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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,481 2,287 3,034
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.18% 8.49% 8.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.66% 9.53% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,381 1,427 2,081
10th Percentile £365 £366 £375
25th Percentile £447 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 51 88
10th Percentile £17.00 £35.00 £23.14
25th Percentile £30.97 £36.50 £31.98
Median hourly rate £46.47 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% +15.00% -4.39%
75th Percentile £69.99 £70.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £92.75 £80.59 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £40.78 £55.25 £51.06
% change year-on-year -26.19% +8.22% -4.54%

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 27,490 23,991 31,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.32% 89.05% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,508 14,731 21,614
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,729 768 1,481
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +7 1,767 £550 - 462
North of England +3 529 £475 -9.52% 214
Midlands -2 418 £485 -7.62% 181
South East +10 395 £525 - 438
West Midlands -5 278 £500 -4.76% 93
North West +6 273 £475 -9.52% 92
Yorkshire +9 229 £492 -1.60% 99
South West +15 195 £550 +10.00% 118
East Midlands +8 140 £450 -4.76% 85
East of England -3 101 £525 -4.55% 135
North East +10 40 £450 -27.92% 25
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
1 244 (7.01%) Confluence
2 111 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.95%) SAS
4 30 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.78%) CMS
6 12 (0.34%) Appian
7 9 (0.26%) TPMS
8 7 (0.20%) Apache
8 7 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.20%) Camunda
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.086%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.086%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.086%) nginx
11 3 (0.086%) WebSphere
Applications
1 200 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
3 113 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
4 101 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 68 (1.95%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.52%) Trello
7 12 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.057%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.057%) InVision
12 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.029%) Blender
12 1 (0.029%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.029%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.029%) Simulink
12 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 129 (3.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.57%) Endur
4 20 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 17 (0.49%) Aladdin
6 16 (0.46%) Primavera
6 16 (0.46%) SAP HCM
7 14 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.37%) SAP EWM
9 12 (0.34%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.34%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
12 9 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
12 9 (0.26%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.26%) SAP PP
12 9 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 507 (14.56%) Azure
2 341 (9.80%) AWS
3 236 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 162 (4.65%) GCP
5 114 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
6 105 (3.02%) SaaS
7 96 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (2.04%) Entra ID
9 51 (1.47%) OpenShift
10 43 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (1.18%) GitHub
11 41 (1.18%) OCI
12 39 (1.12%) Serverless
13 35 (1.01%) Power Automate
14 31 (0.89%) Snowflake
15 29 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
16 28 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
17 27 (0.78%) PowerApps
18 24 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
19 23 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 78 (2.24%) Firewall
2 35 (1.01%) WAN
3 30 (0.86%) Network Security
4 27 (0.78%) VPN
5 26 (0.75%) SD-WAN
6 25 (0.72%) LAN
7 23 (0.66%) DNS
7 23 (0.66%) SSH
8 16 (0.46%) SSL
9 14 (0.40%) MPLS
9 14 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.37%) BGP
10 13 (0.37%) Wireless
11 12 (0.34%) Broadband
12 11 (0.32%) Internet
12 11 (0.32%) Intranet
13 10 (0.29%) DHCP
14 9 (0.26%) OSPF
14 9 (0.26%) SNMP
14 9 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (6.03%) Power BI
2 70 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (1.90%) Tableau
4 51 (1.47%) Metadata
5 28 (0.80%) Data Lake
6 26 (0.75%) Power Query
7 25 (0.72%) NoSQL
8 23 (0.66%) Relational Database
9 22 (0.63%) BigQuery
10 21 (0.60%) SQL Server
11 20 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (0.55%) MySQL
12 19 (0.55%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.49%) DynamoDB
14 16 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
17 11 (0.32%) Big Data
17 11 (0.32%) RDBMS
17 11 (0.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 432 (12.41%) JIRA
2 71 (2.04%) Git
3 64 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.38%) GitLab
5 29 (0.83%) Selenium
6 21 (0.60%) JUnit
7 17 (0.49%) Maven
8 12 (0.34%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.26%) MLflow
11 8 (0.23%) Gradle
12 7 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
12 7 (0.20%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.17%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) Postman
14 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
15 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 1,852 (53.20%) Social Skills
2 1,149 (33.01%) Finance
3 592 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 337 (9.68%) Banking
5 330 (9.48%) Public Sector
6 178 (5.11%) Influencing Skills
7 148 (4.25%) Retail
8 147 (4.22%) Legal
9 130 (3.73%) Marketing
10 110 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
11 108 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
11 108 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
12 100 (2.87%) Manufacturing
13 98 (2.82%) Telecoms
14 72 (2.07%) Front Office
15 57 (1.64%) Law
16 54 (1.55%) Financial Institution
17 52 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 52 (1.49%) Investment Banking
18 46 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 682 (19.59%) Analyst
