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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,152 2,245 2,971
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.02% 9.27% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 10.20% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,881 1,552 2,088
10th Percentile £363 £363 £368
25th Percentile £447 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £740 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 64 84
10th Percentile £14.25 £35.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £27.81 £41.25 £25.75
Median hourly rate £45.23 £60.00 £46.95
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +27.81% -16.76%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £93.88 £80.00 £82.32
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £60.00 £46.39
% change year-on-year -33.75% +29.34% -17.68%

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 32,472 22,014 32,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.22% 90.86% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,793 14,527 21,615
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 1,988 846 2,159
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £76.55 £76.72 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -9.72%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 2,122 £550 -4.35% 628
North of England 0 595 £475 -6.86% 223
Midlands +2 526 £485 -3.00% 151
South East +4 504 £559 +6.43% 338
West Midlands -1 352 £492 -6.29% 98
North West -2 294 £455 -10.90% 116
Yorkshire +6 271 £500 - 91
South West +24 217 £533 -2.74% 94
East Midlands +5 172 £450 - 53
East of England -3 114 £550 - 98
North East -2 45 £439 -22.35% 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
1 306 (7.37%) Confluence
2 128 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 51 (1.23%) SAS
4 39 (0.94%) CMS
5 35 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.43%) Appian
7 10 (0.24%) Apache
7 10 (0.24%) TPMS
8 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.14%) Camunda
11 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.096%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.072%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.072%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.072%) nginx
13 3 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 227 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
3 109 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
5 79 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.31%) Trello
8 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.14%) Sketch
10 4 (0.096%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.048%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.048%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.048%) InVision
11 2 (0.048%) Windchill
12 1 (0.024%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.024%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.024%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 130 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
3 42 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 17 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 16 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 14 (0.34%) Endur
8 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.29%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 12 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
11 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.22%) Primavera
12 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
12 9 (0.22%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 622 (14.98%) Azure
2 427 (10.28%) AWS
3 248 (5.97%) Power Platform
4 175 (4.21%) GCP
5 143 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
6 125 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
7 105 (2.53%) SaaS
8 92 (2.22%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.52%) OpenShift
10 56 (1.35%) OCI
11 51 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
12 48 (1.16%) Snowflake
13 45 (1.08%) GitHub
14 41 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 38 (0.92%) Power Automate
15 38 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
16 34 (0.82%) Google Workspace
16 34 (0.82%) Serverless
17 31 (0.75%) Figma
18 30 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.76%) Firewall
2 55 (1.32%) WAN
3 54 (1.30%) Network Security
4 43 (1.04%) LAN
5 39 (0.94%) SD-WAN
6 31 (0.75%) DNS
7 29 (0.70%) VPN
8 26 (0.63%) BGP
9 25 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.53%) OSPF
11 19 (0.46%) MPLS
12 17 (0.41%) SSL
13 16 (0.39%) SSH
13 16 (0.39%) TCP/IP
14 14 (0.34%) Wireless
15 12 (0.29%) Broadband
15 12 (0.29%) DHCP
15 12 (0.29%) NGFW
16 11 (0.26%) SAN
16 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (5.08%) Power BI
2 88 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (1.73%) Tableau
4 63 (1.52%) Metadata
5 38 (0.92%) SQL Server
6 37 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
8 29 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 28 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 24 (0.58%) Power Query
12 23 (0.55%) Relational Database
13 20 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (0.43%) MySQL
15 17 (0.41%) Big Data
16 16 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (0.34%) DynamoDB
17 14 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
18 13 (0.31%) BigQuery
19 12 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 520 (12.52%) JIRA
2 93 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 87 (2.10%) Git
4 60 (1.45%) GitLab
5 43 (1.04%) Selenium
6 39 (0.94%) JUnit
7 16 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.34%) Maven
9 12 (0.29%) Mockito
9 12 (0.29%) Postman
9 12 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.26%) JMeter
11 10 (0.24%) MLflow
11 10 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
11 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.24%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.14%) Axure RP
General
1 2,152 (51.83%) Social Skills
2 1,437 (34.61%) Finance
3 670 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 450 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 404 (9.73%) Banking
6 200 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
7 176 (4.24%) Retail
8 159 (3.83%) Legal
9 147 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
10 143 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
11 135 (3.25%) Marketing
12 123 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
13 104 (2.50%) Telecoms
14 100 (2.41%) Manufacturing
15 79 (1.90%) Financial Institution
