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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,141 2,243 3,019
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.06% 9.16% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 10.09% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,871 1,526 2,118
10th Percentile £363 £363 £371
25th Percentile £445 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £548
% change year-on-year - -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 64 85
10th Percentile £14.25 £35.00 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.69 £41.25 £26.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £60.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +26.32% -15.88%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £93.88 £80.41 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £60.00 £46.39
% change year-on-year -32.27% +29.34% -17.80%

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 32,374 22,226 32,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.74% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,766 14,506 21,651
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 1,980 825 2,147
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.83
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.81 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +8 2,105 £550 -4.35% 636
North of England +2 596 £475 -6.31% 228
Midlands +3 540 £485 -3.00% 150
South East +4 504 £550 +4.76% 366
West Midlands +1 363 £492 -6.29% 98
North West -2 294 £452 -10.94% 121
Yorkshire +4 271 £492 -1.60% 90
South West +28 212 £540 -0.92% 94
East Midlands +5 175 £450 - 52
East of England -1 107 £550 - 95
North East -3 46 £450 -21.05% 19
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
1 315 (7.61%) Confluence
2 134 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.21%) SAS
4 39 (0.94%) CMS
4 39 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.43%) Appian
6 10 (0.24%) Apache
6 10 (0.24%) TPMS
7 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (0.14%) Camunda
10 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.097%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.072%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.072%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.072%) nginx
13 3 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 220 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (3.65%) Microsoft Project
3 111 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 78 (1.88%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.34%) Trello
8 11 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.14%) 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
1 137 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
3 39 (0.94%) 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
11 11 (0.27%) Primavera
12 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
13 8 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
13 8 (0.19%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 611 (14.75%) Azure
2 420 (10.14%) AWS
3 254 (6.13%) Power Platform
4 169 (4.08%) GCP
5 141 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
6 129 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
7 110 (2.66%) SaaS
8 96 (2.32%) Entra ID
9 65 (1.57%) OpenShift
10 56 (1.35%) OCI
11 47 (1.13%) Snowflake
12 46 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.11%) GitHub
13 40 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 40 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
14 39 (0.94%) Power Automate
15 35 (0.85%) Serverless
16 34 (0.82%) Google Workspace
17 31 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
18 28 (0.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 75 (1.81%) Firewall
2 58 (1.40%) WAN
3 53 (1.28%) Network Security
4 44 (1.06%) LAN
5 42 (1.01%) SD-WAN
6 32 (0.77%) DNS
7 30 (0.72%) 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 16 (0.39%) SSL
12 16 (0.39%) TCP/IP
13 15 (0.36%) Wireless
14 13 (0.31%) DHCP
15 12 (0.29%) Broadband
15 12 (0.29%) NGFW
16 11 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (5.24%) Power BI
2 85 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (1.84%) Tableau
4 56 (1.35%) Metadata
5 35 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 35 (0.85%) SQL Server
6 31 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
7 29 (0.70%) NoSQL
8 27 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.60%) Oracle Database
10 24 (0.58%) Relational Database
11 23 (0.56%) Power Query
12 20 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (0.43%) MySQL
14 15 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.34%) Big Data
16 13 (0.31%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
17 12 (0.29%) BigQuery
18 11 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 530 (12.80%) JIRA
2 90 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 85 (2.05%) Git
4 60 (1.45%) GitLab
5 42 (1.01%) 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 (0.14%) Axure RP
General
1 2,164 (52.26%) Social Skills
2 1,435 (34.65%) Finance
3 655 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 458 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 401 (9.68%) Banking
6 202 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 171 (4.13%) Retail
8 160 (3.86%) Legal
9 145 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
10 141 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
11 126 (3.04%) Marketing
12 124 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
13 99 (2.39%) Manufacturing
14 98 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 78 (1.88%) Financial Institution
16 66 (1.59%) Front Office
17 63 (1.52%) Law
18 62 (1.50%) Local Government
19 53 (1.28%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 747 (18.04%) Analyst
2 632 (15.26%) Project Manager
3 551 (13.31%) Business Analyst
4 526 (12.70%) Lead
5 451 (10.89%) Architect
6 392 (9.47%) Senior
7 224 (5.41%) Consultant
8 171 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
9 168 (4.06%) Programme Manager
