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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,267 1,483 1,168
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.29% 11.04% 7.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.26% 11.95% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,145 1,009 816
10th Percentile £400 £387 £372
25th Percentile £475 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% +0.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £785 £750 £775
England median daily rate £550 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 20 7
10th Percentile £26.25 £28.25 £33.77
25th Percentile £34.65 £31.81 £38.75
Median hourly rate £41.00 £43.79 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +3.03% +33.15%
75th Percentile £59.25 £55.06 £60.63
90th Percentile £73.38 £68.00 £68.25
England median hourly rate £59.50 £50.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.00% -18.83% +34.26%

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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +9 414 £600 +7.14% 302
West London +17 115 £520 -0.95% 73
South London +8 34 £550 -10.70% 20
North London +4 11 £450 -17.43% 4
East London +1 11 £638 -5.56% 36
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
1 166 (5.08%) Confluence
2 87 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.47%) CMS
4 26 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.73%) Apache
6 16 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.28%) SAS
9 6 (0.18%) WordPress
10 4 (0.12%) Appian
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
11 3 (0.092%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.092%) Moodle
11 3 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.092%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.061%) Drupal
12 2 (0.061%) JBoss
12 2 (0.061%) nginx
12 2 (0.061%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 151 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 67 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
4 62 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 40 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.31%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.31%) Revit
6 10 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.15%) Trello
8 4 (0.12%) Notion
9 3 (0.092%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.092%) Sketch
10 2 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.061%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.061%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.061%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.031%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.031%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.031%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 93 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 14 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.43%) Finacle
4 14 (0.43%) Workday HCM
5 13 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (0.34%) Endur
7 11 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.31%) Magento
8 10 (0.31%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.28%) SAP HCM
10 8 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 6 (0.18%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 619 (18.95%) Azure
2 432 (13.22%) AWS
3 221 (6.76%) Power Platform
4 143 (4.38%) SaaS
5 141 (4.32%) GCP
6 139 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
7 109 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
8 102 (3.12%) Entra ID
9 87 (2.66%) GitHub
10 82 (2.51%) Snowflake
11 47 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 43 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
13 41 (1.25%) Serverless
14 38 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
15 37 (1.13%) Amazon S3
16 36 (1.10%) Figma
17 35 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
18 34 (1.04%) OCI
19 33 (1.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.62%) Firewall
2 45 (1.38%) Network Security
3 32 (0.98%) DNS
4 28 (0.86%) WAN
5 19 (0.58%) LAN
5 19 (0.58%) VPN
6 16 (0.49%) DHCP
7 15 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 14 (0.43%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.34%) BGP
9 11 (0.34%) Internet
9 11 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.34%) Wireless
10 10 (0.31%) 4G
10 10 (0.31%) 5G
10 10 (0.31%) SSL
11 8 (0.24%) 3GPP
11 8 (0.24%) OSPF
11 8 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
11 8 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (5.57%) Power BI
2 106 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (2.91%) Metadata
4 58 (1.78%) Tableau
5 51 (1.56%) SQL Server
6 47 (1.44%) Data Lake
7 42 (1.29%) Delta Lake
8 34 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (0.89%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.64%) Big Data
12 21 (0.64%) Oracle Database
13 18 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
13 18 (0.55%) NoSQL
14 17 (0.52%) BigQuery
15 16 (0.49%) MongoDB
16 13 (0.40%) Data Vault
16 13 (0.40%) Redis
17 12 (0.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 335 (10.25%) JIRA
2 55 (1.68%) Git
3 53 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.98%) GitLab
5 25 (0.77%) Selenium
6 19 (0.58%) Postman
7 12 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 12 (0.37%) Zephyr
8 10 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.31%) JMeter
9 9 (0.28%) ERwin
10 8 (0.24%) Maven
11 7 (0.21%) Appium
11 7 (0.21%) JUnit
11 7 (0.21%) LoadRunner
11 7 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.18%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.15%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.15%) Snyk
General
1 1,650 (50.51%) Social Skills
2 1,252 (38.32%) Finance
3 571 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 441 (13.50%) Banking
5 345 (10.56%) Public Sector
6 230 (7.04%) Retail
7 190 (5.82%) Influencing Skills
8 168 (5.14%) Marketing
9 164 (5.02%) Legal
10 129 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
11 115 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
12 86 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
13 83 (2.54%) Front Office
14 70 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 70 (2.14%) Telecoms
15 69 (2.11%) Manufacturing
16 65 (1.99%) Investment Banking
17 58 (1.78%) Financial Institution
