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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 23 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,774 1,237 1,519
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.28% 8.26% 8.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.44% 9.16% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,200 776 1,082
10th Percentile £391 £392 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £669 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 12
10th Percentile £17.64 £31.40 £25.54
25th Percentile £27.75 - £39.86
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -39.13% -7.76%
75th Percentile £56.48 £39.04 £65.03
90th Percentile £72.50 £62.25 £71.76
England median hourly rate £47.48 £60.00 £51.24
% change year-on-year -20.88% +17.10% +0.69%

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 13,200 13,500 16,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.19% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,658 11,798
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £758 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 166 236
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.05 £18.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £33.35
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +9.91% -13.95%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.30 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +22.56%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +11 261 £550 -8.75% 284
West London +6 28 £500 +10.50% 15
South London -23 10 £582 -3.04% 28
East London +7 7 £675 +26.17% 16
North London +5 4 £600 +48.15% 1
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
1 108 (6.09%) Confluence
2 37 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.79%) CMS
4 9 (0.51%) Appian
5 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.34%) Camunda
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.17%) nginx
8 3 (0.17%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.11%) Apache
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.056%) Documentum
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 83 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.20%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.79%) Trello
6 8 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.23%) Sketch
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.11%) InVision
10 1 (0.056%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.056%) Notion
Business Applications
1 78 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (1.52%) Endur
4 15 (0.85%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.39%) Loan IQ
7 7 (0.39%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.28%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.23%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 4 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 264 (14.88%) Azure
2 159 (8.96%) AWS
3 141 (7.95%) Power Platform
4 60 (3.38%) SaaS
5 56 (3.16%) GCP
6 51 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (1.52%) Snowflake
10 25 (1.41%) Power Automate
11 24 (1.35%) Entra ID
12 20 (1.13%) PowerApps
13 18 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (1.01%) GitHub
14 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (0.96%) Serverless
14 17 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
15 14 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (0.79%) Collibra
16 13 (0.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.25%) Firewall
2 17 (0.96%) WAN
3 13 (0.73%) Network Security
4 12 (0.68%) LAN
4 12 (0.68%) SD-WAN
4 12 (0.68%) VPN
5 8 (0.45%) DNS
5 8 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.39%) Broadband
6 7 (0.39%) VoIP
7 6 (0.34%) BGP
7 6 (0.34%) Internet
8 5 (0.28%) CTI
8 5 (0.28%) DHCP
8 5 (0.28%) OSPF
9 4 (0.23%) 5G
9 4 (0.23%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.23%) Intranet
10 3 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.17%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (7.10%) Power BI
2 39 (2.20%) Metadata
2 39 (2.20%) Tableau
3 37 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.24%) Data Lake
5 10 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.51%) BigQuery
6 9 (0.51%) SQL Server
7 8 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (0.45%) Big Data
8 6 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.28%) Power Query
9 5 (0.28%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.23%) DB2
10 4 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.23%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 198 (11.16%) JIRA
2 18 (1.01%) GitLab
3 17 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.73%) Git
5 7 (0.39%) SpecFlow
6 5 (0.28%) Selenium
6 5 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Axure RP
7 4 (0.23%) Gradle
7 4 (0.23%) MLflow
7 4 (0.23%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.17%) Maven
8 3 (0.17%) TestRail
9 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.11%) ERwin
9 2 (0.11%) GCC
9 2 (0.11%) LSMW
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 933 (52.59%) Social Skills
2 681 (38.39%) Finance
3 288 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (10.71%) Banking
5 151 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 97 (5.47%) Marketing
7 88 (4.96%) Retail
8 78 (4.40%) Legal
9 76 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
10 65 (3.66%) Front Office
11 55 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
12 50 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
13 45 (2.54%) Investment Banking
14 44 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
15 39 (2.20%) Financial Institution
16 38 (2.14%) Manufacturing
17 37 (2.09%) Telecoms
18 33 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 30 (1.69%) Back Office
20 28 (1.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 372 (20.97%) Analyst
