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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,260 2,374 2,770
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.50% 9.77% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.40% 10.71% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,901 1,630 1,978
10th Percentile £366 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 66 76
10th Percentile £16.48 £35.00 £14.57
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.13 £30.12
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.69% +2.49% +13.27%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £75.59
90th Percentile £97.50 £80.29 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £46.50 £60.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.25% +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 34,368 22,176 31,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,897 14,509 20,833
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 935 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.45 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.40 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +5 2,154 £550 -4.35% 787
North of England -4 639 £481 -4.70% 274
South East +2 517 £558 +10.12% 366
Midlands +1 514 £485 -3.00% 168
West Midlands -1 350 £492 -6.29% 106
Yorkshire +10 306 £500 - 97
North West -3 306 £475 -6.86% 142
South West +18 242 £550 +3.77% 99
East Midlands +6 159 £465 +4.03% 59
East of England +1 119 £525 -4.55% 103
North East -9 46 £450 -16.67% 35
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
1 298 (7.00%) Confluence
2 132 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.87%) CMS
4 36 (0.85%) SAS
5 27 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.33%) Appian
7 13 (0.31%) Apache
8 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.16%) TPMS
10 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.094%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.070%) Camunda
12 3 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.070%) nginx
12 3 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.070%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.047%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 217 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 143 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
3 114 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 108 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 74 (1.74%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Revit
10 6 (0.14%) Sketch
11 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.094%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.094%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.047%) 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
1 132 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.52%) Aladdin
5 21 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 18 (0.42%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
8 13 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 625 (14.67%) Azure
2 453 (10.63%) AWS
3 243 (5.70%) Power Platform
4 181 (4.25%) GCP
5 135 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 120 (2.82%) SaaS
7 115 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
8 83 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 57 (1.34%) Snowflake
10 54 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (1.20%) OCI
12 46 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
12 46 (1.08%) OpenShift
13 45 (1.06%) GitHub
14 40 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
15 39 (0.92%) Figma
16 37 (0.87%) Amazon S3
17 36 (0.85%) Serverless
18 35 (0.82%) Power Automate
19 31 (0.73%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.48%) Network Security
2 60 (1.41%) Firewall
3 47 (1.10%) WAN
4 35 (0.82%) LAN
5 32 (0.75%) DNS
6 29 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 25 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (0.54%) VPN
9 20 (0.47%) BGP
9 20 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.40%) OSPF
11 13 (0.31%) MPLS
11 13 (0.31%) NGFW
12 12 (0.28%) SSL
12 12 (0.28%) Wireless
13 11 (0.26%) Intranet
13 11 (0.26%) SAN
13 11 (0.26%) SSH
13 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (4.74%) Power BI
2 89 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (1.81%) Metadata
4 58 (1.36%) Tableau
5 43 (1.01%) Data Lake
5 43 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 30 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 25 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (0.56%) Relational Database
10 22 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.47%) NoSQL
12 19 (0.45%) Big Data
13 18 (0.42%) Power Query
14 17 (0.40%) Delta Lake
15 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
16 13 (0.31%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 511 (12.00%) JIRA
2 75 (1.76%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.55%) Git
4 38 (0.89%) GitLab
5 24 (0.56%) Selenium
6 23 (0.54%) JUnit
7 18 (0.42%) Postman
8 17 (0.40%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.31%) Maven
10 12 (0.28%) MLflow
11 11 (0.26%) JMeter
12 10 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.23%) Mockito
12 10 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.23%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.21%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 8 (0.19%) jMock
15 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,103 (49.37%) Social Skills
2 1,525 (35.80%) Finance
3 634 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
4 466 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 413 (9.69%) Banking
6 208 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 205 (4.81%) Retail
8 168 (3.94%) Legal
9 146 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
10 140 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
11 132 (3.10%) Marketing
12 121 (2.84%) Manufacturing
13 114 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
14 100 (2.35%) Telecoms
15 75 (1.76%) Financial Institution
16 69 (1.62%) Local Government
17 58 (1.36%) Law
18 50 (1.17%) Front Office
19 46 (1.08%) Billing
20 44 (1.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 696 (16.34%) Analyst
2 657 (15.42%) Project Manager
3 590 (13.85%) Lead
4 509 (11.95%) Business Analyst
5 476 (11.17%) Architect
6 449 (10.54%) Senior
7 195 (4.58%) Senior Manager
8 192 (4.51%) Consultant
