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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 21 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,308 2,430 3,429
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.01% 7.81% 8.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.19% 9.00% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,272 1,522 2,409
10th Percentile £363 £366 £370
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 55 96
10th Percentile £23.00 £35.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £32.56 £41.25 £32.88
Median hourly rate £47.49 £60.00 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% +17.10% -2.40%
75th Percentile £69.99 £69.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.16 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £58.30 £53.67
% change year-on-year -23.67% +8.64% +3.70%

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 27,129 27,014 35,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.29% 86.78% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,216 16,502 24,361
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,789 972 1,496
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.28 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.72 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.22% +23.80%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 16 November 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 1,675 £550 - 1,240
North of England +7 522 £495 -1.00% 347
South East +8 372 £525 - 516
Midlands 0 355 £500 -9.09% 207
North West +9 271 £500 - 201
West Midlands -6 249 £525 -4.55% 131
Yorkshire +12 222 £488 -2.50% 114
South West +9 195 £550 +6.02% 154
East Midlands +9 104 £439 -6.65% 74
East of England -5 100 £550 +4.76% 104
North East -6 28 £450 -22.58% 33
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
1 193 (5.83%) Confluence
2 97 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.09%) CMS
4 28 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.70%) SAS
6 11 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.18%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.15%) Camunda
9 5 (0.15%) CICS
10 4 (0.12%) Appian
10 4 (0.12%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) TPMS
11 3 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.091%) Apache
11 3 (0.091%) IIS
11 3 (0.091%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.091%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 180 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 98 (2.96%) Microsoft Project
4 80 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 61 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.45%) Trello
7 12 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.18%) Sketch
10 3 (0.091%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.030%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.030%) InDesign
12 1 (0.030%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.030%) Simulink
12 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 144 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.76%) Endur
4 20 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 17 (0.51%) Primavera
5 17 (0.51%) Workday HCM
6 13 (0.39%) SAP HCM
7 12 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 12 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.33%) SAP EWM
9 10 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
9 10 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 9 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
10 9 (0.27%) SAP MDG
10 9 (0.27%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
12 7 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
12 7 (0.21%) Shopify
12 7 (0.21%) VisionPLUS
13 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 457 (13.81%) Azure
2 314 (9.49%) AWS
3 224 (6.77%) Power Platform
4 159 (4.81%) GCP
5 121 (3.66%) SaaS
6 107 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 80 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 46 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
10 40 (1.21%) Serverless
11 34 (1.03%) OpenShift
12 32 (0.97%) GitHub
13 31 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
14 28 (0.85%) Snowflake
15 25 (0.76%) Power Automate
15 25 (0.76%) PowerApps
16 23 (0.70%) Amazon S3
16 23 (0.70%) OCI
17 21 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
18 20 (0.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.18%) Firewall
2 35 (1.06%) Network Security
3 29 (0.88%) WAN
4 21 (0.63%) SD-WAN
4 21 (0.63%) VPN
5 20 (0.60%) LAN
6 17 (0.51%) SSH
7 15 (0.45%) DNS
8 12 (0.36%) Broadband
8 12 (0.36%) MPLS
9 11 (0.33%) DHCP
9 11 (0.33%) Wireless
10 10 (0.30%) BGP
10 10 (0.30%) Internet
11 9 (0.27%) SAN
11 9 (0.27%) SSL
11 9 (0.27%) VoIP
11 9 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.24%) OSPF
13 7 (0.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (5.96%) Power BI
2 66 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (1.60%) Tableau
4 40 (1.21%) Metadata
5 35 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.85%) BigQuery
7 25 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 24 (0.73%) Power Query
9 23 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.63%) NoSQL
10 21 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 21 (0.63%) SQL Server
11 17 (0.51%) Big Data
12 16 (0.48%) DynamoDB
13 14 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.42%) MySQL
13 14 (0.42%) RDBMS
14 13 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
16 11 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 352 (10.64%) JIRA
2 72 (2.18%) Git
3 62 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.42%) GitLab
5 32 (0.97%) Selenium
6 24 (0.73%) JUnit
7 21 (0.63%) Maven
8 19 (0.57%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.30%) Gradle
9 10 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
10 9 (0.27%) Mockito
11 7 (0.21%) MLflow
12 6 (0.18%) Axure RP
13 5 (0.15%) SonarLint
13 5 (0.15%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.12%) Appium
14 4 (0.12%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (0.12%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,729 (52.27%) Social Skills
2 1,084 (32.77%) Finance
3 547 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
4 296 (8.95%) Banking
5 285 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 165 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
7 158 (4.78%) Retail
8 150 (4.53%) Legal
9 134 (4.05%) Marketing
10 109 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
11 106 (3.20%) Telecoms
12 92 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
13 91 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
13 91 (2.75%) Manufacturing
14 80 (2.42%) Front Office
15 62 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 60 (1.81%) Investment Banking
17 58 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
