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

6 months to
24 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 2,892 1,490 1,201
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.55% 10.96% 7.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.35% 11.89% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,916 1,007 873
10th Percentile £400 £388 £376
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 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £540
% change year-on-year +2.33% -0.46% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 21 10
10th Percentile £26.13 £28.25 £23.23
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% +22.50% -24.49%
75th Percentile £63.50 £55.25 £55.94
90th Percentile £79.29 £65.00 £63.00
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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £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 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +9 381 £600 +1.05% 164
West London +22 93 £520 - 49
South London -5 26 £570 -7.45% 22
North London +5 11 £450 -17.43% 1
East London -5 6 £600 -4.76% 27
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
1 158 (5.46%) Confluence
2 78 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.56%) CMS
4 16 (0.55%) Apache
4 16 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.24%) SAS
7 6 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.21%) Appian
7 6 (0.21%) WordPress
8 4 (0.14%) Kentico
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.069%) Drupal
10 2 (0.069%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.069%) JBoss
10 2 (0.069%) Moodle
10 2 (0.069%) nginx
Applications
1 128 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
5 44 (1.52%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.35%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.31%) Revit
8 7 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.069%) CPLEX
11 2 (0.069%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.069%) Trello
12 1 (0.035%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 85 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 13 (0.45%) Finacle
5 13 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.41%) SAP SD
6 12 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 11 (0.38%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.35%) Magento
9 9 (0.31%) Endur
9 9 (0.31%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.28%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.24%) Loan IQ
12 6 (0.21%) SAP FI
12 6 (0.21%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 504 (17.43%) Azure
2 340 (11.76%) AWS
3 182 (6.29%) Power Platform
4 122 (4.22%) SaaS
5 112 (3.87%) GCP
6 109 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 79 (2.73%) Entra ID
9 66 (2.28%) GitHub
10 59 (2.04%) Snowflake
11 38 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
11 38 (1.31%) Figma
12 37 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
13 35 (1.21%) Amazon S3
14 34 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (1.14%) OCI
16 32 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (1.11%) PaaS
16 32 (1.11%) Power Automate
16 32 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.59%) Firewall
2 31 (1.07%) Network Security
3 29 (1.00%) WAN
4 25 (0.86%) DNS
5 22 (0.76%) LAN
6 20 (0.69%) VPN
7 14 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.38%) DHCP
11 10 (0.35%) BGP
12 9 (0.31%) Wireless
13 8 (0.28%) OSPF
14 7 (0.24%) HTTP
14 7 (0.24%) Internet
14 7 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
15 6 (0.21%) Intranet
15 6 (0.21%) Kerberos
15 6 (0.21%) SAN
15 6 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (5.05%) Power BI
2 80 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (2.39%) Metadata
4 49 (1.69%) Tableau
5 45 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 37 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 25 (0.86%) Delta Lake
7 25 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 19 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (0.62%) Big Data
10 17 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (0.59%) Oracle Database
11 16 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.38%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.35%) Parquet
15 9 (0.31%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.31%) Db2
15 9 (0.31%) Power Query
16 8 (0.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 314 (10.86%) JIRA
2 40 (1.38%) Git
3 39 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.62%) GitLab
4 18 (0.62%) Selenium
5 16 (0.55%) Postman
6 12 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 9 (0.31%) JMeter
8 8 (0.28%) ERwin
8 8 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.24%) Appium
9 7 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.21%) JUnit
10 6 (0.21%) Maven
10 6 (0.21%) MLflow
10 6 (0.21%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.17%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 1,422 (49.17%) Social Skills
2 1,124 (38.87%) Finance
3 491 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 369 (12.76%) Banking
5 302 (10.44%) Public Sector
6 209 (7.23%) Retail
7 176 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
8 154 (5.33%) Legal
9 145 (5.01%) Marketing
10 116 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
11 104 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
12 75 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
13 70 (2.42%) Front Office
14 62 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 57 (1.97%) Manufacturing
16 55 (1.90%) Financial Institution
17 53 (1.83%) Investment Banking
17 53 (1.83%) Local Government
18 51 (1.76%) Telecoms
19 43 (1.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 479 (16.56%) Analyst
2 372 (12.86%) Lead
3 365 (12.62%) Project Manager
4 344 (11.89%) Business Analyst
5 327 (11.31%) Architect
6 277 (9.58%) Senior
7 154 (5.33%) Consultant
