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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,017 2,597 2,728
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.46% 10.18% 7.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.43% 11.17% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 1,765 1,954
10th Percentile £375 £358 £358
25th Percentile £456 £431 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 62 77
10th Percentile £23.75 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £34.06 £41.78 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £54.01 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -9.99% +12.53%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.63 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% -10.83% +12.53%

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 37,351 23,260 31,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.20% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,546 14,980 20,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,338 1,158 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.38 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +8 2,578 £558 -2.96% 775
North of England -1 736 £500 - 281
South East +4 652 £550 +4.76% 489
Midlands +2 524 £500 - 191
West Midlands 0 378 £500 -4.76% 114
North West 0 365 £500 - 174
Yorkshire +3 339 £500 +2.04% 85
South West +12 286 £550 +4.76% 124
East of England +5 142 £525 -4.55% 84
East Midlands +8 138 £465 +7.51% 75
North East -16 45 £478 +6.11% 29
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
1 291 (5.80%) Confluence
2 138 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.12%) CMS
4 38 (0.76%) SAS
5 24 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.24%) Apache
8 11 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.20%) Appian
10 8 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.14%) WordPress
12 6 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.100%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.100%) Kentico
14 4 (0.080%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.060%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 3 (0.060%) TPMS
16 2 (0.040%) IBM HTTP Server
16 2 (0.040%) WebSphere
Applications
1 229 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 139 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
3 122 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
4 119 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.24%) Revit
9 10 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.080%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.080%) Trello
11 3 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.060%) Notion
11 3 (0.060%) Sketch
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.040%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.040%) Windchill
13 1 (0.020%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.020%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 164 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
5 23 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 20 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 18 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 18 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
8 15 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
9 14 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 14 (0.28%) Workday HCM
10 13 (0.26%) SAP FI
11 12 (0.24%) Finacle
11 12 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 12 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
12 10 (0.20%) Loan IQ
12 10 (0.20%) Primavera
12 10 (0.20%) SAP CO
12 10 (0.20%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 795 (15.85%) Azure
2 564 (11.24%) AWS
3 300 (5.98%) Power Platform
4 206 (4.11%) GCP
5 174 (3.47%) SaaS
6 170 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
8 98 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 83 (1.65%) Snowflake
10 71 (1.42%) GitHub
11 60 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
12 56 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
13 51 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
14 50 (1.00%) Amazon S3
14 50 (1.00%) OCI
14 50 (1.00%) Serverless
15 41 (0.82%) PowerApps
16 38 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 38 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (0.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 89 (1.77%) Network Security
2 88 (1.75%) Firewall
3 64 (1.28%) WAN
4 48 (0.96%) LAN
5 45 (0.90%) DNS
6 37 (0.74%) SD-WAN
7 31 (0.62%) VPN
8 30 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 28 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (0.46%) BGP
11 21 (0.42%) DHCP
12 20 (0.40%) OSPF
13 17 (0.34%) MPLS
14 14 (0.28%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.28%) NGFW
14 14 (0.28%) Wireless
15 13 (0.26%) SAN
16 12 (0.24%) Intranet
16 12 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
17 11 (0.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (4.84%) Power BI
2 107 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (1.85%) Metadata
4 63 (1.26%) SQL Server
5 62 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 59 (1.18%) Tableau
7 42 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 35 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
10 33 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
11 27 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 27 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
12 25 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.48%) DynamoDB
14 21 (0.42%) Big Data
15 19 (0.38%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
17 15 (0.30%) BigQuery
17 15 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
17 15 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 545 (10.86%) JIRA
2 80 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.36%) Git
4 43 (0.86%) GitLab
5 34 (0.68%) Selenium
6 29 (0.58%) JUnit
7 23 (0.46%) Postman
8 15 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.28%) JMeter
9 14 (0.28%) Maven
10 13 (0.26%) Mockito
11 10 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.20%) DbUnit
11 10 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.20%) WebDriver
11 10 (0.20%) Zephyr
12 9 (0.18%) jMock
12 9 (0.18%) MLflow
13 8 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,526 (50.35%) Social Skills
2 1,799 (35.86%) Finance
3 766 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
4 598 (11.92%) Public Sector
5 464 (9.25%) Banking
6 292 (5.82%) Retail
7 252 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
8 223 (4.44%) Legal
9 186 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
10 185 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
11 169 (3.37%) Marketing
12 148 (2.95%) Manufacturing
13 123 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 115 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 92 (1.83%) Local Government
