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

6 months to
21 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 3,374 2,424 3,356
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.05% 7.80% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.26% 8.98% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,305 1,524 2,359
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £748 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 55 93
10th Percentile £21.16 £35.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £31.25 £40.63 £32.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +17.52% -6.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.35 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £44.98 £58.17 £53.67
% change year-on-year -22.68% +8.40% -0.62%

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 27,528 26,989 34,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.13% 86.89% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,469 16,492 23,819
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £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 1,814 971 1,471
10th Percentile £14.81 £15.10 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%
75th Percentile £49.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +25.43%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +7 1,710 £550 - 1,348
North of England +6 531 £495 -1.00% 315
South East +8 388 £525 - 586
Midlands -1 359 £498 -5.24% 200
North West +9 276 £500 - 180
West Midlands -4 250 £525 -4.55% 129
Yorkshire +10 226 £488 -2.50% 107
South West +8 194 £550 +4.76% 153
East Midlands +11 107 £437 -7.51% 69
East of England -4 100 £550 +4.76% 103
North East -4 28 £450 -23.40% 29
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
1 203 (6.02%) Confluence
2 102 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.04%) CMS
4 28 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (0.71%) 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%) TPMS
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.12%) Apache
10 4 (0.12%) Appian
10 4 (0.12%) CICS
10 4 (0.12%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 3 (0.089%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.089%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 184 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 99 (2.93%) Microsoft Project
4 80 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 61 (1.81%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.44%) Trello
7 12 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.21%) Sketch
10 2 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.059%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.030%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
11 1 (0.030%) InDesign
11 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.030%) Simulink
11 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 147 (4.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.77%) Endur
3 26 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.59%) Workday HCM
5 17 (0.50%) Primavera
6 13 (0.39%) SAP HCM
7 12 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
7 12 (0.36%) SAP EWM
8 11 (0.33%) Aladdin
8 11 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
10 9 (0.27%) SAP MDG
10 9 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 8 (0.24%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
12 7 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
12 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
12 7 (0.21%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 467 (13.84%) Azure
2 328 (9.72%) AWS
3 229 (6.79%) Power Platform
4 166 (4.92%) GCP
5 129 (3.82%) SaaS
6 109 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 80 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (1.96%) Entra ID
9 43 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
10 39 (1.16%) Serverless
11 33 (0.98%) GitHub
11 33 (0.98%) OpenShift
12 31 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
13 30 (0.89%) Snowflake
14 27 (0.80%) OCI
15 26 (0.77%) Power Automate
15 26 (0.77%) PowerApps
16 21 (0.62%) Amazon S3
16 21 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (0.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.13%) Firewall
2 36 (1.07%) Network Security
3 30 (0.89%) WAN
4 22 (0.65%) SD-WAN
5 21 (0.62%) LAN
5 21 (0.62%) VPN
6 20 (0.59%) SSH
7 15 (0.44%) DNS
8 12 (0.36%) Broadband
8 12 (0.36%) MPLS
8 12 (0.36%) Wireless
9 11 (0.33%) DHCP
9 11 (0.33%) Internet
9 11 (0.33%) SSL
10 10 (0.30%) BGP
10 10 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.27%) SAN
12 8 (0.24%) OSPF
13 7 (0.21%) HTTP
13 7 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (5.96%) Power BI
2 66 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (1.60%) Tableau
4 42 (1.24%) Metadata
5 36 (1.07%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 27 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 26 (0.77%) Power Query
9 21 (0.62%) NoSQL
9 21 (0.62%) Oracle Database
9 21 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (0.62%) SQL Server
10 16 (0.47%) Big Data
10 16 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 15 (0.44%) MySQL
12 14 (0.41%) RDBMS
13 12 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.33%) MongoDB
14 11 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 366 (10.85%) JIRA
2 69 (2.05%) Git
3 61 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.39%) GitLab
5 32 (0.95%) Selenium
6 22 (0.65%) JUnit
7 18 (0.53%) Maven
8 17 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.30%) Gradle
9 10 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
10 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.24%) MLflow
12 7 (0.21%) Axure RP
12 7 (0.21%) Mockito
13 5 (0.15%) SonarLint
13 5 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.15%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.12%) Appium
14 4 (0.12%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (0.12%) REST Assured
General
1 1,765 (52.31%) Social Skills
2 1,106 (32.78%) Finance
3 557 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 304 (9.01%) Banking
5 290 (8.60%) Public Sector
6 165 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
7 159 (4.71%) Retail
8 152 (4.51%) Legal
9 136 (4.03%) Marketing
10 117 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
11 111 (3.29%) Telecoms
12 100 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 95 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
14 94 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
15 80 (2.37%) Front Office
16 61 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 60 (1.78%) Investment Banking
18 58 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
