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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,916 1,502 1,179
As % of all contract jobs in London 14.69% 11.05% 7.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.51% 11.99% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,923 1,015 849
10th Percentile £400 £388 £374
25th Percentile £469 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +0.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £650
90th Percentile £775 £763 £775
England median daily rate £550 £535 £538
% change year-on-year +2.80% -0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 22 10
10th Percentile £26.50 £28.25 £23.23
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £47.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +17.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £63.25 £55.25 £55.94
90th Percentile £78.44 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.33
% change year-on-year +16.82% -12.77% +31.89%

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 17,663 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%

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 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 29 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 29 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 +9 388 £600 +4.35% 184
West London +20 95 £520 -0.48% 62
South London -7 28 £595 -3.39% 21
North London +6 11 £450 -17.43% 3
East London -4 7 £638 +1.19% 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
1 148 (5.08%) Confluence
2 74 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.58%) CMS
4 18 (0.62%) Apache
5 13 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.24%) SAS
9 6 (0.21%) WordPress
10 5 (0.17%) Appian
11 4 (0.14%) Kentico
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.069%) Drupal
13 2 (0.069%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.069%) JBoss
13 2 (0.069%) Moodle
13 2 (0.069%) nginx
Applications
1 130 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
4 59 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
5 43 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.31%) Revit
8 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.14%) Notion
9 4 (0.14%) Sketch
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) Trello
11 2 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.069%) CPLEX
11 2 (0.069%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.034%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 86 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.45%) Finacle
4 13 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
4 13 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 13 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 12 (0.41%) SAP SD
6 11 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.34%) Endur
7 10 (0.34%) Magento
8 9 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 9 (0.31%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.27%) SAP HCM
10 7 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.24%) SAP FI
11 6 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.21%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 517 (17.73%) Azure
2 353 (12.11%) AWS
3 182 (6.24%) Power Platform
4 122 (4.18%) SaaS
5 120 (4.12%) GCP
6 109 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
8 83 (2.85%) Entra ID
9 70 (2.40%) GitHub
10 61 (2.09%) Snowflake
11 38 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
12 37 (1.27%) Amazon S3
12 37 (1.27%) Figma
13 35 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
14 34 (1.17%) OCI
15 33 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (1.10%) Serverless
17 30 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.03%) Power Automate
18 29 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.61%) Firewall
2 34 (1.17%) Network Security
3 27 (0.93%) DNS
4 26 (0.89%) WAN
5 19 (0.65%) VPN
6 17 (0.58%) LAN
7 14 (0.48%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.45%) DHCP
9 11 (0.38%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.34%) BGP
11 9 (0.31%) Wireless
12 8 (0.27%) OSPF
12 8 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.24%) HTTP
13 7 (0.24%) Internet
13 7 (0.24%) SSL
13 7 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
14 6 (0.21%) 4G
14 6 (0.21%) 5G
14 6 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (5.18%) Power BI
2 81 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (2.43%) Metadata
4 52 (1.78%) Tableau
5 45 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 36 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 28 (0.96%) Delta Lake
8 26 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 20 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.65%) Big Data
11 18 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (0.58%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.41%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.38%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.38%) Db2
15 11 (0.38%) Parquet
15 11 (0.38%) RDBMS
16 9 (0.31%) Power Query
17 8 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 308 (10.56%) JIRA
2 40 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 38 (1.30%) Git
4 19 (0.65%) GitLab
5 18 (0.62%) Selenium
6 16 (0.55%) Postman
7 12 (0.41%) Zephyr
8 9 (0.31%) JMeter
9 8 (0.27%) ERwin
9 8 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 8 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.24%) Appium
10 7 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.24%) Maven
11 6 (0.21%) JUnit
11 6 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.17%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.17%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.17%) MLflow
12 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 1,434 (49.18%) Social Skills
2 1,136 (38.96%) Finance
3 497 (17.04%) Analytical Skills
4 377 (12.93%) Banking
5 298 (10.22%) Public Sector
6 208 (7.13%) Retail
7 179 (6.14%) Influencing Skills
8 152 (5.21%) Legal
9 149 (5.11%) Marketing
10 115 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
11 106 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
