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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,740 2,272 3,136
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.32% 8.55% 8.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.89% 9.56% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,574 1,420 2,192
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £446 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 52 92
10th Percentile £15.00 £35.00 £21.33
25th Percentile £23.50 £36.75 £30.40
Median hourly rate £44.75 £55.88 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -19.91% +10.58% -6.26%
75th Percentile £68.49 £65.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.75 £79.54 £79.78
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £53.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.65% +2.38% -4.25%

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 29,013 23,773 32,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.84% 89.46% 87.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,550 14,553 22,087
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £644 £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 1,795 760 1,867
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.61
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year -26.69% -5.59% +3.81%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.61% +10.63%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +10 1,906 £550 -1.35% 519
North of England +6 572 £475 -9.52% 219
Midlands -1 462 £485 -7.62% 177
South East +7 421 £525 - 480
North West +6 295 £456 -11.34% 121
West Midlands -6 290 £500 -4.76% 114
Yorkshire +7 248 £500 -0.70% 79
South West +11 192 £550 +4.76% 107
East Midlands +13 172 £450 -5.26% 61
East of England -1 101 £550 - 108
North East +5 44 £450 -22.58% 19
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
1 274 (7.33%) Confluence
2 111 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.02%) SAS
4 37 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (0.88%) CMS
6 15 (0.40%) Appian
7 11 (0.29%) TPMS
8 8 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.19%) Apache
9 7 (0.19%) Camunda
10 6 (0.16%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.11%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.080%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.080%) nginx
13 3 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 208 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (3.26%) Microsoft Project
3 118 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
4 106 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (1.93%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.43%) Trello
7 12 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.053%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.053%) InVision
11 1 (0.027%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.027%) Blender
11 1 (0.027%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.027%) Simulink
11 1 (0.027%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.027%) UXPin
11 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 20 (0.53%) Workday HCM
6 19 (0.51%) Endur
7 17 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
8 14 (0.37%) Primavera
8 14 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.37%) SAP EWM
9 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.35%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.32%) Loan IQ
10 12 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
13 9 (0.24%) SAP MDG
13 9 (0.24%) SAP PP
14 8 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 542 (14.49%) Azure
2 371 (9.92%) AWS
3 248 (6.63%) Power Platform
4 163 (4.36%) GCP
5 121 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (3.05%) SaaS
7 109 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (2.27%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.68%) OpenShift
10 48 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
11 47 (1.26%) GitHub
12 45 (1.20%) OCI
13 42 (1.12%) Serverless
14 37 (0.99%) Power Automate
15 36 (0.96%) Snowflake
16 35 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
18 31 (0.83%) Google Workspace
19 30 (0.80%) PowerApps
20 26 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 76 (2.03%) Firewall
2 46 (1.23%) WAN
3 36 (0.96%) LAN
4 33 (0.88%) Network Security
5 30 (0.80%) VPN
6 29 (0.78%) SD-WAN
7 26 (0.70%) DNS
8 22 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (0.56%) SSH
10 19 (0.51%) MPLS
11 18 (0.48%) SSL
12 17 (0.45%) BGP
13 13 (0.35%) Broadband
13 13 (0.35%) Wireless
14 12 (0.32%) DHCP
14 12 (0.32%) OSPF
15 11 (0.29%) Internet
15 11 (0.29%) Intranet
15 11 (0.29%) SNMP
15 11 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (5.88%) Power BI
2 73 (1.95%) Tableau
3 72 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (1.47%) Metadata
5 31 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 29 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 26 (0.70%) SQL Server
8 25 (0.67%) Power Query
9 23 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 20 (0.53%) BigQuery
10 20 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (0.51%) MySQL
11 19 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (0.45%) DynamoDB
13 16 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
16 11 (0.29%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 472 (12.62%) JIRA
2 75 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 71 (1.90%) Git
4 52 (1.39%) GitLab
5 27 (0.72%) Selenium
6 22 (0.59%) JUnit
7 16 (0.43%) Maven
8 11 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 8 (0.21%) Postman
11 7 (0.19%) Gradle
11 7 (0.19%) MLflow
11 7 (0.19%) Mockito
11 7 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.13%) SonarLint
14 4 (0.11%) Axure RP
14 4 (0.11%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 2,016 (53.90%) Social Skills
2 1,252 (33.48%) Finance
3 629 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 371 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 365 (9.76%) Banking
6 188 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
7 156 (4.17%) Retail
8 150 (4.01%) Legal
9 131 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
10 129 (3.45%) Marketing
11 118 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 114 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
13 108 (2.89%) Telecoms
14 104 (2.78%) Manufacturing
15 71 (1.90%) Front Office
16 63 (1.68%) Law
17 57 (1.52%) Financial Institution
