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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,887 2,555 2,737
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.29% 10.23% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.24% 11.20% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,297 1,737 1,951
10th Percentile £375 £356 £360
25th Percentile £456 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 66 79
10th Percentile £24.38 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £33.59 £43.13 £34.24
Median hourly rate £56.25 £58.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -2.08% +12.53%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.69 £73.72
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.13 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +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 36,902 22,811 32,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.25% 91.37% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,326 14,743 20,763
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -4.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,306 1,092 2,399
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.06 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +75.52% -29.01% +8.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.25 £61.47
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.88 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 22 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 22 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 22 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 2,498 £560 -2.61% 772
North of England -2 728 £500 - 271
South East +4 613 £550 +4.76% 486
Midlands +4 530 £500 -0.05% 179
West Midlands +2 375 £500 -4.76% 106
North West -2 357 £492 -2.57% 157
Yorkshire +5 337 £500 +3.04% 83
South West +17 288 £550 +4.76% 127
East Midlands +12 147 £465 +5.68% 70
East of England +5 140 £525 -12.50% 84
North East -16 48 £475 +5.56% 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
1 290 (5.93%) Confluence
2 135 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.08%) CMS
4 42 (0.86%) SAS
5 22 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.27%) Apache
8 12 (0.25%) Appian
9 9 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.14%) WordPress
12 6 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.10%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.10%) Kentico
13 5 (0.10%) TPMS
14 4 (0.082%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.061%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 3 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.061%) WebSphere
Applications
1 230 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
3 120 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 112 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
5 67 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.25%) Revit
8 10 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.082%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.082%) Trello
10 3 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.061%) Notion
10 3 (0.061%) Sketch
11 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.041%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.041%) Windchill
12 1 (0.020%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 157 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 23 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.43%) Aladdin
7 19 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
9 15 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
10 13 (0.27%) SAP ERP
10 13 (0.27%) Workday HCM
11 12 (0.25%) SAP CO
11 12 (0.25%) SAP FI
12 11 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
12 11 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
13 10 (0.20%) Finacle
13 10 (0.20%) Loan IQ
13 10 (0.20%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 759 (15.53%) Azure
2 553 (11.32%) AWS
3 288 (5.89%) Power Platform
4 197 (4.03%) GCP
5 166 (3.40%) SaaS
6 163 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
7 114 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
8 97 (1.98%) Entra ID
9 75 (1.53%) Snowflake
10 68 (1.39%) GitHub
11 57 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
12 56 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
13 53 (1.08%) OCI
14 50 (1.02%) Amazon S3
15 49 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 49 (1.00%) Serverless
16 38 (0.78%) Power Automate
17 37 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
18 36 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
18 36 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (1.68%) Network Security
2 81 (1.66%) Firewall
3 60 (1.23%) WAN
4 46 (0.94%) LAN
5 38 (0.78%) DNS
6 32 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 29 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 28 (0.57%) VPN
9 27 (0.55%) TCP/IP
10 22 (0.45%) BGP
11 18 (0.37%) OSPF
12 17 (0.35%) DHCP
12 17 (0.35%) MPLS
13 15 (0.31%) NGFW
13 15 (0.31%) Wireless
14 13 (0.27%) Intranet
15 12 (0.25%) BIG-IP
15 12 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
16 11 (0.23%) SAN
16 11 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (4.87%) Power BI
2 99 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (1.86%) Metadata
4 66 (1.35%) Tableau
5 63 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 56 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 41 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (0.65%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (0.55%) NoSQL
11 27 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
12 24 (0.49%) DynamoDB
13 21 (0.43%) Big Data
13 21 (0.43%) Oracle Database
14 19 (0.39%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (0.31%) Power Query
17 14 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
18 13 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 546 (11.17%) JIRA
2 76 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 67 (1.37%) Git
4 42 (0.86%) GitLab
5 30 (0.61%) Selenium
6 26 (0.53%) JUnit
7 21 (0.43%) Postman
8 15 (0.31%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.27%) JMeter
9 13 (0.27%) Maven
10 12 (0.25%) Mockito
11 11 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.20%) DbUnit
12 10 (0.20%) MLflow
13 9 (0.18%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.18%) jMock
13 9 (0.18%) Zephyr
14 8 (0.16%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 2,450 (50.13%) Social Skills
2 1,752 (35.85%) Finance
3 735 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
4 578 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 467 (9.56%) Banking
6 263 (5.38%) Retail
7 237 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
8 214 (4.38%) Legal
9 185 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
10 175 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
11 154 (3.15%) Marketing
12 128 (2.62%) Manufacturing
13 123 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
14 110 (2.25%) Telecoms
15 92 (1.88%) Local Government
