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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,021 2,271 2,987
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.35% 8.83% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.01% 9.80% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,797 1,475 2,087
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 56 80
10th Percentile £16.25 £35.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £27.63 £39.52 £27.73
Median hourly rate £59.50 £58.75 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% +20.51% -6.96%
75th Percentile £80.55 £67.75 £62.48
90th Percentile £95.25 £80.00 £83.51
UK median hourly rate £48.98 £56.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -13.31% +13.00% -4.39%

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 30,906 23,179 32,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.22% 90.17% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,822 14,560 21,758
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £618 £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 1,906 762 2,042
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £72.52 £75.23 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.71% -5.53%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 2,053 £550 - 293
North of England +3 579 £475 -9.52% 158
Midlands +1 525 £492 -1.70% 135
South East +6 460 £550 +4.76% 201
West Midlands -1 350 £500 -4.76% 100
North West +7 281 £451 -13.57% 92
Yorkshire +8 266 £500 - 60
South West +21 213 £550 -2.65% 68
East Midlands +10 175 £453 -4.23% 35
East of England -9 104 £550 - 45
North East 0 46 £444 -22.83% 9
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
1 292 (7.26%) Confluence
2 123 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.24%) SAS
4 37 (0.92%) CMS
5 35 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.42%) Appian
7 10 (0.25%) TPMS
8 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.20%) Apache
9 8 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.15%) Camunda
12 5 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.075%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.075%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.075%) nginx
13 3 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.075%) WebSphere
Applications
1 209 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (3.43%) Microsoft Project
3 110 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
4 101 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 73 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.42%) Trello
7 13 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.15%) Sketch
10 4 (0.099%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.050%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.050%) InVision
12 1 (0.025%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.025%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.025%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.025%) Simulink
12 1 (0.025%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.025%) UXPin
12 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 129 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 41 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 19 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 18 (0.45%) Endur
7 15 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.32%) Loan IQ
9 13 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
9 13 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
10 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.30%) Primavera
11 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
12 10 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 10 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
12 10 (0.25%) SAP EWM
12 10 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 584 (14.52%) Azure
2 407 (10.12%) AWS
3 249 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 170 (4.23%) GCP
5 131 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 110 (2.74%) SaaS
8 90 (2.24%) Entra ID
9 66 (1.64%) OpenShift
10 50 (1.24%) OCI
11 47 (1.17%) GitHub
12 46 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
14 42 (1.04%) Snowflake
15 38 (0.95%) Power Automate
16 36 (0.90%) Serverless
17 33 (0.82%) Google Workspace
18 31 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
18 31 (0.77%) SuccessFactors
19 30 (0.75%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 77 (1.91%) Firewall
2 48 (1.19%) WAN
3 39 (0.97%) Network Security
4 35 (0.87%) SD-WAN
5 34 (0.85%) LAN
6 28 (0.70%) DNS
7 26 (0.65%) VPN
8 22 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (0.50%) SSH
10 18 (0.45%) MPLS
11 17 (0.42%) BGP
12 16 (0.40%) SSL
13 14 (0.35%) DHCP
14 13 (0.32%) OSPF
15 12 (0.30%) Broadband
16 10 (0.25%) SNMP
16 10 (0.25%) TCP/IP
16 10 (0.25%) Wireless
17 9 (0.22%) Intranet
17 9 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (5.37%) Power BI
2 80 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (1.69%) Tableau
4 59 (1.47%) Metadata
5 36 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 32 (0.80%) SQL Server
7 30 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 28 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
10 23 (0.57%) Relational Database
11 22 (0.55%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.52%) Power Query
13 17 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (0.42%) MySQL
14 16 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.37%) BigQuery
15 15 (0.37%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.32%) Big Data
17 12 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
17 12 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 493 (12.26%) JIRA
2 86 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 83 (2.06%) Git
4 61 (1.52%) GitLab
5 40 (0.99%) JUnit
6 38 (0.95%) Selenium
7 17 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.37%) Maven
9 12 (0.30%) Mockito
10 10 (0.25%) MLflow
10 10 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
10 10 (0.25%) SpecFlow
11 9 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.17%) JMeter
12 7 (0.17%) Postman
13 6 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.15%) Axure RP
14 5 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
14 5 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 2,127 (52.90%) Social Skills
2 1,363 (33.90%) Finance
3 650 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
4 414 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 384 (9.55%) Banking
6 198 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
7 167 (4.15%) Retail
8 162 (4.03%) Legal
9 137 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
10 132 (3.28%) Marketing
11 128 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
12 125 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
