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

6 months to
3 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 3,432 1,462 1,189
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.11% 11.03% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.20% 11.92% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,255 994 813
10th Percentile £400 £382 £376
25th Percentile £469 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +1.27% -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 10
10th Percentile £26.25 £23.65 £32.03
25th Percentile £33.60 £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 £63.75 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £58.00 £49.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +17.77% -20.05% +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 17,877 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
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 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +10 432 £600 +4.35% 346
West London +15 123 £520 +9.47% 107
South London +3 34 £550 -10.70% 26
East London +2 13 £638 -5.56% 39
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
1 166 (4.84%) Confluence
2 96 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.63%) CMS
4 35 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.79%) Apache
6 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.29%) SAS
10 7 (0.20%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.17%) WordPress
12 4 (0.12%) Appian
12 4 (0.12%) Kentico
12 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.087%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.087%) Moodle
13 3 (0.087%) MTS
13 3 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.087%) Palantir Foundry
14 2 (0.058%) JBoss
Applications
1 161 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 99 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 74 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 40 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.29%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.29%) Revit
6 10 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.15%) Trello
8 4 (0.12%) Notion
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.087%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.087%) Sketch
10 2 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.058%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.058%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.058%) Windchill
11 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 99 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.52%) 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 HCM
10 10 (0.29%) SAP SD
11 9 (0.26%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
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 (19.43%) Azure
2 448 (13.05%) AWS
3 253 (7.37%) Power Platform
4 151 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
5 147 (4.28%) SaaS
6 144 (4.20%) GCP
7 120 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
8 110 (3.21%) Entra ID
9 99 (2.88%) GitHub
10 90 (2.62%) Snowflake
11 55 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
12 54 (1.57%) Serverless
13 52 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
14 46 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.19%) Power Automate
16 40 (1.17%) Amazon S3
16 40 (1.17%) dbt
17 38 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
17 38 (1.11%) PowerApps
17 38 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.75%) Firewall
2 49 (1.43%) Network Security
3 33 (0.96%) WAN
4 32 (0.93%) DNS
5 19 (0.55%) LAN
5 19 (0.55%) 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%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (5.91%) Power BI
2 117 (3.41%) Metadata
3 116 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (1.72%) SQL Server
4 59 (1.72%) Tableau
5 53 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 45 (1.31%) Delta Lake
7 40 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (0.87%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (0.61%) Oracle Database
12 20 (0.58%) NoSQL
13 19 (0.55%) MongoDB
14 18 (0.52%) Big Data
14 18 (0.52%) BigQuery
15 14 (0.41%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.41%) Redis
16 13 (0.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 347 (10.11%) JIRA
2 59 (1.72%) Git
3 58 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.02%) GitLab
5 24 (0.70%) Selenium
6 18 (0.52%) 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 (0.17%) ER Studio
10 6 (0.17%) JUnit
10 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.12%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
General
1 1,774 (51.69%) Social Skills
2 1,297 (37.79%) Finance
3 616 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 475 (13.84%) Banking
5 360 (10.49%) Public Sector
6 238 (6.93%) Retail
7 211 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
8 174 (5.07%) Marketing
9 164 (4.78%) Legal
10 131 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
11 125 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
12 95 (2.77%) Front Office
13 88 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
14 76 (2.21%) Investment Banking
14 76 (2.21%) Telecoms
15 71 (2.07%) Manufacturing
16 70 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 66 (1.92%) Local Government
18 52 (1.52%) Financial Institution
19 51 (1.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 545 (15.88%) Analyst
2 449 (13.08%) Architect
3 443 (12.91%) Lead
4 365 (10.64%) Project Manager
5 364 (10.61%) Business Analyst
6 356 (10.37%) Senior
7 217 (6.32%) Consultant
8 155 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
9 121 (3.53%) Senior Manager
10 112 (3.26%) Programme Manager
