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

6 months to
6 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 3,882 1,488 1,258
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.17% 11.18% 7.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.58% 12.08% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,569 1,017 801
10th Percentile £400 £363 £382
25th Percentile £465 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -7.95%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £668
90th Percentile £788 £755 £775
England median daily rate £550 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 12
10th Percentile £24.81 £17.00 £30.68
25th Percentile £34.30 £26.81 £34.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -2.86% +13.82%
75th Percentile £61.13 £43.09 £57.31
90th Percentile £71.50 £65.75 £63.50
England median hourly rate £61.00 £48.25 £61.33
% change year-on-year +26.42% -21.33% +29.96%

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 17,988 12,322 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,124 9,349
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £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 337 241 182
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.14% -5.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +10 500 £600 +9.09% 447
West London +12 147 £550 +10.00% 82
South London +9 32 £550 -4.84% 17
East London +4 18 £600 -11.11% 26
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
1 182 (4.69%) Confluence
2 99 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.57%) CMS
4 42 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.75%) Apache
6 22 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.49%) 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 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 (0.077%) Moodle
15 3 (0.077%) MTS
15 3 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 174 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 75 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
4 57 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 46 (1.18%) 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 (0.077%) CPLEX
12 3 (0.077%) 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
1 117 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 20 (0.52%) Workday HCM
5 16 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.39%) 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 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 10 (0.26%) SAP SD
11 10 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 9 (0.23%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 737 (18.99%) Azure
2 482 (12.42%) AWS
3 318 (8.19%) Power Platform
4 168 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
5 165 (4.25%) SaaS
6 163 (4.20%) GCP
7 144 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
8 127 (3.27%) GitHub
9 120 (3.09%) Entra ID
10 98 (2.52%) Snowflake
11 74 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
12 73 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
13 67 (1.73%) Serverless
14 57 (1.47%) Power Automate
15 54 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
16 51 (1.31%) Amazon S3
17 49 (1.26%) PowerApps
18 46 (1.18%) dbt
18 46 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
19 45 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 72 (1.85%) Firewall
2 51 (1.31%) Network Security
3 37 (0.95%) DNS
4 36 (0.93%) WAN
5 27 (0.70%) VPN
6 23 (0.59%) LAN
7 22 (0.57%) DHCP
8 20 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.49%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.46%) BGP
11 16 (0.41%) Internet
12 15 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.36%) 4G
13 14 (0.36%) 5G
14 13 (0.33%) Wireless
15 11 (0.28%) 3GPP
15 11 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
15 11 (0.28%) SSL
15 11 (0.28%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (6.31%) Power BI
2 135 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (3.43%) Metadata
4 71 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 67 (1.73%) Tableau
6 66 (1.70%) Data Lake
7 54 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (1.18%) Delta Lake
9 38 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 33 (0.85%) Relational Database
11 28 (0.72%) Oracle Database
12 27 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (0.70%) MongoDB
13 26 (0.67%) BigQuery
14 25 (0.64%) NoSQL
15 24 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
16 18 (0.46%) Redis
17 17 (0.44%) DynamoDB
18 16 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
19 15 (0.39%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 371 (9.56%) JIRA
2 79 (2.04%) Git
3 70 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.29%) GitLab
5 26 (0.67%) Selenium
6 15 (0.39%) Postman
7 12 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.28%) JUnit
9 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.23%) Zephyr
10 8 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.21%) ERwin
11 7 (0.18%) Maven
12 6 (0.15%) Appium
12 6 (0.15%) ER Studio
12 6 (0.15%) JMeter
12 6 (0.15%) TestNG
13 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 2,024 (52.14%) Social Skills
2 1,471 (37.89%) Finance
3 700 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 577 (14.86%) Banking
5 464 (11.95%) Public Sector
6 257 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
7 241 (6.21%) Retail
8 200 (5.15%) Legal
9 180 (4.64%) Marketing
10 151 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
11 136 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 119 (3.07%) Front Office
13 106 (2.73%) Manufacturing
14 102 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
15 95 (2.45%) Investment Banking
16 89 (2.29%) Telecoms
17 79 (2.04%) Local Government
18 71 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 51 (1.31%) Billing
20 49 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 613 (15.79%) Analyst
2 518 (13.34%) Architect
3 488 (12.57%) Lead
4 426 (10.97%) Senior
5 409 (10.54%) Business Analyst
6 391 (10.07%) Project Manager
7 249 (6.41%) Consultant
8 175 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
9 136 (3.50%) Senior Manager
10 114 (2.94%) Programme Manager
