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

6 months to
12 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 3,310 2,410 3,402
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.06% 7.82% 8.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.23% 9.02% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,280 1,515 2,384
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 53 96
10th Percentile £23.00 £35.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £40.00 £32.88
Median hourly rate £47.48 £60.00 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -20.88% +17.10% -0.99%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £57.77 £53.67
% change year-on-year -22.97% +7.65% +5.23%

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 27,075 26,730 35,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.46% 86.69% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,210 16,317 24,093
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £547
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.02% -0.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.43% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,755 963 1,478
10th Percentile £14.71 £15.10 £14.33
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.06 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.17
% change year-on-year -28.14% -18.92% +23.33%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 1,691 £550 - 1,284
North of England +7 516 £495 -1.00% 348
South East +9 365 £525 - 526
Midlands 0 351 £500 -9.09% 209
North West +7 272 £500 - 202
West Midlands -3 246 £525 -4.55% 138
Yorkshire +12 216 £488 -2.50% 114
South West +7 192 £550 +4.76% 167
East Midlands +11 103 £441 -6.25% 71
East of England -2 103 £550 +2.33% 99
North East -4 27 £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
1 187 (5.65%) Confluence
2 91 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.09%) CMS
4 25 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.69%) SAS
6 11 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.30%) 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%) Apache
11 3 (0.091%) IIS
11 3 (0.091%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.091%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 180 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
4 81 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 61 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.45%) Trello
7 12 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.33%) 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
11 2 (0.060%) Photoshop
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%) Simulink
12 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 145 (4.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.76%) Endur
4 24 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.48%) Primavera
6 14 (0.42%) SAP HCM
6 14 (0.42%) Workday HCM
7 13 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.36%) Aladdin
9 10 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
9 10 (0.30%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.27%) SAP EWM
10 9 (0.27%) SAP MDG
10 9 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 8 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
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
1 446 (13.47%) Azure
2 315 (9.52%) AWS
3 220 (6.65%) Power Platform
4 155 (4.68%) GCP
5 124 (3.75%) SaaS
6 102 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
7 79 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (1.96%) Entra ID
9 47 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
10 40 (1.21%) Serverless
11 34 (1.03%) OpenShift
12 33 (1.00%) GitHub
13 30 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
14 29 (0.88%) Snowflake
15 25 (0.76%) Amazon S3
15 25 (0.76%) PowerApps
16 24 (0.73%) OCI
17 23 (0.69%) Power Automate
18 21 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
19 20 (0.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.15%) Firewall
2 34 (1.03%) Network Security
3 29 (0.88%) WAN
4 21 (0.63%) SD-WAN
4 21 (0.63%) VPN
5 19 (0.57%) LAN
6 17 (0.51%) SSH
7 14 (0.42%) DNS
7 14 (0.42%) MPLS
8 12 (0.36%) Broadband
9 11 (0.33%) DHCP
9 11 (0.33%) Wireless
10 10 (0.30%) BGP
10 10 (0.30%) Internet
10 10 (0.30%) VoIP
11 9 (0.27%) SAN
11 9 (0.27%) SSL
11 9 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.24%) OSPF
13 7 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (5.83%) Power BI
2 68 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (1.72%) Tableau
4 41 (1.24%) Metadata
5 38 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 26 (0.79%) BigQuery
6 26 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 24 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (0.73%) SQL Server
8 22 (0.66%) Power Query
9 21 (0.63%) Big Data
9 21 (0.63%) NoSQL
9 21 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 16 (0.48%) DynamoDB
11 15 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (0.45%) RDBMS
12 14 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.42%) MySQL
12 14 (0.42%) SAP HANA
13 13 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 347 (10.48%) JIRA
2 71 (2.15%) Git
3 60 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 45 (1.36%) 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 1,733 (52.36%) Social Skills
2 1,090 (32.93%) Finance
3 544 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 301 (9.09%) Banking
5 284 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 160 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
7 153 (4.62%) Retail
8 144 (4.35%) Legal
9 133 (4.02%) Marketing
10 107 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
11 104 (3.14%) Telecoms
12 91 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
13 90 (2.72%) Manufacturing
14 89 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
15 79 (2.39%) Front Office
16 61 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 60 (1.81%) Investment Banking
18 55 (1.66%) Law
19 54 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
20 38 (1.15%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 615 (18.58%) Analyst
