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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 17 23
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,679 1,509 1,242
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.21% 11.20% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.49% 12.11% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 1,023 811
10th Percentile £400 £376 £375
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% +0.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £773 £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 £59.75 £49.00 £61.33
% change year-on-year +21.94% -20.10% +22.76%

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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +9 469 £596 +5.07% 513
West London +13 138 £520 +4.00% 108
South London +5 33 £550 -10.70% 20
East London +4 17 £600 -11.11% 30
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 (4.65%) Confluence
2 102 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.52%) CMS
4 37 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.79%) Apache
6 21 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.30%) SAS
10 7 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.19%) WordPress
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.11%) Appian
12 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.11%) Kentico
12 4 (0.11%) nginx
12 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.082%) Mendix
13 3 (0.082%) Moodle
13 3 (0.082%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 168 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
4 58 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 43 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.33%) Revit
7 10 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.16%) Trello
10 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.14%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.11%) Notion
11 4 (0.11%) Sketch
12 3 (0.082%) CPLEX
12 3 (0.082%) Windchill
13 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.054%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.054%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 100 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.46%) Aladdin
5 16 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.38%) Finacle
7 14 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.33%) Magento
8 12 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.30%) Endur
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 10 (0.27%) SAP ERP
10 10 (0.27%) SAP HCM
10 10 (0.27%) SAP SD
11 9 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 8 (0.22%) SAP MDG
12 8 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 690 (18.76%) Azure
2 467 (12.69%) AWS
3 289 (7.86%) Power Platform
4 155 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
5 152 (4.13%) SaaS
6 151 (4.10%) GCP
7 134 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
8 114 (3.10%) GitHub
9 110 (2.99%) Entra ID
10 92 (2.50%) Snowflake
11 65 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
11 65 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
12 62 (1.69%) Serverless
13 55 (1.49%) Power Automate
14 51 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
15 48 (1.30%) Amazon S3
16 46 (1.25%) PowerApps
17 44 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
18 41 (1.11%) dbt
19 40 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.77%) Firewall
2 47 (1.28%) Network Security
3 36 (0.98%) DNS
4 33 (0.90%) WAN
5 24 (0.65%) VPN
6 21 (0.57%) DHCP
7 19 (0.52%) LAN
8 18 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.41%) BGP
9 15 (0.41%) Internet
9 15 (0.41%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.38%) 4G
10 14 (0.38%) 5G
10 14 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.33%) 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
1 225 (6.12%) Power BI
2 127 (3.45%) Metadata
3 124 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 61 (1.66%) Data Lake
6 59 (1.60%) Tableau
7 48 (1.30%) Delta Lake
8 47 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (0.65%) NoSQL
13 23 (0.63%) MongoDB
13 23 (0.63%) Oracle Database
14 21 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
14 21 (0.57%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.49%) Big Data
16 16 (0.43%) DynamoDB
17 15 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
17 15 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 358 (9.73%) JIRA
2 73 (1.98%) Git
3 67 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.28%) GitLab
5 26 (0.71%) Selenium
6 16 (0.43%) Postman
7 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.27%) Zephyr
9 9 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.22%) ERwin
10 8 (0.22%) JUnit
11 7 (0.19%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.19%) JMeter
11 7 (0.19%) Maven
12 6 (0.16%) Appium
12 6 (0.16%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.16%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.14%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,905 (51.78%) Social Skills
2 1,399 (38.03%) Finance
3 662 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 520 (14.13%) Banking
5 408 (11.09%) Public Sector
6 243 (6.61%) Influencing Skills
7 238 (6.47%) Retail
8 181 (4.92%) Legal
9 175 (4.76%) Marketing
10 144 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
11 131 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
12 106 (2.88%) Front Office
13 94 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
14 86 (2.34%) Manufacturing
15 83 (2.26%) Telecoms
16 78 (2.12%) Investment Banking
17 73 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 73 (1.98%) Local Government
18 51 (1.39%) Financial Institution
19 50 (1.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 584 (15.87%) Analyst
2 488 (13.26%) Architect
3 473 (12.86%) Lead
4 393 (10.68%) Business Analyst
5 384 (10.44%) Senior
6 382 (10.38%) Project Manager
7 224 (6.09%) Consultant
8 168 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