18 56 (1.69%) Law
19 38 (1.15%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 618 (18.68%) Analyst
2 501 (15.15%) Project Manager
3 421 (12.73%) Business Analyst
4 368 (11.12%) Architect
5 324 (9.79%) Lead
6 266 (8.04%) Senior
7 218 (6.59%) Consultant
8 138 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
9 127 (3.84%) Programme Manager
10 106 (3.20%) Senior Manager
11 104 (3.14%) IT Manager
12 94 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
13 85 (2.57%) Developer
14 75 (2.27%) Data Analyst
15 70 (2.12%) Product Owner
16 63 (1.90%) IT Project Manager
16 63 (1.90%) Product Manager
16 63 (1.90%) Senior Project Manager
17 61 (1.84%) Technical Manager
18 54 (1.63%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (2.18%) REST
2 49 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 38 (1.15%) .NET
4 31 (0.94%) HTML
4 31 (0.94%) JSON
5 28 (0.85%) Kafka
6 27 (0.82%) OAuth
7 26 (0.79%) SOAP
8 25 (0.76%) Middleware
8 25 (0.76%) OpenID
8 25 (0.76%) SailPoint
9 23 (0.70%) SAML
9 23 (0.70%) Spring Boot
10 20 (0.60%) CSS
10 20 (0.60%) RESTful
11 19 (0.57%) React
12 18 (0.54%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.45%) pytest
14 14 (0.42%) AngularJS
14 14 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 241 (7.29%) Product Ownership
2 155 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 89 (2.69%) Cloud Native
3 89 (2.69%) Management Information System
4 78 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 73 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 72 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 67 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 43 (1.30%) PMI
9 38 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (1.03%) Reinsurance
11 31 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 31 (0.94%) NHS
11 31 (0.94%) Virtual Team
12 28 (0.85%) Mobile App
13 27 (0.82%) Data Structures
13 27 (0.82%) Fixed Income
14 26 (0.79%) CMDB
14 26 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
14 26 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 110 (3.33%) Windows
2 50 (1.51%) Linux
3 33 (1.00%) Unix
4 20 (0.60%) Windows 10
4 20 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.30%) Android
6 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.30%) VMS
7 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.12%) Solaris
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.091%) CentOS
9 3 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.030%) AIX
10 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,041 (31.47%) Agile
2 606 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
3 518 (15.66%) Project Management
4 439 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 433 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 405 (12.24%) Migration
7 393 (11.88%) Roadmaps
8 391 (11.82%) Project Delivery
9 363 (10.97%) Change Management
10 304 (9.19%) Risk Management
11 293 (8.86%) Analytics
12 277 (8.37%) Decision-Making
12 277 (8.37%) DevOps
13 267 (8.07%) Scrum
14 245 (7.41%) Requirements Gathering
15 242 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
16 235 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
17 229 (6.92%) Waterfall
17 229 (6.92%) Workshop Facilitation
18 226 (6.83%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 236 (7.13%) SQL
2 222 (6.71%) Python
3 78 (2.36%) Java
4 65 (1.96%) PowerShell
5 47 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.27%) C#
7 24 (0.73%) VBA
8 22 (0.67%) Bash
9 18 (0.54%) R
10 16 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.48%) Korn
10 16 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 14 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.36%) ABAP
12 12 (0.36%) VB
13 7 (0.21%) Bicep
13 7 (0.21%) Perl
13 7 (0.21%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.18%) C++
14 6 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 491 (14.84%) Security Cleared
2 370 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 321 (9.70%) Degree
4 156 (4.72%) PMI Certification
5 142 (4.29%) PMP
6 71 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 68 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 61 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (1.66%) CISSP
10 46 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 35 (1.06%) CISM
12 34 (1.03%) Azure Certification
13 24 (0.73%) AWS Certification
14 23 (0.70%) ACCA
14 23 (0.70%) CBAP
14 23 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
14 23 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
16 20 (0.60%) CIMA
17 17 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.26%) QA
2 173 (5.23%) GDPR
3 121 (3.66%) PMO
4 102 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 94 (2.84%) Data Quality
6 83 (2.51%) NIST
7 44 (1.33%) GRC
8 43 (1.30%) SLA
9 40 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 38 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 35 (1.06%) Accessibility
12 20 (0.60%) MiFID
13 18 (0.54%) IFRS
13 18 (0.54%) NCSC
14 15 (0.45%) COBIT
15 14 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.42%) HIPAA
16 13 (0.39%) PSD2
17 12 (0.36%) EMIR
17 12 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 69 (2.09%) Docker
3 31 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.15%) vSphere
7 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.060%) Firmware
8 2 (0.060%) NFS
8 2 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.060%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.030%) IAG
9 1 (0.030%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.030%) NDS
9 1 (0.030%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.030%) Postfix
9 1 (0.030%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.030%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 93 (2.81%) Kubernetes
2 87 (2.63%) Terraform
3 29 (0.88%) Ansible
4 23 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.60%) Grafana
7 16 (0.48%) SCCM
8 10 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.27%) HP ALM
9 9 (0.27%) Kibana
10 7 (0.21%) Argo
10 7 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.18%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.15%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.15%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.12%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.091%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 433 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 299 (9.04%) SAP
3 170 (5.14%) Oracle
4 135 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 119 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 82 (2.48%) Workday
7 66 (2.00%) Google
8 43 (1.30%) IBM
9 42 (1.27%) Databricks
10 40 (1.21%) VMware
11 32 (0.97%) Adobe
12 30 (0.91%) Cisco
13 27 (0.82%) MuleSoft
14 26 (0.79%) Citrix
15 25 (0.76%) Ariba
16 23 (0.70%) Fortinet
17 21 (0.63%) F5
18 20 (0.60%) Splunk
19 18 (0.54%) Informatica
20 17 (0.51%) HP