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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,667 2,235 3,136
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.26% 8.50% 8.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.82% 9.51% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,512 1,389 2,189
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £449 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £639 £650 £650
90th Percentile £756 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 51 89
10th Percentile £15.00 £35.00 £21.85
25th Percentile £23.50 £36.50 £30.41
Median hourly rate £44.75 £56.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% +13.00% -5.61%
75th Percentile £68.49 £66.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £90.75 £80.00 £79.78
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £54.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -25.00% +3.93% -4.51%

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 28,613 23,512 33,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.45% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,292 14,362 22,132
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £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 1,780 759 1,832
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.72% +12.50%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 1,862 £550 - 501
North of England +5 554 £475 -9.52% 267
Midlands 0 459 £490 -6.67% 213
South East +8 417 £530 +0.95% 565
West Midlands -4 286 £500 -4.76% 120
North West +3 283 £456 -12.73% 127
Yorkshire +9 242 £500 - 109
South West +14 189 £550 +4.76% 152
East Midlands +13 173 £455 -3.70% 89
East of England -2 103 £550 - 184
North East +3 44 £450 -23.40% 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
1 257 (7.01%) Confluence
2 106 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.04%) SAS
4 32 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.85%) CMS
6 15 (0.41%) Appian
7 11 (0.30%) TPMS
8 7 (0.19%) Apache
8 7 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.19%) Camunda
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.11%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.082%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.082%) nginx
12 3 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 206 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 119 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (1.96%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.44%) Trello
6 12 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.055%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.055%) InVision
10 1 (0.027%) Blender
10 1 (0.027%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.027%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.027%) Simulink
10 1 (0.027%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.027%) UXPin
10 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
4 21 (0.57%) 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 (0.35%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.35%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
10 12 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.30%) Loan IQ
11 11 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
13 9 (0.25%) SAP PP
13 9 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 529 (14.43%) Azure
2 364 (9.93%) AWS
3 239 (6.52%) Power Platform
4 165 (4.50%) GCP
5 114 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
6 108 (2.95%) SaaS
7 104 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 62 (1.69%) OpenShift
10 46 (1.25%) GitHub
11 44 (1.20%) OCI
12 43 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
13 39 (1.06%) Serverless
14 36 (0.98%) Power Automate
15 35 (0.95%) Snowflake
16 33 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
17 31 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (0.82%) Google Workspace
19 26 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
19 26 (0.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 76 (2.07%) Firewall
2 39 (1.06%) WAN
3 33 (0.90%) Network Security
4 29 (0.79%) LAN
4 29 (0.79%) SD-WAN
5 28 (0.76%) VPN
6 26 (0.71%) DNS
7 24 (0.65%) SSH
8 19 (0.52%) MPLS
9 18 (0.49%) SSL
10 17 (0.46%) BGP
11 14 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (0.35%) Broadband
12 13 (0.35%) Wireless
13 12 (0.33%) DHCP
13 12 (0.33%) OSPF
14 11 (0.30%) Internet
14 11 (0.30%) SNMP
15 10 (0.27%) Intranet
15 10 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (5.89%) Power BI
2 71 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (1.94%) Tableau
3 54 (1.47%) Metadata
4 29 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 27 (0.74%) Data Lake
5 27 (0.74%) Power Query
6 25 (0.68%) SQL Server
7 24 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.63%) BigQuery
9 20 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.52%) MySQL
10 19 (0.52%) Oracle Database
11 17 (0.46%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (0.30%) RDBMS
15 11 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 447 (12.19%) JIRA
2 74 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 69 (1.88%) Git
4 52 (1.42%) GitLab
5 27 (0.74%) Selenium
6 22 (0.60%) JUnit
7 16 (0.44%) Maven
8 11 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.27%) MLflow
10 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.22%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.19%) Gradle
12 7 (0.19%) Mockito
12 7 (0.19%) Postman
12 7 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
15 4 (0.11%) Axure RP
15 4 (0.11%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 1,981 (54.02%) Social Skills
2 1,238 (33.76%) Finance
3 619 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 361 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 355 (9.68%) Banking
6 188 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
7 149 (4.06%) Legal
7 149 (4.06%) Retail
8 129 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
9 128 (3.49%) Marketing
10 115 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
