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

6 months to
17 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 4,787 2,508 2,721
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.15% 10.14% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.09% 11.10% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,228 1,713 1,936
10th Percentile £375 £358 £357
25th Percentile £456 £436 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +2.38% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 64 77
10th Percentile £21.78 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £32.50 £42.26 £33.48
Median hourly rate £54.00 £58.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -2.08% +11.80%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.06 £74.54
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.13 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% +11.80%

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 36,560 22,594 31,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.33% 85.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,106 14,607 20,685
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,294 1,062 2,382
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
% change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 2,451 £560 -2.61% 930
North of England 0 717 £500 - 428
South East +4 588 £550 +4.76% 603
Midlands +3 527 £500 - 272
West Midlands +1 369 £500 -4.76% 158
North West -1 348 £488 -3.37% 230
Yorkshire +6 337 £500 +2.04% 135
South West +17 283 £550 +4.76% 188
East Midlands +11 150 £465 +5.08% 111
East of England +2 137 £525 -12.50% 193
North East -14 48 £475 +5.56% 66
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 (6.04%) Confluence
2 133 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.13%) CMS
4 42 (0.88%) SAS
5 24 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.27%) Appian
8 12 (0.25%) Apache
9 9 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.13%) WordPress
13 5 (0.10%) Kentico
13 5 (0.10%) TPMS
14 4 (0.084%) Apache Spark
15 3 (0.063%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.063%) nginx
15 3 (0.063%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 3 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.063%) WebSphere
Applications
1 226 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
3 119 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 114 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
5 71 (1.48%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.25%) Revit
8 10 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.084%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.084%) Trello
10 3 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.063%) Notion
10 3 (0.063%) Sketch
11 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.042%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.021%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.021%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 156 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 22 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.44%) Aladdin
7 19 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
9 15 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
10 14 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
11 13 (0.27%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.25%) SAP CO
12 12 (0.25%) SAP FI
13 11 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
13 11 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
13 11 (0.23%) Workday HCM
14 10 (0.21%) Loan IQ
14 10 (0.21%) SAP HCM
15 9 (0.19%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 748 (15.63%) Azure
2 539 (11.26%) AWS
3 283 (5.91%) Power Platform
4 190 (3.97%) GCP
5 159 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
5 159 (3.32%) SaaS
6 118 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
7 98 (2.05%) Entra ID
8 75 (1.57%) Snowflake
9 64 (1.34%) GitHub
10 56 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
11 54 (1.13%) OCI
12 48 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 46 (0.96%) Amazon S3
13 46 (0.96%) Serverless
14 38 (0.79%) Power Automate
15 36 (0.75%) PowerApps
16 35 (0.73%) PaaS
17 34 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.67%) Firewall
2 79 (1.65%) Network Security
3 58 (1.21%) WAN
4 44 (0.92%) LAN
5 38 (0.79%) DNS
6 31 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 26 (0.54%) VPN
10 22 (0.46%) BGP
11 18 (0.38%) OSPF
12 17 (0.36%) MPLS
13 16 (0.33%) DHCP
14 15 (0.31%) Wireless
15 14 (0.29%) NGFW
16 13 (0.27%) Intranet
17 12 (0.25%) BIG-IP
17 12 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
18 11 (0.23%) SAN
18 11 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (4.87%) Power BI
2 99 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (1.90%) Metadata
4 66 (1.38%) Tableau
5 61 (1.27%) SQL Server
6 57 (1.19%) Data Lake
7 40 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.58%) NoSQL
11 27 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
12 25 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (0.50%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.42%) Big Data
14 20 (0.42%) Oracle Database
15 18 (0.38%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
17 15 (0.31%) Power Query
18 14 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
19 13 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 530 (11.07%) JIRA
2 75 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.38%) Git
4 42 (0.88%) GitLab
5 30 (0.63%) Selenium
6 26 (0.54%) JUnit
7 21 (0.44%) 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%) MLflow
12 10 (0.21%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.21%) DbUnit
13 9 (0.19%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.19%) jMock
13 9 (0.19%) Zephyr
14 8 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
14 8 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 2,390 (49.93%) Social Skills
2 1,729 (36.12%) Finance
3 723 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
4 551 (11.51%) Public Sector
5 462 (9.65%) Banking
6 257 (5.37%) Retail
7 224 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
8 210 (4.39%) Legal
9 184 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
10 170 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
11 152 (3.18%) Marketing
12 122 (2.55%) Manufacturing
13 118 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 108 (2.26%) Telecoms
15 88 (1.84%) Local Government
16 77 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 75 (1.57%) Financial Institution
18 67 (1.40%) Law
19 64 (1.34%) Aerospace
19 64 (1.34%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 746 (15.58%) Analyst
2 696 (14.54%) Project Manager
3 680 (14.21%) Lead
4 557 (11.64%) Architect
5 516 (10.78%) Business Analyst
6 500 (10.44%) Senior
7 221 (4.62%) Consultant
