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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,741 2,505 2,736
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.07% 10.14% 7.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.00% 11.10% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,207 1,707 1,945
10th Percentile £375 £359 £358
25th Percentile £456 £436 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £642 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £537 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +2.29% -2.10% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 63 77
10th Percentile £23.07 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £32.50 £42.02 £33.48
Median hourly rate £53.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% - +12.53%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.38 £74.54
90th Percentile £104.05 £77.25 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £58.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.79% -2.08% +12.53%

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 36,463 22,562 32,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.37% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,069 14,583 20,746
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,280 1,047 2,378
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -27.15% +7.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.34% -28.05% +6.23%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 2,438 £560 -2.61% 1,125
North of England -1 704 £500 - 360
South East +3 577 £550 +4.76% 480
Midlands +3 527 £500 - 225
West Midlands -1 366 £500 -4.76% 146
North West -1 341 £488 -3.47% 200
Yorkshire +6 329 £500 +3.52% 115
South West +16 279 £550 +3.53% 161
East Midlands +9 154 £465 +5.08% 77
East of England +1 135 £525 -4.55% 98
North East -14 48 £475 -1.30% 48
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
1 289 (6.10%) Confluence
2 138 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.05%) CMS
4 42 (0.89%) SAS
5 24 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.27%) Appian
8 12 (0.25%) Apache
9 8 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.13%) WordPress
12 5 (0.11%) Kentico
12 5 (0.11%) TPMS
13 4 (0.084%) Apache Spark
14 3 (0.063%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.063%) nginx
14 3 (0.063%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
14 3 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 230 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (2.85%) Microsoft Project
3 125 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 115 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
5 76 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.23%) Revit
8 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.084%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.084%) Trello
10 3 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.063%) Notion
10 3 (0.063%) Sketch
11 2 (0.042%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.021%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.021%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 154 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 21 (0.44%) Aladdin
7 20 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
8 19 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
9 17 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
10 15 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
11 14 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
12 13 (0.27%) SAP ERP
13 12 (0.25%) SAP CO
13 12 (0.25%) SAP FI
14 11 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
14 11 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
15 10 (0.21%) Loan IQ
15 10 (0.21%) SAP HCM
15 10 (0.21%) Workday HCM
16 9 (0.19%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 742 (15.65%) Azure
2 529 (11.16%) AWS
3 278 (5.86%) Power Platform
4 190 (4.01%) GCP
5 156 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
6 152 (3.21%) SaaS
7 115 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
8 98 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 73 (1.54%) Snowflake
10 64 (1.35%) GitHub
11 55 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
12 53 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
13 52 (1.10%) OCI
14 49 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 46 (0.97%) Amazon S3
16 45 (0.95%) Serverless
17 36 (0.76%) Power Automate
18 35 (0.74%) Google Workspace
19 34 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
19 34 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.54%) Firewall
1 73 (1.54%) Network Security
2 56 (1.18%) WAN
3 43 (0.91%) LAN
4 34 (0.72%) DNS
5 29 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
6 28 (0.59%) SD-WAN
7 25 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.53%) VPN
8 21 (0.44%) BGP
9 17 (0.36%) MPLS
9 17 (0.36%) OSPF
10 15 (0.32%) DHCP
10 15 (0.32%) Wireless
11 14 (0.30%) NGFW
12 13 (0.27%) Intranet
13 12 (0.25%) BIG-IP
13 12 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
14 11 (0.23%) SAN
14 11 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (4.83%) Power BI
2 100 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (1.94%) Metadata
4 64 (1.35%) Tableau
5 59 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 57 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 38 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 27 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
11 25 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (0.51%) DynamoDB
13 20 (0.42%) Big Data
13 20 (0.42%) Oracle Database
14 18 (0.38%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (0.32%) Power Query
17 14 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
18 13 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 528 (11.14%) JIRA
2 75 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.39%) Git
4 42 (0.89%) GitLab
5 28 (0.59%) Selenium
6 26 (0.55%) JUnit
7 21 (0.44%) Postman
8 15 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.27%) JMeter
9 13 (0.27%) Maven
10 12 (0.25%) Mockito
11 11 (0.23%) MLflow
12 10 (0.21%) DbUnit
13 9 (0.19%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.19%) jMock
14 8 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.17%) Zephyr
15 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 2,361 (49.80%) Social Skills
2 1,707 (36.01%) Finance
3 719 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 539 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 457 (9.64%) Banking
6 252 (5.32%) Retail
7 220 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
8 209 (4.41%) Legal
9 177 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
10 168 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
11 149 (3.14%) Marketing
12 120 (2.53%) Manufacturing
13 118 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
14 107 (2.26%) Telecoms
15 86 (1.81%) Local Government
16 74 (1.56%) Financial Institution
16 74 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 68 (1.43%) Law
18 63 (1.33%) Aerospace
