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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 18 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,519 2,311 3,035
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.18% 8.46% 8.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.64% 9.52% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,419 1,441 2,078
10th Percentile £365 £363 £375
25th Percentile £447 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 58 88
10th Percentile £17.00 £35.00 £23.14
25th Percentile £30.68 £39.01 £32.88
Median hourly rate £47.48 £60.00 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -20.88% +18.75% -3.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.69 £64.63
90th Percentile £93.75 £80.18 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £40.92 £57.50 £51.96
% change year-on-year -28.83% +10.66% -0.64%

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 27,850 24,270 31,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.47% 88.85% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,794 14,913 21,576
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,749 797 1,433
10th Percentile £15.21 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.20% +23.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.25
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.07% +20.71%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +7 1,791 £550 - 949
North of England +1 535 £475 -9.52% 282
Midlands -1 417 £485 -7.62% 245
South East +8 396 £525 - 613
North West +2 279 £475 -9.52% 128
West Midlands -4 279 £500 -4.76% 132
Yorkshire +6 228 £490 -2.05% 134
South West +12 197 £550 +10.00% 174
East Midlands +7 138 £450 -4.87% 104
East of England -3 103 £525 -4.55% 213
North East +7 39 £450 -27.92% 21
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
1 244 (6.93%) Confluence
2 113 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.94%) SAS
4 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.77%) CMS
6 11 (0.31%) Appian
7 8 (0.23%) TPMS
8 7 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.20%) Camunda
9 6 (0.17%) Apache
10 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 3 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.085%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.085%) nginx
11 3 (0.085%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 203 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (3.41%) Microsoft Project
3 116 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
4 105 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 66 (1.88%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.51%) Trello
7 12 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.057%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.057%) InVision
12 1 (0.028%) Blender
12 1 (0.028%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.028%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.028%) Notion
12 1 (0.028%) Simulink
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.68%) Endur
5 20 (0.57%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.48%) Aladdin
7 16 (0.45%) Primavera
7 16 (0.45%) SAP HCM
8 14 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
9 13 (0.37%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.37%) SAP EWM
10 12 (0.34%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
10 12 (0.34%) SAP FI
11 11 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
12 10 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
13 9 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
13 9 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.26%) SAP PP
13 9 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 514 (14.61%) Azure
2 345 (9.80%) AWS
3 243 (6.91%) Power Platform
4 168 (4.77%) GCP
5 115 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
6 108 (3.07%) SaaS
7 96 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (2.02%) Entra ID
9 50 (1.42%) OpenShift
10 46 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (1.17%) GitHub
12 40 (1.14%) OCI
13 38 (1.08%) Serverless
14 34 (0.97%) Power Automate
15 32 (0.91%) Snowflake
16 30 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
17 29 (0.82%) PowerApps
18 27 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
19 23 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
20 21 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 78 (2.22%) Firewall
2 34 (0.97%) WAN
3 32 (0.91%) Network Security
4 28 (0.80%) VPN
5 25 (0.71%) LAN
5 25 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 22 (0.63%) DNS
6 22 (0.63%) SSH
7 15 (0.43%) SSL
8 14 (0.40%) MPLS
8 14 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.37%) BGP
9 13 (0.37%) Broadband
9 13 (0.37%) Wireless
10 11 (0.31%) Internet
10 11 (0.31%) Intranet
11 10 (0.28%) DHCP
12 9 (0.26%) OSPF
12 9 (0.26%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (6.11%) Power BI
2 70 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (1.90%) Tableau
4 51 (1.45%) Metadata
5 29 (0.82%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.80%) Power Query
7 23 (0.65%) BigQuery
7 23 (0.65%) NoSQL
7 23 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 20 (0.57%) Oracle Database
8 20 (0.57%) SQL Server
9 19 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.51%) MySQL
11 16 (0.45%) DynamoDB
12 15 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (0.31%) Big Data
14 11 (0.31%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 431 (12.25%) JIRA
2 70 (1.99%) Git
3 65 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.45%) GitLab
5 30 (0.85%) Selenium
6 21 (0.60%) JUnit
7 18 (0.51%) Maven
8 13 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.26%) Gradle
11 8 (0.23%) MLflow
12 7 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
12 7 (0.20%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.17%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) Postman
14 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
15 4 (0.11%) Axure RP
15 4 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 1,866 (53.03%) Social Skills
2 1,156 (32.85%) Finance
3 598 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
4 336 (9.55%) Banking
5 332 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 176 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 153 (4.35%) Retail
8 148 (4.21%) Legal
9 131 (3.72%) Marketing
10 113 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
11 109 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
12 108 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
