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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,174 1,510 1,165
As % of all contract jobs in London 15.80% 11.16% 7.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.73% 12.08% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,078 1,029 822
10th Percentile £400 £384 £381
25th Percentile £469 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +3.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £770 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 21 7
10th Percentile £27.10 £28.25 £33.77
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £41.13 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +4.71% +19.85%
75th Percentile £61.75 £55.25 £60.63
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £68.25
England median hourly rate £60.50 £51.84 £61.60
% change year-on-year +16.72% -15.85% +34.26%

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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +8 404 £600 +4.35% 252
West London +19 109 £520 -0.95% 85
South London +5 34 £550 -10.70% 29
East London -2 11 £638 -5.56% 32
North London +4 10 £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
1 160 (5.04%) Confluence
2 81 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 47 (1.48%) CMS
4 24 (0.76%) Apache
5 23 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.25%) SAS
10 6 (0.19%) WordPress
11 4 (0.13%) Appian
11 4 (0.13%) Kentico
12 3 (0.095%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.095%) Moodle
12 3 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.095%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.063%) Drupal
13 2 (0.063%) JBoss
13 2 (0.063%) nginx
13 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 144 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
4 64 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
5 42 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.32%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.32%) Revit
6 10 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.16%) Trello
8 4 (0.13%) Notion
9 3 (0.095%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.095%) Sketch
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.063%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.063%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.063%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.032%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.032%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 92 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.44%) Finacle
5 12 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 12 (0.38%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.35%) Endur
7 10 (0.32%) Magento
7 10 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 10 (0.32%) SAP SD
8 9 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.25%) SAP HCM
10 7 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 587 (18.49%) Azure
2 411 (12.95%) AWS
3 209 (6.58%) Power Platform
4 139 (4.38%) SaaS
5 133 (4.19%) GCP
6 126 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
8 98 (3.09%) Entra ID
9 81 (2.55%) Snowflake
10 80 (2.52%) GitHub
11 45 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 40 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
14 36 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 36 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
15 35 (1.10%) Amazon S3
16 34 (1.07%) Figma
17 33 (1.04%) OCI
17 33 (1.04%) Serverless
18 32 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.64%) Firewall
2 43 (1.35%) Network Security
3 32 (1.01%) DNS
4 26 (0.82%) WAN
5 19 (0.60%) VPN
6 18 (0.57%) LAN
7 16 (0.50%) DHCP
8 13 (0.41%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.35%) BGP
9 11 (0.35%) Internet
9 11 (0.35%) Wireless
10 10 (0.32%) SSL
11 9 (0.28%) OSPF
11 9 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.25%) 4G
12 8 (0.25%) 5G
12 8 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
13 7 (0.22%) HTTP
13 7 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (5.42%) Power BI
2 99 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
3 84 (2.65%) Metadata
4 57 (1.80%) Tableau
5 50 (1.58%) SQL Server
6 49 (1.54%) Data Lake
7 36 (1.13%) Delta Lake
8 35 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (0.88%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.66%) Big Data
13 19 (0.60%) Oracle Database
14 18 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
15 16 (0.50%) NoSQL
16 15 (0.47%) BigQuery
16 15 (0.47%) MongoDB
17 12 (0.38%) Redis
18 11 (0.35%) Data Vault
18 11 (0.35%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 327 (10.30%) JIRA
2 51 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 49 (1.54%) Git
4 29 (0.91%) GitLab
5 21 (0.66%) Selenium
6 17 (0.54%) Postman
7 12 (0.38%) Zephyr
8 11 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.32%) JMeter
10 9 (0.28%) ERwin
11 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.25%) Maven
12 7 (0.22%) Appium
12 7 (0.22%) JUnit
12 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.16%) ER Studio
14 5 (0.16%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.16%) Snyk
General
1 1,601 (50.44%) Social Skills
2 1,215 (38.28%) Finance
3 555 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 432 (13.61%) Banking
5 333 (10.49%) Public Sector
6 224 (7.06%) Retail
7 188 (5.92%) Influencing Skills
8 162 (5.10%) Legal
9 161 (5.07%) Marketing
10 125 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
11 117 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
12 84 (2.65%) Front Office
13 79 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
14 70 (2.21%) Manufacturing
15 69 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 63 (1.98%) Investment Banking
16 63 (1.98%) Telecoms
17 59 (1.86%) Financial Institution
18 57 (1.80%) Local Government
19 47 (1.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 516 (16.26%) Analyst
2 409 (12.89%) Lead
3 381 (12.00%) Architect
4 363 (11.44%) Project Manager
5 362 (11.41%) Business Analyst
6 330 (10.40%) Senior
7 194 (6.11%) Consultant
8 146 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 122 (3.84%) Senior Manager