2 282 (15.90%) Business Analyst
3 264 (14.88%) Project Manager
4 186 (10.48%) Lead
5 176 (9.92%) Architect
6 152 (8.57%) Senior
7 129 (7.27%) Consultant
8 65 (3.66%) Programme Manager
8 65 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
9 64 (3.61%) Senior Manager
10 49 (2.76%) Developer
11 48 (2.71%) Data Analyst
12 46 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
13 42 (2.37%) IT Manager
14 41 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
15 39 (2.20%) Product Manager
16 36 (2.03%) Senior Business Analyst
17 35 (1.97%) Product Owner
18 34 (1.92%) Change Manager
18 34 (1.92%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.18%) REST
2 20 (1.13%) .NET
3 18 (1.01%) Kafka
3 18 (1.01%) Middleware
4 17 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (0.73%) HTML
6 10 (0.56%) Pandas
7 8 (0.45%) CSS
7 8 (0.45%) NumPy
7 8 (0.45%) React
7 8 (0.45%) scikit-learn
7 8 (0.45%) Web Services
8 7 (0.39%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.39%) JSON
8 7 (0.39%) OAuth
8 7 (0.39%) Playwright
8 7 (0.39%) Plotly
9 6 (0.34%) PySpark
9 6 (0.34%) PyTorch
9 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 125 (7.05%) Product Ownership
2 74 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 49 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 47 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
5 46 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 43 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
7 40 (2.25%) Cloud Native
8 34 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 30 (1.69%) Reinsurance
10 27 (1.52%) PMI
11 24 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 21 (1.18%) Derivative
13 21 (1.18%) Fixed Income
14 19 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (1.07%) Life Science
15 17 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
15 17 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
16 16 (0.90%) NHS
16 16 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.80%) Windows
2 12 (0.68%) Linux
2 12 (0.68%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.51%) Unix
4 5 (0.28%) VMS
5 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.056%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (32.30%) Agile
2 324 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
3 284 (16.01%) Project Management
4 235 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 223 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 222 (12.51%) Migration
7 212 (11.95%) Roadmaps
8 192 (10.82%) Project Delivery
9 189 (10.65%) Change Management
10 175 (9.86%) Analytics
11 167 (9.41%) Risk Management
12 159 (8.96%) Decision-Making
13 152 (8.57%) AI
14 150 (8.46%) Workshop Facilitation
15 149 (8.40%) Requirements Gathering
16 148 (8.34%) Business Intelligence
17 140 (7.89%) Scrum
18 136 (7.67%) Data Modelling
18 136 (7.67%) DevOps
19 126 (7.10%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 163 (9.19%) SQL
2 131 (7.38%) Python
3 36 (2.03%) Java
4 32 (1.80%) C#
5 26 (1.47%) PowerShell
6 25 (1.41%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.90%) R
8 14 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 9 (0.51%) Bash
9 9 (0.51%) Korn
10 7 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.34%) C++
11 6 (0.34%) VBA
12 5 (0.28%) Bicep
12 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.17%) ABAP
13 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.17%) VB
14 2 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 202 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 164 (9.24%) Degree
3 158 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 98 (5.52%) PMI Certification
5 86 (4.85%) PMP
6 35 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.75%) CISSP
8 24 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (0.96%) CBAP
11 16 (0.90%) CISM
12 14 (0.79%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.73%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.68%) CIMA
14 12 (0.68%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.56%) ACCA
15 10 (0.56%) AWS Certification
15 10 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.51%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (7.05%) QA
2 103 (5.81%) GDPR
3 84 (4.74%) Data Quality
4 60 (3.38%) PMO
5 44 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.92%) NIST
7 30 (1.69%) GRC
7 30 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 22 (1.24%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.90%) SLA
11 14 (0.79%) MiFID
12 13 (0.73%) IFRS
13 12 (0.68%) NCSC
14 10 (0.56%) EMIR
15 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 9 (0.51%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (1.24%) Docker
2 18 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.056%) Firmware
4 1 (0.056%) IAG
4 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (1.75%) Terraform
2 29 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.45%) Ansible
3 8 (0.45%) FortiGate
4 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.17%) Argo
6 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) Consul
7 2 (0.11%) Packer
7 2 (0.11%) SCCM
8 1 (0.056%) Grafana
8 1 (0.056%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.056%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.056%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.056%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 219 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 164 (9.24%) SAP
3 75 (4.23%) Salesforce
4 72 (4.06%) Oracle
5 60 (3.38%) ServiceNow
6 47 (2.65%) Databricks
6 47 (2.65%) Workday
7 34 (1.92%) Google
8 20 (1.13%) Ariba
9 17 (0.96%) Adobe
10 15 (0.85%) Bloomberg
10 15 (0.85%) Cisco
10 15 (0.85%) MuleSoft
11 14 (0.79%) IBM
12 13 (0.73%) Fortinet
12 13 (0.73%) Informatica
13 12 (0.68%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.62%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.62%) Planview
15 10 (0.56%) Pega