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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,589 1,504 1,218
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.65% 11.14% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.83% 12.03% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,350 1,016 805
10th Percentile £400 £378 £378
25th Percentile £465 £458 £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 £781 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 24 12
10th Percentile £26.25 £18.65 £30.68
25th Percentile £34.30 £28.25 £34.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.33 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.45% -11.42% +9.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.50
England median hourly rate £58.50 £47.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.16% -22.89% +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 18,096 12,500 14,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.57% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,259 9,770
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 257 182
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +9 455 £600 +8.11% 392
West London +12 132 £520 +4.00% 95
South London +10 33 £550 -10.70% 22
East London +4 15 £600 -11.11% 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
1 170 (4.74%) Confluence
2 101 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.56%) CMS
4 37 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.75%) Apache
6 19 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.47%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.28%) 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 (0.084%) CICS
13 3 (0.084%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.084%) Moodle
13 3 (0.084%) MTS
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.084%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 169 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 75 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
4 60 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 40 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.31%) Revit
7 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.17%) Trello
10 4 (0.11%) Notion
11 3 (0.084%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.084%) CPLEX
11 3 (0.084%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.084%) Sketch
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.056%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.056%) Windchill
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 99 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.50%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.47%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.39%) Finacle
6 14 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.33%) Endur
7 12 (0.33%) Magento
8 11 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.31%) SAP HCM
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 10 (0.28%) SAP SD
10 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
11 7 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 690 (19.23%) Azure
2 459 (12.79%) AWS
3 276 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 159 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
5 154 (4.29%) GCP
6 152 (4.24%) SaaS
7 132 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
8 112 (3.12%) GitHub
9 111 (3.09%) Entra ID
10 91 (2.54%) Snowflake
11 61 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
13 58 (1.62%) Serverless
14 50 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (1.31%) Power Automate
16 43 (1.20%) PowerApps
17 42 (1.17%) Amazon S3
17 42 (1.17%) dbt
18 39 (1.09%) OCI
18 39 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.73%) Firewall
2 49 (1.37%) Network Security
3 34 (0.95%) DNS
4 33 (0.92%) WAN
5 21 (0.59%) VPN
6 19 (0.53%) DHCP
6 19 (0.53%) LAN
7 16 (0.45%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.42%) BGP
8 15 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.39%) 4G
9 14 (0.39%) 5G
9 14 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.36%) Internet
10 13 (0.36%) Wireless
11 11 (0.31%) 3GPP
11 11 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.31%) SAN
11 11 (0.31%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.28%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (6.05%) Power BI
2 122 (3.40%) Metadata
3 121 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.76%) SQL Server
5 60 (1.67%) Tableau
6 57 (1.59%) Data Lake
7 47 (1.31%) Delta Lake
8 44 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.86%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (0.67%) NoSQL
13 23 (0.64%) MongoDB
14 22 (0.61%) Oracle Database
15 21 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
16 20 (0.56%) BigQuery
17 19 (0.53%) Big Data
18 15 (0.42%) Data Vault
18 15 (0.42%) Redis
19 13 (0.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 357 (9.95%) JIRA
2 68 (1.89%) Git
3 66 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.17%) GitLab
5 27 (0.75%) Selenium
6 18 (0.50%) Postman
7 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.31%) Zephyr
9 10 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.28%) ERwin
9 10 (0.28%) JMeter
10 8 (0.22%) Appium
11 7 (0.20%) JUnit
11 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
11 7 (0.20%) Maven
12 6 (0.17%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.17%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,862 (51.88%) Social Skills
2 1,359 (37.87%) Finance
3 648 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 501 (13.96%) Banking
5 380 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 239 (6.66%) Retail
7 225 (6.27%) Influencing Skills
8 179 (4.99%) Marketing
9 173 (4.82%) Legal
10 141 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
11 131 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
12 102 (2.84%) Front Office
13 94 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
14 82 (2.28%) Telecoms
15 80 (2.23%) Manufacturing
16 77 (2.15%) Investment Banking
17 74 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 70 (1.95%) Local Government
19 54 (1.50%) Financial Institution
20 51 (1.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 573 (15.97%) Analyst
2 467 (13.01%) Architect
2 467 (13.01%) Lead
3 384 (10.70%) Business Analyst
4 378 (10.53%) Project Manager
5 372 (10.37%) Senior
6 225 (6.27%) Consultant
7 160 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
8 123 (3.43%) Senior Manager
9 113 (3.15%) Programme Manager