11 93 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
12 87 (2.53%) Developer
13 82 (2.39%) IT Manager
14 76 (2.21%) Product Manager
15 75 (2.19%) Technical Manager
16 71 (2.07%) Product Owner
17 69 (2.01%) Data Analyst
18 65 (1.89%) Data Architect
18 65 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
19 59 (1.72%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (4.34%) Terraform
2 108 (3.15%) REST
3 78 (2.27%) Middleware
4 52 (1.52%) Kafka
5 47 (1.37%) .NET
6 43 (1.25%) SOAP
7 40 (1.17%) PySpark
8 31 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
9 30 (0.87%) HTML
9 30 (0.87%) XML
10 28 (0.82%) JSON
10 28 (0.82%) OAuth
11 27 (0.79%) CSS
12 22 (0.64%) Web Services
13 18 (0.52%) Node.js
13 18 (0.52%) React
13 18 (0.52%) SailPoint
14 17 (0.50%) Spring
14 17 (0.50%) Spring Boot
15 16 (0.47%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 291 (8.48%) Product Ownership
2 221 (6.44%) Onboarding
3 153 (4.46%) Cloud Native
4 94 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 76 (2.21%) Data Centre
5 76 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
5 76 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 67 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 67 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 63 (1.84%) AI Agents
8 59 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 59 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 54 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 46 (1.34%) NHS
11 45 (1.31%) FMCG
12 41 (1.19%) CMDB
12 41 (1.19%) Operational Technology
13 40 (1.17%) Security Posture
14 34 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
15 33 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 117 (3.41%) Windows
2 68 (1.98%) Linux
3 32 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.58%) Unix
5 15 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.35%) 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 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.058%) AIX
12 2 (0.058%) CentOS
12 2 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.029%) Solaris
13 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,088 (31.70%) Agile
2 591 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
3 555 (16.17%) Roadmaps
4 529 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 503 (14.66%) AI
6 492 (14.34%) Migration
7 476 (13.87%) Decision-Making
8 456 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 446 (13.00%) DevOps
10 443 (12.91%) Analytics
11 415 (12.09%) Project Management
12 379 (11.04%) Project Delivery
13 355 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
14 344 (10.02%) Workshop Facilitation
15 340 (9.91%) CI/CD
16 328 (9.56%) Change Management
17 309 (9.00%) Risk Management
18 294 (8.57%) Validation
19 292 (8.51%) Data Modelling
20 284 (8.28%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 382 (11.13%) SQL
2 252 (7.34%) Python
3 84 (2.45%) Java
4 73 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 58 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 46 (1.34%) C#
7 35 (1.02%) Bash
8 26 (0.76%) Bicep
9 25 (0.73%) TypeScript
10 22 (0.64%) Korn
11 19 (0.55%) R
12 16 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 11 (0.32%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.29%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.26%) Perl
16 9 (0.26%) VBA
17 7 (0.20%) C++
17 7 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 535 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 448 (13.05%) SC Cleared
3 208 (6.06%) Degree
4 172 (5.01%) PMP
5 152 (4.43%) PMI Certification
6 65 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 63 (1.84%) CISSP
8 59 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 55 (1.60%) DV Cleared
10 47 (1.37%) AWS Certification
11 46 (1.34%) CISM
12 41 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 22 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
16 20 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 19 (0.55%) ACCA
17 19 (0.55%) ISTQB
18 18 (0.52%) CIMA
19 17 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 217 (6.32%) QA
3 157 (4.57%) PMO
4 102 (2.97%) GDPR
5 81 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (2.16%) NIST
7 71 (2.07%) Accessibility
8 59 (1.72%) GRC
9 47 (1.37%) 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 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 83 (2.42%) 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 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.15%) Postfix
10 4 (0.12%) Varnish
10 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.087%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.029%) Firmware
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.029%) oVirt
13 1 (0.029%) RHEV
13 1 (0.029%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 100 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 43 (1.25%) Ansible
3 34 (0.99%) Grafana
4 21 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.55%) 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 (0.087%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.087%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.087%) Nagios
12 2 (0.058%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.058%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 539 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 236 (6.88%) SAP
3 184 (5.36%) Oracle
4 153 (4.46%) ServiceNow
5 147 (4.28%) Salesforce
6 135 (3.93%) Databricks
7 69 (2.01%) Google
8 53 (1.54%) Workday
9 39 (1.14%) VMware
10 38 (1.11%) Adobe
10 38 (1.11%) Cisco
10 38 (1.11%) IBM
10 38 (1.11%) Splunk
11 29 (0.84%) Informatica
12 27 (0.79%) CyberArk
13 26 (0.76%) Bloomberg
14 22 (0.64%) Ariba
15 20 (0.58%) Guidewire
16 19 (0.55%) OpenAI
17 18 (0.52%) MuleSoft