Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends in Central London

Stakeholder Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 15 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 400 257 163
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 15.36% 12.54% 7.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.41% 13.36% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 180 116
10th Percentile £413 £390 £409
25th Percentile £475 £456 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £702
90th Percentile £799 £775 £850
London median daily rate £563 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £23.60 £37.39 -
25th Percentile £40.25 £41.54 £53.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% -13.91% -
75th Percentile £70.25 £50.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.55 £80.30 -
London median hourly rate £43.00 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.44% +5.88% +19.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,298 1,924 2,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.21% 93.85% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,574 1,270 1,445
10th Percentile £363 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 32 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.43
Median hourly rate £22.83 £30.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% +11.24% -22.86%
75th Percentile £54.00 £50.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.63 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year +19.03% -14.89% -14.11%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management in Central London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in Central London

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management in Central London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in Central London

Stakeholder Management
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
City of London +9 354 £600 - 312
City of Westminster +4 18 £575 +21.05% 24
West End of London +3 17 £475 +90.00% 9
Southwark +3 6 £600 - 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £600 -
Camden +1 1 £625 - 2
Stakeholder Management
London

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 14 (3.50%) Confluence
2 11 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.25%) CMS
4 3 (0.75%) Apache
4 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.75%) SAS
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) Appian
5 1 (0.25%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.25%) nginx
5 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.25%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.25%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.50%) Actimize
5 2 (0.50%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.50%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.50%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.25%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.25%) Magento
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 69 (17.25%) Azure
2 38 (9.50%) AWS
3 28 (7.00%) Power Platform
4 19 (4.75%) SaaS
5 13 (3.25%) GCP
5 13 (3.25%) GitHub
6 12 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.25%) PowerApps
9 8 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (2.00%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.75%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.25%) Azure AI
11 5 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (1.00%) dbt
12 4 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.00%) DNS
2 7 (1.75%) Firewall
3 6 (1.50%) Network Security
4 5 (1.25%) VPN
5 3 (0.75%) DHCP
5 3 (0.75%) SMS
5 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.50%) FTP
6 2 (0.50%) HTTP
6 2 (0.50%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.50%) LAN
6 2 (0.50%) SSL
6 2 (0.50%) WAN
6 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.25%) DKIM
7 1 (0.25%) NGN
7 1 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.00%) Power BI
2 14 (3.50%) Metadata
3 10 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.75%) Tableau
5 5 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.75%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.50%) Db2
8 2 (0.50%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.50%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (7.50%) JIRA
2 4 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.75%) Git
4 2 (0.50%) GitLab
4 2 (0.50%) Selenium
5 1 (0.25%) Appium
5 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.25%) Introscope
5 1 (0.25%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.25%) Snyk
5 1 (0.25%) WebDriver
General
1 218 (54.50%) Social Skills
2 167 (41.75%) Finance
3 63 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (14.50%) Banking
5 37 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 30 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
7 26 (6.50%) Retail
8 22 (5.50%) Marketing
9 21 (5.25%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (4.00%) Legal
10 16 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (3.25%) Financial Institution
12 12 (3.00%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.75%) General Ledger
14 10 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (2.00%) Front Office
17 7 (1.75%) Law
17 7 (1.75%) Local Government
18 6 (1.50%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 79 (19.75%) Analyst
2 54 (13.50%) Project Manager
3 51 (12.75%) Business Analyst
4 44 (11.00%) Lead
5 40 (10.00%) Senior
6 36 (9.00%) Architect
7 27 (6.75%) Consultant
8 22 (5.50%) Programme Manager
9 18 (4.50%) Data Analyst
9 18 (4.50%) Product Manager
10 17 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.75%) Senior Manager
12 13 (3.25%) Developer
13 11 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
14 10 (2.50%) Bid Manager
15 8 (2.00%) Digital Business Analyst
15 8 (2.00%) IT Manager
15 8 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
15 8 (2.00%) Technical Analyst
16 7 (1.75%) Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.00%) REST
2 10 (2.50%) Middleware
3 8 (2.00%) JSON
3 8 (2.00%) SOAP
4 7 (1.75%) HTML
5 5 (1.25%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.25%) CSS
6 4 (1.00%) .NET
6 4 (1.00%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.00%) PySpark
6 4 (1.00%) XML
7 3 (0.75%) EDI
7 3 (0.75%) jQuery
7 3 (0.75%) OAuth
8 2 (0.50%) ADO
8 2 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.50%) Playwright
8 2 (0.50%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.25%) Product Ownership
2 20 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.25%) FMCG
4 9 (2.25%) Virtual Team
5 8 (2.00%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.75%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.50%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.25%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.25%) Derivative
8 5 (1.25%) NHS
9 4 (1.00%) CMDB
9 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.00%) PMI
10 3 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.75%) Market Risk
10 3 (0.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.75%) Windows
2 6 (1.50%) Linux
3 5 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.75%) Android
4 3 (0.75%) Unix
4 3 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.25%) AIX
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (32.25%) Agile
2 71 (17.75%) Migration
3 65 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (15.75%) Project Management
5 58 (14.50%) Decision-Making
5 58 (14.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 55 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (12.25%) Roadmaps
8 46 (11.50%) Analytics
9 43 (10.75%) Project Delivery
10 41 (10.25%) CI/CD
11 40 (10.00%) PRINCE2
12 38 (9.50%) User Stories
13 37 (9.25%) Data Governance
13 37 (9.25%) Risk Management
14 36 (9.00%) AI
15 35 (8.75%) Scrum
15 35 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
16 34 (8.50%) Validation
17 33 (8.25%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 42 (10.50%) SQL
2 24 (6.00%) Python
3 8 (2.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.25%) Java
4 5 (1.25%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.00%) Korn
6 3 (0.75%) Bash
7 2 (0.50%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.50%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.50%) C#
7 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.50%) Perl
7 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.25%) ABAP
8 1 (0.25%) COBOL
8 1 (0.25%) PHP
8 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.25%) RPG
8 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.50%) PMP
2 38 (9.50%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.00%) PMI Certification
4 18 (4.50%) Degree
5 8 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.00%) CISM
7 4 (1.00%) CISSP
8 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.50%) PhD
9 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.25%) CSPO
10 1 (0.25%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.25%) QA
2 27 (6.75%) Data Quality
3 25 (6.25%) PMO
4 13 (3.25%) GDPR
4 13 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.00%) NIST
6 9 (2.25%) SLA
7 7 (1.75%) GRC
8 4 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.75%) PSD2
10 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.50%) Basel III
10 2 (0.50%) IFRS
10 2 (0.50%) PERC
10 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.25%) P3O
11 1 (0.25%) UCITS
System Software
1 11 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.75%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.25%) Varnish
4 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (2.25%) Terraform
2 6 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.75%) Grafana
3 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.50%) SCCM
4 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.25%) Ansible
5 1 (0.25%) CA Wily
5 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.25%) Puppet
5 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.75%) SAP
3 15 (3.75%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.50%) Databricks
5 13 (3.25%) Oracle
5 13 (3.25%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.50%) Google
7 7 (1.75%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.50%) Splunk
9 4 (1.00%) Cisco
9 4 (1.00%) Workday
10 3 (0.75%) Adobe
10 3 (0.75%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.75%) Apple
10 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.75%) Foundry
10 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.75%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.75%) VMware
11 2 (0.50%) Tenable