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

6 months to
18 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 2,830 1,481 1,208
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.23% 10.92% 7.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.99% 11.86% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,880 1,011 884
10th Percentile £400 £388 £363
25th Percentile £467 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £657
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £533
% change year-on-year +2.33% +0.89% -3.14%
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% -24.90%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £80.99 £65.50 £61.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £54.01 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.73% -12.33% +14.79%

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 17,703 12,488 15,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.09% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,731 8,359 10,820
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -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 276 238 265
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +10 381 £600 - 144
West London +22 88 £504 +3.87% 33
South London -5 26 £570 -7.45% 16
North London +5 11 £450 -10.00% 1
East London -5 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
1 150 (5.30%) Confluence
2 73 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.63%) CMS
4 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.49%) Apache
6 11 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.28%) SAS
8 7 (0.25%) Appian
8 7 (0.25%) WordPress
9 6 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.21%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.18%) Kentico
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.071%) Drupal
13 2 (0.071%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.071%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.071%) Moodle
13 2 (0.071%) nginx
14 1 (0.035%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 128 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
5 44 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.35%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.28%) Revit
9 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.14%) Sketch
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.11%) Notion
12 2 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.071%) CPLEX
12 2 (0.071%) EPLAN
13 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.035%) Trello
13 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 84 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 16 (0.57%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.42%) Finacle
6 12 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 12 (0.42%) SAP SD
7 11 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.39%) Workday HCM
8 10 (0.35%) Magento
9 9 (0.32%) Endur
10 8 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 8 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.28%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.28%) SAP HCM
11 6 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.21%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 491 (17.35%) Azure
2 331 (11.70%) AWS
3 172 (6.08%) Power Platform
4 118 (4.17%) SaaS
5 109 (3.85%) GCP
6 104 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
7 85 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
8 75 (2.65%) Entra ID
9 64 (2.26%) GitHub
10 57 (2.01%) Snowflake
11 36 (1.27%) Figma
12 35 (1.24%) Amazon S3
12 35 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
12 35 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
13 33 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
15 31 (1.10%) OCI
15 31 (1.10%) PaaS
15 31 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.66%) Firewall
2 31 (1.10%) Network Security
3 29 (1.02%) WAN
4 25 (0.88%) DNS
5 22 (0.78%) LAN
6 19 (0.67%) VPN
7 14 (0.49%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.42%) 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%) NAS
13 7 (0.25%) SAN
14 6 (0.21%) Internet
14 6 (0.21%) Intranet
14 6 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
14 6 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (4.91%) Power BI
2 78 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (2.30%) Metadata
4 47 (1.66%) Tableau
5 44 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 35 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.92%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.74%) 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 (0.42%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.39%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.32%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.32%) Db2
15 9 (0.32%) Parquet
16 8 (0.28%) DynamoDB
16 8 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 305 (10.78%) JIRA
2 47 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 40 (1.41%) Git
4 17 (0.60%) GitLab
4 17 (0.60%) Selenium
5 16 (0.57%) Postman
6 10 (0.35%) Zephyr
7 8 (0.28%) JMeter
7 8 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.25%) Appium
8 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.25%) MLflow
9 6 (0.21%) ERwin
9 6 (0.21%) JUnit
9 6 (0.21%) Maven
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 1,384 (48.90%) Social Skills
2 1,101 (38.90%) Finance
3 469 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 351 (12.40%) Banking
5 294 (10.39%) Public Sector
6 201 (7.10%) Retail
7 178 (6.29%) Influencing Skills
8 155 (5.48%) Legal
9 137 (4.84%) Marketing
10 113 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
11 109 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
12 72 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
13 67 (2.37%) Front Office
14 62 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 54 (1.91%) Financial Institution
15 54 (1.91%) Manufacturing
16 53 (1.87%) Investment Banking