19 55 (1.63%) Law
20 42 (1.24%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 637 (18.88%) Analyst
2 509 (15.09%) Project Manager
3 439 (13.01%) Business Analyst
4 380 (11.26%) Architect
5 334 (9.90%) Lead
6 272 (8.06%) Senior
7 219 (6.49%) Consultant
8 143 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
9 132 (3.91%) Programme Manager
10 109 (3.23%) Senior Manager
11 107 (3.17%) IT Manager
12 94 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
13 83 (2.46%) Developer
14 75 (2.22%) Data Analyst
15 69 (2.05%) Product Owner
16 66 (1.96%) Senior Project Manager
17 64 (1.90%) IT Project Manager
17 64 (1.90%) Technical Manager
18 63 (1.87%) Product Manager
19 58 (1.72%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (2.13%) REST
2 50 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 38 (1.13%) .NET
4 33 (0.98%) JSON
5 32 (0.95%) HTML
6 30 (0.89%) Kafka
7 29 (0.86%) OAuth
8 26 (0.77%) SailPoint
9 25 (0.74%) OpenID
9 25 (0.74%) SOAP
10 24 (0.71%) Middleware
11 23 (0.68%) SAML
12 21 (0.62%) CSS
13 20 (0.59%) Spring Boot
14 19 (0.56%) React
14 19 (0.56%) RESTful
15 18 (0.53%) OAuth2
16 16 (0.47%) XML
17 15 (0.44%) pytest
18 13 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 241 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 163 (4.83%) Onboarding
3 95 (2.82%) Management Information System
4 93 (2.76%) Cloud Native
5 76 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
6 74 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 74 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 72 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 44 (1.30%) PMI
9 38 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 35 (1.04%) Reinsurance
12 32 (0.95%) Virtual Team
13 31 (0.92%) NHS
14 27 (0.80%) CMDB
14 27 (0.80%) Fixed Income
14 27 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
14 27 (0.80%) Mobile App
15 26 (0.77%) Data Structures
15 26 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 111 (3.29%) Windows
2 50 (1.48%) Linux
3 32 (0.95%) Unix
4 22 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.53%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.30%) Android
7 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.27%) VMS
9 5 (0.15%) Solaris
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.089%) CentOS
11 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.030%) AIX
12 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,061 (31.45%) Agile
2 620 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
3 527 (15.62%) Project Management
4 448 (13.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 444 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 421 (12.48%) Migration
7 405 (12.00%) Roadmaps
8 400 (11.86%) Project Delivery
9 367 (10.88%) Change Management
10 308 (9.13%) Risk Management
11 301 (8.92%) Analytics
12 284 (8.42%) Decision-Making
13 280 (8.30%) DevOps
14 270 (8.00%) Scrum
15 254 (7.53%) Requirements Gathering
16 250 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
17 237 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
18 236 (6.99%) Workshop Facilitation
19 234 (6.94%) ITIL
20 231 (6.85%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 245 (7.26%) SQL
2 233 (6.91%) Python
3 78 (2.31%) Java
4 70 (2.07%) PowerShell
5 49 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 43 (1.27%) C#
7 25 (0.74%) VBA
8 22 (0.65%) Bash
9 17 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 17 (0.50%) R
10 16 (0.47%) Korn
10 16 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 14 (0.41%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.36%) ABAP
13 10 (0.30%) VB
14 8 (0.24%) Perl
15 7 (0.21%) Bicep
15 7 (0.21%) C++
15 7 (0.21%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 502 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 375 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 335 (9.93%) Degree
4 160 (4.74%) PMI Certification
5 145 (4.30%) PMP
6 72 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 70 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 67 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (1.63%) CISSP
10 47 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 37 (1.10%) Azure Certification
12 35 (1.04%) CISM
13 28 (0.83%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
15 25 (0.74%) ACCA
16 24 (0.71%) CBAP
16 24 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
17 22 (0.65%) CIMA
17 22 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
18 18 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (5.39%) QA
2 181 (5.36%) GDPR
3 120 (3.56%) PMO
4 105 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 96 (2.85%) Data Quality
6 86 (2.55%) NIST
7 45 (1.33%) GRC
8 43 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 40 (1.19%) SLA
10 39 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 36 (1.07%) Accessibility
12 21 (0.62%) MiFID
13 19 (0.56%) NCSC
14 18 (0.53%) IFRS
15 17 (0.50%) COBIT
16 14 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
16 14 (0.41%) HIPAA
17 13 (0.39%) PSD2
18 12 (0.36%) EMIR
18 12 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 68 (2.02%) Docker
3 31 (0.92%) 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 3 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.059%) Firmware
9 2 (0.059%) NFS
9 2 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.059%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.030%) IAG
10 1 (0.030%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.030%) NDS
10 1 (0.030%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.030%) Postfix
10 1 (0.030%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.030%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 95 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 88 (2.61%) Terraform
3 30 (0.89%) Ansible
4 23 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.53%) Grafana
7 17 (0.50%) 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
11 6 (0.18%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.15%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.15%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.089%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 438 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 308 (9.13%) SAP
3 182 (5.39%) Oracle
4 134 (3.97%) ServiceNow
5 120 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 86 (2.55%) Workday
7 70 (2.07%) Google
8 46 (1.36%) Databricks
9 45 (1.33%) IBM
10 40 (1.19%) VMware
11 34 (1.01%) Adobe
12 29 (0.86%) Cisco
13 28 (0.83%) Ariba
13 28 (0.83%) MuleSoft
14 26 (0.77%) Citrix
15 23 (0.68%) Fortinet
16 21 (0.62%) F5
16 21 (0.62%) Splunk
17 19 (0.56%) Informatica
18 17 (0.50%) HP