Stakeholder Management Contracts in England

Stakeholder Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Stakeholder Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,323 2,830 4,237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.54% 7.60% 8.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.47% 8.79% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,589 1,996 3,104
10th Percentile £363 £361 £390
25th Percentile £447 £438 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -0.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 76 71
10th Percentile £35.00 £14.57 £25.75
25th Percentile £45.59 £30.12 £33.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £56.30
Median % change year-on-year - +6.57% +42.53%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.31 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.24 £85.32 £88.30
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £56.30
% change year-on-year - +6.57% +36.48%

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 22,183 32,201 45,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.14% 86.52% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,119 31,974
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 2,240 1,592
10th Percentile £14.67 £12.91 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Management in England

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in England

Stakeholder Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Management in England

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management in England over the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 April 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 +5 1,244 £575 +4.55% 1,114
North of England -1 331 £510 -2.86% 314
South East +8 265 £500 - 274
Midlands +5 235 £501 -6.88% 189
North West +3 205 £517 -1.52% 214
West Midlands +2 175 £525 -4.55% 123
Yorkshire -9 92 £500 -2.44% 84
East of England -8 77 £600 +20.00% 83
South West -20 77 £545 +3.81% 124
East Midlands +14 56 £449 -9.39% 62
North East +11 33 £545 -4.18% 18
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 94 (4.05%) Confluence
2 54 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.12%) CMS
4 16 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.43%) SAS
7 6 (0.26%) JBoss
8 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.086%) Apache
10 2 (0.086%) CICS
10 2 (0.086%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.086%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.043%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.043%) Drupal
11 1 (0.043%) IIS
11 1 (0.043%) Tomcat
Applications
1 84 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
5 50 (2.15%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.73%) Trello
7 11 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.086%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.086%) InVision
9 2 (0.086%) Open Workbench
9 2 (0.086%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.086%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.043%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 97 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.60%) SAP MDG
4 13 (0.56%) NEC Housing
5 12 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 12 (0.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 10 (0.43%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.43%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 7 (0.30%) SAP Retail
8 7 (0.30%) Shopify
9 6 (0.26%) Endur
9 6 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.26%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.17%) Maximo
11 4 (0.17%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 273 (11.75%) Azure
2 217 (9.34%) AWS
3 114 (4.91%) Power Platform
4 71 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (2.93%) GCP
6 57 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (2.32%) SaaS
8 43 (1.85%) Serverless
9 39 (1.68%) Amazon S3
10 33 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (1.29%) Entra ID
12 27 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (1.12%) Snowflake
14 23 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (0.86%) PowerApps
16 16 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
17 15 (0.65%) GitHub
18 14 (0.60%) Asana
18 14 (0.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.07%) Firewall
2 31 (1.33%) VPN
3 27 (1.16%) Network Security
4 23 (0.99%) WAN
5 21 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.47%) LAN
6 11 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (0.43%) DNS
7 10 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
8 7 (0.30%) BGP
8 7 (0.30%) Intranet
8 7 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.26%) DHCP
9 6 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.22%) 5G
10 5 (0.22%) MPLS
10 5 (0.22%) OSPF
11 4 (0.17%) Skype
11 4 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.13%) Power BI
2 56 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (1.72%) Tableau
4 32 (1.38%) Data Lake
5 31 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (0.99%) Big Data
8 19 (0.82%) Hadoop
9 18 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (0.77%) SQL Server
10 15 (0.65%) Relational Database
11 12 (0.52%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.52%) RDBMS
12 11 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 11 (0.47%) Metadata
13 10 (0.43%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.34%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 207 (8.91%) JIRA
2 31 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 22 (0.95%) GitLab
4 18 (0.77%) ERwin
5 16 (0.69%) Git
5 16 (0.69%) JMeter
6 13 (0.56%) Selenium
7 10 (0.43%) LoadRunner
8 8 (0.34%) NeoLoad
9 7 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
9 7 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.26%) Postman
11 5 (0.22%) Appium
11 5 (0.22%) Gatling
12 4 (0.17%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.17%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.17%) JUnit
12 4 (0.17%) Mockito
12 4 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,135 (48.86%) Social Skills
2 757 (32.59%) Finance
3 372 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (10.33%) Public Sector
5 183 (7.88%) Banking
6 119 (5.12%) Retail
7 115 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
8 99 (4.26%) Marketing
9 85 (3.66%) Legal
10 72 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
11 66 (2.84%) Manufacturing
11 66 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
12 61 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 56 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
