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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,242 2,451 3,401
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.02% 7.88% 8.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.16% 9.11% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,231 1,544 2,389
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 55 96
10th Percentile £23.00 £35.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £40.63 £32.32
Median hourly rate £47.48 £60.00 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -20.88% +17.10% +2.48%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £44.98 £58.30 £53.67
% change year-on-year -22.85% +8.64% +7.33%

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 26,653 26,912 35,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.59% 86.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,923 16,411 24,057
10th Percentile £295 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,722 972 1,474
10th Percentile £14.70 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.40 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% -20.54% +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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +9 1,648 £550 - 1,773
North of England +3 504 £500 - 422
South East +8 363 £525 - 1,481
Midlands 0 349 £500 -9.09% 258
North West +7 270 £500 - 247
West Midlands -5 244 £525 -4.55% 152
Yorkshire +10 209 £488 -2.50% 129
South West +5 189 £550 +4.76% 220
East Midlands +10 103 £443 -6.22% 96
East of England -4 99 £513 -2.38% 181
North East -9 24 £475 -16.30% 48
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
1 181 (5.58%) Confluence
2 89 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.11%) CMS
4 24 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (0.68%) SAS
6 10 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.15%) CICS
8 5 (0.15%) JBoss
9 4 (0.12%) Camunda
10 3 (0.093%) Apache
10 3 (0.093%) Appian
10 3 (0.093%) IIS
10 3 (0.093%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.093%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.093%) TPMS
10 3 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 176 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
4 82 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 60 (1.85%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.40%) Trello
7 12 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.15%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.15%) Sketch
10 4 (0.12%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.062%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.031%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.031%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.031%) InDesign
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.031%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 151 (4.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.74%) Endur
4 23 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.49%) Primavera
6 14 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.43%) SAP HCM
7 13 (0.40%) Workday HCM
8 12 (0.37%) Aladdin
9 10 (0.31%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.28%) SAP EWM
10 9 (0.28%) SAP MDG
10 9 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 8 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
11 8 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
12 7 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
12 7 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
12 7 (0.22%) Shopify
12 7 (0.22%) VisionPLUS
13 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 435 (13.42%) Azure
2 307 (9.47%) AWS
3 214 (6.60%) Power Platform
4 150 (4.63%) GCP
5 122 (3.76%) SaaS
6 100 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
7 77 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (1.97%) Entra ID
9 47 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
10 39 (1.20%) Serverless
11 34 (1.05%) OpenShift
12 32 (0.99%) GitHub
13 30 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
14 27 (0.83%) PowerApps
14 27 (0.83%) Snowflake
15 25 (0.77%) Power Automate
16 24 (0.74%) Amazon S3
16 24 (0.74%) OCI
17 20 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (0.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.10%) Firewall
2 34 (1.05%) Network Security
3 27 (0.83%) WAN
4 20 (0.62%) SD-WAN
4 20 (0.62%) VPN
5 17 (0.52%) LAN
6 16 (0.49%) SSH
7 14 (0.43%) MPLS
8 13 (0.40%) DNS
9 11 (0.34%) Wireless
10 10 (0.31%) Broadband
10 10 (0.31%) DHCP
10 10 (0.31%) VoIP
11 9 (0.28%) BGP
11 9 (0.28%) Internet
11 9 (0.28%) SAN
12 8 (0.25%) SSL
12 8 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.22%) HTTP
13 7 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (5.71%) Power BI
2 66 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (1.73%) Tableau
4 38 (1.17%) Metadata
5 37 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 25 (0.77%) BigQuery
6 25 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 24 (0.74%) SQL Server
8 23 (0.71%) Oracle Database
9 21 (0.65%) Big Data
9 21 (0.65%) Power Query
9 21 (0.65%) SAP HANA
10 20 (0.62%) NoSQL
11 15 (0.46%) DynamoDB
12 14 (0.43%) MySQL
12 14 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
13 13 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (0.40%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 335 (10.33%) JIRA
2 71 (2.19%) Git
3 61 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 45 (1.39%) GitLab
5 34 (1.05%) Selenium
6 24 (0.74%) JUnit
7 22 (0.68%) Maven
8 19 (0.59%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.31%) Gradle
10 10 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
11 9 (0.28%) Mockito
12 8 (0.25%) MLflow
13 6 (0.19%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.15%) Axure RP
14 5 (0.15%) SonarLint
14 5 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (0.15%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.12%) Appium
15 4 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,683 (51.91%) Social Skills
2 1,056 (32.57%) Finance
3 516 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 299 (9.22%) Banking
5 279 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 151 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
7 146 (4.50%) Retail
8 136 (4.19%) Legal
9 128 (3.95%) Marketing
10 105 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
11 101 (3.12%) Telecoms
12 89 (2.75%) Manufacturing
13 86 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
14 84 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
15 79 (2.44%) Front Office
16 60 (1.85%) Investment Banking
17 57 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 53 (1.63%) Law
18 53 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
