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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,606 2,416 2,751
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.86% 9.91% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.76% 10.86% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,121 1,651 1,946
10th Percentile £375 £358 £359
25th Percentile £450 £436 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +1.90% -2.10% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 59 82
10th Percentile £19.08 £34.03 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.50 £43.75 £30.22
Median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +13.27%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.38 £72.90
90th Percentile £104.00 £76.75 £85.58
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £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 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 2,363 £554 -3.65% 844
North of England -1 689 £500 - 292
South East +2 546 £550 +4.76% 453
Midlands +4 531 £500 - 194
West Midlands -1 363 £500 -4.76% 118
North West -1 330 £484 -4.63% 166
Yorkshire +10 323 £500 +1.01% 99
South West +18 272 £550 +4.76% 123
East Midlands +10 161 £465 +5.08% 76
East of England -2 130 £525 -12.50% 88
North East -9 50 £463 -10.84% 31
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
1 285 (6.19%) Confluence
2 134 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 49 (1.06%) CMS
4 42 (0.91%) SAS
5 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.26%) Apache
8 11 (0.24%) Appian
9 9 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.13%) WordPress
13 5 (0.11%) Kentico
13 5 (0.11%) TPMS
14 4 (0.087%) Apache Spark
15 3 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.065%) nginx
15 3 (0.065%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.065%) Palantir Foundry
15 3 (0.065%) WebSphere
Applications
1 228 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 132 (2.87%) Microsoft Project
3 123 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 112 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
5 74 (1.61%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.22%) Revit
8 8 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.11%) Trello
10 4 (0.087%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.065%) Sketch
12 2 (0.043%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.043%) Notion
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.022%) Autodesk Smoke
13 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.022%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 146 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 58 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 25 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 21 (0.46%) Aladdin
7 20 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
8 18 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
9 16 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
10 15 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
11 14 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
12 13 (0.28%) SAP ERP
13 12 (0.26%) SAP CO
13 12 (0.26%) SAP FI
13 12 (0.26%) SAP HCM
14 11 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
15 10 (0.22%) Loan IQ
16 9 (0.20%) NEC Housing
16 9 (0.20%) Workday HCM
17 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 705 (15.31%) Azure
2 503 (10.92%) AWS
3 270 (5.86%) Power Platform
4 190 (4.13%) GCP
5 150 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
6 143 (3.10%) SaaS
7 117 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
8 99 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 69 (1.50%) Snowflake
10 61 (1.32%) GitHub
11 52 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
11 52 (1.13%) OCI
12 49 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
13 44 (0.96%) Amazon S3
14 43 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
15 42 (0.91%) Serverless
16 39 (0.85%) OpenShift
17 38 (0.83%) Google Workspace
18 35 (0.76%) Power Automate
19 34 (0.74%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.50%) Network Security
2 66 (1.43%) Firewall
3 53 (1.15%) WAN
4 40 (0.87%) LAN
5 35 (0.76%) DNS
6 28 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 24 (0.52%) VPN
9 23 (0.50%) TCP/IP
10 21 (0.46%) BGP
11 17 (0.37%) MPLS
11 17 (0.37%) OSPF
12 15 (0.33%) DHCP
13 14 (0.30%) NGFW
14 13 (0.28%) Intranet
15 12 (0.26%) BIG-IP
15 12 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 12 (0.26%) Wireless
16 11 (0.24%) SAN
17 9 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (4.80%) Power BI
2 93 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
3 87 (1.89%) Metadata
4 63 (1.37%) Tableau
5 58 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 49 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 37 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
11 25 (0.54%) NoSQL
12 23 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.48%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.41%) Big Data
14 19 (0.41%) Oracle Database
15 17 (0.37%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
17 14 (0.30%) Power Query
18 13 (0.28%) Looker
Development Applications
1 512 (11.12%) JIRA
2 78 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 63 (1.37%) Git
4 42 (0.91%) GitLab
5 28 (0.61%) Selenium
6 26 (0.56%) JUnit
7 19 (0.41%) Postman
8 15 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.30%) Maven
10 13 (0.28%) JMeter
11 12 (0.26%) Mockito
12 11 (0.24%) MLflow
13 10 (0.22%) DbUnit
14 9 (0.20%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.20%) jMock
15 8 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.17%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.17%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 2,284 (49.59%) Social Skills
2 1,643 (35.67%) Finance
3 699 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
4 523 (11.35%) Public Sector
5 443 (9.62%) Banking
6 238 (5.17%) Retail
7 214 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
8 203 (4.41%) Legal
9 170 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
10 162 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
11 140 (3.04%) Marketing
12 117 (2.54%) Manufacturing
13 109 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
14 106 (2.30%) Telecoms
15 81 (1.76%) Local Government
16 72 (1.56%) Financial Institution
17 64 (1.39%) Law
18 62 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 58 (1.26%) Aerospace
19 58 (1.26%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 720 (15.63%) Analyst
2 686 (14.89%) Project Manager
3 654 (14.20%) Lead
4 526 (11.42%) Architect
5 510 (11.07%) Business Analyst
6 484 (10.51%) Senior
7 213 (4.62%) Senior Manager
8 210 (4.56%) Consultant
9 191 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
