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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,291 2,296 2,864
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.94% 9.43% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.76% 10.37% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,962 1,584 2,016
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -1.14% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 65 80
10th Percentile £16.00 £35.00 £15.02
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.00 £28.30
Median hourly rate £42.89 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.52% +23.08% -13.67%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £94.13 £80.35 £83.51
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £60.00 £46.95
% change year-on-year -35.00% +27.81% -16.87%

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 33,625 22,142 32,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.72% 90.94% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,563 14,591 21,374
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 £614 £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 2,074 866 2,196
10th Percentile £15.41 £14.95 £12.96
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.92 £15.93
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%
75th Percentile £65.81 £64.52 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.85 £75.88 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
% change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +10 2,206 £550 -4.35% 628
North of England -3 609 £475 -7.21% 223
South East +6 525 £565 +7.62% 338
Midlands +3 520 £485 -3.00% 151
West Midlands -1 355 £492 -6.24% 98
North West -3 306 £463 -9.76% 116
Yorkshire +7 273 £500 - 91
South West +27 230 £550 +0.46% 94
East Midlands +5 163 £455 -4.21% 53
East of England -5 116 £563 +2.27% 98
North East -7 46 £440 -20.00% 20
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
1 297 (6.92%) Confluence
2 127 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.21%) SAS
4 41 (0.96%) CMS
5 37 (0.86%) 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 (0.093%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.070%) Apache Spark
14 3 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 229 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 144 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
3 111 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
5 78 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.28%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.070%) 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%) Windchill
13 1 (0.023%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.023%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.023%) Navisworks
13 1 (0.023%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 129 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
3 43 (1.00%) 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%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
9 12 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
10 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.23%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 629 (14.66%) Azure
2 449 (10.46%) AWS
3 248 (5.78%) Power Platform
4 183 (4.26%) GCP
5 136 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 125 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
7 113 (2.63%) SaaS
8 91 (2.12%) Entra ID
9 64 (1.49%) OpenShift
10 57 (1.33%) OCI
11 50 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
11 50 (1.17%) Snowflake
12 45 (1.05%) SuccessFactors
13 44 (1.03%) GitHub
14 41 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
15 39 (0.91%) Power Automate
16 35 (0.82%) Serverless
17 34 (0.79%) Figma
17 34 (0.79%) Google Workspace
18 32 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.63%) Firewall
2 59 (1.37%) Network Security
3 55 (1.28%) WAN
4 42 (0.98%) LAN
5 37 (0.86%) SD-WAN
6 34 (0.79%) DNS
7 30 (0.70%) VPN
8 26 (0.61%) BGP
9 24 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.51%) OSPF
11 19 (0.44%) MPLS
11 19 (0.44%) TCP/IP
12 16 (0.37%) 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%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (0.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (4.89%) Power BI
2 89 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (1.65%) Metadata
4 67 (1.56%) Tableau
5 42 (0.98%) SQL Server
6 37 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 36 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
8 27 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (0.61%) NoSQL
10 24 (0.56%) Power Query
10 24 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 21 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.47%) Oracle Database
13 18 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (0.42%) Big Data
14 16 (0.37%) DynamoDB
14 16 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
15 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.30%) MySQL
17 12 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 507 (11.82%) JIRA
2 89 (2.07%) Jenkins
3 86 (2.00%) Git
4 57 (1.33%) GitLab
5 46 (1.07%) Selenium
6 40 (0.93%) JUnit
7 16 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.35%) Maven
8 15 (0.35%) Postman
9 13 (0.30%) Mockito
9 13 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.26%) JMeter
11 10 (0.23%) MLflow
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%) Zephyr
General
1 2,202 (51.32%) Social Skills
2 1,494 (34.82%) Finance
3 687 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
4 463 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 417 (9.72%) Banking
6 213 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
7 193 (4.50%) Retail
8 170 (3.96%) Legal
9 151 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
10 140 (3.26%) Marketing
11 137 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
12 122 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
13 105 (2.45%) Telecoms
14 102 (2.38%) Manufacturing
15 83 (1.93%) Financial Institution
16 66 (1.54%) Law
16 66 (1.54%) Local Government
17 64 (1.49%) Front Office
18 53 (1.24%) Investment Banking
19 45 (1.05%) Billing
Job Titles
1 744 (17.34%) Analyst
2 643 (14.98%) Project Manager
