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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,806 2,277 3,054
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.20% 8.73% 8.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.80% 9.73% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,632 1,439 2,127
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £445 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 57 90
10th Percentile £15.25 £35.00 £20.83
25th Percentile £24.00 £39.04 £28.73
Median hourly rate £45.00 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £64.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £80.24 £80.11
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £56.50 £51.42
% change year-on-year -28.32% +9.88% -5.50%

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 29,739 23,407 32,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.55% 89.77% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,003 14,473 21,878
10th Percentile £308 £310 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,861 738 1,959
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.62 £13.39
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +10 1,917 £550 - 470
North of England +5 575 £472 -10.10% 224
Midlands 0 484 £485 -4.43% 158
South East +6 448 £550 +4.76% 386
West Midlands -3 307 £492 -6.24% 113
North West +6 287 £447 -14.65% 132
Yorkshire +7 257 £492 -1.60% 75
South West +17 195 £550 +0.92% 96
East Midlands +10 177 £453 -1.63% 44
East of England -6 102 £550 +4.76% 67
North East +2 45 £450 -22.58% 19
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
1 272 (7.15%) Confluence
2 115 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.10%) SAS
4 37 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 35 (0.92%) CMS
6 17 (0.45%) Appian
7 11 (0.29%) TPMS
8 8 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.18%) Apache
9 7 (0.18%) Camunda
9 7 (0.18%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 7 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.079%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.079%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.079%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.079%) nginx
11 3 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 213 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 129 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
3 119 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.45%) Trello
7 15 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.16%) Sketch
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.053%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.053%) InVision
12 1 (0.026%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.026%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.026%) Simulink
12 1 (0.026%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.026%) UXPin
12 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 127 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 40 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 20 (0.53%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.45%) Endur
7 15 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 14 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
8 14 (0.37%) Primavera
8 14 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.37%) SAP EWM
9 13 (0.34%) Loan IQ
10 12 (0.32%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.32%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
12 10 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
12 10 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
13 9 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 9 (0.24%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 556 (14.61%) Azure
2 380 (9.98%) AWS
3 246 (6.46%) Power Platform
4 162 (4.26%) GCP
5 122 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
7 104 (2.73%) SaaS
8 83 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.66%) OpenShift
10 47 (1.23%) GitHub
10 47 (1.23%) OCI
11 45 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
12 39 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (1.02%) Power Automate
13 37 (0.97%) Snowflake
14 34 (0.89%) Serverless
15 32 (0.84%) Google Workspace
16 31 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
17 29 (0.76%) PowerApps
18 28 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.08%) Firewall
2 49 (1.29%) WAN
3 37 (0.97%) LAN
4 35 (0.92%) Network Security
5 33 (0.87%) SD-WAN
6 31 (0.81%) VPN
7 30 (0.79%) DNS
8 22 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (0.55%) SSH
10 19 (0.50%) MPLS
11 18 (0.47%) SSL
12 16 (0.42%) BGP
13 14 (0.37%) DHCP
14 13 (0.34%) Broadband
14 13 (0.34%) TCP/IP
15 12 (0.32%) OSPF
15 12 (0.32%) Wireless
16 11 (0.29%) SNMP
17 10 (0.26%) Internet
17 10 (0.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (5.68%) Power BI
2 77 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (1.92%) Tableau
4 59 (1.55%) Metadata
5 33 (0.87%) Data Lake
6 31 (0.81%) SQL Server
7 29 (0.76%) NoSQL
8 23 (0.60%) Power Query
9 22 (0.58%) Oracle Database
10 21 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 19 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
12 18 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (0.42%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.37%) MySQL
16 13 (0.34%) DynamoDB
17 10 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
17 10 (0.26%) MongoDB
17 10 (0.26%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 473 (12.43%) JIRA
2 73 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.79%) Git
4 53 (1.39%) GitLab
5 28 (0.74%) Selenium
6 26 (0.68%) JUnit
7 13 (0.34%) Maven
8 10 (0.26%) MLflow
8 10 (0.26%) Mockito
9 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 8 (0.21%) Postman
11 7 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.16%) Axure RP
12 6 (0.16%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.13%) TestRail
14 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.11%) ERwin
14 4 (0.11%) REST Assured
General
1 2,044 (53.70%) Social Skills
2 1,275 (33.50%) Finance
3 631 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 377 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 367 (9.64%) Banking
6 190 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
7 162 (4.26%) Retail
8 149 (3.91%) Legal
9 127 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
9 127 (3.34%) Marketing
10 118 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
11 112 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
12 105 (2.76%) Telecoms
13 104 (2.73%) Manufacturing
14 72 (1.89%) Front Office
15 60 (1.58%) Financial Institution
15 60 (1.58%) Law
16 54 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 51 (1.34%) Investment Banking
