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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,422 2,476 3,294
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.13% 7.93% 8.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.37% 9.07% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,329 1,561 2,301
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 58 94
10th Percentile £21.16 £34.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £31.25 £37.50 £32.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £57.50 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +12.22% -2.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.18 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £54.63 £53.67
% change year-on-year -18.54% +1.79% +1.76%

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 27,655 27,305 34,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.92% 87.48% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,548 16,677 23,333
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £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 1,803 1,004 1,443
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.80
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.29 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.43 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.01% -21.27% +23.29%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +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 27 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 27 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 27 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 1,745 £550 - 586
North of England +4 527 £492 -2.96% 180
South East +10 403 £525 - 499
Midlands -1 361 £500 -9.09% 141
North West +6 276 £500 - 97
West Midlands -3 249 £525 -4.55% 90
Yorkshire +9 222 £488 -2.50% 65
South West +10 196 £550 +4.76% 114
East Midlands +8 111 £438 -7.41% 49
East of England -2 96 £550 +4.76% 73
North East -5 28 £450 -23.40% 20
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
1 208 (6.08%) Confluence
2 102 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.02%) CMS
4 29 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.73%) SAS
6 11 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.18%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.18%) TPMS
10 5 (0.15%) Camunda
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) Apache
11 4 (0.12%) Appian
11 4 (0.12%) CICS
11 4 (0.12%) JBoss
12 3 (0.088%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.088%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.058%) nginx
Applications
1 183 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (3.04%) Microsoft Project
4 81 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 63 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.44%) Trello
7 12 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.23%) Sketch
10 2 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.058%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.029%) Blender
11 1 (0.029%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.029%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.029%) GNU Octave
11 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.029%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 147 (4.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (0.76%) Endur
5 20 (0.58%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.50%) Primavera
7 13 (0.38%) SAP HCM
8 12 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 12 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
8 12 (0.35%) SAP EWM
9 10 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
10 9 (0.26%) SAP MDG
10 9 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 8 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
12 7 (0.20%) Loan IQ
12 7 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
12 7 (0.20%) SAP CO
12 7 (0.20%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 487 (14.23%) Azure
2 333 (9.73%) AWS
3 232 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 170 (4.97%) GCP
5 127 (3.71%) SaaS
6 108 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 86 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 50 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
10 40 (1.17%) Serverless
11 35 (1.02%) OpenShift
12 34 (0.99%) GitHub
13 33 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
14 30 (0.88%) OCI
14 30 (0.88%) Power Automate
15 29 (0.85%) Snowflake
16 28 (0.82%) PowerApps
17 22 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
17 22 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (0.61%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.16%) Firewall
2 38 (1.11%) Network Security
3 31 (0.91%) WAN
4 24 (0.70%) SD-WAN
4 24 (0.70%) VPN
5 22 (0.64%) LAN
6 21 (0.61%) SSH
7 15 (0.44%) DNS
8 13 (0.38%) SSL
9 12 (0.35%) Broadband
9 12 (0.35%) MPLS
9 12 (0.35%) Wireless
10 11 (0.32%) DHCP
10 11 (0.32%) Internet
11 10 (0.29%) BGP
11 10 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.26%) SAN
13 8 (0.23%) OSPF
14 7 (0.20%) HTTP
15 6 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (5.96%) Power BI
2 67 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (1.58%) Tableau
4 44 (1.29%) Metadata
5 35 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.82%) BigQuery
7 27 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 26 (0.76%) Power Query
9 21 (0.61%) NoSQL
9 21 (0.61%) Oracle Database
10 20 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.58%) SQL Server
11 16 (0.47%) Big Data
11 16 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 15 (0.44%) MySQL
13 14 (0.41%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 375 (10.96%) JIRA
2 72 (2.10%) Git
3 66 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.43%) GitLab
5 33 (0.96%) Selenium
6 21 (0.61%) JUnit
7 19 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 18 (0.53%) Maven
9 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.29%) Gradle
10 8 (0.23%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.23%) MLflow
11 7 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (0.18%) Mockito
12 6 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.15%) SonarLint
13 5 (0.15%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.15%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.12%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 1,798 (52.54%) Social Skills
2 1,116 (32.61%) Finance
3 570 (16.66%) Analytical Skills
4 300 (8.77%) Banking
5 295 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 169 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
7 158 (4.62%) Retail
8 154 (4.50%) Legal
9 141 (4.12%) Marketing
10 117 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
11 111 (3.24%) Telecoms
12 101 (2.95%) Manufacturing
13 96 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
14 95 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
