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

6 months to
10 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 3,558 1,503 1,196
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.51% 11.13% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.68% 12.03% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,332 1,014 797
10th Percentile £400 £378 £379
25th Percentile £467 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +0.09% -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 12
10th Percentile £26.25 £23.65 £30.68
25th Percentile £33.95 £28.25 £34.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.65 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -10.58% +21.40%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.50
England median hourly rate £57.50 £48.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.17% -21.67% +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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
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 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +10 446 £600 +8.11% 368
West London +12 132 £520 +4.00% 90
South London +5 33 £550 -10.70% 19
East London +4 15 £600 -11.11% 40
North London +6 13 £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
1 167 (4.69%) Confluence
2 97 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.57%) CMS
4 36 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.73%) Apache
6 18 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.48%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.28%) SAS
10 7 (0.20%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.17%) WordPress
12 4 (0.11%) Appian
12 4 (0.11%) Kentico
12 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.084%) CICS
13 3 (0.084%) Moodle
13 3 (0.084%) MTS
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.084%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 167 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
4 60 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.31%) 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 (0.084%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.084%) CPLEX
11 3 (0.084%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.084%) Sketch
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.056%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.056%) Windchill
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 99 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.39%) Finacle
6 14 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.37%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.34%) Endur
8 12 (0.34%) Magento
9 11 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 11 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
10 10 (0.28%) SAP HCM
10 10 (0.28%) SAP SD
11 9 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
12 7 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
12 7 (0.20%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 685 (19.25%) Azure
2 456 (12.82%) AWS
3 269 (7.56%) Power Platform
4 156 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
5 152 (4.27%) SaaS
6 149 (4.19%) GCP
7 127 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 111 (3.12%) Entra ID
9 107 (3.01%) GitHub
10 91 (2.56%) Snowflake
11 60 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
12 58 (1.63%) Serverless
13 57 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
14 47 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (1.24%) Power Automate
16 42 (1.18%) Amazon S3
16 42 (1.18%) dbt
17 41 (1.15%) PowerApps
18 39 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
18 39 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.71%) Firewall
2 48 (1.35%) Network Security
3 33 (0.93%) WAN
4 32 (0.90%) DNS
5 19 (0.53%) LAN
5 19 (0.53%) VPN
6 17 (0.48%) DHCP
7 16 (0.45%) BGP
8 15 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.39%) 4G
9 14 (0.39%) 5G
9 14 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.37%) Internet
10 13 (0.37%) Wireless
11 11 (0.31%) 3GPP
11 11 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.31%) SAN
11 11 (0.31%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.28%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (5.93%) Power BI
2 122 (3.43%) Metadata
3 119 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.77%) SQL Server
5 60 (1.69%) Tableau
6 54 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 47 (1.32%) Delta Lake
8 44 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.87%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
12 23 (0.65%) MongoDB
13 22 (0.62%) NoSQL
13 22 (0.62%) Oracle Database
14 21 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
15 19 (0.53%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.51%) Big Data
17 15 (0.42%) Data Vault
17 15 (0.42%) Redis
18 13 (0.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 352 (9.89%) JIRA
2 64 (1.80%) Git
3 62 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.10%) GitLab
5 27 (0.76%) Selenium
6 18 (0.51%) Postman
7 11 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.31%) Zephyr
8 10 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.28%) ERwin
8 10 (0.28%) JMeter
9 8 (0.22%) Appium
10 7 (0.20%) JUnit
10 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
10 7 (0.20%) Maven
11 6 (0.17%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.17%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,842 (51.77%) Social Skills
2 1,349 (37.91%) Finance
3 639 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 497 (13.97%) Banking
5 374 (10.51%) Public Sector
6 239 (6.72%) Retail
7 224 (6.30%) Influencing Skills
8 179 (5.03%) Marketing
9 172 (4.83%) Legal
10 141 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
11 131 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
12 98 (2.75%) Front Office
13 92 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 82 (2.30%) Telecoms
15 79 (2.22%) Manufacturing
16 77 (2.16%) Investment Banking
17 74 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 70 (1.97%) Local Government
19 52 (1.46%) Financial Institution
20 51 (1.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 567 (15.94%) Analyst
2 463 (13.01%) Lead
3 460 (12.93%) Architect
4 380 (10.68%) Business Analyst
5 376 (10.57%) Project Manager
6 370 (10.40%) Senior
7 223 (6.27%) Consultant
8 159 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
9 123 (3.46%) Senior Manager
10 115 (3.23%) Programme Manager
11 97 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
