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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,840 2,535 2,734
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.23% 10.19% 7.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.18% 11.16% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,264 1,728 1,942
10th Percentile £375 £356 £360
25th Percentile £456 £435 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +2.38% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 64 78
10th Percentile £23.50 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £32.50 £42.26 £33.86
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +11.80%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.06 £74.13
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.13 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +11.80%

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 36,727 22,725 32,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.37% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,194 14,704 20,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,073 2,390
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%
75th Percentile £68.55 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 2,471 £560 -2.61% 761
North of England -1 721 £500 - 274
South East +3 605 £550 +4.76% 473
Midlands +2 535 £500 - 178
West Midlands +2 374 £500 -4.76% 107
North West -1 352 £490 -2.97% 154
Yorkshire +7 335 £500 +3.52% 86
South West +17 284 £550 +4.76% 136
East Midlands +12 153 £465 +5.38% 69
East of England +1 139 £525 -12.50% 82
North East -15 48 £475 +5.56% 38
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
1 288 (5.95%) Confluence
2 134 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.12%) CMS
4 42 (0.87%) SAS
5 21 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.25%) Apache
7 12 (0.25%) Appian
8 9 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.14%) WordPress
11 5 (0.10%) Kentico
11 5 (0.10%) TPMS
12 4 (0.083%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.062%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
13 3 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.062%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.062%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.041%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 229 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
3 120 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 113 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
5 69 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.25%) Revit
8 10 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.083%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.083%) Trello
10 3 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.062%) Notion
10 3 (0.062%) Sketch
11 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.041%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.021%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.021%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 154 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 24 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 23 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
5 21 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 19 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
7 18 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
8 15 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 14 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 13 (0.27%) SAP ERP
11 12 (0.25%) SAP CO
11 12 (0.25%) SAP FI
11 12 (0.25%) Workday HCM
12 11 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
12 11 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
13 10 (0.21%) Loan IQ
13 10 (0.21%) SAP HCM
14 9 (0.19%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 753 (15.56%) Azure
2 549 (11.34%) AWS
3 287 (5.93%) Power Platform
4 197 (4.07%) GCP
5 163 (3.37%) SaaS
6 160 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
7 114 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
8 97 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 75 (1.55%) Snowflake
10 64 (1.32%) GitHub
11 56 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
11 56 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
12 53 (1.10%) OCI
13 49 (1.01%) Amazon S3
13 49 (1.01%) Serverless
14 47 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 38 (0.79%) Power Automate
16 37 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
17 36 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 79 (1.63%) Network Security
2 77 (1.59%) Firewall
3 57 (1.18%) WAN
4 44 (0.91%) LAN
5 37 (0.76%) DNS
6 30 (0.62%) SD-WAN
7 28 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 26 (0.54%) VPN
10 22 (0.45%) BGP
11 18 (0.37%) OSPF
12 17 (0.35%) DHCP
12 17 (0.35%) MPLS
13 15 (0.31%) Wireless
14 14 (0.29%) NGFW
15 13 (0.27%) Intranet
16 12 (0.25%) BIG-IP
16 12 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
17 11 (0.23%) SAN
17 11 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (4.90%) Power BI
2 97 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (1.88%) Metadata
4 66 (1.36%) Tableau
5 61 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 55 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 41 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (0.56%) NoSQL
10 27 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
11 24 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 21 (0.43%) Big Data
13 20 (0.41%) Oracle Database
14 18 (0.37%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (0.31%) Power Query
17 14 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
18 13 (0.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 537 (11.10%) JIRA
2 75 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.36%) Git
4 41 (0.85%) GitLab
5 30 (0.62%) Selenium
6 26 (0.54%) JUnit
7 21 (0.43%) Postman
8 15 (0.31%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.27%) JMeter
9 13 (0.27%) Maven
10 12 (0.25%) Mockito
11 11 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.21%) DbUnit
12 10 (0.21%) MLflow
13 9 (0.19%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.19%) jMock
13 9 (0.19%) Zephyr
14 8 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
14 8 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 2,424 (50.08%) Social Skills
2 1,738 (35.91%) Finance
3 730 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 570 (11.78%) Public Sector
5 460 (9.50%) Banking
6 262 (5.41%) Retail
7 233 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
8 212 (4.38%) Legal
9 184 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
10 173 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
11 152 (3.14%) Marketing
12 125 (2.58%) Manufacturing
13 120 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
14 109 (2.25%) Telecoms
15 91 (1.88%) Local Government
16 77 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 75 (1.55%) Financial Institution
