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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,374 2,387 2,759
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.57% 9.96% 7.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.47% 10.91% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,976 1,654 1,958
10th Percentile £370 £358 £362
25th Percentile £450 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 58 83
10th Percentile £17.94 £36.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.50 £45.67 £30.16
Median hourly rate £52.00 £60.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +1.25% +11.32%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.69 £72.61
90th Percentile £102.17 £77.00 £85.52
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +11.32%

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 35,064 21,889 31,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 91.30% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,297 14,308 20,582
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 926 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.35 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.39 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.28 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
% change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +4 2,213 £550 -4.35% 1,021
North of England -2 666 £490 -2.00% 301
Midlands +4 530 £492 -1.75% 213
South East 0 516 £550 +4.76% 385
West Midlands +2 358 £500 -4.76% 141
North West -1 320 £475 -5.94% 165
Yorkshire +8 317 £500 +1.52% 105
South West +16 252 £550 +4.76% 115
East Midlands +12 165 £465 +3.68% 70
East of England -2 125 £525 -8.70% 105
North East -7 50 £450 -14.69% 34
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 (6.61%) Confluence
2 127 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.87%) CMS
4 36 (0.82%) SAS
5 21 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.32%) Appian
7 12 (0.27%) Apache
8 10 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.14%) TPMS
11 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.11%) WordPress
12 4 (0.091%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.091%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
13 3 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.069%) Kentico
13 3 (0.069%) nginx
13 3 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 209 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 139 (3.18%) Microsoft Project
3 114 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
4 106 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 75 (1.71%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.18%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Revit
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.11%) Sketch
11 4 (0.091%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.069%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.046%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.046%) Notion
14 1 (0.023%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.023%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.023%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.55%) Aladdin
4 24 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 22 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 15 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 14 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 11 (0.25%) SAP HCM
11 10 (0.23%) Loan IQ
12 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
13 8 (0.18%) Endur
14 7 (0.16%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 647 (14.79%) Azure
2 462 (10.56%) AWS
3 243 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 176 (4.02%) GCP
5 144 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (2.83%) SaaS
7 106 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
8 87 (1.99%) Entra ID
9 61 (1.39%) Snowflake
10 55 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (1.17%) GitHub
12 46 (1.05%) OCI
12 46 (1.05%) OpenShift
13 44 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
14 41 (0.94%) Amazon S3
14 41 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
15 38 (0.87%) Figma
16 37 (0.85%) Serverless
17 35 (0.80%) Google Workspace
17 35 (0.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.39%) Network Security
2 60 (1.37%) Firewall
3 49 (1.12%) WAN
4 37 (0.85%) LAN
5 30 (0.69%) DNS
6 27 (0.62%) SD-WAN
7 25 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (0.48%) VPN
9 19 (0.43%) BGP
9 19 (0.43%) TCP/IP
10 16 (0.37%) OSPF
11 15 (0.34%) MPLS
12 13 (0.30%) NGFW
13 12 (0.27%) Intranet
14 11 (0.25%) SAN
14 11 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
14 11 (0.25%) Wireless
15 10 (0.23%) BIG-IP
15 10 (0.23%) DHCP
16 9 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (4.53%) Power BI
2 87 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (1.87%) Metadata
4 60 (1.37%) Tableau
5 48 (1.10%) SQL Server
6 42 (0.96%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
10 23 (0.53%) Relational Database
11 22 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.50%) NoSQL
12 19 (0.43%) Big Data
13 18 (0.41%) Delta Lake
14 16 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.32%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.32%) Power Query
16 13 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
17 12 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 509 (11.64%) JIRA
2 80 (1.83%) Jenkins
3 70 (1.60%) Git
4 41 (0.94%) GitLab
5 27 (0.62%) Selenium
6 25 (0.57%) JUnit
7 19 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 18 (0.41%) Postman
9 15 (0.34%) Maven
10 12 (0.27%) JMeter
10 12 (0.27%) Mockito
11 11 (0.25%) MLflow
12 10 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.23%) DbUnit
12 10 (0.23%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.21%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.21%) jMock
13 9 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
14 7 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 2,154 (49.25%) Social Skills
2 1,558 (35.62%) Finance
3 649 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 492 (11.25%) Public Sector
5 423 (9.67%) Banking
6 211 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
6 211 (4.82%) Retail
7 181 (4.14%) Legal
8 154 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
9 148 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
10 134 (3.06%) Marketing
11 112 (2.56%) Manufacturing
12 103 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
13 100 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 73 (1.67%) Local Government
15 71 (1.62%) Financial Institution
16 56 (1.28%) Law
17 52 (1.19%) Aerospace
17 52 (1.19%) Billing
18 51 (1.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 697 (15.94%) Analyst
