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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,294 2,365 2,757
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.54% 9.73% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.42% 10.67% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,933 1,624 1,969
10th Percentile £363 £358 £360
25th Percentile £450 £437 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 67 75
10th Percentile £16.31 £35.00 £14.45
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.25 £30.08
Median hourly rate £51.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +2.49% +7.98%
75th Percentile £81.50 £75.00 £76.65
90th Percentile £97.50 £80.24 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +7.98%

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 34,571 22,170 31,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 91.23% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,077 14,511 20,880
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,146 929 2,248
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.50 £12.91
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.65 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.47% -20.36% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.40 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +4 2,180 £550 -4.35% 759
North of England -1 644 £481 -4.70% 280
South East +1 515 £560 +12.00% 357
Midlands 0 511 £485 -3.00% 172
West Midlands -2 348 £491 -6.48% 110
North West -3 308 £473 -7.25% 152
Yorkshire +10 306 £500 - 98
South West +21 244 £550 +3.77% 98
East Midlands +6 160 £465 +4.03% 60
East of England -5 122 £525 -12.50% 97
North East -7 49 £450 -16.67% 32
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
1 301 (7.01%) Confluence
2 131 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.84%) CMS
3 36 (0.84%) SAS
4 27 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.33%) Apache
5 14 (0.33%) Appian
6 9 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.19%) TPMS
8 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.093%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.093%) nginx
10 3 (0.070%) Camunda
10 3 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.070%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.047%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 218 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (3.40%) Microsoft Project
3 114 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
4 109 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.23%) Trello
8 7 (0.16%) Revit
8 7 (0.16%) Sketch
9 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.093%) Navisworks
11 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.047%) InVision
11 2 (0.047%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.023%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 134 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.51%) Aladdin
5 21 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 18 (0.42%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 13 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
8 13 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
11 10 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
12 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 633 (14.74%) Azure
2 459 (10.69%) AWS
3 246 (5.73%) Power Platform
4 186 (4.33%) GCP
5 137 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
6 119 (2.77%) SaaS
7 116 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
8 83 (1.93%) Entra ID
9 59 (1.37%) Snowflake
10 54 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (1.19%) OCI
12 46 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 46 (1.07%) GitHub
12 46 (1.07%) OpenShift
13 40 (0.93%) Figma
13 40 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
14 38 (0.88%) Amazon S3
15 37 (0.86%) Serverless
16 35 (0.82%) Power Automate
17 33 (0.77%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.47%) Network Security
2 60 (1.40%) Firewall
3 48 (1.12%) WAN
4 36 (0.84%) LAN
5 32 (0.75%) DNS
6 29 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 26 (0.61%) 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 (0.30%) MPLS
11 13 (0.30%) NGFW
11 13 (0.30%) SSL
12 12 (0.28%) SSH
12 12 (0.28%) Wireless
13 11 (0.26%) Intranet
13 11 (0.26%) SAN
13 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (4.77%) Power BI
2 89 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (1.84%) Metadata
4 59 (1.37%) Tableau
5 44 (1.02%) Data Lake
5 44 (1.02%) SQL Server
6 31 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
8 26 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (0.56%) Relational Database
10 22 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (0.51%) NoSQL
11 21 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 19 (0.44%) Big Data
13 18 (0.42%) Power Query
14 17 (0.40%) Delta Lake
15 15 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
17 13 (0.30%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 518 (12.06%) JIRA
2 76 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 67 (1.56%) Git
4 38 (0.88%) GitLab
5 24 (0.56%) Selenium
6 23 (0.54%) JUnit
7 17 (0.40%) Postman
7 17 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.30%) Maven
9 12 (0.28%) MLflow
10 11 (0.26%) JMeter
11 10 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.23%) Mockito
11 10 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.23%) SpecFlow
12 9 (0.21%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
13 8 (0.19%) jMock
14 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,134 (49.70%) Social Skills
2 1,537 (35.79%) Finance
3 647 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 473 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 413 (9.62%) Banking
6 209 (4.87%) Influencing Skills
7 208 (4.84%) Retail
8 172 (4.01%) Legal
9 148 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
10 142 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
11 133 (3.10%) Marketing
12 113 (2.63%) Manufacturing
13 112 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
14 101 (2.35%) Telecoms
15 76 (1.77%) Financial Institution
16 69 (1.61%) Local Government
17 58 (1.35%) Law
18 50 (1.16%) Front Office
19 45 (1.05%) Billing
19 45 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 709 (16.51%) Analyst
2 662 (15.42%) Project Manager
3 593 (13.81%) Lead
4 524 (12.20%) Business Analyst
5 480 (11.18%) Architect
6 451 (10.50%) Senior
