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

6 months to
15 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 3,617 1,480 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.86% 11.18% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.10% 12.07% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,375 1,002 797
10th Percentile £400 £378 £373
25th Percentile £465 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% +0.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £670
90th Percentile £785 £765 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 23 12
10th Percentile £26.25 £18.10 £30.68
25th Percentile £34.30 £28.25 £34.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -2.86% -1.30%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £60.31
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.50
England median hourly rate £58.00 £44.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +30.34% -27.76% +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 17,996 12,259 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,759 8,104 9,616
10th Percentile £359 £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 £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 254 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.02 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +9 458 £591 +2.83% 499
West London +13 134 £520 +4.00% 115
South London +4 33 £550 -10.70% 24
East London +4 15 £600 -11.11% 40
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
1 169 (4.67%) Confluence
2 101 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.52%) CMS
4 38 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.75%) Apache
6 19 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.47%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.30%) SAS
9 7 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.19%) WordPress
10 4 (0.11%) Appian
10 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.11%) Kentico
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.083%) CICS
11 3 (0.083%) Moodle
11 3 (0.083%) MTS
11 3 (0.083%) nginx
Applications
1 168 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
4 60 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
5 42 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.30%) Revit
7 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.17%) Trello
10 4 (0.11%) Notion
11 3 (0.083%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.083%) CPLEX
11 3 (0.083%) Navisworks
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 99 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (1.33%) 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 7 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
10 7 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 688 (19.02%) Azure
2 463 (12.80%) AWS
3 281 (7.77%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
5 153 (4.23%) SaaS
6 151 (4.17%) GCP
7 133 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
8 114 (3.15%) GitHub
9 110 (3.04%) Entra ID
10 92 (2.54%) Snowflake
11 63 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
12 61 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
12 61 (1.69%) Serverless
13 51 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
14 50 (1.38%) Power Automate
15 45 (1.24%) PowerApps
16 44 (1.22%) Amazon S3
17 41 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
17 41 (1.13%) dbt
18 39 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.74%) Firewall
2 47 (1.30%) Network Security
3 34 (0.94%) DNS
4 32 (0.88%) WAN
5 21 (0.58%) VPN
6 19 (0.53%) DHCP
7 18 (0.50%) LAN
8 17 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.41%) BGP
10 14 (0.39%) 4G
10 14 (0.39%) 5G
10 14 (0.39%) Internet
10 14 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.33%) Wireless
12 11 (0.30%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.30%) SAN
12 11 (0.30%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.28%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (6.05%) Power BI
2 122 (3.37%) Metadata
3 121 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.71%) SQL Server
5 58 (1.60%) Data Lake
5 58 (1.60%) Tableau
6 48 (1.33%) Delta Lake
7 46 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 35 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (0.86%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (0.66%) NoSQL
12 23 (0.64%) MongoDB
13 21 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
13 21 (0.58%) Oracle Database
14 20 (0.55%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.53%) Big Data
16 15 (0.41%) Data Vault
16 15 (0.41%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 355 (9.81%) JIRA
2 70 (1.94%) Git
3 66 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.16%) 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 1,875 (51.84%) Social Skills
2 1,369 (37.85%) Finance
3 653 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
4 506 (13.99%) Banking
5 392 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 239 (6.61%) Retail
7 234 (6.47%) Influencing Skills
8 179 (4.95%) Legal
9 177 (4.89%) Marketing
10 142 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
11 132 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
12 104 (2.88%) Front Office
13 96 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
14 83 (2.29%) Manufacturing
14 83 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 76 (2.10%) Investment Banking
16 74 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 70 (1.94%) Local Government
18 53 (1.47%) Financial Institution
19 51 (1.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 582 (16.09%) Analyst
2 475 (13.13%) Architect
3 463 (12.80%) Lead
4 390 (10.78%) Business Analyst
