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

6 months to
22 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 4,254 2,342 2,857
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.73% 9.55% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.59% 10.48% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,927 1,603 2,012
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £442 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £532
% change year-on-year - -1.36% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 67 77
10th Percentile £15.99 £35.00 £14.68
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.59 £30.16
Median hourly rate £48.50 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +9.09% -2.54%
75th Percentile £80.08 £75.00 £72.33
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.24 £85.26
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -32.50% +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 33,784 22,346 32,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.23% 91.09% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,591 14,669 21,080
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 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 899 2,221
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.82 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.10 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -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 22 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 22 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 22 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 2,184 £550 -4.35% 730
North of England -3 621 £475 -7.32% 228
South East +5 516 £573 +14.60% 367
Midlands -4 496 £485 -3.00% 170
West Midlands -3 336 £492 -6.29% 110
North West -3 304 £469 -10.12% 119
Yorkshire +8 286 £500 - 92
South West +24 231 £550 +0.92% 89
East Midlands +4 158 £463 +3.12% 59
East of England +2 124 £550 -8.33% 90
North East -8 47 £440 -20.00% 21
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
1 292 (6.86%) Confluence
2 123 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.87%) CMS
4 34 (0.80%) SAS
5 32 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.40%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 8 (0.19%) TPMS
10 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.12%) Camunda
11 5 (0.12%) nginx
12 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.047%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 221 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (3.29%) Microsoft Project
3 110 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
5 78 (1.83%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.12%) Revit
11 4 (0.094%) 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
1 127 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.54%) Aladdin
5 18 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 15 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 15 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 13 (0.31%) Endur
8 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
9 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
11 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 10 (0.24%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 614 (14.43%) Azure
2 444 (10.44%) AWS
3 238 (5.59%) Power Platform
4 185 (4.35%) GCP
5 131 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
7 110 (2.59%) SaaS
8 88 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 56 (1.32%) OCI
9 56 (1.32%) Snowflake
10 51 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
11 49 (1.15%) OpenShift
12 44 (1.03%) GitHub
13 43 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 43 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
14 37 (0.87%) Figma
14 37 (0.87%) Power Automate
15 35 (0.82%) Serverless
16 34 (0.80%) Amazon S3
16 34 (0.80%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.53%) Firewall
2 63 (1.48%) Network Security
3 57 (1.34%) WAN
4 42 (0.99%) LAN
5 37 (0.87%) SD-WAN
6 33 (0.78%) DNS
7 30 (0.71%) 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%) 5G
16 11 (0.26%) Broadband
16 11 (0.26%) SAN
16 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (4.72%) Power BI
2 88 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (1.79%) Metadata
4 62 (1.46%) Tableau
5 45 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 39 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
8 30 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.59%) NoSQL
9 25 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 23 (0.54%) Power Query
11 21 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (0.45%) Big Data
13 18 (0.42%) DynamoDB
14 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
15 15 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.31%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 508 (11.94%) JIRA
2 76 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.60%) Git
4 39 (0.92%) GitLab
5 31 (0.73%) Selenium
6 26 (0.61%) 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%) MLflow
11 12 (0.28%) Mockito
11 12 (0.28%) SpecFlow
12 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.26%) JMeter
13 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 8 (0.19%) jMock
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
General
1 2,156 (50.68%) Social Skills
2 1,492 (35.07%) Finance
3 668 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 463 (10.88%) Public Sector
5 416 (9.78%) Banking
6 214 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
7 193 (4.54%) Retail
8 168 (3.95%) Legal
9 149 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
10 137 (3.22%) Marketing
11 136 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
12 121 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
13 106 (2.49%) Manufacturing
14 105 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 77 (1.81%) Financial Institution
16 64 (1.50%) Front Office
17 63 (1.48%) Local Government
18 55 (1.29%) Law
19 48 (1.13%) Investment Banking
20 44 (1.03%) Billing
