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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 21 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,050 2,523 3,438
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.80% 7.89% 8.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.87% 9.13% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,100 1,581 2,472
10th Percentile £362 £363 £380
25th Percentile £442 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% - -
75th Percentile £650 £642 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 63 92
10th Percentile £23.00 £35.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £41.25 £30.38
Median hourly rate £48.25 £60.60 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +31.23% -8.53%
75th Percentile £62.81 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.96 £75.53
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -20.83% +23.71% -3.93%

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 25,685 27,640 36,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.97% 86.49% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,284 16,837 25,172
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,621 1,092 1,481
10th Percentile £14.63 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +33.65%
75th Percentile £45.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.31% -10.11% +36.92%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 17 October 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 1,545 £550 - 1,314
North of England +4 483 £500 - 358
South East +6 336 £525 +1.94% 1,093
Midlands -1 309 £500 -9.09% 223
North West +8 269 £500 - 218
West Midlands -5 209 £550 -1.12% 130
Yorkshire +8 197 £494 -6.00% 110
South West +7 191 £550 +4.76% 168
East Midlands +14 99 £439 -6.15% 86
East of England -4 99 £525 - 139
North East -10 18 £508 -9.38% 32
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
1 166 (5.44%) Confluence
2 88 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.08%) CMS
4 23 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.23%) CICS
8 6 (0.20%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.16%) JBoss
9 5 (0.16%) WordPress
10 3 (0.098%) IIS
10 3 (0.098%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.098%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.098%) SAS
10 3 (0.098%) TPMS
10 3 (0.098%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.066%) Camunda
11 2 (0.066%) Drupal
11 2 (0.066%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 164 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
4 73 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (1.93%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.39%) Trello
7 9 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.16%) Sketch
9 4 (0.13%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.033%) Blender
11 1 (0.033%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.033%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.033%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 160 (5.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.66%) Endur
4 17 (0.56%) SAP HCM
5 16 (0.52%) Primavera
6 13 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.39%) Aladdin
8 11 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
9 10 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 10 (0.33%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.30%) SAP MDG
10 9 (0.30%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
11 8 (0.26%) Shopify
11 8 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
12 7 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
12 7 (0.23%) SAP CO
12 7 (0.23%) VisionPLUS
13 6 (0.20%) SAP EWM
13 6 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 399 (13.08%) Azure
2 278 (9.11%) AWS
3 190 (6.23%) Power Platform
4 139 (4.56%) GCP
5 114 (3.74%) SaaS
6 101 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
7 72 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 47 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
10 37 (1.21%) Serverless
11 28 (0.92%) Snowflake
11 28 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
12 27 (0.89%) GitHub
13 24 (0.79%) PowerApps
14 22 (0.72%) Amazon S3
15 21 (0.69%) OCI
15 21 (0.69%) Power Automate
16 20 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (0.62%) PaaS
18 18 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.87%) Firewall
2 28 (0.92%) Network Security
3 19 (0.62%) WAN
4 16 (0.52%) SSH
5 14 (0.46%) VPN
6 13 (0.43%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.39%) LAN
8 11 (0.36%) DNS
9 9 (0.30%) SAN
9 9 (0.30%) Wireless
10 8 (0.26%) DHCP
10 8 (0.26%) Internet
10 8 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.23%) HTTP
11 7 (0.23%) MPLS
12 6 (0.20%) 5G
12 6 (0.20%) Intranet
13 5 (0.16%) Broadband
13 5 (0.16%) SSL
13 5 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (5.44%) Power BI
2 67 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (1.57%) Tableau
4 39 (1.28%) Data Lake
5 33 (1.08%) Metadata
6 27 (0.89%) SAP HANA
7 26 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 24 (0.79%) SQL Server
9 20 (0.66%) Big Data
10 19 (0.62%) NoSQL
10 19 (0.62%) Relational Database
11 18 (0.59%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.52%) Power Query
13 15 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (0.46%) Oracle Database
15 13 (0.43%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.39%) MySQL
16 12 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 311 (10.20%) JIRA
2 46 (1.51%) Git
2 46 (1.51%) Jenkins
3 24 (0.79%) GitLab
4 22 (0.72%) Maven
5 21 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 18 (0.59%) Selenium
7 10 (0.33%) Gradle
7 10 (0.33%) JUnit
7 10 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
8 9 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.30%) Mockito
9 8 (0.26%) MLflow
10 6 (0.20%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (0.16%) Axure RP
11 5 (0.16%) SonarLint
11 5 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.16%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.13%) Appium
13 3 (0.098%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,567 (51.38%) Social Skills
2 1,004 (32.92%) Finance
3 473 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (9.02%) Banking
5 243 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 144 (4.72%) Retail
7 133 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
7 133 (4.36%) Legal
8 121 (3.97%) Marketing
9 101 (3.31%) Telecoms
10 92 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
11 86 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 81 (2.66%) Manufacturing
13 75 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
13 75 (2.46%) Front Office
14 53 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 51 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
