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

6 months to
26 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 4,967 2,574 2,734
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.44% 10.21% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.41% 11.17% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,346 1,749 1,951
10th Percentile £375 £356 £358
25th Percentile £456 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £739 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 62 78
10th Percentile £23.73 £31.64 £21.04
25th Percentile £33.59 £41.78 £37.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 £54.01 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.79% -9.99% +12.53%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £74.89
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.63 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +9.81% -10.83% +12.53%

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 37,044 23,037 31,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.39% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,386 14,872 20,693
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £417 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -4.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,321 1,118 2,341
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 26 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 26 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 26 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 2,560 £551 -4.26% 852
North of England -2 722 £500 - 284
South East +5 636 £550 +4.76% 506
Midlands +2 526 £500 - 191
West Midlands 0 377 £500 -4.76% 114
North West 0 359 £500 -0.89% 169
Yorkshire +4 331 £500 +3.04% 93
South West +15 283 £550 +4.76% 126
East Midlands +11 141 £465 +7.51% 75
East of England +2 140 £525 -10.64% 94
North East -13 45 £478 +6.11% 27
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 (5.82%) Confluence
2 137 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.11%) CMS
4 38 (0.77%) SAS
5 23 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.28%) Apache
8 11 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.20%) Appian
10 8 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.14%) WordPress
12 6 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.10%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.10%) Kentico
14 4 (0.081%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.081%) TPMS
15 3 (0.060%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 3 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.060%) WebSphere
Applications
1 230 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 139 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
3 121 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 120 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.24%) Revit
9 10 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.081%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.081%) Trello
11 3 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.060%) Notion
11 3 (0.060%) Sketch
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.040%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.040%) Windchill
13 1 (0.020%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 162 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 24 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 23 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 20 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 19 (0.38%) Aladdin
8 18 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
9 15 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
10 14 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 14 (0.28%) Workday HCM
11 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.24%) Finacle
12 12 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
13 11 (0.22%) SAP FI
14 10 (0.20%) Loan IQ
14 10 (0.20%) SAP CO
14 10 (0.20%) SAP QM
15 9 (0.18%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 785 (15.80%) Azure
2 563 (11.33%) AWS
3 294 (5.92%) Power Platform
4 204 (4.11%) GCP
5 170 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
6 169 (3.40%) SaaS
7 119 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
8 97 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 81 (1.63%) Snowflake
10 69 (1.39%) GitHub
11 57 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
11 57 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
12 51 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 51 (1.03%) OCI
13 50 (1.01%) Amazon S3
13 50 (1.01%) Serverless
14 38 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (0.77%) Power Automate
15 37 (0.74%) Figma
15 37 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (1.75%) Firewall
1 87 (1.75%) Network Security
2 64 (1.29%) WAN
3 48 (0.97%) LAN
4 44 (0.89%) DNS
5 37 (0.74%) SD-WAN
6 31 (0.62%) VPN
7 30 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 28 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (0.48%) BGP
10 20 (0.40%) DHCP
10 20 (0.40%) OSPF
11 19 (0.38%) MPLS
12 14 (0.28%) BIG-IP
12 14 (0.28%) NGFW
12 14 (0.28%) Wireless
13 12 (0.24%) Intranet
13 12 (0.24%) SAN
13 12 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
14 11 (0.22%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (4.89%) Power BI
2 107 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (1.81%) Metadata
4 63 (1.27%) SQL Server
5 61 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 60 (1.21%) Tableau
7 42 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 33 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 33 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (0.54%) NoSQL
10 27 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
11 25 (0.50%) Oracle Database
12 24 (0.48%) DynamoDB
13 21 (0.42%) Big Data
14 19 (0.38%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
16 15 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 547 (11.01%) JIRA
2 79 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 69 (1.39%) Git
4 43 (0.87%) GitLab
5 33 (0.66%) Selenium
6 28 (0.56%) JUnit
7 22 (0.44%) Postman
8 15 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.26%) JMeter
10 13 (0.26%) Maven
10 13 (0.26%) Mockito
11 10 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.20%) DbUnit
11 10 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (0.18%) jMock
12 9 (0.18%) MLflow
12 9 (0.18%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.18%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,500 (50.33%) Social Skills
2 1,780 (35.84%) Finance
3 753 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
4 592 (11.92%) Public Sector
5 465 (9.36%) Banking
6 290 (5.84%) Retail
7 245 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
8 224 (4.51%) Legal
9 184 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
10 183 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
11 163 (3.28%) Marketing
12 143 (2.88%) Manufacturing
13 126 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
14 113 (2.28%) Telecoms
