Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Stakeholder Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 9 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 158 56 46
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 14.55% 10.67% 5.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.12% 12.42% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 44 39
10th Percentile £306 £357 £303
25th Percentile £389 £405 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £449 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% -9.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £561 £511 £584
90th Percentile £594 £571 £616
England median daily rate £529 £538 £548
% change year-on-year -1.63% -1.83% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £12.84 - -
25th Percentile £12.88 - -
Median hourly rate £13.06 - £18.00
75th Percentile £13.18 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +6.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 872 451 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.29% 85.90% 78.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 295 406
10th Percentile £200 £200 £194
25th Percentile £381 £322 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £443 £417
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +6.12% -7.33%
75th Percentile £539 £525 £558
90th Percentile £600 £588 £625
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 28 57
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.41
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.97 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.82 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.91% +10.69% -8.39%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.78 £26.15
90th Percentile £31.15 £32.36 £45.79
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the East Midlands

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Stakeholder Management
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 2026. 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
Northamptonshire +2 77 £447 +11.06% 10
Nottinghamshire +1 48 £525 -2.33% 14
Derbyshire -5 12 £488 +5.41% 9
Lincolnshire -10 7 £505 +1.00% 5
Leicestershire -3 6 £357 -25.34% 10
Stakeholder Management
England

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East 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 28 (17.72%) Confluence
2 8 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (8.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.53%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (13.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.27%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 25 (15.82%) Azure
2 21 (13.29%) Google Workspace
2 21 (13.29%) Power Platform
3 19 (12.03%) Google Sheets
4 17 (10.76%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (7.59%) AWS
6 10 (6.33%) Entra ID
6 10 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.80%) GCP
8 6 (3.80%) SuccessFactors
9 5 (3.16%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.53%) SaaS
10 4 (2.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 4 (2.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (1.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.63%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.06%) Network Security
2 3 (1.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.03%) Power BI
2 8 (5.06%) Tableau
3 4 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.27%) Power Query
5 2 (1.27%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.63%) Big Data
6 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.63%) Metadata
6 1 (0.63%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.63%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.63%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 32 (20.25%) JIRA
2 5 (3.16%) Git
3 4 (2.53%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.53%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.90%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.63%) Hudson
General
1 90 (56.96%) Social Skills
2 75 (47.47%) Finance
3 31 (19.62%) Banking
3 31 (19.62%) Public Sector
4 26 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.33%) Marketing
5 10 (6.33%) Retail
5 10 (6.33%) Retail Banking
6 9 (5.70%) Local Government
7 7 (4.43%) Corporate Banking
7 7 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.16%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.90%) Aviation
11 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.27%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.27%) Law
11 2 (1.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (21.52%) Architect
2 24 (15.19%) Analyst
3 23 (14.56%) Lead
4 22 (13.92%) Project Manager
5 20 (12.66%) Senior
6 19 (12.03%) Programme Manager
7 18 (11.39%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (10.76%) Business Analyst
9 11 (6.96%) Consultant
10 8 (5.06%) Workstream Lead
11 7 (4.43%) Payments Architect
11 7 (4.43%) Payments Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.80%) Banking Project Manager
12 6 (3.80%) SAP Consultant
13 5 (3.16%) Desktop Support
13 5 (3.16%) Desktop Support Technician
13 5 (3.16%) SAP Solutions Architect
13 5 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
13 5 (3.16%) Senior Manager
13 5 (3.16%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.16%) Middleware
2 4 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.53%) VML
3 3 (1.90%) ADO
3 3 (1.90%) CSS
3 3 (1.90%) HTML
3 3 (1.90%) J2EE
3 3 (1.90%) OAuth
3 3 (1.90%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.90%) OpenID
3 3 (1.90%) OSGi
3 3 (1.90%) RESTful
3 3 (1.90%) SAML
4 2 (1.27%) REST
5 1 (0.63%) CSS3
5 1 (0.63%) Express.js
5 1 (0.63%) HTML5
5 1 (0.63%) Node.js
5 1 (0.63%) PySpark
5 1 (0.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.62%) Product Ownership
2 21 (13.29%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.70%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.70%) PMI
4 5 (3.16%) Smartphone
5 4 (2.53%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.53%) Learning Management System
5 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.90%) EMV
6 3 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.27%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.06%) Windows
2 7 (4.43%) Windows 10
3 5 (3.16%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.90%) Linux
4 3 (1.90%) Unix
5 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.63%) MVS
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.28%) Agile
2 49 (31.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 47 (29.75%) Change Management
4 37 (23.42%) Migration
5 36 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (22.15%) Regulatory Compliance
7 30 (18.99%) Analytics
8 27 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (16.46%) Risk Management
9 26 (16.46%) Workshop Facilitation
10 25 (15.82%) User Experience
11 22 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (13.92%) DevOps
12 21 (13.29%) Dashboard Development
12 21 (13.29%) Programme Management
12 21 (13.29%) Scrum
13 19 (12.03%) Data Analysis
13 19 (12.03%) Data Transformation
13 19 (12.03%) Project Delivery
13 19 (12.03%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.62%) SQL
2 10 (6.33%) Java
3 3 (1.90%) Bicep
3 3 (1.90%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.90%) Python
3 3 (1.90%) VBA
4 2 (1.27%) Bash
4 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.63%) JCL
5 1 (0.63%) REXX
Qualifications
1 35 (22.15%) Degree
2 14 (8.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (6.96%) PMP
3 11 (6.96%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.33%) Master's Degree
4 10 (6.33%) PMI Certification
5 7 (4.43%) MBA
5 7 (4.43%) SAFe Agilist
6 5 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.53%) CSPO
7 4 (2.53%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.27%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.03%) QA
2 16 (10.13%) GDPR
3 10 (6.33%) GRC
4 9 (5.70%) PCI DSS
5 8 (5.06%) PMO
6 7 (4.43%) Basel III
6 7 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (3.16%) SLA
8 4 (2.53%) NIST
9 3 (1.90%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.90%) PSD2
9 3 (1.90%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.27%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.63%) COBIT
11 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 13 (8.23%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.43%) Docker
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.63%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 10 (6.33%) Kubernetes
1 10 (6.33%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.43%) SCCM
3 4 (2.53%) Ansible
3 4 (2.53%) Istio
3 4 (2.53%) Puppet
4 3 (1.90%) Terraform
5 1 (0.63%) Control-M
Vendors
1 26 (16.46%) Google
2 24 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 23 (14.56%) SAP
4 10 (6.33%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.43%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.53%) Splunk
7 3 (1.90%) Adobe
7 3 (1.90%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.27%) Citrix
8 2 (1.27%) Databricks
8 2 (1.27%) Sparx
8 2 (1.27%) VMware
9 1 (0.63%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.63%) BMC
9 1 (0.63%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.63%) Informatica
9 1 (0.63%) Teradata
9 1 (0.63%) TSYS