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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,249 2,273 2,886
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.00% 9.33% 7.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.80% 10.27% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,932 1,569 2,029
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 65 80
10th Percentile £14.75 £35.00 £15.02
25th Percentile £30.63 £45.00 £28.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.23% +23.08% -13.67%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £94.75 £80.35 £83.51
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £60.00 £46.95
% change year-on-year -32.50% +27.81% -16.87%

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 33,191 22,141 32,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.96% 90.87% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,296 14,591 21,484
10th Percentile £313 £311 £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 £614 £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 2,024 863 2,161
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.38 £19.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £31.52 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.07% -4.48% -11.53%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 +9 2,176 £550 -4.35% 628
North of England -1 602 £475 -7.32% 223
Midlands +2 527 £485 -3.00% 151
South East +4 513 £565 +7.62% 338
West Midlands -1 359 £492 -6.29% 98
North West -2 295 £456 -11.38% 116
Yorkshire +8 276 £500 - 91
South West +30 230 £550 - 94
East Midlands +5 166 £450 -5.26% 53
East of England 0 120 £550 -4.35% 98
North East -4 46 £440 -21.08% 20
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
1 302 (7.11%) Confluence
2 129 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 51 (1.20%) SAS
4 39 (0.92%) CMS
5 36 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.42%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.21%) TPMS
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.14%) Camunda
12 5 (0.12%) nginx
13 4 (0.094%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
14 3 (0.071%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 227 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (3.29%) Microsoft Project
3 108 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
5 80 (1.88%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.28%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.047%) InVision
11 2 (0.047%) Revit
11 2 (0.047%) Windchill
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.024%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.024%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 130 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
3 41 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (0.54%) Aladdin
5 17 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 16 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.35%) Endur
8 14 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
9 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
10 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 12 (0.28%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
10 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 12 (0.28%) SAP ERP
10 12 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
12 10 (0.24%) SAP EWM
13 9 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 630 (14.83%) Azure
2 440 (10.36%) AWS
3 251 (5.91%) Power Platform
4 178 (4.19%) GCP
5 139 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
6 126 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
7 110 (2.59%) SaaS
8 93 (2.19%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.48%) OpenShift
10 57 (1.34%) OCI
11 54 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
12 49 (1.15%) Snowflake
13 43 (1.01%) GitHub
13 43 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
14 42 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (0.94%) Power Automate
16 35 (0.82%) Serverless
17 34 (0.80%) Google Workspace
18 32 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
18 32 (0.75%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.62%) Firewall
2 57 (1.34%) Network Security
3 53 (1.25%) WAN
4 41 (0.96%) LAN
5 35 (0.82%) SD-WAN
6 34 (0.80%) DNS
7 30 (0.71%) VPN
8 26 (0.61%) BGP
9 24 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.52%) OSPF
11 19 (0.45%) MPLS
11 19 (0.45%) TCP/IP
12 16 (0.38%) SSL
13 14 (0.33%) DHCP
13 14 (0.33%) Wireless
14 13 (0.31%) SSH
15 12 (0.28%) Broadband
15 12 (0.28%) NGFW
16 11 (0.26%) Intranet
16 11 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (4.97%) Power BI
2 87 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (1.69%) Metadata
4 70 (1.65%) Tableau
5 39 (0.92%) SQL Server
6 37 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 34 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
8 29 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (0.66%) NoSQL
10 25 (0.59%) Oracle Database
10 25 (0.59%) Power Query
11 23 (0.54%) Relational Database
12 20 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (0.45%) MySQL
14 18 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
15 17 (0.40%) Big Data
16 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
17 15 (0.35%) DynamoDB
18 14 (0.33%) BigQuery
19 12 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 512 (12.05%) JIRA
2 90 (2.12%) Jenkins
3 86 (2.02%) Git
4 59 (1.39%) GitLab
5 46 (1.08%) Selenium
6 40 (0.94%) JUnit
7 16 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.35%) Maven
9 14 (0.33%) Postman
10 13 (0.31%) Mockito
10 13 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.28%) JMeter
12 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.24%) MLflow
13 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.24%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.16%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.14%) Axure RP
General
1 2,191 (51.57%) Social Skills
2 1,468 (34.55%) Finance
3 675 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 455 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 411 (9.67%) Banking
6 206 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
7 184 (4.33%) Retail
8 168 (3.95%) Legal
9 152 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
10 139 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
11 136 (3.20%) Marketing
12 125 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
13 106 (2.49%) Telecoms
14 100 (2.35%) Manufacturing
15 83 (1.95%) Financial Institution
16 67 (1.58%) Law
17 64 (1.51%) Front Office
18 62 (1.46%) Local Government