14 42 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 42 (1.81%) Local Government
15 36 (1.55%) Front Office
16 35 (1.51%) Investment Banking
17 29 (1.25%) Financial Institution
18 27 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 380 (16.36%) Analyst
2 360 (15.50%) Project Manager
3 291 (12.53%) Architect
4 263 (11.32%) Business Analyst
5 228 (9.81%) Lead
6 219 (9.43%) Senior
7 151 (6.50%) Consultant
8 105 (4.52%) Programme Manager
9 94 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
10 83 (3.57%) IT Manager
11 72 (3.10%) Senior Manager
12 71 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
13 52 (2.24%) Developer
14 51 (2.20%) Product Manager
15 49 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
16 48 (2.07%) Data Analyst
16 48 (2.07%) IT Project Manager
17 47 (2.02%) Technical Manager
18 45 (1.94%) Change Manager
19 39 (1.68%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.38%) Kafka
2 21 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (0.90%) REST
3 19 (0.82%) .NET
4 17 (0.73%) Middleware
5 16 (0.69%) SOAP
6 14 (0.60%) Web Services
7 13 (0.56%) React
8 12 (0.52%) HTML
8 12 (0.52%) SailPoint
9 11 (0.47%) ARM Templates
9 11 (0.47%) RESTful
10 10 (0.43%) CSS
10 10 (0.43%) XML
11 9 (0.39%) ADO
11 9 (0.39%) AngularJS
11 9 (0.39%) Spring Boot
12 8 (0.34%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (0.30%) JSON
13 7 (0.30%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 92 (3.96%) Product Ownership
2 78 (3.36%) Management Information System
3 55 (2.37%) Onboarding
4 49 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 48 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 38 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (1.55%) Life Science
8 31 (1.33%) Operational Technology
9 27 (1.16%) Cloud Native
10 26 (1.12%) PMI
11 23 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 21 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 21 (0.90%) NHS
13 20 (0.86%) FMCG
14 19 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
16 12 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (3.44%) Windows
2 35 (1.51%) Linux
3 15 (0.65%) Windows 10
4 14 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.56%) Unix
5 13 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.17%) Android
7 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.13%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.13%) Windows XP
8 2 (0.086%) CentOS
8 2 (0.086%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (28.41%) Agile
2 505 (21.74%) Project Management
3 503 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
4 299 (12.87%) Risk Management
5 260 (11.19%) Change Management
6 256 (11.02%) Migration
7 249 (10.72%) Project Delivery
8 225 (9.69%) Decision-Making
9 219 (9.43%) Analytics
9 219 (9.43%) Roadmaps
10 216 (9.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 202 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 170 (7.32%) Waterfall
13 152 (6.54%) Business Analysis
13 152 (6.54%) DevOps
14 145 (6.24%) PRINCE2
15 144 (6.20%) Scrum
16 132 (5.68%) Business Intelligence
17 129 (5.55%) Process Improvement
18 128 (5.51%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 162 (6.97%) SQL
2 118 (5.08%) Python
3 57 (2.45%) Java
4 38 (1.64%) JavaScript
5 29 (1.25%) PowerShell
6 20 (0.86%) C#
7 17 (0.73%) PHP
8 14 (0.60%) Bicep
9 10 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 9 (0.39%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.39%) Scala
11 7 (0.30%) ABAP
11 7 (0.30%) Bash
11 7 (0.30%) C++
11 7 (0.30%) R
11 7 (0.30%) VBA
12 6 (0.26%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.26%) Perl
13 4 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 306 (13.17%) Security Cleared
2 243 (10.46%) SC Cleared
3 214 (9.21%) Degree
4 113 (4.86%) PMI Certification
5 111 (4.78%) PMP
6 40 (1.72%) CISSP
7 38 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 37 (1.59%) CISM
8 37 (1.59%) DV Cleared
9 33 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.25%) CISA
11 26 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 21 (0.90%) CRISC
12 21 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (0.82%) Azure Certification
14 17 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.73%) CBAP
15 16 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.47%) QA
2 116 (4.99%) PMO
3 76 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 61 (2.63%) GDPR
5 56 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.94%) NIST
7 35 (1.51%) Accessibility
8 21 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.73%) GRC
11 13 (0.56%) HIPAA
11 13 (0.56%) MiFID
12 12 (0.52%) COBIT
13 10 (0.43%) SLA
14 9 (0.39%) NCSC
15 7 (0.30%) GxP
16 6 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.26%) EMIR
16 6 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 6 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 60 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.03%) Docker
3 22 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.17%) Postfix
7 2 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.086%) vSphere
8 1 (0.043%) Firmware
8 1 (0.043%) IAG
8 1 (0.043%) KVM
8 1 (0.043%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.043%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.043%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.043%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (2.63%) Terraform
2 52 (2.24%) Kubernetes
3 30 (1.29%) Ansible
4 23 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (0.69%) Grafana
6 10 (0.43%) SCCM
7 8 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.30%) Argo
8 7 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.26%) Amdocs OSS
10 4 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.17%) Perfmon
11 3 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.13%) Kibana
11 3 (0.13%) Puppet
12 2 (0.086%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.086%) Packer
12 2 (0.086%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.086%) SELinux
Vendors
1 268 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 224 (9.64%) SAP
3 97 (4.18%) Oracle
4 70 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 60 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 40 (1.72%) Cisco
7 38 (1.64%) Google
8 32 (1.38%) Ariba
9 31 (1.33%) Adobe
10 30 (1.29%) Workday
11 28 (1.21%) Databricks
12 26 (1.12%) VMware
13 23 (0.99%) Atlassian
14 18 (0.77%) NEC
15 17 (0.73%) Splunk
16 15 (0.65%) MuleSoft
17 14 (0.60%) Informatica
18 12 (0.52%) IBM
19 11 (0.47%) Palo Alto
20 10 (0.43%) Dynatrace