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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,454 2,393 2,761
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.69% 9.94% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.57% 10.88% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,023 1,640 1,953
10th Percentile £373 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £442 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% - -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 57 81
10th Percentile £21.93 £35.45 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.50 £45.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +6.57%
75th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £72.90
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.25 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

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 35,421 21,987 31,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.31% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,454 14,284 20,634
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,213 963 2,325
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.84% -23.32% +0.29%

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 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 2 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 2 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 +7 2,265 £550 -4.35% 1,260
North of England -1 685 £495 -1.00% 362
Midlands +4 531 £492 -1.70% 250
South East +2 514 £550 +4.76% 479
West Midlands +3 359 £500 -4.76% 169
Yorkshire +8 329 £500 +1.01% 110
North West -1 323 £475 -5.94% 217
South West +17 258 £550 +4.76% 145
East Midlands +10 165 £465 +3.68% 80
East of England -2 126 £530 -11.67% 117
North East -8 49 £450 -14.29% 39
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 (6.44%) Confluence
2 136 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.01%) CMS
4 39 (0.88%) SAS
5 22 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.29%) Appian
7 12 (0.27%) Apache
7 12 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.13%) WordPress
11 5 (0.11%) TPMS
12 4 (0.090%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.090%) Kentico
13 3 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.067%) nginx
13 3 (0.067%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
13 3 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 215 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 134 (3.01%) Microsoft Project
3 115 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 113 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
5 75 (1.68%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.18%) Revit
9 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 4 (0.090%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.090%) Sketch
11 3 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.045%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.045%) Notion
13 1 (0.022%) Autodesk Smoke
13 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.022%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.022%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 139 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 56 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 23 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 22 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 21 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 16 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 14 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.27%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.25%) SAP HCM
10 10 (0.22%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.20%) NEC Housing
12 7 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
12 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 680 (15.27%) Azure
2 488 (10.96%) AWS
3 250 (5.61%) Power Platform
4 185 (4.15%) GCP
5 146 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
6 133 (2.99%) SaaS
7 111 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
8 92 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 66 (1.48%) Snowflake
10 60 (1.35%) GitHub
11 52 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.03%) OCI
13 45 (1.01%) OpenShift
14 43 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 42 (0.94%) Amazon S3
15 42 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
16 41 (0.92%) Serverless
17 37 (0.83%) Google Workspace
18 36 (0.81%) Figma
19 33 (0.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.44%) Network Security
2 62 (1.39%) Firewall
3 52 (1.17%) WAN
4 39 (0.88%) LAN
5 35 (0.79%) DNS
6 28 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 23 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 22 (0.49%) VPN
10 20 (0.45%) BGP
11 17 (0.38%) OSPF
12 16 (0.36%) MPLS
13 14 (0.31%) DHCP
13 14 (0.31%) NGFW
14 12 (0.27%) BIG-IP
14 12 (0.27%) Intranet
14 12 (0.27%) SAN
14 12 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
14 12 (0.27%) Wireless
15 10 (0.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (4.58%) Power BI
2 89 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (1.84%) Metadata
4 63 (1.41%) Tableau
5 55 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.01%) Data Lake
7 37 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
10 25 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 24 (0.54%) Relational Database
12 21 (0.47%) DynamoDB
13 20 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (0.43%) Big Data
15 18 (0.40%) Oracle Database
16 17 (0.38%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
18 15 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
19 13 (0.29%) Power Query
20 12 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 515 (11.56%) JIRA
2 80 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.46%) Git
4 43 (0.97%) GitLab
5 27 (0.61%) Selenium
6 26 (0.58%) JUnit
7 18 (0.40%) Postman
8 16 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.31%) Maven
10 13 (0.29%) JMeter
11 12 (0.27%) Mockito
12 11 (0.25%) MLflow
13 10 (0.22%) DbUnit
14 9 (0.20%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.20%) jMock
15 8 (0.18%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.18%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.18%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 2,203 (49.46%) Social Skills
2 1,583 (35.54%) Finance
3 663 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 505 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 436 (9.79%) Banking
6 221 (4.96%) Retail
7 211 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
8 193 (4.33%) Legal
9 165 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
10 154 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
11 139 (3.12%) Marketing
12 115 (2.58%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
14 98 (2.20%) Telecoms
15 79 (1.77%) Local Government
16 68 (1.53%) Financial Institution
17 62 (1.39%) Law
18 56 (1.26%) Aerospace
19 55 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 54 (1.21%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 699 (15.69%) Analyst
2 673 (15.11%) Project Manager
