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

6 months to
7 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 3,913 1,502 1,256
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.22% 11.21% 7.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.63% 12.11% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,594 1,024 799
10th Percentile £400 £363 £382
25th Percentile £468 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £667
90th Percentile £788 £759 £775
England median daily rate £550 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +2.61% -2.55% -
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 £65.75 £63.50
England median hourly rate £60.75 £48.25 £61.33
% change year-on-year +25.91% -21.33% +26.45%

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 18,094 12,405 14,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,846 8,173 9,340
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £663 £675
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 338 241 182
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -18.14% -7.51%
75th Percentile £58.44 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +9 506 £600 +9.09% 422
West London +12 148 £550 +10.00% 77
South London +9 32 £550 -4.84% 18
East London +4 18 £600 -11.11% 21
North London +7 12 £450 -17.43% 2
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
1 183 (4.68%) Confluence
2 100 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.61%) CMS
4 42 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.74%) Apache
6 22 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 20 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.28%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.20%) WordPress
12 7 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
13 5 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.10%) Appian
14 4 (0.10%) CICS
14 4 (0.10%) Kentico
15 3 (0.077%) MTS
15 3 (0.077%) nginx
15 3 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 177 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 107 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 46 (1.18%) 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%) Productboard
12 3 (0.077%) Sketch
13 2 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.051%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 117 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 21 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 16 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.38%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.36%) SAP HCM
8 13 (0.33%) Finacle
8 13 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
10 11 (0.28%) Magento
10 11 (0.28%) SAP CO
10 11 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 10 (0.26%) SAP SD
11 10 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 9 (0.23%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 744 (19.01%) Azure
2 487 (12.45%) AWS
3 321 (8.20%) Power Platform
4 170 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
5 167 (4.27%) SaaS
6 165 (4.22%) GCP
7 147 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
8 128 (3.27%) GitHub
9 121 (3.09%) Entra ID
10 98 (2.50%) Snowflake
11 75 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
12 74 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
13 68 (1.74%) Serverless
14 57 (1.46%) Power Automate
15 55 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
16 52 (1.33%) Amazon S3
17 49 (1.25%) PowerApps
18 47 (1.20%) dbt
18 47 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
19 46 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.87%) Firewall
2 51 (1.30%) Network Security
3 38 (0.97%) DNS
4 36 (0.92%) WAN
5 28 (0.72%) VPN
6 23 (0.59%) LAN
7 22 (0.56%) DHCP
8 21 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.49%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.46%) BGP
11 16 (0.41%) Internet
12 15 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.36%) 4G
13 14 (0.36%) 5G
14 13 (0.33%) Wireless
15 11 (0.28%) 3GPP
15 11 (0.28%) Cisco IPT
15 11 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
15 11 (0.28%) SSL
15 11 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (6.31%) Power BI
2 135 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (3.40%) Metadata
4 71 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 67 (1.71%) Tableau
6 66 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 55 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (1.18%) Delta Lake
9 40 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 33 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 28 (0.72%) Oracle Database
12 27 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (0.69%) BigQuery
12 27 (0.69%) MongoDB
13 25 (0.64%) NoSQL
14 24 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
15 18 (0.46%) Redis
16 17 (0.43%) DynamoDB
17 16 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (0.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 372 (9.51%) JIRA
2 81 (2.07%) Git
3 73 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.33%) GitLab
5 29 (0.74%) Selenium
6 17 (0.43%) Postman
7 12 (0.31%) JUnit
7 12 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.23%) Zephyr
10 8 (0.20%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.20%) ERwin
11 7 (0.18%) Maven
11 7 (0.18%) TestNG
12 6 (0.15%) Appium
12 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.15%) JMeter
13 5 (0.13%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 2,034 (51.98%) Social Skills
2 1,480 (37.82%) Finance
3 707 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
4 582 (14.87%) Banking
5 469 (11.99%) Public Sector
6 261 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 241 (6.16%) Retail
8 200 (5.11%) Legal
9 181 (4.63%) Marketing
10 151 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
11 137 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 119 (3.04%) Front Office
13 107 (2.73%) Manufacturing
14 103 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
15 95 (2.43%) Investment Banking
16 89 (2.27%) Telecoms
17 80 (2.04%) Local Government
18 71 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 51 (1.30%) Billing
20 50 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 619 (15.82%) Analyst
2 522 (13.34%) Architect
3 492 (12.57%) Lead
4 430 (10.99%) Senior
5 412 (10.53%) Business Analyst
6 395 (10.09%) Project Manager
7 251 (6.41%) Consultant
