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

6 months to
23 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 3,752 1,496 1,228
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.43% 11.19% 7.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.73% 12.09% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,483 1,018 800
10th Percentile £400 £377 £387
25th Percentile £465 £463 £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 44 22 13
10th Percentile £26.25 £17.55 £30.85
25th Percentile £35.62 £28.25 -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -2.86% -16.39%
75th Percentile £57.81 £49.94 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.25
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 18,097 12,373 14,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.52% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,869 8,168 9,467
10th Percentile £360 £330 £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 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
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% -2.27%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +10 482 £600 +7.14% 547
West London +11 142 £520 +4.00% 132
South London +7 34 £550 -10.70% 21
East London +5 17 £600 -11.11% 24
North London +7 12 £450 -17.43% 3
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
1 174 (4.64%) Confluence
2 101 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.60%) CMS
4 37 (0.99%) 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%) MTS
13 3 (0.080%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 171 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 107 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
5 44 (1.17%) 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%) Gliffy
14 2 (0.053%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 102 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 16 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.37%) Finacle
7 14 (0.37%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.37%) 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
10 9 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 7 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 707 (18.84%) Azure
2 476 (12.69%) AWS
3 298 (7.94%) Power Platform
4 159 (4.24%) GCP
5 157 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
6 155 (4.13%) SaaS
7 135 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 119 (3.17%) GitHub
9 111 (2.96%) Entra ID
10 93 (2.48%) Snowflake
11 69 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
12 68 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
13 64 (1.71%) Serverless
14 56 (1.49%) Power Automate
15 53 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
16 51 (1.36%) Amazon S3
17 48 (1.28%) PowerApps
18 44 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
19 42 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
20 41 (1.09%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.79%) Firewall
2 47 (1.25%) Network Security
3 36 (0.96%) DNS
4 33 (0.88%) WAN
5 24 (0.64%) VPN
6 21 (0.56%) 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 (0.37%) 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
1 230 (6.13%) Power BI
2 130 (3.46%) Metadata
3 124 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 61 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 61 (1.63%) Tableau
6 48 (1.28%) Delta Lake
6 48 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (0.83%) 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 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
12 22 (0.59%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.45%) Big Data
14 16 (0.43%) DynamoDB
15 15 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
15 15 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 365 (9.73%) JIRA
2 75 (2.00%) Git
3 70 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.31%) 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 1,939 (51.68%) Social Skills
2 1,422 (37.90%) Finance
3 670 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 533 (14.21%) Banking
5 421 (11.22%) Public Sector
6 250 (6.66%) Influencing Skills
7 239 (6.37%) Retail
8 185 (4.93%) Legal
9 180 (4.80%) Marketing
10 145 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
11 132 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
12 110 (2.93%) Front Office
13 99 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
14 93 (2.48%) Manufacturing
15 85 (2.27%) Telecoms
16 80 (2.13%) Investment Banking
17 76 (2.03%) Local Government
18 74 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 54 (1.44%) Financial Institution
20 50 (1.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 593 (15.80%) Analyst
2 493 (13.14%) Architect
3 483 (12.87%) Lead
4 398 (10.61%) Business Analyst
5 396 (10.55%) Senior
6 393 (10.47%) Project Manager
7 231 (6.16%) Consultant
8 171 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
9 131 (3.49%) Senior Manager
10 116 (3.09%) Programme Manager
11 101 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
12 95 (2.53%) Developer
13 91 (2.43%) IT Manager
14 85 (2.27%) Product Manager
15 84 (2.24%) Technical Manager
16 78 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
17 76 (2.03%) Data Analyst
18 73 (1.95%) Product Owner
19 65 (1.73%) Data Architect
20 64 (1.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (4.56%) Terraform
