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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,639 2,272 3,130
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.23% 8.52% 8.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.78% 9.53% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,494 1,415 2,176
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £448 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £640 £650 £650
90th Percentile £754 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 51 92
10th Percentile £15.00 £35.00 £22.16
25th Percentile £23.50 £36.50 £31.98
Median hourly rate £44.75 £56.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% +13.00% -4.24%
75th Percentile £68.49 £66.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £90.75 £80.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £54.00 £50.53
% change year-on-year -25.00% +6.87% -4.61%

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 28,483 23,837 32,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.40% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,219 14,596 22,102
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,784 766 1,805
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -8.41% +9.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -10.55% +16.41%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 1,850 £550 - 496
North of England +3 555 £475 -9.52% 263
Midlands 0 453 £488 -7.14% 210
South East +8 409 £538 +2.38% 554
West Midlands -5 287 £500 -4.76% 118
North West +2 285 £463 -9.98% 125
Yorkshire +8 241 £500 - 107
South West +11 190 £550 +4.76% 160
East Midlands +14 166 £455 -3.70% 88
East of England -2 102 £550 - 190
North East +3 44 £450 -22.58% 32
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
1 256 (7.03%) Confluence
2 109 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.04%) SAS
4 31 (0.85%) CMS
4 31 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.38%) Appian
6 11 (0.30%) TPMS
7 7 (0.19%) Apache
7 7 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.19%) Camunda
8 6 (0.16%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.11%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.082%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.082%) nginx
11 3 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 208 (5.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 120 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
3 106 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (1.98%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.44%) Trello
6 13 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.055%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.055%) InVision
11 1 (0.027%) Blender
11 1 (0.027%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.027%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.027%) Simulink
11 1 (0.027%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.027%) UXPin
11 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 134 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 21 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 20 (0.55%) Workday HCM
6 19 (0.52%) Endur
7 16 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
7 16 (0.44%) Primavera
8 14 (0.38%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.38%) SAP EWM
9 13 (0.36%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.36%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
10 12 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.27%) Loan IQ
11 10 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
11 10 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
12 9 (0.25%) SAP HCM
12 9 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 526 (14.45%) Azure
2 361 (9.92%) AWS
3 238 (6.54%) Power Platform
4 163 (4.48%) GCP
5 113 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
6 107 (2.94%) SaaS
7 104 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 78 (2.14%) Entra ID
9 62 (1.70%) OpenShift
10 45 (1.24%) GitHub
11 44 (1.21%) OCI
12 42 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
13 39 (1.07%) Serverless
14 35 (0.96%) Power Automate
14 35 (0.96%) Snowflake
15 30 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
16 27 (0.74%) Google Workspace
17 26 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
18 25 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 75 (2.06%) Firewall
2 38 (1.04%) WAN
3 32 (0.88%) Network Security
4 28 (0.77%) LAN
4 28 (0.77%) SD-WAN
5 27 (0.74%) VPN
6 26 (0.71%) DNS
7 24 (0.66%) SSH
8 18 (0.49%) MPLS
8 18 (0.49%) SSL
9 16 (0.44%) BGP
10 14 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.36%) Broadband
11 13 (0.36%) Wireless
12 12 (0.33%) DHCP
13 11 (0.30%) Internet
13 11 (0.30%) OSPF
13 11 (0.30%) SNMP
14 10 (0.27%) Intranet
15 9 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (5.94%) Power BI
2 71 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (1.95%) Tableau
3 53 (1.46%) Metadata
4 29 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 27 (0.74%) Data Lake
5 27 (0.74%) Power Query
6 24 (0.66%) Relational Database
7 23 (0.63%) BigQuery
7 23 (0.63%) SQL Server
8 20 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (0.52%) MySQL
9 19 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 17 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (0.30%) RDBMS
13 11 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 448 (12.31%) JIRA
2 74 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 69 (1.90%) Git
4 53 (1.46%) GitLab
5 28 (0.77%) Selenium
6 22 (0.60%) JUnit
7 17 (0.47%) Maven
8 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.25%) MLflow
10 8 (0.22%) Gradle
10 8 (0.22%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.19%) Mockito
11 7 (0.19%) Postman
11 7 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
14 4 (0.11%) Axure RP
14 4 (0.11%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 1,969 (54.11%) Social Skills
2 1,223 (33.61%) Finance
3 617 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 356 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 349 (9.59%) Banking
6 187 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
7 151 (4.15%) Retail
8 149 (4.09%) Legal
9 130 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 128 (3.52%) Marketing
11 114 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 111 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
13 106 (2.91%) Manufacturing
14 105 (2.89%) Telecoms
15 71 (1.95%) Front Office
16 60 (1.65%) Law
17 55 (1.51%) Financial Institution
18 54 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 52 (1.43%) Investment Banking
