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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,878 1,511 1,266
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.14% 11.19% 7.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.55% 12.08% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,566 1,034 805
10th Percentile £400 £363 £382
25th Percentile £465 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £788 £759 £775
England median daily rate £550 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 12
10th Percentile £24.81 £17.00 £30.68
25th Percentile £34.30 £26.81 £34.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -2.86% +13.82%
75th Percentile £61.13 £43.09 £57.31
90th Percentile £71.50 £68.00 £63.50
England median hourly rate £60.50 £48.25 £61.33
% change year-on-year +25.39% -21.33% +29.96%

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 17,999 12,504 14,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.62% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,775 8,251 9,455
10th Percentile £358 £333 £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 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 245 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.35 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +11 502 £600 +9.09% 411
West London +12 148 £550 +10.00% 106
South London +7 32 £550 -5.46% 20
East London +6 18 £600 -11.11% 28
North London +7 12 £450 -17.43% 1
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
1 182 (4.69%) Confluence
2 100 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.55%) CMS
4 42 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.75%) Apache
6 22 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.26%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.21%) WordPress
12 6 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
13 4 (0.10%) Appian
13 4 (0.10%) CICS
13 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.10%) Kentico
13 4 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.077%) Mendix
14 3 (0.077%) MTS
14 3 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 173 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
4 58 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 46 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.31%) Revit
7 11 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.18%) Navisworks
9 7 (0.18%) Trello
10 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.10%) Notion
12 3 (0.077%) CPLEX
12 3 (0.077%) Sketch
13 2 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.052%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.052%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.052%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 115 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 20 (0.52%) Workday HCM
5 16 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.36%) Finacle
7 14 (0.36%) SAP HCM
8 13 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 13 (0.34%) SAP FI
9 12 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
10 11 (0.28%) Magento
11 10 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 10 (0.26%) SAP SD
12 9 (0.23%) Endur
12 9 (0.23%) SAP CO
12 9 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
12 9 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 727 (18.75%) Azure
2 480 (12.38%) AWS
3 314 (8.10%) Power Platform
4 164 (4.23%) GCP
5 160 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
6 157 (4.05%) SaaS
7 144 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (3.09%) GitHub
9 113 (2.91%) Entra ID
10 98 (2.53%) Snowflake
11 74 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
12 72 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
13 64 (1.65%) Serverless
14 56 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 54 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
16 51 (1.32%) Amazon S3
17 49 (1.26%) PowerApps
18 47 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
19 46 (1.19%) dbt
20 44 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.83%) Firewall
2 50 (1.29%) Network Security
3 36 (0.93%) DNS
4 35 (0.90%) WAN
5 26 (0.67%) VPN
6 22 (0.57%) LAN
7 21 (0.54%) DHCP
8 20 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.46%) BGP
9 18 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.39%) Internet
11 14 (0.36%) 4G
11 14 (0.36%) 5G
11 14 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.31%) Wireless
13 11 (0.28%) 3GPP
13 11 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
13 11 (0.28%) SSL
13 11 (0.28%) Wireshark
14 10 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (6.27%) Power BI
2 134 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
3 130 (3.35%) Metadata
4 69 (1.78%) SQL Server
5 67 (1.73%) Tableau
6 66 (1.70%) Data Lake
7 52 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (1.19%) Delta Lake
9 38 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 32 (0.83%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (0.70%) MongoDB
11 27 (0.70%) Oracle Database
12 26 (0.67%) BigQuery
13 25 (0.64%) NoSQL
14 24 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (0.44%) DynamoDB
16 16 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
16 16 (0.41%) Redis
17 15 (0.39%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 373 (9.62%) JIRA
2 79 (2.04%) Git
3 70 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.29%) GitLab
5 27 (0.70%) Selenium
6 15 (0.39%) Postman
7 12 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.28%) JUnit
9 10 (0.26%) Zephyr
10 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.21%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.21%) ERwin
12 7 (0.18%) Maven
13 6 (0.15%) Appium
13 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
13 6 (0.15%) JMeter
13 6 (0.15%) TestNG
14 5 (0.13%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 2,021 (52.11%) Social Skills
2 1,467 (37.83%) Finance
3 702 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 573 (14.78%) Banking
5 452 (11.66%) Public Sector
6 259 (6.68%) Influencing Skills
7 241 (6.21%) Retail
8 200 (5.16%) Legal
9 178 (4.59%) Marketing
10 153 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
11 135 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
12 120 (3.09%) Front Office
13 103 (2.66%) Manufacturing
13 103 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 92 (2.37%) Investment Banking
15 88 (2.27%) Telecoms
16 79 (2.04%) Local Government
17 72 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 51 (1.32%) Billing
19 49 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 613 (15.81%) Analyst
2 510 (13.15%) Architect
3 490 (12.64%) Lead
4 422 (10.88%) Senior
5 411 (10.60%) Business Analyst
6 392 (10.11%) Project Manager
7 250 (6.45%) Consultant
