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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,801 1,489 1,255
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.80% 11.22% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.17% 12.11% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,524 1,012 801
10th Percentile £400 £371 £388
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £675
90th Percentile £788 £763 £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% +34.26%

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 17,952 12,291 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.58% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 8,116 9,426
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 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 240 179
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.89 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.01 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +10 489 £600 +9.09% 476
West London +10 145 £520 +4.00% 112
South London +8 33 £550 -10.70% 19
East London +6 18 £600 -11.11% 29
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
1 177 (4.66%) Confluence
2 100 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.58%) CMS
4 41 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (0.82%) Apache
6 21 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.26%) SAS
10 9 (0.24%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.21%) WordPress
12 4 (0.11%) Appian
12 4 (0.11%) CICS
12 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.11%) Kentico
12 4 (0.11%) nginx
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.079%) Mendix
13 3 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 168 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (2.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 77 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 55 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 44 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.32%) Revit
7 10 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.18%) Trello
9 6 (0.16%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.11%) Notion
11 3 (0.079%) CPLEX
11 3 (0.079%) Sketch
12 2 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.053%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.053%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.053%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 106 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.50%) Aladdin
3 19 (0.50%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (0.37%) Finacle
6 14 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 13 (0.34%) SAP HCM
8 12 (0.32%) Magento
8 12 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 10 (0.26%) Endur
10 10 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 10 (0.26%) SAP SD
11 9 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 8 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 713 (18.76%) Azure
2 473 (12.44%) AWS
3 313 (8.23%) Power Platform
4 160 (4.21%) GCP
5 157 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
6 154 (4.05%) SaaS
7 141 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (3.16%) GitHub
9 112 (2.95%) Entra ID
10 95 (2.50%) Snowflake
11 73 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
12 71 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
13 64 (1.68%) Serverless
14 59 (1.55%) Power Automate
15 54 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
16 52 (1.37%) Amazon S3
17 50 (1.32%) PowerApps
18 45 (1.18%) dbt
18 45 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
18 45 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.82%) Firewall
2 49 (1.29%) Network Security
3 36 (0.95%) DNS
4 35 (0.92%) WAN
5 25 (0.66%) VPN
6 21 (0.55%) DHCP
6 21 (0.55%) LAN
7 19 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.45%) BGP
8 17 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.39%) Internet
10 14 (0.37%) 4G
10 14 (0.37%) 5G
10 14 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.32%) 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
1 241 (6.34%) Power BI
2 133 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (3.47%) Metadata
4 67 (1.76%) Tableau
5 66 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 65 (1.71%) Data Lake
7 49 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
8 47 (1.24%) Delta Lake
9 37 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (0.79%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (0.66%) BigQuery
12 25 (0.66%) MongoDB
12 25 (0.66%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.63%) NoSQL
14 23 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
15 16 (0.42%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
16 15 (0.39%) Looker
16 15 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 367 (9.66%) JIRA
2 77 (2.03%) Git
3 69 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.32%) GitLab
5 29 (0.76%) Selenium
6 17 (0.45%) Postman
7 12 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.29%) JUnit
8 11 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.21%) ERwin
11 7 (0.18%) Appium
11 7 (0.18%) JMeter
11 7 (0.18%) Maven
12 6 (0.16%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.16%) LoadRunner
12 6 (0.16%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.16%) TestNG
General
1 1,984 (52.20%) Social Skills
2 1,437 (37.81%) Finance
3 684 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 553 (14.55%) Banking
5 433 (11.39%) Public Sector
6 255 (6.71%) Influencing Skills
7 237 (6.24%) Retail
8 197 (5.18%) Legal
9 178 (4.68%) Marketing
10 147 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
11 133 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 112 (2.95%) Front Office
13 100 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
14 98 (2.58%) Manufacturing
15 85 (2.24%) Telecoms
16 84 (2.21%) Investment Banking
17 78 (2.05%) Local Government
18 73 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 50 (1.32%) Billing
19 50 (1.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 600 (15.79%) Analyst
2 506 (13.31%) Architect
3 481 (12.65%) Lead
4 402 (10.58%) Senior
5 401 (10.55%) Business Analyst
6 390 (10.26%) Project Manager
7 239 (6.29%) Consultant
8 167 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
9 128 (3.37%) Senior Manager
10 114 (3.00%) Programme Manager