18 54 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 51 (1.36%) Investment Banking
20 42 (1.12%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 729 (19.49%) Analyst
2 537 (14.36%) Project Manager
3 529 (14.14%) Business Analyst
4 437 (11.68%) Lead
5 430 (11.50%) Architect
6 330 (8.82%) Senior
7 237 (6.34%) Consultant
8 161 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
9 138 (3.69%) Senior Manager
10 137 (3.66%) Programme Manager
11 103 (2.75%) IT Manager
12 97 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
13 83 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
14 78 (2.09%) Data Analyst
15 75 (2.01%) Change Manager
16 70 (1.87%) Product Owner
16 70 (1.87%) Senior Business Analyst
16 70 (1.87%) Senior Project Manager
17 68 (1.82%) Developer
18 66 (1.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (2.73%) REST
2 65 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
3 41 (1.10%) Middleware
3 41 (1.10%) SOAP
4 37 (0.99%) .NET
5 36 (0.96%) JSON
6 35 (0.94%) OAuth
6 35 (0.94%) OpenID
7 32 (0.86%) SAML
7 32 (0.86%) XML
8 31 (0.83%) Kafka
8 31 (0.83%) RESTful
9 28 (0.75%) HTML
10 24 (0.64%) SailPoint
11 23 (0.61%) React
12 21 (0.56%) LDAP
12 21 (0.56%) pytest
13 20 (0.53%) CSS
14 19 (0.51%) ADO
14 19 (0.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 310 (8.29%) Product Ownership
2 193 (5.16%) Onboarding
3 109 (2.91%) Cloud Native
4 101 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 101 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 94 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 79 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 57 (1.52%) PMI
8 51 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.10%) NHS
10 38 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 37 (0.99%) CMDB
12 35 (0.94%) Operational Technology
12 35 (0.94%) Public Cloud
13 32 (0.86%) Data Structures
14 29 (0.78%) Virtual Team
15 28 (0.75%) FMCG
16 25 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
17 24 (0.64%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.91%) Windows
2 54 (1.44%) Linux
3 27 (0.72%) Unix
4 21 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.35%) VMS
7 12 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.13%) Android
11 4 (0.11%) CentOS
11 4 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.027%) AIX
12 1 (0.027%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,235 (33.02%) Agile
2 699 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
3 584 (15.61%) Project Management
4 545 (14.57%) Migration
5 528 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 523 (13.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 441 (11.79%) Change Management
8 434 (11.60%) Roadmaps
9 410 (10.96%) Project Delivery
10 363 (9.71%) DevOps
11 355 (9.49%) Decision-Making
12 328 (8.77%) Analytics
12 328 (8.77%) Risk Management
13 310 (8.29%) Scrum
14 309 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
15 305 (8.16%) Workshop Facilitation
16 285 (7.62%) User Acceptance Testing
17 270 (7.22%) Waterfall
18 268 (7.17%) Business Intelligence
19 258 (6.90%) AI
Programming Languages
1 293 (7.83%) SQL
2 260 (6.95%) Python
3 84 (2.25%) PowerShell
4 78 (2.09%) Java
5 52 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.28%) C#
7 34 (0.91%) Bash
8 23 (0.61%) VBA
9 22 (0.59%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.43%) R
11 13 (0.35%) Korn
12 12 (0.32%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.27%) Bicep
14 7 (0.19%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.19%) VB
15 6 (0.16%) ABAP
15 6 (0.16%) C++
16 4 (0.11%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 658 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 503 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 379 (10.13%) Degree
4 197 (5.27%) PMI Certification
5 182 (4.87%) PMP
6 91 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 72 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 72 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 64 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 56 (1.50%) CISSP
10 38 (1.02%) CISM
11 36 (0.96%) CBAP
12 31 (0.83%) Azure Certification
13 27 (0.72%) AWS Certification
13 27 (0.72%) ISTQB
14 23 (0.61%) IIBA
15 22 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
15 22 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 20 (0.53%) APMP
16 20 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (6.44%) QA
2 230 (6.15%) GDPR
3 140 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 139 (3.72%) Data Quality
5 133 (3.56%) PMO
6 122 (3.26%) NIST
7 67 (1.79%) PCI DSS
8 60 (1.60%) GRC
9 46 (1.23%) SLA
10 42 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 39 (1.04%) Accessibility
11 39 (1.04%) NCSC
12 26 (0.70%) IFRS
13 23 (0.61%) PSD2
14 19 (0.51%) COBIT
15 16 (0.43%) IFRS 17
15 16 (0.43%) WCAG
16 15 (0.40%) ISO 20022
17 14 (0.37%) HIPAA
18 13 (0.35%) Basel III
System Software
1 89 (2.38%) Docker
2 66 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.16%) vSphere
7 5 (0.13%) NFS
7 5 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.027%) Firmware
10 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.027%) IAG
10 1 (0.027%) NDS
10 1 (0.027%) NLBS
10 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.027%) SRDF
10 1 (0.027%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.027%) XenApp
10 1 (0.027%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 128 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 86 (2.30%) Terraform
3 48 (1.28%) Ansible
4 37 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.56%) Grafana
6 19 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.48%) SCCM
8 12 (0.32%) FortiGate
8 12 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.16%) Kibana
10 6 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 5 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.11%) vMotion
13 3 (0.080%) Control-M
13 3 (0.080%) Nessus
Vendors
1 447 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 311 (8.32%) SAP
3 210 (5.61%) Oracle
4 159 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 143 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 90 (2.41%) Workday
7 89 (2.38%) Google
8 56 (1.50%) Databricks
9 49 (1.31%) VMware
10 45 (1.20%) Splunk
11 43 (1.15%) Cisco
12 39 (1.04%) IBM
13 34 (0.91%) CyberArk
14 31 (0.83%) Ariba
14 31 (0.83%) Fortinet
15 27 (0.72%) Adobe
16 26 (0.70%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.64%) Citrix
18 23 (0.61%) Informatica
19 22 (0.59%) Red Hat