19 60 (1.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 745 (15.71%) Analyst
2 694 (14.64%) Project Manager
3 669 (14.11%) Lead
4 544 (11.47%) Architect
5 520 (10.97%) Business Analyst
6 490 (10.34%) Senior
7 220 (4.64%) Consultant
8 216 (4.56%) Senior Manager
9 203 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
10 169 (3.56%) Delivery Manager
10 169 (3.56%) Programme Manager
11 147 (3.10%) IT Manager
12 111 (2.34%) Senior Project Manager
13 99 (2.09%) Product Owner
14 96 (2.02%) Product Manager
15 90 (1.90%) Technical Manager
16 89 (1.88%) Change Manager
17 86 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
18 82 (1.73%) IT Project Manager
19 77 (1.62%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.64%) REST
2 85 (1.79%) Middleware
3 80 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 67 (1.41%) SOAP
5 50 (1.05%) .NET
6 44 (0.93%) OAuth
7 41 (0.86%) JSON
8 33 (0.70%) OpenID
8 33 (0.70%) RESTful
9 32 (0.67%) XML
10 31 (0.65%) Kafka
10 31 (0.65%) SAML
10 31 (0.65%) Web Services
11 30 (0.63%) AngularJS
11 30 (0.63%) Spring
12 29 (0.61%) CSS
12 29 (0.61%) SailPoint
13 27 (0.57%) React
14 25 (0.53%) HTML
15 24 (0.51%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 366 (7.72%) Product Ownership
2 229 (4.83%) Onboarding
3 165 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 154 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
5 127 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 119 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
7 100 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 82 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 81 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 77 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 58 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 57 (1.20%) NHS
13 55 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
14 51 (1.08%) Public Cloud
15 50 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
16 46 (0.97%) Security Posture
17 44 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
18 42 (0.89%) PMI
19 41 (0.86%) FMCG
20 40 (0.84%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 139 (2.93%) Windows
2 78 (1.65%) Linux
3 31 (0.65%) Android
4 29 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.46%) Unix
7 21 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.15%) VMS
10 5 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.084%) AIX
11 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.084%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.084%) zOS
12 3 (0.063%) Solaris
13 2 (0.042%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.042%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.042%) HPUX
14 1 (0.021%) MVS
14 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,543 (32.55%) Agile
2 739 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 719 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
4 695 (14.66%) Migration
5 667 (14.07%) Project Management
6 617 (13.01%) Roadmaps
7 616 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 566 (11.94%) DevOps
9 544 (11.47%) Change Management
10 541 (11.41%) Decision-Making
11 522 (11.01%) Project Delivery
12 466 (9.83%) Analytics
13 455 (9.60%) Risk Management
14 439 (9.26%) AI
15 419 (8.84%) User Acceptance Testing
16 389 (8.21%) Validation
17 383 (8.08%) CI/CD
18 373 (7.87%) Scrum
19 361 (7.61%) Workshop Facilitation
20 349 (7.36%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 385 (8.12%) SQL
2 262 (5.53%) Python
3 96 (2.02%) Java
4 71 (1.50%) PowerShell
5 50 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 46 (0.97%) C#
7 28 (0.59%) Bash
8 21 (0.44%) TypeScript
8 21 (0.44%) VBA
9 18 (0.38%) Bicep
10 17 (0.36%) Korn
11 14 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.27%) ABAP
13 12 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.19%) R
15 9 (0.19%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.17%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 961 (20.27%) Security Cleared
2 740 (15.61%) SC Cleared
3 353 (7.45%) Degree
4 251 (5.29%) PMP
5 221 (4.66%) PMI Certification
6 133 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 121 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 99 (2.09%) CISSP
9 73 (1.54%) CISM
10 70 (1.48%) Azure Certification
11 58 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 44 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
15 30 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
16 28 (0.59%) ACCA
16 28 (0.59%) IIBA
16 28 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
17 27 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 26 (0.55%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (5.72%) QA
2 259 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 242 (5.10%) PMO
4 210 (4.43%) GDPR
5 164 (3.46%) NIST
6 141 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 84 (1.77%) GRC
8 77 (1.62%) SLA
9 66 (1.39%) Accessibility
10 52 (1.10%) NCSC
10 52 (1.10%) PCI DSS
11 40 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 34 (0.72%) IFRS
13 33 (0.70%) COBIT
14 30 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.38%) IFRS 17
15 18 (0.38%) JSP 440
16 17 (0.36%) PSD2
17 16 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 98 (2.07%) Docker
2 77 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 29 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.25%) Postfix
6 11 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.21%) NFS
8 9 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.11%) vSphere
11 4 (0.084%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.084%) SRDF
11 4 (0.084%) Varnish
12 3 (0.063%) HDFS
12 3 (0.063%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.042%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.042%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.042%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.021%) NLBS
14 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 141 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 109 (2.30%) Terraform
3 66 (1.39%) Ansible
4 47 (0.99%) Grafana
5 39 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 33 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.34%) 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 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.11%) Puppet
11 5 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.11%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.084%) Control-M
12 4 (0.084%) EMC VPLEX
12 4 (0.084%) vMotion
Vendors
1 572 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 382 (8.06%) SAP
3 259 (5.46%) Oracle
4 239 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 187 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 95 (2.00%) Google
7 93 (1.96%) Databricks
8 65 (1.37%) VMware
8 65 (1.37%) Workday
9 47 (0.99%) Cisco
9 47 (0.99%) Splunk
10 46 (0.97%) CyberArk
11 34 (0.72%) MuleSoft
12 33 (0.70%) Adobe
13 31 (0.65%) Ariba
13 31 (0.65%) Informatica
14 26 (0.55%) Atlassian
15 25 (0.53%) F5
15 25 (0.53%) IBM
16 24 (0.51%) Citrix