Stakeholder Management Contracts

Stakeholder Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,745 3,268 4,864
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.39% 7.50% 8.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.34% 8.69% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,856 2,280 3,511
10th Percentile £363 £356 £388
25th Percentile £436 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £750 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 87 75
10th Percentile £34.70 £15.13 £27.60
25th Percentile £41.25 £23.63 £31.63
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £56.30
Median % change year-on-year - +6.57% +36.48%
75th Percentile £75.00 £76.65 £71.88
90th Percentile £80.47 £85.65 £85.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £55.57
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.98% +40.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Stakeholder Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Management.

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Management.

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +5 2,323 £538 -1.83% 2,109
London +5 1,244 £575 +4.55% 1,114
UK excluding London +1 1,146 £500 -4.76% 1,060
Work from Home +4 927 £525 -0.14% 953
North of England -1 331 £510 -2.86% 314
South East +8 265 £500 - 274
Midlands +5 235 £501 -6.88% 189
North West +3 205 £517 -1.52% 214
West Midlands +2 175 £525 -4.55% 123
Scotland +1 148 £475 -5.00% 73
Yorkshire -9 92 £500 -2.44% 84
East of England -8 77 £600 +20.00% 83
South West -20 77 £545 +3.81% 124
East Midlands +14 56 £449 -9.39% 62
North East +11 33 £545 -4.18% 18
Northern Ireland +1 12 £375 - 12
Wales -23 6 £454 -14.39% 10
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Stakeholder Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 126 (4.59%) Confluence
2 62 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.06%) CMS
4 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.40%) SAS
7 6 (0.22%) JBoss
8 4 (0.15%) Apache
8 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.11%) WordPress
10 2 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.073%) CICS
10 2 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.073%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.036%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.036%) IIS
11 1 (0.036%) MTS
Applications
1 91 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
5 59 (2.15%) MS Visio
6 31 (1.13%) Trello
7 11 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.073%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.073%) InVision
11 2 (0.073%) Open Workbench
11 2 (0.073%) Sketch
11 2 (0.073%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 128 (4.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.51%) SAP ERP
3 14 (0.51%) SAP MDG
3 14 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 13 (0.47%) NEC Housing
5 11 (0.40%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.36%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.29%) SAP Retail
8 8 (0.29%) Shopify
8 8 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 7 (0.26%) Maximo
9 7 (0.26%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.22%) Endur
10 6 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.22%) SAP MM
11 5 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 339 (12.35%) Azure
2 259 (9.44%) AWS
3 134 (4.88%) Power Platform
4 87 (3.17%) GCP
5 78 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (2.40%) SaaS
8 48 (1.75%) Serverless
9 43 (1.57%) Amazon S3
10 39 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
11 34 (1.24%) Entra ID
12 31 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (0.98%) Snowflake
14 25 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (0.91%) PowerApps
15 19 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
16 18 (0.66%) Figma
16 18 (0.66%) GitHub
16 18 (0.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 54 (1.97%) Firewall
2 34 (1.24%) Network Security
3 33 (1.20%) VPN
4 30 (1.09%) WAN
5 25 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.55%) LAN
7 13 (0.47%) DNS
7 13 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.36%) Structured Cabling
10 9 (0.33%) DHCP
11 8 (0.29%) BGP
11 8 (0.29%) Intranet
12 6 (0.22%) 5G
12 6 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (0.22%) OSPF
12 6 (0.22%) Wireless
13 5 (0.18%) HTTP
13 5 (0.18%) MPLS
14 4 (0.15%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.04%) Power BI
2 66 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (1.53%) Tableau
4 37 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 33 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (0.98%) Big Data
7 26 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (0.77%) Hadoop
9 21 (0.77%) SQL Server
10 18 (0.66%) Relational Database
11 16 (0.58%) Metadata
12 15 (0.55%) NoSQL
13 14 (0.51%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.44%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.40%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
17 8 (0.29%) MongoDB
17 8 (0.29%) Oracle Database
17 8 (0.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 259 (9.44%) JIRA
2 41 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 26 (0.95%) GitLab
4 22 (0.80%) ERwin
5 21 (0.77%) Git
6 18 (0.66%) Selenium
7 16 (0.58%) JMeter
8 11 (0.40%) LoadRunner
9 9 (0.33%) Postman
10 8 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 7 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.22%) Subversion
12 6 (0.22%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.18%) Appium
13 5 (0.18%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.18%) Gatling
13 5 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 1,352 (49.25%) Social Skills
2 867 (31.58%) Finance
3 456 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 310 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 216 (7.87%) Banking
6 129 (4.70%) Retail
7 122 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
8 103 (3.75%) Legal
9 102 (3.72%) Marketing
10 85 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
11 78 (2.84%) Manufacturing
11 78 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (2.44%) Telecoms
13 64 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
14 49 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 43 (1.57%) Local Government
16 39 (1.42%) Front Office
17 38 (1.38%) Investment Banking
18 33 (1.20%) Financial Institution
19 31 (1.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 467 (17.01%) Analyst
2 417 (15.19%) Project Manager
3 349 (12.71%) Architect
4 328 (11.95%) Business Analyst
5 261 (9.51%) Lead
6 254 (9.25%) Senior
