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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,391 2,361 2,759
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.58% 9.92% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 10.87% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,986 1,636 1,958
10th Percentile £371 £358 £362
25th Percentile £450 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £746 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 57 83
10th Percentile £17.94 £36.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.50 £45.50 £30.16
Median hourly rate £52.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +2.49% +11.32%
75th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £72.61
90th Percentile £102.17 £77.25 £85.52
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £60.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.05% +1.25% +11.32%

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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 2,232 £550 -4.35% 1,111
North of England -2 667 £490 -2.00% 320
Midlands +4 530 £492 -1.70% 218
South East 0 511 £550 +4.76% 398
West Midlands 0 358 £500 -4.76% 146
Yorkshire +10 319 £500 +1.01% 107
North West 0 319 £475 -5.94% 181
South West +17 253 £550 +4.76% 121
East Midlands +11 165 £464 +3.40% 71
East of England -4 125 £525 -12.50% 109
North East -4 50 £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
1 289 (6.58%) Confluence
2 128 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.87%) CMS
4 36 (0.82%) SAS
5 21 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.32%) Appian
7 12 (0.27%) Apache
8 10 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.14%) TPMS
11 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.11%) WordPress
12 4 (0.091%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.068%) Kentico
13 3 (0.068%) nginx
13 3 (0.068%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
13 3 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 213 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
3 115 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
4 110 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.18%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Revit
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.11%) Sketch
11 4 (0.091%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.068%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.046%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.046%) 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
1 133 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.57%) 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 CO
6 14 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 14 (0.32%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
8 11 (0.25%) SAP HCM
9 10 (0.23%) Loan IQ
10 9 (0.20%) NEC Housing
11 8 (0.18%) Endur
12 7 (0.16%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 652 (14.85%) Azure
2 462 (10.52%) AWS
3 243 (5.53%) Power Platform
4 177 (4.03%) GCP
5 141 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
6 126 (2.87%) SaaS
7 107 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 89 (2.03%) Entra ID
9 61 (1.39%) Snowflake
10 53 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (1.16%) GitHub
12 46 (1.05%) OpenShift
13 45 (1.02%) OCI
14 44 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
15 42 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
16 40 (0.91%) Amazon S3
17 38 (0.87%) Figma
18 36 (0.82%) Serverless
19 35 (0.80%) Google Workspace
20 33 (0.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.39%) Firewall
1 61 (1.39%) Network Security
2 49 (1.12%) WAN
3 37 (0.84%) LAN
4 30 (0.68%) DNS
5 27 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 25 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (0.48%) VPN
8 19 (0.43%) BGP
8 19 (0.43%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.36%) OSPF
10 15 (0.34%) MPLS
11 13 (0.30%) NGFW
12 12 (0.27%) Intranet
13 11 (0.25%) SAN
13 11 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
13 11 (0.25%) Wireless
14 10 (0.23%) BIG-IP
14 10 (0.23%) DHCP
15 9 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (4.51%) Power BI
2 87 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
3 86 (1.96%) Metadata
4 61 (1.39%) Tableau
5 48 (1.09%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.02%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
10 23 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 23 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 21 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.48%) DynamoDB
12 19 (0.43%) Big Data
13 18 (0.41%) Delta Lake
14 16 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
16 14 (0.32%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.32%) Power Query
17 12 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 509 (11.59%) JIRA
2 77 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.55%) Git
4 40 (0.91%) GitLab
5 26 (0.59%) Selenium
6 25 (0.57%) 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%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 2,163 (49.26%) Social Skills
2 1,570 (35.75%) Finance
3 655 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 492 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 427 (9.72%) Banking
6 214 (4.87%) Influencing Skills
6 214 (4.87%) Retail
7 187 (4.26%) Legal
8 156 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
9 151 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
10 133 (3.03%) Marketing
11 112 (2.55%) Manufacturing
12 103 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
13 98 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 74 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 74 (1.69%) Local Government
15 56 (1.28%) Law
16 54 (1.23%) Front Office
17 52 (1.18%) Aerospace
17 52 (1.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 697 (15.87%) Analyst
2 667 (15.19%) Project Manager
3 615 (14.01%) Lead
4 505 (11.50%) Business Analyst
5 491 (11.18%) Architect
6 464 (10.57%) Senior
7 209 (4.76%) Senior Manager
8 204 (4.65%) Consultant
9 179 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
10 167 (3.80%) Programme Manager
11 148 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
12 132 (3.01%) IT Manager
13 108 (2.46%) Senior Project Manager
14 97 (2.21%) Product Manager
15 91 (2.07%) Product Owner
16 88 (2.00%) Technical Manager
