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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,423 2,751 4,051
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.90% 7.55% 8.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.85% 8.74% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,672 1,956 2,969
10th Percentile £358 £363 £388
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 79 73
10th Percentile £34.78 £14.90 £26.68
25th Percentile £41.54 £30.16 £32.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +13.27% +31.36%
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.72 £72.50
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.65 £87.14
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £60.00 £53.90
% change year-on-year -7.92% +11.32% +28.33%

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 22,329 31,491 43,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.40% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,605 20,622 30,435
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 949 2,249 1,535
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 1,300 £575 +4.55% 1,639
North of England -1 341 £502 -4.38% 478
South East +9 275 £518 +3.50% 775
Midlands +2 237 £500 -9.09% 308
North West +3 218 £508 -3.33% 278
West Midlands +1 178 £525 -4.55% 177
Yorkshire -11 90 £500 -4.76% 157
South West -16 90 £530 +0.95% 195
East of England -9 80 £550 +7.32% 218
East Midlands +15 55 £447 -6.88% 118
North East +5 30 £540 -8.09% 47
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 95 (3.92%) Confluence
2 56 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.16%) CMS
4 17 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.41%) SAS
7 7 (0.29%) JBoss
8 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.17%) WordPress
9 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.083%) Apache
10 2 (0.083%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.083%) CICS
10 2 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.083%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.041%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.041%) Drupal
11 1 (0.041%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 84 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
5 52 (2.15%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.66%) Trello
7 12 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.083%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.083%) InVision
10 2 (0.083%) Open Workbench
10 2 (0.083%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.041%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 110 (4.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 13 (0.54%) SAP MDG
5 12 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 11 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 11 (0.45%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.33%) Shopify
9 7 (0.29%) Endur
9 7 (0.29%) SAP HCM
9 7 (0.29%) SAP Retail
9 7 (0.29%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 281 (11.60%) Azure
2 227 (9.37%) AWS
3 116 (4.79%) Power Platform
4 75 (3.10%) GCP
4 75 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
5 63 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (2.48%) SaaS
7 42 (1.73%) Serverless
8 41 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 33 (1.36%) Entra ID
10 32 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (1.11%) Snowflake
12 26 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (0.83%) PowerApps
15 19 (0.78%) OCI
16 17 (0.70%) GitHub
17 16 (0.66%) Power Automate
18 15 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.94%) Firewall
2 32 (1.32%) VPN
3 28 (1.16%) Network Security
4 21 (0.87%) SD-WAN
4 21 (0.87%) WAN
5 11 (0.45%) DNS
5 11 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
7 9 (0.37%) LAN
8 8 (0.33%) 5G
8 8 (0.33%) BGP
9 7 (0.29%) DHCP
9 7 (0.29%) MPLS
10 6 (0.25%) Intranet
10 6 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (0.25%) OSPF
10 6 (0.25%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.17%) HTTP
11 4 (0.17%) VLAN
11 4 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (4.00%) Power BI
2 60 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (1.77%) Tableau
4 34 (1.40%) Data Lake
5 32 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (1.07%) Big Data
8 25 (1.03%) SAP HANA
9 22 (0.91%) SQL Server
10 19 (0.78%) Hadoop
11 17 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.62%) Relational Database
13 13 (0.54%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.54%) Metadata
13 13 (0.54%) NoSQL
13 13 (0.54%) RDBMS
14 11 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (0.41%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 214 (8.83%) JIRA
2 35 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 22 (0.91%) Git
4 21 (0.87%) GitLab
5 15 (0.62%) ERwin
5 15 (0.62%) JMeter
5 15 (0.62%) Selenium
6 10 (0.41%) LoadRunner
7 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.33%) Maven
8 8 (0.33%) NeoLoad
9 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (0.25%) JUnit
10 6 (0.25%) Mockito
11 5 (0.21%) Appium
11 5 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.21%) Gatling
11 5 (0.21%) Postman
12 4 (0.17%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.17%) Serenity BDD
General
1 1,200 (49.53%) Social Skills
2 783 (32.32%) Finance
3 388 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (9.99%) Public Sector
5 208 (8.58%) Banking
6 116 (4.79%) Retail
7 113 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
8 107 (4.42%) Marketing
9 89 (3.67%) Legal
10 73 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
11 68 (2.81%) Telecoms
12 67 (2.77%) Manufacturing
13 66 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
14 55 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 46 (1.90%) Front Office
16 41 (1.69%) Local Government
17 32 (1.32%) Back Office
17 32 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 31 (1.28%) Investment Banking
19 29 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 405 (16.71%) Analyst
2 374 (15.44%) Project Manager
3 308 (12.71%) Architect
4 275 (11.35%) Business Analyst
5 240 (9.91%) Lead
