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

6 months to
16 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 3,430 2,412 3,204
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.95% 8.31% 8.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.31% 9.40% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,351 1,525 2,216
10th Percentile £365 £373 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - -
75th Percentile £648 £650 £650
90th Percentile £758 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 56 92
10th Percentile £17.60 £33.63 £21.06
25th Percentile £33.00 £36.75 £32.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.00 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +11.25% -0.64%
75th Percentile £71.45 £67.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.75 £80.29 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £44.98 £54.63 £54.03
% change year-on-year -17.66% +1.11% +4.77%

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 27,858 25,665 33,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.92% 88.40% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,750 15,857 22,569
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,813 863 1,402
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.34 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +6 1,756 £550 - 534
North of England +4 514 £485 -6.73% 277
South East +8 418 £535 +1.90% 517
Midlands -2 370 £500 -4.76% 212
North West +5 269 £492 -1.60% 139
West Midlands -4 256 £523 -5.00% 123
Yorkshire +4 215 £488 -2.50% 118
South West +9 188 £550 +4.76% 145
East Midlands +9 113 £443 -6.71% 85
East of England -6 98 £525 - 157
North East +4 35 £450 -29.37% 25
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
1 221 (6.44%) Confluence
2 102 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.82%) CMS
3 28 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (0.73%) SAS
5 9 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.20%) Appian
6 7 (0.20%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.20%) Camunda
7 6 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.17%) TPMS
8 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 4 (0.12%) Apache
10 3 (0.087%) JBoss
10 3 (0.087%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.087%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.058%) nginx
11 2 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 179 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (3.29%) Microsoft Project
3 111 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
4 83 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 57 (1.66%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.55%) Trello
7 12 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.12%) Sketch
10 3 (0.087%) 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
1 142 (4.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
4 28 (0.82%) Endur
5 21 (0.61%) Workday HCM
6 16 (0.47%) Primavera
6 16 (0.47%) SAP HCM
7 14 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.38%) Aladdin
9 12 (0.35%) SAP EWM
10 11 (0.32%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
11 9 (0.26%) SAP MDG
11 9 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 9 (0.26%) SAP PP
12 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
12 8 (0.23%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 8 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 507 (14.78%) Azure
2 339 (9.88%) AWS
3 236 (6.88%) Power Platform
4 176 (5.13%) GCP
5 114 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
6 113 (3.29%) SaaS
7 90 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
8 73 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 49 (1.43%) OpenShift
10 47 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
11 38 (1.11%) GitHub
11 38 (1.11%) Serverless
12 33 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
13 32 (0.93%) OCI
14 30 (0.87%) Snowflake
15 29 (0.85%) Power Automate
16 27 (0.79%) PowerApps
17 23 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
19 20 (0.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.16%) Firewall
2 33 (0.96%) Network Security
3 30 (0.87%) WAN
4 27 (0.79%) VPN
5 24 (0.70%) SD-WAN
6 22 (0.64%) LAN
7 21 (0.61%) SSH
8 17 (0.50%) DNS
9 14 (0.41%) Broadband
10 13 (0.38%) SSL
11 12 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.35%) Wireless
12 11 (0.32%) MPLS
13 10 (0.29%) DHCP
13 10 (0.29%) Internet
13 10 (0.29%) SAN
14 9 (0.26%) BGP
15 8 (0.23%) HTTP
16 7 (0.20%) OSPF
16 7 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (6.09%) Power BI
2 66 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (1.66%) Tableau
4 46 (1.34%) Metadata
5 35 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 29 (0.85%) Power Query
7 28 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 27 (0.79%) BigQuery
9 21 (0.61%) NoSQL
10 20 (0.58%) Oracle Database
10 20 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (0.47%) SQL Server
12 15 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.44%) MySQL
13 14 (0.41%) Big Data
13 14 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 14 (0.41%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.32%) MongoDB
15 11 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 401 (11.69%) JIRA
2 76 (2.22%) Git
3 72 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.46%) GitLab
5 32 (0.93%) Selenium
6 21 (0.61%) JUnit
7 19 (0.55%) Maven
7 19 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.29%) Gradle
9 8 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.20%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.17%) Mockito
12 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.15%) MLflow
12 5 (0.15%) Postman
12 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.15%) SonarLint
12 5 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,817 (52.97%) Social Skills
2 1,104 (32.19%) Finance
3 558 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
4 307 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 296 (8.63%) Banking
6 173 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
7 156 (4.55%) Retail
8 147 (4.29%) Legal
9 134 (3.91%) Marketing
10 106 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
11 104 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
12 102 (2.97%) Manufacturing
12 102 (2.97%) Telecoms
13 93 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
14 76 (2.22%) Front Office
15 56 (1.63%) Law
