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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,473 2,403 3,110
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.95% 8.36% 8.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.37% 9.42% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,377 1,512 2,144
10th Percentile £371 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £640 £650 £650
90th Percentile £756 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 59 88
10th Percentile £17.00 £34.45 £21.78
25th Percentile £30.68 £38.00 £33.00
Median hourly rate £47.48 £60.00 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -20.88% +17.10% +0.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £80.12 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £40.92 £57.50 £54.69
% change year-on-year -28.83% +5.13% +7.48%

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 28,083 25,497 32,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.56% 88.71% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,857 15,730 22,001
10th Percentile £300 £311 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,811 841 1,406
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.75
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +22.56%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.45 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 1,774 £550 - 907
North of England +2 520 £481 -6.10% 548
South East +6 411 £530 +0.95% 767
Midlands -2 391 £492 -6.29% 420
North West +5 271 £475 -5.24% 282
West Midlands -6 267 £500 -4.76% 222
Yorkshire +6 219 £492 -1.60% 235
South West +8 195 £550 +4.76% 253
East Midlands +7 124 £448 -5.68% 175
East of England -4 101 £525 - 322
North East +7 39 £450 -27.92% 36
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
1 235 (6.77%) Confluence
2 108 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (0.84%) SAS
4 28 (0.81%) CMS
5 9 (0.26%) Appian
6 7 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.20%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.20%) Camunda
6 7 (0.20%) TPMS
7 6 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 4 (0.12%) Apache
10 3 (0.086%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.086%) JBoss
10 3 (0.086%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.086%) nginx
10 3 (0.086%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 184 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 114 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
3 91 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.73%) 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 (0.086%) 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
1 137 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
4 27 (0.78%) Endur
5 21 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 16 (0.46%) Primavera
6 16 (0.46%) SAP HCM
7 15 (0.43%) Aladdin
8 14 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
9 13 (0.37%) SAP EWM
10 12 (0.35%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
11 11 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
12 10 (0.29%) SAP CO
12 10 (0.29%) SAP MDG
13 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
13 9 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 9 (0.26%) SAP PP
14 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
14 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 513 (14.77%) Azure
2 348 (10.02%) AWS
3 234 (6.74%) Power Platform
4 170 (4.89%) GCP
5 115 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
6 110 (3.17%) SaaS
7 92 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 72 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 53 (1.53%) OpenShift
10 48 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
11 38 (1.09%) GitHub
12 36 (1.04%) Serverless
13 34 (0.98%) OCI
14 32 (0.92%) Power Automate
15 31 (0.89%) Snowflake
15 31 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
16 29 (0.84%) PowerApps
17 24 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
19 20 (0.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.27%) Firewall
2 33 (0.95%) Network Security
2 33 (0.95%) WAN
3 28 (0.81%) VPN
4 25 (0.72%) SD-WAN
5 24 (0.69%) LAN
6 22 (0.63%) SSH
7 19 (0.55%) DNS
8 15 (0.43%) Broadband
9 14 (0.40%) SSL
9 14 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.37%) Wireless
11 11 (0.32%) Internet
11 11 (0.32%) MPLS
12 10 (0.29%) BGP
12 10 (0.29%) DHCP
12 10 (0.29%) SAN
13 8 (0.23%) HTTP
13 8 (0.23%) OSPF
13 8 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (5.96%) Power BI
2 67 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (1.76%) Tableau
4 50 (1.44%) Metadata
5 33 (0.95%) Data Lake
6 27 (0.78%) Power Query
7 26 (0.75%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.66%) BigQuery
9 20 (0.58%) NoSQL
9 20 (0.58%) Oracle Database
10 17 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (0.46%) SQL Server
12 15 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.43%) MySQL
13 14 (0.40%) RDBMS
14 13 (0.37%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.32%) Big Data
17 10 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
17 10 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 410 (11.81%) JIRA
2 72 (2.07%) Git
3 68 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.44%) GitLab
5 30 (0.86%) Selenium
6 21 (0.60%) JUnit
7 18 (0.52%) Maven
8 17 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.26%) Gradle
11 8 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
11 8 (0.23%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.17%) MLflow
12 6 (0.17%) Mockito
13 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.14%) Postman
13 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
13 5 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,841 (53.01%) Social Skills
2 1,127 (32.45%) Finance
3 581 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 317 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 306 (8.81%) Banking
6 173 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
7 155 (4.46%) Retail
8 147 (4.23%) Legal
9 137 (3.94%) Marketing
10 110 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
11 107 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
12 102 (2.94%) Manufacturing
13 99 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
13 99 (2.85%) Telecoms
14 69 (1.99%) Front Office
15 55 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 53 (1.53%) Law
17 50 (1.44%) Investment Banking