13 109 (2.71%) Manufacturing
14 105 (2.61%) Telecoms
15 70 (1.74%) Financial Institution
15 70 (1.74%) Front Office
16 60 (1.49%) Law
17 54 (1.34%) Local Government
18 51 (1.27%) Investment Banking
19 50 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 759 (18.88%) Analyst
2 590 (14.67%) Project Manager
3 551 (13.70%) Business Analyst
4 483 (12.01%) Lead
5 464 (11.54%) Architect
6 374 (9.30%) Senior
7 230 (5.72%) Consultant
8 173 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
9 161 (4.00%) Senior Manager
10 151 (3.76%) Programme Manager
11 120 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
12 115 (2.86%) IT Manager
13 85 (2.11%) Data Analyst
13 85 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
13 85 (2.11%) Senior Project Manager
14 78 (1.94%) Change Manager
15 76 (1.89%) Developer
16 74 (1.84%) Product Manager
17 71 (1.77%) Product Owner
18 69 (1.72%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.01%) REST
2 75 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
3 53 (1.32%) Middleware
4 52 (1.29%) SOAP
5 41 (1.02%) JSON
6 38 (0.95%) .NET
7 36 (0.90%) OAuth
7 36 (0.90%) OpenID
8 33 (0.82%) XML
9 32 (0.80%) Kafka
9 32 (0.80%) SAML
10 29 (0.72%) HTML
10 29 (0.72%) pytest
10 29 (0.72%) React
11 28 (0.70%) RESTful
12 26 (0.65%) SailPoint
13 25 (0.62%) AngularJS
14 24 (0.60%) Web Services
15 23 (0.57%) CSS
15 23 (0.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 311 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 215 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 112 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
4 110 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 104 (2.59%) Cloud Native
6 100 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 90 (2.24%) Data Centre
8 78 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 55 (1.37%) PMI
10 48 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 48 (1.19%) NHS
11 45 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 39 (0.97%) Public Cloud
13 38 (0.95%) Virtual Team
14 37 (0.92%) Operational Technology
15 35 (0.87%) CMDB
16 34 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (0.75%) FMCG
18 29 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
19 28 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 133 (3.31%) Windows
2 66 (1.64%) Linux
3 32 (0.80%) Unix
4 24 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.55%) Android
5 22 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 21 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.32%) VMS
9 12 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 4 (0.099%) CentOS
12 2 (0.050%) AIX
13 1 (0.025%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,307 (32.50%) Agile
2 713 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
3 606 (15.07%) Project Management
4 587 (14.60%) Migration
5 585 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 538 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 495 (12.31%) Change Management
8 474 (11.79%) Roadmaps
9 418 (10.40%) Project Delivery
10 404 (10.05%) DevOps
11 401 (9.97%) Decision-Making
12 362 (9.00%) Analytics
13 349 (8.68%) Risk Management
14 336 (8.36%) Scrum
15 320 (7.96%) Requirements Gathering
16 319 (7.93%) Workshop Facilitation
17 310 (7.71%) User Acceptance Testing
18 289 (7.19%) Validation
19 285 (7.09%) AI
20 274 (6.81%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 321 (7.98%) SQL
2 271 (6.74%) Python
3 90 (2.24%) PowerShell
4 84 (2.09%) Java
5 55 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 49 (1.22%) C#
7 33 (0.82%) Bash
8 24 (0.60%) TypeScript
9 23 (0.57%) VBA
10 18 (0.45%) Korn
11 17 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 15 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.32%) R
14 11 (0.27%) Bicep
15 10 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.22%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.20%) ABAP
17 8 (0.20%) VB
18 6 (0.15%) C++
19 4 (0.099%) PHP
Qualifications
1 762 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 596 (14.82%) SC Cleared
3 385 (9.57%) Degree
4 204 (5.07%) PMI Certification
5 196 (4.87%) PMP
6 100 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 76 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 75 (1.87%) DV Cleared
9 65 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 60 (1.49%) CISSP
11 44 (1.09%) CISM
12 34 (0.85%) Azure Certification
13 32 (0.80%) CBAP
14 28 (0.70%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.65%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.62%) IIBA
17 24 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
18 22 (0.55%) APMP
18 22 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
19 20 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (6.57%) QA
2 230 (5.72%) GDPR
3 172 (4.28%) Data Quality
4 158 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 152 (3.78%) PMO
6 147 (3.66%) NIST
7 69 (1.72%) GRC
8 68 (1.69%) PCI DSS
9 50 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 49 (1.22%) SLA
11 46 (1.14%) NCSC
12 39 (0.97%) Accessibility
13 31 (0.77%) COBIT
14 29 (0.72%) IFRS
15 19 (0.47%) PSD2
16 18 (0.45%) IFRS 17
17 16 (0.40%) WCAG
18 14 (0.35%) Basel III
18 14 (0.35%) ISO 20022
19 13 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 99 (2.46%) Docker
2 64 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.15%) vSphere
6 5 (0.12%) NFS
6 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.099%) Postfix
8 3 (0.075%) HDFS
8 3 (0.075%) SRDF
8 3 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.025%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.025%) IAG
10 1 (0.025%) NDS
10 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.025%) XenApp
10 1 (0.025%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 139 (3.46%) Kubernetes
2 80 (1.99%) Terraform
3 53 (1.32%) Ansible
4 51 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.85%) Grafana
6 19 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.45%) SCCM
8 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.17%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.15%) Kibana
10 6 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.12%) Puppet
12 4 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.099%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.099%) vMotion
13 3 (0.075%) Control-M
13 3 (0.075%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 471 (11.71%) Microsoft
2 328 (8.16%) SAP
3 236 (5.87%) Oracle
4 190 (4.73%) ServiceNow
5 144 (3.58%) Salesforce
6 89 (2.21%) Google
7 85 (2.11%) Workday
8 65 (1.62%) VMware
9 60 (1.49%) Databricks
10 47 (1.17%) Cisco
10 47 (1.17%) Splunk
11 42 (1.04%) IBM
12 36 (0.90%) CyberArk
13 35 (0.87%) Citrix
14 31 (0.77%) Ariba
14 31 (0.77%) Fortinet
15 27 (0.67%) Adobe
16 25 (0.62%) F5
16 25 (0.62%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.57%) Informatica