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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,081 2,217 3,036
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.10% 8.96% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.83% 9.89% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,824 1,512 2,138
10th Percentile £363 £363 £371
25th Percentile £447 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 59 79
10th Percentile £16.00 £37.44 £15.80
25th Percentile £27.44 £47.75 £25.50
Median hourly rate £56.98 £61.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +33.16% -20.70%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £61.23
90th Percentile £95.38 £81.57 £83.61
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £60.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -25.00% +29.93% -18.17%

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 31,799 22,421 32,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.62% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,337 14,594 21,795
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £639 £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 1,979 812 2,149
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.15 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +4.62% -12.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.53
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 +11 2,078 £550 -4.35% 409
North of England +1 587 £475 -7.59% 203
Midlands +2 539 £485 -3.00% 150
South East +4 493 £550 +4.76% 328
West Midlands 0 364 £492 -6.29% 98
North West -1 285 £450 -12.45% 110
Yorkshire +10 270 £500 - 78
South West +21 206 £550 - 100
East Midlands +5 173 £450 - 51
East of England -5 100 £550 - 74
North East 0 47 £450 -21.05% 18
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
1 304 (7.45%) Confluence
2 131 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.23%) SAS
4 38 (0.93%) CMS
4 38 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.42%) Appian
6 10 (0.25%) Apache
6 10 (0.25%) TPMS
7 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (0.15%) Camunda
11 5 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.098%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.098%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.074%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.074%) nginx
13 3 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 212 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (3.58%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
4 100 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 76 (1.86%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.37%) Trello
7 14 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.15%) Sketch
10 4 (0.098%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.049%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.049%) InVision
12 1 (0.025%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.025%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.025%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.025%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.025%) UXPin
12 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 139 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
3 42 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 25 (0.61%) Aladdin
5 19 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 16 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.37%) Endur
7 15 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.29%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.27%) Primavera
10 11 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
11 9 (0.22%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.22%) SAP EWM
12 8 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 598 (14.65%) Azure
2 417 (10.22%) AWS
3 257 (6.30%) Power Platform
4 171 (4.19%) GCP
5 128 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
7 110 (2.70%) SaaS
8 95 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 67 (1.64%) OpenShift
10 56 (1.37%) OCI
11 48 (1.18%) Snowflake
12 47 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (1.15%) GitHub
13 40 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 40 (0.98%) Power Automate
14 39 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
15 37 (0.91%) Serverless
16 34 (0.83%) Google Workspace
17 31 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
18 29 (0.71%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 76 (1.86%) Firewall
2 56 (1.37%) WAN
3 51 (1.25%) Network Security
4 42 (1.03%) LAN
5 41 (1.00%) SD-WAN
6 33 (0.81%) DNS
7 30 (0.74%) VPN
8 24 (0.59%) BGP
8 24 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (0.49%) OSPF
10 19 (0.47%) SSH
11 18 (0.44%) MPLS
12 17 (0.42%) SSL
13 16 (0.39%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.37%) DHCP
14 15 (0.37%) Wireless
15 12 (0.29%) Broadband
16 11 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (0.27%) NGFW
16 11 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (5.42%) Power BI
2 83 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (1.89%) Tableau
4 56 (1.37%) Metadata
5 35 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 34 (0.83%) SQL Server
7 30 (0.74%) NoSQL
7 30 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
8 28 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (0.59%) Oracle Database
10 23 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 21 (0.51%) Power Query
12 18 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (0.42%) MySQL
14 16 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.34%) BigQuery
15 14 (0.34%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
17 12 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
17 12 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 514 (12.59%) JIRA
2 88 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 85 (2.08%) Git
4 63 (1.54%) GitLab
5 43 (1.05%) Selenium
6 39 (0.96%) JUnit
7 17 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.34%) Maven
9 11 (0.27%) JMeter
9 11 (0.27%) Mockito
9 11 (0.27%) Postman
10 10 (0.25%) MLflow
10 10 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
10 10 (0.25%) SpecFlow
11 9 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.15%) Axure RP
General
1 2,129 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 1,412 (34.60%) Finance
3 647 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 451 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 394 (9.65%) Banking
6 203 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
7 169 (4.14%) Retail
8 159 (3.90%) Legal
9 140 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
10 134 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
11 132 (3.23%) Marketing
12 121 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
13 101 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 98 (2.40%) Telecoms
15 79 (1.94%) Financial Institution
