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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 23 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,770 1,262 1,569
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.30% 8.30% 8.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.44% 9.22% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 798 1,121
10th Percentile £388 £398 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £668 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 12
10th Percentile £17.00 £31.40 £25.54
25th Percentile £22.50 - £39.86
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -39.13% -7.26%
75th Percentile £53.75 £39.04 £65.03
90th Percentile £72.50 £62.25 £71.76
England median hourly rate £48.75 £57.00 £51.06
% change year-on-year -14.47% +11.64% -0.99%

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 13,166 13,695 16,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.05% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,682 8,808 12,056
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 165 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +5.80% -11.25%
75th Percentile £48.44 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +8 251 £550 -8.68% 75
West London +5 27 £500 +10.50% 26
South London -23 9 £581 -3.10% 8
East London +9 7 £675 +26.17% 21
North London +4 4 £600 +48.15% 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
1 104 (5.88%) Confluence
2 37 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.79%) CMS
4 7 (0.40%) Appian
4 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.34%) Anypoint
5 6 (0.34%) Camunda
6 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.17%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.11%) Apache
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.11%) Drupal
8 2 (0.11%) nginx
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.11%) WordPress
9 1 (0.056%) Kentico
9 1 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 86 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (2.32%) MS Visio
4 40 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.056%) Notion
Business Applications
1 76 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (1.58%) Endur
4 13 (0.73%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.40%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.28%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.28%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.23%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 4 (0.23%) Workfront
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (0.17%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 257 (14.52%) Azure
2 153 (8.64%) AWS
3 143 (8.08%) Power Platform
4 61 (3.45%) SaaS
5 57 (3.22%) GCP
6 51 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.41%) Entra ID
9 25 (1.41%) Snowflake
10 23 (1.30%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.07%) PowerApps
12 18 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (1.02%) GitHub
13 17 (0.96%) Serverless
13 17 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
14 16 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (0.79%) Collibra
16 13 (0.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.03%) Firewall
2 15 (0.85%) WAN
3 13 (0.73%) Network Security
4 11 (0.62%) LAN
4 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
4 11 (0.62%) VPN
5 8 (0.45%) DNS
6 7 (0.40%) Broadband
6 7 (0.40%) VoIP
6 7 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.34%) Internet
8 5 (0.28%) BGP
8 5 (0.28%) CTI
8 5 (0.28%) DHCP
9 4 (0.23%) 5G
9 4 (0.23%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.23%) OSPF
10 3 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.17%) Cisco IPT
10 3 (0.17%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.18%) Power BI
2 39 (2.20%) Tableau
3 37 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (2.09%) Metadata
4 22 (1.24%) Data Lake
5 13 (0.73%) BigQuery
6 11 (0.62%) Big Data
6 11 (0.62%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (0.45%) SQL Server
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%) Data Vault
10 4 (0.23%) DB2
10 4 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 202 (11.41%) JIRA
2 18 (1.02%) GitLab
3 17 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.73%) Git
5 7 (0.40%) Selenium
5 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.34%) SpecFlow
7 5 (0.28%) Gradle
8 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.23%) Axure RP
8 4 (0.23%) Maven
8 4 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.17%) MLflow
9 3 (0.17%) TestRail
10 2 (0.11%) Appium
10 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.11%) ERwin
10 2 (0.11%) GCC
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 929 (52.49%) Social Skills
2 674 (38.08%) Finance
3 281 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.40%) Banking
5 147 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 97 (5.48%) Marketing
7 92 (5.20%) Retail
8 82 (4.63%) Legal
9 77 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
10 67 (3.79%) Front Office
11 50 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 49 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (2.49%) Telecoms
14 43 (2.43%) Investment Banking
15 39 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
15 39 (2.20%) Financial Institution
16 38 (2.15%) Manufacturing
17 33 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 33 (1.86%) Law
18 29 (1.64%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 371 (20.96%) Analyst
2 279 (15.76%) Business Analyst
3 265 (14.97%) Project Manager
4 188 (10.62%) Lead
5 180 (10.17%) Architect
