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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,512 2,369 3,052
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.09% 8.37% 8.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.53% 9.43% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 1,485 2,096
10th Percentile £370 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 58 88
10th Percentile £17.00 £35.00 £21.78
25th Percentile £30.68 £39.01 £33.00
Median hourly rate £47.48 £60.00 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -20.88% +17.10% -0.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £80.18 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £40.92 £57.50 £54.39
% change year-on-year -28.83% +5.73% +4.33%

All Process & 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 28,039 25,113 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.57% 88.74% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,871 15,476 21,696
10th Percentile £304 £313 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,770 825 1,406
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56.99 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +25.71%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +7 1,791 £550 - 757
North of England -1 529 £475 -9.52% 229
South East +8 406 £525 - 304
Midlands -1 406 £492 -6.29% 118
North West +5 276 £475 -8.65% 121
West Midlands -5 275 £500 -4.76% 74
Yorkshire +3 222 £490 -2.05% 94
South West +12 198 £550 +10.00% 71
East Midlands +9 131 £449 -5.47% 44
East of England -5 101 £525 -4.55% 72
North East +8 40 £450 -27.92% 19
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
1 238 (6.78%) Confluence
2 111 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.91%) SAS
4 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.80%) CMS
6 10 (0.28%) Appian
7 8 (0.23%) TPMS
8 7 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.20%) Camunda
9 6 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.17%) Apache
10 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 3 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.085%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.085%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 195 (5.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 116 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
4 97 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 63 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.51%) Trello
7 12 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.057%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.057%) InVision
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.028%) Blender
12 1 (0.028%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.028%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.028%) Simulink
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 135 (3.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
4 25 (0.71%) Endur
5 21 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.48%) Aladdin
7 16 (0.46%) Primavera
7 16 (0.46%) SAP HCM
8 14 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
9 13 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.37%) SAP EWM
10 12 (0.34%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.34%) SAP CO
11 11 (0.31%) SAP FI
12 10 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
12 10 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
12 10 (0.28%) SAP MDG
13 9 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.26%) SAP PP
14 8 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 512 (14.58%) Azure
2 347 (9.88%) AWS
3 241 (6.86%) Power Platform
4 168 (4.78%) GCP
5 115 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
6 110 (3.13%) SaaS
7 94 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (1.96%) Entra ID
9 51 (1.45%) OpenShift
10 45 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (1.17%) GitHub
12 40 (1.14%) OCI
13 39 (1.11%) Serverless
14 33 (0.94%) Power Automate
15 32 (0.91%) Snowflake
16 31 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
17 29 (0.83%) PowerApps
18 26 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
19 23 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
20 22 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 78 (2.22%) Firewall
2 34 (0.97%) WAN
3 32 (0.91%) Network Security
4 28 (0.80%) VPN
5 25 (0.71%) LAN
5 25 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 23 (0.65%) SSH
7 22 (0.63%) DNS
8 15 (0.43%) SSL
9 14 (0.40%) Broadband
9 14 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.37%) MPLS
10 13 (0.37%) Wireless
11 12 (0.34%) BGP
12 11 (0.31%) Internet
13 10 (0.28%) DHCP
13 10 (0.28%) SAN
14 9 (0.26%) Intranet
14 9 (0.26%) OSPF
14 9 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (6.09%) Power BI
2 70 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (1.82%) Tableau
4 51 (1.45%) Metadata
5 32 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.80%) Power Query
7 24 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 23 (0.65%) NoSQL
9 20 (0.57%) Oracle Database
9 20 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.54%) SQL Server
11 18 (0.51%) MySQL
12 16 (0.46%) DynamoDB
13 15 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (0.34%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.31%) Big Data
17 10 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 423 (12.04%) JIRA
2 72 (2.05%) Git
3 68 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.48%) GitLab
5 30 (0.85%) Selenium
6 21 (0.60%) JUnit
7 18 (0.51%) Maven
8 14 (0.40%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.26%) Gradle
11 8 (0.23%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.20%) MLflow
12 7 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.17%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.14%) Postman
14 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
15 4 (0.11%) Axure RP
General
1 1,859 (52.93%) Social Skills
2 1,148 (32.69%) Finance
3 595 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 327 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 322 (9.17%) Banking
6 174 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
7 158 (4.50%) Retail
8 149 (4.24%) Legal
9 134 (3.82%) Marketing
10 112 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
10 112 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
11 106 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
12 102 (2.90%) Manufacturing
13 100 (2.85%) Telecoms
14 71 (2.02%) Front Office
15 55 (1.57%) Law
16 53 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 52 (1.48%) Financial Institution
18 51 (1.45%) Investment Banking
