Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Stakeholder Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 17 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 1,551 1,390 1,734
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 9.79% 7.95% 8.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.99% 9.50% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 853 1,217
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £713 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 62 75
10th Percentile £30.03 £35.00 £21.19
25th Percentile £37.78 £45.10 £32.75
Median hourly rate £58.25 £61.60 £53.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% +14.79% +7.33%
75th Percentile £65.50 £75.00 £65.84
90th Percentile £76.38 £85.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £60.30 £52.54
% change year-on-year -21.23% +14.76% +4.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,110 14,624 18,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.04% 83.61% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 8,265 12,263
10th Percentile £225 £243 £256
25th Percentile £365 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £601
90th Percentile £669 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,545 1,056 1,281
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £41.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.02% -2.94% +70.00%
75th Percentile £40.00 £66.15 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.70 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -37.13% -8.31% +38.69%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK excluding London

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK excluding London

Stakeholder Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +5 479 £500 -3.85% 328
South East +7 323 £525 +5.00% 812
Midlands -1 304 £500 -9.09% 189
North West +8 265 £500 - 204
West Midlands -4 209 £541 -1.55% 111
Yorkshire +8 196 £488 -7.14% 97
South West +6 188 £530 +0.95% 157
Scotland -4 144 £488 -2.50% 64
East of England -2 97 £550 +4.76% 90
East Midlands +12 94 £447 -2.30% 74
Wales +9 19 £444 -12.35% 39
North East -6 19 £515 -9.25% 29
Northern Ireland +2 17 £500 - 15
Stakeholder Management
UK

