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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,342 2,414 2,756
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.53% 9.97% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.44% 10.92% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,950 1,664 1,954
10th Percentile £370 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £749 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 64 80
10th Percentile £18.41 £35.00 £15.02
25th Percentile £32.50 £40.91 £30.16
Median hourly rate £50.00 £56.38 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% -6.04% +13.27%
75th Percentile £83.63 £73.75 £73.31
90th Percentile £100.42 £75.88 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £54.38 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.05% -9.38% +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 34,902 22,108 31,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 91.30% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,235 14,434 20,613
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 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 960 2,249
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +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 21 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 21 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 21 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 2,194 £550 -4.35% 770
North of England -2 658 £490 -2.00% 263
Midlands +2 524 £492 -1.65% 178
South East +3 519 £550 +4.76% 368
West Midlands -1 355 £500 -4.76% 125
Yorkshire +11 316 £500 +2.04% 74
North West -2 313 £475 -5.94% 159
South West +20 252 £550 +4.76% 102
East Midlands +7 162 £465 +4.03% 51
East of England +2 123 £525 -4.55% 96
North East -5 50 £450 -15.89% 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
1 290 (6.68%) Confluence
2 127 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.88%) CMS
4 37 (0.85%) SAS
5 24 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.32%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 10 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.14%) TPMS
11 5 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.092%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.092%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
12 4 (0.092%) WordPress
13 3 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.069%) Kentico
13 3 (0.069%) nginx
13 3 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 211 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
3 111 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
4 108 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (1.77%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.18%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Revit
10 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.12%) Sketch
11 4 (0.092%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.069%) 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
1 133 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 22 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 21 (0.48%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 14 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 11 (0.25%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.25%) SAP HCM
11 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.18%) Endur
13 7 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 644 (14.83%) Azure
2 462 (10.64%) AWS
3 243 (5.60%) Power Platform
4 177 (4.08%) GCP
5 141 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
6 122 (2.81%) SaaS
7 107 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
8 86 (1.98%) Entra ID
9 60 (1.38%) Snowflake
10 58 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (1.17%) GitHub
12 48 (1.11%) OCI
13 46 (1.06%) OpenShift
14 43 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 41 (0.94%) Amazon S3
15 41 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
16 38 (0.88%) Figma
17 37 (0.85%) Power Automate
17 37 (0.85%) Serverless
18 35 (0.81%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.45%) Network Security
2 61 (1.40%) Firewall
3 50 (1.15%) WAN
4 37 (0.85%) LAN
5 31 (0.71%) DNS
6 29 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 25 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (0.55%) 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 (0.25%) Intranet
14 11 (0.25%) SAN
14 11 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
14 11 (0.25%) Wireless
15 10 (0.23%) BIG-IP
15 10 (0.23%) DHCP
15 10 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (4.56%) Power BI
2 87 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (1.82%) Metadata
4 59 (1.36%) Tableau
5 47 (1.08%) SQL Server
6 42 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
10 23 (0.53%) 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 (0.41%) Delta Lake
14 16 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
15 14 (0.32%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.32%) Power Query
16 12 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 506 (11.65%) JIRA
2 80 (1.84%) Jenkins
3 70 (1.61%) Git
4 42 (0.97%) GitLab
5 27 (0.62%) Selenium
6 25 (0.58%) JUnit
7 19 (0.44%) SonarQube
8 18 (0.41%) Postman
9 15 (0.35%) Maven
10 12 (0.28%) JMeter
10 12 (0.28%) Mockito
11 11 (0.25%) 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 2,158 (49.70%) Social Skills
2 1,553 (35.77%) Finance
3 648 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 483 (11.12%) Public Sector
5 415 (9.56%) Banking
6 211 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
7 208 (4.79%) Retail
8 179 (4.12%) Legal
9 151 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
10 146 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
11 134 (3.09%) Marketing
12 112 (2.58%) Manufacturing
13 103 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
14 98 (2.26%) Telecoms
15 73 (1.68%) Financial Institution
16 69 (1.59%) Local Government
17 57 (1.31%) Law
18 52 (1.20%) Front Office
19 50 (1.15%) Billing
20 48 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 694 (15.98%) Analyst
2 660 (15.20%) Project Manager
3 608 (14.00%) Lead
4 504 (11.61%) Business Analyst
5 484 (11.15%) Architect
6 463 (10.66%) Senior
7 205 (4.72%) Senior Manager
