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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 23 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,907 2,474 3,512
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 10.56% 7.61% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.62% 8.85% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,975 1,581 2,542
10th Percentile £361 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 72 87
10th Percentile £28.25 £35.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £42.47 £30.86
Median hourly rate £46.18 £61.60 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.03% +27.01% -3.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.09
90th Percentile £73.75 £85.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £60.83 £51.42
% change year-on-year -24.08% +18.30% +2.84%

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 25,024 27,970 37,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.88% 86.03% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,893 17,419 26,295
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,490 1,309 1,438
10th Percentile £14.37 £14.96 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%
75th Percentile £49.31 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Stakeholder Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Management 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 September 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 September 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 September 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 1,491 £557 +1.27% 1,172
North of England +6 467 £500 -4.76% 337
South East +9 308 £525 +5.00% 881
Midlands 0 274 £525 -4.55% 250
North West +8 271 £500 -4.76% 199
West Midlands -7 191 £541 -1.55% 144
Yorkshire +7 177 £495 -5.71% 110
South West +10 172 £550 +4.76% 164
East of England +5 99 £550 +4.76% 140
East Midlands +10 81 £439 -5.65% 96
North East -8 20 £520 -9.57% 31
Stakeholder Management
UK

Stakeholder Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 133 (4.58%) Confluence
2 79 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.20%) CMS
4 15 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.24%) CICS
8 6 (0.21%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.21%) JBoss
9 5 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.14%) SAS
10 4 (0.14%) WordPress
11 3 (0.10%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.10%) IIS
11 3 (0.10%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.069%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.069%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 154 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (2.27%) MS Visio
5 65 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.41%) Trello
7 7 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.17%) Sketch
10 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.14%) Siemens NX
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.034%) Blender
12 1 (0.034%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.034%) InDesign
12 1 (0.034%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.034%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 146 (5.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.69%) Endur
4 18 (0.62%) SAP HCM
5 13 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 11 (0.38%) Primavera
7 11 (0.38%) Shopify
7 11 (0.38%) Teamcenter
8 10 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
10 7 (0.24%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.24%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.24%) SAP FI
10 7 (0.24%) VisionPLUS
10 7 (0.24%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
11 6 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 343 (11.80%) Azure
2 272 (9.36%) AWS
3 166 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 128 (4.40%) GCP
5 102 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 95 (3.27%) SaaS
7 57 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 49 (1.69%) Serverless
10 47 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (1.41%) Amazon S3
12 35 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 30 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (0.89%) GitHub
15 26 (0.89%) PowerApps
16 24 (0.83%) Snowflake
17 23 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
18 22 (0.76%) Power Automate
19 19 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.89%) Firewall
2 30 (1.03%) Network Security
3 20 (0.69%) VPN
4 15 (0.52%) WAN
5 10 (0.34%) LAN
5 10 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.28%) 5G
6 8 (0.28%) Internet
6 8 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.28%) Wireless
7 7 (0.24%) BGP
7 7 (0.24%) DNS
7 7 (0.24%) SAN
7 7 (0.24%) SSH
8 6 (0.21%) HTTP
8 6 (0.21%) Intranet
8 6 (0.21%) MPLS
8 6 (0.21%) VoIP
9 4 (0.14%) Broadband
9 4 (0.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (4.85%) Power BI
2 66 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (1.48%) Data Lake
4 36 (1.24%) Tableau
5 30 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (1.00%) Metadata
7 27 (0.93%) SAP HANA
8 26 (0.89%) BigQuery
8 26 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (0.83%) SQL Server
10 22 (0.76%) Big Data
11 21 (0.72%) Relational Database
12 18 (0.62%) DynamoDB
13 16 (0.55%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.52%) Power Query
14 15 (0.52%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.38%) Hadoop
18 10 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 262 (9.01%) JIRA
2 42 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 37 (1.27%) Git
4 22 (0.76%) SonarQube
5 18 (0.62%) Maven
6 15 (0.52%) GitLab
6 15 (0.52%) Selenium
7 10 (0.34%) Gradle
8 8 (0.28%) MLflow
9 7 (0.24%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.21%) JUnit
10 6 (0.21%) LoadRunner
10 6 (0.21%) Mockito
10 6 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.21%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.17%) Appium
11 5 (0.17%) Axure RP
11 5 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.17%) SonarLint
General
1 1,466 (50.43%) Social Skills
2 977 (33.61%) Finance
3 446 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (9.12%) Banking
5 255 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 141 (4.85%) Retail
7 123 (4.23%) Legal
8 121 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
9 118 (4.06%) Marketing
10 104 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
11 91 (3.13%) Telecoms
12 78 (2.68%) Manufacturing
13 77 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
14 68 (2.34%) Front Office
