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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,253 2,321 2,864
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.81% 9.50% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.65% 10.43% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,928 1,587 2,017
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 66 75
10th Percentile £16.55 £35.00 £14.45
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.30 £30.08
Median hourly rate £40.78 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +20.00% -11.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £71.75
90th Percentile £86.75 £80.29 £85.39
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.00% +20.00% -11.46%

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 33,609 22,244 32,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 91.01% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,526 14,625 21,310
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,074 884 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.90 £31.70 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% -6.76% -9.33%
75th Percentile £67.19 £63.94 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
% change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 2,183 £550 -4.35% 611
North of England -3 614 £475 -7.32% 217
South East +5 514 £574 +14.80% 342
Midlands -1 511 £485 -3.05% 154
West Midlands -2 351 £492 -6.29% 98
North West -3 303 £469 -9.81% 113
Yorkshire +7 277 £500 - 88
South West +26 228 £550 +0.92% 82
East Midlands +4 158 £463 +3.12% 55
East of England +6 122 £581 -3.13% 97
North East -5 50 £440 -21.08% 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
1 289 (6.80%) Confluence
2 124 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.25%) SAS
4 39 (0.92%) CMS
5 34 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.40%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 8 (0.19%) TPMS
10 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.12%) Camunda
11 5 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.12%) nginx
12 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 222 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (3.22%) Microsoft Project
3 110 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
5 80 (1.88%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.24%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.094%) Revit
12 3 (0.071%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.047%) InVision
13 2 (0.047%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.047%) Windchill
14 1 (0.024%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.024%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 124 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 23 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 18 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.38%) Workday HCM
6 14 (0.33%) Endur
6 14 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.26%) SAP EWM
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 610 (14.34%) Azure
2 440 (10.35%) AWS
3 241 (5.67%) Power Platform
4 178 (4.19%) GCP
5 130 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
6 122 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
7 110 (2.59%) SaaS
8 89 (2.09%) Entra ID
9 64 (1.50%) OpenShift
10 56 (1.32%) OCI
11 54 (1.27%) Snowflake
12 49 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
13 44 (1.03%) GitHub
14 42 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 42 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
15 37 (0.87%) Power Automate
16 36 (0.85%) Figma
17 35 (0.82%) Serverless
18 34 (0.80%) Amazon S3
18 34 (0.80%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.53%) Firewall
2 60 (1.41%) Network Security
3 56 (1.32%) WAN
4 42 (0.99%) LAN
5 37 (0.87%) SD-WAN
6 33 (0.78%) DNS
7 29 (0.68%) VPN
8 26 (0.61%) BGP
8 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (0.52%) OSPF
10 19 (0.45%) MPLS
10 19 (0.45%) TCP/IP
11 16 (0.38%) SSL
12 14 (0.33%) Wireless
13 13 (0.31%) DHCP
14 12 (0.28%) NGFW
14 12 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
15 11 (0.26%) Broadband
15 11 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (4.77%) Power BI
2 86 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (1.76%) Metadata
4 62 (1.46%) Tableau
5 43 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 34 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
8 29 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 25 (0.59%) NoSQL
11 24 (0.56%) Power Query
12 22 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.45%) Big Data
15 18 (0.42%) DynamoDB
15 18 (0.42%) Oracle Database
16 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
17 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
19 12 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 500 (11.76%) JIRA
2 91 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 85 (2.00%) Git
4 54 (1.27%) GitLab
5 43 (1.01%) Selenium
6 39 (0.92%) JUnit
7 16 (0.38%) Postman
8 15 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.33%) Maven
10 13 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.28%) Mockito
11 12 (0.28%) SpecFlow
12 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.26%) JMeter
13 10 (0.24%) MLflow
13 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 8 (0.19%) jMock
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
General
1 2,167 (50.95%) Social Skills
2 1,479 (34.78%) Finance
3 674 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 466 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 415 (9.76%) Banking
6 215 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 192 (4.51%) Retail
8 167 (3.93%) Legal
9 149 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
10 137 (3.22%) Marketing
11 135 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
12 123 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
13 105 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 100 (2.35%) Telecoms
15 78 (1.83%) Financial Institution
16 64 (1.50%) Front Office
17 62 (1.46%) Local Government
18 58 (1.36%) Law
19 48 (1.13%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.06%) Billing
Job Titles
1 734 (17.26%) Analyst
2 630 (14.81%) Project Manager
3 582 (13.68%) Lead
4 542 (12.74%) Business Analyst
5 459 (10.79%) Architect
