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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,485 1,480 1,192
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.27% 11.14% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.39% 12.05% 8.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,288 997 803
10th Percentile £400 £380 £381
25th Percentile £469 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 23 11
10th Percentile £26.25 £23.65 £30.50
25th Percentile £33.60 £28.25 £33.63
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.65 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -18.47% +33.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.75
England median hourly rate £58.00 £48.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.21% -21.67% +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 17,974 12,284 14,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.47% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,755 8,122 9,734
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.19% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £681
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 289 253 181
10th Percentile £17.21 £17.02 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £25.01 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.40 £63.75 £71.88
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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +10 440 £600 +4.35% 354
West London +16 128 £520 +9.47% 94
South London +6 34 £550 -10.70% 22
East London +3 14 £638 -5.56% 39
North London +6 13 £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
1 166 (4.76%) Confluence
2 97 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.61%) CMS
4 36 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.75%) Apache
6 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.49%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.29%) SAS
10 7 (0.20%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.17%) WordPress
12 4 (0.11%) Appian
12 4 (0.11%) Kentico
12 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.086%) CICS
13 3 (0.086%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.086%) Moodle
13 3 (0.086%) MTS
13 3 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.086%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 163 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 75 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (1.12%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.29%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.29%) Revit
6 10 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.11%) Notion
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.086%) CPLEX
10 3 (0.086%) Sketch
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.057%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.057%) Navisworks
11 2 (0.057%) Windchill
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 100 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.46%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.40%) Finacle
6 14 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.37%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.32%) Endur
8 11 (0.32%) Magento
8 11 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 10 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (0.29%) SAP HCM
9 10 (0.29%) SAP SD
10 9 (0.26%) SAP ERP
10 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.20%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 678 (19.45%) Azure
2 452 (12.97%) AWS
3 259 (7.43%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
5 148 (4.25%) SaaS
6 146 (4.19%) GCP
7 123 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
8 113 (3.24%) Entra ID
9 104 (2.98%) GitHub
10 89 (2.55%) Snowflake
11 58 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
11 58 (1.66%) Serverless
12 55 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
13 47 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (1.23%) Power Automate
15 42 (1.21%) dbt
16 41 (1.18%) Amazon S3
17 40 (1.15%) PowerApps
18 39 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
18 39 (1.12%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.72%) Firewall
2 49 (1.41%) Network Security
3 33 (0.95%) WAN
4 32 (0.92%) DNS
5 19 (0.55%) LAN
5 19 (0.55%) VPN
6 17 (0.49%) DHCP
7 15 (0.43%) BGP
7 15 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 14 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.37%) 4G
9 13 (0.37%) 5G
9 13 (0.37%) Internet
9 13 (0.37%) Wireless
10 11 (0.32%) SAN
11 10 (0.29%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
11 10 (0.29%) Wireshark
12 9 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (5.85%) Power BI
2 120 (3.44%) Metadata
3 118 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 57 (1.64%) Tableau
6 54 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 46 (1.32%) Delta Lake
8 41 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.89%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (0.60%) MongoDB
12 21 (0.60%) NoSQL
12 21 (0.60%) Oracle Database
13 19 (0.55%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.52%) Big Data
15 15 (0.43%) Data Vault
15 15 (0.43%) Redis
16 13 (0.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 348 (9.99%) JIRA
2 62 (1.78%) Git
3 61 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.06%) GitLab
5 26 (0.75%) Selenium
6 18 (0.52%) 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 8 (0.23%) Appium
10 7 (0.20%) JUnit
10 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
10 7 (0.20%) Maven
11 6 (0.17%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.14%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,800 (51.65%) Social Skills
2 1,320 (37.88%) Finance
3 626 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 487 (13.97%) Banking
5 365 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 238 (6.83%) Retail
7 217 (6.23%) Influencing Skills
8 175 (5.02%) Marketing
9 166 (4.76%) Legal
10 136 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
11 127 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
12 95 (2.73%) Front Office
13 88 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
14 77 (2.21%) Investment Banking
14 77 (2.21%) Telecoms
15 72 (2.07%) Manufacturing
16 70 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 67 (1.92%) Local Government
18 52 (1.49%) Financial Institution
19 51 (1.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 553 (15.87%) Analyst
2 455 (13.06%) Architect
3 453 (13.00%) Lead
4 370 (10.62%) Business Analyst
5 367 (10.53%) Project Manager
6 363 (10.42%) Senior