8 177 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
9 137 (3.50%) Senior Manager
10 115 (2.94%) Programme Manager
11 105 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
12 104 (2.66%) Developer
13 95 (2.43%) IT Manager
14 93 (2.38%) Product Manager
15 88 (2.25%) Technical Manager
16 86 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
17 77 (1.97%) Product Owner
18 75 (1.92%) Data Analyst
19 67 (1.71%) Data Engineer
20 65 (1.66%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (4.63%) Terraform
2 134 (3.42%) REST
3 81 (2.07%) Middleware
4 72 (1.84%) .NET
5 66 (1.69%) Kafka
6 54 (1.38%) PySpark
7 45 (1.15%) SOAP
8 38 (0.97%) OAuth
9 36 (0.92%) HTML
10 32 (0.82%) JSON
10 32 (0.82%) React
11 31 (0.79%) CSS
12 30 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
12 30 (0.77%) Web Services
13 29 (0.74%) XML
14 24 (0.61%) Spring
15 23 (0.59%) Spring Boot
16 21 (0.54%) Node.js
17 20 (0.51%) SailPoint
18 19 (0.49%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 332 (8.48%) Product Ownership
2 251 (6.41%) Onboarding
3 189 (4.83%) Cloud Native
4 115 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 112 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 85 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 84 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 79 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
9 76 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 71 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 71 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 65 (1.66%) Virtual Team
12 60 (1.53%) Operational Technology
13 59 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
14 51 (1.30%) NHS
15 46 (1.18%) Security Posture
16 44 (1.12%) CMDB
17 42 (1.07%) Derivative
18 41 (1.05%) Taxonomies
19 40 (1.02%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.35%) Windows
2 84 (2.15%) Linux
3 35 (0.89%) 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 11 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.20%) 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 (0.051%) CentOS
13 2 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.026%) AIX
14 1 (0.026%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,218 (31.13%) Agile
2 704 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
3 681 (17.40%) Roadmaps
4 603 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 599 (15.31%) AI
6 583 (14.90%) Migration
7 560 (14.31%) Decision-Making
8 548 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 518 (13.24%) DevOps
10 513 (13.11%) Analytics
11 435 (11.12%) Workshop Facilitation
12 425 (10.86%) Project Management
13 415 (10.61%) Project Delivery
14 407 (10.40%) CI/CD
15 388 (9.92%) User Acceptance Testing
16 385 (9.84%) Change Management
16 385 (9.84%) Risk Management
17 350 (8.94%) Requirements Gathering
18 349 (8.92%) Validation
19 321 (8.20%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 458 (11.70%) SQL
2 306 (7.82%) Python
3 99 (2.53%) Java
4 86 (2.20%) PowerShell
5 79 (2.02%) JavaScript
6 66 (1.69%) C#
7 43 (1.10%) Bash
8 39 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 33 (0.84%) Bicep
10 28 (0.72%) Korn
11 21 (0.54%) R
12 18 (0.46%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.31%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.23%) Go
16 9 (0.23%) Groovy
16 9 (0.23%) Perl
17 8 (0.20%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 604 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 504 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 254 (6.49%) Degree
4 194 (4.96%) PMP
5 174 (4.45%) PMI Certification
6 93 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 73 (1.87%) CISSP
8 66 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 60 (1.53%) AWS Certification
10 57 (1.46%) DV Cleared
11 55 (1.41%) CISM
11 55 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 39 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 26 (0.66%) CRISC
15 25 (0.64%) ACCA
15 25 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 24 (0.61%) ISTQB
17 22 (0.56%) CIMA
17 22 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 343 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 238 (6.08%) QA
3 159 (4.06%) PMO
4 106 (2.71%) GDPR
5 100 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 89 (2.27%) Accessibility
7 84 (2.15%) NIST
8 66 (1.69%) GRC
9 52 (1.33%) SLA
10 35 (0.89%) NCSC
11 28 (0.72%) WCAG
12 22 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
13 21 (0.54%) ISO 20022
14 17 (0.43%) IFRS
14 17 (0.43%) SEPA
15 15 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.36%) COBIT
17 12 (0.31%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.31%) PSD2
18 11 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (2.63%) Docker
2 96 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.56%) 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 (0.051%) IAG
10 2 (0.051%) RACF
10 2 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.051%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.026%) Firmware
11 1 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.026%) oVirt
11 1 (0.026%) RHEV
11 1 (0.026%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 130 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 50 (1.28%) Ansible
3 42 (1.07%) Grafana
4 30 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.38%) SCCM
8 9 (0.23%) Control-M
9 8 (0.20%) Argo
10 7 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.15%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Puppet
12 5 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.10%) CA Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.077%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.077%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.077%) Nagios
14 3 (0.077%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.051%) Netcool
15 2 (0.051%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 665 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 273 (6.98%) SAP
3 206 (5.26%) Oracle
4 168 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 159 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 158 (4.04%) Databricks
7 86 (2.20%) Google
8 63 (1.61%) Workday
9 56 (1.43%) Cisco
10 46 (1.18%) IBM
11 44 (1.12%) Splunk
12 41 (1.05%) VMware
13 40 (1.02%) Adobe
14 31 (0.79%) Bloomberg
14 31 (0.79%) Informatica
15 27 (0.69%) Ariba
16 25 (0.64%) OpenAI
17 24 (0.61%) CyberArk
18 22 (0.56%) Dynatrace
19 19 (0.49%) MuleSoft