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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,769 2,246 3,130
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.31% 8.60% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.90% 9.60% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,599 1,412 2,188
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £444 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 51 93
10th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £21.40
25th Percentile £24.50 £38.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £45.23 £56.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +13.00% -8.91%
75th Percentile £70.63 £66.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £94.38 £80.00 £82.44
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £54.63 £51.96
% change year-on-year -25.86% +5.13% -5.44%

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 29,221 23,402 33,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.65% 89.60% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,693 14,362 22,190
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £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 1,820 750 1,958
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.01 £16.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +10 1,913 £550 - 501
North of England +5 572 £475 -9.52% 213
Midlands 0 470 £485 -6.73% 156
South East +6 434 £525 - 430
West Midlands -5 296 £500 -4.76% 113
North West +5 288 £451 -13.68% 125
Yorkshire +8 253 £500 -0.70% 73
South West +13 193 £550 +4.76% 87
East Midlands +13 174 £450 -5.26% 42
East of England -6 99 £550 - 66
North East +5 45 £450 -23.40% 15
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
1 272 (7.22%) Confluence
2 114 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.06%) SAS
4 37 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (0.88%) CMS
6 16 (0.42%) Appian
7 11 (0.29%) TPMS
8 8 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.19%) Apache
9 7 (0.19%) Camunda
10 6 (0.16%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.11%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.080%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.080%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.080%) nginx
13 3 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 209 (5.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (3.26%) Microsoft Project
3 117 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (1.91%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.42%) Trello
7 13 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.053%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.053%) InVision
12 1 (0.027%) Blender
12 1 (0.027%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.027%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.027%) Simulink
12 1 (0.027%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.027%) UXPin
12 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 134 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 21 (0.56%) Workday HCM
6 19 (0.50%) Endur
7 17 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
8 14 (0.37%) Primavera
8 14 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.37%) SAP EWM
9 13 (0.34%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.34%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.32%) Loan IQ
10 12 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
11 11 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
12 9 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
12 9 (0.24%) SAP MDG
12 9 (0.24%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 554 (14.70%) Azure
2 373 (9.90%) AWS
3 245 (6.50%) Power Platform
4 162 (4.30%) GCP
5 122 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (3.02%) SaaS
7 112 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
8 87 (2.31%) Entra ID
9 64 (1.70%) OpenShift
10 48 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
10 48 (1.27%) GitHub
11 45 (1.19%) OCI
12 42 (1.11%) Serverless
13 39 (1.03%) Power Automate
14 38 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
15 36 (0.96%) Snowflake
16 32 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
17 31 (0.82%) Google Workspace
17 31 (0.82%) PowerApps
18 27 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 81 (2.15%) Firewall
2 48 (1.27%) WAN
3 37 (0.98%) LAN
4 36 (0.96%) Network Security
5 31 (0.82%) SD-WAN
5 31 (0.82%) VPN
6 30 (0.80%) DNS
7 21 (0.56%) SSH
7 21 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
8 19 (0.50%) MPLS
9 18 (0.48%) SSL
10 16 (0.42%) BGP
11 14 (0.37%) DHCP
12 13 (0.34%) Broadband
12 13 (0.34%) TCP/IP
13 12 (0.32%) Intranet
13 12 (0.32%) OSPF
13 12 (0.32%) Wireless
14 11 (0.29%) Internet
14 11 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (5.73%) Power BI
2 74 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (1.94%) Tableau
4 56 (1.49%) Metadata
5 32 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 31 (0.82%) NoSQL
7 27 (0.72%) SQL Server
8 24 (0.64%) Power Query
8 24 (0.64%) Relational Database
9 20 (0.53%) BigQuery
9 20 (0.53%) Oracle Database
9 20 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.50%) MySQL
11 17 (0.45%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 13 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (0.29%) RDBMS
15 11 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 470 (12.47%) JIRA
2 77 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 72 (1.91%) Git
4 53 (1.41%) GitLab
5 28 (0.74%) Selenium
6 23 (0.61%) JUnit
7 16 (0.42%) Maven
8 11 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 8 (0.21%) MLflow
10 8 (0.21%) Postman
11 7 (0.19%) Gradle
11 7 (0.19%) Mockito
11 7 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.13%) SonarLint
14 4 (0.11%) Axure RP
14 4 (0.11%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 2,025 (53.73%) Social Skills
2 1,253 (33.24%) Finance
3 631 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 379 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 363 (9.63%) Banking
6 191 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
7 159 (4.22%) Retail
8 154 (4.09%) Legal
9 130 (3.45%) Marketing
10 129 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
11 116 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
12 114 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
13 106 (2.81%) Telecoms
14 102 (2.71%) Manufacturing
15 72 (1.91%) Front Office
16 62 (1.64%) Law
17 56 (1.49%) Financial Institution
