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

6 months to
4 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 4,502 2,379 2,736
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.78% 9.92% 7.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.67% 10.86% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,045 1,627 1,934
10th Percentile £375 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -0.46% -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 122 57 81
10th Percentile £23.53 £35.45 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.50 £45.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £53.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +6.57%
75th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £72.90
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.25 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +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 35,523 21,911 31,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.02% 91.34% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,505 14,200 20,503
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -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 2,228 974 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +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 4 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 4 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 4 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 2,312 £550 -4.35% 1,306
North of England -1 683 £500 - 371
Midlands +4 524 £492 -1.80% 253
South East +2 522 £550 +4.76% 487
West Midlands +1 353 £500 -4.76% 173
Yorkshire +8 326 £500 +0.50% 115
North West 0 323 £478 -5.91% 222
South West +19 264 £550 +4.76% 147
East Midlands +10 164 £465 +3.68% 75
East of England -3 124 £543 -9.58% 119
North East -9 48 £463 -10.84% 38
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 (6.35%) Confluence
2 134 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 47 (1.04%) 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%) Kentico
10 5 (0.11%) TPMS
11 4 (0.089%) Apache Spark
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
1 216 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (2.89%) Microsoft Project
3 116 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 114 (2.53%) 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 5 (0.11%) Trello
10 4 (0.089%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.067%) Sketch
12 2 (0.044%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.044%) Notion
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
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 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.53%) 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
7 15 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 14 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
9 13 (0.29%) SAP ERP
10 12 (0.27%) SAP CO
10 12 (0.27%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.27%) SAP HCM
11 11 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
12 10 (0.22%) Loan IQ
12 10 (0.22%) Workday HCM
13 9 (0.20%) NEC Housing
14 8 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 690 (15.33%) Azure
2 492 (10.93%) AWS
3 259 (5.75%) Power Platform
4 184 (4.09%) GCP
5 148 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
6 136 (3.02%) SaaS
7 114 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
8 93 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 67 (1.49%) Snowflake
10 62 (1.38%) GitHub
11 52 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (1.04%) OCI
13 46 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
14 43 (0.96%) Amazon S3
14 43 (0.96%) OpenShift
15 42 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
15 42 (0.93%) Serverless
16 37 (0.82%) Google Workspace
17 34 (0.76%) Figma
17 34 (0.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.44%) Network Security
2 64 (1.42%) Firewall
3 52 (1.16%) WAN
4 39 (0.87%) LAN
5 36 (0.80%) DNS
6 26 (0.58%) SD-WAN
6 26 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 23 (0.51%) VPN
9 21 (0.47%) BGP
10 17 (0.38%) OSPF
11 16 (0.36%) MPLS
12 15 (0.33%) DHCP
13 14 (0.31%) NGFW
14 12 (0.27%) BIG-IP
14 12 (0.27%) Intranet
14 12 (0.27%) Wireless
15 11 (0.24%) SAN
16 10 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
17 9 (0.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (4.66%) Power BI
2 91 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
3 84 (1.87%) Metadata
4 63 (1.40%) Tableau
5 55 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 46 (1.02%) Data Lake
7 37 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
10 25 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 24 (0.53%) 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
1 510 (11.33%) JIRA
2 79 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 64 (1.42%) Git
4 43 (0.96%) GitLab
5 28 (0.62%) 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 (0.24%) 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 2,238 (49.71%) Social Skills
2 1,611 (35.78%) Finance
3 674 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 508 (11.28%) Public Sector
5 440 (9.77%) Banking
6 227 (5.04%) Retail
7 211 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
8 193 (4.29%) Legal
9 166 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
10 158 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
11 140 (3.11%) Marketing
12 115 (2.55%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
14 102 (2.27%) Telecoms
15 79 (1.75%) Local Government
16 69 (1.53%) Financial Institution
17 64 (1.42%) Law
18 58 (1.29%) Aerospace
19 57 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 55 (1.22%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 712 (15.82%) Analyst
2 677 (15.04%) Project Manager
3 635 (14.10%) Lead
4 517 (11.48%) Architect
5 507 (11.26%) Business Analyst
6 475 (10.55%) Senior
7 213 (4.73%) Senior Manager
8 195 (4.33%) Consultant
9 185 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
10 167 (3.71%) Programme Manager
11 160 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
12 141 (3.13%) IT Manager
13 107 (2.38%) Senior Project Manager
14 95 (2.11%) Product Manager
15 90 (2.00%) Technical Manager
16 89 (1.98%) Product Owner
17 87 (1.93%) Change Manager
