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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,321 2,406 2,753
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.53% 9.92% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.43% 10.87% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,935 1,665 1,958
10th Percentile £366 £357 £363
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 64 78
10th Percentile £17.23 £35.00 £14.79
25th Percentile £31.25 £42.26 £30.16
Median hourly rate £50.00 £58.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -2.08% +13.27%
75th Percentile £80.55 £74.06 £74.13
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.00 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £56.38 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.86% -6.04% +11.32%

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 34,754 22,136 31,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 91.24% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,164 14,481 20,585
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 934 2,241
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.41 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.41 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.06 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.41 £36.02
% change year-on-year +49.60% -21.13% +0.06%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +4 2,190 £550 -4.35% 814
North of England -2 651 £485 -3.77% 262
South East +2 522 £550 +5.26% 369
Midlands +1 518 £492 -1.60% 173
West Midlands 0 350 £492 -6.29% 118
North West -3 313 £475 -6.40% 141
Yorkshire +12 310 £500 - 93
South West +14 244 £550 +3.77% 101
East Midlands +8 162 £465 +4.03% 53
East of England -2 122 £525 -4.55% 92
North East -8 47 £450 -16.67% 30
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
1 294 (6.80%) Confluence
2 128 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.83%) CMS
3 36 (0.83%) SAS
4 24 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.32%) Appian
6 13 (0.30%) Apache
7 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.16%) TPMS
9 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.093%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.069%) Camunda
11 3 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.069%) nginx
11 3 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.069%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.046%) Kentico
Applications
1 214 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (3.24%) Microsoft Project
3 114 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
4 110 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 78 (1.81%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Revit
10 6 (0.14%) Sketch
11 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.093%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.093%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.046%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.046%) Notion
14 1 (0.023%) Autodesk Smoke
14 1 (0.023%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.023%) InVision
14 1 (0.023%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 132 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.51%) Aladdin
5 21 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 21 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 14 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.25%) SAP HCM
11 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
11 10 (0.23%) Workday HCM
12 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 632 (14.63%) Azure
2 468 (10.83%) AWS
3 245 (5.67%) Power Platform
4 180 (4.17%) GCP
5 135 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
6 125 (2.89%) SaaS
7 110 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
8 83 (1.92%) Entra ID
9 60 (1.39%) Snowflake
10 58 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (1.18%) OCI
12 49 (1.13%) GitHub
13 46 (1.06%) OpenShift
14 44 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (0.93%) Figma
15 40 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
16 39 (0.90%) Amazon S3
17 37 (0.86%) Power Automate
17 37 (0.86%) Serverless
18 32 (0.74%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.46%) Network Security
2 59 (1.37%) Firewall
3 48 (1.11%) WAN
4 36 (0.83%) LAN
5 31 (0.72%) DNS
6 28 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 25 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (0.53%) VPN
9 20 (0.46%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.44%) BGP
11 16 (0.37%) OSPF
12 13 (0.30%) MPLS
12 13 (0.30%) NGFW
13 12 (0.28%) SSL
13 12 (0.28%) Wireless
14 11 (0.25%) Intranet
14 11 (0.25%) SAN
14 11 (0.25%) SSH
14 11 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
15 10 (0.23%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (4.65%) Power BI
2 89 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (1.78%) Metadata
4 59 (1.37%) Tableau
5 46 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 42 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 30 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
9 26 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 25 (0.58%) Relational Database
11 22 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.49%) NoSQL
13 20 (0.46%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.44%) Big Data
15 18 (0.42%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.37%) Power Query
17 14 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
18 13 (0.30%) Oracle Database
19 12 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 510 (11.80%) JIRA
2 76 (1.76%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.53%) Git
4 39 (0.90%) GitLab
5 25 (0.58%) Selenium
6 23 (0.53%) JUnit
7 18 (0.42%) Postman
8 17 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.30%) Maven
10 12 (0.28%) MLflow
11 11 (0.25%) 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%) Zephyr
General
1 2,139 (49.50%) Social Skills
2 1,547 (35.80%) Finance
3 633 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
4 479 (11.09%) Public Sector
5 415 (9.60%) Banking
6 210 (4.86%) Retail
7 207 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
8 171 (3.96%) Legal
9 151 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
10 139 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
11 137 (3.17%) Marketing
12 121 (2.80%) Manufacturing
13 112 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 101 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 74 (1.71%) Financial Institution
16 71 (1.64%) Local Government
17 56 (1.30%) Law
18 51 (1.18%) Front Office
19 50 (1.16%) Billing
20 46 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 707 (16.36%) Analyst
2 665 (15.39%) Project Manager
3 599 (13.86%) Lead
4 520 (12.03%) Business Analyst
5 480 (11.11%) Architect
