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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 15 24
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,836 1,502 1,250
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.87% 11.23% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.24% 12.13% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 1,022 795
10th Percentile £400 £363 £384
25th Percentile £465 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £673
90th Percentile £788 £765 £775
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 13
10th Percentile £25.39 £17.00 £30.85
25th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -2.86% +13.82%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £65.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £60.50 £49.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.22% -19.64% +30.54%

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 18,062 12,379 14,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.57% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,844 8,171 9,350
10th Percentile £358 £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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 241 178
10th Percentile £16.07 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -15.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +10 494 £600 +9.09% 481
West London +10 149 £550 +10.00% 110
South London +7 33 £550 -5.46% 18
East London +6 18 £600 -11.11% 27
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
1 181 (4.72%) Confluence
2 101 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.56%) CMS
4 41 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (0.81%) Apache
6 21 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.47%) 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 4 (0.10%) Appian
12 4 (0.10%) CICS
12 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.10%) Kentico
12 4 (0.10%) nginx
12 4 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.078%) Mendix
13 3 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 170 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 77 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
4 55 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 45 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.31%) Revit
7 11 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.18%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.18%) Trello
10 6 (0.16%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.10%) Notion
12 3 (0.078%) CPLEX
12 3 (0.078%) 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
1 107 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 19 (0.50%) Workday HCM
5 16 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.36%) Finacle
8 13 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 13 (0.34%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.34%) SAP HCM
9 12 (0.31%) Magento
9 12 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
10 11 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 10 (0.26%) Endur
11 10 (0.26%) SAP SD
12 9 (0.23%) SAP CO
12 9 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 719 (18.74%) Azure
2 478 (12.46%) AWS
3 315 (8.21%) Power Platform
4 159 (4.14%) GCP
5 158 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 155 (4.04%) SaaS
7 142 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (3.13%) GitHub
9 113 (2.95%) Entra ID
10 95 (2.48%) Snowflake
11 75 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
12 74 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
13 65 (1.69%) Serverless
14 59 (1.54%) Power Automate
15 54 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
16 53 (1.38%) Amazon S3
17 50 (1.30%) PowerApps
18 45 (1.17%) dbt
18 45 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
18 45 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.82%) Firewall
2 49 (1.28%) Network Security
3 36 (0.94%) DNS
4 35 (0.91%) WAN
5 25 (0.65%) VPN
6 21 (0.55%) DHCP
6 21 (0.55%) LAN
7 20 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.44%) BGP
8 17 (0.44%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.39%) Internet
10 14 (0.36%) 4G
10 14 (0.36%) 5G
10 14 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.31%) Wireless
12 11 (0.29%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.29%) SSL
12 11 (0.29%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (6.33%) Power BI
2 134 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (3.44%) Metadata
4 67 (1.75%) Tableau
5 66 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 65 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 49 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
8 47 (1.23%) Delta Lake
9 38 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (0.78%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (0.65%) BigQuery
12 25 (0.65%) MongoDB
12 25 (0.65%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.63%) NoSQL
14 23 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (0.44%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
16 15 (0.39%) Looker
16 15 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 370 (9.65%) JIRA
2 77 (2.01%) Git
3 69 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.30%) GitLab
5 28 (0.73%) Selenium
6 16 (0.42%) Postman
7 12 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.29%) JUnit
8 11 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.21%) ERwin
11 7 (0.18%) Maven
12 6 (0.16%) Appium
12 6 (0.16%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.16%) JMeter
12 6 (0.16%) TestNG
13 5 (0.13%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,997 (52.06%) Social Skills
2 1,455 (37.93%) Finance
3 693 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
4 559 (14.57%) Banking
5 437 (11.39%) Public Sector
6 256 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 238 (6.20%) Retail
8 197 (5.14%) Legal
9 180 (4.69%) Marketing
10 148 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
11 135 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
12 113 (2.95%) Front Office
13 103 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 100 (2.61%) Manufacturing
15 86 (2.24%) Investment Banking
15 86 (2.24%) Telecoms
16 78 (2.03%) Local Government
17 74 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 51 (1.33%) Financial Institution
19 50 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 607 (15.82%) Analyst
2 509 (13.27%) Architect
3 488 (12.72%) Lead
4 406 (10.58%) Business Analyst
4 406 (10.58%) Senior
5 392 (10.22%) Project Manager
6 243 (6.33%) Consultant
