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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,028 1,521 1,247
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.64% 11.35% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.07% 12.28% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,679 1,050 794
10th Percentile £400 £363 £381
25th Percentile £463 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £663
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 20 12
10th Percentile £24.81 £17.00 £30.68
25th Percentile £32.78 £26.81 £34.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -2.86% -15.92%
75th Percentile £60.94 £43.09 £57.31
90th Percentile £71.13 £65.75 £63.50
England median hourly rate £62.00 £47.50 £60.60
% change year-on-year +30.53% -21.62% +31.23%

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 18,249 12,388 14,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.48% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,954 8,186 9,270
10th Percentile £360 £333 £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 £665 £663 £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 345 242 178
10th Percentile £15.93 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +8 520 £600 +9.09% 324
West London +13 150 £550 +10.00% 56
South London +2 31 £550 -4.84% 9
East London +9 19 £600 +20.00% 21
North London +5 12 £450 -33.33% 4
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
1 189 (4.69%) Confluence
2 99 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.59%) CMS
4 42 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.72%) Apache
6 23 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.30%) SAS
10 9 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 8 (0.20%) WordPress
12 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.099%) Appian
13 4 (0.099%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.099%) Kentico
14 3 (0.074%) Mendix
14 3 (0.074%) MTS
14 3 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 186 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 74 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
4 61 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 48 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.30%) Revit
7 11 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.20%) Navisworks
9 7 (0.17%) Trello
10 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.099%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.099%) Notion
12 3 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.074%) CPLEX
12 3 (0.074%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.074%) Productboard
12 3 (0.074%) Sketch
13 2 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 122 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 21 (0.52%) Workday HCM
5 17 (0.42%) NetSuite
6 16 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 16 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 15 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 14 (0.35%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.35%) SAP HCM
9 12 (0.30%) Finacle
9 12 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
9 12 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
10 11 (0.27%) Magento
10 11 (0.27%) SAP CO
10 11 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.25%) SAP SD
11 10 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 9 (0.22%) Endur
12 9 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 758 (18.82%) Azure
2 493 (12.24%) AWS
3 328 (8.14%) Power Platform
4 176 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
5 175 (4.34%) SaaS
6 164 (4.07%) GCP
7 153 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
8 130 (3.23%) GitHub
9 121 (3.00%) Entra ID
10 107 (2.66%) Snowflake
11 82 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
12 78 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
13 72 (1.79%) Serverless
14 59 (1.46%) Power Automate
15 56 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 56 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
16 51 (1.27%) PowerApps
17 48 (1.19%) dbt
18 47 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 46 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 74 (1.84%) Firewall
2 51 (1.27%) Network Security
3 40 (0.99%) DNS
4 36 (0.89%) WAN
5 28 (0.70%) VPN
6 23 (0.57%) LAN
7 22 (0.55%) DHCP
7 22 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.52%) BGP
9 19 (0.47%) Internet
9 19 (0.47%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.35%) 4G
11 14 (0.35%) 5G
12 13 (0.32%) Wireless
13 11 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
13 11 (0.27%) OSPF
13 11 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
13 11 (0.27%) SSL
13 11 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (6.23%) Power BI
2 141 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (3.28%) Metadata
4 76 (1.89%) SQL Server
5 74 (1.84%) Tableau
6 66 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 58 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (1.09%) Delta Lake
9 42 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 33 (0.82%) Relational Database
11 29 (0.72%) Oracle Database
12 28 (0.70%) MongoDB
13 26 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 26 (0.65%) BigQuery
13 26 (0.65%) NoSQL
14 25 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
15 19 (0.47%) DynamoDB
16 18 (0.45%) Redis
17 17 (0.42%) Looker
18 16 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 380 (9.43%) JIRA
2 86 (2.14%) Git
3 74 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.29%) GitLab
5 32 (0.79%) Selenium
6 19 (0.47%) Postman
7 13 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.30%) JUnit
8 12 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 11 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
11 8 (0.20%) ERwin
12 7 (0.17%) Maven
12 7 (0.17%) TestNG
13 6 (0.15%) Appium
13 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
13 6 (0.15%) JMeter
14 5 (0.12%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 2,096 (52.04%) Social Skills
2 1,540 (38.23%) Finance
3 739 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
4 607 (15.07%) Banking
5 484 (12.02%) Public Sector
6 267 (6.63%) Influencing Skills
7 245 (6.08%) Retail
8 209 (5.19%) Legal
9 189 (4.69%) Marketing
10 155 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
11 147 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
12 123 (3.05%) Front Office
13 111 (2.76%) Manufacturing
14 105 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
15 101 (2.51%) Investment Banking
16 94 (2.33%) Telecoms
17 81 (2.01%) Local Government
18 72 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 52 (1.29%) Billing
20 51 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 646 (16.04%) Analyst
2 528 (13.11%) Architect
3 515 (12.79%) Lead
4 445 (11.05%) Senior
5 431 (10.70%) Business Analyst
6 411 (10.20%) Project Manager
