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

6 months to
13 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 2,728 1,484 1,216
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.79% 10.90% 6.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.50% 11.82% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,817 1,010 893
10th Percentile £400 £388 £363
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £653
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £540 £535
% change year-on-year +1.85% +0.93% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 12
10th Percentile £21.34 £28.25 £24.01
25th Percentile £34.53 £35.66 £30.16
Median hourly rate £41.06 £49.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% +23.13% -29.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £49.88
90th Percentile £80.99 £65.25 £61.13
England median hourly rate £62.00 £54.51 £61.06
% change year-on-year +13.74% -10.73% +14.52%

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 17,596 12,550 15,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.20% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,685 8,395 10,963
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £441 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -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 276 234 284
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +6.93% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +8 358 £600 - 318
West London +19 83 £520 +7.22% 115
South London -9 24 £550 -10.70% 18
North London +4 10 £450 -10.00% 3
East London -3 9 £638 +1.19% 33
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 (5.46%) Confluence
2 73 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.65%) CMS
4 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.48%) Apache
6 10 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.29%) SAS
8 7 (0.26%) Appian
8 7 (0.26%) 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 (0.037%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 125 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 59 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
5 46 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.29%) Revit
8 7 (0.26%) 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 (0.037%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.037%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 76 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.44%) Finacle
6 12 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (0.40%) Workday HCM
8 10 (0.37%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.37%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.33%) Endur
9 9 (0.33%) Loan IQ
9 9 (0.33%) Magento
10 8 (0.29%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.26%) SAP HCM
12 6 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 6 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
12 6 (0.22%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 463 (16.97%) Azure
2 322 (11.80%) AWS
3 167 (6.12%) Power Platform
4 114 (4.18%) SaaS
5 105 (3.85%) GCP
6 96 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
8 66 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 62 (2.27%) GitHub
10 54 (1.98%) Snowflake
11 34 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (1.21%) Amazon S3
12 33 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
13 32 (1.17%) Figma
14 31 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (1.10%) OCI
16 29 (1.06%) Power Automate
16 29 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.65%) Firewall
2 30 (1.10%) Network Security
3 27 (0.99%) WAN
4 21 (0.77%) LAN
5 20 (0.73%) DNS
6 18 (0.66%) VPN
7 13 (0.48%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.37%) BGP
8 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.33%) OSPF
9 9 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.29%) DHCP
11 7 (0.26%) 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%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (4.95%) Power BI
2 74 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (2.24%) Metadata
4 47 (1.72%) Tableau
5 43 (1.58%) Data Lake
6 32 (1.17%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.77%) Delta Lake
9 18 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (0.62%) Big Data
11 16 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.59%) Oracle Database
12 13 (0.48%) 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 (0.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 297 (10.89%) JIRA
2 46 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 38 (1.39%) Git
4 19 (0.70%) GitLab
5 16 (0.59%) Postman
6 13 (0.48%) Selenium
7 9 (0.33%) Zephyr
8 8 (0.29%) JMeter
8 8 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.26%) 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
12 4 (0.15%) Appium
12 4 (0.15%) Snyk
General
1 1,341 (49.16%) Social Skills
2 1,074 (39.37%) Finance
3 445 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
4 333 (12.21%) Banking
5 282 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 181 (6.63%) Retail
7 170 (6.23%) Influencing Skills
8 150 (5.50%) Legal
9 132 (4.84%) Marketing
10 108 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
11 106 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
12 74 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (2.42%) Front Office
14 57 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 55 (2.02%) Financial Institution
15 55 (2.02%) Manufacturing
16 53 (1.94%) Investment Banking
17 49 (1.80%) Local Government
18 48 (1.76%) Telecoms
19 39 (1.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 461 (16.90%) Analyst
2 352 (12.90%) Project Manager
3 351 (12.87%) Lead