17 87 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
18 81 (1.80%) IT Project Manager
19 71 (1.58%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (2.51%) REST
2 82 (1.82%) Middleware
3 75 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 58 (1.29%) SOAP
5 46 (1.02%) .NET
6 39 (0.87%) OAuth
7 33 (0.73%) JSON
8 32 (0.71%) OpenID
8 32 (0.71%) RESTful
9 30 (0.67%) Kafka
9 30 (0.67%) Web Services
10 29 (0.64%) XML
11 28 (0.62%) Spring
12 27 (0.60%) AngularJS
13 26 (0.58%) SAML
14 25 (0.56%) CSS
14 25 (0.56%) React
15 23 (0.51%) ADO
15 23 (0.51%) SailPoint
16 22 (0.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 351 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 212 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 159 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 143 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
5 122 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 116 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 97 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 80 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 75 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 71 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.13%) Operational Technology
12 49 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 49 (1.09%) NHS
12 49 (1.09%) Public Cloud
13 46 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
14 42 (0.93%) PMI
15 39 (0.87%) Security Posture
15 39 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (0.82%) AI Agents
17 35 (0.78%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 138 (3.07%) Windows
2 75 (1.67%) Linux
3 29 (0.64%) Android
4 28 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 19 (0.42%) Unix
9 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.16%) VMS
11 4 (0.089%) AIX
11 4 (0.089%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.089%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.089%) zOS
12 3 (0.067%) Solaris
13 2 (0.044%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.044%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.044%) HPUX
14 1 (0.022%) CentOS
14 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,468 (32.61%) Agile
2 703 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 682 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
4 655 (14.55%) Migration
5 652 (14.48%) Project Management
6 589 (13.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 581 (12.91%) Roadmaps
8 532 (11.82%) DevOps
9 522 (11.59%) Change Management
10 512 (11.37%) Decision-Making
11 485 (10.77%) Project Delivery
12 438 (9.73%) Risk Management
13 425 (9.44%) Analytics
14 394 (8.75%) AI
15 379 (8.42%) User Acceptance Testing
16 363 (8.06%) Validation
17 355 (7.89%) Scrum
18 354 (7.86%) CI/CD
19 332 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
20 331 (7.35%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 361 (8.02%) SQL
2 242 (5.38%) Python
3 93 (2.07%) Java
4 72 (1.60%) PowerShell
5 46 (1.02%) JavaScript
6 45 (1.00%) C#
7 34 (0.76%) Bash
8 21 (0.47%) VBA
9 20 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.36%) Korn
11 15 (0.33%) Bicep
12 13 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.27%) R
14 10 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.20%) ABAP
15 9 (0.20%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.18%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 918 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 714 (15.86%) SC Cleared
3 336 (7.46%) Degree
4 239 (5.31%) PMP
5 209 (4.64%) PMI Certification
6 125 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 108 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 98 (2.18%) CISSP
9 71 (1.58%) CISM
10 58 (1.29%) Azure Certification
11 54 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 44 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 40 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 33 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.62%) IIBA
16 27 (0.60%) ACCA
16 27 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
17 26 (0.58%) CBAP
18 25 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 24 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (5.89%) QA
2 237 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 222 (4.93%) PMO
4 200 (4.44%) GDPR
5 160 (3.55%) NIST
6 136 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 81 (1.80%) GRC
8 77 (1.71%) SLA
9 66 (1.47%) Accessibility
10 50 (1.11%) NCSC
10 50 (1.11%) PCI DSS
11 37 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 33 (0.73%) IFRS
13 32 (0.71%) 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
17 16 (0.36%) WCAG
18 15 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 97 (2.15%) Docker
2 72 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.27%) Postfix
6 10 (0.22%) NFS
6 10 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.13%) vSphere
10 5 (0.11%) SRDF
11 4 (0.089%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.089%) Varnish
12 3 (0.067%) HDFS
12 3 (0.067%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.044%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.044%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.044%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.022%) NLBS
14 1 (0.022%) RACF
Systems Management
1 140 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 97 (2.15%) Terraform
3 62 (1.38%) Ansible
4 47 (1.04%) Grafana
5 44 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.67%) 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
12 5 (0.11%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.089%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.089%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.089%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 4 (0.089%) vMotion
Vendors
1 533 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 357 (7.93%) SAP
3 246 (5.46%) Oracle
4 218 (4.84%) ServiceNow
5 174 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 95 (2.11%) Google
7 85 (1.89%) Databricks
8 71 (1.58%) VMware
9 61 (1.35%) Workday
10 48 (1.07%) Splunk
11 42 (0.93%) Cisco
12 40 (0.89%) CyberArk
13 32 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 30 (0.67%) Ariba
15 29 (0.64%) Citrix
16 28 (0.62%) Informatica
17 27 (0.60%) IBM
18 26 (0.58%) Adobe
19 25 (0.56%) Atlassian
20 24 (0.53%) F5