19 51 (1.20%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.06%) Billing
Job Titles
1 749 (17.63%) Analyst
2 637 (14.99%) Project Manager
3 571 (13.44%) Lead
4 552 (12.99%) Business Analyst
5 463 (10.90%) Architect
6 417 (9.81%) Senior
7 205 (4.82%) Consultant
8 175 (4.12%) Senior Manager
9 173 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
10 171 (4.02%) Programme Manager
11 141 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
12 120 (2.82%) IT Manager
13 92 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
14 89 (2.09%) Data Analyst
15 87 (2.05%) Change Manager
16 85 (2.00%) Senior Project Manager
17 83 (1.95%) Technical Manager
18 80 (1.88%) Product Manager
19 79 (1.86%) Developer
20 78 (1.84%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.97%) REST
2 83 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
3 68 (1.60%) Middleware
4 56 (1.32%) SOAP
5 39 (0.92%) OAuth
6 37 (0.87%) OpenID
7 36 (0.85%) .NET
8 35 (0.82%) JSON
9 33 (0.78%) Kafka
9 33 (0.78%) SAML
10 29 (0.68%) React
11 28 (0.66%) pytest
11 28 (0.66%) RESTful
11 28 (0.66%) Web Services
11 28 (0.66%) XML
12 25 (0.59%) Spring
13 24 (0.56%) AngularJS
13 24 (0.56%) Playwright
14 23 (0.54%) HTML
15 22 (0.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 333 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 224 (5.27%) Onboarding
3 129 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
4 118 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 110 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
6 102 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 93 (2.19%) Data Centre
8 75 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 63 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 57 (1.34%) PMI
11 53 (1.25%) NHS
11 53 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 51 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 46 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 38 (0.89%) Operational Technology
15 36 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
16 33 (0.78%) FMCG
17 32 (0.75%) CMDB
17 32 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
18 29 (0.68%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 127 (2.99%) Windows
2 73 (1.72%) Linux
3 28 (0.66%) Unix
4 25 (0.59%) Android
4 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 19 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.31%) VMS
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.14%) Solaris
11 3 (0.071%) AIX
12 2 (0.047%) CentOS
13 1 (0.024%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,390 (32.71%) Agile
2 718 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
3 648 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 643 (15.13%) Project Management
5 638 (15.02%) Migration
6 554 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 525 (12.36%) Change Management
8 506 (11.91%) Roadmaps
9 471 (11.08%) DevOps
10 466 (10.97%) Project Delivery
11 448 (10.54%) Decision-Making
12 397 (9.34%) Risk Management
13 392 (9.23%) Analytics
14 369 (8.68%) Scrum
15 352 (8.28%) User Acceptance Testing
16 339 (7.98%) Workshop Facilitation
17 328 (7.72%) Validation
18 327 (7.70%) Requirements Gathering
19 326 (7.67%) AI
20 310 (7.30%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 330 (7.77%) SQL
2 270 (6.35%) Python
3 89 (2.09%) Java
4 82 (1.93%) PowerShell
5 50 (1.18%) C#
6 49 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 30 (0.71%) Bash
8 25 (0.59%) VBA
9 24 (0.56%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (0.40%) R
11 17 (0.40%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.33%) Korn
13 11 (0.26%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Bicep
14 10 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.16%) ABAP
15 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 863 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 668 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 371 (8.73%) Degree
4 227 (5.34%) PMP
5 221 (5.20%) PMI Certification
6 106 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 99 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 74 (1.74%) CISSP
9 64 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 62 (1.46%) Master's Degree
11 50 (1.18%) CISM
12 40 (0.94%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.78%) CBAP
14 30 (0.71%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.61%) IIBA
15 26 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 22 (0.52%) ACCA
16 22 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
16 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (6.75%) QA
2 241 (5.67%) GDPR
3 207 (4.87%) Data Quality
4 184 (4.33%) PMO
5 171 (4.02%) NIST
6 153 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.74%) GRC
8 65 (1.53%) SLA
9 64 (1.51%) PCI DSS
10 49 (1.15%) NCSC
11 47 (1.11%) Accessibility
12 39 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.71%) IFRS
14 29 (0.68%) COBIT
15 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.42%) IFRS 17
16 18 (0.42%) PSD2
17 16 (0.38%) HL7
17 16 (0.38%) WCAG
18 14 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 107 (2.52%) Docker
2 71 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 39 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.19%) NFS
4 8 (0.19%) Postfix
5 7 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.12%) vSphere
8 3 (0.071%) HDFS
8 3 (0.071%) SRDF
8 3 (0.071%) Varnish
9 2 (0.047%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) Firmware
10 1 (0.024%) RACF
Systems Management
1 149 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 85 (2.00%) Terraform
3 55 (1.29%) Ansible
4 49 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.85%) Grafana
6 25 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.54%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.45%) SCCM
9 13 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 7 (0.16%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.14%) Kibana
13 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.094%) Istio
14 4 (0.094%) PingFederate
15 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 475 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 341 (8.03%) SAP
3 261 (6.14%) Oracle
4 199 (4.68%) ServiceNow
5 170 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 95 (2.24%) Google
7 76 (1.79%) Workday
8 75 (1.77%) VMware
9 67 (1.58%) Databricks
10 48 (1.13%) Splunk
11 46 (1.08%) Cisco
12 38 (0.89%) CyberArk
12 38 (0.89%) IBM
13 35 (0.82%) Ariba
14 29 (0.68%) Citrix
14 29 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 28 (0.66%) Adobe
16 27 (0.64%) F5
17 26 (0.61%) Informatica
18 25 (0.59%) Fortinet