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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,231 2,368 2,758
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.50% 9.82% 7.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.39% 10.76% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 1,631 1,968
10th Percentile £366 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £436 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -2.73% -
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 97 63 76
10th Percentile £16.48 £35.00 £14.57
25th Percentile £31.25 £42.02 £30.12
Median hourly rate £48.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +13.27%
75th Percentile £80.09 £74.38 £75.59
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.25 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +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 34,138 22,003 31,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.23% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,766 14,379 20,694
10th Percentile £319 £308 £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 £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 924 2,243
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.42 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
% change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +5 2,142 £550 -4.35% 759
North of England -1 637 £484 -3.97% 263
South East +3 517 £550 +7.32% 355
Midlands +1 507 £488 -2.50% 169
West Midlands 0 345 £492 -6.29% 109
North West -2 307 £475 -6.86% 139
Yorkshire +9 303 £500 - 92
South West +19 237 £550 +3.77% 96
East Midlands +8 157 £465 +4.03% 57
East of England -2 118 £525 -8.70% 102
North East -9 46 £450 -15.89% 32
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
1 295 (6.97%) Confluence
2 129 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.85%) CMS
3 36 (0.85%) SAS
4 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.33%) Appian
6 13 (0.31%) Apache
7 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.17%) TPMS
9 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.095%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.071%) Camunda
11 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.071%) nginx
11 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.047%) WordPress
Applications
1 214 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 139 (3.29%) Microsoft Project
3 113 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
4 109 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 76 (1.80%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.17%) Revit
10 6 (0.14%) Sketch
11 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.095%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.095%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.047%) Notion
14 1 (0.024%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.024%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.024%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 127 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.52%) Aladdin
5 21 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 19 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.28%) Workday HCM
10 11 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 618 (14.61%) Azure
2 455 (10.75%) AWS
3 238 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 181 (4.28%) GCP
5 132 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
6 119 (2.81%) SaaS
7 111 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
8 84 (1.99%) Entra ID
9 58 (1.37%) Snowflake
10 55 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
11 50 (1.18%) OCI
12 46 (1.09%) OpenShift
13 45 (1.06%) GitHub
14 44 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
15 41 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
16 39 (0.92%) Figma
17 37 (0.87%) Amazon S3
18 36 (0.85%) Serverless
19 34 (0.80%) Power Automate
20 31 (0.73%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.49%) Network Security
2 59 (1.39%) Firewall
3 46 (1.09%) WAN
4 34 (0.80%) LAN
5 31 (0.73%) DNS
6 28 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 25 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (0.54%) VPN
9 20 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.45%) BGP
11 16 (0.38%) OSPF
12 13 (0.31%) MPLS
12 13 (0.31%) NGFW
13 12 (0.28%) SSL
13 12 (0.28%) Wireless
14 11 (0.26%) Intranet
14 11 (0.26%) SAN
14 11 (0.26%) SSH
14 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 10 (0.24%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (4.66%) Power BI
2 88 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (1.82%) Metadata
4 58 (1.37%) Tableau
5 43 (1.02%) SQL Server
6 42 (0.99%) Data Lake
7 30 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
9 25 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.57%) Relational Database
11 22 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 20 (0.47%) NoSQL
13 19 (0.45%) Big Data
14 17 (0.40%) Delta Lake
14 17 (0.40%) Power Query
15 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
16 13 (0.31%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 507 (11.98%) JIRA
2 74 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.54%) Git
4 37 (0.87%) GitLab
5 24 (0.57%) Selenium
6 23 (0.54%) JUnit
7 18 (0.43%) Postman
8 17 (0.40%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.31%) Maven
10 12 (0.28%) MLflow
11 11 (0.26%) JMeter
12 10 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.24%) Mockito
12 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.24%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.21%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 8 (0.19%) jMock
15 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,088 (49.35%) Social Skills
2 1,517 (35.85%) Finance
3 626 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 463 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 408 (9.64%) Banking
6 203 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
6 203 (4.80%) Retail
7 161 (3.81%) Legal
8 146 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
9 136 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
10 134 (3.17%) Marketing
11 119 (2.81%) Manufacturing
12 110 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
13 97 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 74 (1.75%) Financial Institution
15 69 (1.63%) Local Government
16 56 (1.32%) Law
17 49 (1.16%) Front Office
18 47 (1.11%) Billing
19 44 (1.04%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 694 (16.40%) Analyst
2 651 (15.39%) Project Manager
3 583 (13.78%) Lead
4 509 (12.03%) Business Analyst
5 474 (11.20%) Architect
6 447 (10.56%) Senior
