Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends in England

Stakeholder Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England 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 13 21 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,470 2,483 3,258
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.14% 8.09% 8.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.45% 9.20% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 1,575 2,274
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £447 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £758 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 58 92
10th Percentile £20.37 £34.18 £21.33
25th Percentile £31.69 £37.50 £32.88
Median hourly rate £48.75 £57.50 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +13.80% -3.42%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.18 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £55.25 £53.08
% change year-on-year -19.46% +4.08% +1.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,877 26,975 33,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.47% 87.88% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,778 16,586 23,069
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 956 1,438
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.24 £14.72
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.23 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.04 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in England

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management in England over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in England

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management in England over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in England

Stakeholder Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +8 1,772 £550 - 618
North of England +6 521 £488 -2.50% 437
South East +9 419 £525 - 718
Midlands -2 367 £494 -5.95% 355
North West +9 272 £500 - 229
West Midlands -4 258 £525 -4.55% 195
Yorkshire +6 224 £484 -3.20% 171
South West +11 199 £550 +4.76% 213
East Midlands +9 108 £437 -8.48% 147
East of England -6 100 £525 - 239
North East -1 30 £450 -22.58% 40
Stakeholder Management
UK

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 215 (6.20%) Confluence
2 100 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.89%) CMS
4 29 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.72%) SAS
6 8 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.17%) Appian
8 6 (0.17%) Camunda
8 6 (0.17%) TPMS
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.12%) Apache
11 3 (0.086%) JBoss
11 3 (0.086%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.086%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.058%) Drupal
12 2 (0.058%) WordPress
Applications
1 181 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (3.26%) Microsoft Project
3 110 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 82 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.52%) Trello
7 11 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.26%) Adobe XD
9 9 (0.26%) Sketch
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.058%) InVision
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.029%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.029%) Blender
12 1 (0.029%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.029%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.029%) Simulink
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 149 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
4 27 (0.78%) Endur
5 20 (0.58%) Workday HCM
6 16 (0.46%) Primavera
7 13 (0.37%) SAP HCM
8 12 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 12 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
8 12 (0.35%) SAP EWM
9 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
10 10 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
10 10 (0.29%) SAP PP
11 9 (0.26%) SAP MDG
11 9 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
12 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 8 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
13 7 (0.20%) Loan IQ
13 7 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 501 (14.44%) Azure
2 336 (9.68%) AWS
3 233 (6.71%) Power Platform
4 172 (4.96%) GCP
5 124 (3.57%) SaaS
6 112 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 88 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
8 73 (2.10%) Entra ID
9 48 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (1.10%) OpenShift
11 36 (1.04%) Serverless
12 35 (1.01%) GitHub
13 33 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
14 30 (0.86%) OCI
14 30 (0.86%) Snowflake
15 29 (0.84%) Power Automate
16 27 (0.78%) PowerApps
17 23 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 20 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 75 (2.16%) Firewall
2 37 (1.07%) Network Security
3 31 (0.89%) WAN
4 26 (0.75%) VPN
5 24 (0.69%) SD-WAN
6 23 (0.66%) LAN
7 21 (0.61%) SSH
8 16 (0.46%) DNS
9 13 (0.37%) Broadband
9 13 (0.37%) SSL
10 12 (0.35%) MPLS
10 12 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.35%) Wireless
11 11 (0.32%) DHCP
11 11 (0.32%) Internet
12 10 (0.29%) BGP
12 10 (0.29%) SAN
13 8 (0.23%) OSPF
14 7 (0.20%) HTTP
14 7 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (5.99%) Power BI
2 65 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (1.59%) Tableau
4 45 (1.30%) Metadata
5 34 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 27 (0.78%) Power Query
6 27 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 25 (0.72%) BigQuery
8 21 (0.61%) NoSQL
8 21 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 19 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.52%) SQL Server
11 15 (0.43%) Big Data
11 15 (0.43%) MySQL
12 14 (0.40%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (0.37%) RDBMS
14 11 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.32%) MongoDB
15 10 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 394 (11.35%) JIRA
2 74 (2.13%) Git
3 69 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.44%) GitLab
5 33 (0.95%) Selenium
6 21 (0.61%) JUnit
7 18 (0.52%) Maven
7 18 (0.52%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.29%) Gradle
9 9 (0.26%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
11 6 (0.17%) Mockito
11 6 (0.17%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.14%) MLflow
12 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
12 5 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 1,823 (52.54%) Social Skills
2 1,138 (32.80%) Finance
3 569 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
4 303 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 301 (8.67%) Banking
6 172 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
7 155 (4.47%) Legal
7 155 (4.47%) Retail
8 138 (3.98%) Marketing
9 113 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
