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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,443 2,369 2,764
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.64% 9.94% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.54% 10.89% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,022 1,625 1,966
10th Percentile £373 £358 £360
25th Percentile £450 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 58 82
10th Percentile £21.93 £35.59 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.50 £45.13 £30.16
Median hourly rate £52.00 £60.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +1.25% +9.43%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.69 £72.75
90th Percentile £103.70 £77.00 £85.58
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +9.43%

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 35,433 21,759 31,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 91.31% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,494 14,185 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,215 937 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
% change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 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
London +5 2,260 £550 -4.35% 1,116
North of England -1 682 £494 -1.20% 321
Midlands +3 535 £491 -1.80% 201
South East 0 516 £550 +4.76% 411
West Midlands +1 362 £500 -4.76% 143
Yorkshire +10 329 £500 +2.04% 97
North West -1 323 £475 -5.94% 192
South West +19 252 £550 +4.76% 117
East Midlands +12 166 £463 +3.47% 57
East of England -3 122 £530 -11.67% 105
North East -5 51 £450 -13.25% 35
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
1 287 (6.46%) Confluence
2 130 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 41 (0.92%) CMS
4 38 (0.86%) SAS
5 22 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.32%) Appian
7 12 (0.27%) Apache
8 11 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.14%) WordPress
12 5 (0.11%) TPMS
13 4 (0.090%) Apache Spark
13 4 (0.090%) Kentico
14 3 (0.068%) Camunda
14 3 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.068%) nginx
14 3 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 216 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (3.11%) Microsoft Project
3 115 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
4 113 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 79 (1.78%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.18%) Revit
8 8 (0.18%) Trello
9 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.090%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.090%) Sketch
11 2 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.045%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.045%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) InVision
12 1 (0.023%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.023%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.023%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 137 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 56 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 23 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
6 14 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.27%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.25%) SAP HCM
10 10 (0.23%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.20%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.18%) Endur
13 7 (0.16%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 667 (15.01%) Azure
2 474 (10.67%) AWS
3 251 (5.65%) Power Platform
4 181 (4.07%) GCP
5 144 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (2.97%) SaaS
7 109 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
8 89 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.42%) Snowflake
10 57 (1.28%) GitHub
11 52 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.04%) OCI
13 44 (0.99%) OpenShift
14 43 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 43 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
15 42 (0.95%) Amazon S3
16 40 (0.90%) Serverless
17 37 (0.83%) Figma
18 36 (0.81%) Google Workspace
19 34 (0.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.44%) Firewall
2 63 (1.42%) Network Security
3 52 (1.17%) WAN
4 39 (0.88%) LAN
5 34 (0.77%) DNS
6 27 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 27 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (0.52%) VPN
8 22 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.45%) BGP
10 17 (0.38%) OSPF
11 16 (0.36%) MPLS
12 14 (0.32%) NGFW
13 13 (0.29%) DHCP
14 12 (0.27%) BIG-IP
14 12 (0.27%) Intranet
14 12 (0.27%) SAN
14 12 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
14 12 (0.27%) Wireless
15 10 (0.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (4.64%) Power BI
2 90 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 83 (1.87%) Metadata
4 62 (1.40%) Tableau
5 53 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 46 (1.04%) Data Lake
7 33 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
10 24 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 23 (0.52%) Relational Database
12 21 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.47%) DynamoDB
13 19 (0.43%) Big Data
14 18 (0.41%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
15 16 (0.36%) Oracle Database
16 15 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
17 14 (0.32%) Power Query
18 12 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 514 (11.57%) JIRA
2 78 (1.76%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.46%) Git
4 41 (0.92%) GitLab
5 26 (0.59%) Selenium
6 25 (0.56%) JUnit
7 18 (0.41%) Postman
8 16 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.32%) Maven
10 12 (0.27%) JMeter
10 12 (0.27%) Mockito
11 11 (0.25%) MLflow
12 10 (0.23%) DbUnit
13 9 (0.20%) jMock
13 9 (0.20%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.18%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.16%) Bitbucket Server
15 7 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 2,207 (49.67%) Social Skills
2 1,583 (35.63%) Finance
3 663 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 497 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 429 (9.66%) Banking
6 220 (4.95%) Retail
7 212 (4.77%) Influencing Skills
8 191 (4.30%) Legal
9 160 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
10 155 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
11 137 (3.08%) Marketing
12 119 (2.68%) Manufacturing
13 104 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 99 (2.23%) Telecoms
15 78 (1.76%) Local Government
16 73 (1.64%) Financial Institution
17 57 (1.28%) Law
18 55 (1.24%) Aerospace
19 53 (1.19%) Billing
19 53 (1.19%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 705 (15.87%) Analyst
2 677 (15.24%) Project Manager
3 631 (14.20%) Lead
4 510 (11.48%) Business Analyst