10 169 (3.67%) Programme Manager
11 162 (3.52%) Delivery Manager
12 141 (3.06%) IT Manager
13 108 (2.34%) Senior Project Manager
14 96 (2.08%) Product Manager
15 92 (2.00%) Product Owner
16 90 (1.95%) Technical Manager
17 87 (1.89%) Change Manager
18 85 (1.85%) Senior Analyst
19 80 (1.74%) IT Project Manager
20 72 (1.56%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (2.56%) REST
2 84 (1.82%) Middleware
3 80 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 62 (1.35%) SOAP
5 49 (1.06%) .NET
6 42 (0.91%) OAuth
7 35 (0.76%) JSON
8 33 (0.72%) OpenID
9 32 (0.69%) RESTful
10 31 (0.67%) Web Services
10 31 (0.67%) XML
11 29 (0.63%) Kafka
11 29 (0.63%) SAML
12 28 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 28 (0.61%) Spring
13 27 (0.59%) CSS
14 26 (0.56%) React
15 25 (0.54%) SailPoint
16 23 (0.50%) ADO
16 23 (0.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 356 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 220 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 161 (3.50%) Cloud Native
4 149 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 122 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 117 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 97 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 80 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 79 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 73 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 56 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 52 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 52 (1.13%) NHS
13 51 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 46 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
15 42 (0.91%) Security Posture
16 41 (0.89%) PMI
16 41 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
17 38 (0.83%) CMDB
17 38 (0.83%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 143 (3.10%) Windows
2 77 (1.67%) Linux
3 30 (0.65%) Android
4 29 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (0.43%) Unix
7 20 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.087%) AIX
9 4 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.087%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.087%) zOS
10 3 (0.065%) Solaris
11 2 (0.043%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.043%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.043%) HPUX
12 1 (0.022%) MVS
12 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,484 (32.22%) Agile
2 719 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 691 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 671 (14.57%) Migration
5 660 (14.33%) Project Management
6 601 (13.05%) Roadmaps
7 599 (13.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 543 (11.79%) DevOps
9 534 (11.59%) Change Management
10 524 (11.38%) Decision-Making
11 503 (10.92%) Project Delivery
12 443 (9.62%) Analytics
12 443 (9.62%) Risk Management
13 405 (8.79%) AI
14 396 (8.60%) User Acceptance Testing
15 374 (8.12%) Validation
16 366 (7.95%) CI/CD
17 357 (7.75%) Scrum
18 346 (7.51%) Workshop Facilitation
19 338 (7.34%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 373 (8.10%) SQL
2 251 (5.45%) Python
3 94 (2.04%) Java
4 72 (1.56%) PowerShell
5 47 (1.02%) JavaScript
6 46 (1.00%) C#
7 33 (0.72%) Bash
8 21 (0.46%) VBA
9 20 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.37%) Korn
11 15 (0.33%) Bicep
12 13 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.26%) ABAP
14 11 (0.24%) R
15 10 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.22%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.20%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.15%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 933 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 724 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 341 (7.40%) Degree
4 242 (5.25%) PMP
5 211 (4.58%) PMI Certification
6 129 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 111 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 98 (2.13%) CISSP
9 71 (1.54%) CISM
10 60 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 55 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 44 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 42 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 34 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.61%) IIBA
15 28 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
16 27 (0.59%) ACCA
17 25 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 25 (0.54%) CBAP
17 25 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (5.78%) QA
2 241 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 234 (5.08%) PMO
4 203 (4.41%) GDPR
5 162 (3.52%) NIST
6 140 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 81 (1.76%) GRC
8 79 (1.72%) SLA
9 67 (1.45%) Accessibility
10 53 (1.15%) NCSC
11 50 (1.09%) PCI DSS
12 37 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.72%) IFRS
14 32 (0.69%) COBIT
15 29 (0.63%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.39%) JSP 440
17 17 (0.37%) IFRS 17
18 16 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.35%) PSD2
18 16 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (2.08%) Docker
2 76 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.26%) Postfix
6 11 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.22%) NFS
8 9 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.11%) vSphere
11 4 (0.087%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.087%) SRDF
11 4 (0.087%) Varnish
12 3 (0.065%) HDFS
12 3 (0.065%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.043%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.043%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.043%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.022%) NLBS
14 1 (0.022%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 139 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 99 (2.15%) Terraform
3 62 (1.35%) Ansible
4 48 (1.04%) Grafana
5 45 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 33 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.46%) 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 (0.087%) Control-M
13 4 (0.087%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.087%) vMotion
Vendors
1 547 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 371 (8.05%) SAP
3 260 (5.64%) Oracle
4 221 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 183 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 100 (2.17%) Google
7 88 (1.91%) Databricks
8 70 (1.52%) VMware
9 63 (1.37%) Workday
10 47 (1.02%) Splunk
11 43 (0.93%) Cisco
12 40 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 32 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 31 (0.67%) Adobe
14 31 (0.67%) Ariba
15 30 (0.65%) Informatica
16 29 (0.63%) Citrix
17 27 (0.59%) IBM
18 25 (0.54%) Atlassian
18 25 (0.54%) F5