16 68 (1.67%) Front Office
17 63 (1.54%) Law
18 62 (1.52%) Local Government
19 54 (1.32%) Investment Banking
20 44 (1.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 744 (18.23%) Analyst
2 610 (14.95%) Project Manager
3 551 (13.50%) Business Analyst
4 526 (12.89%) Lead
5 452 (11.08%) Architect
6 385 (9.43%) Senior
7 228 (5.59%) Consultant
8 171 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
9 158 (3.87%) Senior Manager
10 156 (3.82%) Programme Manager
11 129 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
12 112 (2.74%) IT Manager
13 86 (2.11%) Data Analyst
14 84 (2.06%) Change Manager
14 84 (2.06%) Senior Analyst
15 79 (1.94%) Senior Project Manager
16 75 (1.84%) Technical Manager
17 73 (1.79%) Developer
17 73 (1.79%) Product Manager
18 71 (1.74%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (3.06%) REST
2 84 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 59 (1.45%) Middleware
4 57 (1.40%) SOAP
5 39 (0.96%) JSON
6 38 (0.93%) .NET
7 37 (0.91%) OAuth
8 35 (0.86%) OpenID
9 32 (0.78%) SAML
10 31 (0.76%) Kafka
10 31 (0.76%) XML
11 29 (0.71%) React
12 28 (0.69%) HTML
12 28 (0.69%) pytest
12 28 (0.69%) RESTful
13 25 (0.61%) AngularJS
13 25 (0.61%) Web Services
14 24 (0.59%) Playwright
14 24 (0.59%) SailPoint
15 23 (0.56%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 312 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 224 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 126 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
4 108 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 106 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
6 99 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 95 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 78 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 57 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 56 (1.37%) PMI
11 50 (1.23%) NHS
11 50 (1.23%) Public Cloud
12 43 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 38 (0.93%) Operational Technology
13 38 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 36 (0.88%) CMDB
15 32 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
16 29 (0.71%) FMCG
16 29 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
17 28 (0.69%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 127 (3.11%) Windows
2 68 (1.67%) Linux
3 32 (0.78%) Unix
4 24 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.56%) Android
6 22 (0.54%) Windows 10
7 19 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.32%) VMS
10 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.12%) Solaris
12 3 (0.074%) AIX
12 3 (0.074%) CentOS
13 1 (0.025%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,339 (32.81%) Agile
2 722 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
3 626 (15.34%) Project Management
4 621 (15.22%) Migration
5 607 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 557 (13.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 506 (12.40%) Change Management
8 484 (11.86%) Roadmaps
9 447 (10.95%) Project Delivery
10 441 (10.81%) DevOps
11 416 (10.19%) Decision-Making
12 365 (8.94%) Risk Management
13 364 (8.92%) Analytics
14 341 (8.36%) Scrum
15 337 (8.26%) User Acceptance Testing
16 332 (8.14%) Workshop Facilitation
17 327 (8.01%) Requirements Gathering
18 311 (7.62%) Validation
19 294 (7.20%) CI/CD
20 291 (7.13%) AI
Programming Languages
1 323 (7.91%) SQL
2 268 (6.57%) Python
3 88 (2.16%) PowerShell
4 85 (2.08%) Java
5 55 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 50 (1.23%) C#
7 30 (0.74%) Bash
8 24 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.49%) VBA
10 19 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.39%) Korn
11 16 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.34%) R
13 10 (0.25%) Bicep
13 10 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.22%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.17%) ABAP
16 6 (0.15%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.15%) C++
16 6 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 802 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 621 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 383 (9.38%) Degree
4 223 (5.46%) PMI Certification
5 219 (5.37%) PMP
6 104 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 83 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 67 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 63 (1.54%) CISSP
11 47 (1.15%) CISM
12 39 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.81%) CBAP
14 29 (0.71%) AWS Certification
15 28 (0.69%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.61%) IIBA
17 24 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (0.56%) APMP
19 22 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
19 22 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (7.01%) QA
2 234 (5.73%) GDPR
3 180 (4.41%) Data Quality
4 167 (4.09%) PMO
5 150 (3.68%) NIST
6 145 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 70 (1.72%) GRC
8 63 (1.54%) PCI DSS
9 55 (1.35%) SLA
10 46 (1.13%) Accessibility
11 45 (1.10%) NCSC
12 44 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.71%) COBIT
13 29 (0.71%) IFRS
14 19 (0.47%) PSD2
14 19 (0.47%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.44%) IFRS 17
16 16 (0.39%) WCAG
17 15 (0.37%) HL7
18 13 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 100 (2.45%) Docker
2 73 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.15%) NFS
6 6 (0.15%) vSphere
7 5 (0.12%) Postfix
8 3 (0.074%) HDFS
8 3 (0.074%) SRDF
8 3 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.049%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.025%) Firmware
10 1 (0.025%) NDS
10 1 (0.025%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.025%) RACF
10 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 142 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 82 (2.01%) Terraform
3 53 (1.30%) Ansible
4 48 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.83%) Grafana
6 24 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.39%) SCCM
9 15 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.15%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Puppet
11 6 (0.15%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.098%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.098%) vMotion
14 3 (0.074%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.074%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 459 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 343 (8.40%) SAP
3 247 (6.05%) Oracle
4 201 (4.93%) ServiceNow
5 154 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 91 (2.23%) Google
7 84 (2.06%) Workday
8 69 (1.69%) VMware
9 59 (1.45%) Databricks
10 51 (1.25%) Cisco
11 48 (1.18%) Splunk
12 43 (1.05%) IBM
13 35 (0.86%) CyberArk
14 32 (0.78%) Citrix
15 30 (0.74%) Fortinet
16 29 (0.71%) Ariba
17 26 (0.64%) Adobe
17 26 (0.64%) MuleSoft
18 25 (0.61%) Informatica
19 24 (0.59%) Atlassian