7 196 (4.56%) Senior Manager
8 194 (4.52%) Consultant
9 177 (4.12%) Programme Manager
10 170 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
11 141 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
12 131 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 98 (2.28%) Senior Project Manager
14 90 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
15 89 (2.07%) Product Manager
16 87 (2.03%) Technical Manager
17 85 (1.98%) Change Manager
18 82 (1.91%) Product Owner
19 76 (1.77%) IT Project Manager
19 76 (1.77%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.40%) REST
2 80 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.68%) Middleware
4 54 (1.26%) SOAP
5 33 (0.77%) OAuth
6 32 (0.75%) .NET
6 32 (0.75%) JSON
7 31 (0.72%) Kafka
8 30 (0.70%) XML
9 27 (0.63%) OpenID
9 27 (0.63%) RESTful
9 27 (0.63%) Web Services
10 26 (0.61%) SAML
11 25 (0.58%) AngularJS
12 24 (0.56%) Spring
13 23 (0.54%) React
14 22 (0.51%) Swagger
15 21 (0.49%) ADO
16 20 (0.47%) CSS
16 20 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 332 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 209 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 140 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
4 134 (3.12%) Cloud Native
5 121 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 116 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 89 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 76 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 68 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 63 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 49 (1.14%) PMI
12 47 (1.09%) Public Cloud
13 46 (1.07%) Operational Technology
14 44 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
14 44 (1.02%) NHS
15 35 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
16 34 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
17 31 (0.72%) FMCG
18 28 (0.65%) AI Agents
19 27 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 123 (2.86%) Windows
2 65 (1.51%) Linux
3 29 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.65%) Android
5 20 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.40%) Unix
7 16 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.21%) VMS
10 4 (0.093%) AIX
10 4 (0.093%) 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 1,412 (32.88%) Agile
2 673 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
3 662 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 651 (15.16%) Project Management
5 642 (14.95%) Migration
6 546 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 542 (12.62%) Roadmaps
8 505 (11.76%) Change Management
9 486 (11.32%) Decision-Making
10 485 (11.29%) DevOps
11 470 (10.95%) Project Delivery
12 423 (9.85%) Risk Management
13 387 (9.01%) Analytics
14 369 (8.59%) User Acceptance Testing
15 367 (8.55%) AI
16 344 (8.01%) Scrum
17 333 (7.76%) Validation
18 326 (7.59%) Workshop Facilitation
19 322 (7.50%) CI/CD
20 312 (7.27%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 338 (7.87%) SQL
2 235 (5.47%) Python
3 82 (1.91%) Java
4 68 (1.58%) PowerShell
5 44 (1.02%) C#
6 41 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 27 (0.63%) Bash
8 24 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 22 (0.51%) VBA
10 15 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (0.35%) Korn
10 15 (0.35%) R
11 13 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.21%) ABAP
12 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.19%) Bicep
14 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 892 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 686 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 354 (8.24%) Degree
4 236 (5.50%) PMP
5 217 (5.05%) PMI Certification
6 113 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 107 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.70%) CISSP
9 57 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 55 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.26%) CISM
12 44 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 36 (0.84%) AWS Certification
14 30 (0.70%) CBAP
15 28 (0.65%) IIBA
16 25 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
17 24 (0.56%) ISTQB
17 24 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (0.54%) APMP
18 23 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (6.47%) QA
2 220 (5.12%) GDPR
3 216 (5.03%) Data Quality
4 204 (4.75%) PMO
5 162 (3.77%) NIST
6 135 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (1.70%) GRC
8 65 (1.51%) SLA
9 61 (1.42%) Accessibility
10 53 (1.23%) PCI DSS
11 44 (1.02%) NCSC
12 37 (0.86%) 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 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.37%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.37%) PSD2
18 15 (0.35%) HL7
System Software
1 95 (2.21%) Docker
2 66 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.26%) Postfix
4 11 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.21%) NFS
6 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.093%) SRDF
8 4 (0.093%) Varnish
9 3 (0.070%) HDFS
9 3 (0.070%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.070%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.070%) vSphere
10 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.023%) NLBS
11 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.023%) RACF
11 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 137 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 82 (1.91%) Terraform
3 54 (1.26%) Ansible
4 43 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (0.91%) Grafana
6 27 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (0.51%) 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 (0.093%) Istio
12 4 (0.093%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.070%) Argo
13 3 (0.070%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.070%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.070%) vMotion
Vendors
1 485 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 354 (8.24%) SAP
3 241 (5.61%) Oracle
4 194 (4.52%) ServiceNow
5 171 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 90 (2.10%) Google
7 81 (1.89%) Databricks
8 70 (1.63%) VMware
9 67 (1.56%) Workday
10 47 (1.09%) Splunk
11 39 (0.91%) Cisco
11 39 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 32 (0.75%) IBM
13 31 (0.72%) Ariba
13 31 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 30 (0.70%) Citrix
15 29 (0.68%) Informatica
16 28 (0.65%) Atlassian
17 25 (0.58%) Adobe
18 23 (0.54%) F5