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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,042 1,522 1,247
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.71% 11.38% 7.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.14% 12.31% 8.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,689 1,055 794
10th Percentile £400 £363 £381
25th Percentile £463 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £663
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £534 £550
% change year-on-year +3.04% -2.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 20 12
10th Percentile £24.81 £17.00 £30.68
25th Percentile £33.60 £26.81 £34.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -2.86% -15.92%
75th Percentile £61.25 £43.09 £57.31
90th Percentile £70.75 £65.75 £63.50
England median hourly rate £61.50 £49.00 £60.60
% change year-on-year +25.51% -19.14% +31.23%

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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £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 £668 £663 £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 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +8 519 £600 +9.09% 122
West London +13 150 £550 +10.00% 42
South London +5 32 £550 -4.84% 5
East London +9 20 £593 +18.50% 21
North London +4 11 £450 -33.33% 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
1 191 (4.73%) Confluence
2 98 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.56%) CMS
4 41 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.72%) Apache
6 24 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.30%) SAS
10 9 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 8 (0.20%) WordPress
12 5 (0.12%) Appian
12 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.099%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.099%) Kentico
14 3 (0.074%) MTS
14 3 (0.074%) nginx
14 3 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 187 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 74 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 63 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 47 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.30%) Revit
7 11 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.20%) Navisworks
9 7 (0.17%) Trello
10 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.099%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.099%) Notion
12 3 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.074%) CPLEX
12 3 (0.074%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.074%) Productboard
12 3 (0.074%) Sketch
13 2 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 122 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 20 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 16 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 16 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.35%) SAP HCM
8 12 (0.30%) Finacle
8 12 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
8 12 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.27%) Magento
9 11 (0.27%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.25%) SAP SD
10 10 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 9 (0.22%) Endur
11 9 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 761 (18.83%) Azure
2 494 (12.22%) AWS
3 330 (8.16%) Power Platform
4 176 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 174 (4.30%) SaaS
6 165 (4.08%) GCP
7 153 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
8 131 (3.24%) GitHub
9 122 (3.02%) Entra ID
10 106 (2.62%) Snowflake
11 83 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
12 77 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
13 72 (1.78%) Serverless
14 59 (1.46%) Power Automate
15 57 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
16 56 (1.39%) Amazon S3
17 51 (1.26%) PowerApps
18 47 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 47 (1.16%) dbt
19 46 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 75 (1.86%) Firewall
2 51 (1.26%) Network Security
3 40 (0.99%) DNS
4 36 (0.89%) WAN
5 28 (0.69%) VPN
6 23 (0.57%) LAN
7 22 (0.54%) DHCP
7 22 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.52%) BGP
9 19 (0.47%) Internet
9 19 (0.47%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.35%) 4G
11 14 (0.35%) 5G
12 13 (0.32%) Wireless
13 11 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
13 11 (0.27%) OSPF
13 11 (0.27%) SAN
13 11 (0.27%) VLAN
13 11 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (6.26%) Power BI
2 141 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (3.27%) Metadata
4 77 (1.90%) Tableau
5 75 (1.86%) SQL Server
6 65 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 59 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 43 (1.06%) Delta Lake
9 42 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 33 (0.82%) Relational Database
11 29 (0.72%) Oracle Database
12 28 (0.69%) MongoDB
13 26 (0.64%) NoSQL
14 25 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
14 25 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (0.62%) BigQuery
15 20 (0.49%) DynamoDB
16 18 (0.45%) Redis
17 17 (0.42%) Big Data
17 17 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 382 (9.45%) JIRA
2 87 (2.15%) Git
3 76 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.31%) GitLab
5 32 (0.79%) Selenium
6 18 (0.45%) Postman
7 13 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.30%) JUnit
8 12 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 11 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
11 8 (0.20%) ERwin
12 7 (0.17%) JMeter
12 7 (0.17%) Maven
12 7 (0.17%) TestNG
13 6 (0.15%) Appium
13 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
13 6 (0.15%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 2,110 (52.20%) Social Skills
2 1,548 (38.30%) Finance
3 745 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
4 610 (15.09%) Banking
5 485 (12.00%) Public Sector
6 267 (6.61%) Influencing Skills
7 243 (6.01%) Retail
8 210 (5.20%) Legal
9 188 (4.65%) Marketing
10 155 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
11 147 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
12 124 (3.07%) Front Office
13 112 (2.77%) Manufacturing
14 104 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
15 101 (2.50%) Investment Banking
16 95 (2.35%) Telecoms
17 81 (2.00%) Local Government
18 73 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 51 (1.26%) Billing
19 51 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 648 (16.03%) Analyst
2 530 (13.11%) Architect
3 516 (12.77%) Lead
4 448 (11.08%) Senior
5 432 (10.69%) Business Analyst
6 415 (10.27%) Project Manager
7 262 (6.48%) Consultant
8 179 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
