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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,399 1,489 1,195
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.81% 11.06% 7.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.87% 11.96% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,223 1,014 820
10th Percentile £400 £385 £381
25th Percentile £469 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +3.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £764 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 23 9
10th Percentile £26.25 £23.65 £31.81
25th Percentile £33.60 £28.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £37.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -12.94% +33.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £64.75
England median hourly rate £59.00 £48.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.28% -21.67% +27.01%

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 18,008 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,281 9,881
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +9 425 £600 +5.73% 199
West London +16 123 £520 +15.56% 121
South London 0 33 £550 -10.70% 25
East London +3 13 £638 -5.56% 38
North London +6 12 £450 -17.43% 2
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
1 168 (4.94%) Confluence
2 93 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.56%) CMS
4 33 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.74%) Apache
6 19 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.29%) SAS
10 6 (0.18%) WordPress
11 5 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.12%) Appian
12 4 (0.12%) Kentico
13 3 (0.088%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.088%) Moodle
13 3 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.059%) CICS
14 2 (0.059%) MTS
Applications
1 160 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 74 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
5 42 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.29%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.29%) Revit
6 10 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.15%) Trello
8 4 (0.12%) Notion
9 3 (0.088%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.088%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.088%) Sketch
10 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.059%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.059%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.059%) Windchill
11 1 (0.029%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 99 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.53%) Aladdin
4 17 (0.50%) Workday HCM
5 15 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.41%) Finacle
7 13 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 13 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 11 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
10 10 (0.29%) Endur
10 10 (0.29%) Magento
10 10 (0.29%) SAP SD
11 9 (0.26%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.26%) SAP HCM
12 8 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
12 8 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
13 7 (0.21%) Loan IQ
13 7 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 660 (19.42%) Azure
2 443 (13.03%) AWS
3 249 (7.33%) Power Platform
4 149 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
5 146 (4.30%) GCP
5 146 (4.30%) SaaS
6 119 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
7 109 (3.21%) Entra ID
8 98 (2.88%) GitHub
9 90 (2.65%) Snowflake
10 53 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 52 (1.53%) Serverless
12 50 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
13 45 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (1.18%) Amazon S3
15 39 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
15 39 (1.15%) Power Automate
16 38 (1.12%) dbt
16 38 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
17 36 (1.06%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.79%) Firewall
2 51 (1.50%) Network Security
3 33 (0.97%) DNS
3 33 (0.97%) WAN
4 20 (0.59%) VPN
5 19 (0.56%) LAN
6 17 (0.50%) DHCP
7 16 (0.47%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.44%) BGP
8 15 (0.44%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.38%) Internet
10 13 (0.38%) Wireless
11 12 (0.35%) 4G
11 12 (0.35%) 5G
12 10 (0.29%) SAN
12 10 (0.29%) SSL
13 9 (0.26%) 3GPP
13 9 (0.26%) NAS
13 9 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (5.94%) Power BI
2 113 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (3.24%) Metadata
4 63 (1.85%) Tableau
5 55 (1.62%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 45 (1.32%) Delta Lake
8 37 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (0.91%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.62%) Oracle Database
12 20 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
13 19 (0.56%) Big Data
13 19 (0.56%) NoSQL
14 18 (0.53%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.50%) MongoDB
16 14 (0.41%) Data Vault
16 14 (0.41%) Redis
17 12 (0.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 346 (10.18%) JIRA
2 58 (1.71%) Git
3 57 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.03%) GitLab
5 25 (0.74%) Selenium
6 19 (0.56%) Postman
7 12 (0.35%) Zephyr
8 11 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.29%) ERwin
9 10 (0.29%) JMeter
10 7 (0.21%) Appium
10 7 (0.21%) LoadRunner
10 7 (0.21%) Maven
11 6 (0.18%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.18%) JUnit
11 6 (0.18%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
13 4 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 1,740 (51.19%) Social Skills
2 1,285 (37.81%) Finance
3 603 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 468 (13.77%) Banking
5 356 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 236 (6.94%) Retail
7 208 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
8 171 (5.03%) Marketing
9 161 (4.74%) Legal
10 129 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
11 119 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 94 (2.77%) Front Office
13 87 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
14 74 (2.18%) Telecoms
15 73 (2.15%) Investment Banking
16 71 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 70 (2.06%) Manufacturing
18 63 (1.85%) Local Government
19 55 (1.62%) Financial Institution
20 47 (1.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 550 (16.18%) Analyst
2 444 (13.06%) Lead
3 438 (12.89%) Architect
4 368 (10.83%) Business Analyst
5 364 (10.71%) Project Manager
