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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,287 2,414 2,752
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.45% 9.92% 7.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.34% 10.88% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,916 1,665 1,957
10th Percentile £366 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 65 79
10th Percentile £17.18 £34.78 £14.90
25th Percentile £31.25 £41.54 £30.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +13.78%
75th Percentile £80.04 £73.75 £73.72
90th Percentile £97.25 £77.75 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £55.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.55% -7.92% +13.78%

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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +4 2,173 £550 -4.35% 830
North of England -2 649 £488 -3.27% 280
Midlands +2 516 £492 -1.60% 173
South East +1 508 £550 +6.28% 377
West Midlands 0 347 £492 -6.29% 118
Yorkshire +10 310 £500 - 98
North West -4 310 £475 -6.86% 154
South West +19 246 £550 +3.53% 110
East Midlands +7 163 £465 +4.03% 53
East of England -2 122 £525 -4.55% 99
North East -7 49 £450 -16.67% 30
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
1 288 (6.72%) Confluence
2 127 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.86%) CMS
4 36 (0.84%) SAS
5 24 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.33%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.16%) TPMS
10 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.093%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.093%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
13 3 (0.070%) Camunda
13 3 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.070%) nginx
13 3 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.070%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.047%) WordPress
Applications
1 207 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
3 113 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 78 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Revit
10 6 (0.14%) Sketch
11 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.093%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.093%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.047%) Notion
14 1 (0.023%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.023%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.023%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.54%) Aladdin
5 22 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 20 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 14 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 14 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 14 (0.33%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.26%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 11 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
11 9 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
12 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 630 (14.70%) Azure
2 464 (10.82%) AWS
3 238 (5.55%) Power Platform
4 177 (4.13%) GCP
5 135 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
6 122 (2.85%) SaaS
7 108 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 83 (1.94%) Entra ID
9 58 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (1.35%) Snowflake
10 49 (1.14%) GitHub
11 47 (1.10%) OCI
12 46 (1.07%) OpenShift
13 43 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 41 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
15 40 (0.93%) Figma
16 39 (0.91%) Amazon S3
17 37 (0.86%) Serverless
18 36 (0.84%) Power Automate
19 33 (0.77%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.45%) Network Security
2 60 (1.40%) Firewall
3 50 (1.17%) WAN
4 37 (0.86%) LAN
5 31 (0.72%) DNS
6 29 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 24 (0.56%) VPN
7 24 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.44%) BGP
10 16 (0.37%) OSPF
11 15 (0.35%) MPLS
12 13 (0.30%) NGFW
13 11 (0.26%) Intranet
13 11 (0.26%) SAN
13 11 (0.26%) SSH
13 11 (0.26%) SSL
13 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
13 11 (0.26%) Wireless
14 10 (0.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (4.55%) Power BI
2 89 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (1.77%) Metadata
4 58 (1.35%) Tableau
5 46 (1.07%) SQL Server
6 41 (0.96%) Data Lake
7 30 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
9 27 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 22 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.49%) NoSQL
13 20 (0.47%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.44%) Big Data
15 18 (0.42%) Delta Lake
16 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
16 14 (0.33%) Power Query
17 13 (0.30%) Oracle Database
18 12 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 505 (11.78%) JIRA
2 77 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 67 (1.56%) Git
4 41 (0.96%) GitLab
5 26 (0.61%) Selenium
6 23 (0.54%) JUnit
7 18 (0.42%) Postman
8 17 (0.40%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.30%) Maven
10 12 (0.28%) MLflow
11 11 (0.26%) JMeter
12 10 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.23%) Mockito
12 10 (0.23%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.21%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 8 (0.19%) jMock
15 7 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 2,125 (49.57%) Social Skills
2 1,535 (35.81%) Finance
3 631 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 475 (11.08%) Public Sector
5 415 (9.68%) Banking
6 209 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 207 (4.83%) Retail
8 173 (4.04%) Legal
9 150 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
10 140 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
11 136 (3.17%) Marketing
12 116 (2.71%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 101 (2.36%) Telecoms
15 73 (1.70%) Financial Institution
16 70 (1.63%) Local Government
17 57 (1.33%) Law
18 52 (1.21%) Front Office
19 50 (1.17%) Billing
20 48 (1.12%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 694 (16.19%) Analyst
2 654 (15.26%) Project Manager
3 592 (13.81%) Lead
4 507 (11.83%) Business Analyst
5 475 (11.08%) Architect
6 455 (10.61%) Senior
7 201 (4.69%) Senior Manager
8 198 (4.62%) Consultant
9 172 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
10 167 (3.90%) Programme Manager
