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

6 months to
2 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 3,417 1,467 1,197
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.06% 11.05% 7.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.14% 11.95% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,239 999 818
10th Percentile £400 £380 £379
25th Percentile £469 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +1.82% -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 42 23 10
10th Percentile £26.25 £23.65 £32.03
25th Percentile £33.95 £28.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £37.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -7.50% +25.31%
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.88 £55.94
90th Percentile £72.75 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £59.00 £49.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.41% -20.45% +30.54%

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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
10th Percentile £360 £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 £688
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 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +10 426 £600 +7.14% 374
West London +18 123 £520 +15.56% 122
South London +1 34 £550 -10.70% 25
East London +3 13 £638 -5.56% 38
North London +6 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
1 168 (4.92%) Confluence
2 95 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.61%) CMS
4 34 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.70%) Apache
6 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.29%) SAS
10 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.18%) WordPress
11 4 (0.12%) Appian
11 4 (0.12%) Kentico
12 3 (0.088%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.088%) Moodle
12 3 (0.088%) MTS
12 3 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.059%) Mendix
Applications
1 158 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 74 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
4 58 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
5 41 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.29%) Revit
8 5 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.12%) Notion
10 3 (0.088%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.088%) CPLEX
10 3 (0.088%) Sketch
11 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.059%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.059%) Navisworks
11 2 (0.059%) Windchill
12 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 99 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.53%) Aladdin
4 17 (0.50%) Workday HCM
5 15 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.41%) Finacle
7 13 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 13 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 11 (0.32%) Magento
9 11 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
10 10 (0.29%) Endur
10 10 (0.29%) SAP SD
11 9 (0.26%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.26%) SAP HCM
12 8 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
13 7 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
13 7 (0.20%) SAP GRC
13 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 667 (19.52%) Azure
2 444 (12.99%) AWS
3 249 (7.29%) Power Platform
4 151 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
5 147 (4.30%) SaaS
6 145 (4.24%) GCP
7 120 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
8 110 (3.22%) Entra ID
9 99 (2.90%) GitHub
10 91 (2.66%) Snowflake
11 55 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
12 53 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
12 53 (1.55%) Serverless
13 46 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (1.20%) Power Automate
15 39 (1.14%) Amazon S3
15 39 (1.14%) dbt
16 38 (1.11%) PowerApps
17 37 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
17 37 (1.08%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.76%) Firewall
2 49 (1.43%) Network Security
3 33 (0.97%) WAN
4 32 (0.94%) DNS
5 19 (0.56%) LAN
5 19 (0.56%) VPN
6 17 (0.50%) DHCP
7 15 (0.44%) BGP
7 15 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 14 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.38%) 4G
9 13 (0.38%) 5G
9 13 (0.38%) Internet
9 13 (0.38%) Wireless
10 11 (0.32%) SAN
11 10 (0.29%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
11 10 (0.29%) Wireshark
12 9 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (5.85%) Power BI
2 115 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
3 114 (3.34%) Metadata
4 60 (1.76%) Tableau
5 57 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 44 (1.29%) Delta Lake
8 40 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (0.88%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (0.61%) Oracle Database
13 20 (0.59%) NoSQL
14 19 (0.56%) MongoDB
15 18 (0.53%) Big Data
15 18 (0.53%) BigQuery
16 14 (0.41%) Data Vault
16 14 (0.41%) Redis
17 13 (0.38%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 345 (10.10%) JIRA
2 60 (1.76%) Git
3 58 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.02%) GitLab
5 24 (0.70%) Selenium
6 18 (0.53%) Postman
7 11 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.32%) Zephyr
8 10 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.29%) ERwin
8 10 (0.29%) JMeter
9 7 (0.20%) Appium
9 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
9 7 (0.20%) Maven
10 6 (0.18%) ER Studio
10 6 (0.18%) JUnit
10 6 (0.18%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.12%) Gatling
11 4 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,760 (51.51%) Social Skills
2 1,291 (37.78%) Finance
3 611 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 471 (13.78%) Banking
5 362 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 237 (6.94%) Retail
7 209 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
8 172 (5.03%) Marketing
9 163 (4.77%) Legal
10 130 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
11 124 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
12 95 (2.78%) Front Office
13 89 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 76 (2.22%) Investment Banking
14 76 (2.22%) Telecoms
15 71 (2.08%) Manufacturing
16 70 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 67 (1.96%) Local Government
18 53 (1.55%) Financial Institution
19 51 (1.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 546 (15.98%) Analyst
2 446 (13.05%) Architect
3 444 (12.99%) Lead
4 366 (10.71%) Business Analyst
