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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,931 2,288 3,007
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.32% 8.83% 8.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.95% 9.82% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,722 1,467 2,095
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £447 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £642 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 58 85
10th Percentile £16.25 £35.00 £19.26
25th Percentile £25.00 £39.04 £28.30
Median hourly rate £47.48 £57.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% +14.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £77.09 £66.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £95.25 £80.18 £83.29
UK median hourly rate £40.73 £55.88 £51.24
% change year-on-year -27.11% +9.05% -5.84%

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 30,349 23,302 32,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.42% 89.94% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,395 14,514 21,728
10th Percentile £311 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,903 732 1,999
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.39
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.49% - -
75th Percentile £61.18 £64.79 £60.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.23 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.54% -7.14% -

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 1,998 £550 - 751
North of England +4 583 £474 -9.71% 256
Midlands 0 504 £490 -5.77% 182
South East +3 458 £550 +4.76% 414
West Midlands -2 327 £500 -4.76% 130
North West +7 291 £450 -13.88% 165
Yorkshire +8 260 £492 -1.60% 80
South West +19 200 £550 -3.51% 91
East Midlands +11 177 £455 -1.09% 51
East of England -8 104 £550 - 84
North East +3 46 £444 -23.66% 13
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
1 284 (7.22%) Confluence
2 121 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.07%) SAS
4 37 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 35 (0.89%) CMS
6 17 (0.43%) Appian
7 11 (0.28%) TPMS
8 8 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.20%) Apache
8 8 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 7 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (0.15%) Camunda
11 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.076%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.076%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.076%) nginx
12 3 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 216 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 131 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 116 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
4 105 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 76 (1.93%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.41%) Trello
7 14 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.15%) Sketch
10 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.051%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.051%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.051%) InVision
12 1 (0.025%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.025%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.025%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.025%) Simulink
12 1 (0.025%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.025%) UXPin
12 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 22 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 19 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 17 (0.43%) Endur
6 16 (0.41%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
7 14 (0.36%) Primavera
7 14 (0.36%) SAP EWM
7 14 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
8 13 (0.33%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.31%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
10 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
11 10 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
12 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 9 (0.23%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 576 (14.65%) Azure
2 400 (10.18%) AWS
3 249 (6.33%) Power Platform
4 170 (4.32%) GCP
5 127 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 113 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (2.67%) SaaS
8 86 (2.19%) Entra ID
9 62 (1.58%) OpenShift
10 51 (1.30%) OCI
11 50 (1.27%) GitHub
12 45 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
13 42 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
14 40 (1.02%) Snowflake
15 39 (0.99%) Power Automate
16 38 (0.97%) Serverless
17 33 (0.84%) Google Workspace
18 31 (0.79%) Amazon S3
18 31 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
19 30 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.98%) Firewall
2 49 (1.25%) WAN
3 37 (0.94%) LAN
4 35 (0.89%) Network Security
5 33 (0.84%) SD-WAN
6 31 (0.79%) VPN
7 30 (0.76%) DNS
8 22 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (0.53%) SSH
10 19 (0.48%) MPLS
11 18 (0.46%) SSL
12 16 (0.41%) BGP
13 14 (0.36%) DHCP
14 13 (0.33%) TCP/IP
15 12 (0.31%) Broadband
15 12 (0.31%) OSPF
15 12 (0.31%) Wireless
16 11 (0.28%) Intranet
16 11 (0.28%) SNMP
17 8 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (5.52%) Power BI
2 80 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (1.86%) Tableau
4 58 (1.48%) Metadata
5 37 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 32 (0.81%) SQL Server
7 30 (0.76%) NoSQL
8 23 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
8 23 (0.59%) Relational Database
9 22 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 22 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.53%) Power Query
11 16 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (0.41%) BigQuery
12 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.36%) MySQL
14 13 (0.33%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.28%) Big Data
16 10 (0.25%) MongoDB
16 10 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 486 (12.36%) JIRA
2 76 (1.93%) Git
3 75 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.42%) GitLab
5 34 (0.86%) Selenium
6 33 (0.84%) JUnit
7 16 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.33%) Maven
9 10 (0.25%) MLflow
9 10 (0.25%) Mockito
9 10 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
9 10 (0.25%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.18%) Postman
10 7 (0.18%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.15%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.15%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.15%) JMeter
12 5 (0.13%) TestRail
13 4 (0.10%) REST Assured
General
1 2,096 (53.32%) Social Skills
2 1,312 (33.38%) Finance
3 646 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 398 (10.12%) Public Sector
5 381 (9.69%) Banking
6 198 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
7 165 (4.20%) Retail
8 154 (3.92%) Legal
9 136 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