10 109 (3.14%) Telecoms
11 104 (3.00%) Manufacturing
12 103 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
13 93 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
14 77 (2.22%) Front Office
15 62 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 56 (1.61%) Law
17 54 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
18 53 (1.53%) Investment Banking
19 50 (1.44%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 646 (18.62%) Analyst
2 526 (15.16%) Project Manager
3 449 (12.94%) Business Analyst
4 385 (11.10%) Architect
5 351 (10.12%) Lead
6 286 (8.24%) Senior
7 236 (6.80%) Consultant
8 147 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
9 138 (3.98%) Programme Manager
10 110 (3.17%) Senior Manager
11 109 (3.14%) IT Manager
12 89 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
13 79 (2.28%) Data Analyst
14 74 (2.13%) Developer
15 73 (2.10%) Product Owner
16 69 (1.99%) Technical Manager
17 67 (1.93%) IT Project Manager
17 67 (1.93%) Senior Project Manager
18 63 (1.82%) Product Manager
19 61 (1.76%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.13%) REST
2 55 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
3 35 (1.01%) .NET
4 32 (0.92%) JSON
5 30 (0.86%) HTML
5 30 (0.86%) Kafka
6 28 (0.81%) SailPoint
6 28 (0.81%) SOAP
7 27 (0.78%) OAuth
8 23 (0.66%) Middleware
8 23 (0.66%) OpenID
8 23 (0.66%) SAML
9 20 (0.58%) React
10 19 (0.55%) CSS
10 19 (0.55%) Spring Boot
11 18 (0.52%) RESTful
12 16 (0.46%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.43%) pytest
13 15 (0.43%) XML
14 13 (0.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 260 (7.49%) Product Ownership
2 174 (5.01%) Onboarding
3 97 (2.80%) Cloud Native
4 92 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 84 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
6 81 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 78 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 76 (2.19%) Data Centre
9 46 (1.33%) PMI
10 38 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
11 34 (0.98%) Reinsurance
12 32 (0.92%) NHS
13 30 (0.86%) CMDB
13 30 (0.86%) Virtual Team
14 28 (0.81%) Fixed Income
14 28 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
14 28 (0.81%) Mobile App
15 26 (0.75%) Operational Technology
16 25 (0.72%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 106 (3.05%) Windows
2 52 (1.50%) Linux
3 33 (0.95%) Unix
4 22 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.29%) Android
7 10 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.29%) VMS
8 5 (0.14%) Solaris
9 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.086%) CentOS
10 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,086 (31.30%) Agile
2 638 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
3 543 (15.65%) Project Management
4 464 (13.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 457 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 446 (12.85%) Migration
7 416 (11.99%) Roadmaps
8 403 (11.61%) Project Delivery
9 381 (10.98%) Change Management
10 312 (8.99%) Risk Management
11 296 (8.53%) Decision-Making
12 293 (8.44%) DevOps
13 292 (8.41%) Analytics
14 276 (7.95%) Scrum
15 262 (7.55%) Requirements Gathering
16 255 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
17 252 (7.26%) Workshop Facilitation
18 244 (7.03%) ITIL
19 238 (6.86%) Cybersecurity
20 233 (6.71%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 244 (7.03%) SQL
2 243 (7.00%) Python
3 80 (2.31%) Java
4 69 (1.99%) PowerShell
5 49 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 44 (1.27%) C#
7 23 (0.66%) VBA
8 22 (0.63%) Bash
9 18 (0.52%) R
9 18 (0.52%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 15 (0.43%) Korn
12 10 (0.29%) ABAP
13 8 (0.23%) C++
13 8 (0.23%) VB
14 7 (0.20%) Bicep
14 7 (0.20%) Perl
15 6 (0.17%) PHP
15 6 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 532 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 397 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 349 (10.06%) Degree
4 168 (4.84%) PMI Certification
5 151 (4.35%) PMP
6 74 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 68 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 62 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (1.64%) CISSP
9 57 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 36 (1.04%) CISM
11 35 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 27 (0.78%) AWS Certification
13 26 (0.75%) ACCA
13 26 (0.75%) CBAP
14 24 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 23 (0.66%) CIMA
15 23 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (5.76%) QA
2 191 (5.50%) GDPR
3 122 (3.52%) PMO
4 109 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 99 (2.85%) Data Quality
6 92 (2.65%) NIST
7 50 (1.44%) GRC
8 47 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 41 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 40 (1.15%) SLA
11 36 (1.04%) Accessibility
12 21 (0.61%) IFRS
13 19 (0.55%) NCSC
14 17 (0.49%) COBIT
15 15 (0.43%) MiFID
16 14 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.40%) HIPAA
17 13 (0.37%) PSD2
17 13 (0.37%) WCAG
18 11 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 70 (2.02%) Active Directory
1 70 (2.02%) Docker
2 31 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.14%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.086%) NFS
7 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.058%) Firmware
8 2 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.058%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.029%) IAG
9 1 (0.029%) NDS
9 1 (0.029%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.029%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 103 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 92 (2.65%) Terraform
3 38 (1.10%) Ansible
4 24 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.52%) SCCM
7 14 (0.40%) Grafana
8 10 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.23%) Kibana
10 6 (0.17%) Argo
10 6 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.14%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.12%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.12%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.12%) Puppet
13 3 (0.086%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.086%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.086%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 447 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 318 (9.16%) SAP
3 191 (5.50%) Oracle
4 142 (4.09%) ServiceNow
5 130 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.51%) Workday
7 70 (2.02%) Google
8 52 (1.50%) Databricks
9 46 (1.33%) IBM
10 42 (1.21%) VMware
11 32 (0.92%) Adobe
11 32 (0.92%) Cisco
12 29 (0.84%) Ariba
13 28 (0.81%) MuleSoft
14 26 (0.75%) Fortinet
15 23 (0.66%) Citrix
16 22 (0.63%) F5
16 22 (0.63%) Splunk
17 20 (0.58%) Informatica
18 18 (0.52%) Red Hat