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 97 (6.25%) Confluence
2 54 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.84%) CMS
4 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.39%) CICS
6 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.32%) JBoss
7 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.19%) IIS
8 3 (0.19%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.13%) TPMS
9 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.064%) Camunda
10 1 (0.064%) Drupal
10 1 (0.064%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.064%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.064%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (3.48%) Microsoft Project
4 43 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (2.39%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.45%) Trello
7 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.26%) Siemens NX
9 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.064%) Blender
11 1 (0.064%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.064%) InDesign
11 1 (0.064%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 56 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Primavera
3 12 (0.77%) SAP HCM
4 10 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.52%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 7 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
7 6 (0.39%) VisionPLUS
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.26%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.26%) Sprinklr
9 4 (0.26%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.19%) iTrent
10 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.19%) SAP PP
10 3 (0.19%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 200 (12.89%) Azure
2 150 (9.67%) AWS
3 80 (5.16%) GCP
4 71 (4.58%) Power Platform
5 61 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (3.61%) SaaS
7 32 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.06%) Entra ID
8 19 (1.23%) Serverless
9 17 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (0.97%) GitHub
10 15 (0.97%) OCI
10 15 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
11 14 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (0.84%) Amazon S3
13 12 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (0.71%) Azure AKS
15 10 (0.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.13%) Firewall
2 19 (1.23%) Network Security
3 13 (0.84%) SSH
4 10 (0.64%) LAN
4 10 (0.64%) Wireless
5 7 (0.45%) SAN
5 7 (0.45%) VPN
5 7 (0.45%) WAN
6 6 (0.39%) Broadband
6 6 (0.39%) Internet
6 6 (0.39%) MPLS
6 6 (0.39%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.32%) 5G
8 4 (0.26%) BGP
8 4 (0.26%) DNS
8 4 (0.26%) VoIP
9 3 (0.19%) HTTP
9 3 (0.19%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.19%) Intranet
9 3 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.80%) Power BI
2 33 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (0.97%) Metadata
4 15 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 15 (0.97%) Relational Database
4 15 (0.97%) Tableau
5 14 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 13 (0.84%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.84%) Power Query
6 13 (0.84%) RDBMS
7 11 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (0.71%) MySQL
7 11 (0.71%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.64%) BigQuery
8 10 (0.64%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.58%) SQL Server
10 8 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 165 (10.64%) JIRA
2 36 (2.32%) Jenkins
3 32 (2.06%) Git
4 15 (0.97%) SonarQube
5 13 (0.84%) Maven
5 13 (0.84%) Selenium
6 10 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
7 9 (0.58%) GitLab
8 7 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.45%) JUnit
9 6 (0.39%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (0.39%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.32%) Gradle
10 5 (0.32%) Mockito
10 5 (0.32%) SonarLint
10 5 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.19%) CA Release Automation
11 3 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.19%) DbUnit
11 3 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 798 (51.45%) Social Skills
2 474 (30.56%) Finance
3 232 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 121 (7.80%) Banking
6 83 (5.35%) Influencing Skills
7 63 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
8 61 (3.93%) Retail
9 59 (3.80%) Telecoms
10 56 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 53 (3.42%) Legal
12 50 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
13 42 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (1.55%) Automotive
16 23 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (1.48%) Marketing
17 16 (1.03%) Military
17 16 (1.03%) Retail Banking
18 15 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 274 (17.67%) Analyst
2 231 (14.89%) Project Manager
3 178 (11.48%) Architect
4 159 (10.25%) Business Analyst
5 133 (8.58%) Lead
6 130 (8.38%) Senior
7 97 (6.25%) Consultant
8 68 (4.38%) Programme Manager
9 61 (3.93%) IT Manager
10 55 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
11 52 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
11 52 (3.35%) Senior Manager
12 39 (2.51%) IT Project Manager
13 33 (2.13%) Service Manager
14 31 (2.00%) Data Analyst
15 30 (1.93%) Developer
15 30 (1.93%) Senior Project Manager
16 29 (1.87%) Product Owner
17 24 (1.55%) Change Manager
17 24 (1.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.61%) REST
2 23 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (1.10%) RESTful
3 17 (1.10%) Spring Boot
4 16 (1.03%) JSON
4 16 (1.03%) SailPoint
4 16 (1.03%) SOAP
5 14 (0.90%) .NET
6 13 (0.84%) Kafka
6 13 (0.84%) SAML
7 12 (0.77%) OpenID
8 11 (0.71%) Web Services
9 10 (0.64%) AngularJS
9 10 (0.64%) OAuth
9 10 (0.64%) XML
10 8 (0.52%) Celery
10 8 (0.52%) J2EE
10 8 (0.52%) Middleware
10 8 (0.52%) Spring
11 7 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.54%) Product Ownership
2 68 (4.38%) Onboarding
3 44 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 41 (2.64%) Cloud Native
5 39 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
5 39 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 28 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 21 (1.35%) CMDB
9 20 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.16%) Operational Technology
11 18 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.03%) Life Science
12 16 (1.03%) Mobile App
13 14 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.71%) Tandem
16 10 (0.64%) PMI
16 10 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (4.77%) Windows
2 35 (2.26%) Linux
3 25 (1.61%) Unix
4 14 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.39%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.19%) Android
9 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) VMS
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
11 1 (0.064%) AIX
11 1 (0.064%) Solaris
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (28.50%) Agile
2 275 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
3 267 (17.21%) Project Management
4 218 (14.06%) Project Delivery
5 209 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 194 (12.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 190 (12.25%) Migration
8 176 (11.35%) Change Management
9 171 (11.03%) Roadmaps
10 164 (10.57%) Risk Management
11 151 (9.74%) ITIL
12 134 (8.64%) Decision-Making
13 129 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
14 122 (7.87%) Waterfall
15 120 (7.74%) DevOps
16 107 (6.90%) Scrum
17 96 (6.19%) Service Management
18 92 (5.93%) Service Delivery
19 91 (5.87%) Analytics
20 85 (5.48%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 86 (5.54%) SQL
2 72 (4.64%) Python
3 41 (2.64%) Java
4 33 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 15 (0.97%) VBA
6 14 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.84%) Shell Script
8 12 (0.77%) Bash
9 10 (0.64%) ABAP
10 9 (0.58%) C#
11 8 (0.52%) VB
12 7 (0.45%) Perl
13 6 (0.39%) COBOL
13 6 (0.39%) JCL
14 4 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.26%) Scala
14 4 (0.26%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.19%) C++
15 3 (0.19%) Korn
15 3 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 253 (16.31%) Security Cleared
2 187 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 149 (9.61%) Degree
4 61 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 52 (3.35%) PMP
6 50 (3.22%) PMI Certification
7 38 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 34 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.42%) CISM
10 20 (1.29%) CISSP
11 19 (1.23%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.77%) ACCA
14 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.71%) CISA
16 10 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 9 (0.58%) CBAP
17 9 (0.58%) CIMA
18 8 (0.52%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (5.48%) PMO
2 64 (4.13%) QA
3 62 (4.00%) GDPR
4 61 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.97%) NIST
6 45 (2.90%) Data Quality
7 27 (1.74%) SLA
8 16 (1.03%) COBIT
8 16 (1.03%) GRC
9 15 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.90%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.52%) P3O
13 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.32%) GxP
14 5 (0.32%) IFRS
14 5 (0.32%) NCSC
14 5 (0.32%) WCAG
15 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 46 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.06%) Docker
3 16 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.19%) Postfix
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.064%) Firmware
7 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.064%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.064%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 42 (2.71%) Terraform
2 37 (2.39%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.03%) Ansible
4 15 (0.97%) Grafana
4 15 (0.97%) SCCM
4 15 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.52%) NSN NetAct
8 4 (0.26%) Amdocs OSS
8 4 (0.26%) Kibana
8 4 (0.26%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.19%) Nessus
9 3 (0.19%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.13%) Puppet
10 2 (0.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 233 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 135 (8.70%) SAP
3 85 (5.48%) ServiceNow
4 79 (5.09%) Oracle
5 30 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 29 (1.87%) IBM
7 24 (1.55%) Workday
8 23 (1.48%) Google
9 19 (1.23%) Citrix
9 19 (1.23%) VMware
10 16 (1.03%) F5
11 15 (0.97%) HP
11 15 (0.97%) Splunk
12 13 (0.84%) Cisco
12 13 (0.84%) Remedy
13 12 (0.77%) Databricks
13 12 (0.77%) Ericsson
13 12 (0.77%) Informatica
13 12 (0.77%) Nokia
14 10 (0.64%) Ariba