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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 22 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,365 2,466 3,360
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.07% 7.85% 8.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.30% 9.01% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,293 1,552 2,354
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -
75th Percentile £650 £642 £650
90th Percentile £756 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 55 94
10th Percentile £21.16 £33.35 £21.25
25th Percentile £31.25 £38.00 £32.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £58.30 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +13.78% -6.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.35 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £57.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -21.93% +6.21% -1.00%

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 27,360 27,372 34,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.00% 87.10% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,349 16,711 23,948
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,809 1,012 1,477
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.10 £14.52
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.23 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.65% -19.66% +25.35%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -26.03% -22.46% +25.29%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 1,709 £550 - 534
North of England +5 524 £492 -1.60% 189
South East +11 395 £525 - 455
Midlands -1 357 £500 -4.76% 139
North West +7 272 £500 - 96
West Midlands -5 249 £525 -4.55% 94
Yorkshire +12 223 £488 -2.50% 73
South West +7 191 £550 +6.02% 110
East Midlands +10 107 £437 -5.00% 43
East of England -5 96 £550 +4.76% 74
North East -3 28 £450 -21.74% 21
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
1 203 (6.03%) Confluence
2 102 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.07%) CMS
4 27 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (0.71%) 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%) TPMS
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.12%) Apache
10 4 (0.12%) Appian
10 4 (0.12%) CICS
10 4 (0.12%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 3 (0.089%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.089%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 185 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 111 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
4 81 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.45%) Trello
7 12 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.21%) Sketch
10 2 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.059%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.030%) InDesign
11 1 (0.030%) InVision
11 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.030%) Simulink
11 1 (0.030%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 147 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.77%) Endur
4 25 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.59%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.51%) Primavera
7 13 (0.39%) SAP HCM
8 12 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
8 12 (0.36%) SAP EWM
9 11 (0.33%) Aladdin
10 9 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
10 9 (0.27%) SAP MDG
10 9 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 8 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
12 7 (0.21%) Loan IQ
12 7 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
12 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
12 7 (0.21%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 469 (13.94%) Azure
2 327 (9.72%) AWS
3 232 (6.89%) Power Platform
4 164 (4.87%) GCP
5 127 (3.77%) SaaS
6 109 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
7 81 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (1.96%) Entra ID
9 45 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
10 39 (1.16%) Serverless
11 33 (0.98%) GitHub
11 33 (0.98%) OpenShift
12 32 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
13 30 (0.89%) Snowflake
14 28 (0.83%) Power Automate
14 28 (0.83%) PowerApps
15 27 (0.80%) OCI
16 21 (0.62%) Amazon S3
16 21 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.14%) Firewall
2 37 (1.10%) Network Security
3 30 (0.89%) WAN
4 22 (0.65%) SD-WAN
4 22 (0.65%) VPN
5 21 (0.62%) LAN
6 20 (0.59%) SSH
7 15 (0.45%) DNS
8 12 (0.36%) Broadband
8 12 (0.36%) MPLS
8 12 (0.36%) SSL
8 12 (0.36%) Wireless
9 11 (0.33%) DHCP
9 11 (0.33%) Internet
10 10 (0.30%) BGP
10 10 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.27%) SAN
12 8 (0.24%) OSPF
13 7 (0.21%) HTTP
13 7 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (6.06%) Power BI
2 66 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (1.60%) Tableau
4 41 (1.22%) Metadata
5 36 (1.07%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 27 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 26 (0.77%) Power Query
9 21 (0.62%) NoSQL
9 21 (0.62%) Oracle Database
9 21 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.59%) SQL Server
11 16 (0.48%) Big Data
11 16 (0.48%) DynamoDB
12 15 (0.45%) MySQL
13 14 (0.42%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 368 (10.94%) JIRA
2 69 (2.05%) Git
3 62 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.43%) GitLab
5 32 (0.95%) Selenium
6 22 (0.65%) JUnit
7 18 (0.53%) Maven
8 17 (0.51%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.30%) Gradle
10 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.24%) MLflow
12 7 (0.21%) Axure RP
12 7 (0.21%) Mockito
12 7 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (0.15%) SonarLint
13 5 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.15%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.12%) Appium
14 4 (0.12%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (0.12%) REST Assured
General
1 1,765 (52.45%) Social Skills
2 1,103 (32.78%) Finance
3 558 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 300 (8.92%) Banking
5 290 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 166 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
7 159 (4.73%) Retail
8 154 (4.58%) Legal
9 136 (4.04%) Marketing
10 115 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
11 110 (3.27%) Telecoms
12 100 (2.97%) Manufacturing
13 95 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
14 94 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
15 78 (2.32%) Front Office
16 61 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 58 (1.72%) Investment Banking
18 57 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
19 56 (1.66%) Law
20 44 (1.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 637 (18.93%) Analyst