15 62 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
16 57 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 49 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
18 45 (1.55%) Investment Banking
19 39 (1.34%) Back Office
20 36 (1.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 543 (18.68%) Analyst
2 445 (15.31%) Project Manager
3 341 (11.73%) Business Analyst
4 335 (11.52%) Architect
5 272 (9.36%) Senior
6 257 (8.84%) Lead
7 187 (6.43%) Consultant
8 122 (4.20%) Programme Manager
9 113 (3.89%) Senior Manager
10 102 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
11 99 (3.41%) IT Manager
12 85 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
13 75 (2.58%) Developer
14 66 (2.27%) Data Analyst
15 63 (2.17%) IT Project Manager
16 62 (2.13%) Senior Project Manager
17 60 (2.06%) Product Manager
18 59 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
19 53 (1.82%) Technical Manager
20 52 (1.79%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 34 (1.17%) Web Services
3 31 (1.07%) REST
4 29 (1.00%) Kafka
5 27 (0.93%) .NET
6 23 (0.79%) Spring Boot
7 19 (0.65%) HTML
8 16 (0.55%) CSS
8 16 (0.55%) RESTful
8 16 (0.55%) SailPoint
9 15 (0.52%) JSON
9 15 (0.52%) OAuth
10 14 (0.48%) Middleware
11 13 (0.45%) React
12 12 (0.41%) OpenID
12 12 (0.41%) SOAP
12 12 (0.41%) Spring
13 11 (0.38%) SAML
13 11 (0.38%) XML
14 10 (0.34%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 181 (6.23%) Product Ownership
2 97 (3.34%) Onboarding
3 93 (3.20%) Management Information System
4 75 (2.58%) Cloud Native
5 65 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
6 58 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 42 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 35 (1.20%) PMI
10 30 (1.03%) Virtual Team
11 28 (0.96%) Life Science
11 28 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (0.86%) Data Structures
13 25 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
14 24 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (0.79%) CMDB
15 23 (0.79%) Fixed Income
15 23 (0.79%) Reinsurance
16 21 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (3.89%) Windows
2 36 (1.24%) Linux
3 24 (0.83%) Windows 10
4 16 (0.55%) Unix
5 15 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.31%) Android
7 9 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.14%) VMS
8 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.069%) Solaris
11 1 (0.034%) AIX
11 1 (0.034%) CentOS
11 1 (0.034%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (29.21%) Agile
2 519 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
3 487 (16.75%) Project Management
4 373 (12.83%) Project Delivery
5 346 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 340 (11.70%) Migration
7 326 (11.21%) Change Management
8 324 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 305 (10.49%) Risk Management
10 303 (10.42%) Roadmaps
11 246 (8.46%) Analytics
12 237 (8.15%) Decision-Making
13 219 (7.53%) Scrum
13 219 (7.53%) Waterfall
14 210 (7.22%) ITIL
15 197 (6.78%) DevOps
16 195 (6.71%) Business Intelligence
17 182 (6.26%) Business Analysis
17 182 (6.26%) Requirements Gathering
18 180 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 217 (7.46%) SQL
2 150 (5.16%) Python
3 74 (2.55%) Java
4 48 (1.65%) PowerShell
5 34 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 29 (1.00%) C#
7 19 (0.65%) ABAP
8 16 (0.55%) Bash
8 16 (0.55%) VBA
9 15 (0.52%) R
10 13 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.41%) VB
12 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.34%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.28%) COBOL
13 8 (0.28%) JCL
13 8 (0.28%) Korn
13 8 (0.28%) PHP
13 8 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.24%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 412 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 304 (10.46%) SC Cleared
3 260 (8.94%) Degree
4 147 (5.06%) PMI Certification
5 136 (4.68%) PMP
6 67 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 58 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 43 (1.48%) CISSP
9 40 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 37 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 29 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 28 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
14 27 (0.93%) CISM
15 24 (0.83%) CBAP
16 22 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
18 20 (0.69%) CISA
19 15 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
20 13 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (4.33%) PMO
2 125 (4.30%) QA
3 113 (3.89%) GDPR
4 89 (3.06%) Data Quality
5 79 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 69 (2.37%) NIST
7 37 (1.27%) GRC
8 36 (1.24%) Accessibility
9 35 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 35 (1.20%) SLA
10 24 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (0.65%) MiFID
12 17 (0.58%) COBIT
12 17 (0.58%) IFRS
13 13 (0.45%) EMIR
14 10 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.31%) GxP
15 9 (0.31%) P3O
16 8 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 73 (2.51%) Active Directory
2 43 (1.48%) Docker
3 23 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.10%) Postfix
6 2 (0.069%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.034%) Firmware
7 1 (0.034%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.034%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.034%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 67 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 63 (2.17%) Terraform
3 23 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (0.72%) SCCM
5 19 (0.65%) Ansible
6 16 (0.55%) Grafana
6 16 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.31%) Argo
9 8 (0.28%) NSN NetAct
10 7 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.21%) Amdocs OSS
11 6 (0.21%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.17%) Kibana
12 5 (0.17%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.14%) Control-M
14 3 (0.10%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.10%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.10%) Nessus
Vendors
1 384 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 283 (9.74%) SAP
3 139 (4.78%) Oracle
4 111 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 98 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 55 (1.89%) Google
7 54 (1.86%) Workday
8 43 (1.48%) Databricks
9 38 (1.31%) Adobe
10 27 (0.93%) VMware
11 25 (0.86%) Citrix
12 22 (0.76%) IBM
12 22 (0.76%) Splunk
13 20 (0.69%) Cisco
13 20 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 18 (0.62%) Ariba
15 17 (0.58%) Remedy
16 16 (0.55%) HP
17 15 (0.52%) Informatica
18 14 (0.48%) Ericsson