6 223 (9.20%) Senior
7 146 (6.03%) Consultant
8 114 (4.70%) Programme Manager
9 97 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
10 82 (3.38%) IT Manager
11 78 (3.22%) Senior Manager
12 76 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
13 62 (2.56%) Developer
14 55 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
15 53 (2.19%) Product Manager
16 52 (2.15%) Data Analyst
16 52 (2.15%) Technical Manager
17 46 (1.90%) Change Manager
18 45 (1.86%) IT Project Manager
19 41 (1.69%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.36%) Kafka
1 33 (1.36%) Web Services
2 29 (1.20%) REST
3 24 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (0.87%) .NET
4 21 (0.87%) SOAP
5 19 (0.78%) Middleware
6 16 (0.66%) React
7 13 (0.54%) HTML
7 13 (0.54%) Spring Boot
8 12 (0.50%) AngularJS
8 12 (0.50%) RESTful
9 11 (0.45%) CSS
9 11 (0.45%) SailPoint
9 11 (0.45%) XML
10 10 (0.41%) ARM Templates
10 10 (0.41%) Spring
11 9 (0.37%) ADO
11 9 (0.37%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (0.33%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 92 (3.80%) Product Ownership
2 80 (3.30%) Management Information System
3 64 (2.64%) Onboarding
4 49 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 47 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
6 42 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.36%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.32%) Life Science
8 32 (1.32%) Operational Technology
9 27 (1.11%) PMI
10 25 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (0.91%) Virtual Team
13 21 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 20 (0.83%) FMCG
14 20 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (0.78%) NHS
15 19 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
16 16 (0.66%) CMDB
17 15 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 85 (3.51%) Windows
2 39 (1.61%) Linux
3 18 (0.74%) Windows 10
4 15 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.45%) Unix
6 3 (0.12%) Android
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.12%) Windows XP
7 2 (0.083%) CentOS
7 2 (0.083%) Solaris
7 2 (0.083%) VMS
8 1 (0.041%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 685 (28.27%) Agile
2 519 (21.42%) Problem-Solving
3 512 (21.13%) Project Management
4 306 (12.63%) Risk Management
5 274 (11.31%) Project Delivery
6 272 (11.23%) Migration
7 261 (10.77%) Change Management
8 235 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 226 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 223 (9.20%) Decision-Making
11 215 (8.87%) Analytics
12 214 (8.83%) Roadmaps
13 169 (6.97%) Waterfall
14 162 (6.69%) DevOps
15 159 (6.56%) Scrum
16 158 (6.52%) Business Analysis
17 157 (6.48%) PRINCE2
18 139 (5.74%) Process Improvement
18 139 (5.74%) Programme Management
19 136 (5.61%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 175 (7.22%) SQL
2 117 (4.83%) Python
3 67 (2.77%) Java
4 42 (1.73%) JavaScript
5 31 (1.28%) PowerShell
6 21 (0.87%) C#
7 17 (0.70%) PHP
8 14 (0.58%) Bicep
9 13 (0.54%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.45%) ABAP
10 11 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.29%) Bash
12 7 (0.29%) C++
12 7 (0.29%) R
13 6 (0.25%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.25%) Perl
13 6 (0.25%) Scala
14 5 (0.21%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 315 (13.00%) Security Cleared
2 253 (10.44%) SC Cleared
3 221 (9.12%) Degree
4 126 (5.20%) PMI Certification
5 122 (5.04%) PMP
6 41 (1.69%) CISSP
7 40 (1.65%) AWS Certification
8 36 (1.49%) CISM
8 36 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 30 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.20%) CISA
10 29 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (0.87%) CRISC
13 20 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (0.78%) Azure Certification
15 17 (0.70%) CBAP
15 17 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.24%) QA
2 116 (4.79%) PMO
3 81 (3.34%) Data Quality
4 64 (2.64%) GDPR
5 62 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (2.19%) NIST
7 35 (1.44%) Accessibility
8 22 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.83%) GRC
10 18 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.66%) COBIT
12 15 (0.62%) MiFID
13 14 (0.58%) SLA
14 13 (0.54%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.33%) EMIR
15 8 (0.33%) NCSC
16 7 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.29%) GxP
17 6 (0.25%) IFRS
17 6 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 63 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.24%) Docker
3 23 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.17%) Postfix
7 2 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.083%) vSphere
8 1 (0.041%) Firmware
8 1 (0.041%) IAG
8 1 (0.041%) KVM
8 1 (0.041%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.041%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.041%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.041%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (2.52%) Terraform
2 54 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.32%) Ansible
4 23 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.83%) Grafana
6 11 (0.45%) SCCM
7 10 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.33%) Amdocs OSS
8 8 (0.33%) Argo
9 7 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.25%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.21%) NSN NetAct
12 4 (0.17%) Perfmon
13 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.12%) Kibana
13 3 (0.12%) Puppet
14 2 (0.083%) HP Quality Center
14 2 (0.083%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 277 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 242 (9.99%) SAP
3 105 (4.33%) Oracle
4 80 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 66 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 41 (1.69%) Cisco
6 41 (1.69%) Google
7 35 (1.44%) Adobe
8 34 (1.40%) Workday
9 32 (1.32%) Ariba
9 32 (1.32%) Databricks
10 26 (1.07%) Atlassian
11 25 (1.03%) VMware
12 19 (0.78%) Splunk
13 15 (0.62%) Informatica
13 15 (0.62%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.50%) IBM
15 11 (0.45%) Ericsson
15 11 (0.45%) HP
15 11 (0.45%) Nokia