4 334 (12.24%) Business Analyst
5 313 (11.47%) Architect
6 261 (9.57%) Senior
7 144 (5.28%) Consultant
8 115 (4.22%) Senior Manager
8 115 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
9 92 (3.37%) Programme Manager
10 73 (2.68%) IT Manager
11 60 (2.20%) Product Manager
12 59 (2.16%) Product Owner
13 56 (2.05%) Data Analyst
14 55 (2.02%) Senior Project Manager
15 52 (1.91%) Technical Manager
16 49 (1.80%) Change Manager
17 45 (1.65%) Developer
18 44 (1.61%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (2.24%) REST
2 60 (2.20%) Middleware
3 36 (1.32%) SOAP
4 30 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.84%) PySpark
6 22 (0.81%) .NET
7 21 (0.77%) JSON
7 21 (0.77%) Kafka
7 21 (0.77%) XML
8 20 (0.73%) HTML
9 19 (0.70%) CSS
9 19 (0.70%) OAuth
9 19 (0.70%) SAML
10 18 (0.66%) SailPoint
10 18 (0.66%) Web Services
11 16 (0.59%) LDAP
11 16 (0.59%) OpenID
12 13 (0.48%) AngularJS
12 13 (0.48%) RESTful
13 12 (0.44%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 206 (7.55%) Product Ownership
2 164 (6.01%) Onboarding
3 103 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 78 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 56 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 55 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 54 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 48 (1.76%) Virtual Team
10 46 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 37 (1.36%) NHS
12 35 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
13 32 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 32 (1.17%) FMCG
13 32 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 30 (1.10%) AI Agents
15 27 (0.99%) Security Posture
16 26 (0.95%) CMDB
17 25 (0.92%) Fixed Income
18 24 (0.88%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 82 (3.01%) Windows
2 39 (1.43%) Linux
3 17 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.37%) Android
5 10 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.37%) Unix
6 7 (0.26%) 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 (0.037%) CentOS
11 1 (0.037%) Solaris
11 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 888 (32.55%) Agile
2 413 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
3 409 (14.99%) Continuous Improvement
4 399 (14.63%) Migration
5 385 (14.11%) Roadmaps
6 366 (13.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 344 (12.61%) Decision-Making
8 325 (11.91%) DevOps
8 325 (11.91%) Project Management
9 320 (11.73%) AI
10 302 (11.07%) Analytics
11 298 (10.92%) User Acceptance Testing
12 285 (10.45%) Project Delivery
13 253 (9.27%) Change Management
14 245 (8.98%) Validation
15 236 (8.65%) Risk Management
16 223 (8.17%) Workshop Facilitation
17 222 (8.14%) CI/CD
18 213 (7.81%) Requirements Gathering
19 212 (7.77%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 248 (9.09%) SQL
2 178 (6.52%) Python
3 41 (1.50%) PowerShell
4 36 (1.32%) Java
5 28 (1.03%) JavaScript
6 25 (0.92%) C#
7 19 (0.70%) Bash
8 15 (0.55%) Korn
9 14 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 13 (0.48%) Bicep
11 12 (0.44%) R
12 10 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.33%) VBA
14 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.22%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.18%) ABAP
15 5 (0.18%) Perl
15 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 408 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 343 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 164 (6.01%) Degree
4 135 (4.95%) PMP
5 117 (4.29%) PMI Certification
6 61 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 50 (1.83%) CISSP
8 42 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.10%) CISM
11 27 (0.99%) AWS Certification
12 22 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 21 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 19 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.55%) CBAP
17 14 (0.51%) IIBA
17 14 (0.51%) ISTQB
18 13 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
18 13 (0.48%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.94%) QA
3 128 (4.69%) PMO
4 103 (3.78%) GDPR
5 71 (2.60%) NIST
6 68 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 50 (1.83%) GRC
8 46 (1.69%) SLA
9 42 (1.54%) Accessibility
10 26 (0.95%) NCSC
11 20 (0.73%) COBIT
12 19 (0.70%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.55%) IFRS
14 14 (0.51%) Solvency II
15 13 (0.48%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.48%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.44%) MiFID
16 12 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.44%) SEPA
17 11 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 58 (2.13%) Docker
2 52 (1.91%) 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 (0.037%) NLBS
11 1 (0.037%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.037%) RACF
11 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (3.41%) Terraform
2 74 (2.71%) Kubernetes
3 31 (1.14%) Ansible
4 22 (0.81%) Grafana
5 14 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.29%) SCCM
9 7 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.26%) RSA Archer
9 7 (0.26%) 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
1 337 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 205 (7.51%) SAP
3 153 (5.61%) Oracle
4 131 (4.80%) Salesforce
4 131 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 61 (2.24%) Databricks
6 52 (1.91%) Google
6 52 (1.91%) Workday
7 40 (1.47%) CyberArk
8 33 (1.21%) Splunk
9 29 (1.06%) Adobe
10 23 (0.84%) Cisco
11 22 (0.81%) Ariba
12 21 (0.77%) OpenAI
13 20 (0.73%) IBM
13 20 (0.73%) VMware
14 19 (0.70%) Informatica
15 18 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 17 (0.62%) Okta
17 16 (0.59%) Tenable