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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,603 2,451 2,765
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.90% 10.02% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.80% 10.97% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,113 1,674 1,958
10th Percentile £375 £358 £358
25th Percentile £450 £436 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £537 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +2.29% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 60 82
10th Percentile £19.08 £31.64 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.50 £42.26 £30.22
Median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +13.27%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.06 £72.90
90th Percentile £104.00 £76.50 £85.58
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +13.27%

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 35,948 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,764 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 2,361 £560 -2.61% 813
North of England 0 690 £500 - 288
South East +3 548 £550 +4.76% 441
Midlands +3 523 £498 -0.50% 187
West Midlands +1 361 £500 -4.76% 120
North West -2 329 £484 -5.10% 164
Yorkshire +7 325 £500 +1.52% 100
South West +17 272 £550 +4.76% 120
East Midlands +9 155 £464 +5.10% 67
East of England 0 131 £525 -8.70% 93
North East -6 50 £463 -9.76% 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
1 281 (6.10%) Confluence
2 133 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.09%) CMS
4 42 (0.91%) SAS
5 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.26%) Apache
7 12 (0.26%) Appian
8 8 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.13%) WordPress
11 5 (0.11%) Kentico
11 5 (0.11%) TPMS
12 4 (0.087%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.065%) nginx
13 3 (0.065%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
13 3 (0.065%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.065%) WebSphere
Applications
1 228 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 131 (2.85%) Microsoft Project
3 123 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 111 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
5 73 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.24%) Revit
8 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.11%) Trello
11 4 (0.087%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.065%) Sketch
13 2 (0.043%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.043%) Notion
14 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
14 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.022%) PlantUML
14 1 (0.022%) UserZoom
14 1 (0.022%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 149 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 58 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 20 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 20 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 17 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
8 16 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
9 15 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 13 (0.28%) SAP ERP
11 12 (0.26%) SAP CO
11 12 (0.26%) SAP FI
12 11 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
12 11 (0.24%) SAP HCM
13 10 (0.22%) Loan IQ
13 10 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
13 10 (0.22%) Workday HCM
14 9 (0.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 710 (15.42%) Azure
2 503 (10.93%) AWS
3 267 (5.80%) Power Platform
4 189 (4.11%) GCP
5 148 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
6 143 (3.11%) SaaS
7 114 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
8 97 (2.11%) Entra ID
9 67 (1.46%) Snowflake
10 59 (1.28%) GitHub
11 52 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
11 52 (1.13%) OCI
12 51 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
13 44 (0.96%) Amazon S3
13 44 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
14 42 (0.91%) Serverless
15 35 (0.76%) Google Workspace
15 35 (0.76%) Power Automate
16 34 (0.74%) Figma
17 33 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.52%) Network Security
2 65 (1.41%) Firewall
3 52 (1.13%) WAN
4 40 (0.87%) LAN
5 35 (0.76%) DNS
6 27 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 23 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 23 (0.50%) VPN
9 21 (0.46%) BGP
10 17 (0.37%) MPLS
10 17 (0.37%) OSPF
11 15 (0.33%) DHCP
12 14 (0.30%) NGFW
13 13 (0.28%) Intranet
14 12 (0.26%) BIG-IP
14 12 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 11 (0.24%) SAN
15 11 (0.24%) Wireless
16 9 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (4.76%) Power BI
2 91 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
3 87 (1.89%) Metadata
4 61 (1.33%) Tableau
5 58 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 48 (1.04%) Data Lake
7 37 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
11 26 (0.56%) NoSQL
12 22 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (0.48%) DynamoDB
13 19 (0.41%) Big Data
13 19 (0.41%) Oracle Database
14 17 (0.37%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
16 14 (0.30%) Power Query
17 12 (0.26%) Looker
Development Applications
1 511 (11.10%) JIRA
2 76 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 62 (1.35%) Git
4 42 (0.91%) GitLab
5 28 (0.61%) Selenium
6 26 (0.56%) JUnit
7 20 (0.43%) Postman
8 15 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.28%) JMeter
9 13 (0.28%) Maven
10 12 (0.26%) Mockito
11 11 (0.24%) MLflow
12 10 (0.22%) DbUnit
13 9 (0.20%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.20%) jMock
14 8 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.17%) Zephyr
15 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.15%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 2,285 (49.64%) Social Skills
2 1,651 (35.87%) Finance
3 697 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 527 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 440 (9.56%) Banking
6 240 (5.21%) Retail
7 214 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
8 205 (4.45%) Legal
9 169 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
10 162 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
11 141 (3.06%) Marketing
12 117 (2.54%) Manufacturing
13 109 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
14 106 (2.30%) Telecoms
15 83 (1.80%) Local Government
16 72 (1.56%) Financial Institution
17 67 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 64 (1.39%) Law
19 59 (1.28%) Aerospace
20 58 (1.26%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 722 (15.69%) Analyst
2 686 (14.90%) Project Manager
3 653 (14.19%) Lead
4 521 (11.32%) Architect
5 507 (11.01%) Business Analyst
6 484 (10.51%) Senior
7 213 (4.63%) Consultant
7 213 (4.63%) Senior Manager
8 192 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
9 168 (3.65%) Programme Manager
