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

6 months to
17 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 3,450 2,430 3,178
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.98% 8.33% 8.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.35% 9.42% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,361 1,539 2,197
10th Percentile £365 £372 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £648 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 56 91
10th Percentile £17.30 £33.63 £21.05
25th Percentile £32.56 £36.75 £32.75
Median hourly rate £48.75 £57.00 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +11.64% -0.99%
75th Percentile £71.46 £67.19 £64.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £80.29 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £54.63 £53.67
% change year-on-year -18.54% +1.79% +4.07%

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 27,925 25,808 32,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.90% 88.45% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,780 15,959 22,396
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
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 1,812 863 1,395
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
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 £68.75 £74.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 - 489
North of England +5 519 £488 -6.25% 196
South East +8 418 £535 +1.90% 400
Midlands -2 375 £498 -5.24% 147
North West +6 270 £492 -2.33% 98
West Midlands -5 258 £514 -6.55% 95
Yorkshire +6 219 £488 -2.50% 88
South West +11 188 £550 +4.76% 101
East Midlands +7 117 £441 -7.11% 51
East of England -4 96 £525 - 99
North East +6 35 £450 -29.37% 15
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
1 224 (6.49%) Confluence
2 106 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.81%) CMS
3 28 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (0.72%) 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 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.14%) 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
1 185 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 113 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
3 88 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.55%) Trello
6 12 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.058%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.058%) InVision
11 1 (0.029%) Blender
11 1 (0.029%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.029%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) Simulink
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 140 (4.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
4 28 (0.81%) Endur
5 21 (0.61%) Workday HCM
6 16 (0.46%) Primavera
6 16 (0.46%) 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 (14.70%) Azure
2 340 (9.86%) AWS
3 233 (6.75%) Power Platform
4 177 (5.13%) GCP
5 114 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
6 113 (3.28%) SaaS
7 91 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
8 73 (2.12%) Entra ID
9 53 (1.54%) OpenShift
10 47 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
11 39 (1.13%) GitHub
12 38 (1.10%) Serverless
13 33 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
14 32 (0.93%) OCI
15 29 (0.84%) Power Automate
15 29 (0.84%) Snowflake
16 27 (0.78%) PowerApps
17 24 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
19 19 (0.55%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.14%) Firewall
2 33 (0.96%) Network Security
3 31 (0.90%) WAN
4 28 (0.81%) VPN
5 24 (0.70%) SD-WAN
6 23 (0.67%) LAN
7 21 (0.61%) SSH
8 17 (0.49%) DNS
9 15 (0.43%) Broadband
10 13 (0.38%) SSL
10 13 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.35%) Wireless
12 11 (0.32%) Internet
12 11 (0.32%) MPLS
13 10 (0.29%) DHCP
13 10 (0.29%) SAN
14 9 (0.26%) BGP
15 8 (0.23%) HTTP
16 7 (0.20%) TCP/IP
16 7 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (5.97%) Power BI
2 66 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (1.65%) Tableau
4 48 (1.39%) Metadata
5 36 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 27 (0.78%) BigQuery
6 27 (0.78%) Power Query
6 27 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 21 (0.61%) NoSQL
8 20 (0.58%) Oracle Database
8 20 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (0.43%) Big Data
9 15 (0.43%) MySQL
9 15 (0.43%) SQL Server
10 14 (0.41%) DynamoDB
10 14 (0.41%) RDBMS
11 12 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.32%) MongoDB
13 10 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 406 (11.77%) JIRA
2 76 (2.20%) Git
3 72 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.45%) 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 (0.14%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.14%) MLflow
12 5 (0.14%) Postman
12 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
12 5 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,829 (53.01%) Social Skills
2 1,113 (32.26%) Finance
3 559 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 312 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 294 (8.52%) Banking
6 175 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
7 157 (4.55%) Retail
8 148 (4.29%) Legal
9 135 (3.91%) Marketing
10 108 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 104 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
11 104 (3.01%) Telecoms
12 102 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 93 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
14 71 (2.06%) Front Office
15 57 (1.65%) Law
16 55 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 50 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
18 49 (1.42%) Financial Institution
