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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 24 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,750 1,254 1,658
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.37% 8.06% 8.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.46% 8.98% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 798 1,191
10th Percentile £380 £388 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 12
10th Percentile £17.32 £31.40 £25.54
25th Percentile £23.94 - £39.86
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -39.13% -5.74%
75th Percentile £45.55 £39.04 £65.03
90th Percentile £72.25 £62.25 £71.76
England median hourly rate £48.75 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% -3.04%

All Process and 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 12,998 13,962 17,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.90% 89.74% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,565 9,018 12,564
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 164 235
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.65
25th Percentile £24.53 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +2.67% -9.30%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.53 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +16 257 £550 -8.33% 105
West London +7 26 £500 -2.44% 20
East London +11 9 £675 +26.17% 13
South London -24 9 £566 -5.75% 5
North London +3 3 £700 +72.84% 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 96 (5.49%) Confluence
2 37 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.03%) CMS
4 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.29%) Appian
6 5 (0.29%) Camunda
7 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.17%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.11%) Apache
9 2 (0.11%) Drupal
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.057%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 79 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.06%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.69%) Trello
6 8 (0.46%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.46%) Sketch
7 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.057%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.057%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.057%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.057%) InVision
9 1 (0.057%) Notion
Business Applications
1 77 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.54%) Endur
3 26 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.69%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.40%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.29%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.29%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.23%) Shopify
8 4 (0.23%) Workfront
9 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.17%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 250 (14.29%) Azure
2 154 (8.80%) AWS
3 142 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 62 (3.54%) SaaS
5 60 (3.43%) GCP
6 50 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.43%) Entra ID
9 25 (1.43%) Snowflake
10 23 (1.31%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.09%) PowerApps
12 17 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (0.91%) GitHub
13 16 (0.91%) Serverless
14 15 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
15 14 (0.80%) Collibra
15 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
16 12 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.11%) Firewall
2 15 (0.86%) WAN
3 13 (0.74%) Network Security
4 11 (0.63%) LAN
4 11 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 10 (0.57%) VPN
6 8 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.40%) DNS
8 6 (0.34%) DHCP
8 6 (0.34%) Internet
8 6 (0.34%) VoIP
9 5 (0.29%) BGP
9 5 (0.29%) CTI
10 4 (0.23%) 5G
10 4 (0.23%) Broadband
10 4 (0.23%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.23%) OSPF
11 3 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.17%) Cisco IPT
11 3 (0.17%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (7.20%) Power BI
2 39 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (2.11%) Tableau
4 35 (2.00%) Metadata
5 21 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 14 (0.80%) BigQuery
7 12 (0.69%) Big Data
8 10 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.46%) SQL Server
10 6 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.29%) Power Query
11 5 (0.29%) SAP BW
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.23%) DB2
12 4 (0.23%) Mixpanel
13 3 (0.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.17%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 188 (10.74%) JIRA
2 19 (1.09%) GitLab
3 16 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.80%) Git
5 8 (0.46%) Axure RP
5 8 (0.46%) Selenium
6 6 (0.34%) MLflow
6 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.29%) Gradle
7 5 (0.29%) SpecFlow
8 4 (0.23%) Appium
8 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.23%) Maven
8 4 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.17%) TestRail
10 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.11%) GCC
10 2 (0.11%) NUnit
10 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 916 (52.34%) Social Skills
2 666 (38.06%) Finance
3 281 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (10.46%) Banking
5 146 (8.34%) Public Sector
6 103 (5.89%) Marketing
7 90 (5.14%) Retail
8 83 (4.74%) Legal
9 73 (4.17%) Front Office
10 72 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
12 49 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (2.74%) Investment Banking
14 41 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 40 (2.29%) Financial Institution
16 36 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 35 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
17 35 (2.00%) Manufacturing
18 32 (1.83%) Law
