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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 17 23
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,768 1,503 1,250
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.50% 11.15% 7.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.82% 12.05% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,496 1,022 810
10th Percentile £400 £378 £387
25th Percentile £465 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% +0.45% -7.95%
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 45 22 13
10th Percentile £25.39 £17.55 £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% -16.39%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £61.06
% change year-on-year +22.84% -19.34% +29.39%

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 18,096 12,472 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.52% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,232 9,521
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 £673 £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 316 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +10 485 £591 +5.58% 545
West London +11 143 £520 +4.00% 133
South London +4 33 £550 -10.70% 20
East London +5 17 £600 -11.11% 27
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
1 176 (4.67%) Confluence
2 100 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.62%) CMS
4 38 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.77%) Apache
6 21 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.29%) SAS
10 9 (0.24%) 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 (0.080%) Mendix
13 3 (0.080%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 168 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 57 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 45 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.32%) Revit
7 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.19%) Trello
10 6 (0.16%) Navisworks
11 5 (0.13%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.11%) Notion
12 4 (0.11%) Sketch
13 3 (0.080%) CPLEX
13 3 (0.080%) Windchill
14 2 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.053%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.053%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 100 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 18 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (0.37%) Finacle
6 14 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.32%) Magento
7 12 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (0.27%) Endur
8 10 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
8 10 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 10 (0.27%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.24%) SAP HCM
9 9 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 7 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 706 (18.74%) Azure
2 474 (12.58%) AWS
3 301 (7.99%) Power Platform
4 159 (4.22%) GCP
5 157 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 154 (4.09%) SaaS
7 135 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
8 119 (3.16%) GitHub
9 111 (2.95%) Entra ID
10 94 (2.49%) Snowflake
11 69 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 69 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
12 64 (1.70%) Serverless
13 57 (1.51%) Power Automate
14 53 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
15 52 (1.38%) Amazon S3
16 48 (1.27%) PowerApps
17 44 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
18 43 (1.14%) dbt
19 42 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.83%) Firewall
2 48 (1.27%) Network Security
3 36 (0.96%) DNS
4 35 (0.93%) WAN
5 25 (0.66%) VPN
6 21 (0.56%) DHCP
6 21 (0.56%) LAN
7 19 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.45%) BGP
8 17 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.40%) 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%) SAN
12 11 (0.29%) SSL
12 11 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (6.18%) Power BI
2 130 (3.45%) Metadata
3 127 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.67%) SQL Server
4 63 (1.67%) Tableau
5 61 (1.62%) Data Lake
6 48 (1.27%) Delta Lake
6 48 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 27 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (0.64%) MongoDB
10 24 (0.64%) NoSQL
11 23 (0.61%) Oracle Database
12 22 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
12 22 (0.58%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.45%) Big Data
14 16 (0.42%) DynamoDB
15 15 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
15 15 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 366 (9.71%) JIRA
2 74 (1.96%) Git
3 69 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.30%) GitLab
5 30 (0.80%) 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 (0.19%) Appium
11 7 (0.19%) JMeter
11 7 (0.19%) 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 1,952 (51.80%) Social Skills
2 1,426 (37.85%) Finance
3 678 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 538 (14.28%) Banking
5 425 (11.28%) Public Sector
6 250 (6.63%) Influencing Skills
7 239 (6.34%) Retail
8 189 (5.02%) Legal
9 180 (4.78%) Marketing
10 145 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
11 133 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
12 111 (2.95%) Front Office
13 102 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
14 94 (2.49%) Manufacturing
15 83 (2.20%) Telecoms
16 80 (2.12%) Investment Banking
17 76 (2.02%) Local Government
18 74 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 53 (1.41%) Financial Institution
20 52 (1.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 596 (15.82%) Analyst
2 492 (13.06%) Architect
3 482 (12.79%) Lead
4 399 (10.59%) Business Analyst
5 398 (10.56%) Senior
6 393 (10.43%) Project Manager
7 233 (6.18%) Consultant
8 169 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 129 (3.42%) Senior Manager
10 113 (3.00%) Programme Manager
11 105 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
12 94 (2.49%) Developer
13 91 (2.42%) IT Manager
