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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,634 1,502 1,223
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.00% 11.18% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.25% 12.08% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,391 1,018 798
10th Percentile £400 £378 £373
25th Percentile £465 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +1.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £674
90th Percentile £780 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 12
10th Percentile £26.25 £18.10 £30.68
25th Percentile £34.65 £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 £49.13 £60.31
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.50
England median hourly rate £60.25 £47.48 £61.60
% change year-on-year +26.91% -22.93% +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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +10 462 £596 +3.70% 532
West London +12 136 £520 +4.00% 110
South London +5 33 £550 -10.70% 24
East London +5 16 £600 -11.11% 35
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 (4.71%) Confluence
2 101 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.54%) CMS
4 38 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.80%) Apache
6 19 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.50%) 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 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.11%) Kentico
11 4 (0.11%) nginx
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.083%) CICS
12 3 (0.083%) Moodle
12 3 (0.083%) MTS
12 3 (0.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 166 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
5 42 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.30%) Revit
7 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.17%) Trello
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.11%) Notion
11 3 (0.083%) CPLEX
11 3 (0.083%) Sketch
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.055%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.055%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 98 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.50%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 14 (0.39%) Finacle
5 14 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 14 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 12 (0.33%) Endur
6 12 (0.33%) Magento
7 11 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 11 (0.30%) SAP HCM
8 10 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 10 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.28%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 7 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 683 (18.79%) Azure
2 462 (12.71%) AWS
3 283 (7.79%) Power Platform
4 157 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
5 153 (4.21%) SaaS
6 150 (4.13%) GCP
7 135 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
8 115 (3.16%) GitHub
9 110 (3.03%) Entra ID
10 92 (2.53%) Snowflake
11 64 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
12 62 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
13 61 (1.68%) Serverless
14 52 (1.43%) Power Automate
15 51 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
16 47 (1.29%) Amazon S3
17 45 (1.24%) PowerApps
18 41 (1.13%) dbt
19 40 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
19 40 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.73%) Firewall
2 46 (1.27%) Network Security
3 35 (0.96%) DNS
4 32 (0.88%) WAN
5 22 (0.61%) VPN
6 20 (0.55%) DHCP
7 18 (0.50%) LAN
7 18 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.41%) BGP
8 15 (0.41%) Internet
9 14 (0.39%) 4G
9 14 (0.39%) 5G
9 14 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.33%) Wireless
11 11 (0.30%) 3GPP
11 11 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.30%) SAN
11 11 (0.30%) SSL
11 11 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (6.08%) Power BI
2 124 (3.41%) Metadata
3 122 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.71%) SQL Server
5 60 (1.65%) Data Lake
6 58 (1.60%) Tableau
7 48 (1.32%) Delta Lake
8 47 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (0.83%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (0.66%) NoSQL
13 23 (0.63%) MongoDB
14 22 (0.61%) Oracle Database
15 21 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
15 21 (0.58%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.52%) Big Data
17 16 (0.44%) DynamoDB
18 15 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
18 15 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 356 (9.80%) JIRA
2 70 (1.93%) Git
3 67 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.27%) GitLab
5 25 (0.69%) Selenium
6 15 (0.41%) Postman
7 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 9 (0.25%) ERwin
10 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.22%) JUnit
11 7 (0.19%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.19%) JMeter
11 7 (0.19%) Maven
12 6 (0.17%) Appium
12 6 (0.17%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.17%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.14%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,880 (51.73%) Social Skills
2 1,373 (37.78%) Finance
3 653 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 506 (13.92%) Banking
5 394 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 239 (6.58%) Influencing Skills
7 237 (6.52%) Retail
8 181 (4.98%) Legal
9 177 (4.87%) Marketing
10 141 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
11 131 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
12 104 (2.86%) Front Office
13 95 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
14 85 (2.34%) Manufacturing
15 83 (2.28%) Telecoms
16 77 (2.12%) Investment Banking
17 73 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 71 (1.95%) Local Government
19 53 (1.46%) Financial Institution
20 51 (1.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 578 (15.91%) Analyst
2 481 (13.24%) Architect
3 468 (12.88%) Lead
4 387 (10.65%) Business Analyst
5 383 (10.54%) Senior
6 381 (10.48%) Project Manager
7 223 (6.14%) Consultant
8 168 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 131 (3.60%) Senior Manager
