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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,985 2,238 3,021
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.39% 8.82% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.05% 9.78% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,766 1,448 2,109
10th Percentile £365 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 58 82
10th Percentile £15.25 £35.00 £18.31
25th Percentile £25.00 £39.20 £28.30
Median hourly rate £54.00 £58.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +17.50% -4.24%
75th Percentile £78.80 £68.25 £62.49
90th Percentile £95.75 £80.18 £83.38
UK median hourly rate £40.76 £56.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -27.87% +13.00% -4.09%

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 30,532 22,872 32,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.28% 90.11% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,556 14,324 21,897
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -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 1,892 747 2,040
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.48 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.18 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 2,027 £550 - 439
North of England +6 583 £475 -9.52% 188
Midlands +1 521 £492 -3.05% 165
South East +5 463 £550 +4.76% 344
West Midlands 0 345 £500 -4.76% 118
North West +6 285 £450 -14.29% 120
Yorkshire +8 266 £500 - 63
South West +21 206 £550 -3.51% 81
East Midlands +10 176 £450 -4.26% 46
East of England -3 103 £550 - 52
North East 0 46 £444 -23.66% 8
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 (7.20%) Confluence
2 121 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.25%) SAS
4 36 (0.90%) CMS
5 35 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.43%) Appian
7 11 (0.28%) TPMS
8 9 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.20%) Apache
9 8 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 7 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.15%) Camunda
12 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.075%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.075%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.075%) nginx
13 3 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.075%) WebSphere
Applications
1 213 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
3 114 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 102 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 76 (1.91%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.43%) Trello
7 13 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.15%) Sketch
10 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.050%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.050%) InVision
12 1 (0.025%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.025%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.025%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.025%) Simulink
12 1 (0.025%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.025%) UXPin
12 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 129 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
3 40 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 19 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 18 (0.45%) Endur
7 16 (0.40%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
8 14 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
8 14 (0.35%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.33%) Loan IQ
10 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
11 11 (0.28%) Primavera
11 11 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
12 10 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 10 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.25%) SAP EWM
12 10 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 582 (14.60%) Azure
2 404 (10.14%) AWS
3 245 (6.15%) Power Platform
4 167 (4.19%) GCP
5 129 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
6 113 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 108 (2.71%) SaaS
8 88 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 66 (1.66%) OpenShift
10 51 (1.28%) OCI
11 47 (1.18%) GitHub
12 44 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 41 (1.03%) Snowflake
15 38 (0.95%) Power Automate
16 36 (0.90%) Serverless
17 33 (0.83%) Google Workspace
18 31 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
19 30 (0.75%) Amazon S3
19 30 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 80 (2.01%) Firewall
2 50 (1.25%) WAN
3 42 (1.05%) Network Security
4 37 (0.93%) LAN
5 35 (0.88%) SD-WAN
6 29 (0.73%) DNS
7 28 (0.70%) VPN
8 22 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (0.53%) SSH
10 18 (0.45%) BGP
10 18 (0.45%) MPLS
10 18 (0.45%) SSL
11 14 (0.35%) DHCP
11 14 (0.35%) OSPF
12 12 (0.30%) Broadband
12 12 (0.30%) TCP/IP
13 11 (0.28%) SNMP
13 11 (0.28%) Wireless
14 10 (0.25%) Intranet
15 9 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (5.35%) Power BI
2 83 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (1.71%) Tableau
4 58 (1.46%) Metadata
5 36 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 32 (0.80%) SQL Server
7 30 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 25 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
9 24 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (0.58%) Relational Database
11 22 (0.55%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.53%) Power Query
13 16 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.38%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.38%) MySQL
15 14 (0.35%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.33%) Big Data
17 12 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
18 11 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 489 (12.27%) JIRA
2 83 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 81 (2.03%) Git
4 59 (1.48%) GitLab
5 38 (0.95%) JUnit
6 37 (0.93%) Selenium
7 16 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.35%) Maven
9 11 (0.28%) Mockito
10 10 (0.25%) MLflow
10 10 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
10 10 (0.25%) SpecFlow
11 8 (0.20%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.18%) Postman
13 6 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.15%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.15%) JMeter
14 5 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
15 4 (0.10%) ERwin
General
1 2,109 (52.92%) Social Skills
2 1,346 (33.78%) Finance
3 648 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 409 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 385 (9.66%) Banking
6 202 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
7 168 (4.22%) Retail
8 157 (3.94%) Legal
9 138 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
10 131 (3.29%) Marketing
11 126 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 125 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
13 108 (2.71%) Manufacturing