10 96 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
11 93 (2.59%) Developer
12 88 (2.45%) IT Manager
13 81 (2.26%) Product Manager
14 78 (2.17%) Technical Manager
15 73 (2.03%) Product Owner
16 72 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
17 71 (1.98%) Data Analyst
18 65 (1.81%) Data Architect
19 61 (1.70%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (4.43%) Terraform
2 115 (3.20%) REST
3 78 (2.17%) Middleware
4 59 (1.64%) Kafka
5 54 (1.50%) .NET
6 44 (1.23%) SOAP
7 43 (1.20%) PySpark
8 32 (0.89%) HTML
8 32 (0.89%) OAuth
9 30 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
9 30 (0.84%) XML
10 29 (0.81%) CSS
11 28 (0.78%) JSON
12 25 (0.70%) Web Services
13 22 (0.61%) React
14 21 (0.59%) Node.js
14 21 (0.59%) Spring
14 21 (0.59%) Spring Boot
15 18 (0.50%) SailPoint
16 17 (0.47%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 308 (8.58%) Product Ownership
2 228 (6.35%) Onboarding
3 163 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 100 (2.79%) Management Information System
5 88 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 78 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 78 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 69 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 65 (1.81%) AI Agents
9 64 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
9 64 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 59 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 58 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 46 (1.28%) NHS
12 46 (1.28%) Operational Technology
13 44 (1.23%) FMCG
14 41 (1.14%) CMDB
15 40 (1.11%) Security Posture
16 36 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 124 (3.46%) Windows
2 70 (1.95%) Linux
3 32 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.56%) Unix
5 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.33%) Android
8 9 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.22%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.056%) CentOS
13 2 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.056%) zOS
14 1 (0.028%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) Solaris
14 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,134 (31.60%) Agile
2 637 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
3 592 (16.49%) Roadmaps
4 552 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 531 (14.80%) AI
6 513 (14.29%) Migration
7 507 (14.13%) Decision-Making
8 479 (13.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 473 (13.18%) DevOps
10 459 (12.79%) Analytics
11 428 (11.93%) Project Management
12 389 (10.84%) Project Delivery
13 366 (10.20%) User Acceptance Testing
13 366 (10.20%) Workshop Facilitation
14 355 (9.89%) CI/CD
15 345 (9.61%) Change Management
16 331 (9.22%) Risk Management
17 309 (8.61%) Validation
18 300 (8.36%) Requirements Gathering
19 298 (8.30%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 410 (11.42%) SQL
2 268 (7.47%) Python
3 91 (2.54%) Java
4 75 (2.09%) PowerShell
5 64 (1.78%) JavaScript
6 51 (1.42%) C#
7 36 (1.00%) Bash
8 30 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 28 (0.78%) Bicep
10 24 (0.67%) Korn
11 21 (0.59%) R
12 15 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 15 (0.42%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.39%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.28%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.25%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.25%) Perl
15 9 (0.25%) VBA
16 8 (0.22%) Go
17 7 (0.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 550 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 461 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 219 (6.10%) Degree
4 184 (5.13%) PMP
5 162 (4.51%) PMI Certification
6 71 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 66 (1.84%) CISSP
8 58 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 56 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 49 (1.37%) AWS Certification
10 49 (1.37%) CISM
11 43 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 36 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (0.75%) Master's Degree
14 22 (0.61%) ACCA
15 21 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 21 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 21 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
16 19 (0.53%) CIMA
16 19 (0.53%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 308 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 227 (6.32%) QA
3 164 (4.57%) PMO
4 100 (2.79%) GDPR
5 84 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (2.17%) NIST
7 73 (2.03%) Accessibility
8 61 (1.70%) GRC
9 44 (1.23%) SLA
10 25 (0.70%) NCSC
10 25 (0.70%) WCAG
11 21 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 18 (0.50%) SEPA
13 15 (0.42%) IFRS
14 14 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 14 (0.39%) COBIT
14 14 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.36%) PCI DSS
16 12 (0.33%) PSD2
16 12 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 94 (2.62%) Docker
2 90 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.22%) vSphere
7 7 (0.20%) NFS
8 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.084%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.084%) Varnish
10 3 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.084%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.056%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.028%) Firmware
12 1 (0.028%) IAG
12 1 (0.028%) oVirt
12 1 (0.028%) RACF
12 1 (0.028%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 115 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.28%) Ansible
3 35 (0.98%) Grafana
4 24 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.45%) SCCM
8 8 (0.22%) Argo
8 8 (0.22%) 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 (0.084%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.084%) Nagios
13 2 (0.056%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.056%) QRadar
13 2 (0.056%) SCOM
Vendors
1 578 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 243 (6.77%) SAP
3 198 (5.52%) Oracle
4 156 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 151 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 142 (3.96%) Databricks
7 75 (2.09%) Google
8 55 (1.53%) Workday
9 42 (1.17%) Cisco
9 42 (1.17%) IBM
10 40 (1.11%) VMware
11 38 (1.06%) Splunk
12 37 (1.03%) Adobe
13 32 (0.89%) Informatica
14 29 (0.81%) Bloomberg
15 26 (0.72%) CyberArk
16 22 (0.61%) Ariba
17 20 (0.56%) Guidewire
18 19 (0.53%) MuleSoft
18 19 (0.53%) OpenAI