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

6 months to
27 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 4,983 2,586 2,737
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.46% 10.23% 7.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.43% 11.20% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 1,755 1,956
10th Percentile £375 £358 £358
25th Percentile £456 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -0.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £741 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 62 76
10th Percentile £23.73 £31.64 £20.17
25th Percentile £33.59 £41.78 £35.94
Median hourly rate £58.75 £54.01 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.79% -9.99% +13.27%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.63 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +9.81% -10.83% +13.27%

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 37,112 23,092 31,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,409 14,893 20,664
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,320 1,127 2,324
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 2,565 £560 -2.61% 799
North of England -1 721 £500 - 285
South East +4 645 £550 +4.76% 503
Midlands +1 527 £500 - 187
West Midlands +2 378 £500 -4.76% 114
North West -1 357 £500 - 173
Yorkshire +2 332 £500 +2.04% 92
South West +15 287 £550 +4.76% 130
East Midlands +10 141 £465 +7.51% 71
East of England +2 140 £525 -10.64% 89
North East -16 45 £478 +6.11% 26
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 (5.80%) Confluence
2 137 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.10%) CMS
4 38 (0.76%) SAS
5 23 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.28%) Apache
8 11 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.20%) Appian
10 8 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.14%) WordPress
12 6 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.10%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.10%) Kentico
14 4 (0.080%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.080%) TPMS
15 3 (0.060%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
16 2 (0.040%) Oracle Coherence
16 2 (0.040%) WebSphere
Applications
1 229 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
3 120 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 120 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 71 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.24%) Revit
8 10 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.080%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.080%) Trello
10 3 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.060%) Notion
10 3 (0.060%) Sketch
11 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.040%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.040%) Windchill
12 1 (0.020%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 162 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
5 23 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 20 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 19 (0.38%) Aladdin
8 18 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
9 15 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
10 14 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 14 (0.28%) Workday HCM
11 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.24%) Finacle
12 12 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
13 11 (0.22%) SAP FI
14 10 (0.20%) Loan IQ
14 10 (0.20%) Primavera
14 10 (0.20%) SAP CO
14 10 (0.20%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 786 (15.77%) Azure
2 562 (11.28%) AWS
3 292 (5.86%) Power Platform
4 203 (4.07%) GCP
5 169 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
5 169 (3.39%) SaaS
6 121 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
7 98 (1.97%) Entra ID
8 82 (1.65%) Snowflake
9 69 (1.38%) GitHub
10 57 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
11 56 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
12 51 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 50 (1.00%) Amazon S3
13 50 (1.00%) OCI
13 50 (1.00%) Serverless
14 38 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (0.76%) Power Automate
15 37 (0.74%) Figma
15 37 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (1.75%) Firewall
1 87 (1.75%) Network Security
2 64 (1.28%) WAN
3 48 (0.96%) LAN
4 44 (0.88%) DNS
5 37 (0.74%) SD-WAN
6 31 (0.62%) VPN
7 30 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 28 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (0.46%) BGP
10 20 (0.40%) DHCP
10 20 (0.40%) OSPF
11 17 (0.34%) MPLS
12 14 (0.28%) BIG-IP
12 14 (0.28%) NGFW
12 14 (0.28%) Wireless
13 12 (0.24%) Intranet
13 12 (0.24%) SAN
13 12 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
14 11 (0.22%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (4.84%) Power BI
2 106 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (1.85%) Metadata
4 62 (1.24%) SQL Server
5 61 (1.22%) Data Lake
6 59 (1.18%) Tableau
7 42 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 33 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 33 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (0.54%) NoSQL
10 27 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
11 25 (0.50%) Oracle Database
12 24 (0.48%) DynamoDB
13 21 (0.42%) Big Data
14 19 (0.38%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
16 15 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 546 (10.96%) JIRA
2 79 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 69 (1.38%) Git
4 43 (0.86%) GitLab
5 33 (0.66%) Selenium
6 28 (0.56%) JUnit
7 22 (0.44%) Postman
8 15 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.28%) JMeter
10 13 (0.26%) Maven
10 13 (0.26%) Mockito
11 10 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.20%) DbUnit
11 10 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (0.18%) jMock
12 9 (0.18%) MLflow
12 9 (0.18%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.18%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,501 (50.19%) Social Skills
2 1,782 (35.76%) Finance
3 756 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 593 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 462 (9.27%) Banking
6 290 (5.82%) Retail
7 247 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
8 224 (4.50%) Legal
9 182 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
9 182 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
10 165 (3.31%) Marketing
11 145 (2.91%) Manufacturing
12 124 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
13 113 (2.27%) Telecoms
14 92 (1.85%) Local Government
15 85 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 76 (1.53%) Financial Institution
17 68 (1.36%) Front Office
17 68 (1.36%) Law
18 67 (1.34%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 758 (15.21%) Analyst
2 713 (14.31%) Lead
3 700 (14.05%) Project Manager
4 585 (11.74%) Architect
5 528 (10.60%) Senior
