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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,265 2,309 2,861
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.86% 9.47% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.70% 10.41% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,941 1,586 2,020
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% -1.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 65 75
10th Percentile £16.25 £35.00 £14.45
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.00 £30.08
Median hourly rate £45.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% -14.14%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £71.75
90th Percentile £94.00 £80.35 £85.39
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -33.75% +20.00% -13.42%

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 33,593 22,172 32,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.54% 90.95% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,515 14,589 21,312
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,076 879 2,200
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.50 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.30 £71.30
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £30.78 £33.31
% change year-on-year +19.27% -7.59% -7.48%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +9 2,192 £550 -4.35% 675
North of England -5 608 £475 -7.32% 221
South East +7 523 £568 +8.61% 358
Midlands 0 513 £485 -3.00% 163
West Midlands -3 350 £492 -6.29% 110
North West -5 304 £463 -10.54% 116
Yorkshire +6 273 £500 - 93
South West +24 228 £550 +0.46% 79
East Midlands +4 161 £455 +1.45% 53
East of England -3 117 £550 -4.35% 104
North East -6 47 £439 -21.30% 16
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
1 294 (6.89%) Confluence
2 127 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.22%) SAS
4 41 (0.96%) CMS
5 37 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.42%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 8 (0.19%) TPMS
10 7 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.14%) Camunda
12 5 (0.12%) nginx
13 4 (0.094%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.070%) Apache Spark
14 3 (0.070%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 227 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 111 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 109 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
5 78 (1.83%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.094%) Revit
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.047%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.047%) InVision
12 2 (0.047%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.047%) Windchill
13 1 (0.023%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.023%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.023%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 128 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
3 44 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 18 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 14 (0.33%) Endur
7 14 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 13 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.30%) SAP FI
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
11 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
11 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
11 10 (0.23%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 620 (14.54%) Azure
2 439 (10.29%) AWS
3 245 (5.74%) Power Platform
4 180 (4.22%) GCP
5 133 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
6 126 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
7 109 (2.56%) SaaS
8 89 (2.09%) Entra ID
9 64 (1.50%) OpenShift
10 57 (1.34%) OCI
11 49 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
11 49 (1.15%) Snowflake
12 44 (1.03%) GitHub
13 42 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
14 39 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
14 39 (0.91%) Power Automate
15 35 (0.82%) Figma
16 34 (0.80%) Google Workspace
17 33 (0.77%) Serverless
18 31 (0.73%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.59%) Firewall
2 60 (1.41%) Network Security
3 55 (1.29%) WAN
4 42 (0.98%) LAN
5 37 (0.87%) SD-WAN
6 34 (0.80%) DNS
7 30 (0.70%) VPN
8 26 (0.61%) BGP
9 24 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.52%) OSPF
11 19 (0.45%) MPLS
11 19 (0.45%) TCP/IP
12 16 (0.38%) SSL
13 14 (0.33%) DHCP
13 14 (0.33%) Wireless
14 12 (0.28%) NGFW
14 12 (0.28%) SAN
15 11 (0.26%) Broadband
15 11 (0.26%) Intranet
15 11 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (4.85%) Power BI
2 88 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (1.74%) Metadata
4 63 (1.48%) Tableau
5 42 (0.98%) SQL Server
6 36 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
7 34 (0.80%) Data Lake
8 27 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.59%) NoSQL
9 25 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 24 (0.56%) Power Query
11 21 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 18 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (0.42%) Big Data
14 16 (0.38%) DynamoDB
14 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
15 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.30%) MySQL
17 12 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 502 (11.77%) JIRA
2 89 (2.09%) Jenkins
3 83 (1.95%) Git
4 54 (1.27%) GitLab
5 43 (1.01%) Selenium
6 37 (0.87%) JUnit
7 15 (0.35%) Postman
8 13 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 12 (0.28%) Maven
10 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.26%) JMeter
11 10 (0.23%) MLflow
11 10 (0.23%) Mockito
11 10 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.23%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.16%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.14%) Axure RP
General
1 2,186 (51.25%) Social Skills
2 1,484 (34.79%) Finance
3 681 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 460 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 415 (9.73%) Banking
6 212 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
7 190 (4.45%) Retail
8 167 (3.92%) Legal
9 151 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
10 138 (3.24%) Marketing
11 136 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
12 122 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 104 (2.44%) Telecoms
14 102 (2.39%) Manufacturing
15 81 (1.90%) Financial Institution
16 65 (1.52%) Front Office
16 65 (1.52%) Local Government
17 63 (1.48%) Law
18 52 (1.22%) Investment Banking
