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

6 months to
3 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 4,481 2,381 2,759
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.75% 9.95% 7.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.64% 10.89% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,037 1,630 1,951
10th Percentile £374 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £444 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £541 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.69% +0.14% -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 121 57 81
10th Percentile £23.50 £35.45 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.50 £45.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.57%
75th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £72.90
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.25 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £54.23 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.62% - +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 35,462 21,869 31,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.04% 91.35% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,467 14,201 20,640
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,230 965 2,327
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.91 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.85 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.27% -23.70% +1.39%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +8 2,293 £550 -4.35% 1,234
North of England -1 684 £500 - 357
Midlands +4 527 £492 -1.70% 246
South East +2 516 £550 +4.76% 465
West Midlands +2 355 £500 -4.76% 170
Yorkshire +8 326 £500 +1.01% 112
North West +1 325 £475 -6.40% 213
South West +18 262 £550 +4.76% 149
East Midlands +10 165 £465 +3.68% 75
East of England 0 125 £535 -10.83% 122
North East -10 49 £450 -14.29% 36
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 (6.38%) Confluence
2 135 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.03%) CMS
4 40 (0.89%) SAS
5 22 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.27%) Apache
6 12 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.27%) Appian
7 8 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.13%) WordPress
10 5 (0.11%) TPMS
11 4 (0.089%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.089%) Kentico
12 3 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.067%) nginx
12 3 (0.067%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
12 3 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 215 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
3 115 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 113 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
5 75 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.20%) Revit
8 7 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 4 (0.089%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.089%) 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 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 56 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 21 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 17 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 15 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 14 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
8 14 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
8 14 (0.31%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.27%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.27%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.25%) SAP HCM
11 10 (0.22%) Loan IQ
12 9 (0.20%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.20%) Workday HCM
13 8 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 686 (15.31%) Azure
2 492 (10.98%) AWS
3 254 (5.67%) Power Platform
4 184 (4.11%) GCP
5 147 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
6 135 (3.01%) SaaS
7 112 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
8 92 (2.05%) Entra ID
9 67 (1.50%) Snowflake
10 61 (1.36%) GitHub
11 52 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (1.05%) OCI
13 43 (0.96%) Amazon S3
13 43 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
13 43 (0.96%) OpenShift
14 42 (0.94%) Serverless
14 42 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
15 37 (0.83%) Google Workspace
16 35 (0.78%) Figma
17 33 (0.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.45%) Network Security
2 63 (1.41%) Firewall
3 52 (1.16%) WAN
4 39 (0.87%) LAN
5 35 (0.78%) DNS
6 27 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 24 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 22 (0.49%) VPN
10 21 (0.47%) 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%) Wireless
15 11 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
16 10 (0.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (4.62%) Power BI
2 91 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 84 (1.87%) Metadata
4 63 (1.41%) Tableau
5 55 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 46 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 37 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
10 25 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 24 (0.54%) Relational Database
12 21 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.47%) DynamoDB
13 19 (0.42%) Big Data
14 18 (0.40%) Oracle Database
15 17 (0.38%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
17 15 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
18 13 (0.29%) Power Query
19 12 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 511 (11.40%) JIRA
2 79 (1.76%) Jenkins
3 64 (1.43%) Git
4 43 (0.96%) GitLab
5 27 (0.60%) Selenium
6 26 (0.58%) JUnit
7 19 (0.42%) 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 2,219 (49.52%) Social Skills
2 1,600 (35.71%) Finance
3 669 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 512 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 440 (9.82%) Banking
6 222 (4.95%) Retail
7 212 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
8 195 (4.35%) Legal
9 165 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
10 155 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
11 140 (3.12%) Marketing
12 115 (2.57%) Manufacturing
13 104 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
14 100 (2.23%) Telecoms
15 80 (1.79%) Local Government
16 68 (1.52%) Financial Institution
17 62 (1.38%) Law
18 58 (1.29%) Aerospace
19 56 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 55 (1.23%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 705 (15.73%) Analyst
