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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,696 2,464 2,752
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.01% 10.05% 7.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.93% 11.00% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,175 1,680 1,950
10th Percentile £375 £358 £360
25th Percentile £455 £436 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £739 £750
UK median daily rate £537 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.29% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 61 82
10th Percentile £19.17 £31.64 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.50 £42.50 £30.22
Median hourly rate £53.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% - +13.27%
75th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £72.90
90th Percentile £104.05 £77.50 £85.58
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +13.27%

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 36,315 22,393 32,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.15% 91.34% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,987 14,479 20,805
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £414 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,020 2,369
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.80
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 2,413 £560 -2.61% 811
North of England 0 704 £500 - 286
South East +3 564 £550 +4.76% 447
Midlands +3 525 £500 - 178
West Midlands 0 364 £500 -4.76% 112
North West -1 338 £488 -3.94% 158
Yorkshire +9 326 £500 +2.04% 96
South West +19 276 £550 +4.67% 132
East Midlands +10 154 £465 +5.38% 65
East of England +1 134 £525 -8.70% 92
North East -9 54 £475 -7.32% 35
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
1 287 (6.11%) Confluence
2 136 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.06%) CMS
4 42 (0.89%) SAS
5 24 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.28%) Appian
8 12 (0.26%) Apache
9 8 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.13%) WordPress
12 5 (0.11%) Kentico
12 5 (0.11%) TPMS
13 4 (0.085%) Apache Spark
14 3 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.064%) nginx
14 3 (0.064%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
14 3 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 229 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 133 (2.83%) Microsoft Project
3 124 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 112 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
5 74 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.23%) Revit
8 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.11%) Trello
11 4 (0.085%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.064%) Notion
12 3 (0.064%) Sketch
13 2 (0.043%) EPLAN
14 1 (0.021%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.021%) CINEMA 4D
14 1 (0.021%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.021%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.021%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 152 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 21 (0.45%) Aladdin
7 20 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
8 18 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
9 17 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
10 15 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 15 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
11 13 (0.28%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.26%) SAP CO
12 12 (0.26%) SAP FI
12 12 (0.26%) SAP HCM
13 11 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
14 10 (0.21%) Loan IQ
14 10 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
14 10 (0.21%) Workday HCM
15 9 (0.19%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 732 (15.59%) Azure
2 520 (11.07%) AWS
3 273 (5.81%) Power Platform
4 191 (4.07%) GCP
5 151 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
5 151 (3.22%) SaaS
6 113 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
7 98 (2.09%) Entra ID
8 71 (1.51%) Snowflake
9 62 (1.32%) GitHub
10 53 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
11 52 (1.11%) OCI
11 52 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
12 48 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 45 (0.96%) Amazon S3
14 43 (0.92%) Serverless
15 36 (0.77%) Power Automate
16 35 (0.75%) Google Workspace
17 34 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
17 34 (0.72%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 72 (1.53%) Network Security
2 71 (1.51%) Firewall
3 55 (1.17%) WAN
4 42 (0.89%) LAN
5 34 (0.72%) DNS
6 29 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
7 28 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 25 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 25 (0.53%) VPN
9 21 (0.45%) BGP
10 17 (0.36%) MPLS
10 17 (0.36%) OSPF
11 15 (0.32%) DHCP
11 15 (0.32%) Wireless
12 14 (0.30%) NGFW
13 13 (0.28%) Intranet
14 12 (0.26%) BIG-IP
14 12 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 11 (0.23%) SAN
15 11 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (4.79%) Power BI
2 98 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (1.92%) Metadata
4 64 (1.36%) Tableau
5 59 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 56 (1.19%) Data Lake
7 38 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 27 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
11 23 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 23 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 20 (0.43%) Big Data
13 19 (0.40%) Oracle Database
14 17 (0.36%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (0.32%) Power Query
17 14 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
18 13 (0.28%) Looker
Development Applications
1 522 (11.12%) JIRA
2 76 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.38%) Git
4 42 (0.89%) GitLab
5 28 (0.60%) Selenium
6 26 (0.55%) JUnit
7 21 (0.45%) Postman
8 15 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.28%) JMeter
9 13 (0.28%) Maven
10 12 (0.26%) Mockito
11 11 (0.23%) MLflow
12 10 (0.21%) DbUnit
13 9 (0.19%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.19%) jMock
14 8 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.17%) Zephyr
15 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 2,341 (49.85%) Social Skills
2 1,686 (35.90%) Finance
3 707 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
4 535 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 451 (9.60%) Banking
6 249 (5.30%) Retail
7 220 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
8 207 (4.41%) Legal
9 172 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
10 164 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
11 149 (3.17%) Marketing
12 116 (2.47%) Manufacturing
13 115 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 106 (2.26%) Telecoms
15 83 (1.77%) Local Government
16 74 (1.58%) Financial Institution
17 71 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 67 (1.43%) Law
19 61 (1.30%) Aerospace