11 142 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
12 131 (3.06%) IT Manager
13 101 (2.36%) Senior Project Manager
14 95 (2.22%) Product Manager
15 88 (2.05%) Technical Manager
16 86 (2.01%) Product Owner
17 82 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
18 79 (1.84%) Change Manager
19 75 (1.75%) IT Project Manager
20 72 (1.68%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (2.54%) REST
2 78 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 75 (1.75%) Middleware
4 57 (1.33%) SOAP
5 35 (0.82%) .NET
6 31 (0.72%) JSON
6 31 (0.72%) OAuth
7 28 (0.65%) Kafka
7 28 (0.65%) RESTful
8 27 (0.63%) AngularJS
8 27 (0.63%) OpenID
8 27 (0.63%) Web Services
8 27 (0.63%) XML
9 25 (0.58%) Spring
10 24 (0.56%) React
10 24 (0.56%) SAML
11 21 (0.49%) ADO
12 20 (0.47%) CSS
12 20 (0.47%) SailPoint
12 20 (0.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 334 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 201 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 141 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
4 136 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 117 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 113 (2.64%) Management Information System
7 88 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 78 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 69 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 62 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 47 (1.10%) Operational Technology
12 46 (1.07%) PMI
13 45 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 43 (1.00%) NHS
15 42 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
16 36 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
17 34 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
18 30 (0.70%) CMDB
19 29 (0.68%) AI Agents
19 29 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 121 (2.82%) Windows
2 63 (1.47%) Linux
3 29 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.65%) Android
5 20 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.40%) Unix
7 14 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.16%) VMS
11 4 (0.093%) AIX
12 3 (0.070%) Solaris
12 3 (0.070%) zOS
13 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.023%) CentOS
14 1 (0.023%) HPUX
14 1 (0.023%) MVS
14 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,411 (32.91%) Agile
2 657 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 654 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
4 648 (15.12%) Project Management
5 638 (14.88%) Migration
6 549 (12.81%) Roadmaps
7 535 (12.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 507 (11.83%) Change Management
9 488 (11.38%) DevOps
10 485 (11.31%) Decision-Making
11 452 (10.54%) Project Delivery
12 410 (9.56%) Risk Management
13 391 (9.12%) Analytics
14 364 (8.49%) User Acceptance Testing
15 355 (8.28%) AI
16 348 (8.12%) Scrum
17 342 (7.98%) Validation
18 324 (7.56%) CI/CD
19 322 (7.51%) Workshop Facilitation
20 315 (7.35%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 333 (7.77%) SQL
2 224 (5.23%) Python
3 85 (1.98%) Java
4 62 (1.45%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.05%) C#
6 44 (1.03%) JavaScript
7 27 (0.63%) Bash
8 24 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.44%) VBA
10 16 (0.37%) Korn
11 13 (0.30%) R
12 12 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
15 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 880 (20.53%) Security Cleared
2 678 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 340 (7.93%) Degree
4 234 (5.46%) PMP
5 213 (4.97%) PMI Certification
6 118 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 105 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 77 (1.80%) CISSP
9 58 (1.35%) CISM
10 52 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 49 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 45 (1.05%) Azure Certification
13 39 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.68%) CBAP
15 28 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.65%) IIBA
16 27 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
17 22 (0.51%) ISTQB
17 22 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 22 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (6.18%) QA
2 221 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 204 (4.76%) GDPR
4 201 (4.69%) PMO
5 161 (3.76%) NIST
6 130 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 78 (1.82%) GRC
8 68 (1.59%) SLA
9 62 (1.45%) Accessibility
10 51 (1.19%) PCI DSS
11 43 (1.00%) NCSC
12 35 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.70%) IFRS
14 27 (0.63%) COBIT
15 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.40%) IFRS 17
17 16 (0.37%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.37%) WCAG
18 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 95 (2.22%) Docker
2 65 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Postfix
6 9 (0.21%) NFS
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.093%) SRDF
9 4 (0.093%) Varnish
10 3 (0.070%) HDFS
10 3 (0.070%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.070%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.070%) vSphere
11 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.023%) NLBS
12 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.023%) RACF
12 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 134 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 82 (1.91%) Terraform
3 54 (1.26%) Ansible
4 44 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (0.91%) Grafana
6 27 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.49%) SCCM
9 8 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
10 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.093%) Istio
11 4 (0.093%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.070%) Argo
12 3 (0.070%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.070%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.070%) vMotion
Vendors
1 483 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 355 (8.28%) SAP
3 235 (5.48%) Oracle
4 198 (4.62%) ServiceNow
5 169 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.03%) Google
7 80 (1.87%) Databricks
8 70 (1.63%) VMware
9 61 (1.42%) Workday
10 48 (1.12%) Splunk
11 41 (0.96%) Cisco
12 39 (0.91%) CyberArk
13 31 (0.72%) Ariba
14 30 (0.70%) Citrix
15 29 (0.68%) MuleSoft
16 28 (0.65%) Informatica
17 27 (0.63%) IBM
18 25 (0.58%) Atlassian
19 23 (0.54%) Adobe
19 23 (0.54%) F5