11 104 (2.68%) Developer
12 103 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
13 94 (2.42%) IT Manager
14 92 (2.37%) Product Manager
15 87 (2.24%) Technical Manager
16 85 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
17 75 (1.93%) Product Owner
18 74 (1.91%) Data Analyst
19 67 (1.73%) Data Engineer
20 65 (1.67%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (4.61%) Terraform
2 132 (3.40%) REST
3 81 (2.09%) Middleware
4 70 (1.80%) .NET
5 65 (1.67%) Kafka
6 53 (1.37%) PySpark
7 45 (1.16%) SOAP
8 38 (0.98%) OAuth
9 36 (0.93%) HTML
10 32 (0.82%) JSON
11 31 (0.80%) CSS
11 31 (0.80%) React
12 30 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
12 30 (0.77%) Web Services
12 30 (0.77%) XML
13 24 (0.62%) Spring
14 23 (0.59%) Spring Boot
15 21 (0.54%) Node.js
16 20 (0.52%) SailPoint
17 19 (0.49%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 329 (8.48%) Product Ownership
2 251 (6.47%) Onboarding
3 187 (4.82%) Cloud Native
4 114 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 111 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 85 (2.19%) AI Agents
7 81 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 78 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 75 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
10 71 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 71 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 64 (1.65%) Virtual Team
12 59 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
13 58 (1.49%) Operational Technology
14 51 (1.31%) NHS
15 45 (1.16%) Security Posture
16 44 (1.13%) CMDB
17 42 (1.08%) Derivative
18 41 (1.06%) Taxonomies
19 40 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.32%) Windows
2 82 (2.11%) Linux
3 35 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.72%) 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 (0.21%) 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 (0.077%) 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 1,205 (31.04%) Agile
2 698 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
3 671 (17.28%) Roadmaps
4 597 (15.38%) AI
5 595 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 575 (14.81%) Migration
7 551 (14.19%) Decision-Making
8 546 (14.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 512 (13.19%) DevOps
10 510 (13.14%) Analytics
11 434 (11.18%) Workshop Facilitation
12 421 (10.84%) Project Management
13 409 (10.54%) Project Delivery
14 402 (10.36%) CI/CD
15 382 (9.84%) User Acceptance Testing
16 381 (9.81%) Change Management
17 380 (9.79%) Risk Management
18 348 (8.96%) Requirements Gathering
19 347 (8.94%) Validation
20 321 (8.27%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 457 (11.77%) SQL
2 300 (7.73%) Python
3 98 (2.52%) Java
4 84 (2.16%) PowerShell
5 77 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 63 (1.62%) C#
7 42 (1.08%) Bash
8 38 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 33 (0.85%) Bicep
10 28 (0.72%) Korn
11 21 (0.54%) R
12 18 (0.46%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.31%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.23%) Go
16 9 (0.23%) Perl
17 8 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.21%) Groovy
17 8 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 599 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 499 (12.85%) SC Cleared
3 251 (6.47%) Degree
4 193 (4.97%) PMP
5 173 (4.46%) PMI Certification
6 93 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 72 (1.85%) CISSP
8 66 (1.70%) Azure Certification
9 59 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 57 (1.47%) DV Cleared
11 55 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (1.39%) CISM
13 39 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 30 (0.77%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.67%) CRISC
16 24 (0.62%) ACCA
16 24 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 21 (0.54%) CIMA
18 21 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 340 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 232 (5.98%) QA
3 159 (4.10%) PMO
4 106 (2.73%) GDPR
5 100 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 88 (2.27%) Accessibility
7 84 (2.16%) NIST
8 65 (1.67%) GRC
9 52 (1.34%) SLA
10 35 (0.90%) NCSC
11 28 (0.72%) WCAG
12 22 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
13 21 (0.54%) ISO 20022
14 17 (0.44%) IFRS
14 17 (0.44%) SEPA
15 15 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.36%) COBIT
17 12 (0.31%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.31%) PSD2
18 11 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (2.58%) Docker
2 96 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 27 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.23%) vSphere
7 6 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.13%) NFS
9 3 (0.077%) Postfix
9 3 (0.077%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.052%) IAG
10 2 (0.052%) RACF
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
11 1 (0.026%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.026%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 127 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.26%) Ansible
3 42 (1.08%) Grafana
4 29 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.39%) SCCM
8 9 (0.23%) Control-M
9 8 (0.21%) Argo
10 7 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.13%) Kibana
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
12 4 (0.10%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.077%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.077%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.077%) Nagios
14 2 (0.052%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.052%) HP ALM
14 2 (0.052%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 657 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 272 (7.01%) SAP
3 206 (5.31%) Oracle
4 167 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 158 (4.07%) Databricks
5 158 (4.07%) Salesforce
6 85 (2.19%) Google
7 62 (1.60%) Workday
8 56 (1.44%) Cisco
9 46 (1.18%) IBM
10 44 (1.13%) Splunk
11 39 (1.00%) Adobe
11 39 (1.00%) VMware
12 31 (0.80%) Bloomberg
12 31 (0.80%) Informatica
13 27 (0.70%) Ariba
14 25 (0.64%) OpenAI
15 24 (0.62%) CyberArk
16 22 (0.57%) Dynatrace
17 19 (0.49%) MuleSoft