19 48 (1.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 633 (18.35%) Analyst
2 517 (14.99%) Project Manager
3 445 (12.90%) Business Analyst
4 393 (11.39%) Architect
5 356 (10.32%) Lead
6 279 (8.09%) Senior
7 243 (7.04%) Consultant
8 144 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
9 132 (3.83%) Programme Manager
10 108 (3.13%) Senior Manager
11 93 (2.70%) IT Manager
12 80 (2.32%) Delivery Manager
13 78 (2.26%) Data Analyst
14 73 (2.12%) Product Owner
15 69 (2.00%) Developer
16 67 (1.94%) Technical Manager
17 65 (1.88%) Senior Project Manager
18 64 (1.86%) Change Manager
19 62 (1.80%) Product Manager
20 61 (1.77%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (2.12%) REST
2 56 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
3 33 (0.96%) .NET
4 30 (0.87%) JSON
4 30 (0.87%) Middleware
4 30 (0.87%) SOAP
5 29 (0.84%) Kafka
6 25 (0.72%) SailPoint
7 24 (0.70%) HTML
8 22 (0.64%) OAuth
9 20 (0.58%) React
9 20 (0.58%) XML
10 19 (0.55%) OpenID
10 19 (0.55%) Spring Boot
11 18 (0.52%) RESTful
11 18 (0.52%) SAML
12 15 (0.43%) pytest
13 14 (0.41%) Playwright
14 13 (0.38%) CSS
15 12 (0.35%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 252 (7.30%) Product Ownership
2 177 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 94 (2.72%) Cloud Native
4 85 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
5 84 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
6 82 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 79 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 78 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 47 (1.36%) PMI
10 45 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 40 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
12 36 (1.04%) CMDB
13 33 (0.96%) NHS
14 32 (0.93%) Reinsurance
15 29 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
16 26 (0.75%) Life Science
16 26 (0.75%) Virtual Team
17 25 (0.72%) Mobile App
17 25 (0.72%) Operational Technology
18 23 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 106 (3.07%) Windows
2 52 (1.51%) 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 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.35%) VMS
9 5 (0.14%) 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 1,083 (31.39%) Agile
2 643 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
3 541 (15.68%) Project Management
4 484 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 480 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 460 (13.33%) Migration
7 421 (12.20%) Roadmaps
8 391 (11.33%) Change Management
9 383 (11.10%) Project Delivery
10 304 (8.81%) Decision-Making
11 302 (8.75%) Risk Management
12 296 (8.58%) Analytics
13 293 (8.49%) DevOps
14 285 (8.26%) Scrum
15 260 (7.54%) Requirements Gathering
16 255 (7.39%) Workshop Facilitation
17 254 (7.36%) Business Intelligence
18 243 (7.04%) AI
19 240 (6.96%) Waterfall
20 239 (6.93%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 249 (7.22%) Python
1 249 (7.22%) SQL
2 82 (2.38%) Java
3 76 (2.20%) PowerShell
4 43 (1.25%) JavaScript
5 39 (1.13%) C#
6 32 (0.93%) Bash
7 23 (0.67%) VBA
8 21 (0.61%) R
9 18 (0.52%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 15 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (0.43%) Korn
12 13 (0.38%) ABAP
13 7 (0.20%) Bicep
13 7 (0.20%) C++
13 7 (0.20%) Perl
13 7 (0.20%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.20%) VB
14 6 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 540 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 398 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 343 (9.94%) Degree
4 171 (4.96%) PMI Certification
5 155 (4.49%) PMP
6 70 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 69 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 63 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (1.68%) CISSP
9 58 (1.68%) Master's Degree
10 36 (1.04%) CISM
11 33 (0.96%) Azure Certification
12 26 (0.75%) AWS Certification
13 24 (0.70%) CBAP
14 23 (0.67%) ACCA
14 23 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
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
1 215 (6.23%) QA
2 195 (5.65%) GDPR
3 115 (3.33%) PMO
4 112 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 112 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 90 (2.61%) NIST
6 49 (1.42%) GRC
6 49 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 43 (1.25%) SLA
8 42 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 32 (0.93%) Accessibility
10 20 (0.58%) IFRS
11 19 (0.55%) NCSC
12 15 (0.43%) MiFID
12 15 (0.43%) PSD2
13 14 (0.41%) COBIT
13 14 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 14 (0.41%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.41%) WCAG
14 11 (0.32%) GxP
System Software
1 75 (2.17%) Docker
2 69 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.17%) vSphere
6 5 (0.14%) 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
1 106 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 89 (2.58%) Terraform
3 40 (1.16%) Ansible
4 29 (0.84%) 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 (0.14%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.14%) Puppet
12 5 (0.14%) 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 (12.58%) Microsoft
2 309 (8.96%) SAP
3 192 (5.57%) Oracle
4 146 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 127 (3.68%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.52%) Workday
7 80 (2.32%) Google
8 59 (1.71%) Databricks
9 48 (1.39%) IBM
10 45 (1.30%) VMware
11 33 (0.96%) Cisco
12 27 (0.78%) Ariba
13 26 (0.75%) Adobe
13 26 (0.75%) Citrix
13 26 (0.75%) Fortinet
13 26 (0.75%) MuleSoft
13 26 (0.75%) Splunk
14 21 (0.61%) Informatica
15 19 (0.55%) Planview
15 19 (0.55%) Red Hat