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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,473 2,382 3,112
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.00% 8.38% 8.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.43% 9.44% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 1,497 2,142
10th Percentile £368 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 59 90
10th Percentile £17.00 £34.45 £21.24
25th Percentile £30.68 £38.00 £33.00
Median hourly rate £47.48 £60.00 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -20.88% +17.10% +0.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £80.12 £75.73
UK median hourly rate £40.92 £57.50 £54.39
% change year-on-year -28.83% +5.73% +6.88%

All Process & 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 27,947 25,226 32,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.49% 88.70% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,782 15,552 22,007
10th Percentile £301 £313 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 831 1,432
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.42
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.14% +24.04%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 28 December 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 1,770 £550 - 1,280
North of England +1 526 £475 -9.52% 911
South East +8 407 £530 +0.95% 1,130
Midlands -1 396 £492 -6.29% 699
North West +5 275 £475 -8.65% 466
West Midlands -5 268 £500 -4.76% 363
Yorkshire +4 221 £490 -2.05% 388
South West +10 194 £550 +10.00% 437
East Midlands +7 128 £448 -5.68% 291
East of England -5 101 £525 -4.55% 586
North East +8 39 £450 -27.92% 62
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
1 235 (6.77%) Confluence
2 111 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (0.84%) SAS
4 28 (0.81%) CMS
5 10 (0.29%) Appian
6 7 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.20%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.20%) Camunda
6 7 (0.20%) TPMS
7 6 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 4 (0.12%) Apache
10 3 (0.086%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.086%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.086%) nginx
10 3 (0.086%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 192 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
3 116 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.52%) Trello
7 12 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.12%) Sketch
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.058%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.058%) InVision
12 1 (0.029%) Blender
12 1 (0.029%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.029%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.029%) Notion
12 1 (0.029%) Simulink
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 134 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
4 25 (0.72%) Endur
5 21 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 16 (0.46%) Primavera
6 16 (0.46%) SAP HCM
7 15 (0.43%) Aladdin
8 14 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
9 13 (0.37%) SAP EWM
10 12 (0.35%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
11 11 (0.32%) SAP CO
12 10 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
12 10 (0.29%) SAP FI
13 9 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
13 9 (0.26%) SAP MDG
13 9 (0.26%) SAP PP
14 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
14 8 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 513 (14.77%) Azure
2 341 (9.82%) AWS
3 241 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 169 (4.87%) GCP
5 117 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
6 111 (3.20%) SaaS
7 95 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
8 74 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 52 (1.50%) OpenShift
10 48 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
11 38 (1.09%) GitHub
12 37 (1.07%) OCI
13 36 (1.04%) Serverless
14 33 (0.95%) Power Automate
15 31 (0.89%) Snowflake
15 31 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
16 29 (0.84%) PowerApps
17 25 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
18 20 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
18 20 (0.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.22%) Firewall
2 34 (0.98%) WAN
3 32 (0.92%) Network Security
4 28 (0.81%) VPN
5 25 (0.72%) LAN
5 25 (0.72%) SD-WAN
6 22 (0.63%) SSH
7 19 (0.55%) DNS
8 14 (0.40%) Broadband
8 14 (0.40%) SSL
9 13 (0.37%) MPLS
9 13 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.35%) Wireless
11 11 (0.32%) BGP
11 11 (0.32%) Internet
12 10 (0.29%) DHCP
12 10 (0.29%) SAN
13 9 (0.26%) Intranet
14 8 (0.23%) OSPF
14 8 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (6.16%) Power BI
2 69 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (1.84%) Tableau
4 50 (1.44%) Metadata
5 33 (0.95%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.81%) Power Query
7 25 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.66%) BigQuery
9 20 (0.58%) NoSQL
9 20 (0.58%) Oracle Database
10 18 (0.52%) SQL Server
11 17 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.43%) MySQL
13 13 (0.37%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.37%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.32%) Big Data
16 10 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 413 (11.89%) JIRA
2 71 (2.04%) Git
3 66 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.41%) GitLab
5 30 (0.86%) Selenium
6 21 (0.60%) JUnit
7 18 (0.52%) Maven
8 15 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.26%) Gradle
11 8 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
12 7 (0.20%) MLflow
12 7 (0.20%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.17%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.14%) Postman
14 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
15 4 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 1,839 (52.95%) Social Skills
2 1,134 (32.65%) Finance
3 584 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 321 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 315 (9.07%) Banking
6 172 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
7 154 (4.43%) Retail
8 146 (4.20%) Legal
9 134 (3.86%) Marketing
10 111 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
10 111 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
11 103 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
12 102 (2.94%) Manufacturing
13 99 (2.85%) Telecoms
14 70 (2.02%) Front Office
15 54 (1.55%) Law
16 53 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 51 (1.47%) Investment Banking
18 50 (1.44%) Financial Institution