8 219 (4.57%) Senior Manager
9 209 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
10 172 (3.59%) Delivery Manager
10 172 (3.59%) Programme Manager
11 151 (3.15%) IT Manager
12 110 (2.30%) Senior Project Manager
13 98 (2.05%) Product Manager
13 98 (2.05%) Product Owner
14 89 (1.86%) Technical Manager
15 88 (1.84%) Change Manager
16 87 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
17 84 (1.75%) IT Project Manager
18 79 (1.65%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (2.59%) REST
2 83 (1.73%) Middleware
3 81 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 65 (1.36%) SOAP
5 50 (1.04%) .NET
6 44 (0.92%) OAuth
7 40 (0.84%) JSON
8 33 (0.69%) OpenID
8 33 (0.69%) RESTful
9 32 (0.67%) Kafka
10 31 (0.65%) SAML
10 31 (0.65%) Spring
11 30 (0.63%) AngularJS
11 30 (0.63%) CSS
11 30 (0.63%) SailPoint
11 30 (0.63%) Web Services
11 30 (0.63%) XML
12 27 (0.56%) PySpark
13 26 (0.54%) HTML
13 26 (0.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 371 (7.75%) Product Ownership
2 232 (4.85%) Onboarding
3 166 (3.47%) Cloud Native
4 152 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
5 129 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 118 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
7 102 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 85 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 81 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 79 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 61 (1.27%) Operational Technology
12 59 (1.23%) NHS
13 56 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 53 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
15 52 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 48 (1.00%) Public Cloud
17 43 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
18 41 (0.86%) FMCG
18 41 (0.86%) PMI
19 40 (0.84%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 139 (2.90%) Windows
2 78 (1.63%) Linux
3 31 (0.65%) Android
4 29 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.46%) Unix
7 21 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.13%) VMS
10 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.084%) AIX
11 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.084%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.084%) zOS
12 3 (0.063%) Solaris
13 2 (0.042%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.042%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.042%) HPUX
14 1 (0.021%) CentOS
14 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,563 (32.65%) Agile
2 751 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 724 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
4 701 (14.64%) Migration
5 660 (13.79%) Project Management
6 633 (13.22%) Roadmaps
7 628 (13.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 572 (11.95%) DevOps
9 547 (11.43%) Decision-Making
10 540 (11.28%) Change Management
11 527 (11.01%) Project Delivery
12 475 (9.92%) Analytics
13 464 (9.69%) Risk Management
14 445 (9.30%) AI
15 426 (8.90%) User Acceptance Testing
16 399 (8.34%) Validation
17 386 (8.06%) CI/CD
18 378 (7.90%) Scrum
19 360 (7.52%) Workshop Facilitation
20 353 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 395 (8.25%) SQL
2 264 (5.51%) Python
3 99 (2.07%) Java
4 70 (1.46%) PowerShell
5 53 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.00%) C#
7 25 (0.52%) Bash
8 23 (0.48%) VBA
9 22 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.38%) Bicep
11 17 (0.36%) Korn
12 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.27%) ABAP
14 11 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.21%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.19%) R
16 9 (0.19%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.15%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 959 (20.03%) Security Cleared
2 738 (15.42%) SC Cleared
3 355 (7.42%) Degree
4 254 (5.31%) PMP
5 222 (4.64%) PMI Certification
6 136 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 123 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 104 (2.17%) CISSP
9 76 (1.59%) CISM
10 71 (1.48%) Azure Certification
11 56 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 45 (0.94%) AWS Certification
14 42 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
15 30 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
15 30 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.61%) ACCA
17 28 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 26 (0.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (5.60%) QA
2 261 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 241 (5.03%) PMO
4 214 (4.47%) GDPR
5 166 (3.47%) NIST
6 144 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 83 (1.73%) GRC
8 78 (1.63%) SLA
9 70 (1.46%) Accessibility
10 53 (1.11%) NCSC
11 50 (1.04%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 35 (0.73%) IFRS
14 34 (0.71%) COBIT
15 30 (0.63%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.38%) IFRS 17
16 18 (0.38%) JSP 440
17 17 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.33%) PSD2
18 16 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (2.03%) Docker
2 79 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.25%) Postfix
6 10 (0.21%) NFS
6 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.10%) vSphere
9 4 (0.084%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.084%) SRDF
9 4 (0.084%) Varnish
10 3 (0.063%) HDFS
10 3 (0.063%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.042%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.042%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.042%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.021%) NLBS
12 1 (0.021%) RACF
Systems Management
1 141 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 110 (2.30%) Terraform
3 68 (1.42%) Ansible
4 44 (0.92%) Grafana
5 39 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.33%) SCCM
9 9 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.15%) Argo
11 7 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 7 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 5 (0.10%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.10%) Puppet
13 5 (0.10%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.084%) Control-M
14 4 (0.084%) EMC VPLEX
14 4 (0.084%) vMotion
Vendors
1 581 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 386 (8.06%) SAP
3 263 (5.49%) Oracle
4 236 (4.93%) ServiceNow
5 187 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 94 (1.96%) Databricks
7 93 (1.94%) Google
8 67 (1.40%) VMware
9 65 (1.36%) Workday
10 49 (1.02%) Cisco
11 46 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 44 (0.92%) Splunk
13 37 (0.77%) Adobe
14 35 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 33 (0.69%) Ariba
16 32 (0.67%) Informatica
17 26 (0.54%) Atlassian
17 26 (0.54%) IBM
18 25 (0.52%) F5
19 24 (0.50%) Citrix