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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,239 2,351 2,868
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.67% 9.56% 7.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.52% 10.49% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,918 1,610 2,017
10th Percentile £363 £363 £362
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 67 77
10th Percentile £16.15 £35.00 £14.68
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.59 £30.16
Median hourly rate £48.00 £60.00 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.48% +0.80%
75th Percentile £80.07 £75.00 £72.33
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.24 £85.26
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.50% +9.09% -2.54%

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 33,845 22,404 32,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 91.08% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,654 14,697 21,192
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,105 910 2,231
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.70 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.22
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 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
London +7 2,177 £550 -4.35% 458
North of England -2 621 £475 -7.21% 161
South East +4 513 £572 +14.30% 336
Midlands -2 489 £485 -3.00% 127
West Midlands -2 326 £491 -6.48% 83
North West -3 305 £465 -10.06% 85
Yorkshire +8 288 £500 - 64
South West +26 234 £550 +0.92% 65
East Midlands +4 159 £463 +3.12% 43
East of England -2 123 £550 -8.33% 70
North East -7 45 £440 -20.00% 14
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
1 290 (6.84%) Confluence
2 121 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.83%) CMS
4 34 (0.80%) SAS
5 30 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.38%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 8 (0.19%) TPMS
10 7 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.094%) Camunda
13 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.047%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 221 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
3 110 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 109 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
5 77 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.17%) Sketch
10 6 (0.14%) Revit
11 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.094%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.094%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.047%) InVision
13 2 (0.047%) Windchill
14 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 129 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.54%) Aladdin
5 18 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 15 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 15 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 13 (0.31%) Endur
8 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
10 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
11 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 10 (0.24%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 609 (14.37%) Azure
2 440 (10.38%) AWS
3 234 (5.52%) Power Platform
4 183 (4.32%) GCP
5 129 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
6 117 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
7 116 (2.74%) SaaS
8 87 (2.05%) Entra ID
9 57 (1.34%) Snowflake
10 55 (1.30%) OCI
11 53 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (1.11%) OpenShift
13 43 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 43 (1.01%) GitHub
14 41 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
15 38 (0.90%) Power Automate
16 37 (0.87%) Figma
17 34 (0.80%) Amazon S3
17 34 (0.80%) Serverless
18 33 (0.78%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.42%) Firewall
1 60 (1.42%) Network Security
2 54 (1.27%) WAN
3 39 (0.92%) LAN
4 34 (0.80%) SD-WAN
5 32 (0.75%) DNS
6 28 (0.66%) VPN
7 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (0.52%) BGP
9 20 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.45%) OSPF
11 16 (0.38%) MPLS
11 16 (0.38%) SSL
12 12 (0.28%) DHCP
12 12 (0.28%) NGFW
12 12 (0.28%) Wireless
13 11 (0.26%) BIG-IP
13 11 (0.26%) Broadband
13 11 (0.26%) SAN
13 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (4.74%) Power BI
2 90 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (1.84%) Metadata
4 64 (1.51%) Tableau
5 45 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 39 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
8 30 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 24 (0.57%) NoSQL
11 21 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.50%) Power Query
12 19 (0.45%) Big Data
13 17 (0.40%) DynamoDB
14 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
15 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
16 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (0.33%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.28%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 507 (11.96%) JIRA
2 75 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.53%) Git
4 36 (0.85%) GitLab
5 29 (0.68%) Selenium
6 24 (0.57%) JUnit
7 16 (0.38%) Postman
8 15 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 12 (0.28%) Maven
9 12 (0.28%) MLflow
9 12 (0.28%) SpecFlow
10 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.26%) JMeter
11 10 (0.24%) Mockito
11 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
12 8 (0.19%) jMock
12 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
General
1 2,130 (50.25%) Social Skills
2 1,488 (35.10%) Finance
3 662 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
4 455 (10.73%) Public Sector
5 412 (9.72%) Banking
6 211 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
7 194 (4.58%) Retail
8 170 (4.01%) Legal
9 151 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
10 137 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
11 135 (3.18%) Marketing
12 120 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
13 108 (2.55%) Telecoms
14 106 (2.50%) Manufacturing
15 77 (1.82%) Financial Institution
16 63 (1.49%) Local Government
17 60 (1.42%) Front Office
18 55 (1.30%) Law
19 46 (1.09%) Investment Banking
20 43 (1.01%) Billing
Job Titles
1 715 (16.87%) Analyst
2 639 (15.07%) Project Manager
3 585 (13.80%) Lead
4 530 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 467 (11.02%) Architect
6 432 (10.19%) Senior
7 198 (4.67%) Consultant