11 103 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
12 96 (2.53%) Developer
13 91 (2.39%) IT Manager
14 88 (2.32%) Product Manager
15 84 (2.21%) Technical Manager
16 80 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
17 75 (1.97%) Data Analyst
18 74 (1.95%) Product Owner
19 66 (1.74%) Data Engineer
20 65 (1.71%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (4.58%) Terraform
2 127 (3.34%) REST
3 81 (2.13%) Middleware
4 63 (1.66%) .NET
4 63 (1.66%) Kafka
5 52 (1.37%) PySpark
6 48 (1.26%) SOAP
7 36 (0.95%) OAuth
8 35 (0.92%) HTML
9 32 (0.84%) JSON
10 31 (0.82%) Web Services
11 30 (0.79%) CSS
11 30 (0.79%) XML
12 29 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
13 28 (0.74%) React
14 20 (0.53%) Node.js
14 20 (0.53%) SailPoint
14 20 (0.53%) Spring
14 20 (0.53%) Spring Boot
15 17 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 329 (8.66%) Product Ownership
2 247 (6.50%) Onboarding
3 176 (4.63%) Cloud Native
4 104 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 102 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 79 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 78 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 77 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 73 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 71 (1.87%) Data Structures
11 68 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
12 65 (1.71%) Virtual Team
13 59 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
14 57 (1.50%) Operational Technology
15 49 (1.29%) NHS
16 43 (1.13%) Security Posture
17 42 (1.10%) CMDB
18 41 (1.08%) FMCG
19 40 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
20 39 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.39%) Windows
2 81 (2.13%) Linux
3 35 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.71%) Unix
5 16 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.37%) Android
6 14 (0.37%) 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 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.079%) zOS
13 2 (0.053%) CentOS
13 2 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.026%) AIX
14 1 (0.026%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,190 (31.31%) Agile
2 679 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 643 (16.92%) Roadmaps
4 579 (15.23%) AI
5 578 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 562 (14.79%) Migration
7 537 (14.13%) Decision-Making
8 518 (13.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 496 (13.05%) DevOps
10 493 (12.97%) Analytics
11 425 (11.18%) Project Management
12 405 (10.66%) Workshop Facilitation
13 398 (10.47%) Project Delivery
14 393 (10.34%) CI/CD
15 382 (10.05%) User Acceptance Testing
16 373 (9.81%) Change Management
17 362 (9.52%) Risk Management
18 341 (8.97%) Validation
19 333 (8.76%) Requirements Gathering
20 313 (8.23%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 448 (11.79%) SQL
2 292 (7.68%) Python
3 96 (2.53%) Java
4 83 (2.18%) PowerShell
5 74 (1.95%) JavaScript
6 61 (1.60%) C#
7 42 (1.10%) Bash
8 36 (0.95%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.76%) Bicep
10 27 (0.71%) Korn
11 22 (0.58%) R
12 17 (0.45%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.29%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.24%) Go
16 9 (0.24%) Perl
17 8 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.21%) Groovy
17 8 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 589 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 494 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 244 (6.42%) Degree
4 189 (4.97%) PMP
5 168 (4.42%) PMI Certification
6 86 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 69 (1.82%) CISSP
8 61 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 57 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 56 (1.47%) AWS Certification
11 51 (1.34%) CISM
12 50 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 38 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 24 (0.63%) ACCA
15 24 (0.63%) CRISC
16 23 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.58%) ISTQB
18 21 (0.55%) CIMA
19 19 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (8.71%) Data Quality
2 233 (6.13%) QA
3 163 (4.29%) PMO
4 104 (2.74%) GDPR
5 94 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 84 (2.21%) Accessibility
7 82 (2.16%) NIST
8 65 (1.71%) GRC
9 51 (1.34%) SLA
10 33 (0.87%) NCSC
11 27 (0.71%) WCAG
12 21 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
12 21 (0.55%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.45%) SEPA
14 16 (0.42%) IFRS
15 15 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.37%) COBIT
17 12 (0.32%) PSD2
18 11 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 11 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (2.66%) Docker
2 94 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.24%) vSphere
7 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.079%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.079%) Varnish
9 3 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.053%) IAG
10 2 (0.053%) RACF
10 2 (0.053%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.053%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.026%) Firmware
11 1 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.026%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 122 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.26%) Ansible
3 35 (0.92%) Grafana
4 28 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.58%) 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 (0.11%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.079%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.079%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.079%) Nagios
13 2 (0.053%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.053%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 630 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 255 (6.71%) SAP
3 203 (5.34%) Oracle
4 165 (4.34%) ServiceNow
5 160 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 154 (4.05%) Databricks
7 86 (2.26%) Google
8 61 (1.60%) Workday
9 51 (1.34%) Cisco
10 47 (1.24%) IBM
11 42 (1.10%) Splunk
12 40 (1.05%) Adobe
12 40 (1.05%) VMware
13 31 (0.82%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.82%) Informatica
14 25 (0.66%) CyberArk
15 23 (0.61%) OpenAI
16 21 (0.55%) Ariba
17 20 (0.53%) Guidewire
17 20 (0.53%) MuleSoft