Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends in England

Stakeholder Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,752 2,504 2,723
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.09% 10.14% 7.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.03% 11.10% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 1,706 1,937
10th Percentile £375 £359 £357
25th Percentile £456 £435 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £537 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +2.29% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 63 77
10th Percentile £23.53 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £32.50 £42.02 £33.48
Median hourly rate £54.23 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% - +11.80%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.38 £74.54
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.25 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £58.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.09% -2.08% +11.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,481 22,561 31,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,067 14,578 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £302 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 1,053 2,381
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in England

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in England

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in England

Stakeholder Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
London +8 2,440 £560 -2.61% 959
North of England -1 707 £500 - 435
South East +3 578 £550 +4.76% 587
Midlands +3 530 £500 - 282
West Midlands +1 370 £500 -4.76% 162
North West 0 343 £488 -3.47% 234
Yorkshire +7 331 £500 +3.52% 137
South West +15 281 £550 +3.53% 205
East Midlands +9 153 £465 +5.08% 117
East of England 0 135 £525 -4.55% 192
North East -16 47 £475 -1.30% 67
Stakeholder Management
UK

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 289 (6.08%) Confluence
2 137 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 51 (1.07%) CMS
4 42 (0.88%) SAS
5 24 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.27%) Appian
8 12 (0.25%) Apache
9 9 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.13%) WordPress
13 5 (0.11%) Kentico
13 5 (0.11%) TPMS
14 4 (0.084%) Apache Spark
15 3 (0.063%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.063%) nginx
15 3 (0.063%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 3 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.063%) WebSphere
Applications
1 229 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
3 124 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 115 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
5 75 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.23%) Revit
8 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.084%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.084%) Trello
10 3 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.063%) Notion
10 3 (0.063%) Sketch
11 2 (0.042%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.021%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.021%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.021%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.021%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 155 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 21 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 21 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 18 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 18 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
7 15 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 14 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 13 (0.27%) SAP ERP
10 12 (0.25%) SAP CO
10 12 (0.25%) SAP FI
11 11 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
12 10 (0.21%) Loan IQ
12 10 (0.21%) SAP HCM
12 10 (0.21%) Workday HCM
13 9 (0.19%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 743 (15.64%) Azure
2 532 (11.20%) AWS
3 281 (5.91%) Power Platform
4 188 (3.96%) GCP
5 157 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
6 154 (3.24%) SaaS
7 115 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
8 98 (2.06%) Entra ID
9 74 (1.56%) Snowflake
10 64 (1.35%) GitHub
11 56 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
12 53 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
13 52 (1.09%) OCI
14 49 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 46 (0.97%) Amazon S3
15 46 (0.97%) Serverless
16 38 (0.80%) Power Automate
17 36 (0.76%) PowerApps
18 34 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
18 34 (0.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (1.60%) Network Security
2 75 (1.58%) Firewall
3 57 (1.20%) WAN
4 43 (0.90%) LAN
5 36 (0.76%) DNS
6 29 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 29 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
7 27 (0.57%) VPN
8 26 (0.55%) TCP/IP
9 22 (0.46%) BGP
10 18 (0.38%) OSPF
11 17 (0.36%) MPLS
12 16 (0.34%) DHCP
13 15 (0.32%) Wireless
14 14 (0.29%) NGFW
15 13 (0.27%) Intranet
16 12 (0.25%) BIG-IP
16 12 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
17 11 (0.23%) SAN
17 11 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (4.86%) Power BI
2 100 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (1.94%) Metadata
4 65 (1.37%) Tableau
5 59 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 57 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 38 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 27 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
11 25 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (0.51%) DynamoDB
13 20 (0.42%) Oracle Database
14 19 (0.40%) Big Data
15 18 (0.38%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
17 15 (0.32%) Power Query
18 14 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
19 13 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 527 (11.09%) JIRA
2 75 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.39%) Git
4 42 (0.88%) GitLab
5 29 (0.61%) Selenium
6 26 (0.55%) JUnit
7 20 (0.42%) Postman
8 15 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.27%) JMeter
9 13 (0.27%) Maven
10 12 (0.25%) Mockito
11 11 (0.23%) MLflow
12 10 (0.21%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.21%) DbUnit
13 9 (0.19%) jMock
14 8 (0.17%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.17%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.17%) Zephyr
15 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,364 (49.75%) Social Skills
2 1,713 (36.05%) Finance
3 716 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 547 (11.51%) Public Sector
5 456 (9.60%) Banking
6 253 (5.32%) Retail
7 221 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
8 209 (4.40%) Legal
9 176 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
10 169 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
11 151 (3.18%) Marketing
12 121 (2.55%) Manufacturing
13 118 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
14 108 (2.27%) Telecoms
15 86 (1.81%) Local Government
16 75 (1.58%) Financial Institution
16 75 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 68 (1.43%) Law
