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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,205 2,254 2,911
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.99% 9.30% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.78% 10.23% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,904 1,560 2,053
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £646 £638
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 62 80
10th Percentile £14.75 £35.00 £15.02
25th Percentile £30.63 £42.40 £27.48
Median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £46.95
Median % change year-on-year -24.23% +27.81% -16.82%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £94.75 £80.00 £83.51
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £60.00 £46.39
% change year-on-year -32.50% +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 32,913 22,023 32,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.03% 90.83% 86.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,101 14,513 21,559
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 £614 £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 2,010 854 2,155
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.00 £15.92
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.88 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2,149 £550 -4.35% 628
North of England 0 597 £475 -6.31% 223
Midlands +3 522 £485 -3.00% 151
South East +4 516 £565 +8.13% 338
West Midlands -1 354 £492 -6.29% 98
North West -3 294 £456 -10.70% 116
Yorkshire +5 272 £500 - 91
South West +25 223 £550 +0.46% 94
East Midlands +5 166 £450 - 53
East of England +4 118 £575 +4.55% 98
North East -2 46 £440 -22.12% 20
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
1 305 (7.25%) Confluence
2 128 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 51 (1.21%) SAS
4 40 (0.95%) CMS
5 34 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.43%) Appian
7 12 (0.29%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.21%) TPMS
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 7 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.14%) Camunda
12 5 (0.12%) nginx
13 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.071%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.071%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 230 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (3.35%) Microsoft Project
3 111 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
5 80 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.31%) Trello
8 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.17%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.048%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.048%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.048%) InVision
11 2 (0.048%) Windchill
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.024%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.024%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.024%) Revit
Business Applications
1 128 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
3 42 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 17 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 16 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 14 (0.33%) Endur
7 14 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.29%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 12 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
11 9 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.21%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 624 (14.84%) Azure
2 434 (10.32%) AWS
3 249 (5.92%) Power Platform
4 175 (4.16%) GCP
5 139 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
7 107 (2.54%) SaaS
8 91 (2.16%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.50%) OpenShift
10 57 (1.36%) OCI
11 55 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
12 51 (1.21%) Snowflake
13 43 (1.02%) GitHub
14 42 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 42 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
15 39 (0.93%) Power Automate
16 35 (0.83%) Serverless
17 34 (0.81%) Google Workspace
18 32 (0.76%) Figma
19 31 (0.74%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.64%) Firewall
2 56 (1.33%) Network Security
3 51 (1.21%) WAN
4 41 (0.98%) LAN
5 35 (0.83%) SD-WAN
6 34 (0.81%) DNS
7 30 (0.71%) VPN
8 26 (0.62%) BGP
9 24 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.52%) OSPF
11 19 (0.45%) MPLS
11 19 (0.45%) TCP/IP
12 16 (0.38%) SSL
13 14 (0.33%) DHCP
13 14 (0.33%) SSH
13 14 (0.33%) Wireless
14 12 (0.29%) Broadband
14 12 (0.29%) NGFW
15 11 (0.26%) Intranet
15 11 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (5.02%) Power BI
2 88 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (1.74%) Tableau
4 67 (1.59%) Metadata
5 39 (0.93%) SQL Server
6 37 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 34 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
8 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (0.67%) NoSQL
10 25 (0.59%) Oracle Database
10 25 (0.59%) Power Query
11 23 (0.55%) Relational Database
12 20 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (0.45%) MySQL
14 18 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
15 17 (0.40%) Big Data
16 15 (0.36%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
17 13 (0.31%) BigQuery
18 12 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 513 (12.20%) JIRA
2 90 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 85 (2.02%) Git
4 58 (1.38%) GitLab
5 45 (1.07%) Selenium
6 40 (0.95%) JUnit
7 16 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.36%) Maven
9 14 (0.33%) Postman
10 13 (0.31%) Mockito
10 13 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.29%) JMeter
12 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.24%) MLflow
13 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.24%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.17%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2,169 (51.58%) Social Skills
2 1,450 (34.48%) Finance
3 673 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 456 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 408 (9.70%) Banking
6 201 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
7 183 (4.35%) Retail
8 165 (3.92%) Legal
9 151 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
10 139 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
11 138 (3.28%) Marketing
12 125 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
13 103 (2.45%) Telecoms
14 100 (2.38%) Manufacturing
15 84 (2.00%) Financial Institution
16 67 (1.59%) Law
