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

6 months to
5 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 1,772 1,277 1,638
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.33% 8.09% 8.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.44% 9.00% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 814 1,178
10th Percentile £375 £388 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £664 £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% -7.26%
75th Percentile £45.55 £39.04 £65.03
90th Percentile £72.25 £62.25 £71.76
England median hourly rate £48.75 £57.50 £50.53
% change year-on-year -15.22% +13.80% -3.42%

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 13,188 14,190 17,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.79% 89.85% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,704 9,175 12,401
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -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 247 166 233
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.81
25th Percentile £24.56 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +4.55% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.63 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +12 257 £550 -8.33% 104
West London +5 26 £500 -2.44% 15
East London +10 9 £675 +26.17% 20
South London -23 9 £566 -5.75% 16
North London +3 3 £700 +72.84% 7
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 98 (5.53%) Confluence
2 37 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.96%) CMS
4 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.34%) Anypoint
5 6 (0.34%) Appian
6 5 (0.28%) Camunda
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 (0.056%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.056%) Documentum
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 80 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 36 (2.03%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.73%) Trello
7 9 (0.51%) Adobe XD
7 9 (0.51%) Sketch
8 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.11%) InVision
11 1 (0.056%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.056%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.056%) GNU Octave
11 1 (0.056%) Notion
Business Applications
1 78 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.52%) Endur
3 26 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.68%) 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 (0.28%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.28%) 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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.17%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 253 (14.28%) Azure
2 154 (8.69%) AWS
3 142 (8.01%) Power Platform
4 63 (3.56%) SaaS
5 58 (3.27%) GCP
6 50 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (1.81%) 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 17 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (0.90%) GitHub
13 16 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
14 15 (0.85%) Serverless
15 14 (0.79%) Collibra
15 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
16 13 (0.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.09%) Firewall
2 15 (0.85%) WAN
3 13 (0.73%) Network Security
4 11 (0.62%) LAN
4 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
5 10 (0.56%) VPN
6 8 (0.45%) DNS
6 8 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.40%) VoIP
8 6 (0.34%) DHCP
8 6 (0.34%) Internet
9 5 (0.28%) BGP
9 5 (0.28%) Broadband
9 5 (0.28%) CTI
10 4 (0.23%) 5G
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%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.17%) Power BI
2 37 (2.09%) Tableau
3 36 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (2.03%) Metadata
4 21 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 12 (0.68%) Big Data
6 11 (0.62%) BigQuery
6 11 (0.62%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.45%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.28%) Power Query
9 5 (0.28%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.23%) DB2
10 4 (0.23%) Mixpanel
11 3 (0.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.17%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 195 (11.00%) JIRA
2 19 (1.07%) GitLab
3 16 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.79%) Git
5 9 (0.51%) Axure RP
6 8 (0.45%) Selenium
7 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.28%) Gradle
8 5 (0.28%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.23%) Appium
9 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.17%) MLflow
10 3 (0.17%) TestRail
11 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.11%) GCC
11 2 (0.11%) NUnit
11 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 922 (52.03%) Social Skills
2 675 (38.09%) Finance
3 287 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.55%) Banking
5 149 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 101 (5.70%) Marketing
7 91 (5.14%) Retail
8 87 (4.91%) Legal
9 73 (4.12%) Front Office
9 73 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (2.71%) Investment Banking
13 43 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 40 (2.26%) Financial Institution
15 37 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 37 (2.09%) Manufacturing
16 35 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
17 32 (1.81%) Law
18 30 (1.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 373 (21.05%) Analyst