9 142 (3.51%) Senior Manager
10 118 (2.92%) Programme Manager
11 115 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
12 111 (2.75%) Developer
13 93 (2.30%) IT Manager
13 93 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
14 92 (2.28%) Product Manager
15 87 (2.15%) Technical Manager
16 83 (2.05%) Data Analyst
17 82 (2.03%) Product Owner
18 69 (1.71%) Senior Business Analyst
19 66 (1.63%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (4.73%) Terraform
2 139 (3.44%) REST
3 80 (1.98%) Middleware
4 78 (1.93%) .NET
5 66 (1.63%) Kafka
6 54 (1.34%) PySpark
7 47 (1.16%) SOAP
8 38 (0.94%) OAuth
9 36 (0.89%) HTML
10 34 (0.84%) Web Services
11 33 (0.82%) JSON
12 32 (0.79%) React
13 31 (0.77%) CSS
13 31 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
14 29 (0.72%) XML
15 26 (0.64%) Spring
16 25 (0.62%) Spring Boot
17 21 (0.52%) Node.js
18 20 (0.49%) Playwright
19 19 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 345 (8.54%) Product Ownership
2 249 (6.16%) Onboarding
3 197 (4.87%) Cloud Native
4 121 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 117 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 94 (2.33%) AI Agents
7 89 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 78 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
8 78 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 76 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
10 73 (1.81%) Virtual Team
11 72 (1.78%) Data Structures
12 62 (1.53%) Operational Technology
13 61 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
14 52 (1.29%) NHS
15 51 (1.26%) CMDB
16 47 (1.16%) Security Posture
17 43 (1.06%) Taxonomies
18 42 (1.04%) Derivative
18 42 (1.04%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 134 (3.32%) Windows
2 88 (2.18%) Linux
3 36 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.69%) Unix
5 17 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.40%) Android
6 16 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.20%) VMS
9 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.12%) macOS
11 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.074%) zOS
13 2 (0.049%) CentOS
13 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.025%) AIX
14 1 (0.025%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,244 (30.78%) Agile
2 744 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
3 694 (17.17%) Roadmaps
4 629 (15.56%) AI
5 623 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 599 (14.82%) Migration
7 582 (14.40%) Decision-Making
8 572 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 538 (13.31%) DevOps
10 522 (12.91%) Analytics
11 461 (11.41%) Workshop Facilitation
12 440 (10.89%) Project Delivery
13 438 (10.84%) Project Management
14 428 (10.59%) CI/CD
15 404 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
16 395 (9.77%) Risk Management
17 392 (9.70%) Change Management
18 373 (9.23%) Requirements Gathering
19 363 (8.98%) Validation
20 335 (8.29%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 472 (11.68%) SQL
2 325 (8.04%) Python
3 102 (2.52%) Java
4 89 (2.20%) PowerShell
5 82 (2.03%) JavaScript
6 70 (1.73%) C#
7 43 (1.06%) Bash
8 39 (0.96%) TypeScript
9 36 (0.89%) Bicep
10 28 (0.69%) Korn
11 22 (0.54%) R
12 17 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.30%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.25%) Perl
17 9 (0.22%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.22%) Go
17 9 (0.22%) Groovy
18 8 (0.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 615 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 514 (12.72%) SC Cleared
3 268 (6.63%) Degree
4 198 (4.90%) PMP
5 180 (4.45%) PMI Certification
6 94 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 78 (1.93%) CISSP
8 67 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 66 (1.63%) AWS Certification
10 60 (1.48%) CISM
11 57 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 57 (1.41%) DV Cleared
12 41 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 32 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 30 (0.74%) ISTQB
15 28 (0.69%) CRISC
16 27 (0.67%) ACCA
17 25 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.59%) CIMA
19 22 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (8.71%) Data Quality
2 243 (6.01%) QA
3 162 (4.01%) PMO
4 109 (2.70%) GDPR
5 105 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 93 (2.30%) Accessibility
7 88 (2.18%) NIST
8 66 (1.63%) GRC
9 53 (1.31%) SLA
10 36 (0.89%) NCSC
11 30 (0.74%) WCAG
12 26 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
13 22 (0.54%) ISO 20022
14 18 (0.45%) IFRS
14 18 (0.45%) SEPA
15 15 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.35%) COBIT
16 14 (0.35%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.30%) PSD2
18 11 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 110 (2.72%) Docker
2 98 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.25%) vSphere
7 6 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.12%) NFS
9 3 (0.074%) Postfix
9 3 (0.074%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.074%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.049%) IAG
10 2 (0.049%) RACF
10 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.025%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.025%) oVirt
11 1 (0.025%) RHEV
11 1 (0.025%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.025%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 135 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 55 (1.36%) Ansible
3 44 (1.09%) Grafana
4 30 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.40%) SCCM
8 9 (0.22%) Control-M
9 8 (0.20%) Argo
10 7 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.15%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Puppet
12 5 (0.12%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.099%) CA Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.074%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.074%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.074%) Nagios
14 3 (0.074%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.049%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.049%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 699 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 269 (6.66%) SAP
3 208 (5.15%) Oracle
4 176 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 169 (4.18%) Salesforce
6 161 (3.98%) Databricks
7 89 (2.20%) Google
8 62 (1.53%) Workday
9 58 (1.43%) Cisco
10 52 (1.29%) IBM
11 48 (1.19%) Splunk
12 43 (1.06%) VMware
13 40 (0.99%) Adobe
14 33 (0.82%) Bloomberg
15 32 (0.79%) Informatica
16 31 (0.77%) CyberArk
17 25 (0.62%) Ariba
17 25 (0.62%) OpenAI
18 23 (0.57%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.52%) Murex