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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,672 1,502 1,223
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.05% 11.18% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.30% 12.08% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,416 1,018 798
10th Percentile £400 £378 £373
25th Percentile £465 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +1.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £674
90th Percentile £784 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 12
10th Percentile £26.25 £18.10 £30.68
25th Percentile £34.65 £28.25 £34.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -2.86% +9.65%
75th Percentile £57.81 £49.13 £60.31
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.50
England median hourly rate £60.50 £47.48 £61.60
% change year-on-year +27.44% -22.93% +23.30%

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 18,089 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,828 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £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 £675 £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 300 251 180
10th Percentile £16.68 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +10 468 £596 +3.70% 528
West London +12 137 £520 +4.00% 109
South London +5 33 £550 -10.70% 22
East London +5 16 £600 -11.11% 33
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
1 172 (4.68%) Confluence
2 101 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.55%) CMS
4 38 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.82%) Apache
6 21 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.30%) SAS
10 7 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.19%) WordPress
11 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.11%) Kentico
11 4 (0.11%) nginx
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.082%) CICS
12 3 (0.082%) Moodle
12 3 (0.082%) MTS
12 3 (0.082%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 167 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 43 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.30%) Revit
7 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.16%) Trello
10 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.11%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.11%) Notion
11 4 (0.11%) Sketch
12 3 (0.082%) CPLEX
12 3 (0.082%) Windchill
13 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.054%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.054%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 99 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 14 (0.38%) Finacle
5 14 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 14 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 12 (0.33%) Endur
6 12 (0.33%) Magento
6 12 (0.33%) SAP HCM
7 11 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 10 (0.27%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.27%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 7 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 692 (18.85%) Azure
2 468 (12.75%) AWS
3 286 (7.79%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
5 153 (4.17%) GCP
5 153 (4.17%) SaaS
6 135 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
7 115 (3.13%) GitHub
8 110 (3.00%) Entra ID
9 92 (2.51%) Snowflake
10 64 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
11 63 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
12 62 (1.69%) Serverless
13 53 (1.44%) Power Automate
14 51 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
15 48 (1.31%) Amazon S3
16 45 (1.23%) PowerApps
17 43 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
18 41 (1.12%) dbt
19 40 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.74%) Firewall
2 46 (1.25%) Network Security
3 35 (0.95%) DNS
4 33 (0.90%) WAN
5 23 (0.63%) VPN
6 20 (0.54%) DHCP
7 19 (0.52%) LAN
8 18 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.44%) BGP
10 15 (0.41%) Internet
10 15 (0.41%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.38%) 4G
11 14 (0.38%) 5G
11 14 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.33%) Wireless
13 11 (0.30%) 3GPP
13 11 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
13 11 (0.30%) SAN
13 11 (0.30%) SSL
13 11 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (6.10%) Power BI
2 127 (3.46%) Metadata
3 123 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 61 (1.66%) Data Lake
6 59 (1.61%) Tableau
7 49 (1.33%) Delta Lake
8 47 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (0.65%) NoSQL
13 23 (0.63%) MongoDB
14 22 (0.60%) Oracle Database
15 21 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
15 21 (0.57%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.52%) Big Data
17 16 (0.44%) DynamoDB
18 15 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
18 15 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 359 (9.78%) JIRA
2 72 (1.96%) Git
3 67 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.28%) GitLab
5 25 (0.68%) Selenium
6 16 (0.44%) Postman
7 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.27%) Zephyr
9 9 (0.25%) ERwin
10 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.22%) JUnit
11 7 (0.19%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.19%) JMeter
11 7 (0.19%) Maven
12 6 (0.16%) Appium
12 6 (0.16%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.16%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.14%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,892 (51.53%) Social Skills
2 1,389 (37.83%) Finance
3 658 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
4 515 (14.03%) Banking
5 401 (10.92%) Public Sector
6 242 (6.59%) Influencing Skills
7 237 (6.45%) Retail
8 181 (4.93%) Legal
9 178 (4.85%) Marketing
10 142 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
11 131 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
12 104 (2.83%) Front Office
13 95 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 86 (2.34%) Manufacturing
15 83 (2.26%) Telecoms
16 77 (2.10%) Investment Banking
17 73 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 71 (1.93%) Local Government
19 53 (1.44%) Financial Institution
20 51 (1.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 583 (15.88%) Analyst
2 486 (13.24%) Architect
3 475 (12.94%) Lead
4 391 (10.65%) Business Analyst
5 385 (10.48%) Project Manager
5 385 (10.48%) Senior
6 225 (6.13%) Consultant
7 169 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
8 131 (3.57%) Senior Manager
9 115 (3.13%) Programme Manager
10 100 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