19 29 (1.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 372 (21.26%) Analyst
2 278 (15.89%) Business Analyst
3 268 (15.31%) Project Manager
4 176 (10.06%) Lead
5 170 (9.71%) Architect
6 157 (8.97%) Senior
7 127 (7.26%) Consultant
8 69 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
9 62 (3.54%) Senior Manager
10 61 (3.49%) Programme Manager
11 51 (2.91%) Developer
12 47 (2.69%) Data Analyst
12 47 (2.69%) IT Manager
13 45 (2.57%) Product Manager
13 45 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
14 40 (2.29%) Delivery Manager
15 36 (2.06%) Senior Project Manager
16 35 (2.00%) Senior Business Analyst
17 34 (1.94%) Product Owner
18 29 (1.66%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.26%) REST
2 21 (1.20%) .NET
3 19 (1.09%) HTML
3 19 (1.09%) Kafka
4 16 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
5 14 (0.80%) Middleware
6 13 (0.74%) CSS
7 9 (0.51%) React
8 8 (0.46%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.40%) JSON
9 7 (0.40%) OAuth
9 7 (0.40%) Pandas
9 7 (0.40%) Plotly
10 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.34%) SOAP
11 5 (0.29%) Playwright
11 5 (0.29%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.29%) Vue
11 5 (0.29%) Web Services
11 5 (0.29%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 135 (7.71%) Product Ownership
2 66 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 43 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 42 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 35 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 35 (2.00%) Reinsurance
9 31 (1.77%) PMI
10 26 (1.49%) Fixed Income
11 24 (1.37%) Derivative
12 22 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 17 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
14 16 (0.91%) Equities
14 16 (0.91%) Life Science
15 15 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
15 15 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.06%) Windows
2 13 (0.74%) Linux
2 13 (0.74%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.51%) Android
3 9 (0.51%) Unix
4 8 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.057%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.057%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (32.00%) Agile
2 309 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
3 268 (15.31%) Project Management
4 229 (13.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 206 (11.77%) Migration
6 204 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 204 (11.66%) Roadmaps
7 186 (10.63%) Project Delivery
8 181 (10.34%) Change Management
9 169 (9.66%) Risk Management
10 166 (9.49%) Analytics
11 148 (8.46%) Requirements Gathering
12 147 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
13 143 (8.17%) Workshop Facilitation
14 141 (8.06%) Decision-Making
15 136 (7.77%) AI
16 135 (7.71%) DevOps
17 129 (7.37%) Scrum
18 125 (7.14%) Business Analysis
19 123 (7.03%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 157 (8.97%) SQL
2 132 (7.54%) Python
3 40 (2.29%) Java
4 34 (1.94%) C#
5 28 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 26 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 16 (0.91%) R
8 14 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.57%) Korn
10 8 (0.46%) Bash
11 7 (0.40%) C++
11 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.34%) VBA
13 5 (0.29%) Bicep
14 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.17%) PHP
15 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.11%) ABAP
16 2 (0.11%) Perl
16 2 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 192 (10.97%) Security Cleared
2 168 (9.60%) Degree
3 145 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 96 (5.49%) PMI Certification
5 78 (4.46%) PMP
6 35 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.77%) CISSP
8 22 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 16 (0.91%) CISM
11 15 (0.86%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.86%) CBAP
12 14 (0.80%) CIMA
13 13 (0.74%) ACCA
13 13 (0.74%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.57%) FFIEC
14 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.40%) QA
2 99 (5.66%) GDPR
3 66 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 53 (3.03%) PMO
5 41 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.83%) NIST
7 31 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 28 (1.60%) GRC
9 25 (1.43%) Accessibility
10 20 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.91%) IFRS
12 14 (0.80%) MiFID
13 13 (0.74%) SLA
14 11 (0.63%) NCSC
14 11 (0.63%) Solvency II
15 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.46%) EMIR
17 6 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 22 (1.26%) Docker
2 17 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.057%) Firmware
4 1 (0.057%) IAG
4 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (2.00%) Terraform
2 28 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.51%) Ansible
4 7 (0.40%) FortiGate
4 7 (0.40%) HP ALM
4 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.23%) Argo
5 4 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) Consul
7 2 (0.11%) Packer
7 2 (0.11%) SCCM
8 1 (0.057%) Grafana
8 1 (0.057%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.057%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.057%) SCOM
8 1 (0.057%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 211 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 162 (9.26%) SAP
3 73 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 71 (4.06%) Oracle
5 49 (2.80%) ServiceNow
6 45 (2.57%) Workday
7 38 (2.17%) Databricks
8 35 (2.00%) Google
9 23 (1.31%) Adobe
10 18 (1.03%) Ariba
11 16 (0.91%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.86%) Cisco
13 14 (0.80%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.69%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.69%) IBM
14 12 (0.69%) Informatica
15 11 (0.63%) Murex
16 10 (0.57%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
17 9 (0.51%) OpenAI