10 133 (3.38%) Marketing
11 123 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
12 119 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
13 109 (2.77%) Telecoms
14 106 (2.70%) Manufacturing
15 75 (1.91%) Front Office
16 61 (1.55%) Financial Institution
17 59 (1.50%) Law
18 56 (1.42%) Investment Banking
19 54 (1.37%) Local Government
20 52 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 754 (19.18%) Analyst
2 571 (14.53%) Project Manager
3 550 (13.99%) Business Analyst
4 469 (11.93%) Lead
5 450 (11.45%) Architect
6 365 (9.29%) Senior
7 231 (5.88%) Consultant
8 173 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 153 (3.89%) Senior Manager
10 145 (3.69%) Programme Manager
11 113 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
12 111 (2.82%) IT Manager
13 84 (2.14%) Data Analyst
14 83 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
15 78 (1.98%) Change Manager
16 77 (1.96%) Senior Project Manager
17 76 (1.93%) Developer
18 72 (1.83%) Product Owner
18 72 (1.83%) Senior Business Analyst
19 71 (1.81%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (3.00%) REST
2 73 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 50 (1.27%) Middleware
4 49 (1.25%) SOAP
5 41 (1.04%) JSON
6 38 (0.97%) .NET
7 36 (0.92%) OAuth
7 36 (0.92%) OpenID
8 34 (0.86%) Kafka
9 33 (0.84%) XML
10 32 (0.81%) SAML
11 29 (0.74%) HTML
11 29 (0.74%) React
12 26 (0.66%) RESTful
13 25 (0.64%) pytest
14 24 (0.61%) AngularJS
14 24 (0.61%) SailPoint
15 23 (0.59%) CSS
15 23 (0.59%) Playwright
16 22 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 314 (7.99%) Product Ownership
2 206 (5.24%) Onboarding
3 109 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
4 107 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
5 104 (2.65%) Cloud Native
6 101 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 89 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 75 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 54 (1.37%) PMI
10 49 (1.25%) NHS
11 46 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 43 (1.09%) Data Structures
13 37 (0.94%) Public Cloud
14 36 (0.92%) CMDB
14 36 (0.92%) Virtual Team
15 35 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
15 35 (0.89%) Operational Technology
16 29 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
17 28 (0.71%) FMCG
17 28 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 121 (3.08%) Windows
2 62 (1.58%) Linux
3 27 (0.69%) Unix
4 22 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 21 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.38%) Android
8 13 (0.33%) VMS
9 11 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.13%) Solaris
11 4 (0.10%) CentOS
12 2 (0.051%) AIX
13 1 (0.025%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,266 (32.21%) Agile
2 703 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
3 596 (15.16%) Project Management
4 579 (14.73%) Migration
5 570 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 533 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 480 (12.21%) Change Management
8 457 (11.63%) Roadmaps
9 402 (10.23%) Project Delivery
10 387 (9.84%) Decision-Making
11 379 (9.64%) DevOps
12 352 (8.95%) Analytics
13 346 (8.80%) Risk Management
14 325 (8.27%) Scrum
15 320 (8.14%) Requirements Gathering
16 318 (8.09%) Workshop Facilitation
17 305 (7.76%) User Acceptance Testing
18 278 (7.07%) AI
18 278 (7.07%) Validation
19 271 (6.89%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 316 (8.04%) SQL
2 269 (6.84%) Python
3 89 (2.26%) PowerShell
4 79 (2.01%) Java
5 55 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 50 (1.27%) C#
7 32 (0.81%) Bash
8 24 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 23 (0.59%) VBA
10 17 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.41%) Korn
12 13 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 12 (0.31%) R
14 11 (0.28%) Bicep
15 9 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.23%) VB
16 8 (0.20%) ABAP
17 6 (0.15%) C++
17 6 (0.15%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.10%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 727 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 568 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 386 (9.82%) Degree
4 200 (5.09%) PMI Certification
5 189 (4.81%) PMP
6 97 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 74 (1.88%) DV Cleared
9 65 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 50 (1.27%) CISSP
11 38 (0.97%) CISM
12 35 (0.89%) CBAP
13 32 (0.81%) Azure Certification
14 28 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 27 (0.69%) AWS Certification
16 25 (0.64%) IIBA
17 23 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
18 20 (0.51%) APMP
18 20 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
18 20 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (6.77%) QA
2 227 (5.77%) GDPR
3 162 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 152 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 141 (3.59%) PMO
6 136 (3.46%) NIST
7 72 (1.83%) PCI DSS
8 66 (1.68%) GRC
9 47 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 44 (1.12%) Accessibility
10 44 (1.12%) SLA
11 43 (1.09%) NCSC
12 28 (0.71%) COBIT
12 28 (0.71%) IFRS
13 18 (0.46%) IFRS 17
13 18 (0.46%) PSD2
13 18 (0.46%) WCAG
14 14 (0.36%) Basel III
14 14 (0.36%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 95 (2.42%) Docker
2 65 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.15%) vSphere
7 5 (0.13%) NFS
7 5 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.051%) Postfix
9 2 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.025%) Firmware
10 1 (0.025%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.025%) IAG
10 1 (0.025%) NDS
10 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.025%) SRDF
10 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.025%) XenApp
10 1 (0.025%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 133 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 81 (2.06%) Terraform
3 48 (1.22%) Ansible
4 42 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (0.71%) Grafana
6 19 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.46%) SCCM
8 17 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.15%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.15%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.10%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.10%) vMotion
13 3 (0.076%) Control-M
13 3 (0.076%) Puppet
14 2 (0.051%) Nagios
Vendors
1 466 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 327 (8.32%) SAP
3 228 (5.80%) Oracle
4 189 (4.81%) ServiceNow
5 145 (3.69%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.21%) Google
7 83 (2.11%) Workday
8 61 (1.55%) Databricks
9 55 (1.40%) VMware
10 45 (1.14%) Splunk
11 43 (1.09%) Cisco
11 43 (1.09%) IBM
12 34 (0.86%) CyberArk
13 32 (0.81%) Ariba
13 32 (0.81%) Fortinet
14 29 (0.74%) Citrix
15 26 (0.66%) Adobe
16 25 (0.64%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.59%) F5
17 23 (0.59%) OpenAI