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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 22 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,293 2,417 3,418
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.02% 7.82% 8.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.21% 9.01% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,263 1,513 2,398
10th Percentile £363 £369 £375
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 55 95
10th Percentile £23.00 £35.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £41.25 £32.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +16.69% -4.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.16 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £44.98 £58.30 £53.67
% change year-on-year -22.85% +8.64% +1.31%

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 26,975 26,819 35,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.28% 86.81% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,111 16,369 24,234
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £643 £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 1,784 960 1,488
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.81 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.76 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +25.24%

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 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 17 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 17 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 1,667 £550 - 1,330
North of England +6 518 £495 -1.00% 352
South East +8 372 £525 - 525
Midlands -1 351 £500 -9.09% 209
North West +7 269 £500 - 203
West Midlands -6 245 £525 -4.55% 133
Yorkshire +11 220 £488 -2.50% 117
South West +11 195 £550 +4.76% 156
East Midlands +9 104 £439 -7.14% 74
East of England -2 99 £550 +4.76% 104
North East -3 28 £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
1 193 (5.86%) Confluence
2 96 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.09%) CMS
4 28 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.70%) SAS
6 11 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.27%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.091%) Apache
11 3 (0.091%) IIS
11 3 (0.091%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.091%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 180 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 108 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (2.95%) Microsoft Project
4 80 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 61 (1.85%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.46%) Trello
7 12 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.18%) Sketch
10 3 (0.091%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.061%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.030%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.030%) InDesign
12 1 (0.030%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.030%) Simulink
12 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 144 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.76%) Endur
4 20 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 18 (0.55%) Primavera
6 16 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 13 (0.39%) SAP HCM
8 12 (0.36%) Aladdin
9 11 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.33%) SAP EWM
10 10 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
11 9 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
11 9 (0.27%) SAP MDG
11 9 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 9 (0.27%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
13 7 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
13 7 (0.21%) Shopify
13 7 (0.21%) VisionPLUS
14 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 455 (13.82%) Azure
2 312 (9.47%) AWS
3 224 (6.80%) Power Platform
4 159 (4.83%) GCP
5 121 (3.67%) SaaS
6 107 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
7 80 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 46 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 40 (1.21%) Serverless
11 34 (1.03%) OpenShift
12 32 (0.97%) GitHub
13 31 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
14 28 (0.85%) Snowflake
15 25 (0.76%) Power Automate
15 25 (0.76%) PowerApps
16 23 (0.70%) OCI
17 21 (0.64%) Amazon S3
17 21 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
18 20 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.19%) Firewall
2 35 (1.06%) Network Security
3 29 (0.88%) WAN
4 21 (0.64%) SD-WAN
4 21 (0.64%) VPN
5 20 (0.61%) LAN
6 17 (0.52%) SSH
7 15 (0.46%) DNS
8 12 (0.36%) Broadband
8 12 (0.36%) MPLS
9 11 (0.33%) DHCP
9 11 (0.33%) Wireless
10 10 (0.30%) BGP
10 10 (0.30%) Internet
11 9 (0.27%) SAN
11 9 (0.27%) SSL
11 9 (0.27%) VoIP
11 9 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.24%) OSPF
13 7 (0.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (5.98%) Power BI
2 66 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (1.61%) Tableau
4 40 (1.21%) Metadata
5 35 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.85%) BigQuery
7 25 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 24 (0.73%) Power Query
9 21 (0.64%) NoSQL
9 21 (0.64%) Oracle Database
9 21 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (0.64%) SQL Server
10 16 (0.49%) Big Data
10 16 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 14 (0.43%) MySQL
11 14 (0.43%) RDBMS
12 12 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 352 (10.69%) JIRA
2 70 (2.13%) Git
3 60 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.43%) GitLab
5 32 (0.97%) Selenium
6 22 (0.67%) JUnit
7 19 (0.58%) Maven
8 17 (0.52%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.30%) Gradle
9 10 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.21%) MLflow
10 7 (0.21%) Mockito
11 6 (0.18%) Axure RP
12 5 (0.15%) SonarLint
12 5 (0.15%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.12%) Appium
13 4 (0.12%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (0.12%) REST Assured
13 4 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,724 (52.35%) Social Skills
2 1,079 (32.77%) Finance
3 546 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 295 (8.96%) Banking
5 283 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 165 (5.01%) Influencing Skills
7 156 (4.74%) Retail
8 148 (4.49%) Legal
9 134 (4.07%) Marketing
10 107 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
10 107 (3.25%) Telecoms
11 91 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
12 90 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
12 90 (2.73%) Manufacturing
13 79 (2.40%) Front Office
