9.49%) Senior
7 147 (5.21%) Consultant
8 120 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
9 115 (4.07%) Senior Manager
10 102 (3.61%) Programme Manager
11 93 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
12 76 (2.69%) IT Manager
13 63 (2.23%) Product Owner
14 62 (2.20%) Product Manager
15 60 (2.13%) Technical Manager
16 57 (2.02%) Data Analyst
17 56 (1.98%) Senior Project Manager
18 55 (1.95%) Developer
19 48 (1.70%) Change Manager
20 46 (1.63%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (2.44%) REST
2 61 (2.16%) Middleware
3 39 (1.38%) SOAP
4 31 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.81%) .NET
5 23 (0.81%) Kafka
5 23 (0.81%) PySpark
5 23 (0.81%) SailPoint
6 21 (0.74%) HTML
6 21 (0.74%) JSON
6 21 (0.74%) XML
7 20 (0.71%) CSS
7 20 (0.71%) Web Services
8 18 (0.64%) OAuth
9 14 (0.50%) LDAP
9 14 (0.50%) SAML
10 13 (0.46%) AngularJS
10 13 (0.46%) Playwright
10 13 (0.46%) RESTful
11 12 (0.43%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 228 (8.08%) Product Ownership
2 175 (6.20%) Onboarding
3 100 (3.54%) Cloud Native
4 78 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 68 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 58 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 57 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 53 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 52 (1.84%) Data Centre
10 50 (1.77%) Virtual Team
11 40 (1.42%) FMCG
12 38 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
13 36 (1.28%) AI Agents
13 36 (1.28%) NHS
14 35 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
15 32 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 30 (1.06%) CMDB
17 28 (0.99%) Security Posture
18 27 (0.96%) Operational Technology
19 25 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 91 (3.22%) Windows
2 42 (1.49%) Linux
3 19 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.43%) Android
6 11 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.39%) Unix
7 8 (0.28%) 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 (0.071%) 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
1 918 (32.52%) Agile
2 438 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
3 437 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 412 (14.59%) Migration
5 408 (14.45%) Roadmaps
6 374 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 368 (13.04%) Decision-Making
8 342 (12.11%) AI
8 342 (12.11%) DevOps
9 335 (11.87%) Project Management
10 324 (11.48%) Analytics
11 305 (10.80%) User Acceptance Testing
12 301 (10.66%) Project Delivery
13 270 (9.56%) Change Management
14 254 (9.00%) Validation
15 244 (8.64%) Risk Management
16 240 (8.50%) Workshop Facilitation
17 232 (8.22%) CI/CD
18 224 (7.93%) User Stories
19 222 (7.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 253 (8.96%) SQL
2 182 (6.45%) Python
3 43 (1.52%) PowerShell
4 41 (1.45%) Java
5 34 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 26 (0.92%) C#
7 21 (0.74%) Bash
8 16 (0.57%) Korn
9 15 (0.53%) Bicep
10 14 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.43%) 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 6 (0.21%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.21%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.18%) ABAP
16 5 (0.18%) Perl
16 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 411 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 346 (12.26%) SC Cleared
3 166 (5.88%) Degree
4 144 (5.10%) PMP
5 125 (4.43%) PMI Certification
6 59 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (1.88%) CISSP
8 46 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 35 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 33 (1.17%) CISM
11 29 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 22 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (0.74%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
16 14 (0.50%) CBAP
16 14 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.46%) ACCA
17 13 (0.46%) CRISC
17 13 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 170 (6.02%) QA
3 135 (4.78%) PMO
4 101 (3.58%) GDPR
5 66 (2.34%) NIST
6 65 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (1.74%) GRC
7 49 (1.74%) SLA
8 45 (1.59%) Accessibility
9 25 (0.89%) NCSC
10 20 (0.71%) COBIT
11 18 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.50%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 14 (0.50%) Solvency II
13 13 (0.46%) SEPA
14 12 (0.43%) MiFID
15 11 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.39%) WCAG
16 10 (0.35%) IFRS
System Software
1 67 (2.37%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.05%) Docker
3 18 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.43%) 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 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.071%) vSphere
11 1 (0.035%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.035%) RACF
Systems Management
1 99 (3.51%) Terraform
2 69 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.17%) Ansible
4 24 (0.85%) Grafana
5 15 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.35%) SCCM
8 7 (0.25%) Argo
8 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
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 (0.071%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.071%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 358 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 214 (7.58%) SAP
3 154 (5.46%) Oracle
4 139 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 136 (4.82%) Salesforce
6 62 (2.20%) Databricks
7 55 (1.95%) Google
8 52 (1.84%) Workday
9 36 (1.28%) CyberArk
10 31 (1.10%) Splunk
11 29 (1.03%) Adobe
12 26 (0.92%) IBM
13 25 (0.89%) Cisco
14 23 (0.81%) Ariba
14 23 (0.81%) VMware
15 20 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 19 (0.67%) Informatica
17 18 (0.64%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.64%) Okta
18 17 (0.60%) Guidewire