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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,530 1,494 1,191
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.36% 11.15% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.50% 12.05% 8.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,317 1,009 795
10th Percentile £400 £379 £378
25th Percentile £469 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% +0.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
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 £56.25 £48.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +16.58% -21.67% +27.01%

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 18,098 12,396 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.01% 92.48% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,824 8,192 9,654
10th Percentile £359 £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 £680
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 292 255 178
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.76 £25.01 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.93 £63.75 £72.81
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +10 446 £600 +7.14% 383
West London +12 132 £520 +4.00% 93
South London +7 34 £550 -10.70% 20
East London +4 14 £638 -5.56% 43
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 (4.70%) Confluence
2 97 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.59%) CMS
4 36 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.74%) Apache
6 18 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.48%) 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 (0.085%) CICS
13 3 (0.085%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.085%) Moodle
13 3 (0.085%) MTS
13 3 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.085%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 166 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 61 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.28%) Revit
6 10 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.11%) Notion
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.085%) CPLEX
10 3 (0.085%) 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 (0.028%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 101 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.40%) Finacle
6 14 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.37%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.34%) Magento
9 11 (0.31%) Endur
9 11 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 11 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
10 10 (0.28%) SAP HCM
10 10 (0.28%) SAP SD
11 9 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
12 7 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
12 7 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 683 (19.35%) Azure
2 455 (12.89%) AWS
3 264 (7.48%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
5 149 (4.22%) SaaS
6 148 (4.19%) GCP
7 124 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
8 113 (3.20%) Entra ID
9 105 (2.97%) GitHub
10 90 (2.55%) Snowflake
11 59 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
12 58 (1.64%) Serverless
13 56 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
14 47 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (1.22%) Power Automate
16 42 (1.19%) dbt
17 41 (1.16%) Amazon S3
18 40 (1.13%) PowerApps
19 39 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
19 39 (1.10%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.73%) Firewall
2 49 (1.39%) Network Security
3 34 (0.96%) WAN
4 32 (0.91%) DNS
5 20 (0.57%) LAN
6 19 (0.54%) VPN
7 17 (0.48%) DHCP
8 16 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.42%) BGP
10 14 (0.40%) 4G
10 14 (0.40%) 5G
10 14 (0.40%) TCP/IP
10 14 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (0.40%) Wireless
11 13 (0.37%) Internet
12 11 (0.31%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.31%) SAN
12 11 (0.31%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.28%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (5.86%) Power BI
2 123 (3.48%) Metadata
3 118 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (1.73%) SQL Server
5 57 (1.61%) Tableau
6 54 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 47 (1.33%) Delta Lake
8 42 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.88%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (0.62%) MongoDB
12 22 (0.62%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
13 21 (0.59%) Oracle Database
14 19 (0.54%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.51%) Big Data
16 15 (0.42%) Data Vault
16 15 (0.42%) Redis
17 13 (0.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 350 (9.92%) JIRA
2 63 (1.78%) Git
3 62 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.08%) GitLab
5 27 (0.76%) Selenium
6 18 (0.51%) Postman
7 11 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.31%) Zephyr
8 10 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.28%) ERwin
8 10 (0.28%) 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%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.17%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,819 (51.53%) Social Skills
2 1,339 (37.93%) Finance
3 636 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
4 497 (14.08%) Banking
5 371 (10.51%) Public Sector
6 239 (6.77%) Retail
7 220 (6.23%) Influencing Skills
8 176 (4.99%) Marketing
9 170 (4.82%) Legal
10 140 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
11 129 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
12 97 (2.75%) Front Office
13 89 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
14 81 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 78 (2.21%) Investment Banking
16 74 (2.10%) Manufacturing
17 71 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 69 (1.95%) Local Government
19 54 (1.53%) Financial Institution
20 51 (1.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 557 (15.78%) Analyst
2 462 (13.09%) Lead
3 460 (13.03%) Architect
4 372 (10.54%) Business Analyst
5 368 (10.42%) Project Manager