10 163 (3.54%) Delivery Manager
11 140 (3.04%) IT Manager
12 108 (2.35%) Senior Project Manager
13 97 (2.11%) Product Manager
14 93 (2.02%) Product Owner
15 89 (1.93%) Technical Manager
16 85 (1.85%) Change Manager
16 85 (1.85%) Senior Analyst
17 79 (1.72%) IT Project Manager
18 72 (1.56%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (2.56%) REST
2 83 (1.80%) Middleware
3 80 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 62 (1.35%) SOAP
5 49 (1.06%) .NET
6 42 (0.91%) OAuth
7 35 (0.76%) JSON
8 33 (0.72%) OpenID
9 32 (0.70%) RESTful
10 31 (0.67%) Web Services
10 31 (0.67%) XML
11 29 (0.63%) Kafka
11 29 (0.63%) SAML
12 28 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 28 (0.61%) Spring
13 27 (0.59%) CSS
14 26 (0.56%) React
14 26 (0.56%) SailPoint
15 23 (0.50%) HTML
16 22 (0.48%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 356 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 220 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 161 (3.50%) Cloud Native
4 151 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 122 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 115 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 96 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 80 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 78 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 75 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 57 (1.24%) Operational Technology
12 52 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 52 (1.13%) NHS
13 51 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 47 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
15 43 (0.93%) Security Posture
15 43 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (0.89%) PMI
17 38 (0.83%) CMDB
17 38 (0.83%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 140 (3.04%) Windows
2 75 (1.63%) Linux
3 30 (0.65%) Android
4 29 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.43%) Unix
7 18 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.20%) VMS
9 7 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.087%) AIX
10 4 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.087%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.087%) zOS
11 3 (0.065%) Solaris
12 2 (0.043%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.043%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.043%) HPUX
13 1 (0.022%) MVS
13 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,485 (32.26%) Agile
2 712 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 688 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
4 666 (14.47%) Migration
5 660 (14.34%) Project Management
6 600 (13.03%) Roadmaps
7 598 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 543 (11.80%) DevOps
9 526 (11.43%) Change Management
10 522 (11.34%) Decision-Making
11 504 (10.95%) Project Delivery
12 444 (9.65%) Risk Management
13 440 (9.56%) Analytics
14 408 (8.86%) AI
15 401 (8.71%) User Acceptance Testing
16 375 (8.15%) Validation
17 366 (7.95%) CI/CD
18 361 (7.84%) Scrum
19 348 (7.56%) Workshop Facilitation
20 338 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 369 (8.02%) SQL
2 251 (5.45%) Python
3 93 (2.02%) Java
4 70 (1.52%) PowerShell
5 47 (1.02%) JavaScript
6 46 (1.00%) C#
7 31 (0.67%) Bash
8 21 (0.46%) TypeScript
8 21 (0.46%) VBA
9 17 (0.37%) Korn
10 15 (0.33%) Bicep
11 14 (0.30%) ABAP
12 13 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.22%) R
14 10 (0.22%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.20%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.15%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 937 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 730 (15.86%) SC Cleared
3 339 (7.36%) Degree
4 244 (5.30%) PMP
5 214 (4.65%) PMI Certification
6 130 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 110 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 99 (2.15%) CISSP
9 72 (1.56%) CISM
10 60 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 55 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 44 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 41 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 35 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.61%) IIBA
16 27 (0.59%) ACCA
16 27 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
17 26 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 26 (0.56%) CBAP
18 25 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (5.74%) QA
2 242 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 235 (5.11%) PMO
4 202 (4.39%) GDPR
5 162 (3.52%) NIST
6 139 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 79 (1.72%) GRC
8 76 (1.65%) SLA
9 68 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 53 (1.15%) NCSC
11 50 (1.09%) PCI DSS
12 38 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.72%) IFRS
14 32 (0.70%) COBIT
15 29 (0.63%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.39%) JSP 440
17 17 (0.37%) IFRS 17
18 16 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.35%) PSD2
18 16 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (2.09%) Docker
2 74 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.26%) Postfix
6 11 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.22%) NFS
8 9 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.11%) vSphere
11 4 (0.087%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.087%) SRDF
11 4 (0.087%) Varnish
12 3 (0.065%) HDFS
12 3 (0.065%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.043%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.043%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.043%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.022%) NLBS
14 1 (0.022%) RACF
Systems Management
1 140 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 97 (2.11%) Terraform
3 60 (1.30%) Ansible
4 47 (1.02%) Grafana
5 43 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 32 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.41%) SCCM
9 8 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.15%) Argo
10 7 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.11%) Puppet
12 5 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.11%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.087%) Control-M
13 4 (0.087%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.087%) vMotion
Vendors
1 545 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 375 (8.15%) SAP
3 257 (5.58%) Oracle
4 216 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 181 (3.93%) Salesforce
6 94 (2.04%) Google
7 87 (1.89%) Databricks
8 68 (1.48%) VMware
9 66 (1.43%) Workday
10 47 (1.02%) Splunk
11 42 (0.91%) Cisco
11 42 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 33 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 31 (0.67%) Adobe
13 31 (0.67%) Ariba
14 30 (0.65%) Informatica
15 27 (0.59%) Citrix
16 25 (0.54%) F5
16 25 (0.54%) IBM
17 24 (0.52%) Atlassian