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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,228 2,336 2,863
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.69% 9.53% 7.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.54% 10.47% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,903 1,601 2,013
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £533
% change year-on-year - -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 66 77
10th Percentile £17.13 £35.00 £14.68
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.30 £30.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -2.54%
75th Percentile £80.55 £75.00 £72.33
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.29 £85.26
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -33.75% +20.00% -11.40%

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 33,718 22,322 32,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 91.07% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,550 14,669 21,082
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 894 2,218
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.51 £15.86
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 2,169 £550 -4.35% 707
North of England -2 613 £475 -7.21% 225
South East +4 514 £574 +14.80% 357
Midlands -3 499 £485 -3.05% 172
West Midlands -4 339 £492 -6.29% 111
North West -2 303 £469 -9.90% 119
Yorkshire +7 279 £500 - 88
South West +25 229 £550 +0.92% 88
East Midlands +4 158 £463 +3.12% 60
East of England +3 122 £550 -8.33% 100
North East -4 47 £440 -20.00% 22
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 (6.84%) Confluence
2 124 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.90%) CMS
4 35 (0.83%) SAS
5 33 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.40%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 8 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 8 (0.19%) TPMS
9 7 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.12%) Camunda
10 5 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.047%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 220 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (3.26%) Microsoft Project
3 110 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
5 77 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.17%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.12%) Revit
11 4 (0.095%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.071%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.047%) InVision
13 2 (0.047%) Windchill
14 1 (0.024%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 125 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 23 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 18 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.38%) Workday HCM
6 15 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.31%) Endur
7 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 13 (0.31%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.24%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 606 (14.33%) Azure
2 436 (10.31%) AWS
3 235 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 179 (4.23%) GCP
5 129 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 111 (2.63%) SaaS
8 88 (2.08%) Entra ID
9 56 (1.32%) OCI
10 55 (1.30%) Snowflake
11 50 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 50 (1.18%) OpenShift
12 43 (1.02%) GitHub
12 43 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
13 42 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 37 (0.88%) Figma
14 37 (0.88%) Power Automate
15 35 (0.83%) Serverless
16 34 (0.80%) Amazon S3
16 34 (0.80%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.54%) Firewall
2 61 (1.44%) Network Security
3 56 (1.32%) WAN
4 42 (0.99%) LAN
5 37 (0.88%) SD-WAN
6 33 (0.78%) DNS
7 29 (0.69%) VPN
8 26 (0.61%) BGP
8 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (0.52%) OSPF
10 20 (0.47%) MPLS
11 19 (0.45%) TCP/IP
12 16 (0.38%) SSL
13 14 (0.33%) Wireless
14 13 (0.31%) DHCP
15 12 (0.28%) NGFW
16 11 (0.26%) Broadband
16 11 (0.26%) NAS
16 11 (0.26%) SAN
16 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (4.71%) Power BI
2 88 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (1.80%) Metadata
4 62 (1.47%) Tableau
5 43 (1.02%) SQL Server
6 36 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
8 30 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.59%) NoSQL
10 23 (0.54%) Power Query
10 23 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 21 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (0.45%) Big Data
13 18 (0.43%) DynamoDB
14 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
15 15 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
16 12 (0.28%) MySQL
16 12 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 503 (11.90%) JIRA
2 77 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 67 (1.58%) Git
4 40 (0.95%) GitLab
5 31 (0.73%) Selenium
6 27 (0.64%) JUnit
7 16 (0.38%) Postman
8 15 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.33%) Maven
10 13 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.28%) Mockito
11 12 (0.28%) SpecFlow
12 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.26%) JMeter
13 10 (0.24%) MLflow
13 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 8 (0.19%) jMock
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
General
1 2,138 (50.57%) Social Skills
2 1,479 (34.98%) Finance
3 666 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 459 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 408 (9.65%) Banking
6 214 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 192 (4.54%) Retail
8 167 (3.95%) Legal
9 149 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
10 137 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
11 136 (3.22%) Marketing
12 121 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 106 (2.51%) Manufacturing
14 103 (2.44%) Telecoms
15 77 (1.82%) Financial Institution
16 63 (1.49%) Front Office
17 62 (1.47%) Local Government
18 54 (1.28%) Law
19 48 (1.14%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.06%) Billing
Job Titles
1 725 (17.15%) Analyst
2 629 (14.88%) Project Manager
3 576 (13.62%) Lead
4 537 (12.70%) Business Analyst
5 464 (10.97%) Architect
6 430 (10.17%) Senior
7 199 (4.71%) Consultant