2 522 (15.00%) Project Manager
3 491 (14.11%) Business Analyst
4 387 (11.12%) Lead
5 376 (10.80%) Architect
6 288 (8.27%) Senior
7 240 (6.89%) Consultant
8 143 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
9 123 (3.53%) Programme Manager
10 114 (3.27%) Senior Manager
11 90 (2.59%) IT Manager
12 82 (2.36%) Delivery Manager
13 78 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
14 77 (2.21%) Data Analyst
15 70 (2.01%) Product Owner
16 67 (1.92%) Developer
16 67 (1.92%) Technical Manager
17 66 (1.90%) Change Manager
17 66 (1.90%) Senior Business Analyst
18 64 (1.84%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (2.53%) REST
2 60 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
3 36 (1.03%) SOAP
4 35 (1.01%) Middleware
5 31 (0.89%) JSON
5 31 (0.89%) Kafka
6 30 (0.86%) .NET
6 30 (0.86%) OAuth
7 28 (0.80%) XML
8 25 (0.72%) HTML
9 24 (0.69%) RESTful
9 24 (0.69%) SailPoint
10 22 (0.63%) OpenID
11 19 (0.55%) pytest
11 19 (0.55%) React
11 19 (0.55%) Spring Boot
12 17 (0.49%) ADO
12 17 (0.49%) SAML
13 16 (0.46%) Playwright
14 15 (0.43%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 274 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 173 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 99 (2.84%) Cloud Native
4 90 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 87 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 84 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 83 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 76 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 56 (1.61%) PMI
10 49 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (1.06%) CMDB
13 34 (0.98%) NHS
14 28 (0.80%) Operational Technology
14 28 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 27 (0.78%) Data Structures
16 25 (0.72%) FMCG
16 25 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
16 25 (0.72%) Public Cloud
16 25 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 102 (2.93%) Windows
2 50 (1.44%) Linux
3 32 (0.92%) Unix
4 21 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.34%) VMS
7 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.11%) CentOS
9 4 (0.11%) Solaris
10 3 (0.086%) Android
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,128 (32.40%) Agile
2 654 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
3 567 (16.29%) Project Management
4 490 (14.08%) Migration
5 487 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 486 (13.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 420 (12.07%) Roadmaps
8 419 (12.04%) Change Management
9 403 (11.58%) Project Delivery
10 323 (9.28%) Decision-Making
11 314 (9.02%) DevOps
12 301 (8.65%) Risk Management
13 290 (8.33%) Analytics
14 289 (8.30%) Scrum
15 284 (8.16%) Workshop Facilitation
16 282 (8.10%) Requirements Gathering
17 261 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
18 257 (7.38%) Waterfall
19 239 (6.87%) Cybersecurity
20 237 (6.81%) AI
Programming Languages
1 265 (7.61%) SQL
2 244 (7.01%) Python
3 76 (2.18%) Java
3 76 (2.18%) PowerShell
4 50 (1.44%) JavaScript
5 38 (1.09%) C#
6 33 (0.95%) Bash
7 24 (0.69%) VBA
8 18 (0.52%) TypeScript
9 17 (0.49%) R
10 15 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 14 (0.40%) Korn
12 13 (0.37%) ABAP
13 12 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.20%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.20%) VB
15 6 (0.17%) Bicep
15 6 (0.17%) C++
16 4 (0.11%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 584 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 446 (12.81%) SC Cleared
3 349 (10.03%) Degree
4 190 (5.46%) PMI Certification
5 170 (4.88%) PMP
6 80 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 67 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 62 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 62 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 54 (1.55%) CISSP
10 35 (1.01%) CISM
11 32 (0.92%) CBAP
12 27 (0.78%) Azure Certification
13 24 (0.69%) AWS Certification
14 23 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
16 21 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.57%) ACCA
18 19 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
19 17 (0.49%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (6.35%) QA
2 207 (5.95%) GDPR
3 128 (3.68%) PMO
4 118 (3.39%) Data Quality
5 114 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 98 (2.82%) NIST
7 53 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 49 (1.41%) GRC
9 40 (1.15%) SLA
10 39 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 34 (0.98%) Accessibility
12 23 (0.66%) IFRS
12 23 (0.66%) NCSC
13 16 (0.46%) PSD2
14 14 (0.40%) COBIT
14 14 (0.40%) WCAG
15 13 (0.37%) Basel III
15 13 (0.37%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.37%) MiFID
16 12 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 81 (2.33%) Docker
2 64 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.17%) vSphere
6 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.086%) NFS
7 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.057%) Firmware
8 2 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.029%) IAG
9 1 (0.029%) NDS
9 1 (0.029%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.029%) SRDF
9 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.029%) XenApp
9 1 (0.029%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 107 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 80 (2.30%) Terraform
3 43 (1.24%) Ansible
4 31 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.63%) Grafana
6 19 (0.55%) SCCM
7 16 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.32%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.17%) Kibana
11 6 (0.17%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.14%) Puppet
13 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.086%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.086%) Argo
14 3 (0.086%) Control-M
14 3 (0.086%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.086%) Nessus
Vendors
1 428 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 307 (8.82%) SAP
3 204 (5.86%) Oracle
4 152 (4.37%) ServiceNow
5 132 (3.79%) Salesforce
6 89 (2.56%) Workday
7 76 (2.18%) Google
8 53 (1.52%) Databricks
9 44 (1.26%) IBM
10 41 (1.18%) VMware
11 36 (1.03%) Cisco
12 30 (0.86%) Ariba
13 29 (0.83%) Splunk
14 28 (0.80%) Fortinet
15 27 (0.78%) MuleSoft
16 25 (0.72%) Adobe
17 24 (0.69%) Planview
18 22 (0.63%) Citrix
19 20 (0.57%) CyberArk
20 19 (0.55%) F5