17 62 (1.47%) Front Office
17 62 (1.47%) Local Government
18 51 (1.21%) Investment Banking
19 45 (1.07%) Billing
Job Titles
1 749 (17.81%) Analyst
2 632 (15.03%) Project Manager
3 559 (13.29%) Lead
4 549 (13.06%) Business Analyst
5 458 (10.89%) Architect
6 412 (9.80%) Senior
7 203 (4.83%) Consultant
8 172 (4.09%) Senior Manager
9 171 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
10 168 (4.00%) Programme Manager
11 139 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
12 119 (2.83%) IT Manager
13 91 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.14%) Data Analyst
15 86 (2.05%) Change Manager
16 84 (2.00%) Senior Project Manager
17 83 (1.97%) Technical Manager
18 79 (1.88%) Developer
18 79 (1.88%) Product Manager
19 76 (1.81%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (2.95%) REST
2 83 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 68 (1.62%) Middleware
4 56 (1.33%) SOAP
5 37 (0.88%) OAuth
6 35 (0.83%) .NET
6 35 (0.83%) JSON
6 35 (0.83%) OpenID
7 33 (0.78%) Kafka
8 31 (0.74%) SAML
9 28 (0.67%) pytest
9 28 (0.67%) React
9 28 (0.67%) RESTful
9 28 (0.67%) Web Services
9 28 (0.67%) XML
10 25 (0.59%) Spring
11 24 (0.57%) Playwright
12 23 (0.55%) AngularJS
12 23 (0.55%) HTML
13 22 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 328 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 221 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 129 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
4 118 (2.81%) Cloud Native
5 106 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 100 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 94 (2.24%) Data Centre
8 76 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 59 (1.40%) Data Structures
9 59 (1.40%) PMI
10 52 (1.24%) NHS
10 52 (1.24%) Public Cloud
11 48 (1.14%) Virtual Team
12 45 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 38 (0.90%) Operational Technology
14 36 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
15 33 (0.78%) FMCG
16 32 (0.76%) CMDB
17 31 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
18 29 (0.69%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 126 (3.00%) Windows
2 73 (1.74%) Linux
3 29 (0.69%) Unix
4 25 (0.59%) Android
4 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 19 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.31%) VMS
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.14%) Solaris
11 3 (0.071%) AIX
12 2 (0.048%) CentOS
13 1 (0.024%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,375 (32.70%) Agile
2 718 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
3 639 (15.20%) Project Management
4 637 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 632 (15.03%) Migration
6 554 (13.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 525 (12.49%) Change Management
8 497 (11.82%) Roadmaps
9 471 (11.20%) DevOps
10 468 (11.13%) Project Delivery
11 438 (10.42%) Decision-Making
12 392 (9.32%) Risk Management
13 388 (9.23%) Analytics
14 368 (8.75%) Scrum
15 350 (8.32%) User Acceptance Testing
16 337 (8.01%) Workshop Facilitation
17 328 (7.80%) Requirements Gathering
18 321 (7.63%) Validation
19 312 (7.42%) AI
20 307 (7.30%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 328 (7.80%) SQL
2 268 (6.37%) Python
3 89 (2.12%) Java
4 81 (1.93%) PowerShell
5 49 (1.17%) C#
6 48 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 30 (0.71%) Bash
8 26 (0.62%) VBA
9 24 (0.57%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (0.40%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.38%) R
13 14 (0.33%) Korn
14 11 (0.26%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.24%) Bicep
15 10 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.17%) ABAP
16 7 (0.17%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 850 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 656 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 371 (8.82%) Degree
4 226 (5.37%) PMP
5 224 (5.33%) PMI Certification
6 105 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 98 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.74%) CISSP
9 64 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 63 (1.50%) Master's Degree
11 50 (1.19%) CISM
12 39 (0.93%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.78%) CBAP
14 29 (0.69%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.62%) IIBA
15 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
16 22 (0.52%) APMP
16 22 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
16 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (6.78%) QA
2 241 (5.73%) GDPR
3 204 (4.85%) Data Quality
4 178 (4.23%) PMO
5 171 (4.07%) NIST
6 153 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.76%) GRC
8 65 (1.55%) SLA
9 64 (1.52%) PCI DSS
10 49 (1.17%) NCSC
11 46 (1.09%) Accessibility
12 40 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.71%) IFRS
14 29 (0.69%) COBIT
15 26 (0.62%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.43%) IFRS 17
16 18 (0.43%) PSD2
17 16 (0.38%) WCAG
18 15 (0.36%) HL7
19 14 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 105 (2.50%) Docker
2 70 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 39 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.19%) NFS
4 8 (0.19%) Postfix
5 7 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.12%) vSphere
8 3 (0.071%) HDFS
8 3 (0.071%) SRDF
8 3 (0.071%) Varnish
9 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.048%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.048%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) Firmware
10 1 (0.024%) RACF
Systems Management
1 148 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 83 (1.97%) Terraform
3 55 (1.31%) Ansible
4 48 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.86%) Grafana
6 24 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.45%) SCCM
9 13 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 7 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.17%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.095%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.095%) Istio
14 4 (0.095%) PingFederate
15 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 472 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 336 (7.99%) SAP
3 260 (6.18%) Oracle
4 198 (4.71%) ServiceNow
5 170 (4.04%) Salesforce
6 92 (2.19%) Google
7 76 (1.81%) Workday
8 74 (1.76%) VMware
9 66 (1.57%) Databricks
10 48 (1.14%) Splunk
11 47 (1.12%) Cisco
12 39 (0.93%) IBM
13 37 (0.88%) CyberArk
14 34 (0.81%) Ariba
15 29 (0.69%) Citrix
15 29 (0.69%) MuleSoft
16 28 (0.67%) Adobe
17 26 (0.62%) F5
18 25 (0.59%) Informatica
18 25 (0.59%) Red Hat