17 58 (1.78%) Local Government
18 46 (1.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 525 (16.07%) Analyst
2 428 (13.10%) Lead
3 409 (12.52%) Architect
4 367 (11.23%) Project Manager
5 358 (10.96%) Business Analyst
6 336 (10.28%) Senior
7 197 (6.03%) Consultant
8 148 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
9 120 (3.67%) Senior Manager
10 114 (3.49%) Programme Manager
11 90 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
12 86 (2.63%) Developer
13 79 (2.42%) IT Manager
14 77 (2.36%) Product Manager
15 71 (2.17%) Technical Manager
16 68 (2.08%) Data Analyst
17 67 (2.05%) Product Owner
18 61 (1.87%) Senior Analyst
19 55 (1.68%) Data Architect
20 54 (1.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (4.16%) Terraform
2 104 (3.18%) REST
3 74 (2.27%) Middleware
4 49 (1.50%) Kafka
5 47 (1.44%) SOAP
6 37 (1.13%) .NET
7 34 (1.04%) PySpark
8 32 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
9 28 (0.86%) HTML
9 28 (0.86%) XML
10 26 (0.80%) JSON
11 25 (0.77%) CSS
12 24 (0.73%) OAuth
13 23 (0.70%) Web Services
14 22 (0.67%) SailPoint
15 17 (0.52%) Spring
15 17 (0.52%) Spring Boot
16 16 (0.49%) Playwright
16 16 (0.49%) React
17 15 (0.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 277 (8.48%) Product Ownership
2 213 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 134 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 87 (2.66%) Management Information System
5 73 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 67 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 66 (2.02%) Data Centre
7 66 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 65 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 60 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 58 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 56 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 52 (1.59%) Virtual Team
13 45 (1.38%) FMCG
14 42 (1.29%) NHS
15 39 (1.19%) Security Posture
16 38 (1.16%) CMDB
17 34 (1.04%) Operational Technology
18 33 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
19 31 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 106 (3.24%) Windows
2 61 (1.87%) Linux
3 25 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.61%) Unix
5 15 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.37%) Android
8 9 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.24%) VMS
10 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.061%) AIX
14 2 (0.061%) CentOS
14 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.031%) Solaris
15 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,060 (32.45%) Agile
2 552 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
3 518 (15.86%) Roadmaps
4 508 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 463 (14.17%) AI
6 460 (14.08%) Migration
7 438 (13.41%) Decision-Making
8 422 (12.92%) DevOps
8 422 (12.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 410 (12.55%) Analytics
10 396 (12.12%) Project Management
11 359 (10.99%) Project Delivery
12 336 (10.28%) User Acceptance Testing
13 315 (9.64%) CI/CD
14 313 (9.58%) Workshop Facilitation
15 307 (9.40%) Change Management
16 286 (8.75%) Risk Management
17 272 (8.33%) Data Modelling
18 267 (8.17%) Validation
19 263 (8.05%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 349 (10.68%) SQL
2 217 (6.64%) Python
3 75 (2.30%) Java
4 64 (1.96%) PowerShell
5 55 (1.68%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.13%) C#
7 27 (0.83%) Bash
8 25 (0.77%) Bicep
9 21 (0.64%) TypeScript
10 20 (0.61%) Korn
11 17 (0.52%) R
12 14 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.28%) VBA
15 8 (0.24%) Perl
16 7 (0.21%) C++
17 5 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 503 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 419 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 196 (6.00%) Degree
4 168 (5.14%) PMP
5 142 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 62 (1.90%) CISSP
7 55 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.32%) CISM
11 39 (1.19%) AWS Certification
12 36 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 31 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (0.70%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
16 20 (0.61%) ISTQB
17 17 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
18 16 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 15 (0.46%) ACCA
19 15 (0.46%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 204 (6.24%) QA
3 152 (4.65%) PMO
4 105 (3.21%) GDPR
5 74 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 71 (2.17%) NIST
7 65 (1.99%) Accessibility
8 52 (1.59%) GRC
9 45 (1.38%) SLA
10 26 (0.80%) NCSC
11 19 (0.58%) WCAG
12 17 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.46%) COBIT
13 15 (0.46%) SEPA
14 14 (0.43%) PCI DSS
15 13 (0.40%) IFRS
16 12 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.37%) MiFID
16 12 (0.37%) PSD2
16 12 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 75 (2.30%) Docker
3 24 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.24%) NFS
7 7 (0.21%) vSphere
8 6 (0.18%) Postfix
9 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.12%) Varnish
9 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.092%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.031%) oVirt
12 1 (0.031%) RACF
12 1 (0.031%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 90 (2.75%) Kubernetes
2 40 (1.22%) Ansible
3 33 (1.01%) Grafana
4 19 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.40%) 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
11 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.12%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.092%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.092%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.061%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.061%) Kibana
14 2 (0.061%) QRadar
Vendors
1 472 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 229 (7.01%) SAP
3 178 (5.45%) Oracle
4 149 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 148 (4.53%) Salesforce
6 112 (3.43%) Databricks
7 66 (2.02%) Google
8 53 (1.62%) Workday
9 40 (1.22%) IBM
10 36 (1.10%) Adobe
10 36 (1.10%) Splunk
11 33 (1.01%) Cisco
12 31 (0.95%) CyberArk
12 31 (0.95%) VMware
13 23 (0.70%) Informatica
14 22 (0.67%) Bloomberg
14 22 (0.67%) Okta
15 20 (0.61%) Ariba
15 20 (0.61%) Guidewire
16 19 (0.58%) Zscaler