20 59 (1.26%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 736 (15.67%) Analyst
2 686 (14.61%) Project Manager
3 667 (14.20%) Lead
4 536 (11.41%) Architect
5 516 (10.99%) Business Analyst
6 491 (10.46%) Senior
7 221 (4.71%) Consultant
8 213 (4.54%) Senior Manager
9 198 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 169 (3.60%) Programme Manager
11 166 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
12 143 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 108 (2.30%) Senior Project Manager
14 98 (2.09%) Product Manager
15 97 (2.07%) Product Owner
16 90 (1.92%) Technical Manager
17 89 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
18 86 (1.83%) Change Manager
19 82 (1.75%) IT Project Manager
20 77 (1.64%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (2.64%) REST
2 85 (1.81%) Middleware
3 80 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 67 (1.43%) SOAP
5 50 (1.06%) .NET
6 43 (0.92%) OAuth
7 40 (0.85%) JSON
8 34 (0.72%) OpenID
9 32 (0.68%) RESTful
9 32 (0.68%) SAML
9 32 (0.68%) XML
10 31 (0.66%) Kafka
10 31 (0.66%) Web Services
11 30 (0.64%) AngularJS
11 30 (0.64%) Spring
12 29 (0.62%) CSS
13 28 (0.60%) SailPoint
14 27 (0.57%) React
15 25 (0.53%) HTML
16 23 (0.49%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 362 (7.71%) Product Ownership
2 225 (4.79%) Onboarding
3 165 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 153 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
5 125 (2.66%) Management Information System
6 117 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
7 99 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 81 (1.72%) Data Structures
9 80 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 77 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 57 (1.21%) Operational Technology
12 55 (1.17%) NHS
13 54 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 51 (1.09%) Public Cloud
15 49 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
16 44 (0.94%) Security Posture
17 43 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
18 41 (0.87%) FMCG
18 41 (0.87%) PMI
19 39 (0.83%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 139 (2.96%) Windows
2 77 (1.64%) Linux
3 30 (0.64%) Android
4 29 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (0.45%) Unix
7 15 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.19%) VMS
9 5 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.085%) AIX
10 4 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.085%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.085%) zOS
11 3 (0.064%) Solaris
12 2 (0.043%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.043%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.043%) HPUX
13 1 (0.021%) CentOS
13 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,523 (32.43%) Agile
2 730 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 704 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
4 687 (14.63%) Migration
5 664 (14.14%) Project Management
6 609 (12.97%) Roadmaps
7 608 (12.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 555 (11.82%) DevOps
9 539 (11.48%) Change Management
10 533 (11.35%) Decision-Making
11 508 (10.82%) Project Delivery
12 461 (9.82%) Analytics
13 450 (9.58%) Risk Management
14 429 (9.14%) AI
15 413 (8.79%) User Acceptance Testing
16 384 (8.18%) Validation
17 377 (8.03%) CI/CD
18 367 (7.82%) Scrum
19 357 (7.60%) Workshop Facilitation
20 342 (7.28%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 376 (8.01%) SQL
2 258 (5.49%) Python
3 96 (2.04%) Java
4 70 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 50 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 46 (0.98%) C#
7 28 (0.60%) Bash
8 21 (0.45%) TypeScript
8 21 (0.45%) VBA
9 17 (0.36%) Korn
10 15 (0.32%) Bicep
11 14 (0.30%) ABAP
12 13 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.21%) R
14 10 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.19%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.17%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 954 (20.32%) Security Cleared
2 739 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 348 (7.41%) Degree
4 248 (5.28%) PMP
5 218 (4.64%) PMI Certification
6 132 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 114 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 99 (2.11%) CISSP
9 73 (1.55%) CISM
10 67 (1.43%) Azure Certification
11 56 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 46 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 42 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
15 29 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
16 28 (0.60%) IIBA
17 27 (0.57%) ACCA
17 27 (0.57%) CBAP
18 26 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (5.71%) QA
2 255 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 240 (5.11%) PMO
4 207 (4.41%) GDPR
5 164 (3.49%) NIST
6 139 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 81 (1.72%) GRC
8 76 (1.62%) SLA
9 68 (1.45%) Accessibility
10 53 (1.13%) NCSC
11 51 (1.09%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 34 (0.72%) IFRS
14 32 (0.68%) COBIT
15 30 (0.64%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.38%) IFRS 17
16 18 (0.38%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.34%) PSD2
17 16 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (2.07%) Docker
2 75 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.26%) Postfix
6 11 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.21%) NFS
8 9 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.11%) vSphere
11 4 (0.085%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.085%) SRDF
11 4 (0.085%) Varnish
12 3 (0.064%) HDFS
12 3 (0.064%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.043%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.043%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.043%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.021%) NLBS
14 1 (0.021%) RACF
Systems Management
1 141 (3.00%) Kubernetes
2 105 (2.24%) Terraform
3 64 (1.36%) Ansible
4 47 (1.00%) Grafana
5 40 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 33 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.36%) SCCM
9 8 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.15%) Argo
10 7 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.11%) Puppet
12 5 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.11%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.085%) Control-M
13 4 (0.085%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.085%) vMotion
Vendors
1 560 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 380 (8.09%) SAP
3 260 (5.54%) Oracle
4 231 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 188 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 94 (2.00%) Google
7 91 (1.94%) Databricks
8 66 (1.41%) Workday
9 65 (1.38%) VMware
10 48 (1.02%) Splunk
11 47 (1.00%) Cisco
12 45 (0.96%) CyberArk
13 34 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 33 (0.70%) Adobe
15 31 (0.66%) Ariba
15 31 (0.66%) Informatica
16 26 (0.55%) Atlassian
17 25 (0.53%) F5
17 25 (0.53%) IBM
18 24 (0.51%) Citrix