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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,237 2,353 2,872
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 9.57% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 10.50% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,922 1,612 2,023
10th Percentile £363 £363 £361
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £539 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% -0.23% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £533
% change year-on-year - -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 67 78
10th Percentile £15.99 £35.00 £14.79
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.59 £30.16
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.48% +0.86%
75th Percentile £80.08 £75.00 £72.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.24 £85.19
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £60.00 £55.94
% change year-on-year -32.50% +7.25% -0.81%

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 33,939 22,408 32,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.13% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,724 14,703 21,181
10th Percentile £316 £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 £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 917 2,235
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.73 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +7 2,168 £550 -4.35% 447
North of England -3 623 £475 -7.32% 163
South East +5 517 £568 +13.50% 331
Midlands -3 493 £485 -3.19% 126
West Midlands -4 330 £491 -6.48% 83
North West -3 306 £465 -11.00% 86
Yorkshire +9 290 £500 - 65
South West +18 234 £550 +1.52% 68
East Midlands +2 159 £463 +2.78% 42
East of England -2 123 £550 -8.33% 70
North East -8 44 £440 -20.00% 14
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
1 293 (6.92%) Confluence
2 122 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.85%) SAS
4 34 (0.80%) CMS
5 29 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.38%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 8 (0.19%) TPMS
10 7 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.094%) Camunda
13 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.047%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 222 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 111 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 110 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
5 78 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.17%) Sketch
10 6 (0.14%) Revit
11 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.094%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.094%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.047%) InVision
13 2 (0.047%) Windchill
14 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 127 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.52%) Aladdin
5 18 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 15 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 15 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 13 (0.31%) Endur
8 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
10 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
11 10 (0.24%) SAP EWM
11 10 (0.24%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 607 (14.33%) Azure
2 440 (10.38%) AWS
3 235 (5.55%) Power Platform
4 182 (4.30%) GCP
5 129 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
6 116 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
7 115 (2.71%) SaaS
8 86 (2.03%) Entra ID
9 56 (1.32%) Snowflake
10 54 (1.27%) OCI
11 53 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (1.11%) OpenShift
13 44 (1.04%) GitHub
14 43 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
16 39 (0.92%) Power Automate
17 38 (0.90%) Figma
18 36 (0.85%) Amazon S3
18 36 (0.85%) Serverless
19 32 (0.76%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.46%) Firewall
2 59 (1.39%) Network Security
3 54 (1.27%) WAN
4 39 (0.92%) LAN
5 34 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 33 (0.78%) DNS
7 29 (0.68%) VPN
8 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (0.52%) BGP
10 20 (0.47%) TCP/IP
11 19 (0.45%) OSPF
12 16 (0.38%) MPLS
12 16 (0.38%) SSL
13 12 (0.28%) Broadband
13 12 (0.28%) DHCP
13 12 (0.28%) NGFW
13 12 (0.28%) Wireless
14 11 (0.26%) BIG-IP
14 11 (0.26%) NAS
14 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (4.77%) Power BI
2 91 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (1.84%) Metadata
4 64 (1.51%) Tableau
5 44 (1.04%) SQL Server
6 41 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
8 30 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 23 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 21 (0.50%) Power Query
12 19 (0.45%) Big Data
12 19 (0.45%) DynamoDB
13 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
14 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
15 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.33%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 511 (12.06%) JIRA
2 75 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.53%) Git
4 38 (0.90%) GitLab
5 29 (0.68%) Selenium
6 24 (0.57%) JUnit
7 16 (0.38%) Postman
8 15 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 12 (0.28%) Maven
9 12 (0.28%) MLflow
10 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.26%) JMeter
10 11 (0.26%) SpecFlow
11 10 (0.24%) Mockito
11 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
12 8 (0.19%) jMock
12 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
General
1 2,128 (50.22%) Social Skills
2 1,490 (35.17%) Finance
3 662 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
4 457 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 416 (9.82%) Banking
6 212 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 196 (4.63%) Retail
8 170 (4.01%) Legal
9 148 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
10 137 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
11 134 (3.16%) Marketing
12 120 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
13 108 (2.55%) Telecoms
14 106 (2.50%) Manufacturing
15 78 (1.84%) Financial Institution
16 63 (1.49%) Local Government
17 60 (1.42%) Front Office
18 54 (1.27%) Law
19 46 (1.09%) Investment Banking
20 44 (1.04%) Billing
Job Titles
1 715 (16.88%) Analyst
2 639 (15.08%) Project Manager
3 586 (13.83%) Lead