16 49 (1.61%) Investment Banking
17 46 (1.51%) Law
18 35 (1.15%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 552 (18.10%) Analyst
2 472 (15.48%) Project Manager
3 356 (11.67%) Business Analyst
4 334 (10.95%) Architect
5 277 (9.08%) Lead
6 273 (8.95%) Senior
7 218 (7.15%) Consultant
8 122 (4.00%) Programme Manager
9 118 (3.87%) Senior Manager
10 113 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
11 99 (3.25%) IT Manager
12 87 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
13 83 (2.72%) Developer
14 64 (2.10%) Product Manager
14 64 (2.10%) Senior Project Manager
15 61 (2.00%) Data Analyst
16 59 (1.93%) IT Project Manager
16 59 (1.93%) Product Owner
17 54 (1.77%) SAP Consultant
18 51 (1.67%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 45 (1.48%) REST
3 35 (1.15%) Web Services
4 34 (1.11%) .NET
5 27 (0.89%) JSON
6 26 (0.85%) HTML
7 25 (0.82%) Spring Boot
8 23 (0.75%) SailPoint
8 23 (0.75%) SOAP
9 22 (0.72%) Kafka
9 22 (0.72%) RESTful
10 21 (0.69%) OpenID
11 20 (0.66%) OAuth
12 19 (0.62%) CSS
12 19 (0.62%) SAML
13 18 (0.59%) Middleware
14 16 (0.52%) React
15 15 (0.49%) AngularJS
15 15 (0.49%) Spring
16 14 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 198 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 131 (4.30%) Onboarding
3 86 (2.82%) Management Information System
4 83 (2.72%) Cloud Native
5 65 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 64 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
7 60 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 59 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 36 (1.18%) PMI
10 31 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (0.98%) Reinsurance
12 29 (0.95%) Virtual Team
13 28 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
14 27 (0.89%) Life Science
15 26 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
15 26 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (0.82%) CMDB
16 25 (0.82%) Data Structures
17 24 (0.79%) Mobile App
17 24 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 111 (3.64%) Windows
2 50 (1.64%) Linux
3 32 (1.05%) Unix
4 22 (0.72%) Windows 10
5 16 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.30%) Android
7 9 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.16%) VMS
9 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.098%) Solaris
10 3 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.066%) CentOS
12 1 (0.033%) AIX
12 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.033%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 908 (29.77%) Agile
2 534 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
3 500 (16.39%) Project Management
4 386 (12.66%) Project Delivery
5 381 (12.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 376 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 359 (11.77%) Migration
8 337 (11.05%) Roadmaps
9 331 (10.85%) Change Management
10 299 (9.80%) Risk Management
11 242 (7.93%) Analytics
11 242 (7.93%) Scrum
12 235 (7.70%) DevOps
13 233 (7.64%) Decision-Making
14 215 (7.05%) ITIL
14 215 (7.05%) Waterfall
15 214 (7.02%) Business Intelligence
16 209 (6.85%) Requirements Gathering
17 205 (6.72%) Cybersecurity
18 191 (6.26%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 230 (7.54%) SQL
2 180 (5.90%) Python
3 75 (2.46%) Java
4 62 (2.03%) PowerShell
5 40 (1.31%) JavaScript
6 33 (1.08%) C#
7 19 (0.62%) VBA
8 18 (0.59%) Bash
9 17 (0.56%) ABAP
10 13 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (0.43%) Korn
10 13 (0.43%) R
11 12 (0.39%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.39%) VB
12 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.26%) COBOL
13 8 (0.26%) JCL
14 6 (0.20%) Bicep
14 6 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 416 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 317 (10.39%) SC Cleared
3 288 (9.44%) Degree
4 151 (4.95%) PMI Certification
5 140 (4.59%) PMP
6 72 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 54 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 46 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (1.41%) CISSP
10 40 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 29 (0.95%) CISM
12 28 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 27 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
14 24 (0.79%) CBAP
15 21 (0.69%) AWS Certification
15 21 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (0.59%) ACCA
17 16 (0.52%) CISA
18 14 (0.46%) CIMA
18 14 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (4.52%) QA
2 135 (4.43%) GDPR
3 123 (4.03%) PMO
4 95 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 88 (2.89%) Data Quality
6 79 (2.59%) NIST
7 40 (1.31%) GRC
8 39 (1.28%) SLA
9 36 (1.18%) PCI DSS
10 34 (1.11%) Accessibility
11 30 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (0.66%) MiFID
13 18 (0.59%) IFRS
14 16 (0.52%) COBIT
15 15 (0.49%) EMIR
16 13 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
16 13 (0.43%) HIPAA
17 11 (0.36%) NCSC
17 11 (0.36%) PSD2
18 10 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 51 (1.67%) Docker
3 23 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.098%) Postfix
6 3 (0.098%) vSphere
7 2 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.066%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.066%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.033%) Firmware
8 1 (0.033%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.033%) IAG
8 1 (0.033%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.033%) NDS
8 1 (0.033%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.033%) NFS
8 1 (0.033%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.033%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 70 (2.30%) Terraform
2 66 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (0.82%) Ansible
5 22 (0.72%) Grafana
5 22 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.56%) SCCM
7 10 (0.33%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.26%) Argo
9 8 (0.26%) NSN NetAct
10 7 (0.23%) Kibana
11 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.20%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.16%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
13 4 (0.13%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.098%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 403 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 298 (9.77%) SAP
3 150 (4.92%) Oracle
4 123 (4.03%) ServiceNow
5 103 (3.38%) Salesforce
6 65 (2.13%) Workday
7 58 (1.90%) Google
8 44 (1.44%) Databricks
9 37 (1.21%) IBM
10 32 (1.05%) VMware
11 30 (0.98%) Adobe
12 27 (0.89%) Citrix
13 24 (0.79%) Splunk
14 22 (0.72%) Ariba
15 21 (0.69%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.62%) Cisco
17 18 (0.59%) HP
18 17 (0.56%) F5
18 17 (0.56%) Informatica
19 16 (0.52%) Remedy