15 92 (1.85%) Local Government
16 85 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 77 (1.55%) Financial Institution
18 68 (1.37%) Front Office
18 68 (1.37%) Law
19 67 (1.35%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 762 (15.34%) Analyst
2 712 (14.33%) Lead
3 705 (14.19%) Project Manager
4 579 (11.66%) Architect
5 524 (10.55%) Senior
6 516 (10.39%) Business Analyst
7 239 (4.81%) Consultant
8 225 (4.53%) Senior Manager
9 215 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
10 179 (3.60%) Programme Manager
11 168 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
12 152 (3.06%) IT Manager
13 114 (2.30%) Senior Project Manager
14 107 (2.15%) Product Manager
15 102 (2.05%) Product Owner
16 94 (1.89%) Technical Manager
17 92 (1.85%) Change Manager
18 88 (1.77%) Senior Analyst
19 87 (1.75%) Developer
20 84 (1.69%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.56%) REST
2 84 (1.69%) Middleware
3 81 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 69 (1.39%) SOAP
5 55 (1.11%) .NET
6 43 (0.87%) JSON
6 43 (0.87%) OAuth
7 35 (0.70%) Kafka
7 35 (0.70%) PySpark
8 34 (0.68%) Spring
8 34 (0.68%) XML
9 33 (0.66%) OpenID
10 31 (0.62%) AngularJS
10 31 (0.62%) CSS
10 31 (0.62%) RESTful
10 31 (0.62%) SailPoint
10 31 (0.62%) SAML
11 29 (0.58%) Web Services
12 28 (0.56%) HTML
12 28 (0.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 366 (7.37%) Product Ownership
2 246 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 168 (3.38%) Cloud Native
4 152 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 139 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 122 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 113 (2.28%) Data Centre
8 89 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 87 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 79 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 66 (1.33%) NHS
12 63 (1.27%) Operational Technology
13 61 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
14 58 (1.17%) Security Posture
15 57 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
16 51 (1.03%) Public Cloud
17 49 (0.99%) CMDB
18 48 (0.97%) FMCG
19 44 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
20 43 (0.87%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 147 (2.96%) Windows
2 79 (1.59%) Linux
3 31 (0.62%) Android
4 28 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.48%) Unix
5 24 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.12%) VMS
9 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.081%) AIX
10 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.081%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.081%) zOS
11 3 (0.060%) Solaris
12 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.040%) HPUX
13 1 (0.020%) CentOS
13 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,631 (32.84%) Agile
2 800 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 771 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
4 710 (14.29%) Migration
5 672 (13.53%) Roadmaps
6 669 (13.47%) Project Management
7 659 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 589 (11.86%) DevOps
9 576 (11.60%) Decision-Making
10 552 (11.11%) Change Management
11 547 (11.01%) Project Delivery
12 506 (10.19%) Analytics
13 492 (9.91%) AI
14 484 (9.74%) Risk Management
15 429 (8.64%) User Acceptance Testing
16 411 (8.27%) Validation
17 406 (8.17%) CI/CD
18 385 (7.75%) Scrum
19 384 (7.73%) Workshop Facilitation
20 374 (7.53%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 411 (8.27%) SQL
2 271 (5.46%) Python
3 103 (2.07%) Java
4 67 (1.35%) PowerShell
5 55 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 49 (0.99%) C#
7 23 (0.46%) VBA
8 22 (0.44%) Bash
9 20 (0.40%) Korn
9 20 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 19 (0.38%) Bicep
11 17 (0.34%) ABAP
12 14 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.22%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.20%) R
14 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 993 (19.99%) Security Cleared
2 754 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 368 (7.41%) Degree
4 263 (5.29%) PMP
5 233 (4.69%) PMI Certification
6 142 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 139 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 108 (2.17%) CISSP
9 77 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 75 (1.51%) CISM
11 58 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 48 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 47 (0.95%) AWS Certification
14 46 (0.93%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
15 31 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 29 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
17 28 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.56%) ACCA
18 26 (0.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 272 (5.48%) QA
3 243 (4.89%) PMO
4 215 (4.33%) GDPR
5 163 (3.28%) NIST
6 143 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 87 (1.75%) GRC
8 82 (1.65%) SLA
9 77 (1.55%) Accessibility
10 57 (1.15%) NCSC
11 49 (0.99%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 34 (0.68%) COBIT
14 32 (0.64%) IFRS
15 31 (0.62%) SOC 2
16 19 (0.38%) WCAG
17 18 (0.36%) JSP 440
18 17 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
18 17 (0.34%) IFRS 17
19 16 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 98 (1.97%) Docker
2 80 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.24%) Postfix
5 12 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.22%) NFS
7 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.081%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.081%) SRDF
9 4 (0.081%) Varnish
10 3 (0.060%) HDFS
10 3 (0.060%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.040%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.040%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.020%) NLBS
12 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 144 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 120 (2.42%) Terraform
3 72 (1.45%) Ansible
4 43 (0.87%) Grafana
5 37 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.36%) SCCM
8 10 (0.20%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.14%) Argo
10 7 (0.14%) RSA Archer
10 7 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.12%) Puppet
12 5 (0.10%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.10%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.081%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.081%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.081%) vMotion
Vendors
1 613 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 400 (8.05%) SAP
3 270 (5.44%) Oracle
4 261 (5.25%) ServiceNow
5 193 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 103 (2.07%) Databricks
7 96 (1.93%) Google
8 74 (1.49%) VMware
9 70 (1.41%) Workday
10 55 (1.11%) Cisco
11 48 (0.97%) CyberArk
12 42 (0.85%) Adobe
12 42 (0.85%) Splunk
13 34 (0.68%) MuleSoft
14 33 (0.66%) Informatica
15 31 (0.62%) Ariba
16 29 (0.58%) IBM
17 27 (0.54%) F5
18 25 (0.50%) Atlassian
18 25 (0.50%) Citrix