16 63 (1.52%) Law
17 62 (1.49%) Front Office
18 61 (1.47%) Local Government
19 50 (1.20%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 744 (17.92%) Analyst
2 629 (15.15%) Project Manager
3 546 (13.15%) Business Analyst
4 539 (12.98%) Lead
5 451 (10.86%) Architect
6 402 (9.68%) Senior
7 212 (5.11%) Consultant
8 171 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
9 170 (4.09%) Programme Manager
10 167 (4.02%) Senior Manager
11 134 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
12 119 (2.87%) IT Manager
13 89 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
14 86 (2.07%) Change Manager
14 86 (2.07%) Data Analyst
15 84 (2.02%) Senior Project Manager
16 80 (1.93%) Technical Manager
17 76 (1.83%) Product Manager
18 75 (1.81%) Developer
18 75 (1.81%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (2.96%) REST
2 83 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 64 (1.54%) Middleware
4 55 (1.32%) SOAP
5 38 (0.92%) OAuth
6 36 (0.87%) OpenID
7 35 (0.84%) JSON
8 34 (0.82%) Kafka
9 33 (0.79%) .NET
10 32 (0.77%) SAML
11 31 (0.75%) XML
12 28 (0.67%) pytest
13 27 (0.65%) React
13 27 (0.65%) RESTful
14 26 (0.63%) AngularJS
15 25 (0.60%) HTML
15 25 (0.60%) Web Services
16 24 (0.58%) Spring
17 23 (0.55%) Playwright
18 22 (0.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 325 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 220 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 126 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 116 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 107 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
6 99 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 98 (2.36%) Data Centre
8 79 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 57 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 57 (1.37%) PMI
10 50 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 48 (1.16%) NHS
11 48 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (0.89%) Operational Technology
14 36 (0.87%) CMDB
15 35 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
16 32 (0.77%) FMCG
16 32 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
17 29 (0.70%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.11%) Windows
2 71 (1.71%) Linux
3 32 (0.77%) Unix
4 25 (0.60%) Android
4 25 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.31%) VMS
9 9 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.072%) AIX
12 2 (0.048%) CentOS
13 1 (0.024%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,360 (32.76%) Agile
2 726 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
3 634 (15.27%) Project Management
4 629 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 625 (15.05%) Migration
6 561 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 521 (12.55%) Change Management
8 488 (11.75%) Roadmaps
9 463 (11.15%) DevOps
10 457 (11.01%) Project Delivery
11 431 (10.38%) Decision-Making
12 385 (9.27%) Analytics
13 380 (9.15%) Risk Management
14 360 (8.67%) Scrum
15 344 (8.29%) User Acceptance Testing
16 337 (8.12%) Workshop Facilitation
17 324 (7.80%) Requirements Gathering
18 322 (7.76%) Validation
19 300 (7.23%) AI
20 295 (7.11%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 324 (7.80%) SQL
2 267 (6.43%) Python
3 89 (2.14%) PowerShell
4 87 (2.10%) Java
5 48 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 47 (1.13%) C#
7 28 (0.67%) Bash
8 23 (0.55%) TypeScript
9 22 (0.53%) VBA
10 19 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.39%) Korn
11 16 (0.39%) R
11 16 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
15 7 (0.17%) ABAP
15 7 (0.17%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 834 (20.09%) Security Cleared
2 643 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 371 (8.94%) Degree
4 228 (5.49%) PMP
5 227 (5.47%) PMI Certification
6 104 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 95 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 68 (1.64%) CISSP
9 66 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 62 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 48 (1.16%) CISM
12 38 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.79%) CBAP
14 28 (0.67%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (0.60%) IIBA
16 25 (0.60%) ISTQB
17 22 (0.53%) APMP
17 22 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
17 22 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (6.82%) QA
2 236 (5.68%) GDPR
3 194 (4.67%) Data Quality
4 176 (4.24%) PMO
5 160 (3.85%) NIST
6 149 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (1.76%) GRC
8 64 (1.54%) PCI DSS
9 60 (1.45%) SLA
10 47 (1.13%) NCSC
11 43 (1.04%) Accessibility
11 43 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 29 (0.70%) COBIT
12 29 (0.70%) IFRS
13 23 (0.55%) SOC 2
14 19 (0.46%) PSD2
15 18 (0.43%) IFRS 17
16 15 (0.36%) HL7
16 15 (0.36%) WCAG
17 13 (0.31%) MiFID
System Software
1 100 (2.41%) Docker
2 73 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 37 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.17%) NFS
5 7 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.14%) Postfix
6 6 (0.14%) vSphere
7 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.072%) HDFS
8 3 (0.072%) SRDF
9 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.048%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) Firmware
10 1 (0.024%) NLBS
10 1 (0.024%) RACF
10 1 (0.024%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 144 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 83 (2.00%) Terraform
3 54 (1.30%) Ansible
4 48 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.84%) Grafana
6 24 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.46%) SCCM
9 14 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 7 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.17%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.14%) Kibana
12 6 (0.14%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.096%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.096%) Istio
13 4 (0.096%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.096%) vMotion
14 3 (0.072%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 469 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 334 (8.04%) SAP
3 251 (6.05%) Oracle
4 199 (4.79%) ServiceNow
5 163 (3.93%) Salesforce
6 89 (2.14%) Google
7 77 (1.85%) Workday
8 72 (1.73%) VMware
9 65 (1.57%) Databricks
10 49 (1.18%) Cisco
11 48 (1.16%) Splunk
12 43 (1.04%) IBM
13 35 (0.84%) CyberArk
14 32 (0.77%) Ariba
15 29 (0.70%) Citrix
16 28 (0.67%) MuleSoft
17 26 (0.63%) Fortinet
17 26 (0.63%) Informatica
18 24 (0.58%) Atlassian
18 24 (0.58%) Red Hat