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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,407 1,481 1,198
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.97% 11.06% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.06% 11.97% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,231 1,010 819
10th Percentile £400 £385 £380
25th Percentile £469 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £766 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 23 10
10th Percentile £26.25 £23.65 £32.03
25th Percentile £33.95 £28.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £37.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -7.50% +25.31%
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.88 £55.94
90th Percentile £72.75 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £59.75 £47.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.79% -22.89% +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 17,877 12,377 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,691 8,233 9,872
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 £660 £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 288 255 194
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.89 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +9 428 £600 +7.14% 392
West London +16 123 £520 +15.56% 122
South London -1 34 £550 -10.70% 25
East London +2 13 £638 -5.56% 38
North London +6 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
1 169 (4.96%) Confluence
2 95 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.64%) CMS
4 34 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.73%) Apache
6 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.29%) SAS
10 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.18%) WordPress
11 4 (0.12%) Appian
11 4 (0.12%) Kentico
12 3 (0.088%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.088%) Moodle
12 3 (0.088%) MTS
12 3 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.059%) Mendix
Applications
1 158 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 74 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
4 58 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
5 43 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.29%) Revit
8 5 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.12%) Notion
10 3 (0.088%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.088%) CPLEX
10 3 (0.088%) Sketch
11 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.059%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.059%) Navisworks
11 2 (0.059%) Windchill
12 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 99 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.29%) 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%) Magento
9 11 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
10 10 (0.29%) Endur
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 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
12 8 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
13 7 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 6 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 665 (19.52%) Azure
2 444 (13.03%) AWS
3 249 (7.31%) Power Platform
4 151 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
5 146 (4.29%) GCP
6 145 (4.26%) SaaS
7 120 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
8 110 (3.23%) Entra ID
9 99 (2.91%) GitHub
10 90 (2.64%) Snowflake
11 56 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
12 54 (1.58%) Serverless
13 52 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
14 46 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.20%) Power Automate
16 40 (1.17%) Amazon S3
17 39 (1.14%) dbt
18 38 (1.12%) PowerApps
19 37 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
19 37 (1.09%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.73%) Firewall
2 49 (1.44%) Network Security
3 32 (0.94%) DNS
3 32 (0.94%) WAN
4 19 (0.56%) VPN
5 18 (0.53%) LAN
6 17 (0.50%) DHCP
7 15 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 14 (0.41%) BGP
8 14 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.38%) Internet
9 13 (0.38%) Wireless
10 12 (0.35%) 4G
10 12 (0.35%) 5G
11 11 (0.32%) SAN
12 9 (0.26%) 3GPP
12 9 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
12 9 (0.26%) SSL
12 9 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (5.87%) Power BI
2 113 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (3.32%) Metadata
3 61 (1.79%) Tableau
4 56 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 53 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 45 (1.32%) Delta Lake
7 39 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (0.88%) Relational Database
10 29 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (0.62%) Oracle Database
12 20 (0.59%) NoSQL
13 18 (0.53%) Big Data
13 18 (0.53%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.53%) MongoDB
14 14 (0.41%) Data Vault
14 14 (0.41%) Redis
15 12 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 345 (10.13%) JIRA
2 59 (1.73%) Git
3 58 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.03%) GitLab
5 24 (0.70%) Selenium
6 19 (0.56%) Postman
7 11 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.32%) Zephyr
8 10 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.29%) ERwin
8 10 (0.29%) JMeter
9 7 (0.21%) Appium
9 7 (0.21%) LoadRunner
9 7 (0.21%) Maven
10 6 (0.18%) ER Studio
10 6 (0.18%) JUnit
10 6 (0.18%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.12%) Gatling
11 4 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,745 (51.22%) Social Skills
2 1,291 (37.89%) Finance
3 607 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 471 (13.82%) Banking
5 360 (10.57%) Public Sector
6 238 (6.99%) Retail
7 208 (6.11%) Influencing Skills
8 174 (5.11%) Marketing
9 161 (4.73%) Legal
10 130 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
11 121 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
12 95 (2.79%) Front Office
13 85 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
14 74 (2.17%) Investment Banking
14 74 (2.17%) Telecoms
15 72 (2.11%) Manufacturing
16 69 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 66 (1.94%) Local Government
18 53 (1.56%) Financial Institution
19 50 (1.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 548 (16.08%) Analyst
2 443 (13.00%) Architect
2 443 (13.00%) Lead
3 367 (10.77%) Business Analyst