9 129 (3.51%) Senior Manager
10 114 (3.10%) Programme Manager
11 100 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
12 95 (2.58%) Developer
13 90 (2.45%) Product Manager
14 87 (2.36%) IT Manager
15 84 (2.28%) Technical Manager
16 75 (2.04%) Data Analyst
17 74 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
18 73 (1.98%) Product Owner
19 64 (1.74%) Data Architect
20 63 (1.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (4.48%) Terraform
2 116 (3.15%) REST
3 80 (2.17%) Middleware
4 60 (1.63%) Kafka
5 58 (1.58%) .NET
6 49 (1.33%) PySpark
7 45 (1.22%) SOAP
8 35 (0.95%) OAuth
9 33 (0.90%) HTML
10 30 (0.82%) CSS
10 30 (0.82%) JSON
10 30 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
10 30 (0.82%) XML
11 29 (0.79%) Web Services
12 27 (0.73%) React
13 21 (0.57%) Node.js
13 21 (0.57%) Spring
13 21 (0.57%) Spring Boot
14 18 (0.49%) SailPoint
15 16 (0.43%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 318 (8.64%) Product Ownership
2 234 (6.36%) Onboarding
3 171 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 101 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 91 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 78 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 77 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 73 (1.98%) AI Agents
9 69 (1.88%) Data Structures
10 68 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 67 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
12 62 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 58 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
14 49 (1.33%) NHS
15 48 (1.30%) Operational Technology
16 43 (1.17%) FMCG
17 42 (1.14%) CMDB
18 41 (1.11%) Security Posture
19 39 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
20 37 (1.01%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.51%) Windows
2 72 (1.96%) Linux
3 33 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.57%) Unix
5 15 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.054%) CentOS
12 2 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.054%) zOS
13 1 (0.027%) AIX
13 1 (0.027%) Solaris
13 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,161 (31.56%) Agile
2 653 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
3 616 (16.74%) Roadmaps
4 563 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 549 (14.92%) AI
6 530 (14.41%) Migration
7 527 (14.32%) Decision-Making
8 500 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 479 (13.02%) Analytics
10 475 (12.91%) DevOps
11 427 (11.61%) Project Management
12 392 (10.66%) Project Delivery
13 375 (10.19%) Workshop Facilitation
14 370 (10.06%) User Acceptance Testing
15 368 (10.00%) CI/CD
16 357 (9.70%) Change Management
17 341 (9.27%) Risk Management
18 324 (8.81%) Validation
19 316 (8.59%) Requirements Gathering
20 308 (8.37%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 424 (11.52%) SQL
2 279 (7.58%) Python
3 92 (2.50%) Java
4 77 (2.09%) PowerShell
5 67 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 55 (1.49%) C#
7 37 (1.01%) Bash
8 34 (0.92%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.79%) Bicep
10 25 (0.68%) 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%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.24%) Perl
14 9 (0.24%) VBA
15 8 (0.22%) Go
16 7 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 570 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 477 (12.97%) SC Cleared
3 230 (6.25%) Degree
4 186 (5.06%) PMP
5 163 (4.43%) PMI Certification
6 77 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 66 (1.79%) CISSP
8 61 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 57 (1.55%) DV Cleared
10 51 (1.39%) AWS Certification
11 49 (1.33%) CISM
12 45 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 24 (0.65%) ACCA
16 22 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.57%) CIMA
17 21 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 20 (0.54%) CRISC
18 20 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 226 (6.14%) QA
3 165 (4.48%) PMO
4 98 (2.66%) GDPR
5 91 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 81 (2.20%) Accessibility
7 78 (2.12%) NIST
8 62 (1.69%) GRC
9 48 (1.30%) SLA
10 30 (0.82%) 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 14 (0.38%) COBIT
15 14 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
16 13 (0.35%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.33%) PSD2
18 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 97 (2.64%) Docker
2 91 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.52%) 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 (0.082%) Varnish
10 3 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.054%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.054%) Time Sharing Option
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%) oVirt
12 1 (0.027%) RACF
12 1 (0.027%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 115 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.22%) Ansible
3 35 (0.95%) Grafana
4 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.52%) 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 (0.14%) Kibana
11 4 (0.11%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.11%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.082%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.082%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.082%) Nagios
13 2 (0.054%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.054%) QRadar
Vendors
1 598 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 244 (6.63%) SAP
3 202 (5.49%) Oracle
4 159 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 154 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 147 (4.00%) Databricks
7 81 (2.20%) Google
8 56 (1.52%) Workday
9 44 (1.20%) Cisco
9 44 (1.20%) IBM
10 41 (1.11%) Adobe
11 39 (1.06%) VMware
12 38 (1.03%) Splunk
13 32 (0.87%) Informatica
14 31 (0.84%) Bloomberg
15 24 (0.65%) CyberArk
16 22 (0.60%) OpenAI
17 21 (0.57%) MuleSoft
18 20 (0.54%) Guidewire
19 19 (0.52%) Ariba