3 630 (14.14%) Lead
4 515 (11.56%) Architect
5 505 (11.34%) Business Analyst
6 470 (10.55%) Senior
7 208 (4.67%) Senior Manager
8 193 (4.33%) Consultant
9 185 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
10 166 (3.73%) Programme Manager
11 153 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
12 138 (3.10%) IT Manager
13 106 (2.38%) Senior Project Manager
14 94 (2.11%) Product Manager
15 90 (2.02%) Product Owner
16 89 (2.00%) Technical Manager
17 88 (1.98%) Change Manager
18 84 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
19 80 (1.80%) IT Project Manager
20 71 (1.59%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (2.56%) REST
2 81 (1.82%) Middleware
3 78 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 58 (1.30%) SOAP
5 46 (1.03%) .NET
6 39 (0.88%) OAuth
7 33 (0.74%) JSON
8 32 (0.72%) OpenID
8 32 (0.72%) RESTful
9 30 (0.67%) Kafka
9 30 (0.67%) Web Services
10 29 (0.65%) XML
11 28 (0.63%) Spring
12 27 (0.61%) AngularJS
13 26 (0.58%) CSS
13 26 (0.58%) SAML
14 25 (0.56%) React
15 23 (0.52%) ADO
16 22 (0.49%) HTML
16 22 (0.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 348 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 209 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 154 (3.46%) Cloud Native
4 142 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 121 (2.72%) Management Information System
6 113 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 99 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 81 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 72 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 70 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.15%) Operational Technology
12 49 (1.10%) NHS
13 48 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 47 (1.06%) Public Cloud
15 44 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
16 42 (0.94%) PMI
17 39 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
18 38 (0.85%) Security Posture
19 36 (0.81%) AI Agents
20 33 (0.74%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 136 (3.05%) Windows
2 76 (1.71%) Linux
3 29 (0.65%) Android
3 29 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 22 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 21 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 19 (0.43%) Unix
8 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.16%) VMS
10 4 (0.090%) AIX
10 4 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.090%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.090%) zOS
11 3 (0.067%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.067%) Solaris
12 2 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.045%) HPUX
13 1 (0.022%) CentOS
13 1 (0.022%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,451 (32.58%) Agile
2 698 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 669 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
4 654 (14.68%) Project Management
5 650 (14.59%) Migration
6 583 (13.09%) Roadmaps
7 580 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 524 (11.76%) DevOps
9 520 (11.67%) Change Management
10 506 (11.36%) Decision-Making
11 482 (10.82%) Project Delivery
12 435 (9.77%) Risk Management
13 422 (9.47%) Analytics
14 386 (8.67%) AI
15 372 (8.35%) User Acceptance Testing
16 359 (8.06%) Validation
17 352 (7.90%) Scrum
18 347 (7.79%) CI/CD
19 327 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
20 326 (7.32%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 357 (8.02%) SQL
2 241 (5.41%) Python
3 92 (2.07%) Java
4 72 (1.62%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.01%) JavaScript
6 44 (0.99%) C#
7 34 (0.76%) Bash
8 21 (0.47%) VBA
9 20 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.36%) Korn
11 14 (0.31%) Bicep
12 13 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.27%) R
14 10 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.20%) ABAP
15 9 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.20%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.18%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 910 (20.43%) Security Cleared
2 708 (15.90%) SC Cleared
3 340 (7.63%) Degree
4 237 (5.32%) PMP
5 209 (4.69%) PMI Certification
6 125 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 107 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 95 (2.13%) CISSP
9 69 (1.55%) CISM
10 55 (1.23%) Azure Certification
11 53 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 46 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 39 (0.88%) AWS Certification
14 30 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.63%) IIBA
16 26 (0.58%) ACCA
16 26 (0.58%) CBAP
17 25 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
18 24 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 23 (0.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (5.93%) QA
2 231 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 220 (4.94%) PMO
4 199 (4.47%) GDPR
5 160 (3.59%) NIST
6 134 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 79 (1.77%) GRC
8 74 (1.66%) SLA
9 67 (1.50%) Accessibility
10 50 (1.12%) PCI DSS
11 49 (1.10%) NCSC
12 37 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.74%) IFRS
14 28 (0.63%) COBIT
14 28 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.40%) JSP 440
16 17 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 17 (0.38%) IFRS 17
16 17 (0.38%) WCAG
17 15 (0.34%) PSD2
System Software
1 97 (2.18%) Docker
2 69 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.27%) Postfix
6 11 (0.25%) NFS
7 9 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.11%) SRDF
10 5 (0.11%) vSphere
11 4 (0.090%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.090%) Varnish
12 3 (0.067%) HDFS
12 3 (0.067%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.045%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.045%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.022%) NLBS
14 1 (0.022%) RACF
Systems Management
1 141 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 94 (2.11%) Terraform
3 61 (1.37%) Ansible
4 46 (1.03%) Grafana
5 44 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.47%) SCCM
9 8 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.16%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.13%) Puppet
11 6 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.11%) Argo
12 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.090%) Control-M
13 4 (0.090%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.090%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.090%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 4 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 519 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 356 (7.99%) SAP
3 242 (5.43%) Oracle
4 205 (4.60%) ServiceNow
5 171 (3.84%) Salesforce
6 95 (2.13%) Google
7 86 (1.93%) Databricks
8 72 (1.62%) VMware
9 58 (1.30%) Workday
10 47 (1.06%) Splunk
11 41 (0.92%) Cisco
12 39 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 31 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 29 (0.65%) Ariba
15 28 (0.63%) Citrix
15 28 (0.63%) Informatica
16 27 (0.61%) IBM
17 26 (0.58%) Adobe
18 25 (0.56%) Atlassian
19 24 (0.54%) F5