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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,280 2,383 2,772
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.52% 9.73% 7.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.42% 10.67% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,920 1,637 1,980
10th Percentile £364 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £548
% change year-on-year - -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 67 76
10th Percentile £16.31 £35.00 £14.57
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.25 £30.12
Median hourly rate £51.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +2.49% +7.98%
75th Percentile £81.50 £75.00 £75.59
90th Percentile £97.50 £80.24 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

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 34,470 22,336 31,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,971 14,617 20,828
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,149 942 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.52% -21.23% +0.69%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +5 2,166 £550 -4.35% 808
North of England -2 643 £481 -4.70% 287
South East +3 519 £558 +10.12% 372
Midlands 0 513 £485 -3.00% 167
West Midlands 0 350 £492 -6.29% 106
North West -3 307 £474 -7.06% 153
Yorkshire +9 306 £500 - 101
South West +18 245 £550 +3.77% 98
East Midlands +6 160 £465 +4.03% 59
East of England -4 119 £525 -12.50% 106
North East -6 49 £450 -16.67% 35
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
1 299 (6.99%) Confluence
2 132 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.84%) CMS
3 36 (0.84%) SAS
4 27 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.33%) Appian
6 13 (0.30%) Apache
7 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.16%) TPMS
9 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.093%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.070%) Camunda
11 3 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.070%) nginx
11 3 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.070%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.047%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 218 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (3.41%) Microsoft Project
3 115 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
4 109 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 76 (1.78%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.23%) Trello
8 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.16%) Revit
9 7 (0.16%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.093%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.047%) InVision
12 2 (0.047%) Notion
13 1 (0.023%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.023%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 134 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.51%) Aladdin
5 21 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 18 (0.42%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
8 13 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
8 13 (0.30%) Workday HCM
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 633 (14.79%) Azure
2 459 (10.72%) AWS
3 245 (5.72%) Power Platform
4 187 (4.37%) GCP
5 135 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
6 120 (2.80%) SaaS
7 116 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
8 83 (1.94%) Entra ID
9 58 (1.36%) Snowflake
10 54 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (1.19%) OCI
12 46 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 46 (1.07%) OpenShift
13 45 (1.05%) GitHub
14 40 (0.93%) Figma
14 40 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
15 37 (0.86%) Amazon S3
16 36 (0.84%) Serverless
17 35 (0.82%) Power Automate
18 32 (0.75%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.47%) Network Security
2 60 (1.40%) Firewall
3 48 (1.12%) WAN
4 36 (0.84%) LAN
5 32 (0.75%) DNS
6 29 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (0.54%) VPN
9 20 (0.47%) BGP
9 20 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.40%) OSPF
11 13 (0.30%) MPLS
11 13 (0.30%) NGFW
12 12 (0.28%) SSL
12 12 (0.28%) Wireless
13 11 (0.26%) Intranet
13 11 (0.26%) SAN
13 11 (0.26%) SSH
13 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (4.77%) Power BI
2 89 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (1.85%) Metadata
4 58 (1.36%) Tableau
5 44 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 44 (1.03%) SQL Server
6 31 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 25 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (0.56%) Relational Database
10 22 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.49%) NoSQL
12 20 (0.47%) DynamoDB
13 19 (0.44%) Big Data
14 18 (0.42%) Power Query
15 17 (0.40%) Delta Lake
16 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
17 13 (0.30%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 517 (12.08%) JIRA
2 75 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.54%) Git
4 38 (0.89%) GitLab
5 24 (0.56%) Selenium
6 23 (0.54%) JUnit
7 17 (0.40%) Postman
7 17 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.30%) Maven
9 12 (0.28%) MLflow
10 11 (0.26%) JMeter
11 10 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.23%) Mockito
11 10 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.23%) SpecFlow
12 9 (0.21%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
13 8 (0.19%) jMock
14 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,125 (49.65%) Social Skills
2 1,536 (35.89%) Finance
3 644 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 472 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 413 (9.65%) Banking
6 209 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 208 (4.86%) Retail
8 171 (4.00%) Legal
9 146 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
10 141 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
11 131 (3.06%) Marketing
12 116 (2.71%) Manufacturing
13 112 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
14 100 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 75 (1.75%) Financial Institution
16 69 (1.61%) Local Government
17 58 (1.36%) Law
18 50 (1.17%) Front Office
19 45 (1.05%) Billing
20 44 (1.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 704 (16.45%) Analyst
2 661 (15.44%) Project Manager
3 592 (13.83%) Lead
4 519 (12.13%) Business Analyst
5 478 (11.17%) Architect
6 450 (10.51%) Senior
7 196 (4.58%) Senior Manager
8 192 (4.49%) Consultant
9 177 (4.14%) Programme Manager
