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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 23 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,683 2,720 3,982
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 10.12% 7.30% 8.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.12% 8.53% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,819 1,956 2,929
10th Percentile £356 £357 £388
25th Percentile £431 £437 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% +2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £745 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 73 77
10th Percentile £31.64 £18.00 £21.03
25th Percentile £41.78 £36.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £54.01 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.99% +14.29% +26.51%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £74.25
90th Percentile £78.63 £85.65 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.83% +14.29% +21.09%

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 24,122 31,895 43,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.96% 85.58% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,512 20,709 30,160
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 2,293 1,566
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.12 £16.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%
75th Percentile £54.94 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £73.10 £76.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 1,430 £575 +4.55% 3,660
North of England +5 411 £500 -4.76% 909
South East +10 296 £525 +5.00% 831
Midlands 0 251 £500 -9.09% 527
North West +5 238 £500 -2.06% 547
West Midlands -1 178 £525 -4.55% 328
Yorkshire +2 141 £495 -2.22% 298
South West +1 114 £525 - 370
East of England -10 80 £563 +12.50% 327
East Midlands +5 69 £440 -5.38% 189
North East -1 29 £450 -20.70% 66
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
1 106 (3.95%) Confluence
2 73 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.38%) CMS
4 21 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.41%) JBoss
7 9 (0.34%) SAS
8 7 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.19%) CICS
9 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.19%) WordPress
10 4 (0.15%) IIS
10 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.075%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.037%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 98 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (2.50%) MS Visio
4 57 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
5 54 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.52%) Trello
7 9 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.19%) Sketch
9 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.15%) Siemens NX
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.075%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.075%) InVision
11 2 (0.075%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.037%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.037%) InDesign
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 128 (4.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 12 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 12 (0.45%) Shopify
5 11 (0.41%) Endur
5 11 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.34%) SAP HCM
7 8 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.26%) Teamcenter
9 6 (0.22%) Aladdin
9 6 (0.22%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.15%) Maximo
11 4 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 319 (11.89%) Azure
2 267 (9.95%) AWS
3 135 (5.03%) Power Platform
4 103 (3.84%) GCP
5 95 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
6 87 (3.24%) SaaS
7 68 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (1.71%) Serverless
9 45 (1.68%) Entra ID
10 41 (1.53%) Amazon S3
11 40 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
12 35 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (1.16%) Snowflake
15 28 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
17 21 (0.78%) PowerApps
18 19 (0.71%) GitHub
19 18 (0.67%) OCI
19 18 (0.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.75%) Firewall
2 31 (1.16%) Network Security
2 31 (1.16%) VPN
3 17 (0.63%) WAN
4 16 (0.60%) SD-WAN
5 12 (0.45%) DNS
6 10 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.34%) 5G
8 8 (0.30%) DHCP
9 7 (0.26%) BGP
9 7 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.26%) LAN
9 7 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.22%) HTTP
10 6 (0.22%) VoIP
11 5 (0.19%) Broadband
11 5 (0.19%) OSPF
11 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.15%) MPLS
12 4 (0.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (4.17%) Power BI
2 63 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (1.57%) Data Lake
4 38 (1.42%) Tableau
5 31 (1.16%) Big Data
5 31 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (1.01%) SQL Server
8 26 (0.97%) SAP HANA
9 20 (0.75%) Metadata
10 19 (0.71%) Relational Database
11 18 (0.67%) BigQuery
12 15 (0.56%) DynamoDB
12 15 (0.56%) Hadoop
12 15 (0.56%) RDBMS
13 13 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.48%) MongoDB
13 13 (0.48%) NoSQL
13 13 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
14 11 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 230 (8.57%) JIRA
2 43 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 34 (1.27%) Git
4 17 (0.63%) SonarQube
5 16 (0.60%) GitLab
6 15 (0.56%) Selenium
7 14 (0.52%) JMeter
8 11 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
8 11 (0.41%) ERwin
8 11 (0.41%) Maven
9 10 (0.37%) LoadRunner
10 9 (0.34%) Appium
11 8 (0.30%) NeoLoad
11 8 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.26%) Axure RP
12 7 (0.26%) JUnit
12 7 (0.26%) Mockito
12 7 (0.26%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,342 (50.02%) Social Skills
2 902 (33.62%) Finance
3 413 (15.39%) Analytical Skills
4 243 (9.06%) Banking
5 232 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 123 (4.58%) Retail
7 117 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
8 111 (4.14%) Marketing
9 99 (3.69%) Legal
10 84 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 79 (2.94%) Telecoms
12 72 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
13 67 (2.50%) Manufacturing
14 61 (2.27%) Front Office
14 61 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 42 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 42 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 37 (1.38%) Back Office
17 36 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
17 36 (1.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 480 (17.89%) Analyst
2 427 (15.92%) Project Manager