19 35 (1.08%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 597 (18.41%) Analyst
2 493 (15.21%) Project Manager
3 395 (12.18%) Business Analyst
4 360 (11.10%) Architect
5 315 (9.72%) Lead
6 269 (8.30%) Senior
7 219 (6.76%) Consultant
8 127 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
9 125 (3.86%) Programme Manager
10 108 (3.33%) Senior Manager
11 103 (3.18%) IT Manager
12 91 (2.81%) Delivery Manager
13 89 (2.75%) Developer
14 72 (2.22%) Data Analyst
15 65 (2.00%) Product Owner
15 65 (2.00%) Senior Project Manager
16 64 (1.97%) Product Manager
17 61 (1.88%) IT Project Manager
18 58 (1.79%) Technical Manager
19 51 (1.57%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.28%) REST
2 56 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
3 39 (1.20%) .NET
4 29 (0.89%) JSON
4 29 (0.89%) Web Services
5 28 (0.86%) HTML
6 27 (0.83%) SOAP
7 25 (0.77%) OAuth
7 25 (0.77%) OpenID
7 25 (0.77%) Spring Boot
8 24 (0.74%) Kafka
9 23 (0.71%) Middleware
10 22 (0.68%) SailPoint
11 21 (0.65%) RESTful
11 21 (0.65%) SAML
12 20 (0.62%) React
13 18 (0.56%) CSS
13 18 (0.56%) OAuth2
14 15 (0.46%) AngularJS
14 15 (0.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 223 (6.88%) Product Ownership
2 141 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 88 (2.71%) Management Information System
4 87 (2.68%) Cloud Native
5 74 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
6 72 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 68 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 64 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 41 (1.26%) PMI
10 36 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (1.05%) Reinsurance
12 32 (0.99%) Virtual Team
13 29 (0.89%) Data Structures
13 29 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
14 28 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
15 27 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
16 26 (0.80%) CMDB
16 26 (0.80%) Fixed Income
16 26 (0.80%) Mobile App
16 26 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 111 (3.42%) Windows
2 49 (1.51%) Linux
3 32 (0.99%) Unix
4 22 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.31%) Android
7 10 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.22%) VMS
10 4 (0.12%) Solaris
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.062%) CentOS
13 1 (0.031%) AIX
13 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 997 (30.75%) Agile
2 575 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
3 510 (15.73%) Project Management
4 410 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 403 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 394 (12.15%) Migration
6 394 (12.15%) Project Delivery
7 370 (11.41%) Roadmaps
8 349 (10.76%) Change Management
9 295 (9.10%) Risk Management
10 276 (8.51%) Analytics
11 262 (8.08%) DevOps
11 262 (8.08%) Scrum
12 261 (8.05%) Decision-Making
13 233 (7.19%) Business Intelligence
14 230 (7.09%) Requirements Gathering
15 226 (6.97%) ITIL
16 225 (6.94%) Waterfall
17 220 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
18 211 (6.51%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 237 (7.31%) SQL
2 212 (6.54%) Python
3 77 (2.38%) Java
4 62 (1.91%) PowerShell
5 47 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.30%) C#
7 22 (0.68%) VBA
8 21 (0.65%) Bash
9 16 (0.49%) Shell Script
10 15 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (0.46%) R
11 14 (0.43%) Korn
11 14 (0.43%) TypeScript
12 13 (0.40%) ABAP
13 12 (0.37%) VB
14 9 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.22%) Bicep
15 7 (0.22%) COBOL
15 7 (0.22%) Perl
16 6 (0.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 469 (14.47%) Security Cleared
2 358 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 304 (9.38%) Degree
4 151 (4.66%) PMI Certification
5 137 (4.23%) PMP
6 75 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 62 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.67%) CISSP
9 53 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 44 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 35 (1.08%) CISM
12 31 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 26 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 24 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
15 23 (0.71%) CBAP
15 23 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
16 21 (0.65%) ACCA
17 20 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
18 18 (0.56%) CIMA
19 16 (0.49%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (4.75%) GDPR
1 154 (4.75%) QA
2 116 (3.58%) PMO
3 103 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 94 (2.90%) Data Quality
5 85 (2.62%) NIST
6 44 (1.36%) GRC
6 44 (1.36%) SLA
7 38 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 35 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 34 (1.05%) Accessibility
10 19 (0.59%) COBIT
10 19 (0.59%) IFRS
10 19 (0.59%) MiFID
11 18 (0.56%) NCSC
12 14 (0.43%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.37%) EMIR
14 12 (0.37%) PSD2
15 11 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 64 (1.97%) Docker
3 30 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.15%) vSphere
7 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.062%) Firmware
8 2 (0.062%) NFS
8 2 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.062%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.031%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.031%) IAG
9 1 (0.031%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.031%) NDS
9 1 (0.031%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.031%) Postfix
9 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.031%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 85 (2.62%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.44%) Terraform
3 29 (0.89%) Ansible
4 22 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (0.62%) Grafana
5 20 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.52%) SCCM
7 10 (0.31%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.28%) Kibana
9 8 (0.25%) Argo
9 8 (0.25%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.19%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.15%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.15%) NSN NetAct
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 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 419 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 302 (9.32%) SAP
3 176 (5.43%) Oracle
4 134 (4.13%) ServiceNow
5 115 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 77 (2.38%) Workday
7 60 (1.85%) Google
8 45 (1.39%) Databricks
9 41 (1.26%) IBM
10 39 (1.20%) VMware
11 29 (0.89%) Adobe
11 29 (0.89%) Cisco
12 27 (0.83%) Citrix
13 25 (0.77%) MuleSoft
14 22 (0.68%) Ariba
15 21 (0.65%) Fortinet
16 20 (0.62%) F5
16 20 (0.62%) Splunk
17 18 (0.56%) HP
18 17 (0.52%) Informatica