14 60 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 60 (1.82%) Investment Banking
15 57 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
16 55 (1.67%) Law
17 38 (1.15%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 616 (18.71%) Analyst
2 496 (15.06%) Project Manager
3 420 (12.75%) Business Analyst
4 366 (11.11%) Architect
5 320 (9.72%) Lead
6 265 (8.05%) Senior
7 218 (6.62%) Consultant
8 138 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
9 127 (3.86%) Programme Manager
10 105 (3.19%) Senior Manager
11 104 (3.16%) IT Manager
12 94 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
13 83 (2.52%) Developer
14 75 (2.28%) Data Analyst
15 70 (2.13%) Product Owner
16 62 (1.88%) IT Project Manager
16 62 (1.88%) Product Manager
16 62 (1.88%) Senior Project Manager
17 61 (1.85%) Technical Manager
18 53 (1.61%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (2.13%) REST
2 48 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
3 38 (1.15%) .NET
4 31 (0.94%) HTML
4 31 (0.94%) JSON
5 28 (0.85%) Kafka
6 27 (0.82%) OAuth
7 25 (0.76%) Middleware
7 25 (0.76%) OpenID
7 25 (0.76%) SailPoint
8 24 (0.73%) SOAP
9 23 (0.70%) SAML
10 21 (0.64%) Spring Boot
11 20 (0.61%) CSS
11 20 (0.61%) RESTful
12 19 (0.58%) React
13 18 (0.55%) OAuth2
14 15 (0.46%) pytest
15 14 (0.43%) Web Services
15 14 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 240 (7.29%) Product Ownership
2 154 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 89 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 89 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 77 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
5 73 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 71 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 67 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 43 (1.31%) PMI
9 38 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (1.03%) Reinsurance
11 31 (0.94%) NHS
11 31 (0.94%) Virtual Team
12 30 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 28 (0.85%) Mobile App
14 27 (0.82%) Data Structures
14 27 (0.82%) Fixed Income
15 26 (0.79%) CMDB
15 26 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
16 25 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 109 (3.31%) Windows
2 49 (1.49%) Linux
3 33 (1.00%) Unix
4 20 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.30%) Android
6 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.27%) VMS
8 4 (0.12%) Solaris
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.091%) CentOS
9 3 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.030%) AIX
10 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (31.46%) Agile
2 605 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
3 516 (15.67%) Project Management
4 437 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 433 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 403 (12.24%) Migration
7 392 (11.90%) Roadmaps
8 389 (11.81%) Project Delivery
9 361 (10.96%) Change Management
10 301 (9.14%) Risk Management
11 292 (8.87%) Analytics
12 277 (8.41%) Decision-Making
13 275 (8.35%) DevOps
14 265 (8.05%) Scrum
15 245 (7.44%) Requirements Gathering
16 243 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
17 236 (7.17%) Cybersecurity
18 229 (6.95%) Workshop Facilitation
19 227 (6.89%) Waterfall
20 225 (6.83%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 236 (7.17%) SQL
2 221 (6.71%) Python
3 76 (2.31%) Java
4 65 (1.97%) PowerShell
5 47 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.28%) C#
7 24 (0.73%) VBA
8 22 (0.67%) Bash
9 17 (0.52%) R
10 16 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.49%) Korn
10 16 (0.49%) Shell Script
11 14 (0.43%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.36%) ABAP
13 11 (0.33%) VB
14 7 (0.21%) Bicep
14 7 (0.21%) Perl
14 7 (0.21%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.18%) C++
15 6 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 488 (14.82%) Security Cleared
2 367 (11.14%) SC Cleared
3 320 (9.72%) Degree
4 155 (4.71%) PMI Certification
5 141 (4.28%) PMP
6 69 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 69 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 62 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (1.67%) CISSP
9 45 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.06%) CISM
11 34 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 24 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 23 (0.70%) ACCA
13 23 (0.70%) CBAP
13 23 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
13 23 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 20 (0.61%) CIMA
16 17 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.28%) QA
2 173 (5.25%) GDPR
3 120 (3.64%) PMO
4 102 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 94 (2.85%) Data Quality
6 83 (2.52%) NIST
7 44 (1.34%) GRC
8 42 (1.28%) SLA
9 40 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 38 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 35 (1.06%) Accessibility
12 20 (0.61%) MiFID
13 18 (0.55%) IFRS
13 18 (0.55%) NCSC
14 15 (0.46%) COBIT
15 14 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.43%) HIPAA
16 13 (0.39%) PSD2
17 12 (0.36%) EMIR
17 12 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.00%) Docker
3 30 (0.91%) 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 (0.061%) Firmware
8 2 (0.061%) NFS
8 2 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.061%) 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 92 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 87 (2.64%) Terraform
3 29 (0.88%) Ansible
4 23 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.55%) Grafana
7 16 (0.49%) SCCM
8 10 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.27%) HP ALM
9 9 (0.27%) Kibana
10 7 (0.21%) Argo
11 6 (0.18%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.15%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.15%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.15%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.12%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.091%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 433 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 298 (9.05%) SAP
3 169 (5.13%) Oracle
4 135 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 119 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 81 (2.46%) Workday
7 66 (2.00%) Google
8 43 (1.31%) IBM
9 41 (1.25%) Databricks
10 39 (1.18%) VMware
11 32 (0.97%) Adobe
12 30 (0.91%) Cisco
13 27 (0.82%) MuleSoft
14 26 (0.79%) Ariba
14 26 (0.79%) Citrix
15 23 (0.70%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.64%) F5
17 20 (0.61%) Splunk
18 18 (0.55%) Informatica
19 17 (0.52%) HP