18 49 (1.41%) Financial Institution
19 45 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 651 (18.74%) Analyst
2 513 (14.77%) Project Manager
3 461 (13.27%) Business Analyst
4 397 (11.43%) Architect
5 359 (10.34%) Lead
6 278 (8.00%) Senior
7 243 (7.00%) Consultant
8 145 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
9 123 (3.54%) Programme Manager
10 109 (3.14%) Senior Manager
11 91 (2.62%) IT Manager
12 85 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
13 77 (2.22%) Data Analyst
14 73 (2.10%) Product Owner
15 70 (2.02%) Developer
16 66 (1.90%) Change Manager
16 66 (1.90%) Technical Manager
17 62 (1.79%) Product Manager
17 62 (1.79%) Senior Project Manager
18 61 (1.76%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (2.16%) REST
2 56 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 33 (0.95%) Middleware
4 32 (0.92%) .NET
5 30 (0.86%) SOAP
6 29 (0.84%) JSON
7 27 (0.78%) Kafka
8 25 (0.72%) HTML
8 25 (0.72%) SailPoint
9 21 (0.60%) OAuth
9 21 (0.60%) XML
10 20 (0.58%) React
11 18 (0.52%) Spring Boot
12 17 (0.49%) OpenID
12 17 (0.49%) RESTful
13 16 (0.46%) pytest
13 16 (0.46%) SAML
14 15 (0.43%) CSS
14 15 (0.43%) Playwright
15 13 (0.37%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 259 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 171 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 93 (2.68%) Cloud Native
4 88 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 84 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 82 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 78 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 78 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 48 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 47 (1.35%) PMI
10 39 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 36 (1.04%) CMDB
12 34 (0.98%) NHS
13 30 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (0.86%) Reinsurance
14 28 (0.81%) Virtual Team
15 26 (0.75%) Operational Technology
16 24 (0.69%) Life Science
16 24 (0.69%) Mobile App
17 23 (0.66%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 107 (3.08%) Windows
2 52 (1.50%) Linux
3 33 (0.95%) Unix
4 21 (0.60%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.35%) VMS
9 5 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.14%) Solaris
10 4 (0.12%) CentOS
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.086%) Android
11 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.086%) 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 1,107 (31.87%) Agile
2 652 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
3 536 (15.43%) Project Management
4 490 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 480 (13.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 473 (13.62%) Migration
7 424 (12.21%) Roadmaps
8 406 (11.69%) Change Management
9 391 (11.26%) Project Delivery
10 317 (9.13%) Decision-Making
11 300 (8.64%) DevOps
12 298 (8.58%) Risk Management
13 297 (8.55%) Analytics
14 281 (8.09%) Scrum
15 267 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
16 263 (7.57%) Workshop Facilitation
17 255 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
18 248 (7.14%) Waterfall
19 246 (7.08%) ITIL
20 241 (6.94%) AI
Programming Languages
1 254 (7.31%) SQL
2 249 (7.17%) Python
3 81 (2.33%) PowerShell
4 78 (2.25%) Java
5 47 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.12%) C#
7 36 (1.04%) Bash
8 23 (0.66%) VBA
9 19 (0.55%) R
10 18 (0.52%) TypeScript
11 16 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.40%) ABAP
13 14 (0.40%) Korn
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%) Bicep
16 5 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 558 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 422 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 350 (10.08%) Degree
4 176 (5.07%) PMI Certification
5 162 (4.66%) PMP
6 70 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 67 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 66 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (1.73%) CISSP
10 59 (1.70%) Master's Degree
11 38 (1.09%) CISM
12 30 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 27 (0.78%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 24 (0.69%) CBAP
16 22 (0.63%) ISTQB
16 22 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.60%) ACCA
17 21 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
18 19 (0.55%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (6.28%) QA
2 206 (5.93%) GDPR
3 117 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 117 (3.37%) PMO
4 116 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 96 (2.76%) NIST
6 50 (1.44%) GRC
6 50 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 43 (1.24%) SLA
8 36 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 34 (0.98%) Accessibility
10 19 (0.55%) IFRS
11 18 (0.52%) NCSC
12 15 (0.43%) COBIT
12 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.43%) MiFID
13 14 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.40%) PSD2
13 14 (0.40%) WCAG
14 11 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 76 (2.19%) Docker
2 67 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.95%) 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 (0.086%) NFS
7 3 (0.086%) 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
1 103 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 81 (2.33%) Terraform
3 41 (1.18%) Ansible
4 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.63%) SCCM
6 21 (0.60%) Grafana
7 16 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.32%) FortiGate
8 11 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.26%) Kibana
10 8 (0.23%) HP ALM
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%) Argo
13 4 (0.12%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.086%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.086%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 440 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 307 (8.84%) SAP
3 193 (5.56%) Oracle
4 148 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 134 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 86 (2.48%) Workday
7 76 (2.19%) Google
8 56 (1.61%) Databricks
9 48 (1.38%) IBM
10 45 (1.30%) VMware
11 33 (0.95%) Cisco
12 30 (0.86%) Splunk
13 29 (0.84%) Ariba
14 27 (0.78%) Fortinet
14 27 (0.78%) MuleSoft
15 26 (0.75%) Citrix
16 25 (0.72%) Adobe
17 21 (0.60%) Red Hat
18 19 (0.55%) CyberArk
18 19 (0.55%) Planview