3 581 (13.54%) Lead
4 550 (12.82%) Business Analyst
5 469 (10.93%) Architect
6 430 (10.02%) Senior
7 203 (4.73%) Consultant
8 181 (4.22%) Senior Manager
9 177 (4.12%) Programme Manager
10 171 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
11 144 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
12 126 (2.94%) IT Manager
13 94 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
14 91 (2.12%) Data Analyst
15 89 (2.07%) Change Manager
15 89 (2.07%) Senior Project Manager
16 85 (1.98%) Product Manager
17 82 (1.91%) Technical Manager
18 81 (1.89%) Developer
19 77 (1.79%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.96%) REST
2 85 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
3 67 (1.56%) Middleware
4 56 (1.31%) SOAP
5 39 (0.91%) OAuth
6 37 (0.86%) .NET
7 36 (0.84%) JSON
8 34 (0.79%) Kafka
8 34 (0.79%) OpenID
9 30 (0.70%) SAML
9 30 (0.70%) XML
10 29 (0.68%) React
11 28 (0.65%) pytest
11 28 (0.65%) Web Services
12 26 (0.61%) Spring
13 25 (0.58%) AngularJS
13 25 (0.58%) RESTful
14 24 (0.56%) Playwright
15 23 (0.54%) SailPoint
15 23 (0.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 334 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 227 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 134 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
4 117 (2.73%) Cloud Native
5 113 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 103 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 89 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 75 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 69 (1.61%) Data Structures
10 57 (1.33%) NHS
10 57 (1.33%) PMI
11 54 (1.26%) Virtual Team
12 48 (1.12%) Public Cloud
13 47 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (0.96%) Operational Technology
15 36 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
16 35 (0.82%) FMCG
17 31 (0.72%) CMDB
18 29 (0.68%) e-Learning
18 29 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 124 (2.89%) Windows
2 66 (1.54%) Linux
3 25 (0.58%) Android
3 25 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.49%) Unix
6 18 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.30%) VMS
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.14%) 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 1,406 (32.77%) Agile
2 723 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
3 652 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 648 (15.10%) Project Management
5 645 (15.03%) Migration
6 559 (13.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 525 (12.23%) Change Management
8 524 (12.21%) Roadmaps
9 476 (11.09%) DevOps
10 471 (10.98%) Project Delivery
11 455 (10.60%) Decision-Making
12 410 (9.55%) Analytics
13 403 (9.39%) Risk Management
14 371 (8.65%) Scrum
15 361 (8.41%) User Acceptance Testing
16 339 (7.90%) Validation
17 337 (7.85%) AI
17 337 (7.85%) Workshop Facilitation
18 330 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
19 317 (7.39%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 331 (7.71%) SQL
2 263 (6.13%) Python
3 92 (2.14%) Java
4 80 (1.86%) PowerShell
5 50 (1.17%) C#
5 50 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 31 (0.72%) Bash
7 24 (0.56%) VBA
8 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 18 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 17 (0.40%) R
11 15 (0.35%) Korn
12 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.23%) Bicep
14 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.19%) ABAP
16 6 (0.14%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 874 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 673 (15.68%) SC Cleared
3 369 (8.60%) Degree
4 234 (5.45%) PMP
5 225 (5.24%) PMI Certification
6 111 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 102 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 74 (1.72%) CISSP
9 61 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 58 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 50 (1.17%) CISM
12 41 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 32 (0.75%) CBAP
14 31 (0.72%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
16 26 (0.61%) IIBA
17 25 (0.58%) ISTQB
18 24 (0.56%) APMP
19 21 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 21 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (6.74%) QA
2 239 (5.57%) GDPR
3 209 (4.87%) Data Quality
4 184 (4.29%) PMO
5 168 (3.92%) NIST
6 148 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 75 (1.75%) GRC
8 64 (1.49%) SLA
9 63 (1.47%) PCI DSS
10 47 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 47 (1.10%) NCSC
11 39 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 30 (0.70%) IFRS
13 29 (0.68%) COBIT
14 27 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.42%) IFRS 17
15 18 (0.42%) PSD2
16 16 (0.37%) HL7
17 15 (0.35%) MiFID
17 15 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (2.47%) Docker
2 71 (1.65%) 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 (0.093%) 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%) NLBS
12 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 150 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 84 (1.96%) Terraform
3 54 (1.26%) Ansible
4 48 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.82%) Grafana
6 22 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.44%) SCCM
9 13 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 7 (0.16%) HP ALM
11 7 (0.16%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.14%) Kibana
12 6 (0.14%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.093%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.093%) Istio
14 3 (0.070%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.070%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.070%) vMotion
Vendors
1 478 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 350 (8.16%) SAP
3 264 (6.15%) Oracle
4 201 (4.68%) ServiceNow
5 169 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 96 (2.24%) Google
7 76 (1.77%) Workday
8 75 (1.75%) VMware
9 65 (1.51%) Databricks
10 48 (1.12%) Cisco
11 46 (1.07%) Splunk
12 40 (0.93%) CyberArk
13 36 (0.84%) IBM
14 35 (0.82%) Ariba
15 30 (0.70%) Citrix
16 29 (0.68%) Adobe
16 29 (0.68%) MuleSoft
17 28 (0.65%) F5
18 25 (0.58%) Atlassian
18 25 (0.58%) Fortinet