14 86 (2.28%) Product Manager
15 85 (2.26%) Technical Manager
16 80 (2.12%) Senior Analyst
17 75 (1.99%) Data Analyst
18 74 (1.96%) Product Owner
19 65 (1.73%) Data Architect
20 63 (1.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (4.51%) Terraform
2 122 (3.24%) REST
3 78 (2.07%) Middleware
4 63 (1.67%) Kafka
5 59 (1.57%) .NET
6 50 (1.33%) PySpark
7 47 (1.25%) SOAP
8 35 (0.93%) HTML
8 35 (0.93%) OAuth
9 31 (0.82%) JSON
9 31 (0.82%) Web Services
10 30 (0.80%) CSS
10 30 (0.80%) XML
11 29 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
12 27 (0.72%) React
13 20 (0.53%) Node.js
13 20 (0.53%) Spring
13 20 (0.53%) Spring Boot
14 19 (0.50%) SailPoint
15 17 (0.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 327 (8.68%) Product Ownership
2 240 (6.37%) Onboarding
3 173 (4.59%) Cloud Native
4 101 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 96 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 80 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 77 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 75 (1.99%) AI Agents
9 71 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 69 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 68 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
12 65 (1.73%) Virtual Team
13 60 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
14 53 (1.41%) Operational Technology
15 49 (1.30%) NHS
16 42 (1.11%) CMDB
17 41 (1.09%) FMCG
17 41 (1.09%) Security Posture
18 40 (1.06%) Derivative
18 40 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 132 (3.50%) Windows
2 80 (2.12%) Linux
3 35 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.69%) Unix
5 16 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.35%) Android
6 13 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.24%) 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 (0.080%) zOS
13 2 (0.053%) CentOS
13 2 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.027%) AIX
14 1 (0.027%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (31.18%) Agile
2 667 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
3 627 (16.64%) Roadmaps
4 580 (15.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 563 (14.94%) AI
6 545 (14.46%) Migration
7 537 (14.25%) Decision-Making
8 519 (13.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 488 (12.95%) DevOps
10 482 (12.79%) Analytics
11 432 (11.46%) Project Management
12 398 (10.56%) Project Delivery
13 393 (10.43%) Workshop Facilitation
14 380 (10.08%) CI/CD
15 377 (10.01%) User Acceptance Testing
16 367 (9.74%) Change Management
17 354 (9.39%) Risk Management
18 335 (8.89%) Validation
19 321 (8.52%) Requirements Gathering
20 307 (8.15%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 437 (11.60%) SQL
2 292 (7.75%) Python
3 96 (2.55%) Java
4 82 (2.18%) PowerShell
5 73 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 59 (1.57%) C#
7 41 (1.09%) Bash
8 35 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.77%) Bicep
10 26 (0.69%) Korn
11 21 (0.56%) R
12 16 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.29%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.27%) Go
17 9 (0.24%) Perl
17 9 (0.24%) VBA
18 8 (0.21%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.21%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 586 (15.55%) Security Cleared
2 492 (13.06%) SC Cleared
3 240 (6.37%) Degree
4 192 (5.10%) PMP
5 170 (4.51%) PMI Certification
6 82 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 69 (1.83%) CISSP
8 62 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 57 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 56 (1.49%) AWS Certification
11 49 (1.30%) CISM
12 48 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 24 (0.64%) ACCA
16 23 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.58%) ISTQB
18 21 (0.56%) CIMA
18 21 (0.56%) CRISC
19 19 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 229 (6.08%) QA
3 167 (4.43%) PMO
4 101 (2.68%) GDPR
5 93 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 84 (2.23%) Accessibility
7 81 (2.15%) NIST
8 65 (1.73%) GRC
9 52 (1.38%) SLA
10 31 (0.82%) NCSC
11 28 (0.74%) WCAG
12 21 (0.56%) ISO 20022
13 19 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
14 17 (0.45%) IFRS
14 17 (0.45%) SEPA
15 14 (0.37%) COBIT
15 14 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.32%) PCI DSS
16 12 (0.32%) PSD2
17 11 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 99 (2.63%) Docker
2 94 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.24%) vSphere
7 7 (0.19%) NFS
8 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.080%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.080%) Varnish
10 3 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.053%) IAG
11 2 (0.053%) RACF
11 2 (0.053%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.053%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.027%) Firmware
12 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.027%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 120 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.25%) Ansible
3 36 (0.96%) Grafana
4 27 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.42%) SCCM
8 8 (0.21%) Argo
8 8 (0.21%) 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%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.080%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.080%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.080%) Nagios
13 2 (0.053%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.053%) QRadar
Vendors
1 615 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 241 (6.40%) SAP
3 200 (5.31%) Oracle
4 161 (4.27%) ServiceNow
5 158 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 152 (4.03%) Databricks
7 82 (2.18%) Google
8 57 (1.51%) Workday
9 49 (1.30%) Cisco
10 47 (1.25%) IBM
11 42 (1.11%) Adobe
11 42 (1.11%) Splunk
12 40 (1.06%) VMware
13 31 (0.82%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.82%) Informatica
14 25 (0.66%) CyberArk
15 22 (0.58%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.53%) Guidewire
16 20 (0.53%) MuleSoft
17 19 (0.50%) Ariba