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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,239 2,336 2,881
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.72% 9.53% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.57% 10.47% 8.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,920 1,601 2,024
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £539
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -0.23% -2.05%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 66 78
10th Percentile £16.55 £35.00 £14.79
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.30 £30.16
Median hourly rate £40.78 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +14.29% -7.03%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £72.18
90th Percentile £86.75 £80.29 £85.19
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.00% +20.00% -11.46%

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 33,725 22,317 32,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.27% 91.07% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,581 14,667 21,200
10th Percentile £314 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,094 893 2,223
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.20 £72.24
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -3.59%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 2,173 £550 -4.35% 750
North of England -2 615 £475 -7.21% 242
South East +5 513 £574 +14.80% 389
Midlands -2 507 £485 -3.05% 186
West Midlands -2 348 £492 -6.29% 114
North West -3 304 £469 -9.81% 127
Yorkshire +7 279 £500 - 95
South West +25 229 £550 +0.92% 97
East Midlands +4 157 £459 +2.29% 71
East of England +2 121 £563 -6.25% 113
North East -6 48 £440 -20.00% 25
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
1 286 (6.75%) Confluence
2 124 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 47 (1.11%) SAS
4 39 (0.92%) CMS
5 33 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.40%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 8 (0.19%) TPMS
10 7 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.12%) Camunda
11 5 (0.12%) nginx
12 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.071%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 219 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
3 109 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
5 79 (1.86%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.24%) Trello
9 7 (0.17%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.12%) Revit
11 4 (0.094%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.071%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.047%) InVision
13 2 (0.047%) Windchill
14 1 (0.024%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 125 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 23 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 18 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.38%) Workday HCM
6 15 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.31%) Endur
7 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 13 (0.31%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.26%) SAP EWM
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 606 (14.30%) Azure
2 435 (10.26%) AWS
3 236 (5.57%) Power Platform
4 178 (4.20%) GCP
5 129 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
7 113 (2.67%) SaaS
8 89 (2.10%) Entra ID
9 59 (1.39%) OpenShift
10 56 (1.32%) OCI
11 55 (1.30%) Snowflake
12 50 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (1.01%) GitHub
13 43 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
14 42 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 37 (0.87%) Figma
15 37 (0.87%) Power Automate
16 35 (0.83%) Serverless
17 34 (0.80%) Amazon S3
17 34 (0.80%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.53%) Firewall
2 60 (1.42%) Network Security
3 56 (1.32%) WAN
4 42 (0.99%) LAN
5 37 (0.87%) SD-WAN
6 33 (0.78%) DNS
7 29 (0.68%) VPN
8 26 (0.61%) BGP
8 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (0.52%) OSPF
10 19 (0.45%) MPLS
10 19 (0.45%) TCP/IP
11 16 (0.38%) SSL
12 14 (0.33%) Wireless
13 13 (0.31%) DHCP
14 12 (0.28%) NGFW
14 12 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
15 11 (0.26%) Broadband
15 11 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (4.72%) Power BI
2 86 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (1.82%) Metadata
4 62 (1.46%) Tableau
5 43 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 34 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
8 29 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.59%) NoSQL
10 24 (0.57%) Relational Database
11 23 (0.54%) Power Query
12 22 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.45%) Big Data
15 18 (0.42%) DynamoDB
15 18 (0.42%) Oracle Database
16 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
17 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
19 12 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 499 (11.77%) JIRA
2 86 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 78 (1.84%) Git
4 50 (1.18%) GitLab
5 39 (0.92%) Selenium
6 35 (0.83%) JUnit
7 16 (0.38%) Postman
8 15 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.33%) Maven
10 13 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.28%) Mockito
11 12 (0.28%) SpecFlow
12 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.26%) JMeter
13 10 (0.24%) MLflow
13 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 8 (0.19%) jMock
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
General
1 2,153 (50.79%) Social Skills
2 1,482 (34.96%) Finance
3 668 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
4 463 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 411 (9.70%) Banking
6 216 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
7 191 (4.51%) Retail
8 168 (3.96%) Legal
9 148 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
10 135 (3.18%) Marketing
10 135 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
11 122 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
12 104 (2.45%) Manufacturing
13 100 (2.36%) Telecoms
14 78 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 63 (1.49%) Front Office
16 62 (1.46%) Local Government
17 54 (1.27%) Law
18 48 (1.13%) Investment Banking
19 45 (1.06%) Billing
Job Titles
1 728 (17.17%) Analyst
2 631 (14.89%) Project Manager
3 580 (13.68%) Lead
4 537 (12.67%) Business Analyst