4 361 (10.60%) Project Manager
5 355 (10.42%) Senior
6 213 (6.25%) Consultant
7 156 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
8 120 (3.52%) Senior Manager
9 114 (3.35%) Programme Manager
10 96 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
11 86 (2.52%) Developer
12 81 (2.38%) IT Manager
13 78 (2.29%) Product Manager
14 73 (2.14%) Technical Manager
15 70 (2.05%) Product Owner
16 69 (2.03%) Data Analyst
17 67 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
18 64 (1.88%) Data Architect
19 58 (1.70%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (4.34%) Terraform
2 108 (3.17%) REST
3 77 (2.26%) Middleware
4 51 (1.50%) Kafka
5 45 (1.32%) .NET
6 44 (1.29%) SOAP
7 39 (1.14%) PySpark
8 33 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
9 30 (0.88%) HTML
10 29 (0.85%) XML
11 28 (0.82%) JSON
11 28 (0.82%) OAuth
12 27 (0.79%) CSS
13 22 (0.65%) Web Services
14 19 (0.56%) SailPoint
15 18 (0.53%) Node.js
15 18 (0.53%) React
16 17 (0.50%) Spring
16 17 (0.50%) Spring Boot
17 16 (0.47%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 292 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 218 (6.40%) Onboarding
3 150 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 93 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 75 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 73 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 72 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 70 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 69 (2.03%) Data Structures
10 63 (1.85%) AI Agents
11 61 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 58 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
13 53 (1.56%) Virtual Team
14 46 (1.35%) FMCG
15 45 (1.32%) NHS
16 40 (1.17%) CMDB
16 40 (1.17%) Operational Technology
16 40 (1.17%) Security Posture
17 34 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 33 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 117 (3.43%) Windows
2 67 (1.97%) Linux
3 31 (0.91%) 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 (0.23%) VMS
10 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.059%) AIX
14 2 (0.059%) CentOS
14 2 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.029%) Solaris
15 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,086 (31.88%) Agile
2 578 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
3 553 (16.23%) Roadmaps
4 525 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 496 (14.56%) AI
6 492 (14.44%) Migration
7 468 (13.74%) Decision-Making
8 451 (13.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 446 (13.09%) DevOps
10 439 (12.89%) Analytics
11 411 (12.06%) Project Management
12 376 (11.04%) Project Delivery
13 355 (10.42%) User Acceptance Testing
14 339 (9.95%) Workshop Facilitation
15 336 (9.86%) CI/CD
16 325 (9.54%) Change Management
17 309 (9.07%) Risk Management
18 291 (8.54%) Data Modelling
19 288 (8.45%) Validation
20 279 (8.19%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 377 (11.07%) SQL
2 249 (7.31%) Python
3 84 (2.47%) Java
4 72 (2.11%) PowerShell
5 58 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 43 (1.26%) C#
7 35 (1.03%) Bash
8 26 (0.76%) Bicep
9 25 (0.73%) TypeScript
10 22 (0.65%) Korn
11 19 (0.56%) R
12 14 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.32%) Apex Code
13 11 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.29%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.26%) Perl
15 9 (0.26%) VBA
16 7 (0.21%) C++
16 7 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 531 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 447 (13.12%) SC Cleared
3 204 (5.99%) Degree
4 174 (5.11%) PMP
5 152 (4.46%) PMI Certification
6 64 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 60 (1.76%) CISSP
8 59 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 45 (1.32%) AWS Certification
11 44 (1.29%) CISM
12 40 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (0.70%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
16 19 (0.56%) ACCA
16 19 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 19 (0.56%) ISTQB
17 18 (0.53%) CIMA
18 17 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (8.07%) Data Quality
2 211 (6.19%) QA
3 156 (4.58%) PMO
4 103 (3.02%) GDPR
5 77 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (2.17%) NIST
7 69 (2.03%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.64%) GRC
9 44 (1.29%) SLA
10 24 (0.70%) NCSC
10 24 (0.70%) WCAG
11 16 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.41%) COBIT
12 14 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.41%) IFRS
12 14 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.41%) SEPA
13 13 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 90 (2.64%) 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 (0.23%) NFS
7 7 (0.21%) vSphere
8 6 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.15%) Postfix
10 4 (0.12%) Varnish
10 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.088%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.029%) Firmware
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.029%) oVirt
13 1 (0.029%) RACF
13 1 (0.029%) RHEV
13 1 (0.029%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 98 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 43 (1.26%) Ansible
3 34 (1.00%) Grafana
4 21 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.44%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) Argo
8 8 (0.23%) Control-M
9 7 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.15%) Puppet
11 4 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.12%) Kibana
11 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.088%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.088%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.088%) Nagios
13 2 (0.059%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.059%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 531 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 235 (6.90%) SAP
3 185 (5.43%) Oracle
4 150 (4.40%) Salesforce
5 147 (4.31%) ServiceNow
6 131 (3.85%) Databricks
7 69 (2.03%) Google
8 54 (1.58%) Workday
9 38 (1.12%) IBM
9 38 (1.12%) VMware
10 37 (1.09%) Adobe
10 37 (1.09%) Cisco
10 37 (1.09%) Splunk
11 28 (0.82%) CyberArk
11 28 (0.82%) Informatica
12 26 (0.76%) Bloomberg
13 22 (0.65%) Ariba
14 20 (0.59%) Guidewire
15 19 (0.56%) MuleSoft
15 19 (0.56%) OpenAI