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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,266 2,362 2,762
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.50% 9.68% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.38% 10.62% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,916 1,620 1,971
10th Percentile £363 £363 £358
25th Percentile £450 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 66 74
10th Percentile £16.15 £35.00 £14.34
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.13 £30.04
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +1.25% +6.57%
75th Percentile £80.55 £75.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £96.50 £80.29 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +7.98%

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 34,459 22,249 31,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,987 14,574 20,950
10th Percentile £319 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 932 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.67 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +6 2,166 £550 -4.35% 835
North of England 0 640 £480 -4.95% 294
South East +4 508 £561 +10.86% 385
Midlands -1 506 £485 -3.00% 185
West Midlands -2 343 £488 -7.14% 122
North West -2 308 £469 -7.59% 157
Yorkshire +9 306 £500 - 102
South West +21 240 £550 +1.62% 119
East Midlands +6 160 £463 +3.47% 62
East of England -1 126 £535 -10.83% 111
North East -8 44 £440 -19.27% 38
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
1 301 (7.06%) Confluence
2 130 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.87%) SAS
4 36 (0.84%) CMS
5 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.35%) Appian
7 13 (0.30%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (0.19%) TPMS
10 7 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.12%) Apache Spark
12 5 (0.12%) nginx
13 4 (0.094%) Camunda
14 3 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.070%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.047%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 222 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (3.49%) Microsoft Project
3 115 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
4 109 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (1.80%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Revit
9 7 (0.16%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.094%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.047%) InVision
12 2 (0.047%) Notion
12 2 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.52%) Aladdin
5 20 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
10 11 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 10 (0.23%) Endur
11 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 620 (14.53%) Azure
2 457 (10.71%) AWS
3 244 (5.72%) Power Platform
4 187 (4.38%) GCP
5 134 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
6 118 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
7 116 (2.72%) SaaS
8 83 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 59 (1.38%) Snowflake
10 52 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
11 49 (1.15%) OCI
12 45 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
12 45 (1.05%) OpenShift
13 43 (1.01%) GitHub
14 40 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
15 39 (0.91%) Figma
16 37 (0.87%) Amazon S3
16 37 (0.87%) Serverless
17 35 (0.82%) Power Automate
18 33 (0.77%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.48%) Network Security
2 60 (1.41%) Firewall
3 49 (1.15%) WAN
4 37 (0.87%) LAN
5 32 (0.75%) DNS
6 30 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (0.56%) VPN
9 21 (0.49%) BGP
10 20 (0.47%) TCP/IP
11 18 (0.42%) OSPF
12 13 (0.30%) MPLS
12 13 (0.30%) NGFW
12 13 (0.30%) SSL
13 12 (0.28%) Wireless
14 11 (0.26%) DHCP
14 11 (0.26%) Intranet
14 11 (0.26%) SAN
14 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 10 (0.23%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (4.81%) Power BI
2 92 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
3 80 (1.88%) Metadata
4 60 (1.41%) Tableau
5 44 (1.03%) SQL Server
6 43 (1.01%) Data Lake
7 30 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
7 30 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (0.61%) Relational Database
9 25 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 22 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (0.52%) NoSQL
11 21 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 19 (0.45%) Big Data
12 19 (0.45%) Power Query
13 17 (0.40%) Delta Lake
14 15 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
15 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.33%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 518 (12.14%) JIRA
2 73 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 67 (1.57%) Git
4 38 (0.89%) GitLab
5 24 (0.56%) Selenium
6 23 (0.54%) JUnit
7 17 (0.40%) Postman
8 16 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.30%) Maven
10 12 (0.28%) MLflow
11 11 (0.26%) JMeter
12 10 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.23%) Mockito
12 10 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.23%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.21%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 8 (0.19%) jMock
15 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,132 (49.98%) Social Skills
2 1,525 (35.75%) Finance
3 653 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 464 (10.88%) Public Sector
5 413 (9.68%) Banking
6 210 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
7 207 (4.85%) Retail
8 170 (3.98%) Legal
9 149 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
10 143 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
11 134 (3.14%) Marketing
12 114 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
13 113 (2.65%) Manufacturing
14 102 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 77 (1.80%) Financial Institution
16 69 (1.62%) Local Government
17 58 (1.36%) Law
18 51 (1.20%) Front Office
19 45 (1.05%) Billing
20 43 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 701 (16.43%) Analyst
2 653 (15.31%) Project Manager
3 589 (13.81%) Lead
4 518 (12.14%) Business Analyst
5 469 (10.99%) Architect
6 444 (10.41%) Senior
7 194 (4.55%) Senior Manager
8 193 (4.52%) Consultant
9 180 (4.22%) Programme Manager
10 165 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
11 141 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
12 129 (3.02%) IT Manager
13 97 (2.27%) Senior Project Manager
14 88 (2.06%) Product Manager