2 498 (15.05%) Project Manager
3 413 (12.48%) Business Analyst
4 366 (11.06%) Architect
5 327 (9.88%) Lead
6 267 (8.07%) Senior
7 220 (6.65%) Consultant
8 132 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
9 125 (3.78%) Programme Manager
10 107 (3.23%) Senior Manager
11 105 (3.17%) IT Manager
12 95 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
13 87 (2.63%) Developer
14 73 (2.21%) Data Analyst
15 68 (2.05%) Product Owner
16 64 (1.93%) Senior Project Manager
17 63 (1.90%) IT Project Manager
18 62 (1.87%) Product Manager
19 60 (1.81%) Technical Manager
20 51 (1.54%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (2.21%) REST
2 56 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 39 (1.18%) .NET
4 31 (0.94%) HTML
4 31 (0.94%) JSON
5 27 (0.82%) OAuth
5 27 (0.82%) SOAP
6 26 (0.79%) Kafka
6 26 (0.79%) Middleware
7 25 (0.76%) OpenID
8 24 (0.73%) SailPoint
9 23 (0.69%) SAML
9 23 (0.69%) Spring Boot
10 21 (0.63%) React
11 20 (0.60%) CSS
11 20 (0.60%) RESTful
11 20 (0.60%) Web Services
12 18 (0.54%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.45%) AngularJS
13 15 (0.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 234 (7.07%) Product Ownership
2 150 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 90 (2.72%) Cloud Native
3 90 (2.72%) Management Information System
4 75 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 74 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 72 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 66 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 42 (1.27%) PMI
9 38 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (1.00%) Reinsurance
11 32 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 30 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 30 (0.91%) NHS
13 28 (0.85%) Data Structures
13 28 (0.85%) Mobile App
14 27 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
15 26 (0.79%) Fixed Income
15 26 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (0.76%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 111 (3.35%) Windows
2 53 (1.60%) Linux
3 33 (1.00%) Unix
4 21 (0.63%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.30%) Android
7 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.21%) VMS
10 4 (0.12%) Solaris
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.091%) CentOS
11 3 (0.091%) 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 1,029 (31.09%) Agile
2 601 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
3 519 (15.68%) Project Management
4 427 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 422 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 406 (12.27%) Migration
7 398 (12.02%) Project Delivery
8 390 (11.78%) Roadmaps
9 364 (11.00%) Change Management
10 303 (9.15%) Risk Management
11 286 (8.64%) Analytics
12 273 (8.25%) Decision-Making
12 273 (8.25%) DevOps
13 265 (8.01%) Scrum
14 241 (7.28%) Business Intelligence
15 239 (7.22%) Requirements Gathering
16 231 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
16 231 (6.98%) Waterfall
17 228 (6.89%) Workshop Facilitation
18 225 (6.80%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 239 (7.22%) SQL
2 218 (6.59%) Python
3 78 (2.36%) Java
4 64 (1.93%) PowerShell
5 49 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 43 (1.30%) C#
7 22 (0.66%) Bash
7 22 (0.66%) VBA
8 17 (0.51%) R
9 16 (0.48%) Korn
9 16 (0.48%) Shell Script
10 14 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 13 (0.39%) ABAP
12 12 (0.36%) VB
13 10 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.21%) Bicep
14 7 (0.21%) Perl
15 6 (0.18%) COBOL
15 6 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 485 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 369 (11.15%) SC Cleared
3 316 (9.55%) Degree
4 151 (4.56%) PMI Certification
5 137 (4.14%) PMP
6 74 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 65 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 60 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 56 (1.69%) CISSP
10 45 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 35 (1.06%) CISM
12 34 (1.03%) Azure Certification
13 25 (0.76%) AWS Certification
14 23 (0.69%) CBAP
14 23 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
14 23 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
14 23 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.66%) ACCA
16 19 (0.57%) CIMA
17 16 (0.48%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (5.05%) QA
2 164 (4.95%) GDPR
3 119 (3.60%) PMO
4 107 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (2.87%) Data Quality
6 89 (2.69%) NIST
7 45 (1.36%) GRC
8 44 (1.33%) SLA
9 40 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 36 (1.09%) Accessibility
11 35 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (0.57%) COBIT
12 19 (0.57%) IFRS
12 19 (0.57%) MiFID
13 18 (0.54%) NCSC
14 15 (0.45%) 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 72 (2.18%) Active Directory
2 68 (2.05%) 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 89 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 86 (2.60%) Terraform
3 31 (0.94%) Ansible
4 23 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.66%) Grafana
5 22 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.48%) SCCM
7 9 (0.27%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.27%) HP ALM
7 9 (0.27%) Kibana
8 8 (0.24%) Argo
8 8 (0.24%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.18%) Kubeflow
10 5 (0.15%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.12%) NSN NetAct
11 4 (0.12%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 430 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 300 (9.06%) SAP
3 179 (5.41%) Oracle
4 137 (4.14%) ServiceNow
5 119 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 79 (2.39%) Workday
7 64 (1.93%) Google
8 42 (1.27%) IBM
9 41 (1.24%) Databricks
10 40 (1.21%) VMware
11 33 (1.00%) Adobe
12 29 (0.88%) Cisco
13 27 (0.82%) Citrix
13 27 (0.82%) MuleSoft
14 25 (0.76%) Ariba
15 22 (0.66%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.63%) F5
16 21 (0.63%) Splunk
17 19 (0.57%) Informatica
18 17 (0.51%) HP