19 45 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 664 (19.12%) Analyst
2 515 (14.83%) Project Manager
3 471 (13.56%) Business Analyst
4 389 (11.20%) Architect
5 365 (10.51%) Lead
6 281 (8.09%) Senior
7 242 (6.97%) Consultant
8 144 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
9 122 (3.51%) Programme Manager
10 111 (3.20%) Senior Manager
11 87 (2.51%) IT Manager
12 80 (2.30%) Delivery Manager
13 75 (2.16%) Data Analyst
14 73 (2.10%) Product Owner
15 68 (1.96%) Developer
15 68 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
16 66 (1.90%) Technical Manager
17 65 (1.87%) Change Manager
18 64 (1.84%) Senior Project Manager
19 60 (1.73%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (2.19%) REST
2 58 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 34 (0.98%) Middleware
4 31 (0.89%) JSON
4 31 (0.89%) SOAP
5 30 (0.86%) .NET
6 27 (0.78%) Kafka
7 25 (0.72%) HTML
8 24 (0.69%) OAuth
8 24 (0.69%) SailPoint
8 24 (0.69%) XML
9 18 (0.52%) React
9 18 (0.52%) RESTful
10 17 (0.49%) OpenID
10 17 (0.49%) pytest
10 17 (0.49%) Spring Boot
11 16 (0.46%) SAML
12 15 (0.43%) ADO
12 15 (0.43%) CSS
12 15 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 263 (7.57%) Product Ownership
2 171 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 93 (2.68%) Cloud Native
4 91 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
5 85 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 81 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 81 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 51 (1.47%) PMI
9 48 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 36 (1.04%) CMDB
12 34 (0.98%) NHS
13 30 (0.86%) Reinsurance
14 29 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
15 27 (0.78%) Virtual Team
16 26 (0.75%) Operational Technology
17 24 (0.69%) Life Science
17 24 (0.69%) Mobile App
17 24 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 107 (3.08%) Windows
2 52 (1.50%) Linux
3 33 (0.95%) Unix
4 22 (0.63%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.35%) VMS
9 6 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.14%) Solaris
11 4 (0.12%) CentOS
11 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.086%) Android
12 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.029%) AIX
13 1 (0.029%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,110 (31.96%) Agile
2 651 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
3 545 (15.69%) Project Management
4 487 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 480 (13.82%) Migration
6 477 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 423 (12.18%) Roadmaps
8 411 (11.83%) Change Management
9 393 (11.32%) Project Delivery
10 318 (9.16%) Decision-Making
11 303 (8.72%) DevOps
12 297 (8.55%) Analytics
13 296 (8.52%) Risk Management
14 284 (8.18%) Scrum
15 271 (7.80%) Workshop Facilitation
16 270 (7.77%) Requirements Gathering
17 262 (7.54%) Business Intelligence
18 255 (7.34%) Waterfall
19 240 (6.91%) ITIL
20 239 (6.88%) AI
Programming Languages
1 261 (7.52%) SQL
2 248 (7.14%) Python
3 77 (2.22%) PowerShell
4 73 (2.10%) Java
5 48 (1.38%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.09%) C#
7 34 (0.98%) Bash
8 24 (0.69%) VBA
9 19 (0.55%) R
10 16 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 16 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.40%) Korn
12 13 (0.37%) ABAP
13 8 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.20%) C++
14 7 (0.20%) VB
15 6 (0.17%) Bicep
15 6 (0.17%) Perl
16 5 (0.14%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 563 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 426 (12.27%) SC Cleared
3 350 (10.08%) Degree
4 182 (5.24%) PMI Certification
5 165 (4.75%) PMP
6 72 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 68 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 67 (1.93%) DV Cleared
9 61 (1.76%) Master's Degree
10 55 (1.58%) CISSP
11 35 (1.01%) CISM
12 30 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 28 (0.81%) CBAP
14 27 (0.78%) AWS Certification
15 25 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (0.63%) ISTQB
16 22 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.60%) ACCA
18 19 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
19 18 (0.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (6.28%) QA
2 201 (5.79%) GDPR
3 124 (3.57%) PMO
4 115 (3.31%) Data Quality
5 109 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 89 (2.56%) NIST
7 50 (1.44%) GRC
8 47 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 43 (1.24%) SLA
10 37 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 34 (0.98%) Accessibility
12 23 (0.66%) IFRS
13 18 (0.52%) NCSC
14 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.43%) MiFID
14 15 (0.43%) PSD2
15 14 (0.40%) COBIT
15 14 (0.40%) WCAG
16 12 (0.35%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.35%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 76 (2.19%) Docker
2 67 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.17%) vSphere
6 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.086%) NFS
7 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.058%) Firmware
8 2 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.029%) IAG
9 1 (0.029%) NDS
9 1 (0.029%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.029%) SRDF
9 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.029%) XenApp
9 1 (0.029%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 103 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 81 (2.33%) Terraform
3 43 (1.24%) Ansible
4 32 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.63%) SCCM
6 21 (0.60%) Grafana
7 16 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.32%) FortiGate
8 11 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.23%) Kibana
10 7 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.17%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.14%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.14%) Puppet
12 5 (0.14%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) Argo
13 4 (0.12%) PingFederate
14 3 (0.086%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.086%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.086%) Nessus
Vendors
1 441 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 305 (8.78%) SAP
3 196 (5.64%) Oracle
4 147 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 134 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 89 (2.56%) Workday
7 77 (2.22%) Google
8 56 (1.61%) Databricks
9 48 (1.38%) IBM
10 45 (1.30%) VMware
11 33 (0.95%) Cisco
12 29 (0.84%) Ariba
12 29 (0.84%) MuleSoft
12 29 (0.84%) Splunk
13 27 (0.78%) Fortinet
14 25 (0.72%) Adobe
14 25 (0.72%) Citrix
15 22 (0.63%) Red Hat
16 21 (0.60%) Planview
17 19 (0.55%) Informatica