5 385 (10.64%) Senior
6 382 (10.56%) Project Manager
7 227 (6.28%) Consultant
8 167 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 131 (3.62%) Senior Manager
10 115 (3.18%) Programme Manager
11 99 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
12 93 (2.57%) Developer
13 86 (2.38%) IT Manager
14 83 (2.29%) Product Manager
15 80 (2.21%) Technical Manager
16 74 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
17 73 (2.02%) Data Analyst
17 73 (2.02%) Product Owner
18 65 (1.80%) Data Architect
19 62 (1.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (4.48%) Terraform
2 112 (3.10%) REST
3 78 (2.16%) Middleware
4 60 (1.66%) Kafka
5 55 (1.52%) .NET
6 45 (1.24%) PySpark
7 42 (1.16%) SOAP
8 33 (0.91%) HTML
8 33 (0.91%) OAuth
9 30 (0.83%) CSS
9 30 (0.83%) XML
10 29 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
11 28 (0.77%) JSON
12 25 (0.69%) React
12 25 (0.69%) Web Services
13 21 (0.58%) Node.js
13 21 (0.58%) Spring
13 21 (0.58%) Spring Boot
14 18 (0.50%) SailPoint
15 16 (0.44%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 309 (8.54%) Product Ownership
2 225 (6.22%) Onboarding
3 165 (4.56%) Cloud Native
4 100 (2.76%) Management Information System
5 90 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 78 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 77 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 67 (1.85%) AI Agents
8 67 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 67 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
9 63 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
10 59 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 58 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 48 (1.33%) NHS
13 46 (1.27%) Operational Technology
14 44 (1.22%) FMCG
15 41 (1.13%) CMDB
16 40 (1.11%) Security Posture
17 36 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 35 (0.97%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 124 (3.43%) Windows
2 70 (1.94%) 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 1,139 (31.49%) Agile
2 642 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
3 595 (16.45%) Roadmaps
4 549 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 538 (14.87%) AI
6 518 (14.32%) Migration
7 517 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 491 (13.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 473 (13.08%) DevOps
10 459 (12.69%) Analytics
11 429 (11.86%) Project Management
12 393 (10.87%) Project Delivery
13 369 (10.20%) Workshop Facilitation
14 368 (10.17%) User Acceptance Testing
15 358 (9.90%) CI/CD
16 348 (9.62%) Change Management
17 336 (9.29%) Risk Management
18 317 (8.76%) Validation
19 306 (8.46%) Requirements Gathering
20 299 (8.27%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 411 (11.36%) SQL
2 269 (7.44%) Python
3 91 (2.52%) Java
4 74 (2.05%) PowerShell
5 66 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 52 (1.44%) C#
7 35 (0.97%) Bash
8 33 (0.91%) TypeScript
9 28 (0.77%) Bicep
10 25 (0.69%) Korn
11 21 (0.58%) R
12 15 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.39%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.28%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.25%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.25%) Perl
15 9 (0.25%) VBA
16 8 (0.22%) Go
17 7 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 556 (15.37%) Security Cleared
2 467 (12.91%) SC Cleared
3 224 (6.19%) Degree
4 181 (5.00%) PMP
5 160 (4.42%) PMI Certification
6 72 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 65 (1.80%) CISSP
8 60 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 55 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 50 (1.38%) AWS Certification
11 48 (1.33%) CISM
12 44 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 27 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 23 (0.64%) ACCA
16 22 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
18 20 (0.55%) CIMA
18 20 (0.55%) ISTQB
19 19 (0.53%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (8.60%) Data Quality
2 225 (6.22%) QA
3 165 (4.56%) PMO
4 99 (2.74%) GDPR
5 87 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (2.18%) NIST
7 74 (2.05%) Accessibility
8 59 (1.63%) GRC
9 45 (1.24%) SLA
10 27 (0.75%) NCSC
11 25 (0.69%) WCAG
12 21 (0.58%) ISO 20022
13 18 (0.50%) 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 (2.68%) Docker
2 91 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.47%) 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%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.083%) Varnish
10 3 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
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 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.24%) Ansible
3 35 (0.97%) Grafana
4 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.53%) 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 4 (0.11%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.11%) Kibana
10 4 (0.11%) Puppet
10 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.083%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.083%) Nagios
12 2 (0.055%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.055%) QRadar
12 2 (0.055%) SCOM
Vendors
1 586 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 243 (6.72%) SAP
3 197 (5.45%) Oracle
4 157 (4.34%) ServiceNow
5 152 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 145 (4.01%) Databricks
7 76 (2.10%) Google
8 55 (1.52%) Workday
9 42 (1.16%) Cisco
10 41 (1.13%) IBM
11 39 (1.08%) VMware
12 37 (1.02%) Adobe
13 36 (1.00%) Splunk
14 31 (0.86%) Informatica
15 29 (0.80%) Bloomberg
16 26 (0.72%) CyberArk
17 22 (0.61%) Ariba
18 20 (0.55%) Guidewire
18 20 (0.55%) OpenAI
19 19 (0.53%) MuleSoft