12 93 (2.61%) Developer
13 88 (2.47%) IT Manager
14 79 (2.22%) Product Manager
15 76 (2.14%) Technical Manager
16 72 (2.02%) Product Owner
17 71 (2.00%) Data Analyst
18 69 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
19 65 (1.83%) Data Architect
20 60 (1.69%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (4.33%) Terraform
2 113 (3.18%) REST
3 77 (2.16%) Middleware
4 58 (1.63%) Kafka
5 52 (1.46%) .NET
6 43 (1.21%) SOAP
7 42 (1.18%) PySpark
8 32 (0.90%) HTML
9 31 (0.87%) OAuth
9 31 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
10 30 (0.84%) XML
11 29 (0.82%) CSS
12 28 (0.79%) JSON
13 25 (0.70%) Web Services
14 21 (0.59%) React
15 20 (0.56%) Spring
15 20 (0.56%) Spring Boot
16 19 (0.53%) Node.js
17 18 (0.51%) SailPoint
18 17 (0.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 303 (8.52%) Product Ownership
2 227 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 161 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 100 (2.81%) Management Information System
5 86 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 79 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 76 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
8 68 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 65 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 64 (1.80%) AI Agents
10 64 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
11 58 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 58 (1.63%) Virtual Team
12 46 (1.29%) NHS
12 46 (1.29%) Operational Technology
13 44 (1.24%) FMCG
14 42 (1.18%) CMDB
15 40 (1.12%) Security Posture
16 36 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 122 (3.43%) Windows
2 69 (1.94%) Linux
3 32 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.56%) Unix
5 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.34%) Android
8 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 8 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.056%) CentOS
12 2 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.056%) zOS
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,123 (31.56%) Agile
2 623 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
3 584 (16.41%) Roadmaps
4 550 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 524 (14.73%) AI
6 506 (14.22%) Decision-Making
7 504 (14.17%) Migration
8 475 (13.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 459 (12.90%) DevOps
10 456 (12.82%) Analytics
11 427 (12.00%) Project Management
12 385 (10.82%) Project Delivery
13 363 (10.20%) Workshop Facilitation
14 361 (10.15%) User Acceptance Testing
15 345 (9.70%) CI/CD
16 340 (9.56%) Change Management
17 326 (9.16%) Risk Management
18 308 (8.66%) Validation
19 295 (8.29%) Data Governance
19 295 (8.29%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 403 (11.33%) SQL
2 262 (7.36%) Python
3 87 (2.45%) Java
4 73 (2.05%) PowerShell
5 62 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 51 (1.43%) C#
7 34 (0.96%) Bash
8 29 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 28 (0.79%) Bicep
10 24 (0.67%) Korn
11 21 (0.59%) R
12 16 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 15 (0.42%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.39%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.28%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.25%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.25%) Perl
16 9 (0.25%) VBA
17 7 (0.20%) C++
17 7 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 547 (15.37%) Security Cleared
2 459 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 216 (6.07%) Degree
4 181 (5.09%) PMP
5 159 (4.47%) PMI Certification
6 70 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 66 (1.85%) CISSP
8 58 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 55 (1.55%) DV Cleared
10 49 (1.38%) CISM
11 47 (1.32%) AWS Certification
12 42 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
13 35 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (0.70%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.59%) ACCA
15 21 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 21 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
16 20 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 19 (0.53%) CIMA
17 19 (0.53%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (8.60%) Data Quality
2 228 (6.41%) QA
3 162 (4.55%) PMO
4 100 (2.81%) GDPR
5 83 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (2.16%) NIST
7 72 (2.02%) Accessibility
8 61 (1.71%) GRC
9 45 (1.26%) SLA
10 25 (0.70%) NCSC
11 24 (0.67%) WCAG
12 20 (0.56%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.45%) SEPA
14 15 (0.42%) IFRS
15 14 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
15 14 (0.39%) COBIT
15 14 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
16 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 90 (2.53%) Active Directory
1 90 (2.53%) Docker
2 28 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.22%) vSphere
6 7 (0.20%) NFS
7 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.11%) Postfix
9 3 (0.084%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.084%) Varnish
9 3 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.084%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.056%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.028%) Firmware
11 1 (0.028%) IAG
11 1 (0.028%) oVirt
11 1 (0.028%) RACF
11 1 (0.028%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 111 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.26%) Ansible
3 35 (0.98%) Grafana
4 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.42%) SCCM
8 8 (0.22%) Argo
8 8 (0.22%) Control-M
9 7 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.11%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.11%) Kibana
11 4 (0.11%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.084%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.084%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.084%) Nagios
13 2 (0.056%) QRadar
13 2 (0.056%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 570 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 240 (6.75%) SAP
3 198 (5.56%) Oracle
4 155 (4.36%) ServiceNow
5 150 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 141 (3.96%) Databricks
7 70 (1.97%) Google
8 53 (1.49%) Workday
9 41 (1.15%) Cisco
9 41 (1.15%) IBM
10 40 (1.12%) VMware
11 38 (1.07%) Adobe
11 38 (1.07%) Splunk
12 32 (0.90%) Informatica
13 27 (0.76%) Bloomberg
14 26 (0.73%) CyberArk
15 22 (0.62%) Ariba
16 20 (0.56%) Guidewire
17 19 (0.53%) OpenAI
18 18 (0.51%) MuleSoft