7 171 (6.23%) Consultant
8 122 (4.44%) Programme Manager
9 113 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (3.32%) IT Manager
11 86 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
12 79 (2.88%) Senior Manager
13 62 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
14 60 (2.19%) Developer
15 58 (2.11%) Data Analyst
16 57 (2.08%) Product Manager
17 56 (2.04%) Technical Manager
18 51 (1.86%) IT Project Manager
19 48 (1.75%) Change Manager
19 48 (1.75%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.20%) Kafka
2 27 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
3 25 (0.91%) .NET
4 23 (0.84%) REST
5 19 (0.69%) Middleware
6 17 (0.62%) SailPoint
7 16 (0.58%) HTML
7 16 (0.58%) SOAP
7 16 (0.58%) Web Services
8 14 (0.51%) React
9 12 (0.44%) AngularJS
9 12 (0.44%) ARM Templates
9 12 (0.44%) CSS
9 12 (0.44%) RESTful
9 12 (0.44%) XML
10 11 (0.40%) ADO
11 9 (0.33%) Spring Boot
12 8 (0.29%) OAuth
12 8 (0.29%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (0.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 112 (4.08%) Product Ownership
2 92 (3.35%) Management Information System
3 61 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 56 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 55 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 51 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (1.64%) Life Science
8 35 (1.28%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 33 (1.20%) PMI
10 28 (1.02%) Cloud Native
11 24 (0.87%) FMCG
11 24 (0.87%) NHS
11 24 (0.87%) Virtual Team
12 21 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 21 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
13 20 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.62%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.55%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 90 (3.28%) Windows
2 42 (1.53%) Linux
3 18 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.62%) Unix
5 16 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.15%) Android
7 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.11%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.073%) CentOS
9 2 (0.073%) Solaris
10 1 (0.036%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.036%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (28.93%) Agile
2 615 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
3 587 (21.38%) Project Management
4 349 (12.71%) Risk Management
5 303 (11.04%) Project Delivery
6 300 (10.93%) Migration
7 290 (10.56%) Change Management
8 264 (9.62%) Roadmaps
9 263 (9.58%) Decision-Making
10 255 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 248 (9.03%) Analytics
11 248 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 199 (7.25%) DevOps
13 197 (7.18%) Waterfall
14 180 (6.56%) Scrum
15 176 (6.41%) Business Analysis
16 164 (5.97%) PRINCE2
17 159 (5.79%) Requirements Gathering
18 158 (5.76%) ITIL
19 147 (5.36%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 180 (6.56%) SQL
2 130 (4.74%) Python
3 62 (2.26%) Java
4 45 (1.64%) JavaScript
5 34 (1.24%) PowerShell
6 27 (0.98%) C#
7 17 (0.62%) PHP
8 14 (0.51%) Bicep
9 12 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.36%) ABAP
10 10 (0.36%) Bash
10 10 (0.36%) C++
10 10 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 10 (0.36%) VBA
11 9 (0.33%) Scala
12 8 (0.29%) R
13 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.22%) Perl
13 6 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 347 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 281 (10.24%) SC Cleared
3 257 (9.36%) Degree
4 135 (4.92%) PMI Certification
5 131 (4.77%) PMP
6 47 (1.71%) CISSP
7 43 (1.57%) AWS Certification
8 41 (1.49%) CISM
9 39 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 35 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 30 (1.09%) CISA
12 28 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 25 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 25 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
13 25 (0.91%) CRISC
14 22 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
14 22 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
15 17 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (5.79%) QA
2 130 (4.74%) PMO
3 92 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 74 (2.70%) GDPR
5 66 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (2.26%) Accessibility
7 56 (2.04%) NIST
8 27 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (0.84%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.77%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.73%) GRC
12 13 (0.47%) MiFID
13 12 (0.44%) COBIT
14 10 (0.36%) NCSC
14 10 (0.36%) SLA
15 9 (0.33%) GxP
16 7 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
17 6 (0.22%) IFRS
17 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 69 (2.51%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.02%) Docker
3 26 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) Postfix
7 2 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.073%) vSphere
8 1 (0.036%) Firmware
8 1 (0.036%) HDFS
8 1 (0.036%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.036%) IAG
8 1 (0.036%) KVM
8 1 (0.036%) Microcode
8 1 (0.036%) NFS
8 1 (0.036%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.036%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.036%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.036%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.036%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (2.44%) Terraform
2 59 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.31%) Ansible
4 23 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.69%) Grafana
6 11 (0.40%) SCCM
7 10 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.29%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.26%) Argo
10 6 (0.22%) Amdocs OSS
11 5 (0.18%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.15%) Perfmon
13 3 (0.11%) Kibana
13 3 (0.11%) Puppet
14 2 (0.073%) HP Quality Center
14 2 (0.073%) NSN NetAct
14 2 (0.073%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.073%) SELinux
Vendors
1 304 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 279 (10.16%) SAP
3 111 (4.04%) Oracle
4 87 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 70 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 51 (1.86%) Ariba
7 46 (1.68%) Cisco
8 45 (1.64%) Google
9 40 (1.46%) Databricks
10 37 (1.35%) Adobe
11 35 (1.28%) Workday
12 32 (1.17%) VMware
13 24 (0.87%) Atlassian
14 20 (0.73%) Splunk
15 18 (0.66%) NEC
16 17 (0.62%) Informatica
17 16 (0.58%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.51%) IBM
19 12 (0.44%) Dynatrace
19 12 (0.44%) Palo Alto