10 162 (3.91%) Senior Manager
11 134 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 114 (2.75%) IT Manager
13 87 (2.10%) Data Analyst
14 86 (2.08%) Change Manager
14 86 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
15 82 (1.98%) Senior Project Manager
16 77 (1.86%) Product Manager
16 77 (1.86%) Technical Manager
17 74 (1.79%) Developer
17 74 (1.79%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (2.95%) REST
2 84 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
3 62 (1.50%) Middleware
4 56 (1.35%) SOAP
5 37 (0.89%) OAuth
6 35 (0.85%) JSON
6 35 (0.85%) OpenID
7 34 (0.82%) .NET
8 32 (0.77%) SAML
9 31 (0.75%) Kafka
9 31 (0.75%) XML
10 28 (0.68%) pytest
11 27 (0.65%) React
12 26 (0.63%) RESTful
13 25 (0.60%) HTML
14 24 (0.58%) AngularJS
15 23 (0.56%) Playwright
15 23 (0.56%) Web Services
16 22 (0.53%) SailPoint
16 22 (0.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 322 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 221 (5.34%) Onboarding
3 129 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
4 115 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 104 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
6 100 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 98 (2.37%) Data Centre
8 79 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 56 (1.35%) PMI
10 55 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 51 (1.23%) Public Cloud
12 49 (1.18%) NHS
13 45 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 43 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 38 (0.92%) CMDB
16 37 (0.89%) Operational Technology
17 33 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
18 30 (0.72%) FMCG
19 29 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
20 28 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.12%) Windows
2 68 (1.64%) Linux
3 34 (0.82%) Unix
4 25 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 23 (0.56%) Android
7 19 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.31%) VMS
9 9 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.072%) AIX
12 2 (0.048%) CentOS
13 1 (0.024%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,356 (32.75%) Agile
2 731 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 640 (15.46%) Project Management
4 622 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 621 (15.00%) Migration
6 559 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 516 (12.46%) Change Management
8 498 (12.03%) Roadmaps
9 461 (11.13%) DevOps
10 460 (11.11%) Project Delivery
11 426 (10.29%) Decision-Making
12 376 (9.08%) Analytics
13 371 (8.96%) Risk Management
14 356 (8.60%) Scrum
15 344 (8.31%) User Acceptance Testing
16 339 (8.19%) Workshop Facilitation
17 327 (7.90%) Requirements Gathering
18 314 (7.58%) Validation
19 298 (7.20%) AI
20 292 (7.05%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 316 (7.63%) SQL
2 264 (6.38%) Python
3 88 (2.13%) PowerShell
4 85 (2.05%) Java
5 49 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.16%) C#
7 28 (0.68%) Bash
8 23 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 21 (0.51%) VBA
10 20 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (0.41%) Korn
12 16 (0.39%) Shell Script
13 15 (0.36%) R
14 10 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.22%) Bicep
15 9 (0.22%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.17%) ABAP
16 7 (0.17%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.14%) VB
18 5 (0.12%) C++
Qualifications
1 820 (19.80%) Security Cleared
2 633 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 384 (9.27%) Degree
4 230 (5.55%) PMP
5 229 (5.53%) PMI Certification
6 106 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 87 (2.10%) DV Cleared
8 70 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 67 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 65 (1.57%) CISSP
11 47 (1.13%) 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
16 24 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
17 23 (0.56%) APMP
17 23 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
18 21 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (6.81%) QA
2 236 (5.70%) GDPR
3 181 (4.37%) Data Quality
4 170 (4.11%) PMO
5 155 (3.74%) NIST
6 149 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 69 (1.67%) GRC
8 62 (1.50%) PCI DSS
9 58 (1.40%) SLA
10 45 (1.09%) NCSC
11 44 (1.06%) Accessibility
12 43 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.70%) COBIT
13 29 (0.70%) IFRS
14 20 (0.48%) SOC 2
15 19 (0.46%) PSD2
16 18 (0.43%) IFRS 17
17 15 (0.36%) HL7
17 15 (0.36%) WCAG
18 13 (0.31%) MiFID
System Software
1 97 (2.34%) Docker
2 75 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 37 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.14%) NFS
6 6 (0.14%) vSphere
7 5 (0.12%) Postfix
8 3 (0.072%) HDFS
8 3 (0.072%) SRDF
8 3 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.048%) Microsoft App-V
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
10 1 (0.024%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 141 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 81 (1.96%) Terraform
3 54 (1.30%) Ansible
4 50 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.77%) Grafana
6 25 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) Kibana
12 6 (0.14%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.097%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.097%) Istio
13 4 (0.097%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.097%) vMotion
14 3 (0.072%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 472 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 343 (8.28%) SAP
3 252 (6.09%) Oracle
4 197 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 156 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.13%) Google
7 83 (2.00%) Workday
8 69 (1.67%) VMware
9 60 (1.45%) Databricks
10 50 (1.21%) Cisco
11 48 (1.16%) Splunk
12 45 (1.09%) IBM
13 37 (0.89%) CyberArk
14 32 (0.77%) Ariba
15 31 (0.75%) Citrix
16 29 (0.70%) Fortinet
17 27 (0.65%) MuleSoft
18 25 (0.60%) Adobe
18 25 (0.60%) F5
18 25 (0.60%) Informatica