18 55 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 50 (1.33%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 728 (19.32%) Analyst
2 543 (14.41%) Project Manager
3 529 (14.04%) Business Analyst
4 449 (11.91%) Lead
5 438 (11.62%) Architect
6 332 (8.81%) Senior
7 231 (6.13%) Consultant
8 164 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
9 136 (3.61%) Senior Manager
10 135 (3.58%) Programme Manager
11 104 (2.76%) IT Manager
12 98 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
13 83 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
14 80 (2.12%) Data Analyst
15 73 (1.94%) Change Manager
15 73 (1.94%) Product Owner
16 71 (1.88%) Senior Project Manager
17 70 (1.86%) Senior Business Analyst
18 69 (1.83%) Product Manager
19 68 (1.80%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.79%) REST
2 63 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 42 (1.11%) SOAP
4 41 (1.09%) Middleware
5 38 (1.01%) JSON
6 37 (0.98%) .NET
7 36 (0.96%) OAuth
8 35 (0.93%) OpenID
9 32 (0.85%) RESTful
9 32 (0.85%) SAML
10 31 (0.82%) Kafka
10 31 (0.82%) XML
11 28 (0.74%) HTML
12 24 (0.64%) SailPoint
13 23 (0.61%) pytest
13 23 (0.61%) React
14 21 (0.56%) CSS
14 21 (0.56%) LDAP
15 20 (0.53%) Swagger
16 19 (0.50%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 310 (8.22%) Product Ownership
2 195 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 110 (2.92%) Cloud Native
4 103 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
5 99 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 95 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 82 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 80 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 54 (1.43%) PMI
10 50 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 42 (1.11%) NHS
12 38 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 37 (0.98%) CMDB
14 36 (0.96%) Operational Technology
15 35 (0.93%) Data Structures
15 35 (0.93%) Public Cloud
16 31 (0.82%) Virtual Team
17 27 (0.72%) FMCG
18 26 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
19 25 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.92%) Windows
2 53 (1.41%) Linux
3 27 (0.72%) Unix
4 22 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.37%) VMS
7 12 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.19%) Android
11 4 (0.11%) CentOS
12 3 (0.080%) Solaris
13 1 (0.027%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,239 (32.87%) Agile
2 697 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
3 577 (15.31%) Project Management
4 550 (14.59%) Migration
5 545 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 520 (13.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 447 (11.86%) Change Management
8 444 (11.78%) Roadmaps
9 412 (10.93%) Project Delivery
10 370 (9.82%) DevOps
11 360 (9.55%) Decision-Making
12 339 (8.99%) Analytics
13 336 (8.91%) Risk Management
14 318 (8.44%) Scrum
15 312 (8.28%) Requirements Gathering
16 307 (8.15%) Workshop Facilitation
17 293 (7.77%) User Acceptance Testing
18 264 (7.00%) AI
18 264 (7.00%) Waterfall
19 263 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 297 (7.88%) SQL
2 266 (7.06%) Python
3 87 (2.31%) PowerShell
4 76 (2.02%) Java
5 54 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.27%) C#
7 34 (0.90%) Bash
8 23 (0.61%) VBA
9 22 (0.58%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (0.40%) R
12 14 (0.37%) Korn
13 12 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.29%) Bicep
15 7 (0.19%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.19%) VB
16 6 (0.16%) ABAP
16 6 (0.16%) C++
16 6 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 665 (17.64%) Security Cleared
2 514 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 381 (10.11%) Degree
4 198 (5.25%) PMI Certification
5 184 (4.88%) PMP
6 93 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 73 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 71 (1.88%) DV Cleared
9 65 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 54 (1.43%) CISSP
11 38 (1.01%) CISM
12 36 (0.96%) CBAP
13 33 (0.88%) Azure Certification
14 28 (0.74%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.74%) ISTQB
15 24 (0.64%) IIBA
16 22 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
17 21 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
18 20 (0.53%) APMP
18 20 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (6.47%) QA
2 234 (6.21%) GDPR
3 146 (3.87%) Data Quality
4 141 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 133 (3.53%) PMO
6 124 (3.29%) NIST
7 68 (1.80%) PCI DSS
8 62 (1.64%) GRC
9 46 (1.22%) SLA
10 42 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 41 (1.09%) Accessibility
12 39 (1.03%) NCSC
13 26 (0.69%) IFRS
14 23 (0.61%) PSD2
15 20 (0.53%) COBIT
16 16 (0.42%) IFRS 17
16 16 (0.42%) WCAG
17 15 (0.40%) ISO 20022
18 13 (0.34%) Basel III
18 13 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 91 (2.41%) Docker
2 65 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.16%) vSphere
7 5 (0.13%) NFS
7 5 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.027%) Firmware
10 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.027%) IAG
10 1 (0.027%) NDS
10 1 (0.027%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.027%) SRDF
10 1 (0.027%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.027%) XenApp
10 1 (0.027%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 131 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 88 (2.33%) Terraform
3 51 (1.35%) Ansible
4 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.56%) Grafana
6 19 (0.50%) SCCM
6 19 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.34%) FortiGate
8 12 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.21%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.16%) Kibana
10 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
12 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.11%) vMotion
13 3 (0.080%) Control-M
13 3 (0.080%) QRadar
Vendors
1 455 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 313 (8.30%) SAP
3 214 (5.68%) Oracle
4 169 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 144 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.33%) Workday
7 86 (2.28%) Google
8 59 (1.57%) Databricks
9 50 (1.33%) VMware
10 46 (1.22%) Splunk
11 41 (1.09%) Cisco
12 39 (1.03%) IBM
13 34 (0.90%) CyberArk
14 33 (0.88%) Fortinet
15 31 (0.82%) Ariba
16 26 (0.69%) Adobe
17 25 (0.66%) Citrix
17 25 (0.66%) MuleSoft
18 24 (0.64%) F5
19 23 (0.61%) Informatica