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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,704 1,504 1,241
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.30% 11.18% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.59% 12.08% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,444 1,024 810
10th Percentile £400 £375 £381
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +1.27% -7.95%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £772 £775
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 22 12
10th Percentile £26.25 £17.55 £30.68
25th Percentile £35.62 £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 £49.94 £60.31
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.50
England median hourly rate £60.50 £49.00 £61.06
% change year-on-year +23.47% -19.75% +22.22%

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 17,985 12,452 14,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.52% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,227 9,667
10th Percentile £360 £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 £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 306 252 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.94 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% -10.01% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.61% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +11 475 £600 +7.14% 487
West London +11 140 £520 +4.00% 108
South London +5 33 £550 -10.70% 20
East London +4 17 £600 -11.11% 29
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
1 171 (4.62%) Confluence
2 102 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.57%) CMS
4 37 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.78%) Apache
6 21 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.30%) SAS
10 8 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.19%) 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 (0.081%) Mendix
13 3 (0.081%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 170 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
5 43 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.32%) Revit
7 11 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.19%) Trello
11 6 (0.16%) Navisworks
12 5 (0.13%) Adobe XD
13 4 (0.11%) Notion
13 4 (0.11%) Sketch
14 3 (0.081%) CPLEX
14 3 (0.081%) Windchill
15 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 2 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.054%) EPLAN
15 2 (0.054%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 99 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.46%) Aladdin
5 16 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.38%) Finacle
7 14 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.32%) Magento
8 12 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 10 (0.27%) Endur
9 10 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 10 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 10 (0.27%) SAP SD
10 9 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 9 (0.24%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 7 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 695 (18.76%) Azure
2 471 (12.72%) AWS
3 293 (7.91%) Power Platform
4 155 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
4 155 (4.18%) GCP
5 154 (4.16%) SaaS
6 135 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 117 (3.16%) GitHub
8 110 (2.97%) Entra ID
9 93 (2.51%) Snowflake
10 67 (1.81%) Microsoft Copilot
11 66 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
12 63 (1.70%) Serverless
13 56 (1.51%) Power Automate
14 52 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (1.32%) Amazon S3
16 46 (1.24%) PowerApps
17 44 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
18 41 (1.11%) dbt
19 40 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.78%) Firewall
2 47 (1.27%) Network Security
3 36 (0.97%) DNS
4 33 (0.89%) WAN
5 24 (0.65%) VPN
6 21 (0.57%) DHCP
7 19 (0.51%) LAN
7 19 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.43%) BGP
9 15 (0.40%) Internet
9 15 (0.40%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.38%) 4G
10 14 (0.38%) 5G
10 14 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.32%) Wireless
12 11 (0.30%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.30%) SAN
12 11 (0.30%) SSL
12 11 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (6.13%) Power BI
2 129 (3.48%) Metadata
3 124 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 61 (1.65%) Data Lake
6 59 (1.59%) Tableau
7 48 (1.30%) Delta Lake
8 47 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (0.65%) MongoDB
12 24 (0.65%) NoSQL
13 23 (0.62%) Oracle Database
14 21 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
14 21 (0.57%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.46%) Big Data
16 16 (0.43%) DynamoDB
17 15 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
17 15 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 361 (9.75%) JIRA
2 74 (2.00%) Git
3 68 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.30%) GitLab
5 28 (0.76%) Selenium
6 16 (0.43%) Postman
7 12 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.27%) Zephyr
9 9 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.24%) JUnit
10 8 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.22%) ERwin
11 7 (0.19%) JMeter
11 7 (0.19%) Maven
12 6 (0.16%) Appium
12 6 (0.16%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.13%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.13%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,914 (51.67%) Social Skills
2 1,405 (37.93%) Finance
3 662 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
4 522 (14.09%) Banking
5 412 (11.12%) Public Sector
6 247 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 239 (6.45%) Retail
8 184 (4.97%) Legal
9 178 (4.81%) Marketing
10 145 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
11 131 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
12 107 (2.89%) Front Office
13 94 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
14 91 (2.46%) Manufacturing
15 84 (2.27%) Telecoms
16 78 (2.11%) Investment Banking
17 73 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 73 (1.97%) Local Government
18 51 (1.38%) Financial Institution
19 50 (1.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 585 (15.79%) Analyst
2 485 (13.09%) Architect
3 477 (12.88%) Lead
4 392 (10.58%) Business Analyst
5 389 (10.50%) Project Manager
