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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,233 2,308 2,839
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.83% 9.47% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.67% 10.41% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,913 1,586 2,000
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% -1.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 65 75
10th Percentile £16.26 £35.00 £14.45
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.00 £30.08
Median hourly rate £45.23 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +20.00% -14.14%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £71.75
90th Percentile £94.13 £80.35 £85.39
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -32.50% +20.00% -13.42%

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 33,405 22,176 32,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 90.94% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,387 14,594 21,148
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £613 £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 2,074 880 2,191
10th Percentile £15.41 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.51 £15.76
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.88 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.61% -6.24% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.79 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.16% -6.87% -8.79%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +9 2,177 £550 -4.35% 744
North of England -5 602 £475 -7.32% 233
South East +6 516 £573 +9.67% 354
Midlands 0 510 £485 -3.00% 174
West Midlands -3 349 £492 -6.29% 112
North West -5 302 £463 -10.54% 123
Yorkshire +6 269 £500 - 94
South West +22 227 £550 +0.46% 88
East Midlands +4 159 £455 +1.45% 62
East of England 0 116 £550 -4.35% 103
North East -7 47 £439 -21.30% 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
1 292 (6.90%) Confluence
2 126 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.23%) SAS
4 39 (0.92%) CMS
5 36 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.43%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 8 (0.19%) TPMS
10 7 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.14%) Camunda
12 5 (0.12%) nginx
13 4 (0.094%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
14 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 226 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 110 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 109 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
5 78 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.17%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.094%) Revit
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.047%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.047%) InVision
12 2 (0.047%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.047%) Windchill
13 1 (0.024%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.024%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 126 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
3 43 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (0.47%) Aladdin
5 18 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 14 (0.33%) Endur
7 14 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
8 13 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
11 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
11 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 10 (0.24%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 616 (14.55%) Azure
2 437 (10.32%) AWS
3 242 (5.72%) Power Platform
4 180 (4.25%) GCP
5 132 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
7 108 (2.55%) SaaS
8 89 (2.10%) Entra ID
9 64 (1.51%) OpenShift
10 57 (1.35%) OCI
11 49 (1.16%) Snowflake
12 48 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
13 44 (1.04%) GitHub
14 41 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
15 39 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 38 (0.90%) Power Automate
17 35 (0.83%) Figma
18 34 (0.80%) Google Workspace
19 32 (0.76%) Serverless
20 31 (0.73%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.61%) Firewall
2 60 (1.42%) Network Security
3 55 (1.30%) WAN
4 42 (0.99%) LAN
5 37 (0.87%) SD-WAN
6 34 (0.80%) DNS
7 30 (0.71%) VPN
8 26 (0.61%) 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%) Wireless
14 12 (0.28%) NGFW
14 12 (0.28%) SAN
15 11 (0.26%) Broadband
15 11 (0.26%) Intranet
15 11 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (4.84%) Power BI
2 88 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (1.75%) Metadata
4 62 (1.46%) Tableau
5 42 (0.99%) SQL Server
6 36 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 33 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 27 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.59%) NoSQL
9 25 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 24 (0.57%) Power Query
11 21 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 18 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (0.40%) Big Data
15 16 (0.38%) DynamoDB
15 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
16 14 (0.33%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.31%) MySQL
18 12 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 499 (11.79%) JIRA
2 89 (2.10%) Jenkins
3 83 (1.96%) Git
4 54 (1.28%) GitLab
5 43 (1.02%) Selenium
6 37 (0.87%) JUnit
7 15 (0.35%) Postman
8 13 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.31%) SonarQube
9 12 (0.28%) Maven
10 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.26%) JMeter
11 10 (0.24%) MLflow
11 10 (0.24%) Mockito
11 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.24%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.17%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.14%) Axure RP
General
1 2,163 (51.10%) Social Skills
2 1,475 (34.85%) Finance
3 675 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
4 456 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 410 (9.69%) Banking
6 212 (5.01%) Influencing Skills
7 187 (4.42%) Retail
8 165 (3.90%) Legal
9 151 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 136 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
11 135 (3.19%) Marketing
12 121 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 103 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 100 (2.36%) Manufacturing
15 80 (1.89%) Financial Institution
16 64 (1.51%) Front Office
16 64 (1.51%) Local Government
17 61 (1.44%) Law
