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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,752 1,475 1,217
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.94% 10.90% 6.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.67% 11.83% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,831 1,006 894
10th Percentile £400 £388 £363
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £652
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £541 £535
% change year-on-year +1.57% +1.21% -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 £62.50 £53.50 £61.33
% change year-on-year +16.82% -12.77% +14.28%

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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +8 366 £600 - 134
West London +19 84 £504 +3.87% 34
South London -5 25 £550 -10.70% 15
North London +4 10 £450 -10.00% 1
East London -3 8 £600 -4.76% 29
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
1 147 (5.34%) Confluence
2 73 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.60%) 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 4 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.073%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.073%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.073%) Moodle
13 2 (0.073%) nginx
14 1 (0.036%) Camunda
14 1 (0.036%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 125 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 62 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
4 59 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
5 42 (1.53%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.29%) Revit
7 8 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.15%) Sketch
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.073%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.036%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.036%) Trello
12 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 79 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 16 (0.58%) 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%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.40%) SAP SD
6 11 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.33%) Endur
7 9 (0.33%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.33%) Magento
8 8 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.29%) SAP HCM
9 7 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.22%) SAP PM
10 6 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 471 (17.11%) Azure
2 324 (11.77%) AWS
3 166 (6.03%) Power Platform
4 113 (4.11%) SaaS
5 106 (3.85%) GCP
6 100 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
8 69 (2.51%) Entra ID
9 61 (2.22%) GitHub
10 55 (2.00%) Snowflake
11 35 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 35 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
12 34 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
13 33 (1.20%) Figma
14 32 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 32 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
15 31 (1.13%) Serverless
16 30 (1.09%) OCI
17 29 (1.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.64%) Firewall
2 29 (1.05%) Network Security
3 27 (0.98%) WAN
4 22 (0.80%) DNS
5 21 (0.76%) LAN
6 19 (0.69%) VPN
7 13 (0.47%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.40%) BGP
8 11 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.33%) OSPF
11 8 (0.29%) DHCP
12 7 (0.25%) VLAN
13 6 (0.22%) HTTP
13 6 (0.22%) Internet
13 6 (0.22%) Intranet
13 6 (0.22%) NAS
13 6 (0.22%) SAN
13 6 (0.22%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (4.87%) Power BI
2 75 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (2.25%) Metadata
4 46 (1.67%) Tableau
5 44 (1.60%) Data Lake
6 32 (1.16%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 20 (0.73%) Delta Lake
9 18 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
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 10 (0.36%) Power Query
15 9 (0.33%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.33%) Parquet
16 8 (0.29%) DynamoDB
16 8 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 297 (10.79%) JIRA
2 46 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 39 (1.42%) Git
4 19 (0.69%) GitLab
5 16 (0.58%) Postman
6 15 (0.55%) 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%) Appium
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%) Snyk
General
1 1,350 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 1,073 (38.99%) Finance
3 449 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 335 (12.17%) Banking
5 284 (10.32%) Public Sector
6 188 (6.83%) Retail
7 172 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 153 (5.56%) Legal
9 135 (4.91%) Marketing
10 109 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
11 107 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
12 75 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (2.40%) Front Office
14 60 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 54 (1.96%) Financial Institution
15 54 (1.96%) Investment Banking
15 54 (1.96%) Manufacturing
16 50 (1.82%) Local Government
16 50 (1.82%) Telecoms
17 39 (1.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 461 (16.75%) Analyst
2 354 (12.86%) Project Manager
3 353 (12.83%) Lead
4 332 (12.06%) Business Analyst
5 315 (11.45%) Architect