20 43 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 717 (19.70%) Analyst
2 531 (14.59%) Project Manager
3 518 (14.23%) Business Analyst
4 416 (11.43%) Lead
5 412 (11.32%) Architect
6 319 (8.77%) Senior
7 236 (6.49%) Consultant
8 160 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 134 (3.68%) Programme Manager
10 131 (3.60%) Senior Manager
11 99 (2.72%) IT Manager
12 94 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
13 85 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
14 78 (2.14%) Data Analyst
15 75 (2.06%) Change Manager
16 72 (1.98%) Senior Business Analyst
17 68 (1.87%) Developer
17 68 (1.87%) Product Owner
18 67 (1.84%) Technical Manager
19 66 (1.81%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (2.64%) REST
2 66 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 40 (1.10%) Middleware
4 39 (1.07%) SOAP
5 35 (0.96%) .NET
6 34 (0.93%) OpenID
7 33 (0.91%) JSON
7 33 (0.91%) OAuth
8 31 (0.85%) Kafka
8 31 (0.85%) SAML
9 30 (0.82%) XML
10 27 (0.74%) HTML
11 26 (0.71%) RESTful
12 24 (0.66%) SailPoint
13 22 (0.60%) React
14 21 (0.58%) LDAP
15 20 (0.55%) pytest
16 19 (0.52%) Spring Boot
17 18 (0.49%) CSS
18 17 (0.47%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 291 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 189 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 112 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 99 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
5 98 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 89 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 79 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 78 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 58 (1.59%) PMI
10 50 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 40 (1.10%) NHS
12 37 (1.02%) CMDB
12 37 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
13 35 (0.96%) Operational Technology
14 34 (0.93%) Public Cloud
15 29 (0.80%) Data Structures
15 29 (0.80%) Virtual Team
16 27 (0.74%) FMCG
17 25 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
18 24 (0.66%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 102 (2.80%) Windows
2 52 (1.43%) Linux
3 28 (0.77%) Unix
4 21 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.36%) VMS
7 12 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.11%) CentOS
10 4 (0.11%) Solaris
11 3 (0.082%) Android
12 1 (0.027%) AIX
12 1 (0.027%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,187 (32.62%) Agile
2 678 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
3 588 (16.16%) Project Management
4 525 (14.43%) Migration
5 514 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 514 (14.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 438 (12.04%) Change Management
7 425 (11.68%) Roadmaps
8 418 (11.49%) Project Delivery
9 349 (9.59%) DevOps
10 347 (9.54%) Decision-Making
11 317 (8.71%) Risk Management
12 315 (8.66%) Analytics
13 303 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
13 303 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
14 300 (8.24%) Scrum
15 270 (7.42%) User Acceptance Testing
16 268 (7.36%) Business Intelligence
17 265 (7.28%) Waterfall
18 249 (6.84%) AI
Programming Languages
1 283 (7.78%) SQL
2 251 (6.90%) Python
3 77 (2.12%) PowerShell
4 76 (2.09%) Java
5 50 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 43 (1.18%) C#
7 33 (0.91%) Bash
8 23 (0.63%) VBA
9 20 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.44%) R
11 13 (0.36%) Korn
12 12 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.25%) Bicep
14 7 (0.19%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.16%) ABAP
15 6 (0.16%) C++
15 6 (0.16%) VB
16 4 (0.11%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 634 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 488 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 371 (10.20%) Degree
4 196 (5.39%) PMI Certification
5 177 (4.86%) PMP
6 86 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 72 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 71 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 66 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 56 (1.54%) CISSP
11 38 (1.04%) CISM
12 36 (0.99%) CBAP
13 30 (0.82%) Azure Certification
14 27 (0.74%) AWS Certification
15 25 (0.69%) ISTQB
16 23 (0.63%) IIBA
17 22 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
19 20 (0.55%) ACCA
20 19 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (6.43%) QA
2 220 (6.05%) GDPR
3 139 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 129 (3.54%) Data Quality
5 128 (3.52%) PMO
6 121 (3.33%) NIST
7 65 (1.79%) PCI DSS
8 57 (1.57%) GRC
9 45 (1.24%) SLA
10 43 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 38 (1.04%) Accessibility
11 38 (1.04%) NCSC
12 27 (0.74%) IFRS
13 21 (0.58%) PSD2
14 17 (0.47%) COBIT
15 15 (0.41%) IFRS 17
15 15 (0.41%) WCAG
16 14 (0.38%) HIPAA
16 14 (0.38%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.36%) Basel III
System Software
1 85 (2.34%) Docker
2 65 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.16%) vSphere
7 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.11%) NFS
9 3 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.027%) Firmware
11 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.027%) IAG
11 1 (0.027%) NDS
11 1 (0.027%) NetIQ eDirectory
11 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.027%) SRDF
11 1 (0.027%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.027%) XenApp
11 1 (0.027%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 124 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 86 (2.36%) Terraform
3 47 (1.29%) Ansible
4 29 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.58%) Grafana
6 18 (0.49%) SCCM
6 18 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.33%) FortiGate
7 12 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 6 (0.16%) Kibana
9 6 (0.16%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.082%) Control-M
12 3 (0.082%) Nessus
12 3 (0.082%) vMotion
Vendors
1 438 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 309 (8.49%) SAP
3 211 (5.80%) Oracle
4 155 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 138 (3.79%) Salesforce
6 90 (2.47%) Workday
7 85 (2.34%) Google
8 54 (1.48%) Databricks
9 45 (1.24%) VMware
10 44 (1.21%) Splunk
11 43 (1.18%) IBM
12 42 (1.15%) Cisco
13 35 (0.96%) CyberArk
14 31 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 30 (0.82%) Ariba
16 28 (0.77%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.66%) Adobe
18 22 (0.60%) Citrix
18 22 (0.60%) F5
18 22 (0.60%) Planview