6 511 (10.25%) Business Analyst
7 243 (4.88%) Consultant
8 224 (4.50%) Senior Manager
9 217 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 179 (3.59%) Programme Manager
11 169 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
12 152 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 112 (2.25%) Senior Project Manager
14 108 (2.17%) Product Manager
15 104 (2.09%) Product Owner
16 94 (1.89%) Technical Manager
17 92 (1.85%) Change Manager
18 87 (1.75%) Developer
19 85 (1.71%) Senior Analyst
20 84 (1.69%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.51%) REST
2 83 (1.67%) Middleware
3 80 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
4 67 (1.34%) SOAP
5 56 (1.12%) .NET
6 41 (0.82%) JSON
6 41 (0.82%) OAuth
7 35 (0.70%) Kafka
7 35 (0.70%) PySpark
8 34 (0.68%) Spring
9 33 (0.66%) OpenID
10 31 (0.62%) AngularJS
10 31 (0.62%) CSS
10 31 (0.62%) RESTful
10 31 (0.62%) SailPoint
10 31 (0.62%) SAML
10 31 (0.62%) XML
11 29 (0.58%) Web Services
12 28 (0.56%) HTML
12 28 (0.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 368 (7.39%) Product Ownership
2 249 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 168 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 152 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
5 141 (2.83%) Management Information System
6 122 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
7 111 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 91 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 88 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 80 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 66 (1.32%) NHS
12 63 (1.26%) Operational Technology
13 61 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 60 (1.20%) Security Posture
15 58 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (1.00%) Public Cloud
17 49 (0.98%) CMDB
18 47 (0.94%) FMCG
19 44 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
20 42 (0.84%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 148 (2.97%) Windows
2 78 (1.57%) Linux
3 31 (0.62%) Android
4 28 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.48%) Unix
6 23 (0.46%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.12%) VMS
10 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.080%) AIX
11 4 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.080%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.080%) zOS
12 3 (0.060%) Solaris
13 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.040%) HPUX
14 1 (0.020%) CentOS
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,634 (32.79%) Agile
2 806 (16.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 772 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
4 708 (14.21%) Migration
5 682 (13.69%) Roadmaps
6 670 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 667 (13.39%) Project Management
8 586 (11.76%) DevOps
9 576 (11.56%) Decision-Making
10 550 (11.04%) Change Management
11 547 (10.98%) Project Delivery
12 507 (10.17%) Analytics
13 494 (9.91%) AI
14 491 (9.85%) Risk Management
15 425 (8.53%) User Acceptance Testing
16 410 (8.23%) Validation
17 405 (8.13%) CI/CD
18 387 (7.77%) Scrum
19 385 (7.73%) Workshop Facilitation
20 374 (7.51%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 408 (8.19%) SQL
2 273 (5.48%) Python
3 103 (2.07%) Java
4 67 (1.34%) PowerShell
5 55 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 50 (1.00%) C#
7 23 (0.46%) VBA
8 22 (0.44%) Bash
9 20 (0.40%) Bicep
9 20 (0.40%) Korn
9 20 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.34%) ABAP
11 13 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 11 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.22%) R
12 11 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.16%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 993 (19.93%) Security Cleared
2 752 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 362 (7.26%) Degree
4 262 (5.26%) PMP
5 231 (4.64%) PMI Certification
6 143 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 137 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 109 (2.19%) CISSP
9 77 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 76 (1.53%) CISM
11 55 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 48 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 47 (0.94%) AWS Certification
14 46 (0.92%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
15 31 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 29 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
17 28 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.56%) ACCA
18 26 (0.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (5.72%) Data Quality
2 272 (5.46%) QA
3 244 (4.90%) PMO
4 217 (4.35%) GDPR
5 165 (3.31%) NIST
6 145 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 89 (1.79%) GRC
8 82 (1.65%) SLA
9 77 (1.55%) Accessibility
10 57 (1.14%) NCSC
11 49 (0.98%) PCI DSS
12 39 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 34 (0.68%) COBIT
14 31 (0.62%) IFRS
14 31 (0.62%) SOC 2
15 19 (0.38%) WCAG
16 18 (0.36%) JSP 440
17 17 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.32%) IFRS 17
18 16 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 99 (1.99%) Docker
2 81 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.24%) Postfix
5 12 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.22%) NFS
7 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.080%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.080%) SRDF
9 4 (0.080%) Varnish
10 3 (0.060%) HDFS
10 3 (0.060%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.040%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.040%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.020%) NLBS
12 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 145 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 121 (2.43%) Terraform
3 72 (1.44%) Ansible
4 43 (0.86%) Grafana
5 37 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.38%) SCCM
8 10 (0.20%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.14%) Argo
10 7 (0.14%) RSA Archer
10 7 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.12%) Puppet
12 5 (0.10%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.10%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.080%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.080%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.080%) vMotion
Vendors
1 615 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 399 (8.01%) SAP
3 267 (5.36%) Oracle
4 261 (5.24%) ServiceNow
5 193 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 104 (2.09%) Databricks
7 96 (1.93%) Google
8 74 (1.49%) VMware
9 67 (1.34%) Workday
10 55 (1.10%) Cisco
11 48 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 44 (0.88%) Adobe
13 42 (0.84%) Splunk
14 33 (0.66%) Informatica
15 32 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 31 (0.62%) Ariba
17 28 (0.56%) IBM
18 27 (0.54%) F5
19 25 (0.50%) Atlassian
19 25 (0.50%) Citrix