18 66 (1.36%) Aerospace
18 66 (1.36%) Law
19 64 (1.32%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 738 (15.25%) Analyst
2 700 (14.46%) Project Manager
3 689 (14.24%) Lead
4 564 (11.65%) Architect
5 507 (10.48%) Senior
6 505 (10.43%) Business Analyst
7 224 (4.63%) Consultant
8 219 (4.52%) Senior Manager
9 215 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 173 (3.57%) Programme Manager
11 172 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
12 153 (3.16%) IT Manager
13 110 (2.27%) Senior Project Manager
14 105 (2.17%) Product Manager
15 101 (2.09%) Product Owner
16 91 (1.88%) Technical Manager
17 89 (1.84%) Change Manager
18 88 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
19 86 (1.78%) IT Project Manager
20 82 (1.69%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (2.56%) REST
2 84 (1.74%) Middleware
3 82 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 66 (1.36%) SOAP
5 50 (1.03%) .NET
6 44 (0.91%) OAuth
7 40 (0.83%) JSON
8 33 (0.68%) Kafka
8 33 (0.68%) OpenID
9 32 (0.66%) RESTful
9 32 (0.66%) Spring
10 31 (0.64%) SAML
10 31 (0.64%) XML
11 30 (0.62%) AngularJS
11 30 (0.62%) CSS
11 30 (0.62%) SailPoint
11 30 (0.62%) Web Services
12 29 (0.60%) PySpark
13 27 (0.56%) HTML
14 26 (0.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 381 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 235 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 169 (3.49%) Cloud Native
4 151 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
5 130 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 118 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 102 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 84 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 83 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 79 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 60 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 60 (1.24%) NHS
11 60 (1.24%) Operational Technology
12 54 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
13 53 (1.10%) Security Posture
14 48 (0.99%) Public Cloud
15 45 (0.93%) FMCG
16 43 (0.89%) CMDB
16 43 (0.89%) PMI
16 43 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 138 (2.85%) Windows
2 78 (1.61%) Linux
3 31 (0.64%) Android
4 29 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.45%) Unix
7 21 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.12%) VMS
10 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.083%) AIX
11 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.083%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.083%) zOS
12 3 (0.062%) Solaris
13 2 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.041%) HPUX
14 1 (0.021%) CentOS
14 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,585 (32.75%) Agile
2 773 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 737 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
4 703 (14.52%) Migration
5 659 (13.62%) Project Management
6 651 (13.45%) Roadmaps
7 639 (13.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 578 (11.94%) DevOps
9 558 (11.53%) Decision-Making
10 548 (11.32%) Change Management
11 528 (10.91%) Project Delivery
12 484 (10.00%) Analytics
13 473 (9.77%) Risk Management
14 451 (9.32%) AI
15 425 (8.78%) User Acceptance Testing
16 394 (8.14%) Validation
17 391 (8.08%) CI/CD
18 385 (7.95%) Scrum
19 366 (7.56%) Workshop Facilitation
20 354 (7.31%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 392 (8.10%) SQL
2 267 (5.52%) Python
3 100 (2.07%) Java
4 68 (1.40%) PowerShell
5 55 (1.14%) JavaScript
6 48 (0.99%) C#
7 24 (0.50%) Bash
8 23 (0.48%) VBA
9 22 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.37%) Bicep
10 18 (0.37%) Korn
11 14 (0.29%) ABAP
11 14 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 11 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.21%) R
13 10 (0.21%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.21%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 974 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 751 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 355 (7.33%) Degree
4 253 (5.23%) PMP
5 223 (4.61%) PMI Certification
6 139 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 128 (2.64%) DV Cleared
8 105 (2.17%) CISSP
9 75 (1.55%) CISM
10 74 (1.53%) Azure Certification
11 57 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 48 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 46 (0.95%) AWS Certification
14 43 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
15 30 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
16 29 (0.60%) ACCA
17 28 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
18 27 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 26 (0.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (5.52%) QA
2 265 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 242 (5.00%) PMO
4 210 (4.34%) GDPR
5 165 (3.41%) NIST
6 142 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 84 (1.74%) GRC
8 78 (1.61%) SLA
9 74 (1.53%) Accessibility
10 53 (1.10%) NCSC
11 50 (1.03%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 35 (0.72%) IFRS
14 34 (0.70%) COBIT
15 30 (0.62%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.37%) IFRS 17
16 18 (0.37%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.33%) PSD2
17 16 (0.33%) WCAG
18 15 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 96 (1.98%) Docker
2 79 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.25%) Postfix
6 10 (0.21%) NFS
6 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.083%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.083%) SRDF
9 4 (0.083%) Varnish
10 3 (0.062%) HDFS
10 3 (0.062%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.041%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.041%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.021%) NLBS
12 1 (0.021%) RACF
Systems Management
1 141 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 114 (2.36%) Terraform
3 69 (1.43%) Ansible
4 44 (0.91%) Grafana
5 39 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.33%) SCCM
9 8 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.14%) Argo
10 7 (0.14%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.10%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.10%) Puppet
12 5 (0.10%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.083%) Control-M
13 4 (0.083%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.083%) vMotion
Vendors
1 583 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 387 (8.00%) SAP
3 263 (5.43%) Oracle
4 245 (5.06%) ServiceNow
5 188 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 94 (1.94%) Databricks
6 94 (1.94%) Google
7 67 (1.38%) VMware
7 67 (1.38%) Workday
8 50 (1.03%) Cisco
9 46 (0.95%) CyberArk
10 44 (0.91%) Splunk
11 38 (0.79%) Adobe
12 35 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 33 (0.68%) Informatica
14 32 (0.66%) Ariba
15 27 (0.56%) IBM
16 26 (0.54%) Atlassian
17 25 (0.52%) F5
18 24 (0.50%) Citrix