11 95 (2.59%) Developer
12 89 (2.42%) Product Manager
13 87 (2.37%) IT Manager
14 82 (2.23%) Technical Manager
15 74 (2.02%) Data Analyst
16 73 (1.99%) Product Owner
16 73 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
17 66 (1.80%) Data Architect
18 63 (1.72%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (4.49%) Terraform
2 115 (3.13%) REST
3 79 (2.15%) Middleware
4 60 (1.63%) Kafka
5 57 (1.55%) .NET
6 49 (1.33%) PySpark
7 45 (1.23%) SOAP
8 34 (0.93%) OAuth
9 33 (0.90%) HTML
10 30 (0.82%) CSS
10 30 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
10 30 (0.82%) XML
11 29 (0.79%) JSON
11 29 (0.79%) Web Services
12 27 (0.74%) React
13 21 (0.57%) Node.js
13 21 (0.57%) Spring
13 21 (0.57%) Spring Boot
14 18 (0.49%) SailPoint
15 16 (0.44%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 319 (8.69%) Product Ownership
2 230 (6.26%) Onboarding
3 169 (4.60%) Cloud Native
4 100 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 89 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 79 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 79 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 72 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 69 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 69 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 66 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 62 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 58 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
12 49 (1.33%) NHS
13 48 (1.31%) Operational Technology
14 44 (1.20%) FMCG
15 42 (1.14%) CMDB
16 40 (1.09%) Security Posture
17 38 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
18 37 (1.01%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 126 (3.43%) Windows
2 72 (1.96%) Linux
3 32 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.57%) Unix
5 15 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.33%) Android
8 9 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.22%) VMS
10 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.054%) CentOS
13 2 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.054%) zOS
14 1 (0.027%) AIX
14 1 (0.027%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,164 (31.70%) Agile
2 643 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
3 611 (16.64%) Roadmaps
4 563 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 543 (14.79%) AI
6 525 (14.30%) Decision-Making
6 525 (14.30%) Migration
7 497 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 480 (13.07%) DevOps
9 476 (12.96%) Analytics
10 430 (11.71%) Project Management
11 395 (10.76%) Project Delivery
12 372 (10.13%) Workshop Facilitation
13 371 (10.10%) User Acceptance Testing
14 369 (10.05%) CI/CD
15 352 (9.59%) Change Management
16 341 (9.29%) Risk Management
17 325 (8.85%) Validation
18 310 (8.44%) Requirements Gathering
19 306 (8.33%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 421 (11.47%) SQL
2 279 (7.60%) Python
3 92 (2.51%) Java
4 74 (2.02%) PowerShell
5 67 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 54 (1.47%) C#
7 36 (0.98%) Bash
8 34 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 28 (0.76%) Bicep
10 24 (0.65%) Korn
11 20 (0.54%) R
12 14 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.38%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.27%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.25%) Perl
14 9 (0.25%) VBA
15 8 (0.22%) Go
16 7 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 568 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 476 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 228 (6.21%) Degree
4 188 (5.12%) PMP
5 165 (4.49%) PMI Certification
6 75 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 66 (1.80%) CISSP
8 60 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 57 (1.55%) DV Cleared
10 50 (1.36%) AWS Certification
11 48 (1.31%) CISM
12 43 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 35 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 24 (0.65%) ACCA
16 22 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.57%) CIMA
18 20 (0.54%) ISTQB
18 20 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
18 20 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 324 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 225 (6.13%) QA
3 166 (4.52%) PMO
4 100 (2.72%) GDPR
5 92 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 82 (2.23%) Accessibility
7 79 (2.15%) NIST
8 61 (1.66%) GRC
9 48 (1.31%) SLA
10 30 (0.82%) NCSC
11 27 (0.74%) WCAG
12 21 (0.57%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.46%) IFRS
13 17 (0.46%) SEPA
14 16 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
15 14 (0.38%) COBIT
15 14 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
16 13 (0.35%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.33%) PSD2
18 11 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 98 (2.67%) Docker
2 91 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.22%) vSphere
7 7 (0.19%) NFS
8 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.082%) Varnish
10 3 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.054%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.054%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.054%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.027%) Firmware
12 1 (0.027%) IAG
12 1 (0.027%) oVirt
12 1 (0.027%) RACF
12 1 (0.027%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 118 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.25%) Ansible
3 35 (0.95%) Grafana
4 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.44%) SCCM
8 8 (0.22%) Argo
8 8 (0.22%) Control-M
9 7 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.14%) Kibana
11 4 (0.11%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.11%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.082%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.082%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.082%) Nagios
13 2 (0.054%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.054%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 594 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 245 (6.67%) SAP
3 200 (5.45%) Oracle
4 158 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 155 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 148 (4.03%) Databricks
7 80 (2.18%) Google
8 55 (1.50%) Workday
9 44 (1.20%) IBM
10 43 (1.17%) Cisco
11 41 (1.12%) Adobe
12 40 (1.09%) VMware
13 37 (1.01%) Splunk
14 32 (0.87%) Informatica
15 29 (0.79%) Bloomberg
16 26 (0.71%) CyberArk
17 22 (0.60%) Ariba
18 21 (0.57%) OpenAI
19 20 (0.54%) Guidewire
19 20 (0.54%) MuleSoft