16 55 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 52 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
18 51 (1.49%) Investment Banking
19 49 (1.43%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 623 (18.16%) Analyst
2 520 (15.16%) Project Manager
3 440 (12.83%) Business Analyst
4 391 (11.40%) Architect
5 353 (10.29%) Lead
6 283 (8.25%) Senior
7 241 (7.03%) Consultant
8 144 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
9 133 (3.88%) Programme Manager
10 110 (3.21%) Senior Manager
11 93 (2.71%) IT Manager
12 80 (2.33%) Delivery Manager
13 79 (2.30%) Data Analyst
14 72 (2.10%) Product Owner
15 71 (2.07%) Developer
16 69 (2.01%) Technical Manager
17 65 (1.90%) Senior Project Manager
18 64 (1.87%) Product Manager
19 62 (1.81%) Change Manager
20 60 (1.75%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (2.13%) REST
2 56 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 33 (0.96%) .NET
4 30 (0.87%) JSON
4 30 (0.87%) Middleware
4 30 (0.87%) SOAP
5 29 (0.85%) Kafka
6 25 (0.73%) SailPoint
7 24 (0.70%) HTML
8 22 (0.64%) OAuth
9 20 (0.58%) React
10 19 (0.55%) OpenID
10 19 (0.55%) Spring Boot
10 19 (0.55%) XML
11 18 (0.52%) RESTful
11 18 (0.52%) SAML
12 15 (0.44%) pytest
13 14 (0.41%) Playwright
14 13 (0.38%) CSS
15 12 (0.35%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 251 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 175 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 94 (2.74%) Cloud Native
4 83 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
5 82 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 82 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 78 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 78 (2.27%) Data Centre
7 46 (1.34%) PMI
8 45 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 35 (1.02%) CMDB
11 33 (0.96%) NHS
12 32 (0.93%) Reinsurance
13 28 (0.82%) Virtual Team
14 27 (0.79%) Fixed Income
14 27 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (0.73%) Derivative
15 25 (0.73%) Mobile App
15 25 (0.73%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 106 (3.09%) Windows
2 52 (1.52%) Linux
3 33 (0.96%) Unix
4 21 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.32%) VMS
9 5 (0.15%) Solaris
10 4 (0.12%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.12%) CentOS
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.087%) Android
11 3 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
12 1 (0.029%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,072 (31.25%) Agile
2 638 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
3 531 (15.48%) Project Management
4 474 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 474 (13.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 453 (13.21%) Migration
6 420 (12.24%) Roadmaps
7 386 (11.25%) Change Management
8 378 (11.02%) Project Delivery
9 303 (8.83%) Risk Management
10 301 (8.78%) Decision-Making
11 294 (8.57%) Analytics
12 291 (8.48%) DevOps
13 282 (8.22%) Scrum
14 259 (7.55%) Requirements Gathering
15 256 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
16 245 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
17 239 (6.97%) AI
18 237 (6.91%) ITIL
19 234 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 250 (7.29%) SQL
2 249 (7.26%) Python
3 82 (2.39%) Java
4 76 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 43 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.14%) C#
7 32 (0.93%) Bash
8 23 (0.67%) VBA
9 21 (0.61%) R
10 18 (0.52%) TypeScript
11 16 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.44%) Korn
13 13 (0.38%) ABAP
14 7 (0.20%) Bicep
14 7 (0.20%) C++
14 7 (0.20%) Perl
14 7 (0.20%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.20%) VB
15 6 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 532 (15.51%) Security Cleared
2 395 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 343 (10.00%) Degree
4 169 (4.93%) PMI Certification
5 154 (4.49%) PMP
6 69 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 67 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 62 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (1.69%) CISSP
10 57 (1.66%) Master's Degree
11 36 (1.05%) CISM
12 33 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 26 (0.76%) AWS Certification
14 23 (0.67%) ACCA
14 23 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.64%) CBAP
15 22 (0.64%) ISTQB
16 21 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
16 21 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.58%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (6.12%) QA
2 195 (5.69%) GDPR
3 112 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 110 (3.21%) PMO
5 107 (3.12%) Data Quality
6 90 (2.62%) NIST
7 49 (1.43%) GRC
7 49 (1.43%) PCI DSS
8 42 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 41 (1.20%) SLA
10 32 (0.93%) Accessibility
11 20 (0.58%) IFRS
12 19 (0.55%) NCSC
13 15 (0.44%) MiFID
13 15 (0.44%) PSD2
14 14 (0.41%) COBIT
14 14 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.41%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.41%) WCAG
15 11 (0.32%) GxP
System Software
1 74 (2.16%) Docker
2 69 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.17%) vSphere
6 5 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.087%) NFS
7 3 (0.087%) 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
1 105 (3.06%) Kubernetes
2 89 (2.59%) Terraform
3 40 (1.17%) Ansible
4 29 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.61%) SCCM
6 19 (0.55%) Grafana
7 18 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.29%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.26%) HP ALM
9 9 (0.26%) Kibana
10 8 (0.23%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.17%) Argo
11 6 (0.17%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.15%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.15%) Puppet
12 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.087%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.087%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 434 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 311 (9.07%) SAP
3 194 (5.66%) Oracle
4 144 (4.20%) ServiceNow
5 128 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 86 (2.51%) Workday
7 78 (2.27%) Google
8 58 (1.69%) Databricks
9 48 (1.40%) IBM
10 45 (1.31%) VMware
11 32 (0.93%) Cisco
12 28 (0.82%) Ariba
13 26 (0.76%) Adobe
13 26 (0.76%) Citrix
13 26 (0.76%) Fortinet
13 26 (0.76%) MuleSoft
13 26 (0.76%) Splunk
14 21 (0.61%) Informatica
15 19 (0.55%) F5
15 19 (0.55%) Red Hat