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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,410 2,364 2,759
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.59% 9.94% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 10.89% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,998 1,633 1,958
10th Percentile £373 £358 £362
25th Percentile £450 £442 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £533 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +1.43% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 57 83
10th Percentile £18.72 £36.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.50 £45.50 £30.16
Median hourly rate £51.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +2.49% +11.32%
75th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £72.61
90th Percentile £103.65 £77.25 £85.52
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £60.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.05% +1.25% +11.32%

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 35,337 21,704 31,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 91.29% 85.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,449 14,185 20,585
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 923 2,285
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

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 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 27 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 27 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 +5 2,242 £560 -2.61% 1,113
North of England -1 672 £492 -1.60% 320
Midlands +4 531 £492 -1.65% 209
South East 0 516 £550 +4.76% 405
West Midlands 0 359 £500 -4.76% 151
Yorkshire +13 322 £500 +1.01% 102
North West -2 321 £475 -5.94% 188
South West +17 251 £550 +4.76% 118
East Midlands +12 165 £464 +3.40% 57
East of England -1 125 £525 -12.50% 107
North East -5 50 £450 -13.25% 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
1 287 (6.51%) Confluence
2 130 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 38 (0.86%) CMS
4 36 (0.82%) SAS
5 21 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.32%) Appian
7 12 (0.27%) Apache
8 11 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.14%) WordPress
11 5 (0.11%) TPMS
12 4 (0.091%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.068%) Kentico
13 3 (0.068%) nginx
13 3 (0.068%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
13 3 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 215 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (3.20%) Microsoft Project
3 115 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
4 110 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 79 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.18%) Revit
8 8 (0.18%) Trello
9 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.091%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.091%) Sketch
11 2 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.045%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.045%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.023%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.023%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 136 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 23 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
6 14 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.27%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.25%) SAP HCM
10 10 (0.23%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.20%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.18%) Endur
13 7 (0.16%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 662 (15.01%) Azure
2 471 (10.68%) AWS
3 246 (5.58%) Power Platform
4 180 (4.08%) GCP
5 141 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (2.95%) SaaS
7 108 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
8 86 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.43%) Snowflake
10 54 (1.22%) GitHub
11 51 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
12 45 (1.02%) OCI
13 44 (1.00%) OpenShift
14 43 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
14 43 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
15 41 (0.93%) Amazon S3
16 38 (0.86%) Serverless
17 37 (0.84%) Figma
18 35 (0.79%) Google Workspace
19 34 (0.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.43%) Network Security
2 62 (1.41%) Firewall
3 50 (1.13%) WAN
4 37 (0.84%) LAN
5 32 (0.73%) DNS
6 27 (0.61%) SD-WAN
7 25 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (0.50%) VPN
9 20 (0.45%) BGP
9 20 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.39%) OSPF
11 16 (0.36%) MPLS
12 13 (0.29%) NGFW
13 12 (0.27%) Intranet
14 11 (0.25%) DHCP
14 11 (0.25%) SAN
14 11 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
14 11 (0.25%) Wireless
15 10 (0.23%) BIG-IP
16 9 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (4.56%) Power BI
2 88 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (1.86%) Metadata
4 62 (1.41%) Tableau
5 53 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.02%) Data Lake
7 33 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
10 24 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 23 (0.52%) Relational Database
12 21 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.48%) DynamoDB
13 19 (0.43%) Big Data
14 18 (0.41%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
17 14 (0.32%) Oracle Database
17 14 (0.32%) Power Query
18 12 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 511 (11.59%) JIRA
2 78 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.50%) Git
4 42 (0.95%) GitLab
5 26 (0.59%) Selenium
6 25 (0.57%) JUnit
7 18 (0.41%) Postman
8 16 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.32%) Maven
10 12 (0.27%) JMeter
10 12 (0.27%) Mockito
11 11 (0.25%) MLflow
12 10 (0.23%) DbUnit
13 9 (0.20%) jMock
13 9 (0.20%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.18%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 2,189 (49.64%) Social Skills
2 1,576 (35.74%) Finance
3 655 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
4 493 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 429 (9.73%) Banking
6 219 (4.97%) Retail
7 211 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
8 191 (4.33%) Legal
9 157 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
10 150 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
11 134 (3.04%) Marketing
12 116 (2.63%) Manufacturing
13 103 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 98 (2.22%) Telecoms
15 75 (1.70%) Local Government
16 74 (1.68%) Financial Institution
17 56 (1.27%) Law
18 55 (1.25%) Aerospace
19 54 (1.22%) Front Office
20 53 (1.20%) Billing
Job Titles
1 697 (15.80%) Analyst
2 673 (15.26%) Project Manager
3 628 (14.24%) Lead
