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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,813 2,517 2,742
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.20% 10.15% 7.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.14% 11.11% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,241 1,714 1,954
10th Percentile £375 £357 £359
25th Percentile £456 £435 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £534
% change year-on-year +2.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 64 77
10th Percentile £22.21 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £32.50 £42.26 £33.48
Median hourly rate £53.50 £58.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% -2.08% +11.80%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.06 £74.54
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.13 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% +11.80%

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 36,618 22,657 32,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 91.33% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,120 14,657 20,816
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £727 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,297 1,070 2,391
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.11 £16.04
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 2,461 £560 -2.61% 697
North of England -1 719 £500 - 259
South East +5 597 £550 +4.76% 453
Midlands +3 530 £500 - 169
West Midlands +1 371 £500 -4.76% 102
North West +1 350 £488 -3.47% 151
Yorkshire +7 336 £500 +2.04% 81
South West +19 286 £550 +4.76% 131
East Midlands +11 151 £465 +5.38% 64
East of England 0 136 £525 -12.50% 82
North East -17 47 £475 +5.56% 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
1 287 (5.96%) Confluence
2 134 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.12%) CMS
4 42 (0.87%) SAS
5 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.27%) Appian
8 12 (0.25%) Apache
9 9 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.15%) WordPress
12 5 (0.10%) Kentico
12 5 (0.10%) TPMS
13 4 (0.083%) Apache Spark
14 3 (0.062%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
14 3 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.062%) Palantir Foundry
14 3 (0.062%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.042%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 229 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
3 120 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 113 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
5 70 (1.45%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.25%) Revit
8 10 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.083%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.083%) Trello
10 3 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.062%) Notion
10 3 (0.062%) Sketch
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.021%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.021%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 155 (3.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 23 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.44%) Aladdin
7 19 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
9 15 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
10 14 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
11 13 (0.27%) SAP CO
11 13 (0.27%) SAP ERP
11 13 (0.27%) SAP FI
12 12 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
13 11 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
13 11 (0.23%) Workday HCM
14 10 (0.21%) Loan IQ
14 10 (0.21%) SAP HCM
15 9 (0.19%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 748 (15.54%) Azure
2 545 (11.32%) AWS
3 281 (5.84%) Power Platform
4 195 (4.05%) GCP
5 161 (3.35%) SaaS
6 159 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
8 97 (2.02%) Entra ID
9 75 (1.56%) Snowflake
10 64 (1.33%) GitHub
11 56 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
11 56 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
12 53 (1.10%) OCI
13 48 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 47 (0.98%) Amazon S3
14 47 (0.98%) Serverless
15 38 (0.79%) Power Automate
16 35 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (0.73%) PaaS
16 35 (0.73%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 79 (1.64%) Network Security
2 77 (1.60%) Firewall
3 56 (1.16%) WAN
4 43 (0.89%) LAN
5 37 (0.77%) DNS
6 30 (0.62%) SD-WAN
7 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 25 (0.52%) VPN
10 22 (0.46%) BGP
11 18 (0.37%) OSPF
12 17 (0.35%) MPLS
13 16 (0.33%) DHCP
14 15 (0.31%) Wireless
15 14 (0.29%) NGFW
16 13 (0.27%) Intranet
17 12 (0.25%) BIG-IP
17 12 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
18 11 (0.23%) SAN
18 11 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (4.82%) Power BI
2 98 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (1.87%) Metadata
4 65 (1.35%) Tableau
5 62 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 55 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 41 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (0.56%) NoSQL
10 27 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
11 24 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 20 (0.42%) Big Data
12 20 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 18 (0.37%) Delta Lake
14 16 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (0.31%) Power Query
16 14 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
17 12 (0.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 534 (11.09%) JIRA
2 75 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.37%) Git
4 42 (0.87%) GitLab
5 30 (0.62%) Selenium
6 26 (0.54%) JUnit
7 21 (0.44%) Postman
8 15 (0.31%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.27%) JMeter
9 13 (0.27%) Maven
10 12 (0.25%) Mockito
11 11 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.23%) MLflow
12 10 (0.21%) DbUnit
13 9 (0.19%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.19%) jMock
13 9 (0.19%) Zephyr
14 8 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
14 8 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 2,410 (50.07%) Social Skills
2 1,736 (36.07%) Finance
3 726 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 565 (11.74%) Public Sector
5 462 (9.60%) Banking
6 258 (5.36%) Retail
7 232 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
8 212 (4.40%) Legal
9 183 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
10 172 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
11 151 (3.14%) Marketing
12 122 (2.53%) Manufacturing
13 118 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 109 (2.26%) Telecoms
15 90 (1.87%) Local Government
16 78 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 75 (1.56%) Financial Institution
18 67 (1.39%) Law
19 65 (1.35%) Aerospace
20 63 (1.31%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 742 (15.42%) Analyst
2 701 (14.56%) Project Manager
3 683 (14.19%) Lead
4 561 (11.66%) Architect