12 75 (2.57%) Front Office
12 75 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 59 (2.02%) Manufacturing
15 57 (1.95%) Investment Banking
16 56 (1.92%) Financial Institution
17 54 (1.85%) Local Government
18 50 (1.71%) Telecoms
19 44 (1.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 482 (16.53%) Analyst
2 375 (12.86%) Lead
3 359 (12.31%) Project Manager
4 343 (11.76%) Business Analyst
5 340 (11.66%) Architect
6 285 (9.77%) Senior
7 162 (5.56%) Consultant
8 134 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 114 (3.91%) Senior Manager
10 106 (3.64%) Programme Manager
11 95 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
12 77 (2.64%) IT Manager
13 66 (2.26%) Product Owner
13 66 (2.26%) Technical Manager
14 64 (2.19%) Developer
14 64 (2.19%) Product Manager
15 61 (2.09%) Data Analyst
16 55 (1.89%) Senior Project Manager
17 50 (1.71%) Designer
18 48 (1.65%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (2.78%) REST
2 64 (2.19%) Middleware
3 45 (1.54%) SOAP
4 32 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 29 (0.99%) Kafka
6 27 (0.93%) .NET
7 26 (0.89%) PySpark
8 24 (0.82%) HTML
8 24 (0.82%) SailPoint
9 22 (0.75%) CSS
9 22 (0.75%) Web Services
9 22 (0.75%) XML
10 21 (0.72%) JSON
11 20 (0.69%) OAuth
12 15 (0.51%) AngularJS
13 14 (0.48%) React
13 14 (0.48%) RESTful
14 13 (0.45%) Playwright
15 12 (0.41%) Spring
16 11 (0.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 245 (8.40%) Product Ownership
2 180 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 99 (3.40%) Cloud Native
4 77 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
5 74 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 62 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 60 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 57 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 54 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 51 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 44 (1.51%) FMCG
12 43 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 42 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
14 39 (1.34%) AI Agents
15 38 (1.30%) NHS
16 34 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
17 33 (1.13%) CMDB
18 30 (1.03%) Operational Technology
19 29 (0.99%) Security Posture
20 26 (0.89%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 96 (3.29%) Windows
2 48 (1.65%) Linux
3 21 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.45%) Unix
5 12 (0.41%) Android
6 8 (0.27%) 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
10 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.034%) CentOS
11 1 (0.034%) Solaris
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 939 (32.20%) Agile
2 463 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
3 449 (15.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 434 (14.88%) Roadmaps
5 415 (14.23%) Migration
6 386 (13.24%) Decision-Making
7 380 (13.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 370 (12.69%) AI
9 356 (12.21%) Project Management
10 348 (11.93%) DevOps
11 343 (11.76%) Analytics
12 312 (10.70%) Project Delivery
13 311 (10.67%) User Acceptance Testing
14 280 (9.60%) Change Management
15 257 (8.81%) Validation
16 253 (8.68%) Workshop Facilitation
17 251 (8.61%) Risk Management
18 242 (8.30%) CI/CD
19 232 (7.96%) User Stories
20 230 (7.89%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 282 (9.67%) SQL
2 185 (6.34%) Python
3 51 (1.75%) Java
4 44 (1.51%) PowerShell
5 39 (1.34%) JavaScript
6 29 (0.99%) C#
7 21 (0.72%) Bash
8 16 (0.55%) Bicep
8 16 (0.55%) Korn
9 15 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.48%) R
11 11 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.34%) VBA
13 9 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.27%) 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
1 414 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 348 (11.93%) SC Cleared
3 173 (5.93%) Degree
4 152 (5.21%) PMP
5 134 (4.60%) PMI Certification
6 55 (1.89%) CISSP
7 53 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 35 (1.20%) CISM
11 28 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 26 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.45%) ACCA
18 12 (0.41%) CIMA
18 12 (0.41%) CRISC
18 12 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.83%) QA
3 141 (4.84%) PMO
4 100 (3.43%) GDPR
5 65 (2.23%) NIST
6 62 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 51 (1.75%) GRC
8 49 (1.68%) Accessibility
9 48 (1.65%) SLA
10 20 (0.69%) COBIT
11 19 (0.65%) NCSC
12 17 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.51%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.51%) SEPA
14 14 (0.48%) WCAG
15 13 (0.45%) MiFID
15 13 (0.45%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.45%) Solvency II
16 12 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 75 (2.57%) Active Directory
2 62 (2.13%) Docker
3 19 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.27%) NFS
6 6 (0.21%) Postfix
7 4 (0.14%) Varnish
7 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.14%) vSphere
8 3 (0.10%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.10%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.034%) RACF
Systems Management
1 106 (3.64%) Terraform
2 69 (2.37%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.17%) Ansible
4 24 (0.82%) Grafana
5 15 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.41%) SCCM
8 8 (0.27%) Argo
9 7 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.21%) Control-M
10 6 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.21%) RSA Archer
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
13 2 (0.069%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 379 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 218 (7.48%) SAP
3 156 (5.35%) Oracle
4 143 (4.90%) ServiceNow
5 139 (4.77%) Salesforce
6 73 (2.50%) Databricks
7 58 (1.99%) Google
8 51 (1.75%) Workday
9 31 (1.06%) CyberArk
10 30 (1.03%) Adobe
11 27 (0.93%) IBM
12 26 (0.89%) Cisco
12 26 (0.89%) Splunk
13 24 (0.82%) VMware
14 22 (0.75%) Ariba
15 20 (0.69%) Guidewire
16 19 (0.65%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.62%) Informatica
17 18 (0.62%) Okta
17 18 (0.62%) Zscaler