18 52 (1.23%) Investment Banking
19 45 (1.06%) Billing
Job Titles
1 738 (17.43%) Analyst
2 631 (14.91%) Project Manager
3 574 (13.56%) Lead
4 545 (12.88%) Business Analyst
5 458 (10.82%) Architect
6 424 (10.02%) Senior
7 203 (4.80%) Consultant
8 179 (4.23%) Senior Manager
9 177 (4.18%) Programme Manager
10 165 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
11 143 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
12 126 (2.98%) IT Manager
13 94 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
14 89 (2.10%) Data Analyst
15 88 (2.08%) Change Manager
16 87 (2.06%) Senior Project Manager
17 83 (1.96%) Product Manager
18 82 (1.94%) Technical Manager
19 76 (1.80%) Developer
20 74 (1.75%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.98%) REST
2 84 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
3 66 (1.56%) Middleware
4 55 (1.30%) SOAP
5 36 (0.85%) OAuth
6 35 (0.83%) .NET
7 34 (0.80%) Kafka
8 33 (0.78%) JSON
9 31 (0.73%) OpenID
10 30 (0.71%) XML
11 29 (0.69%) SAML
12 28 (0.66%) pytest
12 28 (0.66%) Web Services
13 26 (0.61%) React
14 25 (0.59%) AngularJS
14 25 (0.59%) RESTful
15 23 (0.54%) Spring
15 23 (0.54%) Swagger
16 21 (0.50%) Playwright
16 21 (0.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 327 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 226 (5.34%) Onboarding
3 130 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
4 116 (2.74%) Cloud Native
5 111 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
6 104 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 89 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 73 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 67 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 57 (1.35%) PMI
11 56 (1.32%) NHS
12 54 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 47 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 46 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
15 40 (0.94%) Operational Technology
16 36 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (0.80%) FMCG
18 30 (0.71%) CMDB
19 29 (0.69%) e-Learning
20 28 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 122 (2.88%) Windows
2 65 (1.54%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Android
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 22 (0.52%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.47%) Unix
6 18 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.28%) VMS
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.071%) AIX
12 2 (0.047%) CentOS
12 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.047%) zOS
13 1 (0.024%) MVS
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,382 (32.65%) Agile
2 709 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
3 642 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 641 (15.14%) Project Management
5 636 (15.02%) Migration
6 553 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 519 (12.26%) Change Management
8 515 (12.17%) Roadmaps
9 464 (10.96%) DevOps
9 464 (10.96%) Project Delivery
10 452 (10.68%) Decision-Making
11 400 (9.45%) Risk Management
12 399 (9.43%) Analytics
13 359 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
14 358 (8.46%) Scrum
15 338 (7.98%) Validation
16 336 (7.94%) AI
17 333 (7.87%) Workshop Facilitation
18 327 (7.73%) Requirements Gathering
19 310 (7.32%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 324 (7.65%) SQL
2 258 (6.09%) Python
3 89 (2.10%) Java
4 75 (1.77%) PowerShell
5 48 (1.13%) C#
5 48 (1.13%) JavaScript
6 30 (0.71%) Bash
7 24 (0.57%) VBA
8 22 (0.52%) TypeScript
9 18 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 17 (0.40%) R
11 15 (0.35%) Korn
12 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.21%) Bicep
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.19%) ABAP
15 6 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.14%) C++
15 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 866 (20.46%) Security Cleared
2 667 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 365 (8.62%) Degree
4 231 (5.46%) PMP
5 223 (5.27%) PMI Certification
6 110 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 102 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 74 (1.75%) CISSP
9 61 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 58 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 50 (1.18%) CISM
12 40 (0.94%) Azure Certification
13 32 (0.76%) CBAP
14 30 (0.71%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (0.59%) IIBA
16 25 (0.59%) ISTQB
17 24 (0.57%) APMP
18 21 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (6.78%) QA
2 234 (5.53%) GDPR
3 210 (4.96%) Data Quality
4 184 (4.35%) PMO
5 167 (3.95%) NIST
6 147 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (1.72%) GRC
8 63 (1.49%) SLA
9 62 (1.46%) PCI DSS
10 48 (1.13%) Accessibility
11 46 (1.09%) NCSC
12 37 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.69%) COBIT
13 29 (0.69%) IFRS
14 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.43%) IFRS 17
15 18 (0.43%) PSD2
16 16 (0.38%) HL7
17 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 14 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 105 (2.48%) Docker
2 69 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 38 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.19%) NFS
5 8 (0.19%) Postfix
6 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
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%) Firmware
12 1 (0.024%) NLBS
12 1 (0.024%) RACF
Systems Management
1 146 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 81 (1.91%) Terraform
3 54 (1.28%) Ansible
4 47 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.76%) Grafana
6 22 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.45%) SCCM
9 13 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
12 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.094%) Istio
15 3 (0.071%) EMC VPLEX
15 3 (0.071%) Kibana
15 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 471 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 342 (8.08%) SAP
3 261 (6.17%) Oracle
4 197 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 169 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 97 (2.29%) Google
7 74 (1.75%) Workday
8 73 (1.72%) VMware
9 63 (1.49%) Databricks
10 48 (1.13%) Cisco
11 46 (1.09%) Splunk
12 40 (0.94%) CyberArk
13 35 (0.83%) Ariba
14 34 (0.80%) IBM
15 30 (0.71%) Citrix
15 30 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 29 (0.69%) Adobe
17 27 (0.64%) F5
18 25 (0.59%) Informatica
18 25 (0.59%) Red Hat