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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,185 2,245 2,935
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.00% 9.25% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.78% 10.19% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,890 1,554 2,066
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £447 £440 £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 £744 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 63 80
10th Percentile £15.00 £35.00 £15.02
25th Percentile £28.00 £41.39 £27.48
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 £94.63 £80.00 £83.51
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £60.00 £46.39
% change year-on-year -33.75% +29.34% -17.75%

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 32,752 22,033 32,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.76% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,983 14,520 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £312 £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 £615 £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 2,011 860 2,165
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.34 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +9 2,132 £550 -4.35% 628
North of England -1 598 £475 -6.59% 223
Midlands +3 524 £485 -3.00% 151
South East +6 510 £563 +7.66% 338
West Midlands -2 353 £492 -6.29% 98
North West -3 295 £455 -11.24% 116
Yorkshire +5 273 £500 - 91
South West +23 226 £549 +0.27% 94
East Midlands +5 169 £450 - 53
East of England -1 117 £575 +4.55% 98
North East -3 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 (7.31%) Confluence
2 127 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 51 (1.22%) SAS
4 38 (0.91%) CMS
5 34 (0.81%) 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%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.14%) Camunda
12 4 (0.096%) nginx
12 4 (0.096%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.072%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.072%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 229 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
3 111 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
5 81 (1.94%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.31%) Trello
8 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.17%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) 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%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.024%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.024%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.024%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 129 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
3 42 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 17 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 16 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 14 (0.33%) Endur
7 14 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.29%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 12 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
11 9 (0.22%) SAP EWM
11 9 (0.22%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 619 (14.79%) Azure
2 425 (10.16%) AWS
3 249 (5.95%) Power Platform
4 174 (4.16%) GCP
5 141 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
7 105 (2.51%) SaaS
8 90 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.51%) OpenShift
10 57 (1.36%) OCI
11 53 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
12 48 (1.15%) Snowflake
13 42 (1.00%) GitHub
14 41 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
14 41 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
15 38 (0.91%) Power Automate
16 34 (0.81%) Google Workspace
17 32 (0.76%) Figma
17 32 (0.76%) Serverless
18 30 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 72 (1.72%) Firewall
2 54 (1.29%) Network Security
3 52 (1.24%) WAN
4 42 (1.00%) LAN
5 36 (0.86%) SD-WAN
6 33 (0.79%) DNS
7 28 (0.67%) VPN
8 26 (0.62%) BGP
9 25 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.53%) OSPF
11 19 (0.45%) MPLS
12 18 (0.43%) TCP/IP
13 17 (0.41%) SSL
14 15 (0.36%) SSH
15 14 (0.33%) DHCP
15 14 (0.33%) Wireless
16 12 (0.29%) Broadband
16 12 (0.29%) NGFW
17 11 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
17 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (5.02%) Power BI
2 88 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (1.72%) Tableau
4 66 (1.58%) Metadata
5 38 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 37 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 33 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
8 28 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 28 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.60%) Oracle Database
10 24 (0.57%) Power Query
11 23 (0.55%) Relational Database
12 20 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (0.43%) MySQL
14 17 (0.41%) Big Data
15 16 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
17 13 (0.31%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.31%) DynamoDB
18 11 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 517 (12.35%) JIRA
2 92 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 87 (2.08%) Git
4 58 (1.39%) GitLab
5 44 (1.05%) Selenium
6 39 (0.93%) JUnit
7 16 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.33%) Maven
9 13 (0.31%) Postman
10 12 (0.29%) JMeter
10 12 (0.29%) Mockito
10 12 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.24%) MLflow
12 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.24%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
14 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
14 7 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 2,157 (51.54%) Social Skills
2 1,445 (34.53%) Finance
3 673 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 454 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 404 (9.65%) Banking
6 200 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
7 183 (4.37%) Retail
8 160 (3.82%) Legal
9 147 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
10 140 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
11 136 (3.25%) Marketing
12 124 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
13 104 (2.49%) Telecoms
14 100 (2.39%) Manufacturing
15 84 (2.01%) Financial Institution
16 67 (1.60%) Law
17 63 (1.51%) Front Office
18 61 (1.46%) Local Government
19 49 (1.17%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 751 (17.95%) Analyst
