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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,854 1,512 1,257
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.95% 11.23% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.33% 12.13% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,551 1,029 801
10th Percentile £400 £363 £381
25th Percentile £465 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £668
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 46 21 13
10th Percentile £25.53 £17.00 £30.85
25th Percentile £35.21 £28.25 -
Median hourly rate £41.06 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% -2.86% +13.82%
75th Percentile £61.31 £47.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.88 £65.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £60.50 £49.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.22% -19.64% +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 18,072 12,468 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.58% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,839 8,220 9,409
10th Percentile £358 £325 £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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 243 178
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +11 494 £600 +9.09% 425
West London +11 148 £550 +10.00% 109
South London +8 32 £550 -5.46% 20
East London +5 16 £600 -11.11% 24
North London +7 12 £450 -17.43% 2
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
1 181 (4.70%) Confluence
2 101 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.56%) CMS
4 42 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (0.80%) Apache
6 21 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.26%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.21%) WordPress
12 4 (0.10%) Appian
12 4 (0.10%) CICS
12 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.10%) Kentico
12 4 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.078%) Mendix
13 3 (0.078%) MTS
13 3 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 171 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 77 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
4 58 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 46 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.31%) Revit
7 11 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.18%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.18%) Trello
10 6 (0.16%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.10%) Notion
12 3 (0.078%) CPLEX
12 3 (0.078%) Sketch
13 2 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.052%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.052%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.052%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 107 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 19 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 16 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.36%) Finacle
8 13 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 13 (0.34%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.34%) SAP HCM
9 12 (0.31%) Magento
9 12 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
10 11 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 10 (0.26%) Endur
11 10 (0.26%) SAP SD
12 9 (0.23%) SAP CO
12 9 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
12 9 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 724 (18.79%) Azure
2 479 (12.43%) AWS
3 316 (8.20%) Power Platform
4 162 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
5 160 (4.15%) GCP
6 155 (4.02%) SaaS
7 143 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (3.11%) GitHub
9 114 (2.96%) Entra ID
10 95 (2.46%) Snowflake
11 75 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
12 73 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
13 65 (1.69%) Serverless
14 59 (1.53%) Power Automate
15 54 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
16 53 (1.38%) Amazon S3
17 50 (1.30%) PowerApps
18 46 (1.19%) dbt
19 45 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
20 44 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.82%) Firewall
2 49 (1.27%) Network Security
3 36 (0.93%) DNS
4 35 (0.91%) WAN
5 25 (0.65%) VPN
6 21 (0.54%) DHCP
6 21 (0.54%) LAN
7 20 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.44%) BGP
8 17 (0.44%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.39%) Internet
10 14 (0.36%) 4G
10 14 (0.36%) 5G
10 14 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.31%) 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%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (6.33%) Power BI
2 133 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 130 (3.37%) Metadata
4 68 (1.76%) Tableau
5 66 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 65 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 49 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (1.19%) Delta Lake
9 38 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (0.78%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (0.67%) MongoDB
13 25 (0.65%) BigQuery
13 25 (0.65%) NoSQL
13 25 (0.65%) Oracle Database
14 23 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (0.44%) DynamoDB
16 16 (0.42%) Redis
17 15 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
17 15 (0.39%) Looker
Development Applications
1 374 (9.70%) JIRA
2 79 (2.05%) Git
3 70 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.32%) GitLab
5 28 (0.73%) Selenium
6 16 (0.42%) Postman
7 12 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.29%) JUnit
8 11 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.21%) ERwin
11 7 (0.18%) Maven
12 6 (0.16%) Appium
12 6 (0.16%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.16%) JMeter
12 6 (0.16%) TestNG
13 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 2,009 (52.13%) Social Skills
2 1,462 (37.93%) Finance
3 699 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
4 564 (14.63%) Banking
5 436 (11.31%) Public Sector
6 258 (6.69%) Influencing Skills
7 238 (6.18%) Retail
8 197 (5.11%) Legal
9 178 (4.62%) Marketing
10 150 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
11 136 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
12 116 (3.01%) Front Office
13 103 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 101 (2.62%) Manufacturing
15 90 (2.34%) Investment Banking
16 87 (2.26%) Telecoms
17 78 (2.02%) Local Government
18 74 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 50 (1.30%) Billing
20 49 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 614 (15.93%) Analyst
2 506 (13.13%) Architect
3 486 (12.61%) Lead
4 417 (10.82%) Senior
5 412 (10.69%) Business Analyst
6 396 (10.28%) Project Manager
