Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends

Stakeholder Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 22 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,978 2,759 3,592
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 10.75% 8.13% 8.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.19% 9.21% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,674 1,733 2,449
10th Percentile £371 £363 £377
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 58 98
10th Percentile £17.00 £30.36 £23.14
25th Percentile £30.11 £35.01 £33.00
Median hourly rate £41.06 £54.63 £54.69
Median % change year-on-year -24.83% -0.12% +4.92%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.93 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £80.18 £74.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £50.53
% change year-on-year -8.33% +18.75% +5.52%

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 32,644 29,969 38,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.25% 88.28% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,536 18,292 25,469
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £741 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,079 968 1,499
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.57 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%
75th Percentile £50.38 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.13 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.54 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.28% -30.00% +42.45%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Top 17 Contract Job 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 24 December 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 3,469 £525 -4.55% 2,721
London +7 1,781 £550 - 930
UK excluding London +3 1,754 £500 -4.76% 2,114
Work from Home +7 1,174 £528 -4.09% 1,087
North of England +3 518 £483 -7.09% 478
South East +7 408 £536 +2.10% 673
Midlands -1 385 £493 -6.19% 350
North West +5 270 £475 -5.47% 250
West Midlands -5 263 £500 -4.76% 192
Yorkshire +5 217 £492 -1.60% 203
South West +11 194 £550 +4.76% 224
Scotland +1 140 £500 +5.26% 86
East Midlands +8 122 £446 -6.11% 143
East of England -2 99 £525 - 284
North East +7 38 £450 -27.92% 30
Wales +12 20 £425 +6.25% 44
Northern Ireland +9 18 £494 +64.58% 29