2 662 (15.13%) Project Manager
3 613 (14.01%) Lead
4 505 (11.55%) Business Analyst
5 489 (11.18%) Architect
6 462 (10.56%) Senior
7 208 (4.76%) Senior Manager
8 202 (4.62%) Consultant
9 177 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
10 165 (3.77%) Programme Manager
11 147 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
12 131 (2.99%) IT Manager
13 106 (2.42%) Senior Project Manager
14 97 (2.22%) Product Manager
15 90 (2.06%) Product Owner
16 89 (2.03%) Technical Manager
17 83 (1.90%) Change Manager
17 83 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
18 76 (1.74%) IT Project Manager
19 74 (1.69%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (2.51%) REST
2 80 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 78 (1.78%) Middleware
4 58 (1.33%) SOAP
5 39 (0.89%) .NET
6 36 (0.82%) OAuth
7 31 (0.71%) JSON
7 31 (0.71%) OpenID
8 30 (0.69%) RESTful
9 29 (0.66%) Web Services
10 28 (0.64%) AngularJS
10 28 (0.64%) Kafka
10 28 (0.64%) SAML
11 27 (0.62%) Spring
11 27 (0.62%) XML
12 25 (0.57%) React
13 22 (0.50%) ADO
13 22 (0.50%) SailPoint
14 21 (0.48%) LDAP
15 20 (0.46%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 345 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 206 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 144 (3.29%) Cloud Native
4 139 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
5 119 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 118 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 93 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 79 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 73 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 63 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 50 (1.14%) Operational Technology
12 46 (1.05%) NHS
13 45 (1.03%) PMI
13 45 (1.03%) Public Cloud
14 44 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
15 40 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
16 34 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
17 33 (0.75%) AI Agents
18 31 (0.71%) Security Posture
19 28 (0.64%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 124 (2.83%) Windows
2 68 (1.55%) Linux
3 29 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.64%) Android
5 20 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.39%) Unix
7 14 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.18%) VMS
10 4 (0.091%) AIX
11 3 (0.069%) Solaris
11 3 (0.069%) zOS
12 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.046%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.023%) CentOS
13 1 (0.023%) HPUX
13 1 (0.023%) MVS
13 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,427 (32.62%) Agile
2 679 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 663 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
4 650 (14.86%) Project Management
5 638 (14.59%) Migration
6 561 (12.83%) Roadmaps
7 551 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 517 (11.82%) Change Management
9 508 (11.61%) DevOps
10 501 (11.45%) Decision-Making
11 472 (10.79%) Project Delivery
12 417 (9.53%) Risk Management
13 401 (9.17%) Analytics
14 372 (8.50%) AI
15 363 (8.30%) User Acceptance Testing
16 350 (8.00%) Scrum
17 348 (7.96%) Validation
18 337 (7.70%) CI/CD
19 327 (7.48%) Workshop Facilitation
20 319 (7.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 342 (7.82%) SQL
2 223 (5.10%) Python
3 90 (2.06%) Java
4 63 (1.44%) PowerShell
5 44 (1.01%) C#
6 42 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 29 (0.66%) Bash
8 23 (0.53%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.43%) VBA
10 16 (0.37%) Korn
11 13 (0.30%) R
12 12 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.18%) Bicep
15 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 906 (20.71%) Security Cleared
2 702 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 341 (7.80%) Degree
4 232 (5.30%) PMP
5 207 (4.73%) PMI Certification
6 118 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 104 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 86 (1.97%) CISSP
9 63 (1.44%) CISM
10 51 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
11 49 (1.12%) Azure Certification
11 49 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 37 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.64%) CBAP
13 28 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (0.64%) IIBA
14 24 (0.55%) ACCA
14 24 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
15 23 (0.53%) APMP
15 23 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (5.97%) QA
2 226 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 214 (4.89%) PMO
4 201 (4.60%) GDPR
5 160 (3.66%) NIST
6 131 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 76 (1.74%) GRC
8 71 (1.62%) SLA
9 65 (1.49%) Accessibility
10 50 (1.14%) NCSC
10 50 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 39 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 32 (0.73%) IFRS
13 27 (0.62%) COBIT
14 26 (0.59%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.41%) JSP 440
16 17 (0.39%) IFRS 17
16 17 (0.39%) WCAG
17 15 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.34%) PSD2
System Software
1 95 (2.17%) Docker
2 68 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.27%) Postfix
6 9 (0.21%) NFS
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.091%) SRDF
9 4 (0.091%) Varnish
10 3 (0.069%) HDFS
10 3 (0.069%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.069%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.069%) vSphere
11 2 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.023%) NLBS
12 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.023%) RACF
12 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 137 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.94%) Terraform
3 55 (1.26%) Ansible
4 44 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (0.98%) Grafana
6 29 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 29 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.48%) SCCM
8 8 (0.18%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (0.18%) Puppet
9 7 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.091%) Argo
12 4 (0.091%) Control-M
12 4 (0.091%) Istio
12 4 (0.091%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.069%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 495 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 358 (8.18%) SAP
3 238 (5.44%) Oracle
4 204 (4.66%) ServiceNow
5 175 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.01%) Google
7 80 (1.83%) Databricks
8 69 (1.58%) VMware
9 60 (1.37%) Workday
10 47 (1.07%) Splunk
11 39 (0.89%) Cisco
11 39 (0.89%) CyberArk
12 30 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 29 (0.66%) Ariba
13 29 (0.66%) Citrix
13 29 (0.66%) Informatica
14 27 (0.62%) IBM
15 26 (0.59%) Atlassian
16 24 (0.55%) IFS
17 22 (0.50%) Adobe