6 458 (10.60%) Senior
7 203 (4.70%) Senior Manager
8 199 (4.61%) Consultant
9 172 (3.98%) Programme Manager
10 170 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
11 141 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
12 133 (3.08%) IT Manager
13 104 (2.41%) Senior Project Manager
14 94 (2.18%) Product Manager
15 89 (2.06%) Technical Manager
16 86 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
17 85 (1.97%) Product Owner
18 82 (1.90%) Change Manager
19 76 (1.76%) IT Project Manager
20 73 (1.69%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (2.52%) REST
2 81 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
3 73 (1.69%) Middleware
4 58 (1.34%) SOAP
5 34 (0.79%) .NET
6 33 (0.76%) JSON
7 32 (0.74%) OAuth
8 29 (0.67%) XML
9 28 (0.65%) Kafka
9 28 (0.65%) RESTful
10 27 (0.62%) OpenID
10 27 (0.62%) Web Services
11 25 (0.58%) AngularJS
11 25 (0.58%) Spring
12 24 (0.56%) SAML
13 22 (0.51%) React
13 22 (0.51%) Swagger
14 21 (0.49%) ADO
15 20 (0.46%) CSS
15 20 (0.46%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 331 (7.66%) Product Ownership
2 205 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 141 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
4 137 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 117 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
6 116 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 90 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 78 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 69 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 63 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 50 (1.16%) Operational Technology
12 46 (1.06%) PMI
13 45 (1.04%) Public Cloud
14 43 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 43 (1.00%) NHS
15 35 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
16 34 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
17 29 (0.67%) AI Agents
17 29 (0.67%) Security Posture
18 28 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 123 (2.85%) Windows
2 64 (1.48%) Linux
3 29 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.65%) Android
5 20 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.39%) Unix
7 16 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.16%) VMS
11 4 (0.093%) AIX
11 4 (0.093%) Solaris
12 3 (0.069%) zOS
13 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.046%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.023%) CentOS
14 1 (0.023%) HPUX
14 1 (0.023%) MVS
14 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,414 (32.72%) Agile
2 662 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
3 660 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 655 (15.16%) Project Management
5 646 (14.95%) Migration
6 554 (12.82%) Roadmaps
7 538 (12.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 506 (11.71%) Change Management
9 490 (11.34%) Decision-Making
10 485 (11.22%) DevOps
11 462 (10.69%) Project Delivery
12 415 (9.60%) Risk Management
13 390 (9.03%) Analytics
14 369 (8.54%) User Acceptance Testing
15 361 (8.35%) AI
16 350 (8.10%) Scrum
17 346 (8.01%) Validation
18 325 (7.52%) CI/CD
19 324 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
20 321 (7.43%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 340 (7.87%) SQL
2 230 (5.32%) Python
3 80 (1.85%) Java
4 67 (1.55%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.04%) C#
6 43 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 28 (0.65%) Bash
8 23 (0.53%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.46%) VBA
10 14 (0.32%) Korn
11 13 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (0.30%) R
12 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
15 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 885 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 680 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 350 (8.10%) Degree
4 237 (5.48%) PMP
5 216 (5.00%) PMI Certification
6 116 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 108 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 77 (1.78%) CISSP
9 58 (1.34%) CISM
10 54 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 53 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 45 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 39 (0.90%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.67%) CBAP
15 28 (0.65%) IIBA
15 28 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
16 27 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
17 23 (0.53%) ISTQB
17 23 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
18 22 (0.51%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (6.25%) QA
2 217 (5.02%) Data Quality
3 207 (4.79%) GDPR
4 200 (4.63%) PMO
5 163 (3.77%) NIST
6 133 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 78 (1.81%) GRC
8 67 (1.55%) SLA
9 62 (1.43%) Accessibility
10 51 (1.18%) PCI DSS
11 44 (1.02%) NCSC
12 36 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.69%) IFRS
14 29 (0.67%) COBIT
15 26 (0.60%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.39%) IFRS 17
17 16 (0.37%) JSP 440
18 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.35%) PSD2
18 15 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (2.18%) Docker
2 65 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.25%) Postfix
6 9 (0.21%) NFS
7 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.093%) SRDF
10 4 (0.093%) Varnish
11 3 (0.069%) HDFS
11 3 (0.069%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.069%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.069%) vSphere
12 2 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.023%) NLBS
13 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.023%) RACF
13 1 (0.023%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 134 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 83 (1.92%) Terraform
3 56 (1.30%) Ansible
4 44 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (0.90%) Grafana
6 27 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (0.51%) SCCM
9 8 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
10 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.093%) Istio
11 4 (0.093%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.069%) Argo
12 3 (0.069%) Control-M
12 3 (0.069%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.069%) Nagios
Vendors
1 484 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 357 (8.26%) SAP
3 244 (5.65%) Oracle
4 193 (4.47%) ServiceNow
5 172 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.04%) Google
7 81 (1.87%) Databricks
8 71 (1.64%) VMware
9 64 (1.48%) Workday
10 48 (1.11%) Splunk
11 40 (0.93%) Cisco
12 39 (0.90%) CyberArk
13 31 (0.72%) Ariba
13 31 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 30 (0.69%) Citrix
15 28 (0.65%) IBM
16 27 (0.62%) Informatica
17 26 (0.60%) Atlassian
18 24 (0.56%) Adobe
19 23 (0.53%) OpenAI