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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,592 2,253 3,069
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.24% 8.51% 8.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.76% 9.53% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,450 1,399 2,115
10th Percentile £363 £363 £364
25th Percentile £444 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -2.92% -1.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 51 93
10th Percentile £17.00 £35.00 £21.40
25th Percentile £25.75 £36.50 £30.38
Median hourly rate £40.78 £56.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.82% +13.00% -4.09%
75th Percentile £63.88 £66.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.75 £80.00 £78.59
UK median hourly rate £40.47 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.06% +8.00% -5.00%

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 28,150 23,642 32,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.12% 89.29% 87.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,007 14,469 21,732
10th Percentile £304 £310 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,749 768 1,647
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.10
25th Percentile £17.89 £21.00 £17.68
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £75.00 £75.42
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -14.47% +16.92%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 1,827 £550 -1.12% 485
North of England +2 552 £475 -9.52% 227
Midlands -1 443 £477 -9.24% 180
South East +9 403 £525 - 495
North West +4 284 £460 -12.38% 108
West Midlands -5 282 £500 -4.76% 106
Yorkshire +9 239 £500 - 95
South West +16 190 £550 +7.32% 128
East Midlands +11 161 £450 -4.87% 71
East of England -3 98 £525 -4.55% 139
North East +6 42 £450 -25.73% 25
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
1 251 (6.99%) Confluence
2 109 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.97%) SAS
4 30 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (0.72%) CMS
6 14 (0.39%) Appian
7 11 (0.31%) TPMS
8 7 (0.19%) Apache
8 7 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.19%) Camunda
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.11%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.084%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.084%) nginx
11 3 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 210 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
3 116 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
4 104 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 73 (2.03%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.50%) Trello
7 12 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.084%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.056%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.056%) InVision
11 1 (0.028%) Blender
11 1 (0.028%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.028%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.028%) Simulink
11 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.028%) UXPin
11 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
4 21 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 20 (0.56%) Workday HCM
6 19 (0.53%) Endur
7 16 (0.45%) Primavera
8 14 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 14 (0.39%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.36%) SAP EWM
9 13 (0.36%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.33%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
11 11 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
12 10 (0.28%) SAP HCM
13 9 (0.25%) Loan IQ
13 9 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 521 (14.50%) Azure
2 351 (9.77%) AWS
3 238 (6.63%) Power Platform
4 161 (4.48%) GCP
5 113 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
6 108 (3.01%) SaaS
7 100 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 76 (2.12%) Entra ID
9 53 (1.48%) OpenShift
10 44 (1.22%) GitHub
11 43 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
12 40 (1.11%) OCI
13 39 (1.09%) Serverless
14 36 (1.00%) Power Automate
15 32 (0.89%) Snowflake
16 30 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
17 27 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
18 26 (0.72%) PowerApps
19 25 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
20 24 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.06%) Firewall
2 37 (1.03%) WAN
3 29 (0.81%) Network Security
4 27 (0.75%) LAN
4 27 (0.75%) SD-WAN
4 27 (0.75%) VPN
5 25 (0.70%) DNS
6 24 (0.67%) SSH
7 18 (0.50%) SSL
8 17 (0.47%) MPLS
9 15 (0.42%) BGP
10 14 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.36%) Broadband
11 13 (0.36%) Wireless
12 12 (0.33%) DHCP
13 11 (0.31%) Internet
13 11 (0.31%) SNMP
14 10 (0.28%) Intranet
14 10 (0.28%) OSPF
15 9 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (6.01%) Power BI
2 68 (1.89%) Tableau
3 67 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (1.42%) Metadata
5 28 (0.78%) Power Query
6 25 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 25 (0.70%) Relational Database
7 24 (0.67%) Data Lake
8 23 (0.64%) BigQuery
9 21 (0.58%) SQL Server
10 20 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (0.53%) MySQL
11 19 (0.53%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.47%) DynamoDB
13 16 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (0.31%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.31%) Redis
17 10 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 446 (12.42%) JIRA
2 71 (1.98%) Git
3 67 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.45%) GitLab
5 28 (0.78%) Selenium
6 21 (0.58%) JUnit
7 17 (0.47%) Maven
8 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.28%) MLflow
10 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.22%) Gradle
11 8 (0.22%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.17%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) Postman
14 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
15 4 (0.11%) Axure RP
15 4 (0.11%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 1,919 (53.42%) Social Skills
2 1,199 (33.38%) Finance
3 609 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 354 (9.86%) Banking
5 349 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 187 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
7 151 (4.20%) Retail
8 147 (4.09%) Legal
9 131 (3.65%) Marketing
10 116 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
11 110 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 109 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
13 105 (2.92%) Manufacturing
