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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,928 1,509 1,263
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.44% 11.23% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.86% 12.14% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,599 1,030 805
10th Percentile £400 £363 £381
25th Percentile £465 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -8.14%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £666
90th Percentile £788 £766 £775
England median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 20 12
10th Percentile £24.81 £17.00 £30.68
25th Percentile £34.16 £26.81 £34.31
Median hourly rate £41.06 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% -2.86% +13.82%
75th Percentile £61.31 £43.09 £57.31
90th Percentile £71.88 £65.75 £63.50
England median hourly rate £62.00 £48.25 £61.33
% change year-on-year +28.50% -21.33% +26.45%

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 17,972 12,434 14,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.55% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,197 9,428
10th Percentile £360 £332 £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 £664 £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 333 243 184
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.01 £24.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -9.62%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.55 £78.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +10 508 £600 +9.09% 454
West London +13 149 £550 +10.00% 77
South London +6 31 £550 -4.84% 18
East London +9 19 £600 +20.00% 24
North London +7 12 £450 -17.43% 3
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
1 183 (4.66%) Confluence
2 98 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.55%) CMS
4 42 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.74%) Apache
6 23 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.28%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.20%) WordPress
12 7 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
13 5 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.10%) Appian
14 4 (0.10%) CICS
14 4 (0.10%) Kentico
15 3 (0.076%) Moodle
15 3 (0.076%) nginx
15 3 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 181 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 108 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
4 57 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 45 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.31%) Revit
7 11 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.18%) Navisworks
9 7 (0.18%) Trello
10 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.10%) Notion
12 3 (0.076%) CPLEX
12 3 (0.076%) Productboard
12 3 (0.076%) Sketch
13 2 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.051%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.051%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 119 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.59%) Aladdin
4 21 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 16 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.36%) SAP HCM
8 13 (0.33%) Finacle
8 13 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
10 11 (0.28%) Magento
10 11 (0.28%) SAP CO
10 11 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.25%) SAP SD
11 10 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 9 (0.23%) Endur
12 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 745 (18.97%) Azure
2 484 (12.32%) AWS
3 324 (8.25%) Power Platform
4 171 (4.35%) SaaS
5 170 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
6 160 (4.07%) GCP
7 151 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
8 128 (3.26%) GitHub
9 121 (3.08%) Entra ID
10 102 (2.60%) Snowflake
11 78 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
12 75 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
13 69 (1.76%) Serverless
14 58 (1.48%) Power Automate
15 55 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
16 53 (1.35%) Amazon S3
17 50 (1.27%) PowerApps
18 47 (1.20%) dbt
19 46 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
20 45 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 74 (1.88%) Firewall
2 51 (1.30%) Network Security
3 40 (1.02%) DNS
4 36 (0.92%) WAN
5 29 (0.74%) VPN
6 23 (0.59%) LAN
7 22 (0.56%) DHCP
7 22 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.53%) BGP
9 19 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.46%) Internet
11 15 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (0.36%) 4G
12 14 (0.36%) 5G
13 13 (0.33%) Wireless
14 11 (0.28%) 3GPP
14 11 (0.28%) Cisco IPT
14 11 (0.28%) OSPF
14 11 (0.28%) SSL
14 11 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (6.31%) Power BI
2 138 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (3.39%) Metadata
4 74 (1.88%) SQL Server
5 72 (1.83%) Tableau
6 66 (1.68%) Data Lake
7 55 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (1.15%) Delta Lake
9 41 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 33 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 30 (0.76%) Oracle Database
12 27 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (0.69%) MongoDB
13 26 (0.66%) NoSQL
14 25 (0.64%) BigQuery
15 24 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
16 18 (0.46%) DynamoDB
16 18 (0.46%) Redis
17 16 (0.41%) Big Data
17 16 (0.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 371 (9.45%) JIRA
2 83 (2.11%) Git
3 73 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.32%) GitLab
5 32 (0.81%) Selenium
6 19 (0.48%) Postman
7 13 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.31%) JUnit
8 12 (0.31%) SonarQube
9 11 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.23%) Zephyr
11 8 (0.20%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.20%) ERwin
12 7 (0.18%) Maven
12 7 (0.18%) TestNG
13 6 (0.15%) Appium
13 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
13 6 (0.15%) JMeter
14 5 (0.13%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 2,047 (52.11%) Social Skills
2 1,491 (37.96%) Finance
3 714 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 590 (15.02%) Banking
5 474 (12.07%) Public Sector
6 260 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
7 241 (6.14%) Retail
8 201 (5.12%) Legal
9 182 (4.63%) Marketing
10 151 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
11 143 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
12 121 (3.08%) Front Office
13 108 (2.75%) Manufacturing
14 103 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
15 96 (2.44%) Investment Banking
16 91 (2.32%) Telecoms
17 80 (2.04%) Local Government
18 70 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 50 (1.27%) Billing
19 50 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 626 (15.94%) Analyst
2 521 (13.26%) Architect
3 503 (12.81%) Lead
4 431 (10.97%) Senior
5 415 (10.57%) Business Analyst