4 507 (11.50%) Business Analyst
5 498 (11.29%) Architect
6 464 (10.52%) Senior
7 210 (4.76%) Senior Manager
8 201 (4.56%) Consultant
9 182 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
10 166 (3.76%) Programme Manager
11 149 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
12 137 (3.11%) IT Manager
13 108 (2.45%) Senior Project Manager
14 94 (2.13%) Product Manager
15 92 (2.09%) Product Owner
16 89 (2.02%) Technical Manager
17 84 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
18 83 (1.88%) Change Manager
19 81 (1.84%) IT Project Manager
20 71 (1.61%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (2.56%) REST
2 80 (1.81%) Middleware
3 78 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 59 (1.34%) SOAP
5 43 (0.98%) .NET
6 37 (0.84%) OAuth
7 31 (0.70%) JSON
7 31 (0.70%) OpenID
8 30 (0.68%) RESTful
8 30 (0.68%) Web Services
9 29 (0.66%) Kafka
9 29 (0.66%) XML
10 27 (0.61%) AngularJS
11 26 (0.59%) SAML
11 26 (0.59%) Spring
12 25 (0.57%) React
13 22 (0.50%) PySpark
14 21 (0.48%) ADO
14 21 (0.48%) CSS
14 21 (0.48%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 352 (7.98%) Product Ownership
2 209 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 143 (3.24%) Cloud Native
3 143 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
4 121 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 115 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 96 (2.18%) Data Centre
7 80 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 72 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 66 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 53 (1.20%) Operational Technology
11 47 (1.07%) NHS
12 46 (1.04%) Public Cloud
13 45 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.02%) PMI
14 42 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
15 35 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
16 33 (0.75%) AI Agents
17 31 (0.70%) Security Posture
18 29 (0.66%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 127 (2.88%) Windows
2 67 (1.52%) Linux
3 29 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.63%) Android
5 20 (0.45%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.36%) Unix
7 15 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.18%) VMS
10 4 (0.091%) AIX
11 3 (0.068%) Solaris
11 3 (0.068%) zOS
12 2 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.045%) 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 1,443 (32.72%) Agile
2 689 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 666 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
4 654 (14.83%) Project Management
5 639 (14.49%) Migration
6 574 (13.02%) Roadmaps
7 558 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 516 (11.70%) Change Management
9 508 (11.52%) DevOps
10 501 (11.36%) Decision-Making
11 483 (10.95%) Project Delivery
12 418 (9.48%) Risk Management
13 411 (9.32%) Analytics
14 381 (8.64%) AI
15 367 (8.32%) User Acceptance Testing
16 352 (7.98%) Scrum
17 350 (7.94%) Validation
18 342 (7.76%) CI/CD
19 327 (7.41%) Workshop Facilitation
20 326 (7.39%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 348 (7.89%) SQL
2 231 (5.24%) Python
3 91 (2.06%) Java
4 65 (1.47%) PowerShell
5 44 (1.00%) C#
6 43 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 31 (0.70%) Bash
8 22 (0.50%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.43%) VBA
10 16 (0.36%) Korn
11 13 (0.29%) R
12 12 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.20%) ABAP
13 9 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.20%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.18%) Bicep
15 7 (0.16%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 910 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 708 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 343 (7.78%) Degree
4 238 (5.40%) PMP
5 212 (4.81%) PMI Certification
6 121 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 106 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 89 (2.02%) CISSP
9 65 (1.47%) CISM
10 52 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 51 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 37 (0.84%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.63%) CBAP
15 28 (0.63%) IIBA
16 25 (0.57%) ACCA
16 25 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
17 24 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 23 (0.52%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (5.87%) QA
2 229 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 218 (4.94%) PMO
4 203 (4.60%) GDPR
5 157 (3.56%) NIST
6 130 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 76 (1.72%) GRC
8 71 (1.61%) SLA
9 65 (1.47%) Accessibility
10 53 (1.20%) PCI DSS
11 49 (1.11%) NCSC
12 39 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.75%) IFRS
14 27 (0.61%) COBIT
15 26 (0.59%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.41%) JSP 440
17 17 (0.39%) IFRS 17
17 17 (0.39%) WCAG
18 15 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.34%) PSD2
System Software
1 93 (2.11%) Docker
2 67 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.27%) Postfix
6 9 (0.20%) NFS
7 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.091%) SRDF
8 4 (0.091%) Varnish
9 3 (0.068%) HDFS
9 3 (0.068%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.068%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.068%) vSphere
10 2 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.023%) NLBS
11 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.023%) RACF
11 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 136 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 86 (1.95%) Terraform
3 52 (1.18%) Ansible
4 44 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (0.98%) Grafana
6 29 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 27 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.48%) SCCM
9 8 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.16%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.14%) Puppet
11 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.091%) Argo
13 4 (0.091%) Control-M
13 4 (0.091%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.068%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.068%) Nagios
Vendors
1 504 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 356 (8.07%) SAP
3 240 (5.44%) Oracle
4 207 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 179 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 89 (2.02%) Google
7 81 (1.84%) Databricks
8 70 (1.59%) VMware
9 62 (1.41%) Workday
10 46 (1.04%) Splunk
11 40 (0.91%) Cisco
12 38 (0.86%) CyberArk
13 31 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 30 (0.68%) Informatica
15 29 (0.66%) Ariba
15 29 (0.66%) Citrix
16 26 (0.59%) Atlassian
17 25 (0.57%) IBM
18 24 (0.54%) IFS
19 23 (0.52%) OpenAI