5 505 (11.37%) Architect
6 471 (10.60%) Senior
7 211 (4.75%) Senior Manager
8 201 (4.52%) Consultant
9 184 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
10 167 (3.76%) Programme Manager
11 150 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
12 137 (3.08%) IT Manager
13 110 (2.48%) Senior Project Manager
14 94 (2.12%) Product Manager
14 94 (2.12%) Product Owner
15 90 (2.03%) Technical Manager
16 87 (1.96%) Change Manager
17 85 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
18 81 (1.82%) IT Project Manager
19 73 (1.64%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (2.54%) REST
2 79 (1.78%) Middleware
3 78 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 58 (1.31%) SOAP
5 43 (0.97%) .NET
6 37 (0.83%) OAuth
7 33 (0.74%) JSON
8 31 (0.70%) OpenID
8 31 (0.70%) RESTful
9 30 (0.68%) Web Services
10 29 (0.65%) Kafka
10 29 (0.65%) XML
11 27 (0.61%) AngularJS
11 27 (0.61%) Spring
12 26 (0.59%) SAML
13 24 (0.54%) React
14 23 (0.52%) CSS
15 22 (0.50%) PySpark
16 21 (0.47%) ADO
16 21 (0.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 354 (7.97%) Product Ownership
2 207 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 147 (3.31%) Cloud Native
4 143 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
5 122 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 116 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
7 99 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 80 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 72 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 68 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 52 (1.17%) Operational Technology
12 49 (1.10%) NHS
13 47 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 47 (1.06%) Public Cloud
14 44 (0.99%) PMI
15 42 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
16 36 (0.81%) Security Posture
16 36 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (0.77%) AI Agents
18 32 (0.72%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 129 (2.90%) Windows
2 71 (1.60%) Linux
3 29 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.63%) Android
5 20 (0.45%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.38%) Unix
7 17 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.16%) VMS
10 4 (0.090%) AIX
10 4 (0.090%) zOS
11 3 (0.068%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.068%) Solaris
12 2 (0.045%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.045%) HPUX
12 2 (0.045%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.023%) MVS
13 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,455 (32.75%) Agile
2 697 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 672 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
4 658 (14.81%) Project Management
5 644 (14.49%) Migration
6 580 (13.05%) Roadmaps
7 569 (12.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 515 (11.59%) Change Management
9 514 (11.57%) DevOps
10 509 (11.46%) Decision-Making
11 487 (10.96%) Project Delivery
12 426 (9.59%) Risk Management
13 420 (9.45%) Analytics
14 379 (8.53%) AI
15 366 (8.24%) User Acceptance Testing
16 354 (7.97%) Scrum
17 352 (7.92%) Validation
18 340 (7.65%) CI/CD
19 327 (7.36%) Workshop Facilitation
20 326 (7.34%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 354 (7.97%) SQL
2 236 (5.31%) Python
3 92 (2.07%) Java
4 68 (1.53%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.01%) JavaScript
6 44 (0.99%) C#
7 32 (0.72%) Bash
8 21 (0.47%) TypeScript
8 21 (0.47%) VBA
9 16 (0.36%) Korn
10 13 (0.29%) PL/SQL
10 13 (0.29%) R
11 12 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.23%) Bicep
13 9 (0.20%) ABAP
13 9 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.20%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.18%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 908 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 708 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 343 (7.72%) Degree
4 236 (5.31%) PMP
5 209 (4.70%) PMI Certification
6 123 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 106 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 91 (2.05%) CISSP
9 67 (1.51%) CISM
10 53 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 45 (1.01%) Master's Degree
13 39 (0.88%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.63%) CBAP
15 28 (0.63%) IIBA
16 26 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
17 25 (0.56%) ACCA
18 24 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 23 (0.52%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (5.87%) QA
2 233 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 218 (4.91%) PMO
4 202 (4.55%) GDPR
5 160 (3.60%) NIST
6 133 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 77 (1.73%) GRC
8 73 (1.64%) SLA
9 65 (1.46%) Accessibility
10 52 (1.17%) PCI DSS
11 50 (1.13%) NCSC
12 37 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.74%) IFRS
14 28 (0.63%) COBIT
14 28 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.41%) JSP 440
16 17 (0.38%) IFRS 17
16 17 (0.38%) WCAG
17 16 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.34%) PSD2
System Software
1 93 (2.09%) Docker
2 68 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.27%) Postfix
6 11 (0.25%) NFS
7 8 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.11%) SRDF
10 4 (0.090%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.090%) Varnish
10 4 (0.090%) vSphere
11 3 (0.068%) HDFS
11 3 (0.068%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.045%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.045%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.023%) NLBS
13 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 135 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 89 (2.00%) Terraform
3 57 (1.28%) Ansible
4 44 (0.99%) Grafana
4 44 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 28 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.47%) SCCM
8 8 (0.18%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.14%) Puppet
10 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.11%) Argo
11 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.090%) Control-M
12 4 (0.090%) EMC VPLEX
12 4 (0.090%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.068%) Nagios
13 3 (0.068%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 509 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 356 (8.01%) SAP
3 242 (5.45%) Oracle
4 205 (4.61%) ServiceNow
5 175 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 92 (2.07%) Google
7 80 (1.80%) Databricks
8 70 (1.58%) VMware
9 62 (1.40%) Workday
10 47 (1.06%) Splunk
11 41 (0.92%) Cisco
12 37 (0.83%) CyberArk
13 31 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 30 (0.68%) Informatica
15 29 (0.65%) Ariba
15 29 (0.65%) Citrix
16 26 (0.59%) Atlassian
16 26 (0.59%) IBM
17 24 (0.54%) F5
17 24 (0.54%) IFS