7 220 (6.31%) Consultant
8 157 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
9 120 (3.44%) Senior Manager
10 116 (3.33%) Programme Manager
11 94 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
12 90 (2.58%) Developer
13 82 (2.35%) IT Manager
14 76 (2.18%) Product Manager
14 76 (2.18%) Technical Manager
15 72 (2.07%) Product Owner
16 68 (1.95%) Data Analyst
17 67 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
18 64 (1.84%) Data Architect
19 60 (1.72%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (4.42%) Terraform
2 111 (3.19%) REST
3 77 (2.21%) Middleware
4 54 (1.55%) Kafka
5 49 (1.41%) .NET
6 43 (1.23%) SOAP
7 41 (1.18%) PySpark
8 31 (0.89%) HTML
8 31 (0.89%) OAuth
8 31 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
9 30 (0.86%) XML
10 28 (0.80%) CSS
10 28 (0.80%) JSON
11 22 (0.63%) Web Services
12 19 (0.55%) React
13 18 (0.52%) Node.js
13 18 (0.52%) SailPoint
13 18 (0.52%) Spring
13 18 (0.52%) Spring Boot
14 17 (0.49%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 298 (8.55%) Product Ownership
2 225 (6.46%) Onboarding
3 157 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 97 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 79 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 77 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 75 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 68 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 65 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
10 63 (1.81%) AI Agents
11 62 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
12 58 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
13 55 (1.58%) Virtual Team
14 46 (1.32%) NHS
15 45 (1.29%) FMCG
16 41 (1.18%) CMDB
16 41 (1.18%) Operational Technology
17 40 (1.15%) Security Posture
18 34 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
19 33 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 120 (3.44%) Windows
2 68 (1.95%) Linux
3 32 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.57%) Unix
5 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.34%) Android
8 8 (0.23%) VMS
8 8 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.057%) CentOS
12 2 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.057%) zOS
13 1 (0.029%) AIX
13 1 (0.029%) Solaris
13 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,107 (31.76%) Agile
2 607 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
3 564 (16.18%) Roadmaps
4 535 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 511 (14.66%) AI
6 501 (14.38%) Migration
7 489 (14.03%) Decision-Making
8 463 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 456 (13.08%) DevOps
10 448 (12.86%) Analytics
11 420 (12.05%) Project Management
12 383 (10.99%) Project Delivery
13 354 (10.16%) User Acceptance Testing
13 354 (10.16%) Workshop Facilitation
14 344 (9.87%) CI/CD
15 334 (9.58%) Change Management
16 317 (9.10%) Risk Management
17 296 (8.49%) Validation
18 291 (8.35%) Data Modelling
19 290 (8.32%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 391 (11.22%) SQL
2 258 (7.40%) Python
3 85 (2.44%) Java
4 75 (2.15%) PowerShell
5 60 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.38%) C#
7 36 (1.03%) Bash
8 28 (0.80%) Bicep
9 27 (0.77%) TypeScript
10 22 (0.63%) Korn
11 19 (0.55%) R
12 16 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.40%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.37%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.29%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.26%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.26%) Perl
16 9 (0.26%) VBA
17 7 (0.20%) C++
17 7 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 541 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 454 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 210 (6.03%) Degree
4 174 (4.99%) PMP
5 153 (4.39%) PMI Certification
6 68 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 63 (1.81%) CISSP
8 60 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 55 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 47 (1.35%) AWS Certification
11 46 (1.32%) CISM
12 41 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
16 20 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 20 (0.57%) ISTQB
17 19 (0.55%) ACCA
18 18 (0.52%) CIMA
19 17 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (8.38%) Data Quality
2 223 (6.40%) QA
3 160 (4.59%) PMO
4 100 (2.87%) GDPR
5 81 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (2.12%) NIST
7 72 (2.07%) Accessibility
8 60 (1.72%) GRC
9 47 (1.35%) SLA
10 25 (0.72%) NCSC
11 24 (0.69%) WCAG
12 18 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.43%) SEPA
14 14 (0.40%) COBIT
14 14 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.40%) IFRS
15 13 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
16 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 92 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 88 (2.53%) Docker
3 27 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.20%) NFS
6 7 (0.20%) vSphere
7 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.11%) Postfix
8 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.086%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.086%) Varnish
9 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.057%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.029%) Firmware
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.029%) oVirt
11 1 (0.029%) RACF
11 1 (0.029%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 108 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.29%) Ansible
3 35 (1.00%) Grafana
4 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.43%) SCCM
8 8 (0.23%) Argo
8 8 (0.23%) Control-M
9 7 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.11%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.11%) Kibana
11 4 (0.11%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.086%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.086%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.086%) Nagios
13 2 (0.057%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.057%) SCOM
Vendors
1 552 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 237 (6.80%) SAP
3 189 (5.42%) Oracle
4 154 (4.42%) ServiceNow
5 146 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 136 (3.90%) Databricks
7 70 (2.01%) Google
8 54 (1.55%) Workday
9 40 (1.15%) IBM
9 40 (1.15%) VMware
10 39 (1.12%) Cisco
11 38 (1.09%) Adobe
11 38 (1.09%) Splunk
12 32 (0.92%) Informatica
13 27 (0.77%) CyberArk
14 26 (0.75%) Bloomberg
15 22 (0.63%) Ariba
16 20 (0.57%) Guidewire
17 19 (0.55%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.49%) Zscaler