Job Titles
1 726 (17.07%) Analyst
2 634 (14.90%) Project Manager
3 587 (13.80%) Lead
4 537 (12.62%) Business Analyst
5 466 (10.95%) Architect
6 435 (10.23%) Senior
7 199 (4.68%) Consultant
8 185 (4.35%) Senior Manager
9 181 (4.25%) Programme Manager
10 169 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
11 141 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
12 129 (3.03%) IT Manager
13 93 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
14 91 (2.14%) Senior Project Manager
15 89 (2.09%) Change Manager
16 85 (2.00%) Technical Manager
17 84 (1.97%) Product Manager
18 82 (1.93%) Data Analyst
19 76 (1.79%) Test Manager
20 74 (1.74%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (2.61%) REST
2 82 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
3 73 (1.72%) Middleware
4 58 (1.36%) SOAP
5 37 (0.87%) .NET
5 37 (0.87%) OAuth
6 34 (0.80%) JSON
6 34 (0.80%) Kafka
7 32 (0.75%) XML
8 30 (0.71%) OpenID
9 28 (0.66%) SAML
10 26 (0.61%) AngularJS
10 26 (0.61%) React
10 26 (0.61%) RESTful
10 26 (0.61%) Web Services
11 25 (0.59%) Spring
12 23 (0.54%) Playwright
12 23 (0.54%) Swagger
13 20 (0.47%) CSS
13 20 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 333 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 213 (5.01%) Onboarding
3 139 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
4 128 (3.01%) Cloud Native
5 114 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 107 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 88 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 73 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 71 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 56 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 54 (1.27%) NHS
12 53 (1.25%) PMI
13 45 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.06%) Public Cloud
14 41 (0.96%) Operational Technology
15 35 (0.82%) FMCG
16 34 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
17 30 (0.71%) CMDB
18 29 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
18 29 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (2.80%) Windows
2 65 (1.53%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Android
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 21 (0.49%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.42%) Unix
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 1,382 (32.49%) Agile
2 688 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
3 661 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 651 (15.30%) Migration
5 643 (15.12%) Project Management
6 553 (13.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 531 (12.48%) Roadmaps
8 520 (12.22%) Change Management
9 472 (11.10%) Decision-Making
10 463 (10.88%) DevOps
11 455 (10.70%) Project Delivery
12 408 (9.59%) Risk Management
13 384 (9.03%) Analytics
14 368 (8.65%) User Acceptance Testing
15 353 (8.30%) Scrum
16 350 (8.23%) AI
17 341 (8.02%) Validation
18 337 (7.92%) Workshop Facilitation
19 318 (7.48%) Requirements Gathering
20 309 (7.26%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 331 (7.78%) SQL
2 240 (5.64%) Python
3 92 (2.16%) Java
4 74 (1.74%) PowerShell
5 53 (1.25%) C#
6 49 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 29 (0.68%) Bash
8 24 (0.56%) VBA
9 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.38%) Korn
12 15 (0.35%) R
13 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.21%) ABAP
15 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.19%) Bicep
17 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 857 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 655 (15.40%) SC Cleared
3 358 (8.42%) Degree
4 229 (5.38%) PMP
5 217 (5.10%) PMI Certification
6 113 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 106 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.72%) CISSP
9 64 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 60 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 50 (1.18%) CISM
12 42 (0.99%) Azure Certification
13 37 (0.87%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.66%) CBAP
14 28 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.59%) IIBA
17 24 (0.56%) APMP
18 22 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
19 21 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (6.72%) QA
2 236 (5.55%) GDPR
3 209 (4.91%) Data Quality
4 189 (4.44%) PMO
5 164 (3.86%) NIST
6 142 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 75 (1.76%) GRC
8 66 (1.55%) SLA
9 57 (1.34%) PCI DSS
10 48 (1.13%) Accessibility
11 42 (0.99%) NCSC
12 37 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.68%) COBIT
13 29 (0.68%) IFRS
14 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.42%) IFRS 17
16 17 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.38%) HL7
18 15 (0.35%) PSD2
19 14 (0.33%) Basel III
System Software
1 94 (2.21%) Docker
2 67 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 38 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.24%) Postfix
5 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.19%) NFS
7 7 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.094%) 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
1 132 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 82 (1.93%) Terraform
3 53 (1.25%) Ansible
4 45 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.85%) Grafana
6 25 (0.59%) 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 (0.094%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.094%) Istio
13 4 (0.094%) Kibana
14 3 (0.071%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 471 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 355 (8.35%) SAP
3 252 (5.92%) Oracle
4 201 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 175 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 95 (2.23%) Google
7 76 (1.79%) Workday
8 74 (1.74%) VMware
9 72 (1.69%) Databricks
10 47 (1.10%) Cisco
11 46 (1.08%) Splunk
12 40 (0.94%) CyberArk
13 35 (0.82%) Ariba
14 34 (0.80%) IBM
15 33 (0.78%) MuleSoft
16 29 (0.68%) Citrix
17 28 (0.66%) Adobe
18 26 (0.61%) Atlassian
18 26 (0.61%) Informatica
19 25 (0.59%) Red Hat