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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,309 2,411 2,750
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.48% 9.93% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.39% 10.88% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,930 1,661 1,955
10th Percentile £370 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 65 79
10th Percentile £17.18 £35.00 £14.90
25th Percentile £31.25 £41.54 £30.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +13.27%
75th Percentile £80.04 £73.75 £73.72
90th Percentile £97.25 £77.75 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £55.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.55% -7.92% +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 34,792 22,163 31,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.27% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,183 14,469 20,624
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 960 2,252
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.93
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.20 £15.99
Median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 2,185 £550 -4.35% 887
North of England -3 650 £490 -2.00% 305
Midlands +1 519 £492 -1.65% 184
South East +2 513 £550 +6.28% 384
West Midlands +1 351 £495 -5.71% 123
Yorkshire +10 312 £500 +2.04% 109
North West -5 309 £475 -5.94% 165
South West +13 247 £550 +4.76% 117
East Midlands +7 161 £465 +4.03% 59
East of England +3 122 £525 -4.55% 107
North East -9 49 £450 -16.67% 33
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 (6.71%) Confluence
2 128 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.86%) CMS
4 35 (0.81%) SAS
5 24 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.32%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.14%) TPMS
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.093%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.093%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
12 3 (0.070%) Camunda
12 3 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.070%) nginx
12 3 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.070%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 209 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
3 111 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
4 109 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 78 (1.81%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Revit
10 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.12%) Sketch
11 4 (0.093%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.070%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.046%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.046%) Notion
14 1 (0.023%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.023%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.023%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.53%) Aladdin
5 22 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 21 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
8 14 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 14 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 14 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 14 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
10 12 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
11 11 (0.26%) Loan IQ
11 11 (0.26%) SAP HCM
12 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
13 8 (0.19%) Endur
14 7 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 635 (14.74%) Azure
2 466 (10.81%) AWS
3 239 (5.55%) Power Platform
4 178 (4.13%) GCP
5 138 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (2.88%) SaaS
7 108 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
8 84 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 57 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
9 57 (1.32%) Snowflake
10 49 (1.14%) GitHub
11 47 (1.09%) OCI
12 46 (1.07%) OpenShift
13 43 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 41 (0.95%) Amazon S3
14 41 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
15 39 (0.91%) Figma
16 37 (0.86%) Serverless
17 36 (0.84%) Power Automate
18 35 (0.81%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.46%) Network Security
2 60 (1.39%) Firewall
3 50 (1.16%) WAN
4 37 (0.86%) LAN
5 31 (0.72%) DNS
6 29 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 25 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (0.56%) VPN
9 20 (0.46%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.44%) BGP
11 16 (0.37%) OSPF
12 15 (0.35%) MPLS
13 13 (0.30%) NGFW
14 11 (0.26%) Intranet
14 11 (0.26%) SAN
14 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
14 11 (0.26%) Wireless
15 10 (0.23%) BIG-IP
15 10 (0.23%) DHCP
15 10 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (4.53%) Power BI
2 87 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (1.81%) Metadata
4 58 (1.35%) Tableau
5 46 (1.07%) SQL Server
6 42 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
10 24 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 22 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.51%) NoSQL
12 20 (0.46%) Big Data
13 18 (0.42%) Delta Lake
14 16 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
15 14 (0.32%) Power Query
16 13 (0.30%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 506 (11.74%) JIRA
2 78 (1.81%) Jenkins
3 70 (1.62%) Git
4 41 (0.95%) GitLab
5 26 (0.60%) Selenium
6 25 (0.58%) JUnit
7 19 (0.44%) SonarQube
8 18 (0.42%) Postman
9 15 (0.35%) Maven
10 12 (0.28%) Mockito
11 11 (0.26%) JMeter
11 11 (0.26%) MLflow
12 10 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.23%) DbUnit
12 10 (0.23%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.21%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.21%) jMock
13 9 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
14 7 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 2,144 (49.76%) Social Skills
2 1,541 (35.76%) Finance
3 636 (14.76%) Analytical Skills
4 479 (11.12%) Public Sector
5 412 (9.56%) Banking
6 209 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
7 208 (4.83%) Retail
8 179 (4.15%) Legal
9 151 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
10 144 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
11 136 (3.16%) Marketing
12 116 (2.69%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 101 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 74 (1.72%) Financial Institution
16 69 (1.60%) Local Government
17 57 (1.32%) Law
18 51 (1.18%) Front Office
19 50 (1.16%) Billing
20 48 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 691 (16.04%) Analyst
2 658 (15.27%) Project Manager
3 595 (13.81%) Lead
4 503 (11.67%) Business Analyst