7 168 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
8 129 (3.36%) Senior Manager
9 115 (3.00%) Programme Manager
10 103 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
11 98 (2.55%) Developer
12 91 (2.37%) IT Manager
13 89 (2.32%) Product Manager
14 84 (2.19%) Technical Manager
15 82 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
16 76 (1.98%) Product Owner
17 75 (1.96%) Data Analyst
18 66 (1.72%) Data Engineer
19 65 (1.69%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (4.56%) Terraform
2 127 (3.31%) REST
3 82 (2.14%) Middleware
4 65 (1.69%) .NET
5 63 (1.64%) Kafka
6 52 (1.36%) PySpark
7 48 (1.25%) SOAP
8 36 (0.94%) OAuth
9 35 (0.91%) HTML
10 32 (0.83%) JSON
11 31 (0.81%) Web Services
12 30 (0.78%) CSS
12 30 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
12 30 (0.78%) XML
13 28 (0.73%) React
14 20 (0.52%) Node.js
14 20 (0.52%) SailPoint
14 20 (0.52%) Spring
14 20 (0.52%) Spring Boot
15 17 (0.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 331 (8.63%) Product Ownership
2 247 (6.44%) Onboarding
3 178 (4.64%) Cloud Native
4 105 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 81 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 80 (2.09%) AI Agents
7 80 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 74 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 71 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 68 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
11 65 (1.69%) Virtual Team
12 59 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
13 57 (1.49%) Operational Technology
14 49 (1.28%) NHS
15 44 (1.15%) Security Posture
16 42 (1.09%) CMDB
17 41 (1.07%) FMCG
18 40 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
19 39 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.36%) Windows
2 81 (2.11%) Linux
3 35 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.70%) Unix
5 16 (0.42%) 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 (0.16%) 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 (0.078%) zOS
13 2 (0.052%) CentOS
13 2 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.026%) AIX
14 1 (0.026%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,198 (31.23%) Agile
2 684 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
3 651 (16.97%) Roadmaps
4 584 (15.22%) AI
4 584 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 570 (14.86%) Migration
6 545 (14.21%) Decision-Making
7 525 (13.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 501 (13.06%) DevOps
9 494 (12.88%) Analytics
10 427 (11.13%) Project Management
11 411 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
12 401 (10.45%) Project Delivery
13 397 (10.35%) CI/CD
14 386 (10.06%) User Acceptance Testing
15 376 (9.80%) Change Management
16 366 (9.54%) Risk Management
17 343 (8.94%) Validation
18 340 (8.86%) Requirements Gathering
19 315 (8.21%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 450 (11.73%) SQL
2 293 (7.64%) Python
3 95 (2.48%) Java
4 83 (2.16%) PowerShell
5 74 (1.93%) JavaScript
6 62 (1.62%) C#
7 42 (1.09%) Bash
8 37 (0.96%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.76%) Bicep
10 27 (0.70%) Korn
11 22 (0.57%) R
12 17 (0.44%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.36%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.29%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.23%) Go
16 9 (0.23%) Perl
17 8 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.21%) Groovy
17 8 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 595 (15.51%) Security Cleared
2 498 (12.98%) SC Cleared
3 247 (6.44%) Degree
4 190 (4.95%) PMP
5 169 (4.41%) PMI Certification
6 87 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 69 (1.80%) CISSP
8 62 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 57 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 57 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 52 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 51 (1.33%) CISM
12 39 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 28 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.63%) ACCA
14 24 (0.63%) CRISC
15 23 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.57%) ISTQB
17 21 (0.55%) CIMA
18 19 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (8.68%) Data Quality
2 236 (6.15%) QA
3 165 (4.30%) PMO
4 105 (2.74%) GDPR
5 96 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 84 (2.19%) Accessibility
7 83 (2.16%) NIST
8 65 (1.69%) GRC
9 51 (1.33%) SLA
10 34 (0.89%) NCSC
11 27 (0.70%) WCAG
12 21 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
12 21 (0.55%) 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%) PSD2
17 11 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 11 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (2.69%) Docker
2 95 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.23%) vSphere
7 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.10%) Postfix
9 3 (0.078%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.078%) Varnish
9 3 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.052%) IAG
10 2 (0.052%) RACF
10 2 (0.052%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.052%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.026%) Firmware
11 1 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.026%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 125 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.25%) Ansible
3 35 (0.91%) Grafana
4 28 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.39%) SCCM
8 8 (0.21%) Argo
8 8 (0.21%) Control-M
9 7 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.13%) Kibana
10 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 4 (0.10%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.10%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.078%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.078%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.078%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.078%) Nagios
13 2 (0.052%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.052%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 639 (16.66%) Microsoft
2 259 (6.75%) SAP
3 209 (5.45%) Oracle
4 165 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 161 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 155 (4.04%) Databricks
7 87 (2.27%) Google
8 62 (1.62%) Workday
9 52 (1.36%) Cisco
10 47 (1.23%) IBM
11 42 (1.09%) Splunk
12 41 (1.07%) VMware
13 40 (1.04%) Adobe
14 31 (0.81%) Bloomberg
14 31 (0.81%) Informatica
15 25 (0.65%) CyberArk
16 24 (0.63%) OpenAI
17 23 (0.60%) Ariba
18 20 (0.52%) Guidewire
18 20 (0.52%) MuleSoft