2 630 (15.05%) Project Manager
3 554 (13.24%) Lead
4 550 (13.14%) Business Analyst
5 452 (10.80%) Architect
6 406 (9.70%) Senior
7 210 (5.02%) Consultant
8 170 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
9 169 (4.04%) Senior Manager
10 168 (4.01%) Programme Manager
11 136 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
12 121 (2.89%) IT Manager
13 90 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
14 87 (2.08%) Data Analyst
15 86 (2.05%) Change Manager
16 83 (1.98%) Senior Project Manager
16 83 (1.98%) Technical Manager
17 76 (1.82%) Product Manager
17 76 (1.82%) Product Owner
18 75 (1.79%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.99%) REST
2 83 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
3 66 (1.58%) Middleware
4 56 (1.34%) SOAP
5 38 (0.91%) JSON
6 37 (0.88%) OAuth
7 35 (0.84%) OpenID
8 34 (0.81%) .NET
9 33 (0.79%) Kafka
10 32 (0.76%) XML
11 31 (0.74%) SAML
12 28 (0.67%) pytest
13 27 (0.65%) React
14 26 (0.62%) AngularJS
14 26 (0.62%) HTML
14 26 (0.62%) RESTful
14 26 (0.62%) Web Services
15 24 (0.57%) Playwright
15 24 (0.57%) Spring
16 22 (0.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 328 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 220 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 127 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 114 (2.72%) Cloud Native
5 106 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 99 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 93 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 77 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 60 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 57 (1.36%) PMI
11 49 (1.17%) NHS
11 49 (1.17%) Public Cloud
11 49 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 44 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 38 (0.91%) Operational Technology
14 37 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (0.86%) CMDB
16 34 (0.81%) FMCG
17 31 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
18 29 (0.69%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.06%) Windows
2 73 (1.74%) Linux
3 29 (0.69%) Unix
4 25 (0.60%) Android
4 25 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.31%) VMS
9 9 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.14%) Solaris
11 3 (0.072%) AIX
12 2 (0.048%) CentOS
13 1 (0.024%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,365 (32.62%) Agile
2 725 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
3 639 (15.27%) Project Management
4 638 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 621 (14.84%) Migration
6 558 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 528 (12.62%) Change Management
8 491 (11.73%) Roadmaps
9 466 (11.14%) Project Delivery
10 464 (11.09%) DevOps
11 435 (10.39%) Decision-Making
12 389 (9.30%) Analytics
13 388 (9.27%) Risk Management
14 366 (8.75%) Scrum
15 347 (8.29%) User Acceptance Testing
16 338 (8.08%) Workshop Facilitation
17 329 (7.86%) Requirements Gathering
18 323 (7.72%) Validation
19 306 (7.31%) AI
20 303 (7.24%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 325 (7.77%) SQL
2 270 (6.45%) Python
3 87 (2.08%) Java
4 86 (2.05%) PowerShell
5 50 (1.19%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.15%) C#
7 28 (0.67%) Bash
8 25 (0.60%) VBA
9 22 (0.53%) TypeScript
10 19 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.38%) R
11 16 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.33%) Korn
13 11 (0.26%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.19%) Bicep
16 7 (0.17%) ABAP
16 7 (0.17%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 846 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 654 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 369 (8.82%) Degree
4 225 (5.38%) PMP
5 223 (5.33%) PMI Certification
6 104 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 96 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 71 (1.70%) CISSP
9 66 (1.58%) Master's Degree
10 61 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 49 (1.17%) CISM
12 38 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.79%) CBAP
14 28 (0.67%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.62%) IIBA
16 25 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
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
1 281 (6.71%) QA
2 240 (5.73%) GDPR
3 198 (4.73%) Data Quality
4 174 (4.16%) PMO
5 168 (4.01%) NIST
6 152 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.77%) GRC
8 65 (1.55%) PCI DSS
9 64 (1.53%) SLA
10 48 (1.15%) NCSC
11 46 (1.10%) Accessibility
12 41 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.72%) IFRS
14 29 (0.69%) COBIT
15 26 (0.62%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.43%) IFRS 17
16 18 (0.43%) PSD2
17 16 (0.38%) WCAG
18 15 (0.36%) HL7
19 14 (0.33%) Basel III
System Software
1 99 (2.37%) Docker
2 70 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 39 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.17%) NFS
5 7 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.14%) Postfix
6 6 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.12%) vSphere
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%) NLBS
10 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.024%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.024%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 143 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 81 (1.94%) Terraform
3 55 (1.31%) Ansible
4 48 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.84%) Grafana
6 24 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.45%) SCCM
9 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 7 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.17%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.096%) Istio
14 4 (0.096%) PingFederate
15 3 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.072%) Kubeflow
15 3 (0.072%) vMotion
Vendors
1 472 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 336 (8.03%) SAP
3 257 (6.14%) Oracle
4 201 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 167 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 92 (2.20%) Google
7 77 (1.84%) Workday
8 72 (1.72%) VMware
9 63 (1.51%) Databricks
10 49 (1.17%) Cisco
11 48 (1.15%) Splunk
12 40 (0.96%) IBM
13 36 (0.86%) CyberArk
14 34 (0.81%) Ariba
15 30 (0.72%) Citrix
16 28 (0.67%) MuleSoft
17 26 (0.62%) Adobe
17 26 (0.62%) F5
17 26 (0.62%) Informatica
18 25 (0.60%) Fortinet