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 259 (6.51%) Confluence
2 123 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.78%) CMS
4 29 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.70%) SAS
6 10 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.23%) Appian
7 9 (0.23%) Camunda
7 9 (0.23%) TPMS
8 8 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.15%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.15%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.13%) Apache
11 4 (0.10%) nginx
12 3 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.075%) JBoss
12 3 (0.075%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.075%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 206 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 123 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
4 103 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 76 (1.91%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.63%) Trello
7 14 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.10%) Sketch
11 3 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.050%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.050%) InVision
13 1 (0.025%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.025%) Blender
13 1 (0.025%) EPLAN
13 1 (0.025%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.025%) Simulink
13 1 (0.025%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 177 (4.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 27 (0.68%) Endur
5 21 (0.53%) Workday HCM
6 19 (0.48%) NetSuite
7 18 (0.45%) SAP HCM
8 16 (0.40%) Primavera
8 16 (0.40%) SAP PP
9 15 (0.38%) Aladdin
9 15 (0.38%) SAP CO
9 15 (0.38%) SAP FI
10 14 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
10 14 (0.35%) SAP ERP
10 14 (0.35%) SAP EWM
11 13 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
12 12 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
12 12 (0.30%) SAP MDG
13 11 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
14 9 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 590 (14.83%) Azure
2 409 (10.28%) AWS
3 265 (6.66%) Power Platform
4 198 (4.98%) GCP
5 135 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 123 (3.09%) SaaS
7 104 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
8 75 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 58 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (1.41%) OpenShift
11 49 (1.23%) GitHub
12 47 (1.18%) OCI
13 46 (1.16%) Serverless
13 46 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
14 38 (0.96%) Power Automate
15 35 (0.88%) Snowflake
16 32 (0.80%) PowerApps
17 28 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
18 27 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
19 26 (0.65%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 104 (2.61%) Firewall
2 47 (1.18%) WAN
3 40 (1.01%) Network Security
4 37 (0.93%) LAN
4 37 (0.93%) VPN
5 32 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 24 (0.60%) DNS
6 24 (0.60%) SSH
7 19 (0.48%) SSL
8 17 (0.43%) Wireless
9 15 (0.38%) Broadband
9 15 (0.38%) MPLS
10 14 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.33%) BGP
11 13 (0.33%) Internet
12 12 (0.30%) DHCP
12 12 (0.30%) TCP/IP
13 11 (0.28%) HTTP
14 10 (0.25%) OSPF
14 10 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (5.78%) Power BI
2 78 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (1.53%) Tableau
4 56 (1.41%) Metadata
5 40 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 30 (0.75%) Power Query
7 29 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 27 (0.68%) BigQuery
9 23 (0.58%) Oracle Database
10 22 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (0.53%) NoSQL
12 20 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (0.48%) SQL Server
14 18 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
15 17 (0.43%) DynamoDB
16 16 (0.40%) RDBMS
17 15 (0.38%) MySQL
18 14 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
19 12 (0.30%) Big Data
19 12 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 459 (11.54%) JIRA
2 80 (2.01%) Git
2 80 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 57 (1.43%) GitLab
4 32 (0.80%) Selenium
5 22 (0.55%) JUnit
6 18 (0.45%) Maven
7 17 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.23%) Gradle
10 8 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
10 8 (0.20%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.18%) MLflow
12 6 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.15%) Mockito
13 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.13%) Postman
13 5 (0.13%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.13%) SonarLint
General
1 2,128 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 1,258 (31.62%) Finance
3 645 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 402 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 349 (8.77%) Banking
6 187 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
7 176 (4.42%) Retail
8 168 (4.22%) Legal
9 142 (3.57%) Marketing
10 123 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
11 122 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
11 122 (3.07%) Manufacturing
12 118 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
13 115 (2.89%) Telecoms
14 71 (1.78%) Front Office
15 63 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 59 (1.48%) Investment Banking
16 59 (1.48%) Law
17 56 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
18 54 (1.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 716 (18.00%) Analyst
2 586 (14.73%) Project Manager
3 516 (12.97%) Business Analyst
4 460 (11.56%) Architect
5 414 (10.41%) Lead
6 320 (8.04%) Senior
7 306 (7.69%) Consultant
8 170 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
9 135 (3.39%) Programme Manager
10 125 (3.14%) Senior Manager
11 107 (2.69%) IT Manager
12 102 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
13 86 (2.16%) Data Analyst
14 83 (2.09%) Developer
14 83 (2.09%) Product Owner
14 83 (2.09%) SAP Consultant
15 75 (1.89%) Product Manager
16 73 (1.84%) Change Manager
17 72 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
17 72 (1.81%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (1.86%) REST
2 59 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 34 (0.85%) .NET
3 34 (0.85%) Kafka
3 34 (0.85%) Middleware
4 30 (0.75%) SOAP
5 29 (0.73%) JSON
6 27 (0.68%) SailPoint
7 26 (0.65%) HTML
7 26 (0.65%) OAuth
8 22 (0.55%) Spring Boot
8 22 (0.55%) XML
9 21 (0.53%) OpenID
9 21 (0.53%) React
10 18 (0.45%) RESTful
11 16 (0.40%) CSS
11 16 (0.40%) PySpark
11 16 (0.40%) pytest
11 16 (0.40%) SAML
11 16 (0.40%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 284 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 184 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 101 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
4 99 (2.49%) Cloud Native
5 96 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 95 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 89 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 88 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 49 (1.23%) PMI
10 48 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 42 (1.06%) CMDB
11 42 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 40 (1.01%) NHS
13 36 (0.90%) Virtual Team
14 34 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
15 31 (0.78%) Reinsurance
16 29 (0.73%) Public Cloud
17 28 (0.70%) Life Science
17 28 (0.70%) Operational Technology
18 27 (0.68%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 124 (3.12%) Windows
2 69 (1.73%) Linux
3 36 (0.90%) Unix
4 22 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 20 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.30%) VMS
9 7 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.15%) Solaris
11 5 (0.13%) Android
12 4 (0.10%) CentOS
12 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.025%) AIX
14 1 (0.025%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (31.60%) Agile
2 731 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
3 603 (15.16%) Project Management
4 554 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 550 (13.83%) Migration
6 549 (13.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 485 (12.19%) Roadmaps
8 451 (11.34%) Change Management
9 439 (11.04%) Project Delivery
10 358 (9.00%) Decision-Making
11 343 (8.62%) Risk Management
12 339 (8.52%) Analytics
13 333 (8.37%) DevOps
14 326 (8.20%) Scrum
15 300 (7.54%) Workshop Facilitation
16 289 (7.26%) Requirements Gathering
17 287 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
18 279 (7.01%) ITIL
19 272 (6.84%) Cybersecurity
20 269 (6.76%) AI
Programming Languages
1 282 (7.09%) SQL
2 278 (6.99%) Python
3 89 (2.24%) Java
4 83 (2.09%) PowerShell
5 51 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.06%) C#
7 38 (0.96%) Bash
8 25 (0.63%) VBA
9 22 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 21 (0.53%) R
11 19 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 17 (0.43%) ABAP
13 14 (0.35%) Korn
14 9 (0.23%) Perl
15 8 (0.20%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.18%) Bicep
16 7 (0.18%) C++
16 7 (0.18%) VB
17 5 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 636 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 474 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 388 (9.75%) Degree
4 201 (5.05%) PMI Certification
5 188 (4.73%) PMP
6 101 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 70 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (1.73%) CISSP
10 63 (1.58%) Master's Degree
11 42 (1.06%) CISM
12 37 (0.93%) Azure Certification
13 31 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 29 (0.73%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.68%) CBAP
16 25 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
17 24 (0.60%) ACCA
17 24 (0.60%) ISTQB
18 23 (0.58%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (5.86%) QA
2 231 (5.81%) GDPR
3 137 (3.44%) PMO
4 135 (3.39%) Data Quality
5 123 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 107 (2.69%) NIST
7 56 (1.41%) GRC
8 52 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 47 (1.18%) Accessibility
10 46 (1.16%) SLA
11 40 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.53%) IFRS
13 20 (0.50%) COBIT
13 20 (0.50%) NCSC
14 18 (0.45%) HIPAA
15 17 (0.43%) MiFID
16 16 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
16 16 (0.40%) WCAG
17 15 (0.38%) PSD2
18 14 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 88 (2.21%) Docker
2 73 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.18%) vSphere
6 6 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.10%) NDS
7 4 (0.10%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 3 (0.075%) NFS
8 3 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.050%) Firmware
9 2 (0.050%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.025%) IAG
10 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.025%) SRDF
10 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.025%) XenApp
10 1 (0.025%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 122 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 110 (2.77%) Terraform
3 46 (1.16%) Ansible
4 30 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.60%) Grafana
6 23 (0.58%) SCCM
7 18 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.33%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.25%) HP ALM
11 9 (0.23%) Kibana
12 6 (0.15%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.15%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.13%) Argo
13 5 (0.13%) Puppet
13 5 (0.13%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.10%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.10%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.10%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.075%) Nessus
Vendors
1 510 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 393 (9.88%) SAP
3 225 (5.66%) Oracle
4 169 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 146 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 101 (2.54%) Workday
7 85 (2.14%) Google
8 64 (1.61%) Databricks
9 55 (1.38%) Ariba
10 51 (1.28%) IBM
11 49 (1.23%) VMware
12 42 (1.06%) Cisco
13 34 (0.85%) Fortinet
14 30 (0.75%) Splunk
15 28 (0.70%) Adobe
15 28 (0.70%) MuleSoft
16 26 (0.65%) Citrix
17 24 (0.60%) F5
18 23 (0.58%) Informatica
19 22 (0.55%) Red Hat