2 277 (15.63%) Business Analyst
3 269 (15.18%) Project Manager
4 183 (10.33%) Lead
5 171 (9.65%) Architect
6 159 (8.97%) Senior
7 128 (7.22%) Consultant
8 69 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
9 64 (3.61%) Programme Manager
10 61 (3.44%) Senior Manager
11 51 (2.88%) Developer
12 48 (2.71%) Data Analyst
12 48 (2.71%) IT Manager
13 45 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
14 41 (2.31%) Delivery Manager
14 41 (2.31%) Product Manager
15 36 (2.03%) Senior Project Manager
16 35 (1.98%) Product Owner
16 35 (1.98%) Senior Business Analyst
17 30 (1.69%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.24%) REST
2 21 (1.19%) .NET
3 20 (1.13%) HTML
4 19 (1.07%) Kafka
5 18 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (0.79%) CSS
6 14 (0.79%) Middleware
7 9 (0.51%) React
8 8 (0.45%) AngularJS
8 8 (0.45%) Pandas
9 7 (0.40%) JSON
9 7 (0.40%) Plotly
10 6 (0.34%) NumPy
10 6 (0.34%) OAuth
10 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.34%) scikit-learn
10 6 (0.34%) SOAP
11 5 (0.28%) PyTorch
11 5 (0.28%) TensorFlow
11 5 (0.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 139 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 69 (3.89%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.05%) Management Information System
4 43 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 42 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (2.20%) Cloud Native
6 39 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 35 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 34 (1.92%) Reinsurance
9 30 (1.69%) PMI
10 26 (1.47%) Fixed Income
11 24 (1.35%) Derivative
12 22 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 17 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
15 16 (0.90%) Equities
15 16 (0.90%) Life Science
16 15 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.03%) Windows
2 13 (0.73%) Linux
2 13 (0.73%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.51%) Android
3 9 (0.51%) Unix
4 8 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.056%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (31.72%) Agile
2 313 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
3 272 (15.35%) Project Management
4 232 (13.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 209 (11.79%) Migration
6 208 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 206 (11.63%) Roadmaps
8 187 (10.55%) Project Delivery
9 183 (10.33%) Change Management
10 171 (9.65%) Risk Management
11 166 (9.37%) Analytics
12 149 (8.41%) Requirements Gathering
13 147 (8.30%) Decision-Making
14 146 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
15 144 (8.13%) Workshop Facilitation
16 137 (7.73%) DevOps
17 135 (7.62%) AI
18 134 (7.56%) Scrum
19 124 (7.00%) Business Analysis
19 124 (7.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 158 (8.92%) SQL
2 134 (7.56%) Python
3 40 (2.26%) Java
4 34 (1.92%) C#
5 28 (1.58%) JavaScript
6 26 (1.47%) PowerShell
7 16 (0.90%) R
8 14 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.56%) Korn
10 8 (0.45%) Bash
10 8 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.40%) C++
12 6 (0.34%) VBA
13 5 (0.28%) Bicep
14 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.17%) PHP
15 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.11%) Ruby
16 2 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 194 (10.95%) Security Cleared
2 173 (9.76%) Degree
3 146 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 96 (5.42%) PMI Certification
5 80 (4.51%) PMP
6 36 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.75%) CISSP
8 22 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.19%) DV Cleared
10 16 (0.90%) CISM
11 15 (0.85%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.85%) CBAP
12 14 (0.79%) CIMA
12 14 (0.79%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.73%) ACCA
13 13 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.56%) FFIEC
14 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (6.38%) QA
2 100 (5.64%) GDPR
3 69 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 54 (3.05%) PMO
5 41 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.86%) NIST
7 30 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 28 (1.58%) GRC
9 26 (1.47%) Accessibility
10 20 (1.13%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.90%) IFRS
12 14 (0.79%) MiFID
13 13 (0.73%) SLA
14 11 (0.62%) NCSC
14 11 (0.62%) Solvency II
15 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.45%) EMIR
17 6 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 22 (1.24%) Docker
2 17 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.056%) Firmware
4 1 (0.056%) IAG
4 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (1.98%) Terraform
2 28 (1.58%) 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
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%) SCOM
8 1 (0.056%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 214 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 165 (9.31%) SAP
3 74 (4.18%) Salesforce
4 73 (4.12%) Oracle
5 50 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 47 (2.65%) Workday
7 39 (2.20%) Databricks
8 36 (2.03%) Google
9 24 (1.35%) Adobe
10 19 (1.07%) Ariba
11 16 (0.90%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.85%) Cisco
13 14 (0.79%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.68%) IBM
14 12 (0.68%) Informatica
15 11 (0.62%) Murex
16 10 (0.56%) OpenLink
16 10 (0.56%) VMware
17 9 (0.51%) Planview