15 87 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
15 87 (2.04%) Technical Manager
16 85 (1.99%) Change Manager
17 81 (1.90%) Product Owner
18 79 (1.85%) Test Manager
19 74 (1.73%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.46%) REST
2 78 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.69%) Middleware
4 55 (1.29%) SOAP
5 34 (0.80%) JSON
5 34 (0.80%) OAuth
6 32 (0.75%) Kafka
7 31 (0.73%) .NET
7 31 (0.73%) XML
8 27 (0.63%) OpenID
9 26 (0.61%) AngularJS
9 26 (0.61%) RESTful
9 26 (0.61%) SAML
9 26 (0.61%) Web Services
10 24 (0.56%) Spring
11 23 (0.54%) React
11 23 (0.54%) Swagger
12 20 (0.47%) CSS
12 20 (0.47%) SailPoint
13 19 (0.45%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 329 (7.71%) Product Ownership
2 211 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 136 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 132 (3.09%) Cloud Native
5 114 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 114 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 88 (2.06%) Data Centre
7 76 (1.78%) Data Structures
8 72 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 60 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 49 (1.15%) PMI
11 47 (1.10%) Operational Technology
11 47 (1.10%) Public Cloud
12 46 (1.08%) NHS
13 44 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
14 34 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
15 33 (0.77%) FMCG
16 29 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
17 28 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
18 27 (0.63%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 121 (2.84%) Windows
2 67 (1.57%) Linux
3 28 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 27 (0.63%) Android
5 19 (0.45%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.35%) Unix
8 13 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.21%) VMS
10 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.094%) Solaris
12 3 (0.070%) AIX
12 3 (0.070%) zOS
13 2 (0.047%) CentOS
13 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.023%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.023%) HPUX
14 1 (0.023%) MVS
14 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,404 (32.91%) Agile
2 677 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
3 666 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 648 (15.19%) Project Management
5 641 (15.03%) Migration
6 552 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 543 (12.73%) Roadmaps
8 504 (11.81%) Change Management
9 480 (11.25%) Decision-Making
9 480 (11.25%) DevOps
10 466 (10.92%) Project Delivery
11 425 (9.96%) Risk Management
12 389 (9.12%) Analytics
13 367 (8.60%) AI
13 367 (8.60%) User Acceptance Testing
14 345 (8.09%) Scrum
15 334 (7.83%) Validation
16 332 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
17 323 (7.57%) CI/CD
18 312 (7.31%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 335 (7.85%) SQL
2 231 (5.41%) Python
3 83 (1.95%) Java
4 70 (1.64%) PowerShell
5 44 (1.03%) C#
6 41 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 27 (0.63%) Bash
8 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 22 (0.52%) VBA
10 16 (0.38%) Korn
11 15 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (0.35%) R
12 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
14 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 877 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 672 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 358 (8.39%) Degree
4 235 (5.51%) PMP
5 217 (5.09%) PMI Certification
6 111 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 107 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.71%) CISSP
9 59 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 55 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 53 (1.24%) CISM
12 41 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 34 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 30 (0.70%) CBAP
15 27 (0.63%) IIBA
16 26 (0.61%) ISTQB
17 25 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
18 24 (0.56%) APMP
18 24 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
19 22 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (6.61%) QA
2 222 (5.20%) GDPR
3 212 (4.97%) Data Quality
4 205 (4.81%) PMO
5 161 (3.77%) NIST
6 135 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (1.71%) GRC
8 66 (1.55%) SLA
9 60 (1.41%) Accessibility
10 53 (1.24%) PCI DSS
11 43 (1.01%) NCSC
12 36 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.68%) IFRS
14 28 (0.66%) COBIT
15 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.40%) IFRS 17
17 16 (0.38%) JSP 440
18 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.35%) HL7
18 15 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 96 (2.25%) Docker
2 66 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.23%) Postfix
4 10 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.19%) NFS
5 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.094%) SRDF
9 3 (0.070%) HDFS
9 3 (0.070%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.070%) Varnish
9 3 (0.070%) vSphere
10 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.023%) NLBS
11 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.023%) RACF
11 1 (0.023%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 136 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 84 (1.97%) Terraform
3 51 (1.20%) Ansible
4 45 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (0.91%) Grafana
6 26 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.47%) SCCM
9 10 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.21%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.19%) Puppet
12 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.094%) Istio
14 3 (0.070%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.070%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.070%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.070%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.070%) vMotion
Vendors
1 481 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 354 (8.30%) SAP
3 238 (5.58%) Oracle
4 194 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 170 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 90 (2.11%) Google
7 76 (1.78%) Databricks
8 70 (1.64%) VMware
8 70 (1.64%) Workday
9 47 (1.10%) Splunk
10 39 (0.91%) CyberArk
11 37 (0.87%) Cisco
12 34 (0.80%) Ariba
13 32 (0.75%) MuleSoft
14 31 (0.73%) IBM
15 30 (0.70%) Citrix
16 29 (0.68%) Atlassian
16 29 (0.68%) Informatica
17 27 (0.63%) Adobe
18 22 (0.52%) F5