18 64 (1.35%) Aerospace
19 60 (1.26%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 743 (15.64%) Analyst
2 694 (14.60%) Project Manager
3 673 (14.16%) Lead
4 550 (11.57%) Architect
5 516 (10.86%) Business Analyst
6 497 (10.46%) Senior
7 220 (4.63%) Consultant
8 219 (4.61%) Senior Manager
9 205 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
10 173 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
11 168 (3.54%) Programme Manager
12 150 (3.16%) IT Manager
13 111 (2.34%) Senior Project Manager
14 99 (2.08%) Product Owner
15 95 (2.00%) Product Manager
16 89 (1.87%) Change Manager
16 89 (1.87%) Technical Manager
17 87 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
18 82 (1.73%) IT Project Manager
19 77 (1.62%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (2.59%) REST
2 82 (1.73%) Middleware
3 80 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
4 65 (1.37%) SOAP
5 51 (1.07%) .NET
6 44 (0.93%) OAuth
7 39 (0.82%) JSON
8 33 (0.69%) OpenID
8 33 (0.69%) RESTful
9 31 (0.65%) Kafka
9 31 (0.65%) SAML
10 30 (0.63%) AngularJS
10 30 (0.63%) CSS
10 30 (0.63%) Spring
10 30 (0.63%) Web Services
10 30 (0.63%) XML
11 29 (0.61%) SailPoint
12 26 (0.55%) HTML
12 26 (0.55%) React
13 25 (0.53%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 366 (7.70%) Product Ownership
2 231 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 164 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 154 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
5 127 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 119 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 101 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 82 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 80 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 77 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 58 (1.22%) NHS
11 58 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 53 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 51 (1.07%) Public Cloud
13 51 (1.07%) Security Posture
14 50 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
15 44 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (0.88%) PMI
17 41 (0.86%) FMCG
18 39 (0.82%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 139 (2.93%) Windows
2 78 (1.64%) Linux
3 31 (0.65%) Android
4 29 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.46%) Unix
7 21 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.15%) VMS
10 5 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.084%) AIX
11 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.084%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.084%) zOS
12 3 (0.063%) Solaris
13 2 (0.042%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.042%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.042%) HPUX
14 1 (0.021%) CentOS
14 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,552 (32.66%) Agile
2 746 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
3 719 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
4 696 (14.65%) Migration
5 667 (14.04%) Project Management
6 623 (13.11%) Roadmaps
7 620 (13.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 567 (11.93%) DevOps
9 542 (11.41%) Change Management
9 542 (11.41%) Decision-Making
10 526 (11.07%) Project Delivery
11 468 (9.85%) Analytics
12 460 (9.68%) Risk Management
13 441 (9.28%) AI
14 417 (8.78%) User Acceptance Testing
15 391 (8.23%) Validation
16 381 (8.02%) CI/CD
17 375 (7.89%) Scrum
18 360 (7.58%) Workshop Facilitation
19 350 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 385 (8.10%) SQL
2 261 (5.49%) Python
3 96 (2.02%) Java
4 69 (1.45%) PowerShell
5 51 (1.07%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.01%) C#
7 24 (0.51%) Bash
8 21 (0.44%) TypeScript
8 21 (0.44%) VBA
9 18 (0.38%) Bicep
10 17 (0.36%) Korn
11 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.27%) ABAP
13 11 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.19%) R
15 9 (0.19%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.15%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 961 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 739 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 351 (7.39%) Degree
4 253 (5.32%) PMP
5 223 (4.69%) PMI Certification
6 136 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 123 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 102 (2.15%) CISSP
9 74 (1.56%) CISM
10 71 (1.49%) Azure Certification
11 57 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 45 (0.95%) AWS Certification
14 39 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
15 30 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
15 30 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
16 28 (0.59%) ACCA
16 28 (0.59%) IIBA
17 27 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 27 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (5.72%) QA
2 261 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 243 (5.11%) PMO
4 210 (4.42%) GDPR
5 165 (3.47%) NIST
6 142 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 83 (1.75%) GRC
8 78 (1.64%) SLA
9 67 (1.41%) Accessibility
10 52 (1.09%) NCSC
11 50 (1.05%) PCI DSS
12 39 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 34 (0.72%) IFRS
14 33 (0.69%) COBIT
15 30 (0.63%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.38%) IFRS 17
16 18 (0.38%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.34%) WCAG
18 15 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 95 (2.00%) Docker
2 77 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.25%) Postfix
6 11 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.21%) NFS
8 9 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.11%) vSphere
11 4 (0.084%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.084%) SRDF
11 4 (0.084%) Varnish
12 3 (0.063%) HDFS
12 3 (0.063%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.042%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.042%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.042%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.021%) NLBS
14 1 (0.021%) RACF
Systems Management
1 138 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 109 (2.29%) Terraform
3 68 (1.43%) Ansible
4 44 (0.93%) Grafana
5 39 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.34%) SCCM
9 9 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.15%) Argo
11 7 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 7 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.11%) Puppet
13 5 (0.11%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.084%) Control-M
14 4 (0.084%) EMC VPLEX
14 4 (0.084%) vMotion
Vendors
1 574 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 383 (8.06%) SAP
3 260 (5.47%) Oracle
4 236 (4.97%) ServiceNow
5 186 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 94 (1.98%) Google
7 93 (1.96%) Databricks
8 65 (1.37%) VMware
9 64 (1.35%) Workday
10 48 (1.01%) Cisco
11 46 (0.97%) CyberArk
12 44 (0.93%) Splunk
13 34 (0.72%) Adobe
13 34 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 32 (0.67%) Ariba
15 31 (0.65%) Informatica
16 26 (0.55%) Atlassian
17 25 (0.53%) F5
17 25 (0.53%) IBM
18 24 (0.51%) Citrix