2 121 (3.22%) REST
3 79 (2.11%) Middleware
4 63 (1.68%) Kafka
5 59 (1.57%) .NET
6 50 (1.33%) PySpark
7 46 (1.23%) SOAP
8 35 (0.93%) HTML
8 35 (0.93%) OAuth
9 31 (0.83%) JSON
10 30 (0.80%) CSS
10 30 (0.80%) XML
11 29 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
11 29 (0.77%) Web Services
12 27 (0.72%) React
13 21 (0.56%) Node.js
13 21 (0.56%) Spring
13 21 (0.56%) Spring Boot
14 19 (0.51%) SailPoint
15 17 (0.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 324 (8.64%) Product Ownership
2 240 (6.40%) Onboarding
3 174 (4.64%) Cloud Native
4 101 (2.69%) Management Information System
5 95 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 79 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 76 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 75 (2.00%) AI Agents
9 71 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 69 (1.84%) Data Structures
11 68 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
12 66 (1.76%) Virtual Team
13 59 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
14 52 (1.39%) Operational Technology
15 49 (1.31%) NHS
16 43 (1.15%) FMCG
17 42 (1.12%) CMDB
18 41 (1.09%) Security Posture
19 40 (1.07%) Derivative
19 40 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.49%) Windows
2 78 (2.08%) Linux
3 35 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 24 (0.64%) 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 (0.21%) 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 (31.32%) Agile
2 662 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
3 626 (16.68%) Roadmaps
4 577 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 557 (14.85%) AI
6 542 (14.45%) Migration
7 538 (14.34%) Decision-Making
8 514 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 487 (12.98%) DevOps
10 482 (12.85%) Analytics
11 432 (11.51%) Project Management
12 397 (10.58%) Project Delivery
13 391 (10.42%) Workshop Facilitation
14 381 (10.15%) CI/CD
15 373 (9.94%) User Acceptance Testing
16 366 (9.75%) Change Management
17 351 (9.36%) Risk Management
18 332 (8.85%) Validation
19 316 (8.42%) Requirements Gathering
20 309 (8.24%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 432 (11.51%) SQL
2 287 (7.65%) Python
3 96 (2.56%) Java
4 81 (2.16%) PowerShell
5 73 (1.95%) JavaScript
6 59 (1.57%) C#
7 40 (1.07%) Bash
8 35 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.77%) Bicep
10 26 (0.69%) Korn
11 21 (0.56%) R
12 15 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 15 (0.40%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.29%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.27%) Go
16 9 (0.24%) Perl
16 9 (0.24%) VBA
17 8 (0.21%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 584 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 490 (13.06%) SC Cleared
3 237 (6.32%) Degree
4 191 (5.09%) PMP
5 168 (4.48%) PMI Certification
6 82 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 70 (1.87%) CISSP
8 62 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 57 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 56 (1.49%) AWS Certification
11 51 (1.36%) CISM
12 47 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 24 (0.64%) ACCA
16 23 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.59%) ISTQB
18 21 (0.56%) CIMA
18 21 (0.56%) CRISC
19 20 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 327 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 231 (6.16%) QA
3 168 (4.48%) PMO
4 101 (2.69%) GDPR
5 93 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 84 (2.24%) Accessibility
7 81 (2.16%) NIST
8 65 (1.73%) GRC
9 50 (1.33%) SLA
10 31 (0.83%) NCSC
11 28 (0.75%) WCAG
12 21 (0.56%) ISO 20022
13 18 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
14 17 (0.45%) IFRS
14 17 (0.45%) SEPA
15 16 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.37%) COBIT
17 13 (0.35%) PCI DSS
18 12 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 12 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 100 (2.67%) Docker
2 93 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.21%) 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%) 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%) oVirt
12 1 (0.027%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 121 (3.22%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.23%) Ansible
3 36 (0.96%) Grafana
4 27 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.43%) 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%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.080%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.080%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.080%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.080%) Nagios
13 2 (0.053%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.053%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 615 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 243 (6.48%) SAP
3 200 (5.33%) Oracle
4 162 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 157 (4.18%) Salesforce
6 150 (4.00%) Databricks
7 86 (2.29%) Google
8 56 (1.49%) Workday
9 46 (1.23%) Cisco
10 45 (1.20%) IBM
11 42 (1.12%) Adobe
11 42 (1.12%) Splunk
12 39 (1.04%) VMware
13 31 (0.83%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.83%) Informatica
14 25 (0.67%) CyberArk
15 22 (0.59%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.53%) Ariba
16 20 (0.53%) Guidewire
16 20 (0.53%) MuleSoft