14 103 (2.87%) Telecoms
15 74 (2.06%) Front Office
16 59 (1.64%) Law
17 56 (1.56%) Financial Institution
18 53 (1.48%) Investment Banking
19 52 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 43 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 701 (19.52%) Analyst
2 534 (14.87%) Project Manager
3 509 (14.17%) Business Analyst
4 405 (11.28%) Lead
5 394 (10.97%) Architect
6 306 (8.52%) Senior
7 238 (6.63%) Consultant
8 156 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
9 129 (3.59%) Programme Manager
10 121 (3.37%) Senior Manager
11 97 (2.70%) IT Manager
12 90 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
13 84 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
14 80 (2.23%) Data Analyst
15 77 (2.14%) Change Manager
16 71 (1.98%) Senior Business Analyst
17 70 (1.95%) Product Owner
18 67 (1.87%) Developer
19 66 (1.84%) Senior Project Manager
20 65 (1.81%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (2.53%) REST
2 60 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 38 (1.06%) Middleware
4 37 (1.03%) SOAP
5 33 (0.92%) .NET
6 32 (0.89%) OAuth
7 31 (0.86%) JSON
7 31 (0.86%) Kafka
8 29 (0.81%) XML
9 26 (0.72%) HTML
10 25 (0.70%) RESTful
11 24 (0.67%) OpenID
12 23 (0.64%) SailPoint
13 21 (0.58%) SAML
14 20 (0.56%) pytest
15 19 (0.53%) Spring Boot
16 18 (0.50%) React
17 17 (0.47%) ADO
17 17 (0.47%) Playwright
18 16 (0.45%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 287 (7.99%) Product Ownership
2 179 (4.98%) Onboarding
3 100 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 100 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 89 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 87 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 78 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 58 (1.61%) PMI
9 47 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (1.09%) NHS
11 38 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (1.03%) CMDB
12 37 (1.03%) Public Cloud
13 32 (0.89%) Operational Technology
14 30 (0.84%) Virtual Team
15 28 (0.78%) Data Structures
16 27 (0.75%) FMCG
17 25 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
18 24 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 102 (2.84%) Windows
2 52 (1.45%) Linux
3 31 (0.86%) Unix
4 21 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.36%) VMS
7 12 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.11%) CentOS
10 4 (0.11%) Solaris
11 3 (0.084%) Android
12 1 (0.028%) AIX
12 1 (0.028%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,164 (32.41%) Agile
2 669 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
3 581 (16.17%) Project Management
4 503 (14.00%) Migration
4 503 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 499 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 433 (12.05%) Change Management
7 426 (11.86%) Roadmaps
8 415 (11.55%) Project Delivery
9 339 (9.44%) Decision-Making
10 328 (9.13%) DevOps
11 307 (8.55%) Analytics
11 307 (8.55%) Risk Management
12 294 (8.18%) Requirements Gathering
12 294 (8.18%) Workshop Facilitation
13 291 (8.10%) Scrum
14 265 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
15 260 (7.24%) Waterfall
16 257 (7.15%) User Acceptance Testing
17 245 (6.82%) AI
Programming Languages
1 275 (7.66%) SQL
2 251 (6.99%) Python
3 77 (2.14%) PowerShell
4 75 (2.09%) Java
5 51 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.11%) C#
7 33 (0.92%) Bash
8 25 (0.70%) VBA
9 18 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 17 (0.47%) R
11 14 (0.39%) Korn
12 12 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.22%) Bicep
13 8 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.19%) ABAP
14 7 (0.19%) VB
15 6 (0.17%) C++
16 4 (0.11%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 605 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 457 (12.72%) SC Cleared
3 357 (9.94%) Degree
4 196 (5.46%) PMI Certification
5 178 (4.96%) PMP
6 86 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 68 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 66 (1.84%) Master's Degree
9 61 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 55 (1.53%) CISSP
11 36 (1.00%) CISM
12 32 (0.89%) CBAP
13 29 (0.81%) Azure Certification
14 25 (0.70%) ISTQB
15 24 (0.67%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
18 19 (0.53%) ACCA
18 19 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
18 19 (0.53%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (6.24%) QA
2 217 (6.04%) GDPR
3 130 (3.62%) PMO
4 125 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 125 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 109 (3.03%) NIST
6 60 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 54 (1.50%) GRC
8 43 (1.20%) SLA
9 41 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 36 (1.00%) Accessibility
11 29 (0.81%) NCSC
12 27 (0.75%) IFRS
13 19 (0.53%) PSD2
14 15 (0.42%) COBIT
14 15 (0.42%) WCAG
15 14 (0.39%) IFRS 17
15 14 (0.39%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.36%) Basel III
17 12 (0.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 84 (2.34%) Docker
2 65 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.17%) vSphere
7 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.084%) NFS
8 3 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.056%) Firmware
9 2 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.028%) IAG
10 1 (0.028%) NDS
10 1 (0.028%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.028%) NLBS
10 1 (0.028%) SRDF
10 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.028%) XenApp
10 1 (0.028%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 112 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 83 (2.31%) Terraform
3 45 (1.25%) Ansible
4 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.58%) Grafana
6 17 (0.47%) SCCM
6 17 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.31%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.14%) Puppet
12 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.084%) Control-M
13 3 (0.084%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.084%) Nessus
14 2 (0.056%) Nagios
Vendors
1 433 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 305 (8.49%) SAP
3 204 (5.68%) Oracle
4 151 (4.20%) ServiceNow
5 134 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 91 (2.53%) Workday
7 78 (2.17%) Google
8 54 (1.50%) Databricks
9 43 (1.20%) IBM
10 42 (1.17%) VMware
11 41 (1.14%) Cisco
12 34 (0.95%) Splunk
13 31 (0.86%) Ariba
14 29 (0.81%) Fortinet
15 28 (0.78%) MuleSoft
16 25 (0.70%) Adobe
16 25 (0.70%) CyberArk
17 23 (0.64%) Planview
18 22 (0.61%) Citrix
19 20 (0.56%) Red Hat