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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,759 2,290 3,140
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.29% 8.74% 8.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.89% 9.75% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,602 1,441 2,197
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £443 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 55 95
10th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £21.19
25th Percentile £24.50 £39.02 £30.08
Median hourly rate £42.89 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.52% +20.00% -8.81%
75th Percentile £69.99 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £80.35 £81.78
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £57.50 £51.96
% change year-on-year -29.57% +10.66% -5.23%

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 29,172 23,495 33,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.59% 89.70% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,676 14,439 22,381
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £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 1,836 743 1,976
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £16.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £61.78
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +9 1,907 £550 - 653
North of England +5 559 £475 -9.52% 246
Midlands 0 475 £481 -3.75% 182
South East +5 437 £530 +0.95% 416
West Midlands -5 303 £492 -6.29% 133
North West +6 280 £450 -13.88% 138
Yorkshire +9 249 £492 -1.60% 95
South West +18 192 £550 +4.27% 104
East Midlands +11 172 £450 -2.17% 48
East of England -3 102 £550 - 77
North East +5 44 £444 -23.66% 14
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
1 272 (7.24%) Confluence
2 114 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.06%) SAS
4 37 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (0.88%) CMS
6 16 (0.43%) 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
10 6 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.080%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.080%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.080%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.080%) nginx
12 3 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 214 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 129 (3.43%) Microsoft Project
3 119 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 104 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.45%) Trello
7 12 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.16%) Sketch
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.053%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.053%) InVision
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
1 124 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 21 (0.56%) Workday HCM
6 18 (0.48%) 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%) Oracle Payables
10 12 (0.32%) Loan IQ
10 12 (0.32%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.32%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
11 11 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
12 9 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
12 9 (0.24%) SAP PP
13 8 (0.21%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 552 (14.68%) Azure
2 374 (9.95%) AWS
3 246 (6.54%) Power Platform
4 159 (4.23%) GCP
5 122 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
6 112 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (2.74%) SaaS
8 85 (2.26%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.68%) OpenShift
10 47 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
11 44 (1.17%) GitHub
11 44 (1.17%) OCI
12 39 (1.04%) Power Automate
13 38 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 37 (0.98%) Snowflake
15 35 (0.93%) Serverless
16 32 (0.85%) Google Workspace
17 31 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
18 30 (0.80%) PowerApps
19 27 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.10%) Firewall
2 48 (1.28%) WAN
3 37 (0.98%) LAN
4 35 (0.93%) Network Security
5 32 (0.85%) SD-WAN
6 31 (0.82%) VPN
7 30 (0.80%) DNS
8 21 (0.56%) SSH
8 21 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (0.51%) MPLS
10 18 (0.48%) SSL
11 16 (0.43%) BGP
12 14 (0.37%) DHCP
13 13 (0.35%) Broadband
13 13 (0.35%) TCP/IP
14 12 (0.32%) OSPF
14 12 (0.32%) Wireless
15 11 (0.29%) SNMP
16 10 (0.27%) Internet
16 10 (0.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (5.77%) Power BI
2 75 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (1.92%) Tableau
4 56 (1.49%) Metadata
5 32 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.74%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.69%) NoSQL
8 24 (0.64%) Power Query
9 20 (0.53%) Oracle Database
9 20 (0.53%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.43%) BigQuery
10 16 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (0.37%) MySQL
13 13 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.32%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (0.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 9 (0.24%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 473 (12.58%) JIRA
2 71 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.76%) Git
4 52 (1.38%) GitLab
5 27 (0.72%) Selenium
6 25 (0.67%) JUnit
7 12 (0.32%) Maven
8 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.24%) Mockito
8 9 (0.24%) SpecFlow
9 8 (0.21%) MLflow
9 8 (0.21%) Postman
10 7 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
11 6 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.16%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.16%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.11%) TestRail
13 3 (0.080%) Artifactory
General
1 2,012 (53.52%) Social Skills
2 1,253 (33.33%) Finance
3 628 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 377 (10.03%) Public Sector
5 364 (9.68%) Banking
6 190 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
7 163 (4.34%) Retail
8 146 (3.88%) Legal
9 129 (3.43%) Marketing
10 127 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
11 114 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
12 113 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
13 105 (2.79%) Telecoms
14 102 (2.71%) Manufacturing
15 74 (1.97%) Front Office
16 59 (1.57%) Law
17 55 (1.46%) Financial Institution