18 47 (1.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 733 (19.26%) Analyst
2 547 (14.37%) Project Manager
3 531 (13.95%) Business Analyst
4 460 (12.09%) Lead
5 436 (11.46%) Architect
6 342 (8.99%) Senior
7 227 (5.96%) Consultant
8 166 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
9 144 (3.78%) Programme Manager
10 143 (3.76%) Senior Manager
11 104 (2.73%) IT Manager
12 102 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
13 81 (2.13%) Data Analyst
13 81 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
14 76 (2.00%) Change Manager
15 74 (1.94%) Senior Project Manager
16 71 (1.87%) Developer
16 71 (1.87%) Senior Business Analyst
17 70 (1.84%) Product Manager
17 70 (1.84%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (3.00%) REST
2 65 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 46 (1.21%) SOAP
4 45 (1.18%) Middleware
5 39 (1.02%) JSON
6 37 (0.97%) .NET
7 35 (0.92%) OAuth
7 35 (0.92%) OpenID
8 32 (0.84%) SAML
8 32 (0.84%) XML
9 30 (0.79%) Kafka
10 29 (0.76%) HTML
10 29 (0.76%) React
11 26 (0.68%) RESTful
12 25 (0.66%) pytest
13 24 (0.63%) AngularJS
14 23 (0.60%) CSS
14 23 (0.60%) SailPoint
15 22 (0.58%) Web Services
16 21 (0.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 300 (7.88%) Product Ownership
2 198 (5.20%) Onboarding
3 104 (2.73%) Cloud Native
4 100 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 97 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 93 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 85 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 75 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 49 (1.29%) PMI
10 46 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 44 (1.16%) NHS
12 38 (1.00%) Data Structures
13 37 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
14 36 (0.95%) Public Cloud
15 35 (0.92%) CMDB
16 33 (0.87%) Operational Technology
17 32 (0.84%) Virtual Team
18 27 (0.71%) FMCG
18 27 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
18 27 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.94%) Windows
2 58 (1.52%) Linux
3 27 (0.71%) Unix
4 22 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.50%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.37%) VMS
7 12 (0.32%) Android
8 11 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.11%) CentOS
10 3 (0.079%) Solaris
11 1 (0.026%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,237 (32.50%) Agile
2 695 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
3 584 (15.34%) Project Management
4 560 (14.71%) Migration
5 549 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 521 (13.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 473 (12.43%) Change Management
8 446 (11.72%) Roadmaps
9 401 (10.54%) Project Delivery
10 376 (9.88%) DevOps
11 371 (9.75%) Decision-Making
12 345 (9.06%) Analytics
13 336 (8.83%) Risk Management
14 324 (8.51%) Scrum
15 311 (8.17%) Requirements Gathering
16 304 (7.99%) Workshop Facilitation
17 299 (7.86%) User Acceptance Testing
18 271 (7.12%) AI
19 265 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
20 261 (6.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 308 (8.09%) SQL
2 257 (6.75%) Python
3 86 (2.26%) PowerShell
4 74 (1.94%) Java
5 53 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 49 (1.29%) C#
7 32 (0.84%) Bash
8 23 (0.60%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.60%) VBA
9 17 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.42%) Korn
11 12 (0.32%) R
12 11 (0.29%) Bicep
13 9 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.24%) VB
14 8 (0.21%) ABAP
15 7 (0.18%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.16%) C++
16 6 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.11%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 684 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 531 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 377 (9.91%) Degree
4 196 (5.15%) PMI Certification
5 186 (4.89%) PMP
6 97 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 76 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 75 (1.97%) Master's Degree
9 63 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 49 (1.29%) CISSP
11 36 (0.95%) CISM
12 33 (0.87%) CBAP
13 32 (0.84%) Azure Certification
14 29 (0.76%) ISTQB
15 27 (0.71%) AWS Certification
16 24 (0.63%) IIBA
17 22 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
19 20 (0.53%) APMP
19 20 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (6.75%) QA
2 234 (6.15%) GDPR
3 157 (4.13%) Data Quality
4 143 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 134 (3.52%) PMO
6 125 (3.28%) NIST
7 69 (1.81%) PCI DSS
8 63 (1.66%) GRC
9 43 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 42 (1.10%) Accessibility
11 41 (1.08%) NCSC
11 41 (1.08%) SLA
12 28 (0.74%) IFRS
13 23 (0.60%) COBIT
14 20 (0.53%) PSD2
15 18 (0.47%) IFRS 17
16 16 (0.42%) WCAG
17 14 (0.37%) Basel III
18 13 (0.34%) ISO 20022
18 13 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 87 (2.29%) Docker
2 62 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.16%) vSphere
7 5 (0.13%) NFS
7 5 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.053%) Postfix
9 2 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.026%) Firmware
10 1 (0.026%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.026%) IAG
10 1 (0.026%) NDS
10 1 (0.026%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.026%) SRDF
10 1 (0.026%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.026%) XenApp
10 1 (0.026%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 126 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 78 (2.05%) Terraform
3 49 (1.29%) Ansible
4 38 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.63%) Grafana
6 19 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.47%) SCCM
8 13 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.32%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.21%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.16%) Kibana
11 6 (0.16%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.16%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.11%) Puppet
12 4 (0.11%) vMotion
13 3 (0.079%) Control-M
14 2 (0.053%) Nagios
Vendors
1 461 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 317 (8.33%) SAP
3 217 (5.70%) Oracle
4 177 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 140 (3.68%) Salesforce
6 86 (2.26%) Google
7 81 (2.13%) Workday
8 58 (1.52%) Databricks
9 51 (1.34%) VMware
10 44 (1.16%) Splunk
11 43 (1.13%) Cisco
12 40 (1.05%) IBM
13 33 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 33 (0.87%) Fortinet
14 31 (0.81%) Ariba
15 25 (0.66%) Citrix
16 24 (0.63%) Adobe
17 23 (0.60%) F5
17 23 (0.60%) Informatica
17 23 (0.60%) OpenAI