17 51 (1.80%) Local Government
17 51 (1.80%) Telecoms
18 40 (1.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 470 (16.61%) Analyst
2 367 (12.97%) Project Manager
3 364 (12.86%) Lead
4 339 (11.98%) Business Analyst
5 325 (11.48%) Architect
6 269 (9.51%) Senior
7 149 (5.27%) Consultant
8 121 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
9 115 (4.06%) Senior Manager
10 99 (3.50%) Programme Manager
11 92 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
12 78 (2.76%) IT Manager
13 62 (2.19%) Product Manager
13 62 (2.19%) Product Owner
14 59 (2.08%) Technical Manager
15 57 (2.01%) Data Analyst
16 56 (1.98%) Senior Project Manager
17 53 (1.87%) Developer
18 50 (1.77%) Change Manager
19 47 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (2.33%) REST
2 63 (2.23%) Middleware
3 38 (1.34%) SOAP
4 31 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (0.85%) .NET
6 23 (0.81%) Kafka
6 23 (0.81%) PySpark
7 22 (0.78%) HTML
7 22 (0.78%) SailPoint
8 21 (0.74%) CSS
8 21 (0.74%) JSON
8 21 (0.74%) Web Services
8 21 (0.74%) XML
9 20 (0.71%) OAuth
10 18 (0.64%) SAML
11 16 (0.57%) LDAP
12 15 (0.53%) OpenID
13 14 (0.49%) AngularJS
13 14 (0.49%) RESTful
14 13 (0.46%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 223 (7.88%) Product Ownership
2 176 (6.22%) Onboarding
3 102 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 68 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 59 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 59 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 53 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 52 (1.84%) Data Centre
9 50 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 39 (1.38%) FMCG
11 38 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
12 37 (1.31%) NHS
13 35 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
14 34 (1.20%) AI Agents
15 32 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 29 (1.02%) CMDB
17 28 (0.99%) Security Posture
18 27 (0.95%) Operational Technology
19 25 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 89 (3.14%) Windows
2 41 (1.45%) Linux
3 19 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.42%) 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
1 920 (32.51%) Agile
2 435 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
3 433 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 413 (14.59%) Migration
5 403 (14.24%) Roadmaps
6 376 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 368 (13.00%) Decision-Making
8 341 (12.05%) AI
8 341 (12.05%) Project Management
9 339 (11.98%) DevOps
10 321 (11.34%) Analytics
11 309 (10.92%) User Acceptance Testing
12 304 (10.74%) Project Delivery
13 270 (9.54%) Change Management
14 253 (8.94%) Validation
15 241 (8.52%) Risk Management
16 239 (8.45%) Workshop Facilitation
17 231 (8.16%) CI/CD
18 226 (7.99%) User Stories
19 224 (7.92%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 253 (8.94%) SQL
2 180 (6.36%) Python
3 43 (1.52%) PowerShell
4 40 (1.41%) Java
5 34 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 27 (0.95%) C#
7 20 (0.71%) Bash
8 15 (0.53%) Korn
8 15 (0.53%) TypeScript
9 14 (0.49%) Bicep
10 12 (0.42%) R
11 11 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.32%) VBA
13 8 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.21%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.21%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.18%) ABAP
15 5 (0.18%) Perl
15 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 414 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 348 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 164 (5.80%) Degree
4 145 (5.12%) PMP
5 126 (4.45%) PMI Certification
6 60 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 52 (1.84%) CISSP
8 44 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 35 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 32 (1.13%) CISM
11 28 (0.99%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 20 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.49%) CBAP
15 14 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.46%) ACCA
16 13 (0.46%) CRISC
16 13 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 166 (5.87%) QA
3 136 (4.81%) PMO
4 104 (3.67%) GDPR
5 69 (2.44%) NIST
6 67 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 50 (1.77%) GRC
8 49 (1.73%) SLA
9 46 (1.63%) Accessibility
10 27 (0.95%) NCSC
11 20 (0.71%) COBIT
12 18 (0.64%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.49%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.49%) Solvency II
14 13 (0.46%) SEPA
15 12 (0.42%) MiFID
16 11 (0.39%) IFRS
16 11 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.05%) Docker
3 18 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.39%) 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 96 (3.39%) Terraform
2 73 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.17%) Ansible
4 23 (0.81%) Grafana
5 15 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.32%) SCCM
9 7 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.25%) RSA Archer
9 7 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.21%) Argo
11 5 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.14%) Control-M
12 4 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.11%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.11%) Puppet
14 2 (0.071%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 358 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 216 (7.63%) SAP
3 155 (5.48%) Oracle
4 139 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 134 (4.73%) Salesforce
6 62 (2.19%) Databricks
7 55 (1.94%) Google
8 51 (1.80%) Workday
9 39 (1.38%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.17%) Splunk
11 29 (1.02%) Adobe
12 25 (0.88%) Cisco
13 24 (0.85%) IBM
14 23 (0.81%) Ariba
14 23 (0.81%) VMware
15 21 (0.74%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.71%) Informatica
17 18 (0.64%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.64%) Okta
18 17 (0.60%) Guidewire