6 387 (10.45%) Senior
7 228 (6.16%) Consultant
8 168 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
9 130 (3.51%) Senior Manager
10 116 (3.13%) Programme Manager
11 101 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
12 94 (2.54%) Developer
13 88 (2.38%) IT Manager
14 86 (2.32%) Product Manager
15 84 (2.27%) Technical Manager
16 75 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
17 74 (2.00%) Data Analyst
18 72 (1.94%) Product Owner
19 64 (1.73%) Data Architect
20 63 (1.70%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (4.59%) Terraform
2 117 (3.16%) REST
3 79 (2.13%) Middleware
4 61 (1.65%) Kafka
5 58 (1.57%) .NET
6 49 (1.32%) PySpark
7 46 (1.24%) SOAP
8 35 (0.94%) OAuth
9 33 (0.89%) HTML
10 30 (0.81%) CSS
10 30 (0.81%) JSON
10 30 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
10 30 (0.81%) Web Services
10 30 (0.81%) XML
11 27 (0.73%) React
12 21 (0.57%) Node.js
12 21 (0.57%) Spring
12 21 (0.57%) Spring Boot
13 18 (0.49%) SailPoint
14 16 (0.43%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 318 (8.59%) Product Ownership
2 234 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 171 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 101 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 94 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 78 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 77 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 75 (2.02%) AI Agents
9 69 (1.86%) Data Structures
10 68 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
11 67 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
12 62 (1.67%) Virtual Team
13 58 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
14 51 (1.38%) Operational Technology
15 49 (1.32%) NHS
16 43 (1.16%) FMCG
17 42 (1.13%) CMDB
18 41 (1.11%) Security Posture
18 41 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
19 37 (1.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 130 (3.51%) Windows
2 75 (2.02%) Linux
3 34 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 23 (0.62%) Unix
5 15 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.35%) Android
6 13 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.22%) 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 (0.081%) zOS
13 2 (0.054%) CentOS
13 2 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.027%) AIX
14 1 (0.027%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,166 (31.48%) Agile
2 658 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
3 617 (16.66%) Roadmaps
4 570 (15.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 554 (14.96%) AI
6 533 (14.39%) Migration
7 526 (14.20%) Decision-Making
8 504 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 479 (12.93%) DevOps
10 478 (12.90%) Analytics
11 428 (11.56%) Project Management
12 395 (10.66%) Project Delivery
13 379 (10.23%) Workshop Facilitation
14 375 (10.12%) CI/CD
15 371 (10.02%) User Acceptance Testing
16 364 (9.83%) Change Management
17 345 (9.31%) Risk Management
18 326 (8.80%) Validation
19 314 (8.48%) Requirements Gathering
20 307 (8.29%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 426 (11.50%) SQL
2 281 (7.59%) Python
3 94 (2.54%) Java
4 78 (2.11%) PowerShell
5 67 (1.81%) JavaScript
6 57 (1.54%) C#
7 38 (1.03%) Bash
8 34 (0.92%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.78%) Bicep
10 25 (0.67%) 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%) Go
13 10 (0.27%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.24%) Perl
14 9 (0.24%) VBA
15 8 (0.22%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 575 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 481 (12.99%) SC Cleared
3 234 (6.32%) Degree
4 188 (5.08%) PMP
5 166 (4.48%) PMI Certification
6 78 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 68 (1.84%) CISSP
8 62 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 57 (1.54%) DV Cleared
10 54 (1.46%) AWS Certification
11 50 (1.35%) CISM
12 46 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 24 (0.65%) ACCA
16 23 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.59%) ISTQB
18 21 (0.57%) CIMA
19 20 (0.54%) CRISC
19 20 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 324 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 229 (6.18%) QA
3 165 (4.45%) PMO
4 99 (2.67%) GDPR
5 91 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 82 (2.21%) Accessibility
7 79 (2.13%) NIST
8 63 (1.70%) GRC
9 48 (1.30%) SLA
10 30 (0.81%) NCSC
11 27 (0.73%) WCAG
12 21 (0.57%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.46%) IFRS
13 17 (0.46%) SEPA
14 16 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
15 15 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
16 13 (0.35%) COBIT
16 13 (0.35%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.32%) PSD2
18 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 98 (2.65%) Docker
2 91 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.43%) 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 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.081%) Varnish
10 3 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.054%) RACF
11 2 (0.054%) Sendmail
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%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.027%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 117 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.24%) Ansible
3 36 (0.97%) Grafana
4 26 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.43%) SCCM
8 8 (0.22%) Argo
8 8 (0.22%) Control-M
9 7 (0.19%) 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%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.081%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.081%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.081%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.081%) Nagios
13 2 (0.054%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.054%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 605 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 242 (6.53%) SAP
3 202 (5.45%) Oracle
4 160 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 155 (4.18%) Salesforce
6 149 (4.02%) Databricks
7 84 (2.27%) Google
8 56 (1.51%) Workday
9 45 (1.21%) Cisco
10 44 (1.19%) IBM
11 42 (1.13%) Splunk
12 41 (1.11%) Adobe
13 39 (1.05%) VMware
14 31 (0.84%) Bloomberg
14 31 (0.84%) Informatica
15 24 (0.65%) CyberArk
16 22 (0.59%) OpenAI
17 20 (0.54%) Guidewire
17 20 (0.54%) MuleSoft
18 19 (0.51%) Ariba