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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,955 2,287 3,039
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.37% 8.85% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.03% 9.82% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 1,468 2,122
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £447 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 58 85
10th Percentile £15.25 £35.00 £19.26
25th Percentile £24.00 £39.20 £28.30
Median hourly rate £52.50 £58.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +17.50% -8.81%
75th Percentile £78.80 £68.25 £64.50
90th Percentile £95.75 £80.18 £83.29
UK median hourly rate £40.62 £57.00 £51.24
% change year-on-year -28.75% +11.25% -6.55%

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 30,350 23,294 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.25% 90.10% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,414 14,536 22,024
10th Percentile £313 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,891 752 2,034
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% - -
75th Percentile £63.32 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.48 £72.68
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +9 2,013 £550 - 447
North of England +5 580 £475 -9.52% 200
Midlands +1 518 £492 -4.47% 165
South East +6 455 £550 +4.76% 361
West Midlands 0 341 £500 -4.76% 117
North West +7 286 £450 -13.88% 131
Yorkshire +6 262 £496 -0.80% 62
South West +18 203 £550 -3.51% 71
East Midlands +10 177 £453 -3.72% 47
East of England -1 103 £550 - 56
North East -3 46 £444 -23.66% 10
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
1 283 (7.16%) Confluence
2 120 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.21%) SAS
4 36 (0.91%) CMS
4 36 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.43%) Appian
6 11 (0.28%) TPMS
7 9 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.20%) Apache
8 8 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 7 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (0.15%) Camunda
11 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.076%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.076%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.076%) nginx
12 3 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 212 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 134 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
3 114 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 76 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.40%) Trello
7 13 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.15%) Sketch
10 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.051%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.051%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.051%) InVision
12 1 (0.025%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.025%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.025%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.025%) Simulink
12 1 (0.025%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.025%) UXPin
12 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 130 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 22 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 19 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 18 (0.46%) Endur
6 16 (0.40%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
7 14 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
8 13 (0.33%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.28%) Primavera
10 11 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
11 10 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
11 10 (0.25%) SAP EWM
12 9 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
12 9 (0.23%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 580 (14.66%) Azure
2 404 (10.21%) AWS
3 246 (6.22%) Power Platform
4 168 (4.25%) GCP
5 129 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
6 112 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (2.68%) SaaS
8 87 (2.20%) Entra ID
9 66 (1.67%) OpenShift
10 51 (1.29%) OCI
11 48 (1.21%) GitHub
12 44 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
14 41 (1.04%) Snowflake
15 38 (0.96%) Power Automate
16 37 (0.94%) Serverless
17 33 (0.83%) Google Workspace
18 31 (0.78%) Amazon S3
18 31 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
19 30 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.00%) Firewall
2 51 (1.29%) WAN
3 41 (1.04%) Network Security
4 38 (0.96%) LAN
5 35 (0.88%) SD-WAN
6 30 (0.76%) DNS
6 30 (0.76%) VPN
7 22 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (0.53%) SSH
9 19 (0.48%) MPLS
10 18 (0.46%) BGP
10 18 (0.46%) SSL
11 14 (0.35%) DHCP
11 14 (0.35%) OSPF
12 13 (0.33%) TCP/IP
13 12 (0.30%) Broadband
14 11 (0.28%) Intranet
14 11 (0.28%) SNMP
14 11 (0.28%) Wireless
15 8 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (5.41%) Power BI
2 82 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (1.72%) Tableau
4 58 (1.47%) Metadata
5 36 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 32 (0.81%) SQL Server
7 30 (0.76%) NoSQL
8 23 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
8 23 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 22 (0.56%) Oracle Database
10 21 (0.53%) Power Query
11 16 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (0.40%) BigQuery
12 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.35%) DynamoDB
13 14 (0.35%) MySQL
14 13 (0.33%) Big Data
15 12 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
16 11 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 483 (12.21%) JIRA
2 81 (2.05%) Git
3 80 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.49%) GitLab
5 38 (0.96%) JUnit
6 37 (0.94%) Selenium
7 16 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.35%) Maven
9 11 (0.28%) Mockito
10 10 (0.25%) MLflow
10 10 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
10 10 (0.25%) SpecFlow
11 8 (0.20%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.18%) Postman
13 6 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.15%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.15%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.15%) JMeter
14 5 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
15 4 (0.10%) ERwin
General
1 2,094 (52.95%) Social Skills
2 1,332 (33.68%) Finance
3 640 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 403 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 381 (9.63%) Banking
6 201 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
7 167 (4.22%) Retail
8 155 (3.92%) Legal
9 137 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
10 132 (3.34%) Marketing
11 125 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 122 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
