Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Stakeholder Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 304 272 244
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 11.04% 10.06% 8.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.41% 12.00% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 189 192
10th Percentile £346 £360 £356
25th Percentile £402 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +5.77%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £646
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £32.24 £42.09 £21.19
25th Percentile - £45.72 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.60 £53.50 £31.76
Median % change year-on-year -33.46% +68.45% -8.16%
75th Percentile £47.64 £56.25 £35.03
90th Percentile £62.95 £56.85 £61.88
England median hourly rate £48.25 £61.33 £48.50
% change year-on-year -21.33% +26.45% -3.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,450 2,266 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.99% 83.83% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,581 1,426 1,705
10th Percentile £250 £253 £250
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 69 105
10th Percentile £13.83 £14.10 £13.82
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.28 £22.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -18.18% +55.90%
75th Percentile £26.51 £39.68 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.86 £53.00 £68.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% -4.49% +36.92%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the Midlands

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the Midlands

Stakeholder Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
West Midlands -4 209 £541 -1.55% 111
East Midlands +12 94 £447 -2.30% 74
Stakeholder Management
England

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 15 (4.93%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.95%) Confluence
3 2 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (6.58%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.97%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.32%) Siemens NX
7 3 (0.99%) Trello
8 2 (0.66%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.33%) Blender
9 1 (0.33%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.33%) InDesign
9 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Primavera
1 5 (1.64%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.99%) Sprinklr
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.66%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.66%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.66%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.33%) Actimize
4 1 (0.33%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 31 (10.20%) Azure
2 24 (7.89%) AWS
3 15 (4.93%) SaaS
4 14 (4.61%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.28%) GCP
6 11 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.30%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.32%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (0.99%) PowerApps
9 3 (0.99%) Serverless
10 2 (0.66%) AWS KMS
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) Firewall
2 2 (0.66%) MPLS
2 2 (0.66%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) Broadband
3 1 (0.33%) DHCP
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) LAN
3 1 (0.33%) SAN
3 1 (0.33%) Softphone
3 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.61%) Power BI
2 7 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.64%) Metadata
5 4 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.66%) GIS
7 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.66%) MySQL
7 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.33%) Power Query
8 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (8.22%) JIRA
2 7 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.97%) Git
4 5 (1.64%) JUnit
4 5 (1.64%) Maven
5 4 (1.32%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.32%) Mockito
5 4 (1.32%) Selenium
5 4 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.99%) GitLab
6 3 (0.99%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.66%) DbUnit
7 2 (0.66%) jMock
8 1 (0.33%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.33%) Gatling
8 1 (0.33%) Postman
8 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 144 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 119 (39.14%) Finance
3 57 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.24%) Influencing Skills
4 22 (7.24%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.91%) Banking
6 17 (5.59%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (4.61%) Automotive
8 12 (3.95%) Legal
9 11 (3.62%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.97%) Marketing
11 6 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.97%) Retail
11 6 (1.97%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.64%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.32%) Billing
13 4 (1.32%) Law
14 3 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (21.38%) Analyst
2 45 (14.80%) Project Manager
3 38 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 33 (10.86%) Senior
5 26 (8.55%) Architect
6 21 (6.91%) Delivery Manager
7 18 (5.92%) Programme Manager
8 17 (5.59%) Lead
9 16 (5.26%) Consultant
10 15 (4.93%) Senior Manager
11 12 (3.95%) IT Manager
12 11 (3.62%) Product Owner
12 11 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.96%) Developer
13 9 (2.96%) Engagement Manager
13 9 (2.96%) IT Project Manager
13 9 (2.96%) SAP Manager
13 9 (2.96%) Senior Project Manager
14 8 (2.63%) PMO Analyst
14 8 (2.63%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.28%) REST
2 7 (2.30%) SOAP
3 5 (1.64%) Flash
3 5 (1.64%) Spring
3 5 (1.64%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.32%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (1.32%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.32%) Bootstrap
4 4 (1.32%) JPA
4 4 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.32%) RESTful
4 4 (1.32%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (0.99%) jQuery
5 3 (0.99%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.99%) Web Services
6 2 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.66%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.66%) HTML
6 2 (0.66%) Middleware
6 2 (0.66%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.88%) Onboarding
2 21 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.96%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.30%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.30%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.32%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.32%) Robotics
7 4 (1.32%) SCADA
8 3 (0.99%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.99%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.66%) FMCG
9 2 (0.66%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.66%) Social Media
9 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.95%) Windows
2 7 (2.30%) Linux
3 6 (1.97%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.99%) Unix
5 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) AIX
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Solaris
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (31.58%) Agile
2 55 (18.09%) Project Delivery
2 55 (18.09%) Project Management
3 53 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 53 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (15.13%) Roadmaps
5 37 (12.17%) Change Management
6 34 (11.18%) Migration
7 33 (10.86%) Risk Management
8 32 (10.53%) Waterfall
9 28 (9.21%) Scrum
9 28 (9.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (8.55%) DevOps
10 26 (8.55%) User Experience
11 25 (8.22%) Decision-Making
12 24 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
12 24 (7.89%) Programme Management
13 23 (7.57%) Requirements Gathering
14 22 (7.24%) Budget Management
15 20 (6.58%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.26%) SQL
2 12 (3.95%) Java
2 12 (3.95%) Python
3 10 (3.29%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.64%) Bash
5 4 (1.32%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.66%) C#
7 2 (0.66%) Go
7 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.66%) VB
7 2 (0.66%) VBA
8 1 (0.33%) ABAP
8 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.33%) Korn
8 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 33 (10.86%) Degree
2 31 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 21 (6.91%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.62%) PMP
6 10 (3.29%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.99%) ACCA
10 3 (0.99%) CIMA
10 3 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.66%) CISA
11 2 (0.66%) CISM
11 2 (0.66%) CISSP
11 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.33%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.55%) PMO
2 20 (6.58%) QA
3 13 (4.28%) GDPR
4 10 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.63%) NIST
6 6 (1.97%) SLA
7 5 (1.64%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.66%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) COBIT
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.33%) P3O
10 1 (0.33%) PSD2
10 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.63%) Docker
2 8 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.66%) Postfix
4 1 (0.33%) Firmware
4 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (1.97%) Grafana
1 6 (1.97%) Kubernetes
1 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (1.97%) Prometheus
1 6 (1.97%) SCCM
2 2 (0.66%) Ansible
2 2 (0.66%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.66%) Terraform
3 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 50 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.89%) SAP
3 12 (3.95%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.29%) VMware
5 9 (2.96%) Oracle
5 9 (2.96%) Workday
6 7 (2.30%) Citrix
7 6 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.64%) Siemens
9 4 (1.32%) Ariba
10 3 (0.99%) Adobe
10 3 (0.99%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.99%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.99%) Databricks
10 3 (0.99%) Genesys
10 3 (0.99%) Google
10 3 (0.99%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.99%) Pega
10 3 (0.99%) Splunk
11 2 (0.66%) Jaspersoft