11 110 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
12 108 (2.95%) Telecoms
13 106 (2.89%) Manufacturing
14 71 (1.94%) Front Office
15 60 (1.64%) Law
16 56 (1.53%) Financial Institution
17 54 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 51 (1.39%) Investment Banking
19 42 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 722 (19.69%) Analyst
2 535 (14.59%) Project Manager
3 522 (14.24%) Business Analyst
4 420 (11.45%) Lead
5 415 (11.32%) Architect
6 322 (8.78%) Senior
7 236 (6.44%) Consultant
8 161 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
9 137 (3.74%) Programme Manager
10 133 (3.63%) Senior Manager
11 100 (2.73%) IT Manager
12 96 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
13 86 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
14 78 (2.13%) Data Analyst
15 75 (2.05%) Change Manager
16 72 (1.96%) Senior Business Analyst
17 69 (1.88%) Product Owner
18 68 (1.85%) Developer
18 68 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
18 68 (1.85%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (2.67%) REST
2 68 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 40 (1.09%) Middleware
3 40 (1.09%) SOAP
4 35 (0.95%) .NET
4 35 (0.95%) OAuth
4 35 (0.95%) OpenID
5 33 (0.90%) JSON
6 32 (0.87%) SAML
7 31 (0.85%) Kafka
8 30 (0.82%) XML
9 27 (0.74%) HTML
9 27 (0.74%) RESTful
10 25 (0.68%) SailPoint
11 22 (0.60%) React
12 21 (0.57%) LDAP
12 21 (0.57%) pytest
13 19 (0.52%) Spring Boot
14 18 (0.49%) CSS
14 18 (0.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 298 (8.13%) Product Ownership
2 191 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 113 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 99 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 98 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 92 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 79 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 78 (2.13%) Data Centre
9 57 (1.55%) PMI
10 50 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 40 (1.09%) NHS
12 38 (1.04%) CMDB
13 37 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
14 35 (0.95%) Operational Technology
15 34 (0.93%) Public Cloud
16 30 (0.82%) Data Structures
17 29 (0.79%) Virtual Team
18 27 (0.74%) FMCG
19 25 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
20 24 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 101 (2.75%) Windows
2 52 (1.42%) Linux
3 28 (0.76%) Unix
4 21 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.35%) 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 1,194 (32.56%) Agile
2 679 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 583 (15.90%) Project Management
4 536 (14.62%) Migration
5 521 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 521 (14.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 446 (12.16%) Change Management
7 426 (11.62%) Roadmaps
8 416 (11.34%) Project Delivery
9 350 (9.54%) Decision-Making
10 349 (9.52%) DevOps
11 324 (8.84%) Risk Management
12 321 (8.75%) Analytics
13 303 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
13 303 (8.26%) Workshop Facilitation
14 301 (8.21%) Scrum
15 274 (7.47%) User Acceptance Testing
16 269 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
17 266 (7.25%) Waterfall
18 253 (6.90%) AI
Programming Languages
1 289 (7.88%) SQL
2 253 (6.90%) Python
3 77 (2.10%) PowerShell
4 75 (2.05%) Java
5 50 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 43 (1.17%) C#
7 33 (0.90%) 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 (0.35%) Korn
12 12 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.27%) 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
1 639 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 493 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 378 (10.31%) Degree
4 195 (5.32%) PMI Certification
5 177 (4.83%) PMP
6 88 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 73 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 71 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 66 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 56 (1.53%) CISSP
11 38 (1.04%) CISM
12 36 (0.98%) CBAP
13 30 (0.82%) Azure Certification
14 27 (0.74%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.71%) ISTQB
16 23 (0.63%) IIBA
17 22 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
19 20 (0.55%) ACCA
20 19 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (6.44%) QA
2 224 (6.11%) GDPR
3 140 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 133 (3.63%) Data Quality
5 126 (3.44%) PMO
6 121 (3.30%) NIST
7 66 (1.80%) PCI DSS
8 59 (1.61%) GRC
9 45 (1.23%) SLA
10 42 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 38 (1.04%) Accessibility
11 38 (1.04%) NCSC
12 28 (0.76%) IFRS
13 21 (0.57%) PSD2
14 17 (0.46%) COBIT
15 16 (0.44%) IFRS 17
16 15 (0.41%) WCAG
17 14 (0.38%) HIPAA
17 14 (0.38%) ISO 20022
18 13 (0.35%) Basel III
System Software
1 86 (2.35%) Docker
2 65 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.90%) 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
1 126 (3.44%) Kubernetes
2 86 (2.35%) Terraform
3 47 (1.28%) Ansible
4 29 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.57%) Grafana
6 19 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.49%) SCCM
8 12 (0.33%) FortiGate
8 12 (0.33%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.16%) Kibana
10 6 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 5 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.11%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
13 3 (0.082%) Control-M
13 3 (0.082%) Nessus
13 3 (0.082%) vMotion
Vendors
1 437 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 306 (8.34%) SAP
3 214 (5.84%) Oracle
4 157 (4.28%) ServiceNow
5 140 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 91 (2.48%) Workday
7 87 (2.37%) Google
8 54 (1.47%) Databricks
9 45 (1.23%) Splunk
9 45 (1.23%) VMware
10 43 (1.17%) IBM
11 42 (1.15%) Cisco
12 35 (0.95%) CyberArk
13 31 (0.85%) Fortinet
14 30 (0.82%) Ariba
15 26 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 24 (0.65%) Adobe
17 23 (0.63%) Informatica
18 22 (0.60%) Citrix
18 22 (0.60%) F5