13 100 (2.84%) Manufacturing
14 99 (2.81%) Telecoms
15 73 (2.07%) Front Office
16 56 (1.59%) Law
17 53 (1.51%) Financial Institution
18 52 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 52 (1.48%) Investment Banking
19 45 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 684 (19.44%) Analyst
2 529 (15.03%) Project Manager
3 492 (13.98%) Business Analyst
4 387 (11.00%) Lead
5 378 (10.74%) Architect
6 288 (8.18%) Senior
7 243 (6.91%) Consultant
8 144 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
9 122 (3.47%) Programme Manager
10 115 (3.27%) Senior Manager
11 88 (2.50%) IT Manager
12 83 (2.36%) Delivery Manager
13 75 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
14 74 (2.10%) Data Analyst
15 71 (2.02%) Product Owner
16 70 (1.99%) Developer
17 68 (1.93%) Technical Manager
18 67 (1.90%) Change Manager
19 65 (1.85%) Senior Business Analyst
19 65 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (2.42%) REST
2 61 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
3 36 (1.02%) Middleware
4 35 (0.99%) SOAP
5 32 (0.91%) JSON
6 31 (0.88%) .NET
7 30 (0.85%) Kafka
8 29 (0.82%) OAuth
9 27 (0.77%) XML
10 25 (0.71%) HTML
11 24 (0.68%) SailPoint
12 22 (0.63%) RESTful
13 20 (0.57%) OpenID
14 19 (0.54%) React
15 18 (0.51%) pytest
15 18 (0.51%) Spring Boot
16 17 (0.48%) ADO
17 16 (0.45%) Playwright
17 16 (0.45%) SAML
18 15 (0.43%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 276 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 174 (4.94%) Onboarding
3 99 (2.81%) Cloud Native
4 91 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 87 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 84 (2.39%) Data Centre
7 83 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 75 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 56 (1.59%) PMI
10 49 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 38 (1.08%) CMDB
13 34 (0.97%) NHS
14 29 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 27 (0.77%) Operational Technology
16 26 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
16 26 (0.74%) Reinsurance
17 25 (0.71%) Data Structures
17 25 (0.71%) FMCG
17 25 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (2.81%) Windows
2 48 (1.36%) Linux
3 32 (0.91%) Unix
4 20 (0.57%) Windows 10
4 20 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.34%) VMS
6 11 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.14%) Solaris
9 4 (0.11%) CentOS
10 3 (0.085%) Android
11 1 (0.028%) AIX
11 1 (0.028%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,142 (32.45%) Agile
2 660 (18.76%) Problem-Solving
3 566 (16.08%) Project Management
4 496 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 495 (14.07%) Migration
6 486 (13.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 426 (12.11%) Roadmaps
8 423 (12.02%) Change Management
9 409 (11.62%) Project Delivery
10 326 (9.26%) Decision-Making
11 318 (9.04%) DevOps
12 303 (8.61%) Risk Management
13 295 (8.38%) Analytics
14 292 (8.30%) Scrum
15 283 (8.04%) Requirements Gathering
15 283 (8.04%) Workshop Facilitation
16 265 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
17 263 (7.47%) Waterfall
18 242 (6.88%) User Acceptance Testing
19 241 (6.85%) AI
Programming Languages
1 271 (7.70%) SQL
2 247 (7.02%) Python
3 76 (2.16%) Java
3 76 (2.16%) PowerShell
4 50 (1.42%) JavaScript
5 39 (1.11%) C#
6 33 (0.94%) Bash
7 24 (0.68%) VBA
8 18 (0.51%) R
8 18 (0.51%) TypeScript
9 17 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (0.40%) Korn
11 13 (0.37%) ABAP
12 12 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.20%) VB
15 6 (0.17%) Bicep
15 6 (0.17%) C++
16 5 (0.14%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 583 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 446 (12.67%) SC Cleared
3 352 (10.00%) Degree
4 191 (5.43%) PMI Certification
5 172 (4.89%) PMP
6 80 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 65 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 65 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 63 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 55 (1.56%) CISSP
10 36 (1.02%) CISM
11 32 (0.91%) CBAP
12 30 (0.85%) Azure Certification
13 27 (0.77%) AWS Certification
14 22 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
16 19 (0.54%) ACCA
16 19 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
17 17 (0.48%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (6.39%) QA
2 204 (5.80%) GDPR
3 130 (3.69%) PMO
4 119 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 111 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 98 (2.78%) NIST
7 50 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 48 (1.36%) GRC
9 42 (1.19%) SLA
10 38 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 34 (0.97%) Accessibility
12 25 (0.71%) IFRS
13 20 (0.57%) NCSC
14 16 (0.45%) PSD2
15 15 (0.43%) COBIT
15 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
15 15 (0.43%) MiFID
16 14 (0.40%) Basel III
16 14 (0.40%) WCAG
17 13 (0.37%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 80 (2.27%) Docker
2 63 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.17%) vSphere
6 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.085%) NFS
7 3 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.057%) Firmware
8 2 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
9 1 (0.028%) NDS
9 1 (0.028%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.028%) SRDF
9 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.028%) XenApp
9 1 (0.028%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 106 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 83 (2.36%) Terraform
3 46 (1.31%) Ansible
4 31 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.63%) Grafana
6 19 (0.54%) SCCM
7 16 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.17%) Kibana
11 6 (0.17%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.14%) Puppet
13 4 (0.11%) Argo
13 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.085%) Control-M
14 3 (0.085%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.085%) Nessus
Vendors
1 443 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 307 (8.72%) SAP
3 204 (5.80%) Oracle
4 150 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 137 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 91 (2.59%) Workday
7 77 (2.19%) Google
8 55 (1.56%) Databricks
9 44 (1.25%) IBM
10 42 (1.19%) VMware
11 33 (0.94%) Cisco
12 30 (0.85%) Ariba
13 29 (0.82%) MuleSoft
13 29 (0.82%) Splunk
14 28 (0.80%) Fortinet
15 25 (0.71%) Adobe
16 24 (0.68%) Planview
17 22 (0.63%) Citrix
18 19 (0.54%) Informatica
18 19 (0.54%) Red Hat