17 84 (1.91%) Change Manager
17 84 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
18 76 (1.73%) IT Project Manager
19 74 (1.69%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (2.51%) REST
2 78 (1.78%) Middleware
2 78 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 58 (1.32%) SOAP
4 39 (0.89%) .NET
5 36 (0.82%) OAuth
6 31 (0.71%) JSON
6 31 (0.71%) OpenID
7 30 (0.68%) RESTful
8 29 (0.66%) Web Services
9 28 (0.64%) Kafka
9 28 (0.64%) SAML
9 28 (0.64%) XML
10 27 (0.61%) AngularJS
11 26 (0.59%) Spring
12 25 (0.57%) React
13 22 (0.50%) SailPoint
14 21 (0.48%) ADO
14 21 (0.48%) LDAP
15 20 (0.46%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 349 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 208 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 143 (3.26%) Cloud Native
4 140 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 119 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
5 119 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 94 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 79 (1.80%) Data Structures
8 72 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 66 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 52 (1.18%) Operational Technology
11 48 (1.09%) NHS
12 45 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.02%) PMI
12 45 (1.02%) Public Cloud
13 41 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
14 35 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
15 33 (0.75%) AI Agents
16 30 (0.68%) Security Posture
17 29 (0.66%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 124 (2.82%) Windows
2 67 (1.53%) Linux
3 29 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.64%) Android
5 20 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.36%) Unix
7 14 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.18%) VMS
10 4 (0.091%) AIX
11 3 (0.068%) Solaris
11 3 (0.068%) zOS
12 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.046%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.023%) CentOS
13 1 (0.023%) HPUX
13 1 (0.023%) MVS
13 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,432 (32.61%) Agile
2 687 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 663 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
4 653 (14.87%) Project Management
5 639 (14.55%) Migration
6 566 (12.89%) Roadmaps
7 552 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 518 (11.80%) Change Management
9 506 (11.52%) DevOps
10 503 (11.46%) Decision-Making
11 480 (10.93%) Project Delivery
12 416 (9.47%) Risk Management
13 407 (9.27%) Analytics
14 376 (8.56%) AI
15 367 (8.36%) User Acceptance Testing
16 349 (7.95%) Validation
17 347 (7.90%) Scrum
18 336 (7.65%) CI/CD
19 328 (7.47%) Workshop Facilitation
20 321 (7.31%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 343 (7.81%) SQL
2 224 (5.10%) Python
3 87 (1.98%) Java
4 63 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 43 (0.98%) C#
6 41 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 29 (0.66%) Bash
8 21 (0.48%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.43%) VBA
10 16 (0.36%) Korn
11 13 (0.30%) R
12 12 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.27%) PL/SQL
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%) Bicep
15 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 902 (20.54%) Security Cleared
2 700 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 342 (7.79%) Degree
4 236 (5.37%) PMP
5 210 (4.78%) PMI Certification
6 118 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 104 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 87 (1.98%) CISSP
9 63 (1.43%) CISM
10 51 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (1.14%) Azure Certification
12 47 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 37 (0.84%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.64%) CBAP
14 28 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.64%) IIBA
15 25 (0.57%) ACCA
15 25 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
16 24 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 23 (0.52%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (5.90%) QA
2 230 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 218 (4.96%) PMO
4 202 (4.60%) GDPR
5 157 (3.58%) NIST
6 129 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 77 (1.75%) GRC
8 72 (1.64%) SLA
9 65 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 53 (1.21%) PCI DSS
11 49 (1.12%) NCSC
12 39 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.75%) IFRS
14 27 (0.61%) COBIT
15 26 (0.59%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.41%) JSP 440
17 17 (0.39%) IFRS 17
17 17 (0.39%) WCAG
18 15 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.34%) PSD2
System Software
1 92 (2.10%) Docker
2 69 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.27%) Postfix
6 9 (0.20%) NFS
7 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.091%) SRDF
8 4 (0.091%) Varnish
9 3 (0.068%) HDFS
9 3 (0.068%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.068%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.068%) vSphere
10 2 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.023%) NLBS
11 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.023%) RACF
11 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 135 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.94%) Terraform
3 53 (1.21%) Ansible
4 44 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (0.98%) Grafana
6 29 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.48%) SCCM
9 8 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.16%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.14%) Puppet
11 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.091%) Argo
13 4 (0.091%) Control-M
13 4 (0.091%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.068%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.068%) Nagios
Vendors
1 499 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 360 (8.20%) SAP
3 238 (5.42%) Oracle
4 205 (4.67%) ServiceNow
5 176 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.00%) Google
7 81 (1.84%) Databricks
8 69 (1.57%) VMware
9 61 (1.39%) Workday
10 47 (1.07%) Splunk
11 39 (0.89%) Cisco
12 38 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 30 (0.68%) MuleSoft
14 29 (0.66%) Ariba
14 29 (0.66%) Citrix
14 29 (0.66%) Informatica
15 26 (0.59%) Atlassian
16 25 (0.57%) IBM
17 24 (0.55%) IFS
18 22 (0.50%) Adobe