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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 26
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 +6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 161 55 45
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 14.60% 9.60% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.72% 11.11% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 47 38
10th Percentile £313 £356 £298
25th Percentile £395 £388 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £447 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.03% -6.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £516 £575
90th Percentile £643 £580 £617
England median daily rate £533 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £12.86 - -
25th Percentile £12.91 - -
Median hourly rate £13.06 £37.02 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.72% +105.67% -43.75%
75th Percentile £19.65 - -
90th Percentile £31.28 - -
England median hourly rate £49.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.78% -4.17% +13.27%

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 860 495 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.97% 86.39% 78.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 329 414
10th Percentile £200 £211 £200
25th Percentile £388 £322 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £433 £419
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +3.35% -9.51%
75th Percentile £544 £523 £550
90th Percentile £619 £590 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 36 55
10th Percentile £13.53 £13.81 £11.24
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.20 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +18.79% -17.69%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £31.15 £37.99 £35.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%

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 18 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the East Midlands

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 18 May 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 +7 73 £455 +16.37% 10
Nottinghamshire +5 48 £525 -2.33% 17
Derbyshire -3 14 £488 +2.63% 5
Leicestershire 0 9 £500 +5.26% 12
Lincolnshire -6 9 £553 +10.50% 4
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 27 (16.77%) Confluence
2 9 (5.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (8.70%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (7.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.48%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (14.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.24%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.24%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.62%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.62%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.15%) Azure
2 23 (14.29%) Google Workspace
3 20 (12.42%) Power Platform
4 19 (11.80%) Google Sheets
5 17 (10.56%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (7.45%) AWS
7 10 (6.21%) Entra ID
7 10 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.73%) GCP
9 6 (3.73%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (3.11%) Azure AKS
10 5 (3.11%) SaaS
11 3 (1.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.86%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 3 (1.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.24%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.62%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.62%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.97%) Network Security
2 3 (1.86%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.62%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.56%) Power BI
2 8 (4.97%) Tableau
3 3 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.24%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.24%) Power Query
4 2 (1.24%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.62%) Big Data
5 1 (0.62%) Metadata
5 1 (0.62%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (17.39%) JIRA
2 5 (3.11%) Git
3 4 (2.48%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.48%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.48%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.86%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.86%) Hudson
4 3 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 95 (59.01%) Social Skills
2 72 (44.72%) Finance
3 30 (18.63%) Public Sector
4 28 (17.39%) Banking
5 27 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.59%) Local Government
6 9 (5.59%) Marketing
6 9 (5.59%) Retail
6 9 (5.59%) Retail Banking
7 6 (3.73%) Corporate Banking
7 6 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Aviation
9 3 (1.86%) Law
10 2 (1.24%) Billing
10 2 (1.24%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.24%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (22.98%) Architect
2 25 (15.53%) Lead
3 22 (13.66%) Analyst
4 20 (12.42%) Programme Manager
4 20 (12.42%) Project Manager
4 20 (12.42%) Senior
4 20 (12.42%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (9.32%) Business Analyst
6 11 (6.83%) Consultant
7 8 (4.97%) Workstream Lead
8 7 (4.35%) Payments Architect
8 7 (4.35%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.35%) SAP Architect
8 7 (4.35%) SAP Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (3.73%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (3.73%) Senior Manager
10 5 (3.11%) Desktop Technician
10 5 (3.11%) Salesforce Architect
10 5 (3.11%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.73%) Middleware
2 4 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.86%) ADO
3 3 (1.86%) CSS
3 3 (1.86%) HTML
3 3 (1.86%) J2EE
3 3 (1.86%) OAuth
3 3 (1.86%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.86%) OpenID
3 3 (1.86%) OSGi
3 3 (1.86%) RESTful
3 3 (1.86%) SAML
3 3 (1.86%) VML
4 2 (1.24%) REST
5 1 (0.62%) CSS3
5 1 (0.62%) Express.js
5 1 (0.62%) HTML5
5 1 (0.62%) ISPF
5 1 (0.62%) Node.js
5 1 (0.62%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.01%) Product Ownership
2 21 (13.04%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.97%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.97%) PMI
4 5 (3.11%) Smartphone
5 4 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.86%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.86%) EMV
6 3 (1.86%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.24%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.24%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.24%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Life Science
8 1 (0.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.97%) Windows
2 7 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 5 (3.11%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.86%) Linux
4 3 (1.86%) Unix
5 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.62%) MVS
6 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.62%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (30.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 47 (29.19%) Agile
3 44 (27.33%) Change Management
4 39 (24.22%) Migration
5 33 (20.50%) Regulatory Compliance
6 32 (19.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (18.01%) Analytics
8 27 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (16.15%) Risk Management
10 25 (15.53%) User Experience
10 25 (15.53%) Workshop Facilitation
11 22 (13.66%) DevOps
11 22 (13.66%) Programme Management
12 21 (13.04%) Dashboard Development
13 20 (12.42%) Roadmaps
13 20 (12.42%) Scrum
14 19 (11.80%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (11.80%) Data Analysis
14 19 (11.80%) Project Delivery
14 19 (11.80%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.25%) SQL
2 9 (5.59%) Java
3 4 (2.48%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.86%) Bicep
4 3 (1.86%) Python
4 3 (1.86%) VBA
5 2 (1.24%) Bash
5 2 (1.24%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.62%) C#
6 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.62%) JCL
6 1 (0.62%) REXX
Qualifications
1 35 (21.74%) Degree
2 14 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (7.45%) Security Cleared
4 11 (6.83%) PMP
5 10 (6.21%) PMI Certification
6 9 (5.59%) Master's Degree
7 6 (3.73%) MBA
7 6 (3.73%) SAFe Agilist
8 5 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.11%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.48%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.86%) CSPO
11 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.18%) QA
2 16 (9.94%) GDPR
3 10 (6.21%) GRC
4 9 (5.59%) PCI DSS
5 7 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (3.73%) Basel III
6 6 (3.73%) PMO
7 5 (3.11%) SLA
8 4 (2.48%) NIST
9 3 (1.86%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.86%) PSD2
9 3 (1.86%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.24%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.62%) COBIT
11 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.62%) IFRS
11 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (8.07%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.35%) Docker
3 2 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.24%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.62%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 10 (6.21%) Kubernetes
1 10 (6.21%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.35%) SCCM
3 4 (2.48%) Ansible
3 4 (2.48%) Istio
3 4 (2.48%) Puppet
4 3 (1.86%) Terraform
5 1 (0.62%) Control-M
Vendors
1 27 (16.77%) Google
2 26 (16.15%) SAP
3 25 (15.53%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.59%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.48%) Splunk
6 4 (2.48%) VMware
7 3 (1.86%) Adobe
7 3 (1.86%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.24%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.24%) Citrix
8 2 (1.24%) Concur
8 2 (1.24%) Databricks
8 2 (1.24%) Sparx
9 1 (0.62%) BMC
9 1 (0.62%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.62%) JDA
9 1 (0.62%) Laserfiche
9 1 (0.62%) Oracle