8 126 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
9 117 (4.05%) Senior Manager
10 104 (3.60%) Programme Manager
11 94 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
12 77 (2.66%) IT Manager
13 66 (2.28%) Product Manager
13 66 (2.28%) Product Owner
14 65 (2.25%) Technical Manager
15 61 (2.11%) Developer
16 59 (2.04%) Data Analyst
17 57 (1.97%) Senior Project Manager
18 48 (1.66%) Change Manager
18 48 (1.66%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (2.77%) REST
2 64 (2.21%) Middleware
3 44 (1.52%) SOAP
4 31 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
5 26 (0.90%) .NET
6 25 (0.86%) SailPoint
7 24 (0.83%) Kafka
7 24 (0.83%) PySpark
8 22 (0.76%) HTML
9 21 (0.73%) CSS
9 21 (0.73%) JSON
9 21 (0.73%) Web Services
9 21 (0.73%) XML
10 18 (0.62%) OAuth
11 15 (0.52%) RESTful
12 14 (0.48%) Playwright
13 13 (0.45%) AngularJS
13 13 (0.45%) React
14 12 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
15 11 (0.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 245 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 179 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 95 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 77 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 60 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
6 60 (2.07%) Data Structures
7 54 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 54 (1.87%) Data Centre
8 51 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 43 (1.49%) FMCG
10 42 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 38 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 37 (1.28%) NHS
14 33 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 32 (1.11%) CMDB
16 28 (0.97%) Operational Technology
17 27 (0.93%) Security Posture
18 25 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 94 (3.25%) Windows
2 45 (1.56%) Linux
3 19 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.45%) Unix
5 12 (0.41%) Android
5 12 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.28%) 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 (0.069%) AIX
11 1 (0.035%) CentOS
11 1 (0.035%) Solaris
11 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (32.57%) Agile
2 451 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
3 446 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 428 (14.80%) Roadmaps
5 416 (14.38%) Migration
6 378 (13.07%) Decision-Making
6 378 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 361 (12.48%) AI
8 347 (12.00%) DevOps
9 346 (11.96%) Project Management
10 331 (11.45%) Analytics
11 315 (10.89%) User Acceptance Testing
12 310 (10.72%) Project Delivery
13 276 (9.54%) Change Management
14 261 (9.02%) Validation
15 250 (8.64%) Risk Management
16 245 (8.47%) Workshop Facilitation
17 237 (8.20%) User Stories
18 235 (8.13%) CI/CD
19 229 (7.92%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 273 (9.44%) SQL
2 186 (6.43%) Python
3 47 (1.63%) Java
4 44 (1.52%) PowerShell
5 37 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.04%) C#
7 21 (0.73%) Bash
8 16 (0.55%) Korn
8 16 (0.55%) TypeScript
9 15 (0.52%) Bicep
10 13 (0.45%) R
11 11 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.35%) VBA
13 9 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.28%) 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
1 413 (14.28%) Security Cleared
2 346 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 166 (5.74%) Degree
4 147 (5.08%) PMP
5 130 (4.50%) PMI Certification
6 57 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (1.83%) CISSP
8 47 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 40 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 33 (1.14%) CISM
11 28 (0.97%) AWS Certification
12 23 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
14 20 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
14 20 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.45%) ACCA
16 13 (0.45%) ISTQB
17 12 (0.41%) CIMA
17 12 (0.41%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (6.95%) Data Quality
2 172 (5.95%) QA
3 137 (4.74%) PMO
4 102 (3.53%) GDPR
5 61 (2.11%) NIST
6 60 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 50 (1.73%) GRC
8 48 (1.66%) SLA
9 46 (1.59%) Accessibility
10 20 (0.69%) COBIT
11 19 (0.66%) NCSC
12 17 (0.59%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.45%) MiFID
14 13 (0.45%) SEPA
14 13 (0.45%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.45%) Solvency II
14 13 (0.45%) WCAG
15 12 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 72 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 59 (2.04%) Docker
3 18 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.31%) NFS
7 6 (0.21%) Postfix
8 4 (0.14%) Varnish
8 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.10%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.069%) vSphere
11 1 (0.035%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.035%) RACF
Systems Management
1 97 (3.35%) Terraform
2 64 (2.21%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.14%) Ansible
4 24 (0.83%) Grafana
5 15 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.35%) SCCM
8 7 (0.24%) Argo
8 7 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.21%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.17%) Control-M
10 5 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.14%) Puppet
12 3 (0.10%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.069%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.069%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 368 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 221 (7.64%) SAP
3 156 (5.39%) Oracle
4 143 (4.94%) ServiceNow
5 139 (4.81%) Salesforce
6 66 (2.28%) Databricks
7 58 (2.01%) Google
8 52 (1.80%) Workday
9 32 (1.11%) CyberArk
10 30 (1.04%) Adobe
11 26 (0.90%) IBM
11 26 (0.90%) Splunk
12 25 (0.86%) Cisco
13 23 (0.80%) Ariba
13 23 (0.80%) VMware
14 20 (0.69%) Informatica
14 20 (0.69%) OpenAI
15 19 (0.66%) Guidewire
16 18 (0.62%) MuleSoft
16 18 (0.62%) Okta