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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,799 1,500 1,258
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.68% 11.13% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.05% 12.03% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,522 1,018 811
10th Percentile £400 £375 £388
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £687 £675
90th Percentile £788 £763 £775
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 21 13
10th Percentile £25.10 £17.00 £30.85
25th Percentile £34.30 £28.25 -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -2.86% -16.39%
75th Percentile £58.13 £47.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £60.50 £49.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.47% -20.45% +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 18,051 12,472 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.78% 92.51% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 8,235 9,567
10th Percentile £358 £331 £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 £671 £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 318 247 185
10th Percentile £16.21 £17.62 £17.35
25th Percentile £19.27 £25.02 £24.15
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +10 495 £596 +8.41% 514
West London +10 146 £520 +4.00% 119
South London +7 33 £550 -10.70% 20
East London +6 18 £600 -11.11% 32
North London +7 12 £450 -17.43% 1
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
1 177 (4.66%) Confluence
2 100 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.58%) CMS
4 40 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (0.82%) Apache
6 21 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.29%) SAS
10 9 (0.24%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.18%) 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 (0.079%) Mendix
13 3 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 171 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 77 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 56 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 45 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.32%) Revit
7 10 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.18%) Trello
9 6 (0.16%) Navisworks
10 5 (0.13%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.11%) Notion
11 4 (0.11%) Sketch
12 3 (0.079%) CPLEX
13 2 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.053%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.053%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.053%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 101 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 18 (0.47%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 14 (0.37%) Finacle
5 14 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 14 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.34%) SAP HCM
7 12 (0.32%) Magento
7 12 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (0.26%) Endur
8 10 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
8 10 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 10 (0.26%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 7 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 709 (18.66%) Azure
2 474 (12.48%) AWS
3 308 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 160 (4.21%) GCP
5 155 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 153 (4.03%) SaaS
7 138 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (3.16%) GitHub
9 111 (2.92%) Entra ID
10 96 (2.53%) Snowflake
11 72 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
12 67 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
13 64 (1.68%) Serverless
14 58 (1.53%) Power Automate
15 54 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
16 52 (1.37%) Amazon S3
17 49 (1.29%) PowerApps
18 44 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
18 44 (1.16%) dbt
18 44 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.82%) Firewall
2 48 (1.26%) Network Security
3 36 (0.95%) DNS
4 35 (0.92%) WAN
5 25 (0.66%) VPN
6 21 (0.55%) DHCP
6 21 (0.55%) LAN
7 19 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.45%) BGP
8 17 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.39%) Internet
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%) SSL
12 11 (0.29%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (6.24%) Power BI
2 132 (3.47%) Metadata
3 129 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (1.71%) Data Lake
4 65 (1.71%) Tableau
5 63 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 48 (1.26%) Delta Lake
6 48 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 27 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (0.66%) MongoDB
11 24 (0.63%) BigQuery
11 24 (0.63%) NoSQL
11 24 (0.63%) Oracle Database
12 22 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
13 16 (0.42%) DynamoDB
14 15 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
14 15 (0.39%) Data Vault
14 15 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 367 (9.66%) JIRA
2 77 (2.03%) Git
3 69 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.32%) GitLab
5 29 (0.76%) 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 (0.18%) Appium
11 7 (0.18%) JMeter
11 7 (0.18%) 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 1,979 (52.09%) Social Skills
2 1,436 (37.80%) Finance
3 685 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 549 (14.45%) Banking
5 432 (11.37%) Public Sector
6 256 (6.74%) Influencing Skills
7 239 (6.29%) Retail
8 193 (5.08%) Legal
9 179 (4.71%) Marketing
10 147 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
11 133 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 113 (2.97%) Front Office
13 101 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 95 (2.50%) Manufacturing
15 84 (2.21%) Telecoms
16 83 (2.18%) Investment Banking
17 78 (2.05%) Local Government
18 73 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 53 (1.40%) Financial Institution
20 51 (1.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 601 (15.82%) Analyst
2 505 (13.29%) Architect
3 479 (12.61%) Lead
4 402 (10.58%) Business Analyst
5 400 (10.53%) Senior
6 393 (10.34%) Project Manager
7 236 (6.21%) Consultant
8 168 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
9 126 (3.32%) Senior Manager