19 45 (1.06%) Billing
Job Titles
1 741 (17.37%) Analyst
2 637 (14.94%) Project Manager
3 578 (13.55%) Lead
4 547 (12.83%) Business Analyst
5 462 (10.83%) Architect
6 426 (9.99%) Senior
7 204 (4.78%) Consultant
8 180 (4.22%) Senior Manager
9 177 (4.15%) Programme Manager
10 168 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
11 144 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
12 126 (2.95%) IT Manager
13 94 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.11%) Data Analyst
15 89 (2.09%) Change Manager
16 88 (2.06%) Senior Project Manager
17 84 (1.97%) Product Manager
18 82 (1.92%) Technical Manager
19 78 (1.83%) Developer
20 74 (1.74%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.98%) REST
2 84 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 66 (1.55%) Middleware
4 56 (1.31%) SOAP
5 36 (0.84%) .NET
5 36 (0.84%) OAuth
6 34 (0.80%) Kafka
7 33 (0.77%) JSON
8 31 (0.73%) OpenID
9 30 (0.70%) XML
10 29 (0.68%) SAML
11 28 (0.66%) pytest
11 28 (0.66%) Web Services
12 26 (0.61%) React
13 25 (0.59%) AngularJS
13 25 (0.59%) RESTful
14 23 (0.54%) Spring
14 23 (0.54%) Swagger
15 21 (0.49%) Playwright
15 21 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 331 (7.76%) Product Ownership
2 227 (5.32%) Onboarding
3 132 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
4 116 (2.72%) Cloud Native
5 113 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
6 104 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 89 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 75 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 67 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 57 (1.34%) NHS
10 57 (1.34%) PMI
11 54 (1.27%) Virtual Team
12 47 (1.10%) Public Cloud
13 46 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (0.96%) Operational Technology
15 37 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
16 34 (0.80%) FMCG
17 31 (0.73%) CMDB
18 29 (0.68%) e-Learning
19 28 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (2.88%) Windows
2 65 (1.52%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Android
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.47%) Unix
6 18 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.28%) VMS
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.070%) AIX
12 2 (0.047%) CentOS
12 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.047%) zOS
13 1 (0.023%) MVS
13 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,395 (32.71%) Agile
2 714 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
3 648 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 643 (15.08%) Project Management
5 640 (15.01%) Migration
6 557 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 521 (12.22%) Change Management
8 519 (12.17%) Roadmaps
9 470 (11.02%) Project Delivery
10 468 (10.97%) DevOps
11 453 (10.62%) Decision-Making
12 405 (9.50%) Analytics
13 401 (9.40%) Risk Management
14 365 (8.56%) Scrum
15 360 (8.44%) User Acceptance Testing
16 339 (7.95%) Validation
17 337 (7.90%) AI
18 335 (7.85%) Workshop Facilitation
19 328 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
20 311 (7.29%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 329 (7.71%) SQL
2 261 (6.12%) Python
3 89 (2.09%) Java
4 78 (1.83%) PowerShell
5 50 (1.17%) C#
6 49 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 30 (0.70%) Bash
8 24 (0.56%) VBA
9 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (0.40%) R
12 15 (0.35%) Korn
13 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.21%) Bicep
14 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.19%) ABAP
16 6 (0.14%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) C++
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 870 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 670 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 367 (8.60%) Degree
4 234 (5.49%) PMP
5 225 (5.28%) PMI Certification
6 111 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 102 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 74 (1.74%) CISSP
9 61 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 58 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 50 (1.17%) CISM
12 40 (0.94%) Azure Certification
13 32 (0.75%) CBAP
14 30 (0.70%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (0.59%) IIBA
16 25 (0.59%) ISTQB
17 24 (0.56%) APMP
18 21 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (6.75%) QA
2 236 (5.53%) GDPR
3 210 (4.92%) Data Quality
4 184 (4.31%) PMO
5 167 (3.92%) NIST
6 147 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (1.71%) GRC
8 64 (1.50%) SLA
9 62 (1.45%) PCI DSS
10 48 (1.13%) Accessibility
11 46 (1.08%) NCSC
12 39 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.68%) COBIT
13 29 (0.68%) IFRS
14 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.42%) IFRS 17
15 18 (0.42%) PSD2
16 16 (0.38%) HL7
17 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 14 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 105 (2.46%) Docker
2 69 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 39 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.21%) NFS
4 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.19%) Postfix
6 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.094%) SRDF
10 3 (0.070%) HDFS
10 3 (0.070%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.070%) Varnish
11 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.023%) Firmware
12 1 (0.023%) RACF
Systems Management
1 146 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 81 (1.90%) Terraform
3 54 (1.27%) Ansible
4 48 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.75%) Grafana
6 22 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.45%) SCCM
9 13 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 7 (0.16%) HP ALM
12 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.14%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.094%) Istio
14 3 (0.070%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.070%) Kibana
14 3 (0.070%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.070%) vMotion
Vendors
1 475 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 347 (8.14%) SAP
3 262 (6.14%) Oracle
4 200 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 169 (3.96%) Salesforce
6 97 (2.27%) Google
7 74 (1.74%) VMware
7 74 (1.74%) Workday
8 64 (1.50%) Databricks
9 48 (1.13%) Cisco
10 46 (1.08%) Splunk
11 40 (0.94%) CyberArk
12 35 (0.82%) Ariba
12 35 (0.82%) IBM
13 30 (0.70%) Citrix
13 30 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 29 (0.68%) Adobe
15 27 (0.63%) F5
16 25 (0.59%) Informatica
16 25 (0.59%) Red Hat