16 79 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 75 (1.53%) Financial Institution
18 67 (1.37%) Aerospace
18 67 (1.37%) Law
19 65 (1.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 746 (15.26%) Analyst
2 701 (14.34%) Lead
3 697 (14.26%) Project Manager
4 572 (11.70%) Architect
5 511 (10.46%) Senior
6 508 (10.39%) Business Analyst
7 230 (4.71%) Consultant
8 218 (4.46%) Senior Manager
9 216 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
10 174 (3.56%) Programme Manager
11 172 (3.52%) Delivery Manager
12 150 (3.07%) IT Manager
13 110 (2.25%) Senior Project Manager
14 106 (2.17%) Product Manager
15 102 (2.09%) Product Owner
16 94 (1.92%) Technical Manager
17 90 (1.84%) Change Manager
18 88 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
19 83 (1.70%) IT Project Manager
20 82 (1.68%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.58%) REST
2 83 (1.70%) Middleware
3 82 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
4 68 (1.39%) SOAP
5 51 (1.04%) .NET
6 44 (0.90%) OAuth
7 42 (0.86%) JSON
8 35 (0.72%) Kafka
9 33 (0.68%) OpenID
9 33 (0.68%) Spring
10 32 (0.65%) RESTful
10 32 (0.65%) Web Services
10 32 (0.65%) XML
11 31 (0.63%) PySpark
11 31 (0.63%) SailPoint
11 31 (0.63%) SAML
12 30 (0.61%) AngularJS
13 28 (0.57%) CSS
14 26 (0.53%) React
15 25 (0.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 380 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 239 (4.89%) Onboarding
3 167 (3.42%) Cloud Native
4 150 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
5 130 (2.66%) Management Information System
6 120 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 105 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 87 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 85 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 78 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 61 (1.25%) NHS
12 60 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 60 (1.23%) Operational Technology
13 55 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
14 54 (1.10%) Security Posture
15 49 (1.00%) Public Cloud
16 46 (0.94%) FMCG
17 44 (0.90%) CMDB
18 43 (0.88%) PMI
18 43 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 142 (2.91%) Windows
2 80 (1.64%) Linux
3 31 (0.63%) Android
4 28 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.47%) Unix
7 22 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.12%) VMS
10 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.082%) AIX
11 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.082%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.082%) zOS
12 3 (0.061%) Solaris
13 2 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.041%) HPUX
14 1 (0.020%) CentOS
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,600 (32.74%) Agile
2 784 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 755 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
4 702 (14.36%) Migration
5 662 (13.55%) Project Management
6 654 (13.38%) Roadmaps
7 644 (13.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 585 (11.97%) DevOps
9 562 (11.50%) Decision-Making
10 550 (11.25%) Change Management
11 534 (10.93%) Project Delivery
12 492 (10.07%) Analytics
13 474 (9.70%) Risk Management
14 462 (9.45%) AI
15 427 (8.74%) User Acceptance Testing
16 398 (8.14%) Validation
17 394 (8.06%) CI/CD
18 388 (7.94%) Scrum
19 371 (7.59%) Workshop Facilitation
20 359 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 401 (8.21%) SQL
2 270 (5.52%) Python
3 101 (2.07%) Java
4 68 (1.39%) PowerShell
5 52 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 48 (0.98%) C#
7 24 (0.49%) VBA
8 23 (0.47%) Bash
9 22 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.37%) Bicep
10 18 (0.37%) Korn
11 14 (0.29%) ABAP
11 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 11 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.20%) R
13 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.14%) Go
15 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 989 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 757 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 353 (7.22%) Degree
4 255 (5.22%) PMP
5 225 (4.60%) PMI Certification
6 141 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 137 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 107 (2.19%) CISSP
9 75 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 75 (1.53%) CISM
10 55 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 49 (1.00%) Master's Degree
12 47 (0.96%) AWS Certification
13 45 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
14 30 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
15 29 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 28 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.57%) ACCA
17 27 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
18 26 (0.53%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (5.50%) Data Quality
1 269 (5.50%) QA
2 244 (4.99%) PMO
3 215 (4.40%) GDPR
4 166 (3.40%) NIST
5 143 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 85 (1.74%) GRC
7 80 (1.64%) SLA
8 74 (1.51%) Accessibility
9 54 (1.10%) NCSC
10 50 (1.02%) PCI DSS
11 40 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 35 (0.72%) IFRS
13 34 (0.70%) COBIT
14 30 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 19 (0.39%) IFRS 17
16 18 (0.37%) JSP 440
17 17 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
17 17 (0.35%) WCAG
18 16 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 95 (1.94%) Docker
2 78 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.25%) Postfix
6 10 (0.20%) NFS
6 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.12%) vSphere
8 4 (0.082%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.082%) SRDF
8 4 (0.082%) Varnish
9 3 (0.061%) HDFS
9 3 (0.061%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.041%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.041%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.020%) NLBS
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 141 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 116 (2.37%) Terraform
3 72 (1.47%) Ansible
4 44 (0.90%) Grafana
5 38 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.35%) SCCM
9 8 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.14%) Argo
10 7 (0.14%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.10%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.10%) Puppet
12 5 (0.10%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.082%) Control-M
13 4 (0.082%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.082%) vMotion
Vendors
1 592 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 391 (8.00%) SAP
3 265 (5.42%) Oracle
4 250 (5.12%) ServiceNow
5 188 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 96 (1.96%) Databricks
7 93 (1.90%) Google
8 70 (1.43%) VMware
9 68 (1.39%) Workday
10 53 (1.08%) Cisco
11 47 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 44 (0.90%) Splunk
13 38 (0.78%) Adobe
14 34 (0.70%) MuleSoft
15 33 (0.68%) Informatica
16 31 (0.63%) Ariba
17 27 (0.55%) IBM
18 25 (0.51%) Atlassian
18 25 (0.51%) F5
19 24 (0.49%) Citrix