17 55 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 50 (1.33%) Investment Banking
19 44 (1.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 731 (19.45%) Analyst
2 538 (14.31%) Project Manager
3 530 (14.10%) Business Analyst
4 455 (12.10%) Lead
5 427 (11.36%) Architect
6 337 (8.97%) Senior
7 226 (6.01%) Consultant
8 161 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
9 139 (3.70%) Senior Manager
10 135 (3.59%) Programme Manager
11 102 (2.71%) IT Manager
12 101 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
13 82 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
14 81 (2.15%) Data Analyst
15 75 (2.00%) Change Manager
16 72 (1.92%) Product Owner
16 72 (1.92%) Senior Project Manager
17 71 (1.89%) Developer
18 70 (1.86%) Senior Business Analyst
19 69 (1.84%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (2.90%) REST
2 61 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
3 44 (1.17%) SOAP
4 41 (1.09%) Middleware
5 38 (1.01%) JSON
6 36 (0.96%) .NET
6 36 (0.96%) OAuth
7 35 (0.93%) OpenID
8 32 (0.85%) SAML
9 31 (0.82%) XML
10 30 (0.80%) Kafka
11 28 (0.74%) HTML
12 25 (0.67%) React
12 25 (0.67%) RESTful
13 23 (0.61%) pytest
13 23 (0.61%) SailPoint
14 22 (0.59%) CSS
15 21 (0.56%) AngularJS
15 21 (0.56%) LDAP
16 20 (0.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 302 (8.03%) Product Ownership
2 199 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 104 (2.77%) Cloud Native
4 101 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
5 94 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 94 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 82 (2.18%) Data Centre
7 73 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 53 (1.41%) PMI
9 46 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 43 (1.14%) NHS
11 38 (1.01%) CMDB
11 38 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
12 35 (0.93%) Data Structures
12 35 (0.93%) Public Cloud
13 33 (0.88%) Operational Technology
14 30 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 27 (0.72%) FMCG
15 27 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
16 26 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.93%) Windows
2 55 (1.46%) Linux
3 27 (0.72%) Unix
4 22 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.37%) VMS
7 12 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.21%) Android
10 4 (0.11%) CentOS
11 3 (0.080%) Solaris
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 1,231 (32.75%) Agile
2 690 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
3 581 (15.46%) Project Management
4 550 (14.63%) Migration
5 547 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 520 (13.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 457 (12.16%) Change Management
8 442 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 403 (10.72%) Project Delivery
10 371 (9.87%) DevOps
11 367 (9.76%) Decision-Making
12 341 (9.07%) Analytics
13 333 (8.86%) Risk Management
14 322 (8.57%) Scrum
15 312 (8.30%) Requirements Gathering
16 307 (8.17%) Workshop Facilitation
17 296 (7.87%) User Acceptance Testing
18 267 (7.10%) AI
19 266 (7.08%) Business Intelligence
20 257 (6.84%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 299 (7.95%) SQL
2 256 (6.81%) Python
3 87 (2.31%) PowerShell
4 70 (1.86%) Java
5 53 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 47 (1.25%) C#
7 33 (0.88%) Bash
8 24 (0.64%) VBA
9 22 (0.59%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.43%) Korn
11 14 (0.37%) R
12 11 (0.29%) Bicep
13 9 (0.24%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.21%) VB
15 7 (0.19%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.16%) ABAP
16 6 (0.16%) C++
16 6 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.11%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 671 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 522 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 374 (9.95%) Degree
4 197 (5.24%) PMI Certification
5 184 (4.89%) PMP
6 94 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 75 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 73 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 66 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 52 (1.38%) CISSP
11 36 (0.96%) CISM
12 35 (0.93%) CBAP
13 33 (0.88%) Azure Certification
14 29 (0.77%) AWS Certification
15 28 (0.74%) ISTQB
16 24 (0.64%) IIBA
17 22 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
19 20 (0.53%) APMP
19 20 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (6.62%) QA
2 234 (6.23%) GDPR
3 148 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 139 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 131 (3.48%) PMO
6 123 (3.27%) NIST
7 67 (1.78%) PCI DSS
8 61 (1.62%) GRC
9 43 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 40 (1.06%) Accessibility
10 40 (1.06%) NCSC
11 39 (1.04%) SLA
12 26 (0.69%) IFRS
13 23 (0.61%) PSD2
14 21 (0.56%) COBIT
15 16 (0.43%) IFRS 17
15 16 (0.43%) WCAG
16 15 (0.40%) ISO 20022
17 14 (0.37%) Basel III
18 12 (0.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 83 (2.21%) Docker
2 63 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.93%) 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%) Postfix
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%) 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
1 122 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.10%) Terraform
3 50 (1.33%) Ansible
4 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.61%) Grafana
6 19 (0.51%) SCCM
6 19 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.32%) FortiGate
7 12 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.21%) HP ALM
9 6 (0.16%) Kibana
9 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
9 6 (0.16%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.11%) vMotion
12 3 (0.080%) Control-M
13 2 (0.053%) Nagios
Vendors
1 464 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 309 (8.22%) SAP
3 209 (5.56%) Oracle
4 175 (4.66%) ServiceNow
5 144 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.31%) Google
7 83 (2.21%) Workday
8 59 (1.57%) Databricks
9 50 (1.33%) VMware
10 44 (1.17%) Splunk
11 41 (1.09%) Cisco
12 40 (1.06%) IBM
13 33 (0.88%) CyberArk
14 32 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 31 (0.82%) Ariba
16 25 (0.67%) Citrix
17 24 (0.64%) Adobe
18 23 (0.61%) F5
18 23 (0.61%) Informatica
18 23 (0.61%) OpenAI