15 79 (2.31%) Front Office
16 62 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 57 (1.67%) Investment Banking
17 57 (1.67%) Law
18 56 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
19 44 (1.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 652 (19.05%) Analyst
2 505 (14.76%) Project Manager
3 449 (13.12%) Business Analyst
4 384 (11.22%) Architect
5 341 (9.96%) Lead
6 281 (8.21%) Senior
7 231 (6.75%) Consultant
8 146 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
9 132 (3.86%) Programme Manager
10 108 (3.16%) IT Manager
10 108 (3.16%) Senior Manager
11 92 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
12 85 (2.48%) Developer
13 79 (2.31%) Data Analyst
14 68 (1.99%) Product Owner
14 68 (1.99%) Technical Manager
15 67 (1.96%) Product Manager
16 64 (1.87%) IT Project Manager
16 64 (1.87%) Senior Project Manager
17 61 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (2.13%) REST
2 54 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
3 38 (1.11%) .NET
4 33 (0.96%) JSON
5 32 (0.94%) HTML
6 30 (0.88%) Kafka
7 29 (0.85%) OAuth
8 28 (0.82%) SailPoint
9 26 (0.76%) SOAP
10 25 (0.73%) OpenID
10 25 (0.73%) SAML
11 22 (0.64%) Middleware
12 21 (0.61%) CSS
13 20 (0.58%) Spring Boot
14 19 (0.56%) React
15 18 (0.53%) OAuth2
15 18 (0.53%) RESTful
16 15 (0.44%) pytest
16 15 (0.44%) XML
17 13 (0.38%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 246 (7.19%) Product Ownership
2 166 (4.85%) Onboarding
3 98 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 95 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 80 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 77 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 75 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 72 (2.10%) Data Centre
9 44 (1.29%) PMI
10 39 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
12 35 (1.02%) Reinsurance
13 32 (0.94%) NHS
14 31 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 29 (0.85%) CMDB
16 28 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (0.82%) Mobile App
17 27 (0.79%) Fixed Income
18 25 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
19 24 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 105 (3.07%) Windows
2 52 (1.52%) Linux
3 33 (0.96%) Unix
4 22 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.29%) Android
7 10 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.26%) VMS
9 5 (0.15%) Solaris
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.088%) CentOS
11 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
12 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,076 (31.44%) Agile
2 640 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
3 533 (15.58%) Project Management
4 455 (13.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 452 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 434 (12.68%) Migration
7 412 (12.04%) Roadmaps
8 402 (11.75%) Project Delivery
9 375 (10.96%) Change Management
10 309 (9.03%) Risk Management
11 302 (8.83%) Analytics
12 296 (8.65%) Decision-Making
13 288 (8.42%) DevOps
14 277 (8.09%) Scrum
15 262 (7.66%) Requirements Gathering
16 258 (7.54%) Business Intelligence
17 243 (7.10%) Workshop Facilitation
18 239 (6.98%) ITIL
19 238 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
20 231 (6.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 248 (7.25%) SQL
2 236 (6.90%) Python
3 82 (2.40%) Java
4 70 (2.05%) PowerShell
5 52 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 44 (1.29%) C#
7 24 (0.70%) VBA
8 22 (0.64%) Bash
9 17 (0.50%) R
9 17 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.47%) Korn
10 16 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 15 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.35%) ABAP
13 8 (0.23%) C++
13 8 (0.23%) Perl
13 8 (0.23%) VB
14 7 (0.20%) Bicep
15 6 (0.18%) PHP
15 6 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 518 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 386 (11.28%) SC Cleared
3 342 (9.99%) Degree
4 160 (4.68%) PMI Certification
5 145 (4.24%) PMP
6 72 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 72 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 65 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (1.67%) CISSP
9 52 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 37 (1.08%) Azure Certification
10 37 (1.08%) CISM
11 28 (0.82%) AWS Certification
11 28 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
12 26 (0.76%) ACCA
13 24 (0.70%) CBAP
13 24 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (0.67%) CIMA
14 23 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.64%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (5.58%) QA
2 185 (5.41%) GDPR
3 121 (3.54%) PMO
4 111 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 97 (2.83%) Data Quality
6 93 (2.72%) NIST
7 50 (1.46%) GRC
8 44 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 39 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 39 (1.14%) SLA
10 36 (1.05%) Accessibility
11 21 (0.61%) IFRS
12 20 (0.58%) MiFID
13 19 (0.56%) COBIT
13 19 (0.56%) NCSC
14 14 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.41%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.38%) PSD2
16 12 (0.35%) EMIR
16 12 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 72 (2.10%) Docker
3 32 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.15%) vSphere
7 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.058%) Firmware
9 2 (0.058%) NFS
9 2 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.058%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.029%) IAG
10 1 (0.029%) NDS
10 1 (0.029%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.029%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 100 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 90 (2.63%) Terraform
3 35 (1.02%) Ansible
4 23 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.50%) SCCM
6 15 (0.44%) Grafana
7 10 (0.29%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.29%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.26%) Kibana
9 7 (0.20%) Argo
10 6 (0.18%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.18%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.15%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.12%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.12%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.12%) Puppet
13 3 (0.088%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 450 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 314 (9.18%) SAP
3 187 (5.46%) Oracle
4 137 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 121 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 84 (2.45%) Workday
7 69 (2.02%) Google
8 47 (1.37%) Databricks
9 45 (1.32%) IBM
10 41 (1.20%) VMware
11 33 (0.96%) Adobe
12 31 (0.91%) Cisco
13 29 (0.85%) Ariba
14 28 (0.82%) MuleSoft
15 25 (0.73%) Citrix
15 25 (0.73%) Fortinet
16 22 (0.64%) F5
17 20 (0.58%) Splunk
18 18 (0.53%) HP
18 18 (0.53%) Informatica