5 511 (10.62%) Business Analyst
6 504 (10.47%) Senior
7 224 (4.65%) Consultant
8 218 (4.53%) Senior Manager
9 212 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 174 (3.62%) Delivery Manager
11 171 (3.55%) Programme Manager
12 152 (3.16%) IT Manager
13 110 (2.29%) Senior Project Manager
14 99 (2.06%) Product Manager
15 98 (2.04%) Product Owner
16 90 (1.87%) Technical Manager
17 88 (1.83%) Change Manager
17 88 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
18 85 (1.77%) IT Project Manager
19 80 (1.66%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.60%) REST
2 83 (1.72%) Middleware
3 82 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 66 (1.37%) SOAP
5 50 (1.04%) .NET
6 45 (0.93%) OAuth
7 40 (0.83%) JSON
8 33 (0.69%) Kafka
8 33 (0.69%) OpenID
8 33 (0.69%) RESTful
9 32 (0.66%) Spring
10 31 (0.64%) SAML
10 31 (0.64%) Web Services
10 31 (0.64%) XML
11 30 (0.62%) AngularJS
11 30 (0.62%) CSS
11 30 (0.62%) SailPoint
12 28 (0.58%) PySpark
13 26 (0.54%) HTML
13 26 (0.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 374 (7.77%) Product Ownership
2 234 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 168 (3.49%) Cloud Native
4 152 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 130 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 118 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
7 101 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 85 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 82 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 79 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 61 (1.27%) Operational Technology
12 60 (1.25%) NHS
13 57 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
14 54 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 53 (1.10%) Security Posture
16 48 (1.00%) Public Cloud
17 43 (0.89%) PMI
17 43 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
18 42 (0.87%) CMDB
18 42 (0.87%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 138 (2.87%) Windows
2 78 (1.62%) Linux
3 31 (0.64%) Android
4 29 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.46%) Unix
7 21 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.12%) VMS
10 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.083%) AIX
11 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.083%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.083%) zOS
12 3 (0.062%) Solaris
13 2 (0.042%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.042%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.042%) HPUX
14 1 (0.021%) CentOS
14 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,573 (32.68%) Agile
2 763 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 732 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
4 703 (14.61%) Migration
5 659 (13.69%) Project Management
6 638 (13.26%) Roadmaps
7 633 (13.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 576 (11.97%) DevOps
9 552 (11.47%) Decision-Making
10 544 (11.30%) Change Management
11 528 (10.97%) Project Delivery
12 474 (9.85%) Analytics
13 470 (9.77%) Risk Management
14 448 (9.31%) AI
15 424 (8.81%) User Acceptance Testing
16 394 (8.19%) Validation
17 390 (8.10%) CI/CD
18 379 (7.87%) Scrum
19 361 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
20 354 (7.36%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 393 (8.17%) SQL
2 266 (5.53%) Python
3 100 (2.08%) Java
4 69 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 54 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 47 (0.98%) C#
7 24 (0.50%) Bash
8 23 (0.48%) VBA
9 22 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.37%) Bicep
11 17 (0.35%) Korn
12 14 (0.29%) ABAP
12 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.21%) R
14 10 (0.21%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.21%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.15%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 968 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 745 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 355 (7.38%) Degree
4 255 (5.30%) PMP
5 225 (4.67%) PMI Certification
6 138 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 128 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 105 (2.18%) CISSP
9 76 (1.58%) CISM
10 72 (1.50%) Azure Certification
11 56 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 45 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 43 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
15 30 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
16 29 (0.60%) ACCA
16 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
17 28 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 26 (0.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (5.55%) QA
2 264 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 242 (5.03%) PMO
4 213 (4.43%) GDPR
5 165 (3.43%) NIST
6 143 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 84 (1.75%) GRC
8 78 (1.62%) SLA
9 73 (1.52%) Accessibility
10 53 (1.10%) NCSC
11 50 (1.04%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 35 (0.73%) IFRS
14 34 (0.71%) COBIT
15 30 (0.62%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.37%) IFRS 17
16 18 (0.37%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.33%) PSD2
17 16 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (2.02%) Docker
2 78 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.25%) Postfix
6 10 (0.21%) NFS
6 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.083%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.083%) SRDF
9 4 (0.083%) Varnish
10 3 (0.062%) HDFS
10 3 (0.062%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.042%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.042%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.042%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.021%) NLBS
12 1 (0.021%) RACF
Systems Management
1 142 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 111 (2.31%) Terraform
3 68 (1.41%) Ansible
4 44 (0.91%) Grafana
5 39 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.33%) SCCM
9 8 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.15%) Argo
10 7 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.15%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.10%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.10%) Puppet
12 5 (0.10%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.083%) Control-M
13 4 (0.083%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.083%) vMotion
Vendors
1 581 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 387 (8.04%) SAP
3 264 (5.49%) Oracle
4 244 (5.07%) ServiceNow
5 187 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 94 (1.95%) Databricks
6 94 (1.95%) Google
7 68 (1.41%) VMware
8 66 (1.37%) Workday
9 50 (1.04%) Cisco
10 46 (0.96%) CyberArk
11 44 (0.91%) Splunk
12 38 (0.79%) Adobe
13 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
14 33 (0.69%) Ariba
15 32 (0.66%) Informatica
16 27 (0.56%) IBM
17 26 (0.54%) Atlassian
18 25 (0.52%) F5
19 24 (0.50%) Citrix