6 396 (10.08%) Project Manager
7 253 (6.44%) Consultant
8 176 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 137 (3.49%) Senior Manager
10 116 (2.95%) Programme Manager
11 107 (2.72%) Developer
12 106 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
13 93 (2.37%) Product Manager
14 92 (2.34%) IT Manager
15 87 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
15 87 (2.21%) Technical Manager
16 76 (1.93%) Data Analyst
17 75 (1.91%) Product Owner
18 67 (1.71%) Data Engineer
19 64 (1.63%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (4.66%) Terraform
2 137 (3.49%) REST
3 82 (2.09%) Middleware
4 75 (1.91%) .NET
5 66 (1.68%) Kafka
6 54 (1.37%) PySpark
7 46 (1.17%) SOAP
8 38 (0.97%) OAuth
9 36 (0.92%) HTML
10 33 (0.84%) JSON
10 33 (0.84%) Web Services
11 32 (0.81%) React
12 31 (0.79%) CSS
13 30 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
14 29 (0.74%) XML
15 24 (0.61%) Spring
16 23 (0.59%) Spring Boot
17 21 (0.53%) Node.js
18 20 (0.51%) Playwright
19 19 (0.48%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 331 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 249 (6.34%) Onboarding
3 189 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 116 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
5 112 (2.85%) Management Information System
6 88 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 81 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 77 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
9 76 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
10 72 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 68 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 67 (1.71%) Virtual Team
13 60 (1.53%) Operational Technology
14 59 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
15 52 (1.32%) NHS
16 46 (1.17%) CMDB
17 45 (1.15%) Security Posture
18 43 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
19 41 (1.04%) Taxonomies
20 40 (1.02%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 133 (3.39%) Windows
2 85 (2.16%) Linux
3 36 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.71%) Unix
5 16 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.36%) Android
6 14 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.20%) VMS
9 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.076%) zOS
13 2 (0.051%) CentOS
13 2 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.025%) AIX
14 1 (0.025%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,215 (30.93%) Agile
2 713 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
3 675 (17.18%) Roadmaps
4 605 (15.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 600 (15.27%) AI
6 585 (14.89%) Migration
7 564 (14.36%) Decision-Making
8 554 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 519 (13.21%) DevOps
10 512 (13.03%) Analytics
11 438 (11.15%) Workshop Facilitation
12 419 (10.67%) Project Delivery
12 419 (10.67%) Project Management
13 414 (10.54%) CI/CD
14 398 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
15 385 (9.80%) Change Management
15 385 (9.80%) Risk Management
16 352 (8.96%) Requirements Gathering
17 350 (8.91%) Validation
18 318 (8.10%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 463 (11.79%) SQL
2 313 (7.97%) Python
3 99 (2.52%) Java
4 88 (2.24%) PowerShell
5 80 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 70 (1.78%) C#
7 43 (1.09%) Bash
8 39 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 34 (0.87%) Bicep
10 29 (0.74%) Korn
11 21 (0.53%) R
12 17 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.31%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.23%) Go
16 9 (0.23%) Groovy
16 9 (0.23%) Perl
17 8 (0.20%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 602 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 505 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 256 (6.52%) Degree
4 193 (4.91%) PMP
5 174 (4.43%) PMI Certification
6 93 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 75 (1.91%) CISSP
8 65 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 60 (1.53%) AWS Certification
10 58 (1.48%) CISM
11 56 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 56 (1.43%) DV Cleared
12 39 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 28 (0.71%) CRISC
14 28 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 26 (0.66%) ACCA
16 25 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.59%) CIMA
18 22 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (8.81%) Data Quality
2 238 (6.06%) QA
3 160 (4.07%) PMO
4 110 (2.80%) GDPR
5 103 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 89 (2.27%) Accessibility
7 86 (2.19%) NIST
8 63 (1.60%) GRC
9 51 (1.30%) SLA
10 35 (0.89%) NCSC
11 28 (0.71%) WCAG
12 23 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
13 21 (0.53%) ISO 20022
14 17 (0.43%) IFRS
14 17 (0.43%) SEPA
15 15 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.36%) COBIT
16 14 (0.36%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.31%) PSD2
18 11 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 105 (2.67%) Docker
2 98 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.25%) vSphere
7 6 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.13%) NFS
9 3 (0.076%) Postfix
9 3 (0.076%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.051%) IAG
10 2 (0.051%) RACF
10 2 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.051%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.025%) Firmware
11 1 (0.025%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.025%) RHEV
11 1 (0.025%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.025%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 130 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 53 (1.35%) Ansible
3 42 (1.07%) Grafana
4 30 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.38%) SCCM
8 9 (0.23%) Control-M
9 8 (0.20%) Argo
10 7 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.15%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Puppet
12 5 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.10%) CA Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.076%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.076%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.076%) Nagios
14 3 (0.076%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.051%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.051%) SCOM
Vendors
1 677 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 273 (6.95%) SAP
3 208 (5.30%) Oracle
4 171 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 164 (4.18%) Salesforce
6 158 (4.02%) Databricks
7 85 (2.16%) Google
8 64 (1.63%) Workday
9 58 (1.48%) Cisco
10 48 (1.22%) IBM
11 45 (1.15%) Splunk
12 42 (1.07%) VMware
13 40 (1.02%) Adobe
14 33 (0.84%) Bloomberg
15 31 (0.79%) Informatica
16 27 (0.69%) Ariba
17 26 (0.66%) CyberArk
18 25 (0.64%) OpenAI
19 22 (0.56%) Dynatrace
20 20 (0.51%) Murex