10 112 (3.53%) Programme Manager
11 90 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
12 82 (2.58%) Developer
13 77 (2.43%) IT Manager
14 75 (2.36%) Product Manager
15 74 (2.33%) Technical Manager
16 68 (2.14%) Product Owner
17 65 (2.05%) Data Analyst
18 58 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
19 55 (1.73%) Senior Project Manager
20 52 (1.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (3.12%) REST
2 71 (2.24%) Middleware
3 47 (1.48%) SOAP
4 43 (1.35%) Kafka
5 34 (1.07%) .NET
5 34 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
6 31 (0.98%) PySpark
7 28 (0.88%) HTML
8 26 (0.82%) JSON
8 26 (0.82%) XML
9 25 (0.79%) CSS
10 23 (0.72%) SailPoint
11 22 (0.69%) OAuth
11 22 (0.69%) Web Services
12 16 (0.50%) React
12 16 (0.50%) Spring
13 15 (0.47%) Node.js
13 15 (0.47%) Spring Boot
14 14 (0.44%) Playwright
15 13 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 272 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 205 (6.46%) Onboarding
3 126 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 84 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 74 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 65 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 63 (1.98%) Data Centre
9 60 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 57 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
11 52 (1.64%) AI Agents
11 52 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 51 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
13 45 (1.42%) FMCG
14 38 (1.20%) NHS
15 37 (1.17%) CMDB
16 36 (1.13%) Security Posture
17 34 (1.07%) Operational Technology
18 33 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
19 28 (0.88%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 99 (3.12%) Windows
2 56 (1.76%) Linux
3 23 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.54%) Unix
5 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.35%) Android
8 8 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.13%) VMS
12 2 (0.063%) AIX
12 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.032%) CentOS
13 1 (0.032%) Solaris
13 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (32.64%) Agile
2 524 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
3 496 (15.63%) Roadmaps
4 481 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 446 (14.05%) Migration
6 428 (13.48%) AI
7 421 (13.26%) Decision-Making
8 403 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 396 (12.48%) DevOps
10 389 (12.26%) Project Management
11 386 (12.16%) Analytics
12 345 (10.87%) Project Delivery
13 332 (10.46%) User Acceptance Testing
14 297 (9.36%) Change Management
15 293 (9.23%) CI/CD
16 292 (9.20%) Workshop Facilitation
17 276 (8.70%) Risk Management
18 268 (8.44%) Validation
19 261 (8.22%) Data Modelling
20 255 (8.03%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 326 (10.27%) SQL
2 207 (6.52%) Python
3 69 (2.17%) Java
4 58 (1.83%) PowerShell
5 52 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 32 (1.01%) C#
7 23 (0.72%) Bash
8 21 (0.66%) Bicep
9 20 (0.63%) TypeScript
10 19 (0.60%) Korn
11 15 (0.47%) R
12 13 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.38%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.32%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.28%) VBA
16 8 (0.25%) Perl
16 8 (0.25%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.22%) C++
18 5 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 478 (15.06%) Security Cleared
2 400 (12.60%) SC Cleared
3 185 (5.83%) Degree
4 164 (5.17%) PMP
5 138 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 62 (1.95%) CISSP
7 54 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.35%) CISM
11 37 (1.17%) AWS Certification
12 33 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.50%) ISTQB
17 15 (0.47%) ACCA
17 15 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
18 14 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 14 (0.44%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (7.47%) Data Quality
2 191 (6.02%) QA
3 148 (4.66%) PMO
4 99 (3.12%) GDPR
5 75 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (2.27%) NIST
7 63 (1.98%) Accessibility
8 52 (1.64%) GRC
9 45 (1.42%) SLA
10 24 (0.76%) NCSC
11 18 (0.57%) WCAG
12 17 (0.54%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.50%) COBIT
13 16 (0.50%) SEPA
14 15 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 14 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 13 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
16 13 (0.41%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.38%) MiFID
17 12 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 82 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 70 (2.21%) Docker
3 23 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.25%) NFS
7 6 (0.19%) Postfix
7 6 (0.19%) vSphere
8 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.13%) Varnish
8 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.095%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.032%) oVirt
11 1 (0.032%) RACF
11 1 (0.032%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 126 (3.97%) Terraform
2 82 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.20%) Ansible
4 29 (0.91%) Grafana
5 19 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.41%) SCCM
8 8 (0.25%) Argo
8 8 (0.25%) Control-M
9 7 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.19%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.13%) Puppet
13 3 (0.095%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.095%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.063%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.063%) QRadar
Vendors
1 444 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 228 (7.18%) SAP
3 170 (5.36%) Oracle
4 152 (4.79%) ServiceNow
5 145 (4.57%) Salesforce
6 98 (3.09%) Databricks
7 63 (1.98%) Google
8 51 (1.61%) Workday
9 36 (1.13%) IBM
10 35 (1.10%) Splunk
11 34 (1.07%) Adobe
12 32 (1.01%) CyberArk
13 31 (0.98%) Cisco
14 28 (0.88%) VMware
15 22 (0.69%) Informatica
16 21 (0.66%) Guidewire
16 21 (0.66%) Okta
17 20 (0.63%) Ariba
18 19 (0.60%) Bloomberg
18 19 (0.60%) Zscaler