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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,133 2,233 2,999
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.04% 9.18% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 10.11% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,869 1,528 2,101
10th Percentile £363 £361 £370
25th Percentile £447 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £644 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 64 84
10th Percentile £14.25 £35.00 £15.47
25th Percentile £26.13 £41.25 £27.73
Median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +23.08% -13.56%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £94.00 £80.41 £84.10
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £60.00 £46.95
% change year-on-year -32.50% +27.81% -16.69%

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 32,321 22,086 32,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.33% 90.81% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,717 14,513 21,645
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £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 1,977 834 2,155
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.67 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £75.40 £77.41 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.47%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +9 2,110 £550 -4.35% 621
North of England +1 594 £475 -5.94% 213
Midlands +3 534 £485 -3.00% 153
South East +4 497 £563 +7.14% 351
West Midlands +1 358 £492 -6.29% 99
North West -3 295 £455 -9.90% 115
Yorkshire +5 269 £492 -1.60% 84
South West +24 213 £533 -0.93% 98
East Midlands +5 174 £450 -2.70% 54
East of England -4 107 £550 - 100
North East -4 45 £444 -21.46% 18
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
1 311 (7.52%) Confluence
2 134 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.21%) SAS
4 39 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (0.90%) CMS
6 18 (0.44%) Appian
7 10 (0.24%) Apache
7 10 (0.24%) TPMS
8 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.15%) Camunda
11 6 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.097%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.073%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.073%) nginx
14 3 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 222 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (3.61%) Microsoft Project
3 110 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
4 105 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 79 (1.91%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.31%) Trello
8 11 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.15%) Sketch
10 4 (0.097%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.048%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.048%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.048%) InVision
12 1 (0.024%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.024%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.024%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.024%) UXPin
12 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 136 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 38 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 25 (0.60%) Aladdin
5 19 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 16 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.36%) Endur
8 14 (0.34%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
9 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
10 12 (0.29%) Loan IQ
10 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
12 10 (0.24%) Primavera
12 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
13 9 (0.22%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 613 (14.83%) Azure
2 419 (10.14%) AWS
3 253 (6.12%) Power Platform
4 170 (4.11%) GCP
5 142 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
7 108 (2.61%) SaaS
8 94 (2.27%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.52%) OpenShift
10 57 (1.38%) OCI
11 48 (1.16%) Snowflake
12 46 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
13 45 (1.09%) GitHub
14 40 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
15 39 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 38 (0.92%) Power Automate
17 35 (0.85%) Serverless
18 34 (0.82%) Google Workspace
19 30 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
20 28 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 74 (1.79%) Firewall
2 55 (1.33%) WAN
3 52 (1.26%) Network Security
4 43 (1.04%) LAN
5 39 (0.94%) SD-WAN
6 31 (0.75%) DNS
7 29 (0.70%) VPN
8 26 (0.63%) BGP
9 25 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.53%) OSPF
11 19 (0.46%) MPLS
11 19 (0.46%) SSH
12 17 (0.41%) SSL
13 16 (0.39%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.36%) Wireless
15 12 (0.29%) Broadband
15 12 (0.29%) DHCP
15 12 (0.29%) NGFW
16 11 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (5.23%) Power BI
2 86 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (1.77%) Tableau
4 57 (1.38%) Metadata
5 35 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 35 (0.85%) SQL Server
6 32 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
7 29 (0.70%) NoSQL
8 27 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.60%) Oracle Database
10 24 (0.58%) Power Query
11 23 (0.56%) Relational Database
12 20 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (0.44%) MySQL
14 15 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.34%) Big Data
16 13 (0.31%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.31%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
17 11 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 523 (12.65%) JIRA
2 91 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 85 (2.06%) Git
4 60 (1.45%) GitLab
5 42 (1.02%) Selenium
6 38 (0.92%) JUnit
7 16 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.31%) Maven
9 12 (0.29%) Postman
10 11 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.27%) JMeter
10 11 (0.27%) Mockito
10 11 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.24%) MLflow
11 10 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
11 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.24%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.15%) Axure RP
General
1 2,155 (52.14%) Social Skills
2 1,438 (34.79%) Finance
3 656 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 454 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 400 (9.68%) Banking
6 203 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
7 171 (4.14%) Retail
8 161 (3.90%) Legal
9 145 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
10 142 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
11 129 (3.12%) Marketing
12 123 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
13 100 (2.42%) Telecoms