8 182 (4.30%) Senior Manager
9 180 (4.26%) Programme Manager
10 167 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
11 141 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
12 127 (3.00%) IT Manager
13 93 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.13%) Change Manager
15 89 (2.11%) Senior Project Manager
16 84 (1.99%) Technical Manager
17 83 (1.96%) Product Manager
18 82 (1.94%) Data Analyst
19 76 (1.80%) Test Manager
20 74 (1.75%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (2.65%) REST
2 83 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.70%) Middleware
4 58 (1.37%) SOAP
5 36 (0.85%) OAuth
6 35 (0.83%) .NET
7 33 (0.78%) JSON
7 33 (0.78%) Kafka
8 31 (0.73%) XML
9 30 (0.71%) OpenID
10 28 (0.66%) SAML
11 26 (0.61%) AngularJS
11 26 (0.61%) React
11 26 (0.61%) RESTful
11 26 (0.61%) Web Services
12 25 (0.59%) Spring
13 23 (0.54%) Playwright
13 23 (0.54%) Swagger
14 21 (0.50%) SailPoint
15 20 (0.47%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 330 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 213 (5.04%) Onboarding
3 139 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
4 124 (2.93%) Cloud Native
5 113 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 106 (2.51%) Management Information System
7 86 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 72 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 70 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 56 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 53 (1.25%) NHS
11 53 (1.25%) PMI
12 47 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.06%) Public Cloud
14 41 (0.97%) Operational Technology
15 35 (0.83%) FMCG
16 34 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
17 30 (0.71%) CMDB
18 29 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
19 28 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 116 (2.74%) Windows
2 65 (1.54%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Android
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 21 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 18 (0.43%) Unix
6 17 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.26%) VMS
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.071%) AIX
12 2 (0.047%) CentOS
12 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.047%) zOS
13 1 (0.024%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.024%) MVS
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,372 (32.45%) Agile
2 685 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
3 655 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
4 643 (15.21%) Migration
5 637 (15.07%) Project Management
6 549 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 525 (12.42%) Roadmaps
8 519 (12.28%) Change Management
9 467 (11.05%) Decision-Making
10 458 (10.83%) DevOps
11 455 (10.76%) Project Delivery
12 408 (9.65%) Risk Management
13 382 (9.04%) Analytics
14 367 (8.68%) User Acceptance Testing
15 348 (8.23%) Scrum
16 344 (8.14%) AI
17 338 (7.99%) Validation
18 334 (7.90%) Workshop Facilitation
19 319 (7.54%) Requirements Gathering
20 302 (7.14%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 324 (7.66%) SQL
2 238 (5.63%) Python
3 93 (2.20%) Java
4 74 (1.75%) PowerShell
5 51 (1.21%) C#
6 49 (1.16%) JavaScript
7 29 (0.69%) Bash
8 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.54%) VBA
9 17 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (0.35%) Korn
10 15 (0.35%) R
11 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
15 6 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 852 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 651 (15.40%) SC Cleared
3 358 (8.47%) Degree
4 227 (5.37%) PMP
5 216 (5.11%) PMI Certification
6 114 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 103 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 72 (1.70%) CISSP
9 63 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 60 (1.42%) Master's Degree
11 49 (1.16%) CISM
12 42 (0.99%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.78%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.66%) CBAP
15 26 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.59%) IIBA
17 24 (0.57%) APMP
18 21 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (6.74%) QA
2 234 (5.53%) GDPR
3 208 (4.92%) Data Quality
4 188 (4.45%) PMO
5 164 (3.88%) NIST
6 142 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.75%) GRC
8 66 (1.56%) SLA
9 57 (1.35%) PCI DSS
10 48 (1.14%) Accessibility
11 42 (0.99%) NCSC
12 38 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.69%) COBIT
13 29 (0.69%) IFRS
14 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.43%) IFRS 17
16 17 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.38%) HL7
18 14 (0.33%) Basel III
18 14 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 93 (2.20%) Docker
2 67 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 38 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.24%) Postfix
5 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.19%) NFS
7 7 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.095%) SRDF
10 3 (0.071%) HDFS
10 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.071%) Varnish
11 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.024%) NLBS
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.024%) RACF
Systems Management
1 130 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 80 (1.89%) Terraform
3 53 (1.25%) Ansible
4 45 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.83%) Grafana
6 24 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.45%) SCCM
9 12 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.095%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.095%) Istio
14 3 (0.071%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.071%) Kibana
14 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 467 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 350 (8.28%) SAP
3 254 (6.01%) Oracle
4 200 (4.73%) ServiceNow
5 175 (4.14%) Salesforce
6 95 (2.25%) Google
7 77 (1.82%) Workday
8 74 (1.75%) VMware
9 66 (1.56%) Databricks
10 46 (1.09%) Cisco
10 46 (1.09%) Splunk
11 40 (0.95%) CyberArk
12 35 (0.83%) Ariba
13 34 (0.80%) IBM
14 32 (0.76%) MuleSoft
15 29 (0.69%) Adobe
15 29 (0.69%) Citrix
16 26 (0.61%) Atlassian
17 25 (0.59%) Informatica
17 25 (0.59%) Red Hat