6 353 (10.39%) Senior
7 214 (6.30%) Consultant
8 155 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
9 120 (3.53%) Senior Manager
10 113 (3.32%) Programme Manager
11 96 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
12 86 (2.53%) Developer
13 83 (2.44%) IT Manager
14 79 (2.32%) Product Manager
15 74 (2.18%) Technical Manager
16 70 (2.06%) Product Owner
17 69 (2.03%) Data Analyst
18 66 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
19 62 (1.82%) Data Architect
20 58 (1.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (4.38%) Terraform
2 105 (3.09%) REST
3 76 (2.24%) Middleware
4 50 (1.47%) Kafka
5 44 (1.29%) SOAP
6 41 (1.21%) .NET
7 38 (1.12%) PySpark
8 33 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
9 29 (0.85%) HTML
9 29 (0.85%) XML
10 28 (0.82%) JSON
11 27 (0.79%) OAuth
12 26 (0.76%) CSS
13 22 (0.65%) Web Services
14 19 (0.56%) SailPoint
15 17 (0.50%) Node.js
15 17 (0.50%) React
16 16 (0.47%) Playwright
16 16 (0.47%) Spring
16 16 (0.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 290 (8.53%) Product Ownership
2 217 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 147 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 95 (2.79%) Management Information System
5 72 (2.12%) Data Centre
5 72 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
5 72 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 67 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (1.82%) AI Agents
9 60 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 58 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 54 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 46 (1.35%) FMCG
13 45 (1.32%) NHS
14 40 (1.18%) CMDB
14 40 (1.18%) Security Posture
15 39 (1.15%) Operational Technology
16 34 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 33 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 114 (3.35%) Windows
2 66 (1.94%) Linux
3 30 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.59%) Unix
5 15 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.35%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.24%) VMS
10 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.059%) AIX
13 2 (0.059%) CentOS
13 2 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.029%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.029%) Solaris
14 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,084 (31.89%) Agile
2 578 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
3 549 (16.15%) Roadmaps
4 532 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 492 (14.47%) AI
6 487 (14.33%) Migration
7 466 (13.71%) Decision-Making
8 448 (13.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 442 (13.00%) DevOps
10 438 (12.89%) Analytics
11 406 (11.94%) Project Management
12 377 (11.09%) Project Delivery
13 355 (10.44%) User Acceptance Testing
14 336 (9.89%) Workshop Facilitation
15 332 (9.77%) CI/CD
16 327 (9.62%) Change Management
17 311 (9.15%) Risk Management
18 287 (8.44%) Data Modelling
19 283 (8.33%) Validation
20 278 (8.18%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 372 (10.94%) SQL
2 245 (7.21%) Python
3 81 (2.38%) Java
4 72 (2.12%) PowerShell
5 57 (1.68%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.18%) C#
7 34 (1.00%) Bash
8 27 (0.79%) Bicep
9 24 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 22 (0.65%) Korn
11 20 (0.59%) R
12 15 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.26%) Perl
15 9 (0.26%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.26%) VBA
16 7 (0.21%) C++
16 7 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 532 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 448 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 205 (6.03%) Degree
4 172 (5.06%) PMP
5 151 (4.44%) PMI Certification
6 62 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 60 (1.77%) Azure Certification
7 60 (1.77%) CISSP
8 52 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 45 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 44 (1.29%) CISM
11 41 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 37 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 21 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
15 20 (0.59%) ISTQB
16 19 (0.56%) ACCA
16 19 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.53%) CIMA
18 17 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 213 (6.27%) QA
3 155 (4.56%) PMO
4 103 (3.03%) GDPR
5 76 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 73 (2.15%) NIST
7 67 (1.97%) Accessibility
8 58 (1.71%) GRC
9 45 (1.32%) SLA
10 24 (0.71%) NCSC
11 22 (0.65%) WCAG
12 15 (0.44%) ISO 20022
13 14 (0.41%) COBIT
13 14 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 14 (0.41%) IFRS
13 14 (0.41%) PCI DSS
14 13 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.38%) SEPA
14 13 (0.38%) Solvency II
15 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 82 (2.41%) Docker
3 27 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.24%) NFS
7 7 (0.21%) vSphere
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) Postfix
9 4 (0.12%) Varnish
9 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.088%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.029%) Firmware
12 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.029%) oVirt
12 1 (0.029%) RACF
12 1 (0.029%) RHEV
12 1 (0.029%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 98 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 43 (1.27%) Ansible
3 34 (1.00%) Grafana
4 20 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.44%) SCCM
8 8 (0.24%) Argo
8 8 (0.24%) Control-M
9 7 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.15%) Puppet
12 4 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.12%) Kibana
12 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.088%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.088%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.088%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.088%) Nagios
14 2 (0.059%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 525 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 236 (6.94%) SAP
3 184 (5.41%) Oracle
4 152 (4.47%) Salesforce
5 150 (4.41%) ServiceNow
6 127 (3.74%) Databricks
7 68 (2.00%) Google
8 54 (1.59%) Workday
9 39 (1.15%) IBM
10 38 (1.12%) Cisco
10 38 (1.12%) VMware
11 37 (1.09%) Adobe
11 37 (1.09%) Splunk
12 28 (0.82%) CyberArk
13 27 (0.79%) Informatica
14 26 (0.76%) Bloomberg
15 22 (0.65%) Ariba
16 20 (0.59%) Guidewire
17 18 (0.53%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.53%) Zscaler