16 87 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 75 (1.49%) Financial Institution
18 69 (1.38%) Front Office
18 69 (1.38%) Law
19 67 (1.34%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 767 (15.29%) Analyst
2 716 (14.27%) Lead
3 702 (13.99%) Project Manager
4 588 (11.72%) Architect
5 530 (10.56%) Senior
6 518 (10.32%) Business Analyst
7 246 (4.90%) Consultant
8 227 (4.52%) Senior Manager
9 217 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
10 178 (3.55%) Programme Manager
11 169 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
12 154 (3.07%) IT Manager
13 115 (2.29%) Senior Project Manager
14 110 (2.19%) Product Manager
15 104 (2.07%) Product Owner
16 94 (1.87%) Technical Manager
17 91 (1.81%) Change Manager
18 88 (1.75%) Developer
19 85 (1.69%) Data Analyst
19 85 (1.69%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (2.47%) REST
2 84 (1.67%) Middleware
3 80 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 65 (1.30%) SOAP
5 56 (1.12%) .NET
6 41 (0.82%) JSON
6 41 (0.82%) OAuth
7 35 (0.70%) Kafka
7 35 (0.70%) PySpark
8 34 (0.68%) OpenID
8 34 (0.68%) Spring
9 32 (0.64%) SailPoint
9 32 (0.64%) SAML
10 31 (0.62%) AngularJS
10 31 (0.62%) CSS
10 31 (0.62%) RESTful
10 31 (0.62%) XML
11 29 (0.58%) Web Services
12 28 (0.56%) HTML
12 28 (0.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 371 (7.39%) Product Ownership
2 256 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 170 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 154 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
5 140 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 122 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 112 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 92 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 89 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 79 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 67 (1.34%) NHS
12 64 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
13 63 (1.26%) Operational Technology
14 60 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
14 60 (1.20%) Security Posture
15 50 (1.00%) CMDB
15 50 (1.00%) Public Cloud
16 46 (0.92%) AI Agents
16 46 (0.92%) FMCG
17 45 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 151 (3.01%) Windows
2 79 (1.57%) Linux
3 32 (0.64%) Android
4 28 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.52%) Unix
6 25 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.12%) VMS
10 5 (0.100%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.100%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.080%) AIX
11 4 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.080%) zOS
12 3 (0.060%) Solaris
13 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.040%) HPUX
14 1 (0.020%) CentOS
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,645 (32.79%) Agile
2 813 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 780 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
4 710 (14.15%) Migration
5 688 (13.71%) Roadmaps
6 683 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 663 (13.22%) Project Management
8 590 (11.76%) DevOps
9 582 (11.60%) Decision-Making
10 550 (10.96%) Change Management
11 544 (10.84%) Project Delivery
12 514 (10.25%) Analytics
13 501 (9.99%) AI
14 492 (9.81%) Risk Management
15 428 (8.53%) User Acceptance Testing
16 409 (8.15%) Validation
17 407 (8.11%) CI/CD
18 393 (7.83%) Scrum
18 393 (7.83%) Workshop Facilitation
19 382 (7.61%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 409 (8.15%) SQL
2 277 (5.52%) Python
3 102 (2.03%) Java
4 68 (1.36%) PowerShell
5 54 (1.08%) JavaScript
6 49 (0.98%) C#
7 23 (0.46%) VBA
8 22 (0.44%) Bash
9 20 (0.40%) Bicep
9 20 (0.40%) Korn
9 20 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.36%) ABAP
11 13 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.24%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.22%) R
14 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 995 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 753 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 364 (7.26%) Degree
4 263 (5.24%) PMP
5 231 (4.60%) PMI Certification
6 145 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 139 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 109 (2.17%) CISSP
9 79 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 76 (1.51%) CISM
11 55 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 48 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 47 (0.94%) AWS Certification
14 46 (0.92%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
15 31 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 29 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
17 28 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.56%) ACCA
18 26 (0.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 274 (5.46%) QA
3 243 (4.84%) PMO
4 216 (4.31%) GDPR
5 163 (3.25%) NIST
6 144 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 90 (1.79%) GRC
8 84 (1.67%) SLA
9 78 (1.55%) Accessibility
10 56 (1.12%) NCSC
11 48 (0.96%) PCI DSS
12 39 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 34 (0.68%) COBIT
14 31 (0.62%) IFRS
14 31 (0.62%) SOC 2
15 19 (0.38%) WCAG
16 18 (0.36%) JSP 440
17 17 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.32%) IFRS 17
18 16 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 99 (1.97%) Docker
2 83 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.24%) NFS
5 12 (0.24%) Postfix
5 12 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.12%) vSphere
8 4 (0.080%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.080%) SRDF
8 4 (0.080%) Varnish
9 3 (0.060%) HDFS
9 3 (0.060%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.040%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.040%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.020%) RACF
Systems Management
1 145 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 122 (2.43%) Terraform
3 72 (1.44%) Ansible
4 43 (0.86%) Grafana
5 37 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.36%) SCCM
8 10 (0.20%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.14%) Argo
10 7 (0.14%) RSA Archer
10 7 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.12%) Puppet
12 5 (0.100%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.100%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.080%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.080%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.080%) vMotion
Vendors
1 627 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 405 (8.07%) SAP
3 268 (5.34%) Oracle
4 263 (5.24%) ServiceNow
5 194 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 104 (2.07%) Databricks
7 98 (1.95%) Google
8 75 (1.49%) VMware
9 66 (1.32%) Workday
10 55 (1.10%) Cisco
11 48 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 45 (0.90%) Adobe
13 41 (0.82%) Splunk
14 33 (0.66%) Ariba
14 33 (0.66%) Informatica
14 33 (0.66%) MuleSoft
15 29 (0.58%) IBM
16 27 (0.54%) F5
17 25 (0.50%) Atlassian
17 25 (0.50%) Citrix