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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,770 1,255 1,585
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.30% 8.33% 8.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.46% 9.25% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 792 1,135
10th Percentile £390 £393 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £669 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £785
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% -7.26%
75th Percentile £56.48 £39.04 £65.03
90th Percentile £72.50 £62.25 £71.76
England median hourly rate £51.25 £56.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year -9.29% +10.66% -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 13,151 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.42% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,661 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 237
10th Percentile £18.14 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +12 256 £555 -7.54% 76
West London +3 26 £500 +10.50% 26
South London -20 10 £582 -3.04% 21
East London +9 7 £675 +26.17% 22
North London +5 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
1 106 (5.99%) Confluence
2 38 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.79%) CMS
4 8 (0.45%) Appian
5 7 (0.40%) 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%) Drupal
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.056%) Documentum
10 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
4 40 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.26%) 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%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.056%) Notion
Business Applications
1 75 (4.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (1.53%) Endur
4 13 (0.73%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.40%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.34%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.28%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
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
Cloud Services
1 259 (14.63%) Azure
2 155 (8.76%) AWS
3 142 (8.02%) Power Platform
4 62 (3.50%) SaaS
5 53 (2.99%) GCP
6 51 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.41%) Entra ID
9 25 (1.41%) Snowflake
10 24 (1.36%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (1.07%) PowerApps
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 39 (2.20%) 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
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%) Metadata
3 38 (2.15%) Tableau
4 37 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.62%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.51%) BigQuery
7 9 (0.51%) SQL Server
8 8 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (0.45%) Big Data
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.28%) Power Query
10 5 (0.28%) SAP BW
11 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.23%) DB2
11 4 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.23%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 198 (11.19%) JIRA
2 19 (1.07%) GitLab
3 17 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.73%) Git
5 6 (0.34%) Selenium
5 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
5 6 (0.34%) SpecFlow
6 5 (0.28%) Gradle
7 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Axure RP
7 4 (0.23%) Maven
7 4 (0.23%) MLflow
7 4 (0.23%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.17%) TestRail
9 2 (0.11%) Appium
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%) Oracle Forms
General
1 931 (52.60%) Social Skills
2 674 (38.08%) Finance
3 285 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (10.62%) Banking
5 147 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 98 (5.54%) Marketing
7 91 (5.14%) Retail
8 84 (4.75%) Legal
9 72 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
10 66 (3.73%) Front Office
11 52 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
12 49 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (2.60%) Investment Banking
14 43 (2.43%) Telecoms
15 41 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
16 39 (2.20%) Financial Institution
17 37 (2.09%) Manufacturing
18 33 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 32 (1.81%) Law
20 30 (1.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 370 (20.90%) Analyst
2 278 (15.71%) Business Analyst
3 263 (14.86%) Project Manager
4 187 (10.56%) Lead
5 181 (10.23%) Architect
6 155 (8.76%) Senior
7 128 (7.23%) Consultant
8 68 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
9 64 (3.62%) Programme Manager
9 64 (3.62%) Senior Manager
10 48 (2.71%) Data Analyst
10 48 (2.71%) Developer
11 45 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
12 42 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
13 40 (2.26%) Product Manager
14 39 (2.20%) IT Manager
15 37 (2.09%) Senior Business Analyst
16 35 (1.98%) Product Owner
17 34 (1.92%) Senior Project Manager
18 32 (1.81%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.24%) .NET
2 20 (1.13%) REST
3 18 (1.02%) Kafka
3 18 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.96%) Middleware
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
8 7 (0.40%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.40%) OAuth
8 7 (0.40%) Plotly
8 7 (0.40%) PyTorch
8 7 (0.40%) TensorFlow
8 7 (0.40%) Web Services
9 6 (0.34%) Playwright
9 6 (0.34%) PySpark
9 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 124 (7.01%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.24%) Onboarding
3 48 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 46 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (2.26%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (2.03%) Data Centre
9 31 (1.75%) Reinsurance
10 28 (1.58%) PMI
11 24 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 21 (1.19%) Derivative
13 21 (1.19%) Fixed Income
14 20 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (1.02%) Life Science
16 17 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
17 16 (0.90%) Equities
18 15 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.86%) 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
1 563 (31.81%) Agile
2 319 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
3 280 (15.82%) Project Management
4 240 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 225 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 215 (12.15%) Migration
7 214 (12.09%) Roadmaps
8 188 (10.62%) Project Delivery
9 186 (10.51%) Change Management
10 175 (9.89%) Analytics
11 166 (9.38%) Risk Management
12 156 (8.81%) Decision-Making
13 152 (8.59%) AI
14 149 (8.42%) Business Intelligence
14 149 (8.42%) Requirements Gathering
15 148 (8.36%) Workshop Facilitation
16 140 (7.91%) Scrum
17 139 (7.85%) DevOps
18 133 (7.51%) Data Modelling
19 126 (7.12%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 161 (9.10%) SQL
2 131 (7.40%) Python
3 37 (2.09%) Java
4 31 (1.75%) C#
5 26 (1.47%) PowerShell
6 23 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.90%) 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
1 201 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 168 (9.49%) Degree
3 152 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 97 (5.48%) PMI Certification
5 83 (4.69%) PMP
6 35 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.75%) CISSP
8 24 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.02%) CBAP
11 17 (0.96%) DV Cleared
12 16 (0.90%) CISM
13 14 (0.79%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.68%) CIMA
14 12 (0.68%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.56%) ACCA
16 10 (0.56%) AWS Certification
16 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.51%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (6.89%) QA
2 102 (5.76%) GDPR
3 80 (4.52%) Data Quality
4 59 (3.33%) PMO
5 43 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.92%) NIST
7 30 (1.69%) GRC
7 30 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.19%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.90%) SLA
11 14 (0.79%) IFRS
11 14 (0.79%) MiFID
12 12 (0.68%) NCSC
13 10 (0.56%) EMIR
13 10 (0.56%) Solvency II
14 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (1.30%) Docker
2 18 (1.02%) 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 32 (1.81%) Terraform
2 30 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.45%) Ansible
3 8 (0.45%) FortiGate
4 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.28%) 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
1 219 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 161 (9.10%) SAP
3 74 (4.18%) Oracle
4 70 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 60 (3.39%) ServiceNow
6 47 (2.66%) Workday
7 46 (2.60%) Databricks
8 35 (1.98%) Google
9 19 (1.07%) Ariba
10 17 (0.96%) Adobe
11 15 (0.85%) Bloomberg
11 15 (0.85%) Cisco
11 15 (0.85%) MuleSoft
12 14 (0.79%) IBM
13 13 (0.73%) Informatica
14 12 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.62%) Planview
16 10 (0.56%) Murex
16 10 (0.56%) Pega