5 478 (11.09%) Architect
6 457 (10.61%) Senior
7 202 (4.69%) Senior Manager
8 200 (4.64%) Consultant
9 172 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
10 168 (3.90%) Programme Manager
11 143 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
12 132 (3.06%) IT Manager
13 102 (2.37%) Senior Project Manager
14 96 (2.23%) Product Manager
15 89 (2.07%) Technical Manager
16 88 (2.04%) Product Owner
17 82 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
18 79 (1.83%) Change Manager
19 76 (1.76%) IT Project Manager
20 73 (1.69%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (2.55%) REST
2 80 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 76 (1.76%) Middleware
4 59 (1.37%) SOAP
5 36 (0.84%) .NET
6 31 (0.72%) JSON
6 31 (0.72%) OAuth
7 30 (0.70%) RESTful
8 29 (0.67%) Web Services
9 28 (0.65%) AngularJS
9 28 (0.65%) Kafka
10 27 (0.63%) OpenID
10 27 (0.63%) Spring
10 27 (0.63%) XML
11 25 (0.58%) React
12 24 (0.56%) SAML
13 22 (0.51%) ADO
14 20 (0.46%) CSS
14 20 (0.46%) Spring Boot
14 20 (0.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 336 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 203 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 139 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 138 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 117 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 116 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 87 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 78 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 69 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 62 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 48 (1.11%) Operational Technology
12 46 (1.07%) PMI
13 45 (1.04%) Public Cloud
14 44 (1.02%) NHS
15 42 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
16 38 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
17 35 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
18 30 (0.70%) CMDB
18 30 (0.70%) Security Posture
19 29 (0.67%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 120 (2.78%) Windows
2 64 (1.49%) Linux
3 29 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.65%) Android
5 20 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.39%) Unix
7 14 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.16%) VMS
11 4 (0.093%) AIX
12 3 (0.070%) Solaris
12 3 (0.070%) zOS
13 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.046%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.023%) CentOS
14 1 (0.023%) HPUX
14 1 (0.023%) MVS
14 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,417 (32.88%) Agile
2 658 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 655 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
4 652 (15.13%) Project Management
5 639 (14.83%) Migration
6 553 (12.83%) Roadmaps
7 535 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 507 (11.77%) Change Management
9 493 (11.44%) DevOps
10 491 (11.39%) Decision-Making
11 460 (10.68%) Project Delivery
12 414 (9.61%) Risk Management
13 391 (9.07%) Analytics
14 364 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
15 361 (8.38%) AI
16 350 (8.12%) Scrum
17 342 (7.94%) Validation
18 328 (7.61%) CI/CD
19 325 (7.54%) Workshop Facilitation
20 317 (7.36%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 334 (7.75%) SQL
2 221 (5.13%) Python
3 87 (2.02%) Java
4 62 (1.44%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.04%) C#
6 44 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 27 (0.63%) Bash
8 24 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.44%) VBA
10 16 (0.37%) Korn
11 13 (0.30%) R
12 12 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
15 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 885 (20.54%) Security Cleared
2 683 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 340 (7.89%) Degree
4 234 (5.43%) PMP
5 211 (4.90%) PMI Certification
6 116 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 105 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 78 (1.81%) CISSP
9 59 (1.37%) CISM
10 51 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 48 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (1.09%) Azure Certification
13 40 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.67%) CBAP
14 29 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.65%) IIBA
16 25 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
17 22 (0.51%) ACCA
17 22 (0.51%) ISTQB
17 22 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (6.17%) QA
2 221 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 204 (4.73%) PMO
4 202 (4.69%) GDPR
5 161 (3.74%) NIST
6 130 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 79 (1.83%) GRC
8 69 (1.60%) SLA
9 64 (1.49%) Accessibility
10 49 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 45 (1.04%) NCSC
12 36 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.72%) IFRS
14 27 (0.63%) COBIT
15 26 (0.60%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.42%) JSP 440
17 17 (0.39%) IFRS 17
17 17 (0.39%) WCAG
18 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 96 (2.23%) Docker
2 66 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.28%) Postfix
6 9 (0.21%) NFS
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.093%) SRDF
9 4 (0.093%) Varnish
10 3 (0.070%) HDFS
10 3 (0.070%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.070%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.070%) vSphere
11 2 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.023%) NLBS
12 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.023%) RACF
12 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 134 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 83 (1.93%) Terraform
3 55 (1.28%) Ansible
4 44 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (0.95%) Grafana
6 27 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.49%) SCCM
9 8 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
10 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.093%) Istio
11 4 (0.093%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.070%) Argo
12 3 (0.070%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.070%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.070%) vMotion
Vendors
1 485 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 356 (8.26%) SAP
3 237 (5.50%) Oracle
4 199 (4.62%) ServiceNow
5 171 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 89 (2.07%) Google
7 77 (1.79%) Databricks
8 70 (1.62%) VMware
9 60 (1.39%) Workday
10 47 (1.09%) Splunk
11 41 (0.95%) Cisco
12 39 (0.91%) CyberArk
13 32 (0.74%) Ariba
14 30 (0.70%) Citrix
15 29 (0.67%) MuleSoft
16 28 (0.65%) Informatica
17 27 (0.63%) Atlassian
18 26 (0.60%) IBM
19 24 (0.56%) IFS
20 23 (0.53%) F5