10 116 (3.05%) Programme Manager
11 103 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
12 95 (2.50%) Developer
13 92 (2.42%) IT Manager
14 86 (2.26%) Product Manager
15 84 (2.21%) Technical Manager
16 80 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
17 77 (2.03%) Data Analyst
18 75 (1.97%) Product Owner
19 66 (1.74%) Data Architect
20 64 (1.68%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (4.53%) Terraform
2 127 (3.34%) REST
3 81 (2.13%) Middleware
4 63 (1.66%) Kafka
5 60 (1.58%) .NET
6 52 (1.37%) PySpark
7 48 (1.26%) SOAP
8 36 (0.95%) OAuth
9 35 (0.92%) HTML
10 32 (0.84%) JSON
11 31 (0.82%) Web Services
11 31 (0.82%) XML
12 30 (0.79%) CSS
13 29 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
14 27 (0.71%) React
15 20 (0.53%) Node.js
15 20 (0.53%) SailPoint
15 20 (0.53%) Spring
15 20 (0.53%) Spring Boot
16 17 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 331 (8.71%) Product Ownership
2 247 (6.50%) Onboarding
3 176 (4.63%) Cloud Native
4 103 (2.71%) Management Information System
5 100 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 79 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 78 (2.05%) AI Agents
7 78 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 72 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 71 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 68 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
11 66 (1.74%) Virtual Team
12 59 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
13 56 (1.47%) Operational Technology
14 49 (1.29%) NHS
15 42 (1.11%) CMDB
15 42 (1.11%) Security Posture
16 41 (1.08%) FMCG
17 40 (1.05%) Derivative
17 40 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.45%) Windows
2 82 (2.16%) Linux
3 35 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.71%) Unix
5 16 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.37%) Android
6 14 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.26%) 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 (0.079%) zOS
13 2 (0.053%) CentOS
13 2 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.026%) AIX
14 1 (0.026%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,187 (31.25%) Agile
2 678 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
3 642 (16.90%) Roadmaps
4 581 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 579 (15.24%) AI
6 556 (14.64%) Migration
7 540 (14.21%) Decision-Making
8 519 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 492 (12.95%) DevOps
10 490 (12.90%) Analytics
11 431 (11.35%) Project Management
12 403 (10.61%) Workshop Facilitation
13 401 (10.56%) Project Delivery
14 389 (10.24%) CI/CD
15 377 (9.92%) User Acceptance Testing
16 369 (9.71%) Change Management
17 360 (9.48%) Risk Management
18 338 (8.90%) Validation
19 328 (8.63%) Requirements Gathering
20 313 (8.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 448 (11.79%) SQL
2 294 (7.74%) Python
3 96 (2.53%) Java
4 83 (2.18%) PowerShell
5 74 (1.95%) JavaScript
6 59 (1.55%) C#
7 42 (1.11%) Bash
8 35 (0.92%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.76%) Bicep
10 27 (0.71%) Korn
11 21 (0.55%) R
12 16 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.29%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.26%) VBA
17 9 (0.24%) Go
17 9 (0.24%) Perl
18 8 (0.21%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.21%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 594 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 499 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 242 (6.37%) Degree
4 190 (5.00%) PMP
5 168 (4.42%) PMI Certification
6 86 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 70 (1.84%) CISSP
8 61 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 57 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 56 (1.47%) AWS Certification
11 51 (1.34%) CISM
12 49 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 38 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.68%) ACCA
16 23 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.61%) CIMA
16 23 (0.61%) CRISC
17 22 (0.58%) ISTQB
18 19 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 231 (6.08%) QA
3 165 (4.34%) PMO
4 104 (2.74%) GDPR
5 95 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 86 (2.26%) Accessibility
7 82 (2.16%) NIST
8 65 (1.71%) GRC
9 52 (1.37%) SLA
10 32 (0.84%) NCSC
11 28 (0.74%) WCAG
12 21 (0.55%) ISO 20022
13 20 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
14 17 (0.45%) IFRS
14 17 (0.45%) SEPA
15 15 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.37%) COBIT
17 12 (0.32%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.32%) PSD2
18 11 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 101 (2.66%) Docker
2 94 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.24%) vSphere
7 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.079%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.079%) Varnish
9 3 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.053%) IAG
10 2 (0.053%) RACF
10 2 (0.053%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.053%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.026%) Firmware
11 1 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.026%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 122 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.24%) Ansible
3 35 (0.92%) Grafana
4 28 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.42%) SCCM
8 8 (0.21%) Argo
8 8 (0.21%) Control-M
9 7 (0.18%) 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%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.079%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.079%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.079%) Nagios
13 2 (0.053%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.053%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 624 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 249 (6.55%) SAP
3 200 (5.26%) Oracle
4 165 (4.34%) ServiceNow
5 157 (4.13%) Salesforce
6 154 (4.05%) Databricks
7 86 (2.26%) Google
8 58 (1.53%) Workday
9 49 (1.29%) Cisco
10 47 (1.24%) IBM
11 42 (1.11%) Splunk
12 41 (1.08%) Adobe
13 40 (1.05%) VMware
14 31 (0.82%) Bloomberg
14 31 (0.82%) Informatica
15 25 (0.66%) CyberArk
16 23 (0.61%) OpenAI
17 20 (0.53%) Ariba
17 20 (0.53%) Guidewire
17 20 (0.53%) MuleSoft