7 245 (6.36%) Consultant
8 167 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
9 135 (3.50%) Senior Manager
10 116 (3.01%) Programme Manager
11 103 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
12 99 (2.57%) Developer
13 94 (2.44%) IT Manager
14 91 (2.36%) Product Manager
15 84 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
15 84 (2.18%) Technical Manager
16 75 (1.95%) Data Analyst
16 75 (1.95%) Product Owner
17 67 (1.74%) Data Engineer
18 63 (1.63%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (4.57%) Terraform
2 127 (3.30%) REST
3 80 (2.08%) Middleware
4 66 (1.71%) .NET
5 64 (1.66%) Kafka
6 53 (1.38%) PySpark
7 47 (1.22%) SOAP
8 36 (0.93%) HTML
8 36 (0.93%) OAuth
9 31 (0.80%) CSS
9 31 (0.80%) JSON
10 30 (0.78%) Web Services
10 30 (0.78%) XML
11 29 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
11 29 (0.75%) React
12 21 (0.54%) Spring
13 20 (0.52%) Node.js
13 20 (0.52%) SailPoint
13 20 (0.52%) Spring Boot
14 18 (0.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 330 (8.56%) Product Ownership
2 248 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 182 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 108 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 81 (2.10%) AI Agents
6 81 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 81 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
7 74 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 71 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 69 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 65 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 59 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 57 (1.48%) Operational Technology
13 49 (1.27%) NHS
14 44 (1.14%) Security Posture
15 42 (1.09%) CMDB
16 40 (1.04%) Derivative
16 40 (1.04%) Taxonomies
17 39 (1.01%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.35%) Windows
2 82 (2.13%) Linux
3 36 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.73%) Unix
5 16 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.36%) Android
6 14 (0.36%) 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 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.078%) zOS
13 2 (0.052%) CentOS
13 2 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.026%) AIX
14 1 (0.026%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,199 (31.11%) Agile
2 690 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
3 652 (16.92%) Roadmaps
4 588 (15.26%) AI
4 588 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 568 (14.74%) Migration
6 546 (14.17%) Decision-Making
7 535 (13.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 503 (13.05%) DevOps
9 492 (12.77%) Analytics
10 429 (11.13%) Project Management
11 420 (10.90%) Workshop Facilitation
12 404 (10.48%) Project Delivery
13 395 (10.25%) CI/CD
14 387 (10.04%) User Acceptance Testing
15 374 (9.70%) Change Management
16 370 (9.60%) Risk Management
17 344 (8.93%) Requirements Gathering
18 343 (8.90%) Validation
19 316 (8.20%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 451 (11.70%) SQL
2 297 (7.71%) Python
3 96 (2.49%) Java
4 83 (2.15%) PowerShell
5 76 (1.97%) JavaScript
6 63 (1.63%) C#
7 43 (1.12%) Bash
8 37 (0.96%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.75%) Bicep
10 28 (0.73%) Korn
11 22 (0.57%) R
12 17 (0.44%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.31%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.23%) Go
15 9 (0.23%) Perl
16 8 (0.21%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.21%) Groovy
16 8 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 595 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 497 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 249 (6.46%) Degree
4 192 (4.98%) PMP
5 171 (4.44%) PMI Certification
6 88 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 69 (1.79%) CISSP
8 62 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 57 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 57 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 53 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 51 (1.32%) CISM
12 39 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 29 (0.75%) Master's Degree
14 25 (0.65%) ACCA
15 24 (0.62%) CRISC
16 23 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.57%) CIMA
17 22 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 19 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 238 (6.18%) QA
3 165 (4.28%) PMO
4 102 (2.65%) GDPR
5 95 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 85 (2.21%) Accessibility
7 82 (2.13%) NIST
8 65 (1.69%) GRC
9 51 (1.32%) SLA
10 34 (0.88%) NCSC
11 27 (0.70%) WCAG
12 21 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 21 (0.54%) ISO 20022
13 17 (0.44%) IFRS
13 17 (0.44%) SEPA
14 15 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.36%) COBIT
16 12 (0.31%) PSD2
17 11 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 11 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (2.67%) Docker
2 96 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.23%) vSphere
7 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.10%) Postfix
9 3 (0.078%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.078%) Varnish
10 2 (0.052%) IAG
10 2 (0.052%) RACF
10 2 (0.052%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.052%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.026%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.026%) oVirt
11 1 (0.026%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 127 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.25%) Ansible
3 36 (0.93%) Grafana
4 28 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.39%) 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 (0.10%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.10%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.078%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.078%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.078%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.078%) Nagios
13 2 (0.052%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.052%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 646 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 260 (6.75%) SAP
3 206 (5.35%) Oracle
4 164 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 159 (4.13%) Salesforce
6 156 (4.05%) Databricks
7 85 (2.21%) Google
8 61 (1.58%) Workday
9 52 (1.35%) Cisco
10 47 (1.22%) IBM
11 44 (1.14%) Splunk
12 40 (1.04%) Adobe
12 40 (1.04%) VMware
13 31 (0.80%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.80%) Informatica
14 25 (0.65%) CyberArk
15 24 (0.62%) OpenAI
16 22 (0.57%) Ariba
17 20 (0.52%) Guidewire
17 20 (0.52%) MuleSoft