3 331 (12.34%) Architect
4 325 (12.11%) Business Analyst
5 257 (9.58%) Senior
6 249 (9.28%) Lead
7 151 (5.63%) Consultant
8 121 (4.51%) Programme Manager
9 96 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (3.39%) Senior Manager
11 90 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
12 88 (3.28%) IT Manager
13 81 (3.02%) Developer
14 64 (2.39%) Data Analyst
14 64 (2.39%) Product Manager
15 61 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
16 59 (2.20%) Technical Manager
17 53 (1.98%) IT Project Manager
18 48 (1.79%) SAP Manager
19 44 (1.64%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (1.49%) Web Services
2 38 (1.42%) REST
3 31 (1.16%) .NET
3 31 (1.16%) Kafka
4 26 (0.97%) Middleware
4 26 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.86%) HTML
5 23 (0.86%) SOAP
6 20 (0.75%) CSS
6 20 (0.75%) React
6 20 (0.75%) Spring Boot
7 14 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 14 (0.52%) JSON
7 14 (0.52%) OAuth
7 14 (0.52%) RESTful
8 13 (0.48%) OpenID
8 13 (0.48%) SailPoint
8 13 (0.48%) SAML
9 12 (0.45%) Spring
10 11 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (5.11%) Product Ownership
2 85 (3.17%) Management Information System
3 81 (3.02%) Onboarding
4 60 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
5 53 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
6 49 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 42 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 36 (1.34%) Life Science
9 32 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 26 (0.97%) PMI
11 26 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 25 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (0.89%) Operational Technology
14 23 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
15 21 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (0.63%) FMCG
17 16 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
17 16 (0.60%) Mobile App
17 16 (0.60%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 106 (3.95%) Windows
2 46 (1.71%) Linux
3 29 (1.08%) Windows 10
4 21 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.48%) Unix
7 10 (0.37%) Android
7 10 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.11%) VMS
9 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.11%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.075%) CentOS
10 2 (0.075%) Solaris
11 1 (0.037%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (28.29%) Agile
2 544 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
3 525 (19.57%) Project Management
4 323 (12.04%) Project Delivery
5 299 (11.14%) Migration
6 298 (11.11%) Risk Management
7 281 (10.47%) Change Management
8 271 (10.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 263 (9.80%) Roadmaps
10 252 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 238 (8.87%) Analytics
12 235 (8.76%) Decision-Making
13 200 (7.45%) DevOps
14 193 (7.19%) Scrum
15 178 (6.63%) Business Analysis
16 177 (6.60%) ITIL
16 177 (6.60%) Waterfall
17 159 (5.93%) PRINCE2
18 156 (5.81%) Process Improvement
19 151 (5.63%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 203 (7.57%) SQL
2 135 (5.03%) Python
3 82 (3.06%) Java
4 51 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 46 (1.71%) PowerShell
6 34 (1.27%) C#
7 19 (0.71%) PHP
8 14 (0.52%) TypeScript
9 13 (0.48%) ABAP
9 13 (0.48%) Bicep
9 13 (0.48%) PL/SQL
10 12 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (0.41%) Bash
12 10 (0.37%) Perl
12 10 (0.37%) R
13 9 (0.34%) C++
13 9 (0.34%) VB
14 8 (0.30%) Scala
15 7 (0.26%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.22%) JCL
Qualifications
1 357 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 279 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 229 (8.54%) Degree
4 125 (4.66%) PMI Certification
5 123 (4.58%) PMP
6 53 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 41 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 38 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 35 (1.30%) CISSP
10 33 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (1.16%) CISM
12 29 (1.08%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
14 25 (0.93%) CBAP
15 24 (0.89%) Azure Certification
16 23 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 16 (0.60%) CISA
19 16 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (4.81%) QA
2 111 (4.14%) PMO
3 85 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 77 (2.87%) GDPR
5 66 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.86%) NIST
7 38 (1.42%) Accessibility
8 25 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.89%) GRC
10 23 (0.86%) MiFID
10 23 (0.86%) SLA
11 22 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 15 (0.56%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.48%) COBIT
13 13 (0.48%) GxP
14 12 (0.45%) EMIR
15 11 (0.41%) NCSC
16 9 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.34%) IFRS
17 6 (0.22%) PMBOK
System Software
1 76 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 38 (1.42%) Docker
3 26 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.19%) Postfix
7 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.075%) vSphere
8 2 (0.075%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.037%) Firmware
9 1 (0.037%) IAG
9 1 (0.037%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.037%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.037%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.037%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.037%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 65 (2.42%) Terraform
3 25 (0.93%) Ansible
4 21 (0.78%) Grafana
5 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (0.56%) SCCM
7 14 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.34%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.30%) Amdocs OSS
10 8 (0.30%) Argo
10 8 (0.30%) NSN NetAct
11 7 (0.26%) Kibana
11 7 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.19%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.15%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.15%) Perfmon
14 3 (0.11%) Control-M
14 3 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
15 2 (0.075%) SELinux
Vendors
1 326 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 271 (10.10%) SAP
3 119 (4.44%) Oracle
4 101 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 78 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 50 (1.86%) Google
7 42 (1.57%) Adobe
8 37 (1.38%) Databricks
9 36 (1.34%) Workday
10 34 (1.27%) Cisco
11 28 (1.04%) VMware
12 26 (0.97%) Ariba
13 25 (0.93%) Splunk
14 18 (0.67%) Atlassian
14 18 (0.67%) IBM
14 18 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 17 (0.63%) Informatica
16 16 (0.60%) Citrix
16 16 (0.60%) HP
16 16 (0.60%) Red Hat