19 45 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 670 (19.08%) Analyst
2 521 (14.83%) Project Manager
3 476 (13.55%) Business Analyst
4 387 (11.02%) Architect
5 380 (10.82%) Lead
6 282 (8.03%) Senior
7 246 (7.00%) Consultant
8 144 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
9 125 (3.56%) Programme Manager
10 112 (3.19%) Senior Manager
11 87 (2.48%) IT Manager
12 81 (2.31%) Delivery Manager
13 75 (2.14%) Data Analyst
14 73 (2.08%) Product Owner
15 70 (1.99%) Developer
16 69 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
17 66 (1.88%) Change Manager
17 66 (1.88%) Technical Manager
18 64 (1.82%) Senior Project Manager
19 63 (1.79%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (2.33%) REST
2 60 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 34 (0.97%) Middleware
3 34 (0.97%) SOAP
4 31 (0.88%) .NET
4 31 (0.88%) JSON
5 30 (0.85%) Kafka
6 27 (0.77%) OAuth
7 26 (0.74%) XML
8 25 (0.71%) HTML
9 24 (0.68%) SailPoint
10 21 (0.60%) RESTful
11 20 (0.57%) OpenID
12 19 (0.54%) Spring Boot
13 18 (0.51%) React
14 17 (0.48%) pytest
15 16 (0.46%) Playwright
15 16 (0.46%) SAML
16 15 (0.43%) ADO
16 15 (0.43%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 270 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 173 (4.93%) Onboarding
3 97 (2.76%) Cloud Native
4 91 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 88 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 86 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 81 (2.31%) Data Centre
8 76 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 51 (1.45%) PMI
10 48 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 38 (1.08%) CMDB
13 34 (0.97%) NHS
14 29 (0.83%) Reinsurance
14 29 (0.83%) Virtual Team
15 27 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
16 26 (0.74%) Data Structures
16 26 (0.74%) Operational Technology
17 24 (0.68%) Mobile App
17 24 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 106 (3.02%) Windows
2 53 (1.51%) Linux
3 33 (0.94%) Unix
4 20 (0.57%) Windows 10
4 20 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.34%) VMS
8 6 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.14%) Solaris
10 4 (0.11%) CentOS
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.085%) Android
11 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.028%) AIX
12 1 (0.028%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,128 (32.12%) Agile
2 661 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
3 555 (15.80%) Project Management
4 490 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 488 (13.90%) Migration
6 486 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 431 (12.27%) Roadmaps
8 414 (11.79%) Change Management
9 399 (11.36%) Project Delivery
10 322 (9.17%) Decision-Making
11 308 (8.77%) DevOps
12 299 (8.51%) Analytics
13 298 (8.49%) Risk Management
14 289 (8.23%) Scrum
15 276 (7.86%) Workshop Facilitation
16 275 (7.83%) Requirements Gathering
17 264 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
18 257 (7.32%) Waterfall
19 241 (6.86%) AI
20 240 (6.83%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 268 (7.63%) SQL
2 246 (7.00%) Python
3 77 (2.19%) Java
4 74 (2.11%) PowerShell
5 49 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.11%) C#
7 32 (0.91%) Bash
8 24 (0.68%) VBA
9 19 (0.54%) R
10 17 (0.48%) TypeScript
11 16 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.40%) Korn
13 13 (0.37%) ABAP
14 8 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.20%) C++
15 7 (0.20%) VB
16 6 (0.17%) Bicep
17 5 (0.14%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 575 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 437 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 348 (9.91%) Degree
4 186 (5.30%) PMI Certification
5 169 (4.81%) PMP
6 76 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 67 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 67 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 61 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 55 (1.57%) CISSP
10 35 (1.00%) CISM
11 30 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 28 (0.80%) CBAP
13 27 (0.77%) AWS Certification
14 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.63%) ISTQB
16 21 (0.60%) ACCA
16 21 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
17 19 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
18 18 (0.51%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (6.38%) QA
2 203 (5.78%) GDPR
3 124 (3.53%) PMO
4 119 (3.39%) Data Quality
5 110 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 94 (2.68%) NIST
7 50 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 49 (1.40%) GRC
9 43 (1.22%) SLA
10 37 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 34 (0.97%) Accessibility
12 24 (0.68%) IFRS
13 19 (0.54%) NCSC
14 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.43%) MiFID
14 15 (0.43%) PSD2
15 14 (0.40%) COBIT
15 14 (0.40%) WCAG
16 12 (0.34%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.34%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 79 (2.25%) Docker
2 63 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.17%) vSphere
6 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.085%) NFS
7 3 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.057%) Firmware
8 2 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
9 1 (0.028%) NDS
9 1 (0.028%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.028%) SRDF
9 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.028%) XenApp
9 1 (0.028%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 106 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 84 (2.39%) Terraform
3 43 (1.22%) Ansible
4 30 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.60%) Grafana
6 20 (0.57%) SCCM
7 16 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.31%) FortiGate
8 11 (0.31%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.20%) HP ALM
9 7 (0.20%) Kibana
10 6 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.14%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.14%) Puppet
12 4 (0.11%) Argo
12 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.085%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.085%) Nessus
Vendors
1 438 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 309 (8.80%) SAP
3 200 (5.69%) Oracle
4 150 (4.27%) ServiceNow
5 137 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 92 (2.62%) Workday
7 77 (2.19%) Google
8 57 (1.62%) Databricks
9 47 (1.34%) IBM
10 43 (1.22%) VMware
11 33 (0.94%) Cisco
12 29 (0.83%) Ariba
12 29 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 29 (0.83%) Splunk
13 28 (0.80%) Fortinet
14 25 (0.71%) Adobe
15 23 (0.65%) Citrix
16 22 (0.63%) Planview
17 21 (0.60%) Red Hat
18 19 (0.54%) Informatica