7 195 (4.61%) Senior Manager
8 193 (4.56%) Consultant
9 172 (4.07%) Programme Manager
10 167 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
11 137 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 130 (3.07%) IT Manager
13 99 (2.34%) Senior Project Manager
14 90 (2.13%) Product Manager
15 88 (2.08%) Technical Manager
16 85 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
17 83 (1.96%) Product Owner
18 81 (1.91%) Change Manager
19 75 (1.77%) IT Project Manager
20 72 (1.70%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (2.51%) REST
2 79 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.70%) Middleware
4 56 (1.32%) SOAP
5 32 (0.76%) JSON
5 32 (0.76%) OAuth
6 31 (0.73%) .NET
7 29 (0.69%) XML
8 28 (0.66%) Kafka
9 27 (0.64%) OpenID
9 27 (0.64%) RESTful
9 27 (0.64%) Web Services
10 25 (0.59%) AngularJS
11 24 (0.57%) SAML
11 24 (0.57%) Spring
12 22 (0.52%) React
12 22 (0.52%) Swagger
13 21 (0.50%) ADO
14 19 (0.45%) CSS
15 18 (0.43%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 325 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 199 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 139 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
4 133 (3.14%) Cloud Native
5 118 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
6 116 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 88 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 76 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 69 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 62 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 49 (1.16%) Operational Technology
12 47 (1.11%) PMI
13 45 (1.06%) Public Cloud
14 42 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (0.97%) NHS
16 34 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
16 34 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
17 29 (0.69%) Security Posture
18 28 (0.66%) AI Agents
19 27 (0.64%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 121 (2.86%) Windows
2 63 (1.49%) Linux
3 29 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.66%) Android
5 20 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.40%) Unix
7 15 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.14%) VMS
11 4 (0.095%) AIX
11 4 (0.095%) Solaris
12 3 (0.071%) zOS
13 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.024%) CentOS
14 1 (0.024%) HPUX
14 1 (0.024%) MVS
14 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,383 (32.69%) Agile
2 652 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
3 640 (15.13%) Project Management
4 637 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 633 (14.96%) Migration
6 539 (12.74%) Roadmaps
7 526 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 492 (11.63%) Change Management
9 480 (11.34%) Decision-Making
10 474 (11.20%) DevOps
11 459 (10.85%) Project Delivery
12 411 (9.71%) Risk Management
13 382 (9.03%) Analytics
14 360 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
15 356 (8.41%) AI
16 341 (8.06%) Scrum
17 332 (7.85%) Validation
18 321 (7.59%) CI/CD
19 318 (7.52%) Workshop Facilitation
20 312 (7.37%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 332 (7.85%) SQL
2 230 (5.44%) Python
3 77 (1.82%) Java
4 68 (1.61%) PowerShell
5 43 (1.02%) C#
6 41 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 27 (0.64%) Bash
8 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 21 (0.50%) VBA
10 14 (0.33%) Korn
11 13 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (0.31%) R
12 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.21%) ABAP
14 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.19%) Bicep
16 7 (0.17%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 878 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 671 (15.86%) SC Cleared
3 344 (8.13%) Degree
4 232 (5.48%) PMP
5 211 (4.99%) PMI Certification
6 113 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 109 (2.58%) DV Cleared
8 75 (1.77%) CISSP
9 56 (1.32%) CISM
10 54 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 52 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 44 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 37 (0.87%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.69%) CBAP
15 28 (0.66%) IIBA
16 27 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
17 24 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (0.54%) ISTQB
18 23 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
19 22 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (6.29%) QA
2 214 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 208 (4.92%) GDPR
4 202 (4.77%) PMO
5 162 (3.83%) NIST
6 133 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 75 (1.77%) GRC
8 66 (1.56%) SLA
9 61 (1.44%) Accessibility
10 51 (1.21%) PCI DSS
11 44 (1.04%) NCSC
12 36 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.71%) IFRS
14 29 (0.69%) COBIT
15 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.40%) IFRS 17
17 16 (0.38%) JSP 440
18 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.35%) PSD2
18 15 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (2.17%) Docker
2 66 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Postfix
6 9 (0.21%) NFS
7 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.095%) SRDF
10 4 (0.095%) Varnish
11 3 (0.071%) HDFS
11 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.071%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.071%) vSphere
12 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.024%) NLBS
13 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.024%) RACF
13 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 134 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 82 (1.94%) Terraform
3 55 (1.30%) Ansible
4 43 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.90%) Grafana
6 26 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (0.52%) 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 (0.095%) Istio
11 4 (0.095%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.071%) Argo
12 3 (0.071%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.071%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 476 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 348 (8.23%) SAP
3 238 (5.63%) Oracle
4 190 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 167 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.06%) Google
7 79 (1.87%) Databricks
8 71 (1.68%) VMware
9 65 (1.54%) Workday
10 47 (1.11%) Splunk
11 39 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 38 (0.90%) Cisco
13 31 (0.73%) Ariba
13 31 (0.73%) MuleSoft
14 30 (0.71%) Citrix
15 29 (0.69%) IBM
16 26 (0.61%) Atlassian
16 26 (0.61%) Informatica
17 23 (0.54%) Adobe
18 22 (0.52%) F5