10 115 (3.16%) Programme Manager
11 100 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
12 95 (2.61%) Developer
13 87 (2.39%) IT Manager
13 87 (2.39%) Product Manager
14 81 (2.23%) Technical Manager
15 73 (2.01%) Product Owner
16 72 (1.98%) Data Analyst
16 72 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
17 65 (1.79%) Data Architect
18 62 (1.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (4.51%) Terraform
2 114 (3.14%) REST
3 78 (2.15%) Middleware
4 60 (1.65%) Kafka
5 57 (1.57%) .NET
6 48 (1.32%) PySpark
7 44 (1.21%) SOAP
8 33 (0.91%) HTML
8 33 (0.91%) OAuth
9 30 (0.83%) CSS
9 30 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
9 30 (0.83%) XML
10 28 (0.77%) JSON
10 28 (0.77%) Web Services
11 27 (0.74%) React
12 21 (0.58%) Node.js
12 21 (0.58%) Spring
12 21 (0.58%) Spring Boot
13 18 (0.50%) SailPoint
14 16 (0.44%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 314 (8.64%) Product Ownership
2 224 (6.16%) Onboarding
3 164 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 100 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 89 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 78 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 78 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 68 (1.87%) AI Agents
7 68 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 66 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 66 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 61 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 58 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 49 (1.35%) NHS
12 48 (1.32%) Operational Technology
13 43 (1.18%) FMCG
14 41 (1.13%) CMDB
15 40 (1.10%) Security Posture
16 37 (1.02%) Derivative
16 37 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 126 (3.47%) Windows
2 71 (1.95%) Linux
3 32 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.55%) 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 (0.055%) CentOS
13 2 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.055%) zOS
14 1 (0.028%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) Solaris
14 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,152 (31.70%) Agile
2 640 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
3 605 (16.65%) Roadmaps
4 553 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 536 (14.75%) AI
6 520 (14.31%) Decision-Making
6 520 (14.31%) Migration
7 494 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 474 (13.04%) DevOps
9 468 (12.88%) Analytics
10 429 (11.81%) Project Management
11 393 (10.81%) Project Delivery
12 370 (10.18%) Workshop Facilitation
13 368 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
14 362 (9.96%) CI/CD
15 350 (9.63%) Change Management
16 340 (9.36%) Risk Management
17 321 (8.83%) Validation
18 307 (8.45%) Requirements Gathering
19 302 (8.31%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 414 (11.39%) SQL
2 273 (7.51%) Python
3 92 (2.53%) Java
4 74 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 67 (1.84%) JavaScript
6 54 (1.49%) C#
7 35 (0.96%) Bash
8 34 (0.94%) TypeScript
9 28 (0.77%) Bicep
10 24 (0.66%) Korn
11 20 (0.55%) R
12 14 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (0.39%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.25%) Perl
14 9 (0.25%) VBA
15 8 (0.22%) Go
16 7 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 559 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 468 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 225 (6.19%) Degree
4 187 (5.15%) PMP
5 164 (4.51%) PMI Certification
6 71 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 66 (1.82%) CISSP
8 60 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 57 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 50 (1.38%) AWS Certification
11 48 (1.32%) CISM
12 43 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
13 35 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 27 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 23 (0.63%) ACCA
16 22 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 20 (0.55%) CIMA
17 20 (0.55%) ISTQB
17 20 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
18 19 (0.52%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 225 (6.19%) QA
3 166 (4.57%) PMO
4 99 (2.72%) GDPR
5 91 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (2.17%) NIST
7 75 (2.06%) Accessibility
8 59 (1.62%) GRC
9 47 (1.29%) SLA
10 29 (0.80%) NCSC
11 26 (0.72%) WCAG
12 21 (0.58%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.47%) SEPA
14 16 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (0.44%) IFRS
15 14 (0.39%) COBIT
15 14 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
16 13 (0.36%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.33%) PSD2
18 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 97 (2.67%) Docker
2 91 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.22%) vSphere
7 7 (0.19%) NFS
8 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.083%) Varnish
10 3 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.055%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.055%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.055%) VMware NSX
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
1 118 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.24%) Ansible
3 35 (0.96%) Grafana
4 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.44%) 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 (0.083%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.083%) Nagios
13 2 (0.055%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.055%) QRadar
13 2 (0.055%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 589 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 242 (6.66%) SAP
3 199 (5.48%) Oracle
4 156 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 155 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 145 (3.99%) Databricks
7 78 (2.15%) Google
8 54 (1.49%) Workday
9 42 (1.16%) Cisco
9 42 (1.16%) IBM
10 40 (1.10%) Adobe
10 40 (1.10%) VMware
11 36 (0.99%) Splunk
12 31 (0.85%) Informatica
13 29 (0.80%) Bloomberg
14 26 (0.72%) CyberArk
15 22 (0.61%) Ariba
16 20 (0.55%) Guidewire
16 20 (0.55%) OpenAI
17 19 (0.52%) MuleSoft