6 430 (10.11%) Senior
7 197 (4.63%) Consultant
8 183 (4.30%) Programme Manager
9 182 (4.28%) Senior Manager
10 164 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
11 142 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
12 127 (2.99%) IT Manager
13 93 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
14 92 (2.16%) Change Manager
15 89 (2.09%) Senior Project Manager
16 87 (2.05%) Data Analyst
17 85 (2.00%) Product Manager
18 84 (1.98%) Technical Manager
19 76 (1.79%) Test Manager
20 75 (1.76%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (3.03%) REST
2 83 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
3 70 (1.65%) Middleware
4 58 (1.36%) SOAP
5 36 (0.85%) OAuth
6 34 (0.80%) .NET
6 34 (0.80%) JSON
7 33 (0.78%) Kafka
8 31 (0.73%) XML
9 30 (0.71%) OpenID
9 30 (0.71%) Web Services
10 28 (0.66%) pytest
10 28 (0.66%) SAML
11 27 (0.63%) RESTful
12 26 (0.61%) AngularJS
13 25 (0.59%) React
13 25 (0.59%) Spring
14 23 (0.54%) Playwright
14 23 (0.54%) Swagger
15 21 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 333 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 215 (5.06%) Onboarding
3 136 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 122 (2.87%) Cloud Native
5 114 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 104 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 86 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 72 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 71 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 56 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 55 (1.29%) NHS
12 53 (1.25%) PMI
13 48 (1.13%) Public Cloud
14 47 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
15 39 (0.92%) Operational Technology
16 35 (0.82%) FMCG
16 35 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
17 30 (0.71%) CMDB
18 29 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
18 29 (0.68%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 119 (2.80%) Windows
2 65 (1.53%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Android
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 21 (0.49%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.45%) 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 (0.071%) AIX
12 2 (0.047%) CentOS
12 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.047%) zOS
13 1 (0.024%) MVS
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,399 (32.89%) Agile
2 707 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
3 653 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 643 (15.12%) Project Management
5 640 (15.05%) Migration
6 553 (13.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 526 (12.37%) Roadmaps
8 521 (12.25%) Change Management
9 470 (11.05%) DevOps
10 465 (10.93%) Decision-Making
11 458 (10.77%) Project Delivery
12 409 (9.62%) Risk Management
13 403 (9.48%) Analytics
14 360 (8.46%) User Acceptance Testing
15 359 (8.44%) Scrum
16 342 (8.04%) Validation
17 339 (7.97%) AI
18 331 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
19 324 (7.62%) Requirements Gathering
20 318 (7.48%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 327 (7.69%) SQL
2 256 (6.02%) Python
3 92 (2.16%) Java
4 74 (1.74%) PowerShell
5 51 (1.20%) C#
6 50 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 30 (0.71%) Bash
8 24 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 23 (0.54%) VBA
10 18 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.38%) Korn
11 16 (0.38%) R
12 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Bicep
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 872 (20.50%) Security Cleared
2 671 (15.78%) SC Cleared
3 356 (8.37%) Degree
4 229 (5.38%) PMP
5 218 (5.13%) PMI Certification
6 114 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 103 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 72 (1.69%) CISSP
9 62 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 58 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 49 (1.15%) CISM
12 41 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 31 (0.73%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.66%) CBAP
15 26 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.59%) IIBA
17 24 (0.56%) APMP
18 21 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (6.68%) QA
2 235 (5.53%) GDPR
3 209 (4.91%) Data Quality
4 186 (4.37%) PMO
5 165 (3.88%) NIST
6 146 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (1.72%) GRC
8 63 (1.48%) SLA
9 58 (1.36%) PCI DSS
10 47 (1.11%) Accessibility
11 46 (1.08%) NCSC
12 39 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.68%) COBIT
13 29 (0.68%) IFRS
14 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.42%) IFRS 17
16 16 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 16 (0.38%) HL7
17 14 (0.33%) Basel III
17 14 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 106 (2.49%) Docker
2 67 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 38 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.24%) Postfix
5 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.19%) NFS
7 7 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.094%) SRDF
10 3 (0.071%) HDFS
10 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.071%) Varnish
11 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.024%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.024%) XenApp
12 1 (0.024%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 145 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 81 (1.90%) Terraform
3 53 (1.25%) Ansible
4 45 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.80%) Grafana
6 23 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.45%) SCCM
9 12 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.094%) Istio
14 3 (0.071%) Control-M
14 3 (0.071%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.071%) Kibana
14 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 475 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 347 (8.16%) SAP
3 260 (6.11%) Oracle
4 199 (4.68%) ServiceNow
5 172 (4.04%) Salesforce
6 96 (2.26%) Google
7 78 (1.83%) Workday
8 74 (1.74%) VMware
9 68 (1.60%) Databricks
10 47 (1.11%) Cisco
11 46 (1.08%) Splunk
12 40 (0.94%) CyberArk
13 35 (0.82%) Ariba
14 34 (0.80%) IBM
15 31 (0.73%) MuleSoft
16 30 (0.71%) Adobe
17 29 (0.68%) Citrix
18 26 (0.61%) Atlassian
19 25 (0.59%) F5
19 25 (0.59%) Informatica