7 261 (6.48%) Consultant
8 178 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
9 142 (3.53%) Senior Manager
10 116 (2.88%) Programme Manager
11 114 (2.83%) Delivery Manager
12 110 (2.73%) Developer
13 93 (2.31%) Product Manager
14 92 (2.28%) IT Manager
15 91 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
16 87 (2.16%) Technical Manager
17 81 (2.01%) Data Analyst
17 81 (2.01%) Product Owner
18 67 (1.66%) Senior Business Analyst
19 66 (1.64%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (4.69%) Terraform
2 138 (3.43%) REST
3 83 (2.06%) Middleware
4 78 (1.94%) .NET
5 66 (1.64%) Kafka
6 54 (1.34%) PySpark
7 46 (1.14%) SOAP
8 38 (0.94%) OAuth
9 36 (0.89%) HTML
10 33 (0.82%) JSON
10 33 (0.82%) Web Services
11 32 (0.79%) React
12 31 (0.77%) CSS
13 30 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
14 29 (0.72%) XML
15 25 (0.62%) Spring
16 24 (0.60%) Spring Boot
17 21 (0.52%) Node.js
18 20 (0.50%) Playwright
19 19 (0.47%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 344 (8.54%) Product Ownership
2 249 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 196 (4.87%) Cloud Native
4 120 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
5 117 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 93 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 89 (2.21%) Data Centre
8 79 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 78 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 75 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
11 73 (1.81%) Virtual Team
12 70 (1.74%) Data Structures
13 62 (1.54%) Operational Technology
14 59 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
15 52 (1.29%) NHS
16 49 (1.22%) CMDB
17 47 (1.17%) Security Posture
18 42 (1.04%) Derivative
18 42 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
18 42 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 134 (3.33%) Windows
2 87 (2.16%) Linux
3 36 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.70%) Unix
5 17 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.40%) Android
6 16 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.20%) VMS
9 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
10 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.12%) macOS
11 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.074%) zOS
13 2 (0.050%) CentOS
13 2 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.025%) AIX
14 1 (0.025%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,245 (30.91%) Agile
2 741 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
3 690 (17.13%) Roadmaps
4 624 (15.49%) AI
5 615 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 596 (14.80%) Migration
7 581 (14.42%) Decision-Making
8 569 (14.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 536 (13.31%) DevOps
10 517 (12.84%) Analytics
11 456 (11.32%) Workshop Facilitation
12 437 (10.85%) Project Delivery
13 433 (10.75%) Project Management
14 425 (10.55%) CI/CD
15 406 (10.08%) User Acceptance Testing
16 391 (9.71%) Risk Management
17 388 (9.63%) Change Management
18 371 (9.21%) Requirements Gathering
19 359 (8.91%) Validation
20 334 (8.29%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 472 (11.72%) SQL
2 322 (7.99%) Python
3 101 (2.51%) Java
4 89 (2.21%) PowerShell
5 81 (2.01%) JavaScript
6 72 (1.79%) C#
7 43 (1.07%) Bash
8 39 (0.97%) TypeScript
9 36 (0.89%) Bicep
10 28 (0.70%) Korn
11 21 (0.52%) R
12 17 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.30%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.25%) Perl
17 9 (0.22%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.22%) Go
17 9 (0.22%) Groovy
18 8 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 610 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 511 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 263 (6.53%) Degree
4 196 (4.87%) PMP
5 178 (4.42%) PMI Certification
6 95 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 78 (1.94%) CISSP
8 66 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 64 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 60 (1.49%) CISM
11 57 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 57 (1.42%) DV Cleared
12 41 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 32 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 29 (0.72%) ISTQB
15 28 (0.70%) CRISC
16 27 (0.67%) ACCA
17 25 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.60%) CIMA
19 22 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 348 (8.64%) Data Quality
2 242 (6.01%) QA
3 163 (4.05%) PMO
4 110 (2.73%) GDPR
5 105 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 93 (2.31%) Accessibility
7 88 (2.18%) NIST
8 65 (1.61%) GRC
9 52 (1.29%) SLA
10 36 (0.89%) NCSC
11 30 (0.74%) WCAG
12 25 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
13 22 (0.55%) ISO 20022
14 18 (0.45%) IFRS
14 18 (0.45%) SEPA
15 15 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.35%) COBIT
16 14 (0.35%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.30%) PSD2
18 11 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (2.66%) Docker
2 97 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.25%) vSphere
7 6 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.12%) NFS
9 3 (0.074%) Postfix
9 3 (0.074%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.050%) IAG
10 2 (0.050%) RACF
10 2 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.050%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.025%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.025%) oVirt
11 1 (0.025%) RHEV
11 1 (0.025%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.025%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 133 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 55 (1.37%) Ansible
3 44 (1.09%) Grafana
4 30 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.40%) SCCM
8 9 (0.22%) Control-M
9 8 (0.20%) Argo
10 7 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.15%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Puppet
12 5 (0.12%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.099%) CA Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.074%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.074%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.074%) Nagios
14 3 (0.074%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.050%) QRadar
15 2 (0.050%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 694 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 274 (6.80%) SAP
3 208 (5.16%) Oracle
4 176 (4.37%) ServiceNow
5 168 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 161 (4.00%) Databricks
7 87 (2.16%) Google
8 63 (1.56%) Workday
9 58 (1.44%) Cisco
10 50 (1.24%) IBM
11 48 (1.19%) Splunk
12 42 (1.04%) VMware
13 40 (0.99%) Adobe
14 33 (0.82%) Bloomberg
15 31 (0.77%) Informatica
16 26 (0.65%) Ariba
16 26 (0.65%) CyberArk
17 25 (0.62%) OpenAI
18 22 (0.55%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.52%) Murex