5 360 (10.54%) Project Manager
6 359 (10.51%) Senior
7 214 (6.26%) Consultant
8 156 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
9 121 (3.54%) Senior Manager
10 112 (3.28%) Programme Manager
11 94 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
12 86 (2.52%) Developer
13 82 (2.40%) IT Manager
14 77 (2.25%) Product Manager
15 74 (2.17%) Technical Manager
16 71 (2.08%) Product Owner
17 69 (2.02%) Data Analyst
18 67 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
19 64 (1.87%) Data Architect
20 59 (1.73%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (4.30%) Terraform
2 109 (3.19%) REST
3 77 (2.25%) Middleware
4 52 (1.52%) Kafka
5 47 (1.38%) .NET
6 44 (1.29%) SOAP
7 39 (1.14%) PySpark
8 32 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
9 30 (0.88%) HTML
9 30 (0.88%) XML
10 29 (0.85%) OAuth
11 28 (0.82%) JSON
12 27 (0.79%) CSS
13 22 (0.64%) Web Services
14 18 (0.53%) Node.js
14 18 (0.53%) React
14 18 (0.53%) SailPoint
15 17 (0.50%) Spring
15 17 (0.50%) Spring Boot
16 16 (0.47%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 291 (8.52%) Product Ownership
2 220 (6.44%) Onboarding
3 152 (4.45%) Cloud Native
4 93 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 76 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 75 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 74 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 69 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 68 (1.99%) Data Structures
10 63 (1.84%) AI Agents
11 60 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 59 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
13 54 (1.58%) Virtual Team
14 46 (1.35%) NHS
15 45 (1.32%) FMCG
16 41 (1.20%) CMDB
16 41 (1.20%) Operational Technology
17 40 (1.17%) Security Posture
18 34 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
19 33 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 117 (3.42%) Windows
2 67 (1.96%) Linux
3 31 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.59%) Unix
5 15 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.35%) Android
8 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.23%) VMS
10 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.059%) AIX
13 2 (0.059%) CentOS
13 2 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.029%) Solaris
14 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,088 (31.84%) Agile
2 584 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
3 553 (16.18%) Roadmaps
4 529 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 502 (14.69%) AI
6 492 (14.40%) Migration
7 472 (13.81%) Decision-Making
8 452 (13.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 446 (13.05%) DevOps
10 441 (12.91%) Analytics
11 411 (12.03%) Project Management
12 375 (10.97%) Project Delivery
13 354 (10.36%) User Acceptance Testing
14 342 (10.01%) Workshop Facilitation
15 337 (9.86%) CI/CD
16 326 (9.54%) Change Management
17 311 (9.10%) Risk Management
18 293 (8.57%) Data Modelling
19 291 (8.52%) Validation
20 282 (8.25%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 381 (11.15%) SQL
2 252 (7.37%) Python
3 84 (2.46%) Java
4 73 (2.14%) PowerShell
5 58 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 45 (1.32%) C#
7 35 (1.02%) Bash
8 26 (0.76%) Bicep
9 25 (0.73%) TypeScript
10 21 (0.61%) Korn
11 19 (0.56%) R
12 15 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.32%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.26%) Perl
15 9 (0.26%) VBA
16 7 (0.20%) C++
16 7 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 528 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 444 (12.99%) SC Cleared
3 206 (6.03%) Degree
4 171 (5.00%) PMP
5 151 (4.42%) PMI Certification
6 64 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 62 (1.81%) CISSP
8 60 (1.76%) Azure Certification
9 54 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 45 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 45 (1.32%) CISM
11 41 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 37 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 21 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
15 19 (0.56%) ACCA
15 19 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 19 (0.56%) ISTQB
16 18 (0.53%) CIMA
17 17 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (8.17%) Data Quality
2 212 (6.20%) QA
3 156 (4.57%) PMO
4 102 (2.99%) GDPR
5 80 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (2.17%) NIST
7 70 (2.05%) Accessibility
8 59 (1.73%) GRC
9 46 (1.35%) SLA
10 25 (0.73%) NCSC
11 24 (0.70%) WCAG
12 17 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.44%) SEPA
14 14 (0.41%) COBIT
14 14 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.41%) IFRS
14 14 (0.41%) PCI DSS
15 13 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 91 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 83 (2.43%) Docker
3 27 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.23%) NFS
7 7 (0.20%) vSphere
8 6 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.15%) Postfix
10 4 (0.12%) Varnish
10 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.088%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.029%) Firmware
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.029%) oVirt
13 1 (0.029%) RACF
13 1 (0.029%) RHEV
13 1 (0.029%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 100 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 43 (1.26%) Ansible
3 34 (1.00%) Grafana
4 21 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.44%) SCCM
7 8 (0.23%) Argo
7 8 (0.23%) Control-M
8 7 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.15%) Puppet
10 4 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.12%) Kibana
10 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.088%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.088%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.088%) Nagios
12 2 (0.059%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.059%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 536 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 235 (6.88%) SAP
3 185 (5.41%) Oracle
4 150 (4.39%) Salesforce
4 150 (4.39%) ServiceNow
5 133 (3.89%) Databricks
6 69 (2.02%) Google
7 53 (1.55%) Workday
8 39 (1.14%) VMware
9 38 (1.11%) Adobe
9 38 (1.11%) Cisco
9 38 (1.11%) IBM
10 37 (1.08%) Splunk
11 28 (0.82%) Informatica
12 27 (0.79%) CyberArk
13 26 (0.76%) Bloomberg
14 22 (0.64%) Ariba
15 20 (0.59%) Guidewire
16 19 (0.56%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.56%) OpenAI