9 175 (4.11%) Programme Manager
10 169 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
11 138 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 132 (3.10%) IT Manager
13 98 (2.30%) Senior Project Manager
14 90 (2.11%) Product Manager
15 88 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
16 86 (2.02%) Technical Manager
17 84 (1.97%) Product Owner
18 83 (1.95%) Change Manager
19 77 (1.81%) IT Project Manager
20 75 (1.76%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (2.44%) REST
2 80 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.69%) Middleware
4 56 (1.31%) SOAP
5 32 (0.75%) JSON
5 32 (0.75%) OAuth
6 31 (0.73%) .NET
7 30 (0.70%) XML
8 29 (0.68%) Kafka
9 27 (0.63%) OpenID
9 27 (0.63%) RESTful
9 27 (0.63%) Web Services
10 25 (0.59%) AngularJS
11 24 (0.56%) SAML
11 24 (0.56%) Spring
12 22 (0.52%) React
12 22 (0.52%) Swagger
13 21 (0.49%) ADO
14 19 (0.45%) CSS
14 19 (0.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 329 (7.72%) Product Ownership
2 204 (4.79%) Onboarding
3 139 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
4 133 (3.12%) Cloud Native
5 120 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 115 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 88 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 77 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 67 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 62 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 48 (1.13%) Operational Technology
11 48 (1.13%) PMI
12 46 (1.08%) Public Cloud
13 42 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
13 42 (0.99%) NHS
14 35 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
15 34 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (0.73%) FMCG
17 28 (0.66%) AI Agents
17 28 (0.66%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 122 (2.86%) Windows
2 63 (1.48%) Linux
3 29 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.66%) Android
5 20 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.40%) Unix
7 16 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.21%) VMS
10 4 (0.094%) AIX
10 4 (0.094%) Solaris
11 3 (0.070%) zOS
12 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.047%) 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 1,393 (32.70%) Agile
2 656 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
3 651 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 646 (15.16%) Project Management
5 635 (14.91%) Migration
6 539 (12.65%) Roadmaps
6 539 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 497 (11.67%) Change Management
8 484 (11.36%) Decision-Making
9 479 (11.24%) DevOps
10 463 (10.87%) Project Delivery
11 416 (9.77%) Risk Management
12 385 (9.04%) Analytics
13 363 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
14 362 (8.50%) AI
15 344 (8.08%) Scrum
16 331 (7.77%) Validation
17 317 (7.44%) CI/CD
17 317 (7.44%) Workshop Facilitation
18 313 (7.35%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 335 (7.86%) SQL
2 231 (5.42%) Python
3 79 (1.85%) Java
4 68 (1.60%) PowerShell
5 43 (1.01%) C#
6 41 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 27 (0.63%) Bash
8 24 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 22 (0.52%) VBA
10 15 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 14 (0.33%) Korn
11 14 (0.33%) R
12 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
15 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 882 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 677 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 350 (8.22%) Degree
4 237 (5.56%) PMP
5 217 (5.09%) PMI Certification
6 114 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 107 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.71%) CISSP
9 54 (1.27%) CISM
9 54 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 44 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 37 (0.87%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.68%) CBAP
13 28 (0.66%) IIBA
14 25 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.56%) ISTQB
15 24 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
16 23 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
17 21 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (6.46%) QA
2 215 (5.05%) GDPR
3 213 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 202 (4.74%) PMO
5 161 (3.78%) NIST
6 134 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 75 (1.76%) GRC
8 65 (1.53%) SLA
9 59 (1.38%) Accessibility
10 51 (1.20%) PCI DSS
11 44 (1.03%) NCSC
12 38 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.70%) IFRS
14 29 (0.68%) COBIT
15 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.40%) IFRS 17
17 16 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.38%) JSP 440
18 15 (0.35%) HL7
18 15 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 93 (2.18%) Docker
2 65 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Postfix
6 9 (0.21%) NFS
7 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.094%) SRDF
10 4 (0.094%) Varnish
11 3 (0.070%) HDFS
11 3 (0.070%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.070%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.070%) vSphere
12 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.023%) NLBS
13 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.023%) RACF
13 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 135 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 81 (1.90%) Terraform
3 54 (1.27%) Ansible
4 43 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.89%) Grafana
6 26 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (0.52%) SCCM
9 9 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.094%) Istio
12 4 (0.094%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.070%) Argo
13 3 (0.070%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.070%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.070%) vMotion
Vendors
1 478 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 353 (8.29%) SAP
3 238 (5.59%) Oracle
4 190 (4.46%) ServiceNow
5 169 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.07%) Google
7 80 (1.88%) Databricks
8 71 (1.67%) VMware
9 67 (1.57%) Workday
10 46 (1.08%) Splunk
11 39 (0.92%) Cisco
11 39 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 32 (0.75%) IBM
13 31 (0.73%) Ariba
13 31 (0.73%) MuleSoft
14 30 (0.70%) Citrix
15 27 (0.63%) Atlassian
15 27 (0.63%) Informatica
16 23 (0.54%) Adobe
16 23 (0.54%) F5