6 157 (8.87%) Senior
7 129 (7.29%) Consultant
8 68 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
9 65 (3.67%) Senior Manager
10 64 (3.62%) Programme Manager
11 49 (2.77%) Data Analyst
11 49 (2.77%) Developer
12 43 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
13 42 (2.37%) Delivery Manager
14 39 (2.20%) IT Manager
14 39 (2.20%) Product Manager
15 37 (2.09%) Senior Business Analyst
16 36 (2.03%) Senior Project Manager
17 34 (1.92%) Product Owner
18 32 (1.81%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.19%) .NET
2 20 (1.13%) REST
3 18 (1.02%) Kafka
3 18 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.96%) Middleware
5 14 (0.79%) HTML
6 9 (0.51%) Pandas
7 8 (0.45%) CSS
7 8 (0.45%) React
8 7 (0.40%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.40%) NumPy
8 7 (0.40%) Plotly
8 7 (0.40%) scikit-learn
9 6 (0.34%) JSON
9 6 (0.34%) OAuth
9 6 (0.34%) Playwright
9 6 (0.34%) PySpark
9 6 (0.34%) PyTorch
9 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 126 (7.12%) Product Ownership
2 74 (4.18%) Onboarding
3 48 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 46 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.26%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 35 (1.98%) Data Centre
9 32 (1.81%) Reinsurance
10 28 (1.58%) PMI
11 23 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 21 (1.19%) Fixed Income
14 20 (1.13%) Derivative
15 18 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (1.02%) Life Science
16 17 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
17 15 (0.85%) NHS
18 14 (0.79%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.86%) Windows
2 12 (0.68%) Linux
3 11 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.51%) Unix
5 5 (0.28%) VMS
6 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.056%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (31.69%) Agile
2 316 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
3 279 (15.76%) Project Management
4 238 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 224 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 215 (12.15%) Migration
7 210 (11.86%) Roadmaps
8 183 (10.34%) Project Delivery
9 181 (10.23%) Change Management
10 172 (9.72%) Analytics
11 166 (9.38%) Risk Management
12 153 (8.64%) Decision-Making
13 151 (8.53%) Requirements Gathering
14 150 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
15 149 (8.42%) AI
16 146 (8.25%) Workshop Facilitation
17 141 (7.97%) Scrum
18 139 (7.85%) DevOps
19 129 (7.29%) Data Modelling
20 126 (7.12%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 160 (9.04%) SQL
2 134 (7.57%) Python
3 41 (2.32%) Java
4 31 (1.75%) C#
5 26 (1.47%) PowerShell
6 23 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.02%) R
8 14 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.56%) Korn
10 9 (0.51%) Bash
11 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.34%) C++
12 6 (0.34%) VBA
13 5 (0.28%) Bicep
13 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.17%) PHP
14 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.17%) VB
15 2 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 196 (11.07%) Security Cleared
2 167 (9.44%) Degree
3 147 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 94 (5.31%) PMI Certification
5 80 (4.52%) PMP
6 36 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.75%) CISSP
8 23 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (0.96%) CBAP
9 17 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 16 (0.90%) CISM
11 15 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.79%) CIMA
13 13 (0.73%) ACCA
13 13 (0.73%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.51%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.45%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (6.89%) QA
2 101 (5.71%) GDPR
3 80 (4.52%) Data Quality
4 56 (3.16%) PMO
5 42 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.86%) NIST
7 31 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 29 (1.64%) GRC
9 21 (1.19%) Accessibility
10 19 (1.07%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.90%) SLA
12 15 (0.85%) IFRS
13 14 (0.79%) MiFID
14 12 (0.68%) NCSC
15 10 (0.56%) Solvency II
16 9 (0.51%) EMIR
16 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
18 6 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (1.24%) Docker
2 17 (0.96%) 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 35 (1.98%) Terraform
2 29 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.45%) Ansible
4 7 (0.40%) FortiGate
4 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.34%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.23%) Argo
7 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.11%) Consul
8 2 (0.11%) Packer
8 2 (0.11%) SCCM
9 1 (0.056%) Grafana
9 1 (0.056%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.056%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.056%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.056%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 213 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 161 (9.10%) SAP
3 74 (4.18%) Oracle
4 70 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 59 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 47 (2.66%) Workday
7 46 (2.60%) Databricks
8 38 (2.15%) Google
9 18 (1.02%) Adobe
9 18 (1.02%) Ariba
10 15 (0.85%) Bloomberg
10 15 (0.85%) Cisco
10 15 (0.85%) MuleSoft
11 14 (0.79%) IBM
12 13 (0.73%) Informatica
13 12 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 11 (0.62%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.62%) Planview
15 10 (0.56%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.56%) Pega