2 673 (15.02%) Project Manager
3 636 (14.19%) Lead
4 518 (11.56%) Architect
5 505 (11.27%) Business Analyst
6 475 (10.60%) Senior
7 210 (4.69%) Senior Manager
8 195 (4.35%) Consultant
9 185 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
10 165 (3.68%) Programme Manager
11 156 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
12 139 (3.10%) IT Manager
13 106 (2.37%) Senior Project Manager
14 95 (2.12%) Product Manager
15 89 (1.99%) Change Manager
15 89 (1.99%) Product Owner
15 89 (1.99%) Technical Manager
16 87 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
17 80 (1.79%) IT Project Manager
18 71 (1.58%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (2.52%) REST
2 82 (1.83%) Middleware
3 75 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 58 (1.29%) SOAP
5 46 (1.03%) .NET
6 39 (0.87%) OAuth
7 33 (0.74%) JSON
8 32 (0.71%) OpenID
8 32 (0.71%) RESTful
9 30 (0.67%) Kafka
9 30 (0.67%) Web Services
10 29 (0.65%) XML
11 28 (0.62%) Spring
12 27 (0.60%) AngularJS
13 26 (0.58%) CSS
13 26 (0.58%) SAML
14 25 (0.56%) React
15 23 (0.51%) ADO
16 22 (0.49%) HTML
16 22 (0.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 350 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 212 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 157 (3.50%) Cloud Native
4 144 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 122 (2.72%) Management Information System
6 113 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
7 98 (2.19%) Data Centre
8 81 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 73 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 70 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.14%) Operational Technology
12 49 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 49 (1.09%) NHS
13 48 (1.07%) Public Cloud
14 45 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
15 42 (0.94%) PMI
16 39 (0.87%) Security Posture
16 39 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
17 37 (0.83%) AI Agents
18 33 (0.74%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 137 (3.06%) Windows
2 75 (1.67%) 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
5 21 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 19 (0.42%) Unix
7 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.16%) VMS
9 4 (0.089%) AIX
9 4 (0.089%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.089%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.089%) zOS
10 3 (0.067%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (0.067%) Solaris
11 2 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.045%) HPUX
12 1 (0.022%) CentOS
12 1 (0.022%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,458 (32.54%) Agile
2 701 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 676 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
4 652 (14.55%) Project Management
5 650 (14.51%) Migration
6 587 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 584 (13.03%) Roadmaps
8 529 (11.81%) DevOps
9 522 (11.65%) Change Management
10 512 (11.43%) Decision-Making
11 484 (10.80%) Project Delivery
12 434 (9.69%) Risk Management
13 425 (9.48%) Analytics
14 392 (8.75%) AI
15 373 (8.32%) User Acceptance Testing
16 360 (8.03%) Validation
17 356 (7.94%) Scrum
18 350 (7.81%) CI/CD
19 332 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
20 327 (7.30%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 360 (8.03%) SQL
2 245 (5.47%) Python
3 92 (2.05%) Java
4 73 (1.63%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.00%) C#
5 45 (1.00%) JavaScript
6 34 (0.76%) Bash
7 21 (0.47%) VBA
8 20 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.36%) Korn
10 15 (0.33%) Bicep
11 13 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.27%) R
13 10 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.20%) ABAP
14 9 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.18%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 915 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 713 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 338 (7.54%) Degree
4 236 (5.27%) PMP
5 207 (4.62%) PMI Certification
6 125 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 106 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 97 (2.16%) CISSP
9 71 (1.58%) CISM
10 57 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 53 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 46 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 40 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 32 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.62%) IIBA
16 27 (0.60%) ACCA
17 26 (0.58%) CBAP
18 25 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
19 24 (0.54%) CIMA
19 24 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (5.89%) QA
2 233 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 221 (4.93%) PMO
4 201 (4.49%) GDPR
5 161 (3.59%) NIST
6 135 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 80 (1.79%) GRC
8 75 (1.67%) SLA
9 67 (1.50%) Accessibility
10 50 (1.12%) NCSC
10 50 (1.12%) PCI DSS
11 37 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 33 (0.74%) IFRS
13 29 (0.65%) COBIT
14 28 (0.62%) 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 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 97 (2.16%) Docker
2 70 (1.56%) 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 (0.089%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.089%) 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
1 139 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 96 (2.14%) Terraform
3 62 (1.38%) Ansible
4 46 (1.03%) Grafana
5 44 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 29 (0.65%) 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 (0.089%) Control-M
13 4 (0.089%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.089%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.089%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 4 (0.089%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 528 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 355 (7.92%) SAP
3 242 (5.40%) Oracle
4 207 (4.62%) ServiceNow
5 174 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 96 (2.14%) Google
7 87 (1.94%) Databricks
8 72 (1.61%) VMware
9 60 (1.34%) Workday
10 47 (1.05%) Splunk
11 42 (0.94%) Cisco
12 39 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 32 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 28 (0.62%) Ariba
14 28 (0.62%) Citrix
14 28 (0.62%) Informatica
15 27 (0.60%) Adobe
15 27 (0.60%) IBM
16 25 (0.56%) Atlassian
17 24 (0.54%) F5