6 262 (9.52%) Senior
7 147 (5.34%) Consultant
8 117 (4.25%) Senior Manager
9 116 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 93 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
11 92 (3.34%) Programme Manager
12 72 (2.62%) IT Manager
13 62 (2.25%) Product Manager
14 59 (2.14%) Product Owner
15 57 (2.07%) Senior Project Manager
16 56 (2.03%) Data Analyst
17 55 (2.00%) Technical Manager
18 50 (1.82%) Developer
19 49 (1.78%) Change Manager
20 44 (1.60%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (2.29%) 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%) Kafka
6 22 (0.80%) PySpark
7 21 (0.76%) JSON
7 21 (0.76%) XML
8 20 (0.73%) HTML
8 20 (0.73%) Web Services
9 19 (0.69%) CSS
9 19 (0.69%) OAuth
9 19 (0.69%) SailPoint
9 19 (0.69%) SAML
10 16 (0.58%) LDAP
10 16 (0.58%) OpenID
11 14 (0.51%) AngularJS
12 13 (0.47%) RESTful
13 12 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 207 (7.52%) Product Ownership
2 168 (6.10%) Onboarding
3 101 (3.67%) Cloud Native
4 79 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 68 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 58 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 57 (2.07%) Data Structures
8 53 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 49 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 46 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 37 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
12 36 (1.31%) NHS
13 35 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
14 34 (1.24%) FMCG
15 32 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (1.13%) AI Agents
17 28 (1.02%) CMDB
18 26 (0.94%) Security Posture
19 25 (0.91%) Fixed Income
20 24 (0.87%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 84 (3.05%) Windows
2 40 (1.45%) Linux
3 17 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.40%) Android
6 10 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.36%) Unix
7 8 (0.29%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.11%) VMS
11 2 (0.073%) AIX
12 1 (0.036%) CentOS
12 1 (0.036%) Solaris
12 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 889 (32.30%) Agile
2 422 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
3 415 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 401 (14.57%) Migration
5 390 (14.17%) Roadmaps
6 364 (13.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 349 (12.68%) Decision-Making
8 330 (11.99%) DevOps
9 329 (11.95%) Project Management
10 325 (11.81%) AI
11 310 (11.26%) Analytics
12 297 (10.79%) User Acceptance Testing
13 293 (10.65%) Project Delivery
14 254 (9.23%) Change Management
15 248 (9.01%) Validation
16 234 (8.50%) Risk Management
17 226 (8.21%) CI/CD
18 225 (8.18%) Workshop Facilitation
19 214 (7.78%) Requirements Gathering
20 213 (7.74%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 250 (9.08%) SQL
2 180 (6.54%) Python
3 41 (1.49%) PowerShell
4 39 (1.42%) Java
5 32 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 26 (0.94%) C#
7 19 (0.69%) Bash
8 15 (0.55%) Korn
9 14 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 13 (0.47%) Bicep
11 12 (0.44%) R
12 11 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.33%) VBA
14 8 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.22%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.18%) ABAP
16 5 (0.18%) Perl
16 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 406 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 343 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 164 (5.96%) Degree
4 135 (4.91%) PMP
5 115 (4.18%) PMI Certification
6 58 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 51 (1.85%) CISSP
8 43 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 31 (1.13%) CISM
11 28 (1.02%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.55%) CBAP
16 14 (0.51%) ISTQB
17 13 (0.47%) ACCA
17 13 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 163 (5.92%) QA
3 130 (4.72%) PMO
4 104 (3.78%) GDPR
5 70 (2.54%) NIST
6 67 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 48 (1.74%) GRC
8 47 (1.71%) SLA
9 44 (1.60%) Accessibility
10 26 (0.94%) NCSC
11 20 (0.73%) COBIT
12 18 (0.65%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.51%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.51%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.51%) Solvency II
14 13 (0.47%) IFRS
14 13 (0.47%) MiFID
14 13 (0.47%) SEPA
15 11 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (2.11%) Docker
2 55 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.33%) NFS
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 75 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.16%) 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%) SCCM
9 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
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%) Puppet
Vendors
1 342 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 207 (7.52%) SAP
3 152 (5.52%) Oracle
4 134 (4.87%) ServiceNow
5 132 (4.80%) Salesforce
6 61 (2.22%) Databricks
7 52 (1.89%) Google
8 48 (1.74%) Workday
9 40 (1.45%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.20%) Splunk
11 30 (1.09%) Adobe
12 24 (0.87%) Cisco
13 22 (0.80%) Ariba
13 22 (0.80%) OpenAI
14 21 (0.76%) IBM
14 21 (0.76%) VMware
15 20 (0.73%) Informatica
16 18 (0.65%) MuleSoft
17 17 (0.62%) Okta
18 16 (0.58%) Tenable