13 107 (2.71%) Manufacturing
13 107 (2.71%) Telecoms
14 71 (1.80%) Front Office
15 67 (1.69%) Financial Institution
16 58 (1.47%) Law
17 53 (1.34%) Local Government
18 52 (1.31%) Investment Banking
19 50 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 758 (19.17%) Analyst
2 571 (14.44%) Project Manager
3 551 (13.93%) Business Analyst
4 477 (12.06%) Lead
5 459 (11.61%) Architect
6 367 (9.28%) Senior
7 226 (5.71%) Consultant
8 173 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
9 156 (3.94%) Senior Manager
10 148 (3.74%) Programme Manager
11 115 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
12 110 (2.78%) IT Manager
13 84 (2.12%) Data Analyst
13 84 (2.12%) Senior Analyst
14 81 (2.05%) Senior Project Manager
15 79 (2.00%) Change Manager
16 77 (1.95%) Developer
17 74 (1.87%) Product Owner
18 72 (1.82%) Product Manager
19 69 (1.74%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (3.01%) REST
2 73 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 51 (1.29%) Middleware
4 50 (1.26%) SOAP
5 41 (1.04%) JSON
6 37 (0.94%) .NET
7 36 (0.91%) OAuth
7 36 (0.91%) OpenID
8 33 (0.83%) Kafka
8 33 (0.83%) XML
9 32 (0.81%) SAML
10 29 (0.73%) HTML
10 29 (0.73%) pytest
10 29 (0.73%) React
11 27 (0.68%) RESTful
12 25 (0.63%) AngularJS
13 24 (0.61%) SailPoint
14 23 (0.58%) CSS
14 23 (0.58%) Web Services
15 22 (0.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 311 (7.86%) Product Ownership
2 210 (5.31%) Onboarding
3 109 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
4 107 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
5 104 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 100 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 89 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 75 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 54 (1.37%) PMI
10 51 (1.29%) NHS
11 47 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 38 (0.96%) Public Cloud
14 35 (0.88%) CMDB
14 35 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
14 35 (0.88%) Operational Technology
14 35 (0.88%) Virtual Team
15 28 (0.71%) FMCG
15 28 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 126 (3.19%) Windows
2 63 (1.59%) Linux
3 27 (0.68%) Unix
4 22 (0.56%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 19 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 18 (0.46%) Android
8 13 (0.33%) VMS
9 11 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.13%) Solaris
11 4 (0.10%) CentOS
12 2 (0.051%) AIX
13 1 (0.025%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,282 (32.41%) Agile
2 701 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
3 596 (15.07%) Project Management
4 583 (14.74%) Migration
5 573 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 529 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 487 (12.31%) Change Management
8 466 (11.78%) Roadmaps
9 403 (10.19%) Project Delivery
10 392 (9.91%) Decision-Making
11 389 (9.84%) DevOps
12 361 (9.13%) Analytics
13 349 (8.82%) Risk Management
14 323 (8.17%) Scrum
15 320 (8.09%) Requirements Gathering
16 315 (7.96%) Workshop Facilitation
17 305 (7.71%) User Acceptance Testing
18 280 (7.08%) AI
18 280 (7.08%) Validation
19 269 (6.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 316 (7.99%) SQL
2 268 (6.78%) Python
3 88 (2.23%) PowerShell
4 80 (2.02%) Java
5 55 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 49 (1.24%) C#
7 32 (0.81%) Bash
8 24 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 23 (0.58%) VBA
10 17 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.40%) Korn
12 13 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 12 (0.30%) R
14 11 (0.28%) Bicep
15 9 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.23%) VB
16 8 (0.20%) ABAP
17 6 (0.15%) C++
17 6 (0.15%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.10%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 732 (18.51%) Security Cleared
2 575 (14.54%) SC Cleared
3 382 (9.66%) Degree
4 197 (4.98%) PMI Certification
5 187 (4.73%) PMP
6 98 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (1.95%) Master's Degree
8 70 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 65 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 54 (1.37%) CISSP
11 41 (1.04%) CISM
12 35 (0.88%) CBAP
13 33 (0.83%) Azure Certification
14 28 (0.71%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.66%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.63%) IIBA
17 24 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
18 22 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
19 20 (0.51%) APMP
19 20 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (6.62%) QA
2 232 (5.87%) GDPR
3 164 (4.15%) Data Quality
4 156 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 143 (3.62%) PMO
6 142 (3.59%) NIST
7 73 (1.85%) PCI DSS
8 68 (1.72%) GRC
9 48 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 47 (1.19%) SLA
11 46 (1.16%) Accessibility
12 45 (1.14%) NCSC
13 29 (0.73%) COBIT
14 28 (0.71%) IFRS
15 19 (0.48%) WCAG
16 18 (0.46%) IFRS 17
16 18 (0.46%) PSD2
17 14 (0.35%) Basel III
17 14 (0.35%) ISO 20022
18 13 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 96 (2.43%) Docker
2 64 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.15%) vSphere
7 5 (0.13%) NFS
7 5 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.076%) Postfix
8 3 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.025%) Firmware
10 1 (0.025%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.025%) IAG
10 1 (0.025%) NDS
10 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.025%) SRDF
10 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.025%) XenApp
10 1 (0.025%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 138 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 80 (2.02%) Terraform
3 48 (1.21%) Ansible
4 45 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.73%) Grafana
6 20 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.46%) SCCM
8 17 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 13 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.15%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.10%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.10%) vMotion
13 3 (0.076%) Control-M
13 3 (0.076%) Puppet
14 2 (0.051%) Nagios
Vendors
1 465 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 323 (8.17%) SAP
3 228 (5.76%) Oracle
4 188 (4.75%) ServiceNow
5 146 (3.69%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.20%) Google
7 81 (2.05%) Workday
8 61 (1.54%) Databricks
9 57 (1.44%) VMware
10 47 (1.19%) Splunk
11 45 (1.14%) Cisco
11 45 (1.14%) IBM
12 35 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 32 (0.81%) Ariba
13 32 (0.81%) Fortinet
14 31 (0.78%) Citrix
15 27 (0.68%) Adobe
16 25 (0.63%) F5
16 25 (0.63%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.58%) OpenAI