2 505 (15.01%) Project Manager
3 438 (13.02%) Business Analyst
4 381 (11.32%) Architect
5 334 (9.93%) Lead
6 273 (8.11%) Senior
7 223 (6.63%) Consultant
8 144 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
9 131 (3.89%) Programme Manager
10 108 (3.21%) IT Manager
10 108 (3.21%) Senior Manager
11 92 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
12 82 (2.44%) Developer
13 75 (2.23%) Data Analyst
14 69 (2.05%) Product Owner
15 65 (1.93%) IT Project Manager
15 65 (1.93%) Senior Project Manager
15 65 (1.93%) Technical Manager
16 63 (1.87%) Product Manager
17 57 (1.69%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (2.14%) REST
2 50 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 37 (1.10%) .NET
4 33 (0.98%) JSON
5 32 (0.95%) HTML
6 31 (0.92%) Kafka
7 29 (0.86%) OAuth
8 26 (0.77%) SailPoint
9 25 (0.74%) OpenID
9 25 (0.74%) SOAP
10 23 (0.68%) Middleware
10 23 (0.68%) SAML
11 21 (0.62%) CSS
12 20 (0.59%) Spring Boot
13 19 (0.56%) React
13 19 (0.56%) RESTful
14 18 (0.53%) OAuth2
15 15 (0.45%) pytest
15 15 (0.45%) XML
16 13 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 241 (7.16%) Product Ownership
2 163 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 95 (2.82%) Management Information System
4 94 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 76 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 74 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 74 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 72 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 44 (1.31%) PMI
9 38 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 35 (1.04%) Reinsurance
12 32 (0.95%) NHS
13 31 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 28 (0.83%) Mobile App
15 27 (0.80%) CMDB
15 27 (0.80%) Fixed Income
16 26 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
17 25 (0.74%) Data Structures
17 25 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 106 (3.15%) Windows
2 49 (1.46%) Linux
3 32 (0.95%) Unix
4 22 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.53%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.30%) Android
7 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.27%) VMS
9 5 (0.15%) Solaris
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.089%) CentOS
11 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.030%) AIX
12 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,062 (31.56%) Agile
2 622 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
3 527 (15.66%) Project Management
4 447 (13.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 444 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 420 (12.48%) Migration
7 403 (11.98%) Roadmaps
8 401 (11.92%) Project Delivery
9 363 (10.79%) Change Management
10 308 (9.15%) Risk Management
11 302 (8.97%) Analytics
12 284 (8.44%) Decision-Making
13 281 (8.35%) DevOps
14 270 (8.02%) Scrum
15 255 (7.58%) Requirements Gathering
16 253 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
17 238 (7.07%) Workshop Facilitation
18 234 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
19 231 (6.86%) ITIL
19 231 (6.86%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 243 (7.22%) SQL
2 232 (6.89%) Python
3 79 (2.35%) Java
4 69 (2.05%) PowerShell
5 49 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.25%) C#
7 24 (0.71%) VBA
8 22 (0.65%) Bash
9 17 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 17 (0.51%) R
10 16 (0.48%) Korn
10 16 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 15 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.36%) ABAP
13 9 (0.27%) VB
14 8 (0.24%) C++
14 8 (0.24%) Perl
15 7 (0.21%) Bicep
16 6 (0.18%) PHP
16 6 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 505 (15.01%) Security Cleared
2 376 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 334 (9.93%) Degree
4 160 (4.75%) PMI Certification
5 144 (4.28%) PMP
6 72 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 72 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 66 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (1.63%) CISSP
9 47 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 37 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 35 (1.04%) CISM
12 28 (0.83%) AWS Certification
13 26 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
14 25 (0.74%) ACCA
15 24 (0.71%) CBAP
15 24 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (0.65%) CIMA
16 22 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (5.44%) GDPR
1 183 (5.44%) QA
2 121 (3.60%) PMO
3 106 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 96 (2.85%) Data Quality
5 87 (2.59%) NIST
6 45 (1.34%) GRC
7 43 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 40 (1.19%) SLA
9 39 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 36 (1.07%) Accessibility
11 21 (0.62%) MiFID
12 18 (0.53%) IFRS
12 18 (0.53%) NCSC
13 17 (0.51%) COBIT
14 14 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.42%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.39%) PSD2
16 12 (0.36%) EMIR
16 12 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (2.05%) Active Directory
1 69 (2.05%) Docker
2 32 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.15%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.089%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.059%) Firmware
8 2 (0.059%) NFS
8 2 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.059%) XenApp
9 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.030%) IAG
9 1 (0.030%) NDS
9 1 (0.030%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.030%) Postfix
9 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.030%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 95 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 88 (2.62%) Terraform
3 30 (0.89%) Ansible
4 23 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.51%) SCCM
7 16 (0.48%) Grafana
8 10 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.27%) HP ALM
9 9 (0.27%) Kibana
10 7 (0.21%) Argo
11 6 (0.18%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.18%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.15%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.15%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.089%) QRadar
14 3 (0.089%) SCOM
Vendors
1 442 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 309 (9.18%) SAP
3 184 (5.47%) Oracle
4 133 (3.95%) ServiceNow
5 116 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 86 (2.56%) Workday
7 68 (2.02%) Google
8 46 (1.37%) Databricks
9 43 (1.28%) IBM
10 41 (1.22%) VMware
11 32 (0.95%) Adobe
12 29 (0.86%) Ariba
13 28 (0.83%) Cisco
13 28 (0.83%) MuleSoft
14 26 (0.77%) Citrix
15 23 (0.68%) Fortinet
16 22 (0.65%) F5
17 19 (0.56%) Splunk
18 18 (0.53%) Informatica
19 17 (0.51%) HP