8 201 (4.63%) Consultant
9 175 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
10 167 (3.85%) Programme Manager
11 146 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
12 132 (3.04%) IT Manager
13 103 (2.37%) Senior Project Manager
14 96 (2.21%) Product Manager
15 91 (2.10%) Product Owner
16 90 (2.07%) Technical Manager
17 84 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
18 79 (1.82%) Change Manager
19 77 (1.77%) IT Project Manager
20 74 (1.70%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (2.56%) REST
2 81 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
3 76 (1.75%) Middleware
4 59 (1.36%) SOAP
5 39 (0.90%) .NET
6 34 (0.78%) OAuth
7 31 (0.71%) JSON
8 30 (0.69%) RESTful
9 29 (0.67%) Kafka
9 29 (0.67%) OpenID
9 29 (0.67%) Web Services
10 28 (0.64%) AngularJS
11 27 (0.62%) Spring
11 27 (0.62%) XML
12 26 (0.60%) SAML
13 25 (0.58%) React
14 22 (0.51%) ADO
15 21 (0.48%) Playwright
16 20 (0.46%) CSS
16 20 (0.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 343 (7.90%) Product Ownership
2 204 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 142 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 138 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
5 118 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 116 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 87 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 79 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 72 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 63 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 49 (1.13%) Operational Technology
12 45 (1.04%) NHS
12 45 (1.04%) PMI
13 44 (1.01%) Public Cloud
14 43 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
15 39 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
16 34 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
17 31 (0.71%) AI Agents
17 31 (0.71%) Security Posture
18 30 (0.69%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 120 (2.76%) Windows
2 65 (1.50%) Linux
3 29 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.64%) Android
5 20 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.39%) Unix
7 13 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.18%) VMS
10 4 (0.092%) AIX
11 3 (0.069%) Solaris
11 3 (0.069%) zOS
12 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.046%) 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 1,425 (32.82%) Agile
2 669 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 661 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
4 656 (15.11%) Project Management
5 640 (14.74%) Migration
6 560 (12.90%) Roadmaps
7 542 (12.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 515 (11.86%) Change Management
9 502 (11.56%) DevOps
10 499 (11.49%) Decision-Making
11 466 (10.73%) Project Delivery
12 416 (9.58%) Risk Management
13 391 (9.01%) Analytics
14 366 (8.43%) AI
15 364 (8.38%) User Acceptance Testing
16 350 (8.06%) Scrum
17 345 (7.95%) Validation
18 337 (7.76%) CI/CD
19 328 (7.55%) Workshop Facilitation
20 319 (7.35%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 338 (7.78%) SQL
2 224 (5.16%) Python
3 90 (2.07%) Java
4 63 (1.45%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.04%) C#
6 44 (1.01%) JavaScript
7 28 (0.64%) Bash
8 24 (0.55%) 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 (0.18%) Bicep
15 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 898 (20.68%) Security Cleared
2 695 (16.01%) SC Cleared
3 343 (7.90%) Degree
4 234 (5.39%) PMP
5 209 (4.81%) PMI Certification
6 117 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 105 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 80 (1.84%) CISSP
9 59 (1.36%) CISM
10 51 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 51 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 47 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 36 (0.83%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.64%) CBAP
14 28 (0.64%) IIBA
15 25 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
16 24 (0.55%) ACCA
17 23 (0.53%) APMP
18 22 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (6.03%) QA
2 224 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 206 (4.74%) PMO
4 202 (4.65%) GDPR
5 161 (3.71%) NIST
6 130 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 78 (1.80%) GRC
8 70 (1.61%) SLA
9 64 (1.47%) Accessibility
10 49 (1.13%) PCI DSS
11 46 (1.06%) NCSC
12 38 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 34 (0.78%) IFRS
14 27 (0.62%) COBIT
15 26 (0.60%) SOC 2
16 19 (0.44%) IFRS 17
17 18 (0.41%) JSP 440
18 17 (0.39%) WCAG
19 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
19 15 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 96 (2.21%) Docker
2 67 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.32%) 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 (0.092%) SRDF
9 4 (0.092%) Varnish
10 3 (0.069%) HDFS
10 3 (0.069%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.069%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.069%) 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
1 137 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 85 (1.96%) Terraform
3 55 (1.27%) Ansible
4 44 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (0.97%) Grafana
6 28 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.48%) SCCM
9 8 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.18%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (0.18%) Puppet
10 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.092%) Argo
12 4 (0.092%) Istio
12 4 (0.092%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.069%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.069%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.069%) vMotion
Vendors
1 492 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 354 (8.15%) SAP
3 240 (5.53%) Oracle
4 202 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 173 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 89 (2.05%) Google
7 79 (1.82%) Databricks
8 70 (1.61%) VMware
9 60 (1.38%) Workday
10 47 (1.08%) Splunk
11 41 (0.94%) Cisco
12 39 (0.90%) CyberArk
13 30 (0.69%) Ariba
13 30 (0.69%) Citrix
14 29 (0.67%) Informatica
14 29 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.62%) Atlassian
15 27 (0.62%) IBM
16 24 (0.55%) IFS
17 23 (0.53%) F5