4 529 (12.49%) Business Analyst
5 464 (10.95%) Architect
6 436 (10.29%) Senior
7 195 (4.60%) Consultant
8 186 (4.39%) Senior Manager
9 177 (4.18%) Programme Manager
10 167 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
11 140 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
12 131 (3.09%) IT Manager
13 92 (2.17%) Senior Project Manager
14 91 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
15 88 (2.08%) Change Manager
16 83 (1.96%) Technical Manager
17 81 (1.91%) Product Manager
18 79 (1.86%) Test Manager
19 78 (1.84%) Data Analyst
20 74 (1.75%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (2.60%) REST
2 81 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.70%) Middleware
4 57 (1.35%) SOAP
5 36 (0.85%) .NET
6 35 (0.83%) OAuth
7 33 (0.78%) JSON
8 32 (0.76%) Kafka
8 32 (0.76%) XML
9 28 (0.66%) OpenID
9 28 (0.66%) SAML
10 26 (0.61%) RESTful
10 26 (0.61%) Web Services
11 25 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 24 (0.57%) React
13 23 (0.54%) Spring
13 23 (0.54%) Swagger
14 20 (0.47%) CSS
14 20 (0.47%) Playwright
15 19 (0.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 330 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 209 (4.93%) Onboarding
3 136 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
4 131 (3.09%) Cloud Native
5 114 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
6 108 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 86 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 76 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 72 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 57 (1.35%) Virtual Team
11 53 (1.25%) NHS
12 52 (1.23%) PMI
13 46 (1.09%) Public Cloud
14 44 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
15 43 (1.01%) Operational Technology
16 34 (0.80%) FMCG
17 33 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
18 30 (0.71%) CMDB
19 29 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
19 29 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (2.90%) Windows
2 65 (1.53%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 24 (0.57%) Android
5 21 (0.50%) Windows 10
6 19 (0.45%) Unix
6 19 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.26%) 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%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.024%) HPUX
13 1 (0.024%) MVS
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,373 (32.41%) Agile
2 684 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
3 662 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 649 (15.32%) Migration
5 643 (15.18%) Project Management
6 543 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 529 (12.49%) Roadmaps
8 515 (12.15%) Change Management
9 482 (11.38%) Decision-Making
10 464 (10.95%) DevOps
11 460 (10.86%) Project Delivery
12 418 (9.87%) Risk Management
13 391 (9.23%) Analytics
14 364 (8.59%) User Acceptance Testing
15 352 (8.31%) AI
16 346 (8.17%) Scrum
17 338 (7.98%) Validation
18 337 (7.95%) Workshop Facilitation
19 316 (7.46%) Requirements Gathering
20 309 (7.29%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 329 (7.76%) SQL
2 235 (5.55%) Python
3 90 (2.12%) Java
4 73 (1.72%) PowerShell
5 52 (1.23%) C#
6 49 (1.16%) JavaScript
7 29 (0.68%) Bash
8 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.54%) VBA
9 17 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.38%) Korn
10 16 (0.38%) R
11 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
15 7 (0.17%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 861 (20.32%) Security Cleared
2 656 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 358 (8.45%) Degree
4 227 (5.36%) PMP
5 213 (5.03%) PMI Certification
6 111 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 105 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 68 (1.60%) CISSP
9 64 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 61 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 49 (1.16%) CISM
12 40 (0.94%) Azure Certification
13 34 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.66%) CBAP
14 28 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 27 (0.64%) IIBA
16 24 (0.57%) APMP
17 22 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
17 22 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
17 22 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (6.73%) QA
2 232 (5.48%) GDPR
3 208 (4.91%) Data Quality
4 192 (4.53%) PMO
5 159 (3.75%) NIST
6 136 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (1.72%) GRC
8 69 (1.63%) SLA
9 53 (1.25%) PCI DSS
10 50 (1.18%) Accessibility
11 41 (0.97%) NCSC
12 36 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.68%) COBIT
13 29 (0.68%) IFRS
14 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.42%) IFRS 17
16 17 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.38%) HL7
18 14 (0.33%) Basel III
18 14 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 93 (2.19%) Docker
2 68 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.24%) Postfix
5 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.19%) NFS
6 8 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.12%) vSphere
8 4 (0.094%) SRDF
9 3 (0.071%) HDFS
9 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.071%) Varnish
10 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.024%) NLBS
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.024%) RACF
Systems Management
1 131 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 82 (1.94%) Terraform
3 51 (1.20%) Ansible
4 45 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.87%) Grafana
6 26 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.47%) SCCM
9 11 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.094%) Istio
13 3 (0.071%) Control-M
13 3 (0.071%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 473 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 349 (8.24%) SAP
3 250 (5.90%) Oracle
4 194 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 172 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 93 (2.19%) Google
7 73 (1.72%) Databricks
7 73 (1.72%) VMware
8 71 (1.68%) Workday
9 47 (1.11%) Splunk
10 43 (1.01%) Cisco
11 39 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 35 (0.83%) Ariba
13 33 (0.78%) MuleSoft
14 32 (0.76%) IBM
15 29 (0.68%) Citrix
16 28 (0.66%) Adobe
16 28 (0.66%) Informatica
17 26 (0.61%) Atlassian
18 24 (0.57%) Red Hat