8 185 (4.36%) Senior Manager
9 179 (4.22%) Programme Manager
10 168 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
11 140 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
12 131 (3.09%) IT Manager
13 91 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
13 91 (2.15%) Senior Project Manager
14 89 (2.10%) Change Manager
15 83 (1.96%) Technical Manager
16 81 (1.91%) Product Manager
17 79 (1.86%) Data Analyst
18 78 (1.84%) Test Manager
19 74 (1.75%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (2.62%) REST
2 81 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.70%) Middleware
4 58 (1.37%) SOAP
5 36 (0.85%) .NET
6 35 (0.83%) OAuth
7 33 (0.78%) JSON
8 32 (0.75%) Kafka
8 32 (0.75%) XML
9 28 (0.66%) OpenID
9 28 (0.66%) SAML
10 26 (0.61%) RESTful
10 26 (0.61%) Web Services
11 25 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 23 (0.54%) React
12 23 (0.54%) Spring
12 23 (0.54%) Swagger
13 21 (0.50%) Playwright
14 20 (0.47%) CSS
14 20 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 330 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 210 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 137 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 128 (3.02%) Cloud Native
5 114 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
6 108 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 85 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 75 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 73 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 57 (1.34%) Virtual Team
11 54 (1.27%) NHS
12 53 (1.25%) PMI
13 46 (1.09%) Public Cloud
14 44 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (0.97%) Operational Technology
16 34 (0.80%) FMCG
17 33 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
18 30 (0.71%) CMDB
19 29 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
19 29 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (2.90%) Windows
2 65 (1.53%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Android
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 21 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.45%) Unix
5 19 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.26%) VMS
8 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.12%) Solaris
10 3 (0.071%) AIX
11 2 (0.047%) CentOS
11 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.047%) zOS
12 1 (0.024%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.024%) HPUX
12 1 (0.024%) MVS
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,369 (32.30%) Agile
2 684 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
3 663 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 649 (15.31%) Migration
5 644 (15.19%) Project Management
6 542 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 530 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 517 (12.20%) Change Management
9 480 (11.32%) Decision-Making
10 461 (10.88%) DevOps
10 461 (10.88%) Project Delivery
11 414 (9.77%) Risk Management
12 388 (9.15%) Analytics
13 365 (8.61%) User Acceptance Testing
14 351 (8.28%) AI
15 346 (8.16%) Scrum
16 342 (8.07%) Validation
17 336 (7.93%) Workshop Facilitation
18 316 (7.45%) Requirements Gathering
19 306 (7.22%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 331 (7.81%) SQL
2 235 (5.54%) Python
3 90 (2.12%) Java
4 74 (1.75%) PowerShell
5 53 (1.25%) C#
6 50 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 29 (0.68%) Bash
8 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.54%) VBA
9 17 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.38%) Korn
10 16 (0.38%) R
11 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
15 7 (0.17%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 857 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 653 (15.40%) SC Cleared
3 355 (8.37%) Degree
4 225 (5.31%) PMP
5 212 (5.00%) PMI Certification
6 111 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 106 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 67 (1.58%) CISSP
9 64 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 60 (1.42%) Master's Degree
11 49 (1.16%) CISM
12 41 (0.97%) Azure Certification
13 34 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.66%) CBAP
15 27 (0.64%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.59%) IIBA
17 24 (0.57%) APMP
18 23 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
19 22 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
19 22 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (6.72%) QA
2 231 (5.45%) GDPR
3 209 (4.93%) Data Quality
4 191 (4.51%) PMO
5 160 (3.77%) NIST
6 137 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 72 (1.70%) GRC
8 68 (1.60%) SLA
9 53 (1.25%) PCI DSS
10 48 (1.13%) Accessibility
11 41 (0.97%) NCSC
12 35 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.68%) COBIT
13 29 (0.68%) IFRS
14 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.42%) IFRS 17
16 17 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.38%) HL7
18 14 (0.33%) Basel III
18 14 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 93 (2.19%) Docker
2 69 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.24%) Postfix
5 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.19%) NFS
7 7 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.094%) SRDF
10 3 (0.071%) HDFS
10 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.071%) Varnish
11 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.024%) NLBS
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.024%) RACF
Systems Management
1 130 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 79 (1.86%) Terraform
3 51 (1.20%) Ansible
4 45 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.80%) Grafana
6 25 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.47%) SCCM
9 11 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.094%) Istio
13 3 (0.071%) Control-M
13 3 (0.071%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 475 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 352 (8.30%) SAP
3 249 (5.87%) Oracle
4 194 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 172 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 94 (2.22%) Google
7 74 (1.75%) Databricks
8 73 (1.72%) VMware
8 73 (1.72%) Workday
9 46 (1.09%) Splunk
10 44 (1.04%) Cisco
11 39 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 35 (0.83%) Ariba
13 33 (0.78%) IBM
13 33 (0.78%) MuleSoft
14 29 (0.68%) Citrix
15 28 (0.66%) Adobe
16 26 (0.61%) Atlassian
16 26 (0.61%) Informatica
17 24 (0.57%) Red Hat