10 171 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
11 139 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
12 131 (3.06%) IT Manager
13 98 (2.29%) Senior Project Manager
14 90 (2.10%) Product Manager
14 90 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
15 87 (2.03%) Technical Manager
16 84 (1.96%) Change Manager
17 83 (1.94%) Product Owner
18 76 (1.78%) IT Project Manager
19 75 (1.75%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.45%) REST
2 80 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
3 73 (1.71%) Middleware
4 56 (1.31%) SOAP
5 32 (0.75%) .NET
5 32 (0.75%) JSON
5 32 (0.75%) OAuth
6 31 (0.72%) Kafka
7 30 (0.70%) XML
8 27 (0.63%) OpenID
8 27 (0.63%) RESTful
8 27 (0.63%) Web Services
9 25 (0.58%) AngularJS
9 25 (0.58%) SAML
10 24 (0.56%) Spring
11 22 (0.51%) React
11 22 (0.51%) Swagger
12 21 (0.49%) ADO
13 20 (0.47%) CSS
13 20 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 331 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 205 (4.79%) Onboarding
3 139 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
4 135 (3.15%) Cloud Native
5 120 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 116 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 88 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 77 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 67 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 63 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 48 (1.12%) PMI
12 46 (1.07%) Operational Technology
12 46 (1.07%) Public Cloud
13 43 (1.00%) NHS
14 42 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
15 35 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
16 34 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
17 32 (0.75%) FMCG
18 28 (0.65%) AI Agents
18 28 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 122 (2.85%) Windows
2 63 (1.47%) Linux
3 29 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.65%) Android
5 20 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.40%) Unix
7 16 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.21%) VMS
10 4 (0.093%) AIX
10 4 (0.093%) Solaris
11 3 (0.070%) zOS
12 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.023%) CentOS
13 1 (0.023%) HPUX
13 1 (0.023%) MVS
13 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,409 (32.92%) Agile
2 667 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
3 658 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 651 (15.21%) Project Management
5 638 (14.91%) Migration
6 544 (12.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 541 (12.64%) Roadmaps
8 501 (11.71%) Change Management
9 487 (11.38%) Decision-Making
10 482 (11.26%) DevOps
11 466 (10.89%) Project Delivery
12 422 (9.86%) Risk Management
13 385 (9.00%) Analytics
14 365 (8.53%) AI
15 364 (8.50%) User Acceptance Testing
16 344 (8.04%) Scrum
17 330 (7.71%) Validation
18 322 (7.52%) Workshop Facilitation
19 320 (7.48%) CI/CD
20 313 (7.31%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 336 (7.85%) SQL
2 233 (5.44%) Python
3 81 (1.89%) Java
4 68 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 44 (1.03%) C#
6 42 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 27 (0.63%) Bash
8 24 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 22 (0.51%) VBA
10 15 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (0.35%) Korn
10 15 (0.35%) R
11 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.21%) ABAP
12 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.19%) Bicep
14 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 890 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 682 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 353 (8.25%) Degree
4 237 (5.54%) PMP
5 217 (5.07%) PMI Certification
6 113 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 108 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 74 (1.73%) CISSP
9 55 (1.29%) CISM
9 55 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 44 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 37 (0.86%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.68%) CBAP
13 28 (0.65%) IIBA
14 25 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.56%) ISTQB
15 24 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
16 23 (0.54%) APMP
16 23 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (6.45%) QA
2 218 (5.09%) GDPR
3 215 (5.02%) Data Quality
4 205 (4.79%) PMO
5 162 (3.79%) NIST
6 135 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.73%) GRC
8 65 (1.52%) SLA
9 60 (1.40%) Accessibility
10 51 (1.19%) PCI DSS
11 44 (1.03%) NCSC
12 37 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.70%) IFRS
14 29 (0.68%) COBIT
15 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.40%) IFRS 17
17 16 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.37%) JSP 440
18 15 (0.35%) HL7
18 15 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 94 (2.20%) Docker
2 66 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.26%) Postfix
4 11 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.21%) NFS
6 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.093%) SRDF
8 4 (0.093%) Varnish
9 3 (0.070%) HDFS
9 3 (0.070%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.070%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.070%) vSphere
10 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.023%) NLBS
11 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.023%) RACF
11 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 136 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 81 (1.89%) Terraform
3 54 (1.26%) Ansible
4 43 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (0.91%) Grafana
6 27 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (0.51%) SCCM
9 9 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.093%) Istio
12 4 (0.093%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.070%) Argo
13 3 (0.070%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.070%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.070%) vMotion
Vendors
1 483 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 353 (8.25%) SAP
3 239 (5.58%) Oracle
4 192 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 170 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 89 (2.08%) Google
7 81 (1.89%) Databricks
8 70 (1.64%) VMware
9 67 (1.57%) Workday
10 46 (1.07%) Splunk
11 39 (0.91%) Cisco
12 38 (0.89%) CyberArk
13 32 (0.75%) IBM
14 31 (0.72%) Ariba
14 31 (0.72%) MuleSoft
15 30 (0.70%) Citrix
16 28 (0.65%) Atlassian
16 28 (0.65%) Informatica
17 25 (0.58%) Adobe
18 23 (0.54%) F5