5 461 (10.88%) Architect
6 428 (10.10%) Senior
7 198 (4.67%) Consultant
8 183 (4.32%) Programme Manager
9 182 (4.29%) Senior Manager
10 165 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
11 143 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
12 126 (2.97%) IT Manager
13 92 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.12%) Change Manager
15 89 (2.10%) Senior Project Manager
16 84 (1.98%) Data Analyst
16 84 (1.98%) Product Manager
16 84 (1.98%) Technical Manager
17 76 (1.79%) Test Manager
18 73 (1.72%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (2.90%) REST
2 83 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.70%) Middleware
4 58 (1.37%) SOAP
5 36 (0.85%) OAuth
6 35 (0.83%) .NET
7 33 (0.78%) JSON
7 33 (0.78%) Kafka
8 31 (0.73%) XML
9 30 (0.71%) OpenID
10 28 (0.66%) SAML
11 27 (0.64%) Web Services
12 26 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 26 (0.61%) React
12 26 (0.61%) RESTful
13 25 (0.59%) Spring
14 24 (0.57%) pytest
15 23 (0.54%) Playwright
15 23 (0.54%) Swagger
16 21 (0.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 330 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 214 (5.05%) Onboarding
3 137 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 124 (2.93%) Cloud Native
5 113 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 106 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 86 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 70 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 70 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 56 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 55 (1.30%) NHS
11 53 (1.25%) PMI
12 47 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.06%) Public Cloud
14 39 (0.92%) Operational Technology
15 36 (0.85%) FMCG
16 34 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
17 30 (0.71%) CMDB
18 29 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
19 28 (0.66%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 117 (2.76%) Windows
2 64 (1.51%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Android
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 21 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 18 (0.42%) Unix
5 18 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.26%) VMS
8 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.12%) Solaris
10 3 (0.071%) AIX
11 2 (0.047%) CentOS
11 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.047%) zOS
12 1 (0.024%) MVS
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,383 (32.63%) Agile
2 698 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
3 655 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 639 (15.07%) Project Management
5 638 (15.05%) Migration
6 552 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 526 (12.41%) Roadmaps
8 519 (12.24%) Change Management
9 469 (11.06%) Decision-Making
10 466 (10.99%) DevOps
11 455 (10.73%) Project Delivery
12 414 (9.77%) Risk Management
13 393 (9.27%) Analytics
14 363 (8.56%) User Acceptance Testing
15 355 (8.37%) Scrum
16 342 (8.07%) AI
17 340 (8.02%) Validation
18 330 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
19 323 (7.62%) Requirements Gathering
20 314 (7.41%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 325 (7.67%) SQL
2 250 (5.90%) Python
3 93 (2.19%) Java
4 73 (1.72%) PowerShell
5 51 (1.20%) C#
6 49 (1.16%) JavaScript
7 29 (0.68%) Bash
8 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.54%) VBA
9 17 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.38%) Korn
10 16 (0.38%) R
11 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
15 6 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 863 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 663 (15.64%) SC Cleared
3 354 (8.35%) Degree
4 230 (5.43%) PMP
5 219 (5.17%) PMI Certification
6 114 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 102 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 72 (1.70%) CISSP
9 63 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 58 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 49 (1.16%) CISM
12 41 (0.97%) Azure Certification
13 32 (0.75%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.66%) CBAP
15 26 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.59%) IIBA
17 24 (0.57%) APMP
18 21 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (6.72%) QA
2 234 (5.52%) GDPR
3 208 (4.91%) Data Quality
4 187 (4.41%) PMO
5 165 (3.89%) NIST
6 143 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.75%) GRC
8 64 (1.51%) SLA
9 58 (1.37%) PCI DSS
10 48 (1.13%) Accessibility
11 43 (1.01%) NCSC
12 39 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.68%) COBIT
13 29 (0.68%) IFRS
14 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.42%) IFRS 17
16 17 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.38%) HL7
18 14 (0.33%) Basel III
18 14 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 101 (2.38%) Docker
2 67 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 38 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.24%) Postfix
5 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.19%) NFS
7 7 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.094%) SRDF
10 3 (0.071%) HDFS
10 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.071%) Varnish
11 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.024%) NLBS
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.024%) RACF
Systems Management
1 139 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 80 (1.89%) Terraform
3 53 (1.25%) Ansible
4 45 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.80%) Grafana
6 23 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.45%) SCCM
9 12 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.094%) Istio
14 3 (0.071%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.071%) Kibana
14 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 467 (11.02%) Microsoft
2 346 (8.16%) SAP
3 259 (6.11%) Oracle
4 199 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 172 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 95 (2.24%) Google
7 77 (1.82%) Workday
8 74 (1.75%) VMware
9 67 (1.58%) Databricks
10 46 (1.09%) Cisco
10 46 (1.09%) Splunk
11 40 (0.94%) CyberArk
12 35 (0.83%) Ariba
13 34 (0.80%) IBM
14 32 (0.75%) MuleSoft
15 30 (0.71%) Adobe
16 29 (0.68%) Citrix
17 26 (0.61%) Atlassian
18 25 (0.59%) Informatica
18 25 (0.59%) Red Hat