14 97 (2.35%) Manufacturing
15 80 (1.94%) Financial Institution
16 65 (1.57%) Front Office
17 63 (1.52%) Law
17 63 (1.52%) Local Government
18 52 (1.26%) Investment Banking
19 45 (1.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 743 (17.98%) Analyst
2 627 (15.17%) Project Manager
3 547 (13.23%) Business Analyst
4 532 (12.87%) Lead
5 452 (10.94%) Architect
6 400 (9.68%) Senior
7 219 (5.30%) Consultant
8 171 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
9 170 (4.11%) Programme Manager
10 167 (4.04%) Senior Manager
11 135 (3.27%) Delivery Manager
12 115 (2.78%) IT Manager
13 87 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
14 86 (2.08%) Change Manager
15 85 (2.06%) Data Analyst
16 82 (1.98%) Senior Project Manager
17 78 (1.89%) Product Manager
17 78 (1.89%) Technical Manager
18 75 (1.81%) Developer
19 74 (1.79%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (2.95%) REST
2 85 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 64 (1.55%) Middleware
4 56 (1.35%) SOAP
5 38 (0.92%) OAuth
6 36 (0.87%) OpenID
7 35 (0.85%) JSON
8 34 (0.82%) .NET
9 32 (0.77%) SAML
9 32 (0.77%) XML
10 31 (0.75%) Kafka
11 28 (0.68%) pytest
12 27 (0.65%) React
13 26 (0.63%) RESTful
14 25 (0.60%) AngularJS
14 25 (0.60%) HTML
15 24 (0.58%) Web Services
16 23 (0.56%) Playwright
16 23 (0.56%) Spring
17 22 (0.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 324 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 220 (5.32%) Onboarding
3 127 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
4 116 (2.81%) Cloud Native
5 105 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
6 99 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 97 (2.35%) Data Centre
8 78 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 57 (1.38%) Data Structures
10 56 (1.35%) PMI
11 49 (1.19%) NHS
11 49 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 45 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 44 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
14 38 (0.92%) CMDB
15 36 (0.87%) Operational Technology
16 33 (0.80%) FMCG
17 32 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
17 32 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
18 28 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.10%) Windows
2 69 (1.67%) Linux
3 34 (0.82%) Unix
4 25 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.58%) Android
5 24 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.31%) VMS
9 9 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.073%) AIX
12 2 (0.048%) CentOS
13 1 (0.024%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,356 (32.81%) Agile
2 729 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
3 630 (15.24%) Project Management
4 625 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 621 (15.03%) Migration
6 559 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 517 (12.51%) Change Management
8 488 (11.81%) Roadmaps
9 463 (11.20%) DevOps
10 460 (11.13%) Project Delivery
11 428 (10.36%) Decision-Making
12 380 (9.19%) Analytics
13 372 (9.00%) Risk Management
14 358 (8.66%) Scrum
15 345 (8.35%) User Acceptance Testing
16 336 (8.13%) Workshop Facilitation
17 328 (7.94%) Requirements Gathering
18 317 (7.67%) Validation
19 295 (7.14%) AI
20 292 (7.07%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 317 (7.67%) SQL
2 265 (6.41%) Python
3 87 (2.11%) PowerShell
4 85 (2.06%) Java
5 48 (1.16%) C#
5 48 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 28 (0.68%) Bash
7 23 (0.56%) TypeScript
8 22 (0.53%) VBA
9 20 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 17 (0.41%) Korn
11 16 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.36%) R
13 10 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.22%) Bicep
14 9 (0.22%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.17%) ABAP
15 7 (0.17%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.15%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 823 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 634 (15.34%) SC Cleared
3 380 (9.19%) Degree
4 222 (5.37%) PMP
5 221 (5.35%) PMI Certification
6 103 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 93 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 69 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 67 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 66 (1.60%) CISSP
11 47 (1.14%) CISM
12 38 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.80%) CBAP
14 28 (0.68%) AWS Certification
15 25 (0.60%) IIBA
15 25 (0.60%) ISTQB
15 25 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
16 24 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
17 23 (0.56%) APMP
18 21 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (6.82%) QA
2 239 (5.78%) GDPR
3 184 (4.45%) Data Quality
4 170 (4.11%) PMO
5 154 (3.73%) NIST
6 147 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 69 (1.67%) GRC
8 63 (1.52%) PCI DSS
9 59 (1.43%) SLA
10 46 (1.11%) NCSC
11 44 (1.06%) Accessibility
12 43 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.70%) COBIT
13 29 (0.70%) IFRS
14 22 (0.53%) SOC 2
15 19 (0.46%) PSD2
16 18 (0.44%) IFRS 17
17 15 (0.36%) HL7
17 15 (0.36%) WCAG
18 13 (0.31%) MiFID
System Software
1 98 (2.37%) Docker
2 74 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 37 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.15%) NFS
6 6 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.12%) Postfix
7 5 (0.12%) vSphere
8 3 (0.073%) HDFS
8 3 (0.073%) SRDF
8 3 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.048%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) Firmware
10 1 (0.024%) NLBS
10 1 (0.024%) RACF
10 1 (0.024%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 142 (3.44%) Kubernetes
2 82 (1.98%) Terraform
3 53 (1.28%) Ansible
4 50 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.77%) Grafana
6 24 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.44%) SCCM
9 14 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 7 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.17%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.15%) Kibana
13 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.097%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.097%) Istio
14 4 (0.097%) PingFederate
15 3 (0.073%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.073%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 470 (11.37%) Microsoft
2 342 (8.27%) SAP
3 254 (6.15%) Oracle
4 200 (4.84%) ServiceNow
5 155 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 89 (2.15%) Google
7 81 (1.96%) Workday
8 69 (1.67%) VMware
9 60 (1.45%) Databricks
10 49 (1.19%) Cisco
11 48 (1.16%) Splunk
12 45 (1.09%) IBM
13 35 (0.85%) CyberArk
14 33 (0.80%) Ariba
15 29 (0.70%) Citrix
16 28 (0.68%) MuleSoft
17 27 (0.65%) Fortinet
18 25 (0.60%) F5
18 25 (0.60%) Informatica
19 24 (0.58%) Red Hat