14 107 (2.69%) Telecoms
15 71 (1.78%) Front Office
16 70 (1.76%) Financial Institution
17 58 (1.46%) Law
18 54 (1.36%) Local Government
19 52 (1.30%) Investment Banking
20 48 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 760 (19.07%) Analyst
2 578 (14.50%) Project Manager
3 553 (13.88%) Business Analyst
4 474 (11.89%) Lead
5 465 (11.67%) Architect
6 369 (9.26%) Senior
7 226 (5.67%) Consultant
8 175 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
9 156 (3.91%) Senior Manager
10 148 (3.71%) Programme Manager
11 119 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
12 110 (2.76%) IT Manager
13 84 (2.11%) Data Analyst
13 84 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
14 82 (2.06%) Senior Project Manager
15 79 (1.98%) Change Manager
16 77 (1.93%) Developer
17 74 (1.86%) Product Owner
18 72 (1.81%) Product Manager
19 69 (1.73%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (2.99%) REST
2 76 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
3 52 (1.30%) Middleware
4 50 (1.25%) SOAP
5 41 (1.03%) JSON
6 37 (0.93%) .NET
7 36 (0.90%) OAuth
7 36 (0.90%) OpenID
8 33 (0.83%) Kafka
8 33 (0.83%) XML
9 32 (0.80%) SAML
10 29 (0.73%) HTML
10 29 (0.73%) pytest
10 29 (0.73%) React
11 27 (0.68%) RESTful
12 24 (0.60%) AngularJS
12 24 (0.60%) SailPoint
13 23 (0.58%) CSS
13 23 (0.58%) Web Services
14 22 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 312 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 211 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 110 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
3 110 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
4 104 (2.61%) Cloud Native
5 101 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 89 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 76 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 55 (1.38%) PMI
9 50 (1.25%) NHS
10 45 (1.13%) Data Structures
10 45 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (0.98%) Public Cloud
12 37 (0.93%) Virtual Team
13 36 (0.90%) CMDB
14 35 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
14 35 (0.88%) Operational Technology
15 29 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (0.70%) FMCG
16 28 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.29%) Windows
2 66 (1.66%) Linux
3 30 (0.75%) Unix
4 22 (0.55%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.50%) Android
7 14 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.33%) VMS
9 11 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.13%) Solaris
11 4 (0.10%) CentOS
12 2 (0.050%) AIX
13 1 (0.025%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,295 (32.50%) Agile
2 707 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
3 598 (15.01%) Project Management
4 584 (14.65%) Migration
5 576 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 535 (13.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 491 (12.32%) Change Management
8 474 (11.89%) Roadmaps
9 410 (10.29%) Project Delivery
10 397 (9.96%) Decision-Making
11 396 (9.94%) DevOps
12 364 (9.13%) Analytics
13 351 (8.81%) Risk Management
14 329 (8.26%) Scrum
15 322 (8.08%) Requirements Gathering
16 317 (7.95%) Workshop Facilitation
17 309 (7.75%) User Acceptance Testing
18 282 (7.08%) Validation
19 281 (7.05%) AI
20 268 (6.73%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 317 (7.95%) SQL
2 272 (6.83%) Python
3 90 (2.26%) PowerShell
4 81 (2.03%) Java
5 55 (1.38%) JavaScript
6 49 (1.23%) C#
7 33 (0.83%) Bash
8 24 (0.60%) TypeScript
9 23 (0.58%) VBA
10 17 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.40%) Korn
12 15 (0.38%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.33%) R
14 11 (0.28%) Bicep
15 10 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.20%) ABAP
16 8 (0.20%) VB
17 7 (0.18%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.15%) C++
19 4 (0.10%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 742 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 582 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 383 (9.61%) Degree
4 199 (4.99%) PMI Certification
5 190 (4.77%) PMP
6 99 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 78 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 74 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 66 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 57 (1.43%) CISSP
11 43 (1.08%) CISM
12 35 (0.88%) CBAP
13 34 (0.85%) Azure Certification
14 28 (0.70%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.65%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.63%) IIBA
16 25 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
17 23 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
18 21 (0.53%) APMP
19 20 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (6.57%) QA
2 232 (5.82%) GDPR
3 167 (4.19%) Data Quality
4 157 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 146 (3.66%) PMO
6 143 (3.59%) NIST
7 73 (1.83%) PCI DSS
8 68 (1.71%) GRC
9 48 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 48 (1.20%) SLA
10 45 (1.13%) NCSC
11 43 (1.08%) Accessibility
12 30 (0.75%) COBIT
13 28 (0.70%) IFRS
14 18 (0.45%) IFRS 17
14 18 (0.45%) PSD2
14 18 (0.45%) WCAG
15 14 (0.35%) Basel III
15 14 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 14 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 97 (2.43%) Docker
2 63 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.15%) vSphere
7 5 (0.13%) NFS
7 5 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.075%) Postfix
8 3 (0.075%) SRDF
8 3 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.025%) Firmware
10 1 (0.025%) HDFS
10 1 (0.025%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.025%) IAG
10 1 (0.025%) NDS
10 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.025%) XenApp
10 1 (0.025%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 138 (3.46%) Kubernetes
2 80 (2.01%) Terraform
3 51 (1.28%) Ansible
4 47 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.75%) Grafana
6 20 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.45%) SCCM
8 17 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 13 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.15%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
12 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.10%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.10%) vMotion
13 3 (0.075%) Control-M
13 3 (0.075%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 468 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 324 (8.13%) SAP
3 233 (5.85%) Oracle
4 190 (4.77%) ServiceNow
5 148 (3.71%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.21%) Google
7 83 (2.08%) Workday
8 62 (1.56%) VMware
9 60 (1.51%) Databricks
10 48 (1.20%) Cisco
10 48 (1.20%) Splunk
11 45 (1.13%) IBM
12 35 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 32 (0.80%) Ariba
13 32 (0.80%) Citrix
13 32 (0.80%) Fortinet
14 27 (0.68%) Adobe
15 25 (0.63%) F5
15 25 (0.63%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.58%) Red Hat