8 172 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 137 (3.53%) Senior Manager
10 115 (2.97%) Programme Manager
11 104 (2.68%) Developer
12 102 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
13 94 (2.42%) IT Manager
14 93 (2.40%) Product Manager
15 87 (2.24%) Technical Manager
16 85 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
17 75 (1.93%) Product Owner
18 74 (1.91%) Data Analyst
19 66 (1.70%) Data Engineer
20 64 (1.65%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (4.51%) Terraform
2 127 (3.27%) REST
3 79 (2.04%) Middleware
4 68 (1.75%) .NET
5 65 (1.68%) Kafka
6 53 (1.37%) PySpark
7 45 (1.16%) SOAP
8 36 (0.93%) HTML
8 36 (0.93%) OAuth
9 31 (0.80%) CSS
9 31 (0.80%) JSON
9 31 (0.80%) React
10 30 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
10 30 (0.77%) Web Services
10 30 (0.77%) XML
11 23 (0.59%) Spring
12 22 (0.57%) Spring Boot
13 20 (0.52%) Node.js
13 20 (0.52%) SailPoint
14 18 (0.46%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 331 (8.54%) Product Ownership
2 251 (6.47%) Onboarding
3 185 (4.77%) Cloud Native
4 108 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 84 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 81 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 79 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 74 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
10 71 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 68 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
12 64 (1.65%) Virtual Team
13 60 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
14 57 (1.47%) Operational Technology
15 51 (1.32%) NHS
16 44 (1.13%) CMDB
16 44 (1.13%) Security Posture
17 41 (1.06%) Derivative
17 41 (1.06%) Taxonomies
18 40 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.33%) Windows
2 82 (2.11%) Linux
3 35 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.72%) Unix
5 16 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.36%) Android
6 14 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.21%) VMS
9 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.077%) zOS
13 2 (0.052%) CentOS
13 2 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.026%) AIX
14 1 (0.026%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,206 (31.10%) Agile
2 695 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
3 659 (16.99%) Roadmaps
4 596 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 592 (15.27%) AI
6 565 (14.57%) Migration
7 552 (14.23%) Decision-Making
8 544 (14.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 503 (12.97%) DevOps
10 502 (12.94%) Analytics
11 434 (11.19%) Workshop Facilitation
12 422 (10.88%) Project Management
13 409 (10.55%) Project Delivery
14 396 (10.21%) CI/CD
15 385 (9.93%) User Acceptance Testing
16 378 (9.75%) Change Management
17 377 (9.72%) Risk Management
18 348 (8.97%) Requirements Gathering
19 347 (8.95%) Validation
20 317 (8.17%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 454 (11.71%) SQL
2 301 (7.76%) Python
3 97 (2.50%) Java
4 84 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 76 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 63 (1.62%) C#
7 42 (1.08%) Bash
8 37 (0.95%) TypeScript
9 28 (0.72%) Bicep
9 28 (0.72%) Korn
10 22 (0.57%) R
11 18 (0.46%) T-SQL
12 15 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 13 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.31%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.23%) Go
15 9 (0.23%) Perl
16 8 (0.21%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.21%) Groovy
16 8 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 599 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 499 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 248 (6.40%) Degree
4 194 (5.00%) PMP
5 174 (4.49%) PMI Certification
6 90 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 72 (1.86%) CISSP
8 62 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 58 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 57 (1.47%) DV Cleared
11 54 (1.39%) CISM
12 53 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
13 39 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 30 (0.77%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.67%) CRISC
16 24 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.59%) ACCA
18 21 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
18 21 (0.54%) ISTQB
19 20 (0.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (8.69%) Data Quality
2 237 (6.11%) QA
3 164 (4.23%) PMO
4 105 (2.71%) GDPR
5 100 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 87 (2.24%) Accessibility
7 84 (2.17%) NIST
8 65 (1.68%) GRC
9 52 (1.34%) SLA
10 35 (0.90%) NCSC
11 28 (0.72%) WCAG
12 21 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 21 (0.54%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.44%) IFRS
13 17 (0.44%) SEPA
14 15 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.36%) COBIT
16 12 (0.31%) PCI DSS
16 12 (0.31%) PSD2
17 11 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 99 (2.55%) Docker
2 95 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.23%) vSphere
7 6 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.13%) NFS
9 3 (0.077%) Postfix
9 3 (0.077%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.052%) IAG
10 2 (0.052%) RACF
10 2 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.052%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.026%) Firmware
11 1 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.026%) RHEV
11 1 (0.026%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.026%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 125 (3.22%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.26%) Ansible
3 36 (0.93%) Grafana
4 28 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.39%) SCCM
8 9 (0.23%) Control-M
9 8 (0.21%) Argo
10 7 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.13%) Kibana
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
12 4 (0.10%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.077%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.077%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.077%) Nagios
14 2 (0.052%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.052%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.052%) SCOM
Vendors
1 651 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 270 (6.96%) SAP
3 206 (5.31%) Oracle
4 167 (4.31%) ServiceNow
5 157 (4.05%) Salesforce
6 156 (4.02%) Databricks
7 88 (2.27%) Google
8 62 (1.60%) Workday
9 54 (1.39%) Cisco
10 47 (1.21%) IBM
11 44 (1.13%) Splunk
12 39 (1.01%) VMware
13 38 (0.98%) Adobe
14 31 (0.80%) Bloomberg
14 31 (0.80%) Informatica
15 27 (0.70%) Ariba
16 25 (0.64%) OpenAI
17 24 (0.62%) CyberArk
18 19 (0.49%) Guidewire
18 19 (0.49%) MuleSoft