6 367 (10.40%) Senior
7 222 (6.29%) Consultant
8 158 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 122 (3.46%) Senior Manager
10 117 (3.31%) Programme Manager
11 97 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
12 90 (2.55%) Developer
13 83 (2.35%) IT Manager
14 77 (2.18%) Product Manager
15 76 (2.15%) Technical Manager
16 72 (2.04%) Product Owner
17 69 (1.95%) Data Analyst
18 68 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
19 64 (1.81%) Data Architect
20 60 (1.70%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (4.39%) Terraform
2 111 (3.14%) REST
3 78 (2.21%) Middleware
4 56 (1.59%) Kafka
5 50 (1.42%) .NET
6 43 (1.22%) SOAP
7 42 (1.19%) PySpark
8 31 (0.88%) HTML
8 31 (0.88%) OAuth
8 31 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
9 30 (0.85%) XML
10 28 (0.79%) CSS
10 28 (0.79%) JSON
11 24 (0.68%) Web Services
12 20 (0.57%) Spring
12 20 (0.57%) Spring Boot
13 19 (0.54%) React
14 18 (0.51%) Node.js
14 18 (0.51%) SailPoint
15 17 (0.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 299 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 228 (6.46%) Onboarding
3 160 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 98 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 82 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
6 79 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 75 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
8 68 (1.93%) Data Structures
9 66 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
10 64 (1.81%) AI Agents
10 64 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 58 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 56 (1.59%) Virtual Team
13 46 (1.30%) NHS
14 45 (1.27%) FMCG
15 42 (1.19%) CMDB
15 42 (1.19%) Operational Technology
16 40 (1.13%) Security Posture
17 34 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
17 34 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 121 (3.43%) Windows
2 68 (1.93%) Linux
3 32 (0.91%) 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 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,114 (31.56%) Agile
2 616 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
3 577 (16.35%) Roadmaps
4 547 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 520 (14.73%) AI
6 505 (14.31%) Migration
7 499 (14.14%) Decision-Making
8 469 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 458 (12.97%) DevOps
10 451 (12.78%) Analytics
11 423 (11.98%) Project Management
12 386 (10.93%) Project Delivery
13 359 (10.17%) User Acceptance Testing
14 356 (10.08%) Workshop Facilitation
15 345 (9.77%) CI/CD
16 337 (9.55%) Change Management
17 322 (9.12%) Risk Management
18 301 (8.53%) Validation
19 294 (8.33%) Data Modelling
20 293 (8.30%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 394 (11.16%) SQL
2 260 (7.37%) Python
3 87 (2.46%) Java
4 75 (2.12%) PowerShell
5 60 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 49 (1.39%) C#
7 36 (1.02%) Bash
8 28 (0.79%) Bicep
9 27 (0.76%) TypeScript
10 23 (0.65%) Korn
11 20 (0.57%) R
12 16 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 15 (0.42%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.40%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.28%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.25%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.25%) Perl
16 9 (0.25%) VBA
17 7 (0.20%) C++
17 7 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 548 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 460 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 212 (6.01%) Degree
4 176 (4.99%) PMP
5 155 (4.39%) PMI Certification
6 69 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 65 (1.84%) CISSP
8 60 (1.70%) Azure Certification
9 56 (1.59%) DV Cleared
10 48 (1.36%) CISM
11 47 (1.33%) AWS Certification
12 41 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.59%) ACCA
15 21 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 21 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
16 20 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 19 (0.54%) CIMA
18 18 (0.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 226 (6.40%) QA
3 161 (4.56%) PMO
4 100 (2.83%) GDPR
5 82 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 76 (2.15%) NIST
7 72 (2.04%) Accessibility
8 61 (1.73%) GRC
9 45 (1.27%) SLA
10 25 (0.71%) NCSC
11 24 (0.68%) WCAG
12 20 (0.57%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.45%) SEPA
14 15 (0.42%) IFRS
15 14 (0.40%) COBIT
15 14 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
16 13 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 92 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 89 (2.52%) Docker
3 28 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.23%) vSphere
7 7 (0.20%) NFS
8 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.11%) Postfix
9 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.085%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.085%) Varnish
10 3 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.057%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.057%) 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
1 110 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.27%) Ansible
3 35 (0.99%) Grafana
4 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.42%) 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 (0.085%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.085%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.085%) Nagios
13 2 (0.057%) QRadar
13 2 (0.057%) SCOM
Vendors
1 564 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 240 (6.80%) SAP
3 195 (5.52%) Oracle
4 155 (4.39%) ServiceNow
5 149 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 139 (3.94%) Databricks
7 70 (1.98%) Google
8 54 (1.53%) Workday
9 41 (1.16%) IBM
9 41 (1.16%) VMware
10 40 (1.13%) Cisco
11 38 (1.08%) Adobe
11 38 (1.08%) Splunk
12 33 (0.93%) Informatica
13 27 (0.76%) CyberArk
14 26 (0.74%) Bloomberg
15 22 (0.62%) Ariba
16 20 (0.57%) Guidewire
17 19 (0.54%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.48%) Zscaler